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The article focuses on Russian celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Second World War in May 2005. It is based on material collected druing fieldwork in St Petersburg at the time of the celebrations as well as Russian newspaper articles from the same period. In the celebrations, a prominent role was accorded to the Soviet Union, even though it had ceased to exist 15 years earlier. The article discusses the role of the Soviet Union - Soviet symbols in particular - in the contemporary celebrations of Victory Day. Recycled and used in a new context, such symbols change their meaning. War veterans also play an important role in the celebrations, as evident in the victory procession on St Petersburg's main street on Victory Day. Newspaper coverage leading up to the anniversary prominently featured stories about war veterans. The view of the war as expressed in these articles is quite uniform: any contrasting views of history are presented as external threats, and the main lines of history remain the same as they were during Soviet times

The Korean armistice of 1953 and its consequences - part I

Hoare: Both North and South Korea claim victory in the Korean War. Yet neither makes much of the ending of the war in July 1953, and both have had problems coming to terms with the reality of the war. The reality is that both suffered so much in a conflict that achieved little that formal celebrations seem inappropriate. Daniels: The outbreak of the Korean war in 1950 and the ferocious fighting which took place affected Britain, whose army took part in the war. This essay records the different shades of opinion expressed in its various newspapers/journals

Nothing to celebrate? The lack or disparagement of victory celebrations in the Greek historians

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The Korean Armistice of 1953 and its Consequences - Part I

Hoare: Both North and South Korea claim victory in the Korean War. Yet neither makes much of the ending of the war in July 1953, and both have had problems coming to terms with the reality of the war. The reality is that both suffered so much in a conflict that achieved little that formal celebrations seem inappropriate.Daniels: The outbreak of the Korean war in 1950 and the ferocious fighting which took place affected Britain, whose army took part in the war. This essay records the different shades of opinion expressed in its various newspapers/journals.Korea, Korean war, 1950, Korean armistice, commemoration, Britain, Japan, China, newspapers, museums, monuments.

The Queen and Obama

Her Majesty joined the audience at a panel debate at the LSE this morning where I was talking about climate change, Africa and the media. It was part of the opening celebrations for the New Academic Building. The new auditorium was packed full of international young people thrilled by the presence of royalty and still drunk on the idealistic promise of Obama’s victory in America last night

Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazism: What significance does it have in an epoch of global confrontation? OSW Commentary No. 171, 20 May 2015

The Victory Day celebrations held in Russia on 9 May 2015 were special for marking the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II but the particular international and domestic context they were set in was of yet greater importance. The element which set the celebrations in 2015 apart from those in the preceding years was how the military and moral aspects of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany was made part of the current geopolitical confrontation with the West concerning the Ukrainian crisis. The escalation of the aggressive rhetoric on Europe and the USA and accusations that the West is destabilising the international situation and striving for conflict was accompanied by a display of the increasing military power of the Russian Federation; the display itself was stronger than has been seen in preceding years. This was a clear sign that Moscow is ready to protect its national interests in the area of foreign policy by any means. At the same time, the creation of an atmosphere of threat and stoking patriotic feelings was intended to mobilise the Russian public around the political leadership while the country’s economic problems are deteriorating further

V-Mail (Victory Mail) Letter, Major Rollin S. Armstrong to His Wife, Rebecca Armstrong, November 23, 1943

This handwritten V-Mail (Victory Mail) letter, dated November 23, 1943, is written by Rollin S. Armstrong from where he is stationed in Italy, to his wife, Rebecca Armstrong, in Tupelo, Mississippi. The letter discusses how he and the other soldiers will miss Thanksgiving celebrations and some of the items his family sent him.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-armstrong-papers/1074/thumbnail.jp

Victory Celebrations As Theater: A Dramaturgical Approach To Crowd Behavior *

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89522/1/si.1981.4.1.21.pd