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Новейшая пекинская история Второй мировой войны: «Великая победа китайского народа»
The memory politics issue has become the focus of society’s attention due to it being an effective tool for achieving political goals. The article’s subject matter is the PRC’s World War II history interpretation. It is considered acute due to the need to research Beijing’s view of history on the one hand, and its insufficient scientific development on the other. The aim of the article is to analyze the “Great Victory of the Chinese” since 2014 and to identify elements in it that directly and indirectly distort the USSR’s role in ending the world war in the Far East. The scientific significance of the article is the PRC’s historical and political narrative examination as a complex process that has systematic impact on public opinion and political consciousness. The practical significance is constituted by the fact that the study’s results provide the PRC’s memory politics destructive nature comprehension in the context of modern Russia’s international arena role defamation. They also provide a ground to develop a set of measures in the framework of Sino-Russian relations to control and buck these trends. The article’s methodology is the social constructivism theory and the “memory politics” concept. Research methods include Chinese officials’ rhetoric discourse analysis, journalistic materials, social networks content analysis, the PRC’s commemorative practices event analysis, the PRC’s legislation analysis. The study’s main results include identification of China’s memory politics qualitative transformation, underestimating the USSR importance in achieving World War II victory. China’s memory politics aims to create a national myth of the “victorious nation” and to justify Beijing’s moral right to acquire the great power status in the modern world order. This article contributes to today’s China socio-political processes understanding, its conclusions can be used by state authorities and associations, which develop cooperation with the PRC.