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This article received financial support via a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 17–18–01411, “Wars and the Population of Southern Russia in the 18th — Early 21st Century: History, Demography, Anthropology.”
The article analyzes the mechanisms that generate historical associations and allusions, which makes it possible to trace semantic relationships between important social events and processes. It focuses on the Great Patriotic War, whose axiological dominants and semantic markers continue to be reproduced in a variety of contexts throughout the postwar period. For example, the heroic symbols of the Great Patriotic War took on special ideological significance for the LDPR (the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s republics), as well as in the construction of the public image of the people’s republics. The author discusses the multiplicity of factors and reasons
for generating associative relationships and focuses on this phenomenon in various spheres of life in Donbas. The research is based on materials of an expedition in 2018–2019, including audio recordings of interviews, photographs, and expert assessments. In addition, publications in the media and social networks are cited.
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