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7. Memory, War, and Mnemonical In/Security: A Comparison of Lithuania and Ukraine

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes the interaction of discourses associated with World War II and its aftermath and the formation of related cultural, social, and political practices in Ukraine in comparison with Lithuania. The focus is on what can be considered a hegemonic war memory in the two countries—discourses about the anti-Soviet partisans and their memorialization. Political developments described as “revolutions” (Sąjūdis in Lithuania, the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan in Ukraine) have coincided with major discursive changes regarding memory politics. It is during those times that narratives extolling the virtues of anti-Soviet partisans and dwelling on losses associated with national tragedies, described as genocides, have attracted more supporters willing to “defend history” in both countries.

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Fußnoten
1
In September 2017, a consensus was reached to rename this Museum to get rid of the term “genocide.” The new proposed name for the museum is “The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights.”
 
2
This video “Forest Brothers—Fight for the Baltics” is available at: https://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​h5rQFp7FF9c.
 
3
This information is from the Web site of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania. “The Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance in Lithuania in 1944–1953,” Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania (2017), http://​genocid.​lt/​centras/​en/​2390/​a/​ and see “Tremties ir kalinimo vietos,” http://​genocid.​lt/​centras/​lt/​1491/​a/​.
 
4
There was a death march in Molėtai in 1941, when the entire Jewish community was killed by the Nazis and their local collaborators.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Memory, War, and Mnemonical In/Security: A Comparison of Lithuania and Ukraine
verfasst von
Dovilė Budrytė
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78589-9_7