Soviet nostalgia in Eastern Europe can also be used as a tool to explain another example of the …show more content…
Such longing for the past can in fact be linked to the theory of historical imagination which shapes modern thoughts and perspectives. As recent researches have demonstrated, historical imagination can be considered ‘past and tradition-oriented’, where ‘the oldest—buildings, paintings, families, histories, and historical claims—is normally also the best, the most beautiful, and the most