Nation can be created only through victory. In this sense, Russia is absolutely intuitively came to the very idea of ​​a national, of which a quarter of a century and that all taldychili all looking for. This idea of ​​a great feat, and the Great Victory. Russia's new national myth is significantly different from the Soviet myth. The Soviet - Victory heroes died a heroic death. In new Russian myth Day on May 9, these heroes were raised. They marched "Immortal Regiment" on our streets - and those who died in the war, and those who died after her, and those who are alive today. Those people who are not merged with persons living: yes, there was a resurrection. It is also, as in Christianity: it is one thing - the crucifixion, death; and quite another - the resurrection from the dead. It seems to me we have witnessed just such a transformation. By the way, did you notice that the story is much more optimism and less trouble, than in Soviet times? It is clear why. Then there were the heroes who have fallen. Now the heroes, who, together with us forever. I like that the basis of our national samoidentifikatsiilezhit victory. Incidentally, it is not given every nation. The Ukrainians, for example, are now trying to build their national identity on the basis of the lesion. After all, Bandera and the Ukrainian nationalist movement as a whole, figures which today are glorified as heroes Kiev, at the end of the Second World War, suffered a crushing defeat. My deep belief: on the glorification of the movement, which was destroyed, you can not build a nation. Karen Shakhnazarov, the film director, general director of film concern "Mosfilm", People's Artist of Russia