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“... Having grown up in Minsk I’m used to the sight of Second World War memorials. The total number in Belarus, at a conservative estimate, is about nine thousand. The term ‘Great Patriotic War’ remains in official use in both Belarus and Russia, though no longer in Ukraine where in 2015 it was removed from the national vocabulary. Visiting Kaliningrad in 2017 to research Russian public art, however, I found Oleg Kopylov’s 2005 Victory Monument bewildering ...”