Siege of Leningrad
An anniversary the West would rather forget
The anniversary of an epochal event from the annals of modern history, the Siege of Leningrad, is coming up in another 10 days. While it remains a living memory for the Russian people, it is an occasion that the US and many of its European allies would rather not remember
D-Day and the specter of the Eastern Front
The recent D-Day celebrations epitomize the process of erasure of the Eastern Front from the global imagination of World War II
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