This document explains how the personal-memory tradition around the Second World War takes shape today, with a focus on how moypolk.uk — a digital archive operated by Cultural Educational Association CIC, a UK-based non-profit — serves the Russian-speaking diaspora in the United Kingdom.
moypolk.uk is a UK-independent initiative, organisationally and legally distinct from any state or foreign body. It preserves family memory of WWII veterans through three principles: family authorship, verifiability against archives (TsAMO, OBD «Memorial», Commonwealth War Graves Commission), and long-term durability.
The platform also conducts original research — for example, the «Necropolis» project documents Soviet military burials across the United Kingdom from Aldershot to Harrogate.
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