After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
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Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada rescues videos, testimonies of Ukrainian dissidents
Director Yuriy Luhovy and producer Zoryana Hrytsenko from Canada have rescued 26 video recordings of Ukrainian dissidents. These…
New dig in Lviv Oblast reveals unique artefacts from the Roman period
A team of scientists and scholars from the joint archeological expedition of the Historical and Local Lore Museum…
The 100 days when Odesa was a French province: historic photos
On 18 December 1918, French troops occupied Odesa and announced that they were taking the city under their…
Record find of OUN documents in Ternopil Oblast includes novel album of UPA “image-maker” Nil Khasevych
History in milk cans Civilian diggers Andriy Khrunyk and Andriy Ostap found the milk cans in Berezhany…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Which western bands were banned in the USSR?
KISS – neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin – punk, violence Madonna – sex What the hell is this?…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
Hundreds of thousands of families lost their means of subsistence. They were scattered across the Soviet country: some…
On the streets with big plans. How Kyiv’s Euromaidan museum wants to promote democracy for the whole of Europe
After the first 5 years of work, the newly created Ukrainian National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity…
Is Zelenskyy’s presidency a rollback of Euromaidan values or their continuation?
On November 21, Ukraine celebrated the Day of Dignity and Freedom, created by presidential decree on November 13,…
Baturyn massacre which brought Russian Empire to rank of global powers and destroyed Ukrainian Cossack state recalled
The Baturyn massacre was never properly researched prior to Ukraine regaining independence in 1991. Since 1995, archaeologists have…
International project renovates priceless frescoes in historic Garrison Church in Lviv
The project was launched back in July 2015 by Father Stepan Susa, who was then the parish priest…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Starved mother lay dead while her baby sucked on empty breast | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared…
“Black diggers” unearth 2 metal drums filled with grain dating from 1946-47
The news was subsequently announced on FB by Mykola Bandrivsky, chairman of the archeological commission at the Shevchenko…
My granny stole pig food for us grandchildren but died of starvation herself | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Contents The Syvak family“And they took everything away from everyone”Surrogates“No one cried, no one was sorry for anyone,…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
For years on end, scholars, academics and historians have been inflating the number of deaths caused by the…
Half our village died of starvation, mostly the elderly | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds…
The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal
One summer day in 1969, three schoolchildren of about 12-14 years of age, were strolling in the woods…