Videos

What do Egyptian pyramids, triumphal arches and farms of internet trolls have in common? How can lying about the past benefit a country? Can you build a successful society on historical lies? Watch our film, learn what memory wars are and find the unexpected solution to winning them. ‘How to Win a Memory War?’ is a part of the ENRS’s initiative ‘Hi-story Lessons’, a multilingual educational project, which aims at supporting the process of teaching and learning about 20th-century European history. It deals with the subject of memory wars and suggests ways of resisting historical disinformation – both as individuals and as societies. The film’s premiere took place during an international online conference ‘Disinformation in Memory Politics: Practices and Ways of Prevention’ organized by ENRS, UNSPA and INST.