Great Patriotic War: History and Legal Lessons

Given the growth in international tensions, which is based on the destruction of historical memory, as well as the rehabilitation and resurrection of neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, and neo-Nazism, the Russian state and society have had to deal with attempts to deform historical memory and distort historical truth, as well as negative assessments of events and periods of Russian history, including Great Patriotic War. Russia is able to ensure its sovereignty with historical and legal traditions that help to establish and implement the sovereign policy that is being pursued by society and the state and ensures their progressive development based on the positive past of the country and its people and a well-developed legal theory, regardless of anything or anyone from the outside. The discussion session provides a platform on which lawyers, historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists can formulate a body of reliable and scientifically based historical knowledge, which serves as one of the foundations of a Russian civic identity and collective historical memory. In addition, they will pay special attention to legal mechanisms that can promptly identify and counteract threats to the state and society and are built based on historical and legal theories that are unacceptable to the state and society. The session will feature a special discussion of the principles of international law that were established following World War II, as well as legal mechanisms to implement the Russian state’s constitutional obligation to honour the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland.