Instead, the Ukrainian independence struggle looks set to be airbrushed out of the Bolshevik spectacular, much as it has been for the past hundred years. Ukrainian history will remain the great unknown of the European narrative. This is...
Between 1932–33, Stalin sought to wipe out the very concept of an independent Ukraine by targeting its peasantry and its leadership. In many senses, Lenin and Stalin carried on the traditions of the Tsarist empire in seeking to deny the...
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the largest Jewish community in Europe before the World War II, Ukraine was a cradle of Jewish culture and homeland of prominent Jewish artists,...
A new website has been launched highlighting the availability of the English, Ukrainian, French versions of the multi-award winning feature documentary film “Genocide Revealed.” The first historical drama “Bitter Harvest,” written...
On 22 May 2017, the Washington State Senate approved a resolution calling Holodomor “genocide by Stalin’s regime against the people of Ukraine,” Voice of America reported. The resolution was introduced by Republican...
The Parliament of Portugal adopted a resolution recognizing the Holodomor famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine as a genocide. The resolution, the draft of which was submitted by the opposition Social Democratic Party, says that the...
Many Russians still view Pavel Postyshev (1887-1939) as their favorite Bolshevik because of his role, as the author of a letter to Pravda on December 28, 1935, calling for the introduction of new year’s trees as substitute for Christmas...
One of the positive developments of recent decades has been the willingness of historians and those concerned with human rights to identify, shame and isolate those who deny the Holocaust. Today, it is long past time to do the same thing...
The memory of Holodomor entered the Ukrainian national consciousness only during the perestroika years. It is difficult to imagine now, but the communist regime succeeded in hiding the fact that the mass murder had been planned from its...
The main issue being disputed is the number of people that died from starvation – it ranges from 1.8 to 15 million people. There is one point that parties from all sides agree with: establishing the precise amount of the dead is...
On 28 September 2017, Ukraine’s new law on education entered into force. Called to advance Ukraine’s badly needed education reform, it has been praised for introducing the concept of competence-orientation and giving schools...
