The article focuses on the role of historical consciousness, which is related to the role of memory in the creation and the existence of individual consciousness. The fact of identity, evidence of the sanity of the individual is expressed in the ability to recall the past, names and dates, own biography, the loved ones, relationship with them and the ability to tell about it. In the author’s opinion, conflicts with such «memories» are starting to adopt the international character and the socio-cultural and technological platform to change political realities is being actively formed.