{"id":17141,"date":"2015-05-05T14:41:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=17141"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:09:01","slug":"keylor-cold-war-changed-views-on-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/05\/05\/keylor-cold-war-changed-views-on-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Keylor: Cold War Changed Views on WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/05\/coldwwarresized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/05\/coldwwarresized.jpg\" alt=\"coldwwarresized\" width=\"545\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/william-r-keylor\/\">William Keylor,<\/a> Professor of International Relations and History at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that Cold War propaganda changed the views of Europeans and Americans on the key role played by the Soviet Army in the victories over Germany and Japan in WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Keylor made the argument in a May 5 article in <em>Sputnik News<\/em> entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/20150428\/1021719672.html?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">&#8220;<span>Cold<\/span><span> <\/span><span>War<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Distorted<\/span><span> <\/span><span>European<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Perception<\/span><span> <\/span><span>of<\/span><span> <\/span><span>WWII<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Victory.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Said Keylor in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Without the sacrifices of\u00a0the Soviet Union, the outcome of\u00a0the war would have been very different, Keylor asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the poll had asked the Russian people the same question, I have no doubt that at\u00a0least 90% of\u00a0them would say that it was the Red Army that defeated Nazi Germany in\u00a0what they still call the Great Patriotic War,&#8221; he said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/20150428\/1021719672.html?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keylor\u00a0<span>has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/william-r-keylor\/\">Learn more about him here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee Professor Bill Keylor said Cold War propaganda changed the views of Europeans and Americans on the key role played by the Soviet Army in WWII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[8802,8451,8510,8532,8794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17143,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions\/17143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}