The event will be interpreted simultaneously into Russian and German.

After the topic of the Hitler-Stalin Pact was largely taboo during the Soviet era, it has been intensively studied by historians over the last thirty years. Russian historiography has also followed this trend. However, the topic is regularly instrumentalized by politicians. After an initially liberal phase, Russian politics is now once again using historical knowledge for an imperialist foreign policy. Today’s Russia is not asking about the consequences of the pact, which many of the countries affected see as an annexation.

The panel discussion asks about the changes in the politics of remembrance in the assessment of the Hitler-Stalin Pact over the last thirty years and how Russian politics uses the topic in domestic and foreign policy.

With
Oleg Lutohin (Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin)
PD Dr. Katja Makhotina (University Bonn)
Dr. Heike Winkel (Project Group Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe of the Federal Agency for Civic Education)

Moderation
Dr. Jörg Morré (Museum Berlin-Karlshorst)

Free entry.

Registration is requested at kontakt(at)museum-karlshorst.de

On the evening of the event, the museum is open until the event begins at 7 pm.

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