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Ukraine’s President and leadership honor the memory of Kruty heroes, who fought for Ukraine’s independence in 1918

President Zelenskyy, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhnyi and military leadership paid tribute to fallen defenders at Askold's Grave in Kyiv, where also some contemporary servicemen are buried.

byBohdan Ben

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History of Ukraine

“Memory makes us stronger.” Ukraine marks 105th anniversary of symbolic battle against invading Russians

On 29 January 2023, Ukraine commemorates the 105 anniversary of the Battle of Kruty. Ukrainian Commander in Chief…

byBohdan Ben

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Latest news Ukraine

Representatives of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania commemorated in Kyiv the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising against the Russian Empire

The January Uprising that began on 22 January 1863 was the insurrection against the Russian empire aimed at…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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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…

byBohdan Ben

Yosyf Zissels, a former Soviet political prisoner and co-chairman of the Vaad (Union of Jewish Communities in Ukraine). Image: Apostrophe TV video capture

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Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial to the victims

There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar [also known as Babi Yar], the site…

byPaul A. Goble

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Memorial to Austrian Prince Vasyl Vyshyvany inaugurated in Kyiv

A bust of Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg-Lothringen (Vasyl Vyshyvany), colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Sichovi Striltsi) and…

byChristine Chraibi

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History of Ukraine

WWII “victory” was Soviet occupation of western Ukraine and half of Europe

If, for Western Europe, the end of the war meant the victory of democracy, for Ukraine, it meant the enforcement of Stalinism. In the words of Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukraine was “in the heart of darkness” during the Second World War, with Ukrainians mostly fighting for the interests of other states and, along with Poland, suffering the heaviest human losses of the war. Unpunished communist crimes grow, making it appropriate for Russia to start new war in 2014.

byBohdan Ben

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Putin’s “Trojan horse” in Ukraine — Babyn Yar and Holocaust memorialization

The Russian project is indeed a “Trojan horse”, as Yost Zissels, a Ukrainian dissident of Jewish origin and…

byBohdan Ben

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Ukrainians deported from Poland in 1944 recall mass killings, explain paths to historical reconciliation

The occupation of Eastern Europe in 1944–1945 by the Red Army and the establishment of communist regimes in…

byBohdan Ben

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How Ukraine is healing the traumatic wounds of colonialism

Ukraine is gradually learning to discuss its history, analyze traumatic historical events, understand the consequences of colonialialism, and…

byRadio Liberty

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UPA documents found in Italian shell casing in Zhytomyr Oblast

According to Serhiy Halytsky, acting director of the Radomyshl National Museum of Local History, and director of Povstansky…

byUkrainian media sources

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History of Ukraine

Intellectual group warns against Russian annexation of Ukrainian historical memory in “Holocaust Disneyland”

On October 13, 2020, the members of the First of December Group – founded on the 20th anniversary…

byChristine Chraibi

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History of Ukraine

New version of Hunger for Truth, film about Holodomor& Ukrainian struggle for independence, now online

The Canadian journalist who was the first to write about the 1932 genocidal famine in Ukraine — Rhea…

byBohdan Ben

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Opinion

Ukraine’s open colonial wounds

Of the interesting debate organized by LibMod – Zentrum Liberale Moderne’s project “Ukraine Verstehen” (eng. Understanding Ukraine) around…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Hanna from the forests of Volyn: life & death in Ravensbrück KZ

And yet: we will return we will definitely return at least – with our feet forward but: not…

byChristine Chraibi

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In Memoriam. An eternal guelder rose on the grave of Dariya “Oda” Lebed, survivor of Ravensbrück KZ

“Shadows billow over me” Vasyl Stus Dariya’s elderly mother, Oleksandra Hnatkivska, stood in the row of prisoners during…

byChristine Chraibi

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Motherland Monument: Kyiv landmark, national symbol or soviet vestige

Prominent soviet sculptor and muralist Yevheniy Vuchetich, who was obsessed with the idea of creating a memorial in…

byUkrayinska Pravda

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“Holocaust Disneyland” on mass graves in Kyiv – result of weak national memory policy

The museum is planned to be built in Babyn Yar, where the largest executions were committed by Nazi…

byBohdan Ben

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Ravensbrück concentration camp hospital – factory of death

In July and August 1944, barrack no.12 was filled with women prisoners from Ukraine – hundreds of exhausted…

byChristine Chraibi

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Facing Corona setback, Kremlin regroups forces on “memory front”

For the Russian leadership, the May celebration was of paramount importance. It was assumed that 2020 will see…

byIstorychna Pravda