In the Name of History? Normandy Landings Celebrations and the Troubled Relations with Moscow, Yesterday and Today
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https://doi.org/10.54103/2612-6672/23967Keywords:
Russia, Grand Alliance, Normandy Landings, France, Ukraine WarAbstract
When Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy at dawn, on the morning of June 6, 1944, the Liberation of Europe from Nazism began. Yet, the defeat of Hitler’s Germany came at a major cost for the so-called Grand Alliance. During the endless months that followed Nazi Germany’s attack against the Soviet Union, the question of the Second Front was a constant source of lasting resentment and growing mistrust on the part of Stalin towards Roosevelt and Churchill. Eighty years later, as D-Day celebrations approach, tensions stemming from Russia’s war against Ukraine cast shadows on them.
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