THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941-1945 IN THE HISTORICAL POLITICS OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS. PART I

The article examines the main aspects of the historical policy of the states of Central Eurasia in relation to the problems of the Great Patriotic war and the Great Victory. Over the years of independence, the republics of the region have demonstrated various approaches to the implementation of memory policy in relation to the Soviet period of national history. After the transition of the proxy war of the collective West against Russia into an active phase, there has been an intensification of social discussions around various topics of historical discourse in the Central Asian republics. The theme of the Great Patriotic war and the participation of the Asian republics of the former USSR in it also went through various transformations in the historical policy of the republics of the region, which, in relation to each of the states, are evaluated in the article. This text is also an attempt to consider the degree of influence of the processes that can be called “memory wars” on the formation of public views in the republics of the Central Asian region on a wide range of issues related to the Great Patriotic war and its Victory achieved through the strenuous efforts of all the peoples of the fraternal republics of the Soviet Union.