Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared on the site of the former Cossack winter houses only in the late 18th century. The largest of them was the village of Velyka...
The Syvak family Ksenia Prokopiuk was born on January 31, 1927, in Tanske village of Uman district. Her father, Hyva Syvak, was a blacksmith. He could shoe a horse or make the necessary agricultural tools, and had his own small smithy....
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide launched a special project – ‘Dekulakization: how the...
For years on end, scholars, academics and historians have been inflating the number of deaths caused by the Stalin-made famine in 1932-33 (Holodomor). This is mainly due to the fact that reliable information sources were not available....
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds of accounts of the people who survived the horrible pages of Ukrainian history. All...
Vasylyna Antonivna Yarovenko was born on 5 April 1923. “On Thursday,” she adds laughing. Her daughter explains, “It was the feast of Holy Thursday.” Vasylyna’s mother Teklia Frantsivna originated from the...
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the National Museum of the Holodomor–Genocide launched a special project – ‘Dekulakization:...
, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family. Anna Slobodian was born in the Kashchak family of ordinary farmers. She witnessed how her father, a...
Authorities classified Hryhoriy’s family as poor, yet seized their food stocks “When the started, my father was registered as the ,” Hryhorii Shykyriavyi starts his story about the Holodomor chronologically, with the...
Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maxim Mirovich says; but they are precisely that – myths – that have little basis in reality and mean that Russians today are inclined to think that the past...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
