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Kozhevnikova A.M. This is Victory Day… Moscow, Berlin, Prague, Novorossiysk. May 9th, 1945. Cognitive Sciences in the Information Society. 2025; 5(2). Available at: https://knio.ru/PDF/08KN225.pdf (in Russian).

This is Victory Day… Moscow, Berlin, Prague, Novorossiysk. May 9th, 1945

Kozhevnikova Anastasia Mikhailovna
Novorossiysk Historical Museum-Reserve, Novorossiysk, Russia
E-mail: kozhevnikova.sfkrdu@gmail.com

Abstract. Victory Day is probably the most revered holiday in our country. That is why we find so many «attacks» against him in the activities of those destructive forces that try to downplay his importance. The article reconstructs the perception of Victory Day on May 9, 1945 by eyewitnesses of this day. For this purpose, newspaper publications were used (both the union-level newspaper Pravda and local ones such as Leningradskaya Pravda and Novorossiysk Worker) and diary entries posted in the digital archive of the Lived project. Also, if necessary, the author refers to the materials of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, posted on the website «Memory of the People». In addition, the order of the Supreme Commander I.V. Stalin is quoted. The central place in the study is occupied by descriptions of Victory Day in Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin and Prague. Newspaper publications and diary entries allow us to more fully recreate not so much Victory Day itself as the impressions and emotions of people celebrating in Moscow and Leningrad. Similar celebrations took place outside our homeland. In particular, celebrations were held in such capitals of foreign countries as Berlin and Prague, as the author managed to learn from the diary entries of participants in those events. Of course, not all the sources found in the archives are cited in this study. It is also necessary to take into account the fact that not all documents of that period were published. We only managed to find out about Novorossiysk on Victory Day from a local newspaper, which devoted many May issues to this day.

Keywords: Victory Day; Great Patriotic War; Victory Day celebration in Moscow; Victory Day celebration in Leningrad; Victory Day celebration in Berlin; Victory Day celebration in Prague; Victory Day celebration in Novorossiysk; diary as a historical document; ego-history

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