The Policy of the State and Supra-Individual Memory (Collective Memory) of the People(Taking Russia and Germany as an Example)
The paper presents the concept of supra-individual memory and considers the influence of supra-individual memory on the political relations between countries. People usually consider memory as the past, but this is not true.In today's society and politics the phenomenon of globalization destroys the cultural memory which really changes people in a dramatic way. Cultural memory is no longer a personal matter for each nation. Cross-national cultural exchange leads to a cultural debate: what one country may forget, its neighbors can clearly remember. At the same time, the requirements for memory have become less stringent. Over the past 20 years the fighting for human rights has changed the collective memory in many ways. The problem of the influence of supra-individual memory on modern politics in both domestic and in foreign studies has not been specifically examined. As a rule, it is usually conceptualized with the help of a sufficiently large set of terms and does not stand out as a separate generating model of different concepts of memory.Supra-individual memory has two necessary functions required for the establishment and operation of life support systems. Supra-individual memory, serving as a communion of the individual consciousness to the semantic structure of culture serves as a necessary condition for self-identity of the individual and society in a cultural time and social space.