
Anastasiia Vorobiova publishes in Völkerrechtsblog on Russia’s memory politics in relation to children
Anastasiia Vorobiova, a research assistant in the MEMOCRACY team at the Polish Academy of Sciences, has published a blog post in Völkerrechtsblog, about promotion of war-themed games among children in the biggest Russian museum of military history. She focuses on the “Victory tree” quest conducted for children aged from six to twelve, which in this year’s edition is not limited to recreating events of the “glorious” military past, but aims to allure to the present by using the letter ‘Z’ (which is now associated with a Russian invasion to Ukraine) in the Cyrillic event title. She underscores that Russia’s practice of using museums to disseminate government-dictated historical narratives with questionable geopolitical references and putting them in a game form is inconsistent both with the cultural rights’ aspect of memorization and children’s best interests in relation to play and leisure.