The Mythology of Victory: How the last fifty years of Russian political history have shaped the interpretation of the 9 May holiday
Since the Brezhnev era, the cult of victory has remained a tool for legitimising the existing political order, adapting to and absorbing its dominant ideological narratives. In the 1990s, it served to underscore the organic nature of the new regime within the context of Russian history, linking its various eras and highlighting the role Russia played in the shared historical past with Europe.