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Beyond Brave Little Blighty II: The Truth
In the second instalment of her column, Sofia Johanson comments on two films that deal with the near-impossible task of publicising what was going on in the concentration camps during the war.
Beyond Brave Little Blighty I: Occupation
In her first instalment of her column ‘Beyond Brave Little Blighty’, REECA editor Sofia Johanson considers filmic representations of Nazi occupation in Eastern and Western Europe, through the lens of Dutch and Polish examples.
The Remains of the Red Day II - An Endless Great Patriotic War
Anatoly Grablevsky considers the long shadow of the Great Patriotic War in Soviet and post-Soviet space in the second installment of his column ‘The Remains of the Red Day’, exploring its continued influence on cultural output and contemporary politics.
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