Volodymyr Viatrovych: Ukraine’s history is in good hands

During my years working as a historian - and especially since becoming the director of Ukrainian Institute of National Memory - I've often talked with journalists from various countries and publications who hold views different than my own. The more professional the journalist, the less he or she reveals his or her own personal opinions, and the more he or she tries to listen and then reflects truthfully the opinion of the person with whom he or she has spoken. Many of these journalists have asked questions that provoked discussion. The questions Josh Cohen posed for his Foreign Policy article ("The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past," May 2), however, were not journalistic - they were those of a prosecutor.