{"id":26350,"date":"2011-05-25T01:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_letter_from_europe_germany_poland_and_russia_searching_for_a_way_t\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T01:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:44:47","slug":"ny_times_letter_from_europe_germany_poland_and_russia_searching_for_a_way_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26350","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Letter from Europe) Germany, Poland and Russia Searching for a Way to Share History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, the students witnessed the establishment of a German-Polish-Russian forum designed to encourage a rapprochement among three countries with fundamentally different historical narratives of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Any such process would ultimately mean Russia confronting its past, particularly Stalinist crimes and the gulags, and reassessing its role as victim and victor during and after World War II. It would also mean Russia embracing the European idea of dealing with memory and the past, now so much a part of the European identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing European is about being aware of what we did,\u201d\u009d said Ivan Krastev, historian and chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/24\/world\/europe\/24iht-letter24.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, the students witnessed the establishment of a German-Polish-Russian forum designed to encourage a rapprochement among three countries with fundamentally different historical narratives of World War II. Any such process would ultimately mean Russia confronting its past, particularly Stalinist crimes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26350\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,200,144,478,133,449,151,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-germany","category-history","category-poland","category-politics-in-general","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}