The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier close to the Kremlin.
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May 9 this year is “no victory day” as Putin has little to show after 74 days of aggression against Ukraine.
A woman pays homage at the memorial to victims of the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews in Babi Yar in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Over two days in September 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi forces and their Ukrainian collaborators in Babi Yar.
Women get shut down when bringing up the still-taboo subject of sexual assault.
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A scholar who studies Holocaust survivors sees an explanation for why women change their stories of sexual assault, even now in the
MeToo era.
Israeli families hold pictures of relatives killed in the Soviet Union struggle against the Nazis in WWII, Jerusalem, May 2015.
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There’s a widening split over rival interpretations of the end of the second world war and its aftermath.
Soviet troops advancing at Stalingrad.
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Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.