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The trial of the Nazi war criminals who committed their crimes in the North-West of Russia was held in Leningrad in the winter of 1945 - 1946, simultaneously with the trial in Nuremberg. Its course was covered by all the major city newspapers: Leningradskaya Pravda, Smena, and Vecherny Leningrad. The criminal proceedings were attended by journalists, photographers, filmmakers, and newspaper cartoonists. In addition to regular reports on the progress of court sessions in the print media, op-ed articles, and intervi...

The paper describes the image of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), reflected in school textbooks in contemporary Russia. On the basis of the content analysis the authors highlighted the main components of the image of Russian Orthodox Church during the period under review. First, we analyzed the total amount of pages devoted to the history of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic war in every textbook, we studied and counted the percentage of these pages with ...

The Russian-language weekly "British Ally", circulating in the USSR since 1942, informed Soviet readers about British military operations, British culture and science, and the joint struggle of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition against Nazi Germany and its allies. In February and March 1945, it covered in detail the course and results of the three-party meetings in Crimea between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The editorial articles stressed that the conference began with mili...