Mass graves of NKVD victims found in former Dubno prison
The group discovered 19 bodies in a deep pit, not far from the prison wall. Among them: three…
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History of Ukraine
Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the…
OUN documents & first aid found in buried milk can
The milk can was accidentally found by local villagers on April 25 and, with the assistance of Galinfo…
Soviet soldiers who were shot by their own people recalled
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers did not take Berlin because they died in battle against the Germans,…
They broke the Gulag: How Ukrainians overcame the Soviet repressive machine
"They triumphed, though their struggle stretched for 74 years of existence of the communist totalitarian and its concentration…
A glimpse of 1905 Ukraine in true color
The US Library of Congress hosts a number of unique true-color photographs from modern-day Ukraine made by the…
Easter celebrations in Ukraine at the turn of the 20th century (photo report)
These old photos, taken from open Internet sources, give us an idea of how Ukrainians celebrated Easter at…
Germany delivers Tsar Peter I’s Manifesto on Ukrainian Church to Kyiv
The document is invaluable, both culturally and historically. The Minister of Culture of Ukraine Yevhen Nyshchuk explained that…
How International Women’s Day became a Soviet celebration of “eternal femininity”
In August 1910, to draw attention to the issue of equal rights for women, Clara Zetkin came up…
A few words for Christopher Miller about “Banderites” and Ukrainian history
Christopher Miller's article "'Banderite' Rebrand: Ukrainian Police Declare Admiration For Nazi Collaborators To Make A Point" was published…
Rare postcards depict Ukrainian village life at turn of 20th century
“These are rare historical postcards. I want people to see and use this material, so please share my…
Hundreds of UPA documents found in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
According to Ruslan Zabily, Director of the National Memorial Museum “Tiurma na Lontskoho” (Prison on Lonskoho) in Lviv,…
100 years ago, west and east Ukraine united in short-lived independence amid invasion from all sides
In memory of that event, on its 71st anniversary, amid rising national-liberation movements of the collapsing Soviet Union,…
Black January in Baku – the time and place the Soviet Union died
On January 20 twenty-nine years ago, Soviet forces attacked the people of Baku, killing and wounding hundreds and…
Odesa circa 1890 in color(ed) photographs
The US Library of Congress hosts a number of unique colorized postcards from modern-day Ukraine made by the…
The rise and decline of Donbas: How communists tried to make this Ukrainian mining region “the heart of USSR” and how it fell into Russian occupation in 2014
Despite the dominance of the Russian language and the Soviet image of Donbas as predominantly Russian, 56% of people in this Ukrainian easternmost region identified themselves as Ukrainians.
The West’s failure in 1991 must not be repeated now
Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.
Kyiv circa 1890 in color(ed) photographs
The US Library of Congress hosts a number of unique colorized postcards from modern-day Ukraine made by the…