26.03.2025
What new insights can scholars offer today on the events of World War II and the Great Patriotic War? What was the difficulty in working on the joint collection "The Peoples of the Soviet Union and the Great Victory"? The Academic Director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Alexander Chubaryan, spoke about these and many other topics.
Dr. Chubaryan: "It is obvious to me that the history of the War needs a new approach, taking into account the current situation. One of the pressing questions is whether World War II was inevitable. If not, what was not done to prevent it? The entire world clearly underestimated the threats of Nazism and fascism—not only from a political perspective but also from an ideological one. <…> Much of what happened in the second half of the 20th century, up to the present day, has emerged from World War II. <…> After the War, two vectors of global development collided: globalism and national identity. This confrontation continues to this day.
