Abstract
In contemporary Russia, the representation of victory in World War II plays a significant role and overshadows and represses from the public conscious other war events and - generally - facts of the Soviet history. This paper describes this process briefly and specifies that contemporary Russian literature avoids this conventional approach to focus on the traumatic moments of the Soviet past and revise them. "The Raven's Children" (2016) by Yulia Yakovleva was chosen in this paper to illustrate this idea.