{"id":16283,"date":"2020-05-06T21:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=16283"},"modified":"2020-05-11T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:24:50","slug":"video-dont-mention-the-war-does-europe-need-a-shared-historical-narrative-of-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/video-dont-mention-the-war-does-europe-need-a-shared-historical-narrative-of-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: \"Don't mention the war\": does Europe need a shared historical narrative of WWII?\""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Don&#039;t mention the war&quot;: does Europe need a shared historical narrative of WW2?&quot;\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5eW7VWFKSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">May 4, 2020<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Online webinar, 6:00-7:15 p.m. (London, England)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As Europe is to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2, national narratives of those historic events hugely differ across Europe. Identity and historical memory are often hijacked by populist and nationalist agendas and history suddenly enters the political mainstream. In Brexit Britain, spurious references were made to get rid of \u201cGerman\u201d control. In Putin\u2019s Russia, the \u201cGreat Patriotic War\u201d has been made a centrepiece of contemporary Russian identity, justifying aggression against its neighbours as a crusade against \u201cUkrainian fascists.\u201d Many countries remain confined to their respective WW2 narratives, often downplaying collaboration and overplaying their nation\u2019s heroism. On the other hand, many people in the West are oblivious to the extent of bloodshed experienced by Eastern European countries (namely Poland, Ukraine, Belarus) in the fight against Nazism. The lack of a shared vision of lessons from WW2 hampers understanding of the Holocaust and the industrial scale that it took in the lands squeezed between Hitler and Stalin.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0861a6;\">Speakers:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Serhii\u00a0Plokhy<\/strong>, historian, author, Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, US<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Krzystof Czy\u017cewski<\/strong>, writer, philosopher, President\u00a0of Borderland Foundation, Poland<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Brendan Simms<\/strong>, historian, author, Cambridge University, UK<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Moderator: <strong>Adrian Karatnycky,\u00a0<\/strong>Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Ukraine in Europe Program, Atlantic Council, US<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event was held in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/henryjacksonsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry Jackson Society<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ukrainianinstitute.org.uk\/news_800\/\">The Ukrainian Institute London<\/a> and supported <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/events\/dont-mention-the-war-does-europe-need-a-shared-historical-narrative-of-wwii\/\">by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 2020 Online webinar, 6:00-7:15 p.m. (London, England) As Europe is to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2, national narratives of those historic events hugely differ across Europe. 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