Memory is always about the future. When political conditions change, so do narratives about the past. This essay attempts to show the present-mindedness of commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in various parts of Europe. One case in point is the Russian rediscovery of the trilogy of a strong leader, a strong army, and a strong church in internet narratives of the Great War, in song, in poetry and in prose. Another is the stress on local rather than national narratives of commemoration, on memories rather than on memory, in a Western Europe with a troubled politics of national populism and resistance to full European integration. A third is the fracture between Western European secularized narratives of war and Eastern European and Middle Eastern sacred narratives of war. All show a profoundly divided historical landscape painting by profoundly divided contemporary commentators on the past.

记忆永远关乎未来。当政治条件改变时，对过去的叙述也会改变。本文试图展示对欧洲各地爆发大战一百周年的纪念思想。一个典型的例子是俄国人重新发现了伟大的领袖，强大的军队和强大的教会三部曲的三部曲，这些三部曲以大战的互联网叙事，歌曲，诗歌和散文形式出现。另一个问题是，在西欧充满民族民粹主义政治和全面欧洲一体化抵制的西欧地区，人们强调的是对地方的纪念而不是对国家的叙事，对记忆而不是记忆。第三是西欧世俗化的战争叙事与东欧和中东神圣的战争叙事之间的断裂。