With What Do Wars Attract?

Abstract

Contrary to the popular opening on the West, Russians were constantly remembering and still remember the Great Patriotic War, because it was a time of great feat and great beauty of the nation. In the author’s terminology, this is one of the uplifting dreams. For this reason, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who fought to consider the victory as their own: a sense of dignity/pride in their ancestors
makes them involved in long-ago events. The last war is the main factor of national identity for Russia: it is seen not as murders and humiliation of other people, but as a huge sacrifice, the most severe trial that the people managed to cope with. The author supports his point of view with references to the works of A. T. Tvardovsky and pages of personal experience.