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Crimes of the Soviet communist regime
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Vasyl Vyshyvany: the Habsburg prince who chose Ukraine
The great Habsburg of Ukrainian history was born on February 10, 1895 on the island of Lošinj (present-day…
Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster
The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 1)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a resolution ‘On measures…
Holodomor in Kharkiv through the lens of Austrian engineer: photo gallery
During the 1921-23 famine in the USSR, Soviet authorities had allowed photographers unprecedented and never to be repeated…
KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945
Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic…
Russia still hiding Stalin’s genocidal crimes against Finns and Norwegians after 80 years
One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940…
An Austrian engineer showed these Holodomor photos to Cardinal Innitzer in 1933, pleading for aid to the starving
Here we present his Innitzer album, the popular name of an album of photographs that were taken by…
Engineer Wienerberger’s unknown photographs of the Holodomor
[editorial] Today, November 28, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor, man-made famine of 1932-1933 that took the…
Ukrainian Holodomor Museum launches crowdfunding campaign to create main exhibition
A fundraising campaign has been launched to finish the construction of the Museum of Holodomor-Genocide, located in the…
Holodomor survivor stories come to life in mobile app for tourists
Buildings such as the student canteen, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or the apartment block on vulytsia Pushkinska remember the…
Bread from tree bark and straw: students launch online “restaurant” with Holodomor “recipes”
Students from the Ukrainian Leadership Academy have launched an online “restaurant” featuring “recipes” thanks to which many Ukrainians…
World-famous exhibition about Holodomor-33 opens in Kyiv
“Maria” is a mobile memorial space that sustains the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933…
The brutal Russification of Ukrainian Kuban: from Zaporizhian Sich to the Kuban Cossack Host
The new land of the Ukrainian Cossacks Thousands of Ukrainian Cossacks and their families moved to the Kuban…
Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process
[editorial]This year’s Lviv Security Forum brought together security experts from different countries in order to model the resolution…
Memory wars and other battles
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried…
Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population
[editorial]It is literally impossible to count the exact number of victims of political repression in Ukraine. According to…
Kremlin planned to destabilize Ukraine in the early 1990s by smearing “all forms of nationalism,” KGB file reveals
This declaration did not please the Kremlin and caused quite a stir in Moscow and in the ranks…
Jewish tombstones found in small courtyard of former NKVD headquarters in Lviv
The Prison on Lontskoho Museum The National Memorial Museum of Victims of Occupation Regimes or Prison on Lontskoho (Ukrainian:…
Treasures stolen from Kyiv cathedrals in the 1930s discovered in State Historical Museum in Moscow
Sacred Altar and Pectoral Crosses Sacred Mitres and Crowns Excited by his find, Tymur Bobrovsky wrote the following…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…