“From the heroes of bygone times…”: historiography and the significance of the feat of the soviet people in the fight against fascism in strengthening the political and legal consciousness of the present

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The article discusses the issues of historiographical analysis of the greatest feat of the Soviet people in the Victory over Nazi Germany. The Great Patriotic War, the 80th anniversary of which we are celebrating today, showed the anti-human nature of German fascism and its henchmen. German fascism became a total denial of man, his value and rights as an achievement of humanity. The achievements of the intellectual culture of Western European states have faded in the ideology of German National Socialism. In modern conditions, a more complete and systematic assessment of the role of the heroic deed of the Soviet people in the fight against fascism as a denial of the very right, as a phenomenon in any of its manifestations dangerous to humanity, is of great importance. The study shows that as soon as the conscious cultivation or connivance of Nazism is allowed in the modern world, the very human right as such, the law as an enduring universal value, is certainly denied. The theme of the feat that saved the world from German fascism and those who sympathized with it, the feat in the Great Patriotic War as an expression of recognition of the law of grateful humanity, as overcoming the total denial of law by Nazi criminals should become the leitmotif of fundamental and applied explanations about the purpose of law in people’s lives and the role of the struggle for it.

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Vladimir S. Gorban

Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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