https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/memorial/Recent content in Memorial on MoscowMigrantHugoenThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/weaponizing-history-the-regimes-war-on-memory/Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/weaponizing-history-the-regimes-war-on-memory/A regime that can promise no future seizes the past instead. The Russian state has declared a monopoly on history — rewriting textbooks to manufacture obedient generations, criminalising dissenting memory by law, demolishing the institutions that hold the record of its own crimes, and replacing real history with a victory cult and a lost-paradise myth. But history is a science, not retrospective politics, and the weaponising of the past is a boomerang.