From the Great Patriotic War to the Second World War: Decommunisation of Ukraine’s memory politics
The EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s military aggression set in motion radical changes in Ukrainian memory politics. Ukraine’s decommunisation laws condemned communist and Nazi totalitarianism as morally reprehensible and the country replaced the commemoration of the Great Patriotic War with Ukraine’s contribution to the European-wide defeat of Nazism in the Second Word War, emphasising the human tragedy of war.To access this content, you must
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July 7, 2020 -
Serhiy Riabenko
Taras Kuzio
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History and MemoryIssue 4 2020Magazine
Illustration by Andrzej Zaręba
decommunisation, Great Patriotic War, Ukraine