Pobedobesie

• Wiktionary: победобесие

• Wikipedia: Pobedobesie

• Alex Kokcharov, “It’s nearly 9 May, when #Russia is celebrating “Victory Day”. It’s time to talk about #Pobedobesie - a militaristic fetishisation of WW2 in Putin’s Russia.”

• Putin and the cult of war

• The Russian myth of the Great Patriotic War and its manipulations

• How Victory Day became central to Putin’s idea of Russian identity

• The Great Patriotic Special Military Operation