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Eduard Andryushchenko: The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv

Millions of people around the world know about the Katyn massacre, the execution of 22,000 Poles captured in the Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland. Read …
Eduard Andryushchenko

Bohdan Ben: The end of the Soviet Man

30 years of independence is a relatively short period for post-Soviet states that were part of the Russian empire for 150 years and then subjugated by …
Bohdan Ben

RFE/RL: How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the National Museum of the …
EuroMaidan Press

EuroMaidan Press: ‘2-3 people starved to death in our village every day’, Holodomor witness says

Anna Slobodian, née Kashchak, was a four-year-old kid from a peasant family in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal …
EuroMaidan Press

Oleg Chupryna: Ukraine’s Revolution on Granite

This October we mark 31 years since the dramatic protest action in Ukraine dubbed the Revolution on Granite, a historic event little known to the …
Oleg Chupryna

James Freeman: Annoy Putin – watch this movie

Last year this column lauded the brilliant film “Mr. Jones,” which chronicles the Soviet Union’s mass starvation of Ukraine during the murderous reign …
James Freeman

EuroMaidan Press: ‘My village once saw 12 people die of hunger in one day’, says Holodomor witness

Hryhoriy Shykyriavyi was a six-year-old kid from a poor family in 1932-1933, when his village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of …
EuroMaidan Press

EuroMaidan Press: ‘My neighbors escaped starvation by taking grain from field mice’

Semen Kalnysh was just 6 years old in 1933, when Stalin unleashed the Holodomor, a genocidal famine that took the lives of millions of …
EuroMaidan Press

HURI: Narrating everyday life in Nazi-occupied Kyiv

Viktoria Kolosova (1923–2010), a prominent Ukrainian literary scholar, kept a diary as a young woman in 1940–1945. Those notes (now in print by the …
Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

EuroMaidan Press: ‘My family survived Holodomor by eating waste left from sugar production’

Mariia Tilna from the east-Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast was ten in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of …
EuroMaidan Press

RFE/RL: The undoing of the USSR

On Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a sovereign state. Its collapse was gradual and, some would say, even inevitable. Here are some …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

EuroMaidan Press: Holodomor witness tells how her father saved co-villagers from starvation

When she was just 5 years old, Pelaheia Tovkach became a witness of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of the Ukrainian nation, when millions of …
EuroMaidan Press

EuroMaidan Press: Voices of living Holodomor witnesses

Dmytro Viniarsky was 9 when the communists staged the Holodomor, a genocidal famine though to have taken the lives of at least 4 million Ukrainians. …
EuroMaidan Press

HURI: COVID-19 is China’s Chornobyl moment

Mark Twain once said history never repeats, but it often rhymes. So it proved 30 years after Chornobyl with the first cases of Covid-19. In China, …
Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

UA.TV: The National Holodomor Genocide Museum opens new exhibition

The National Holodomor Genocide Museum has opened a renewed exhibition of the Memorial Hall. The modernization took place as part of the …
UA.TV

Zmina: Secret service documents reveal persecution of East European intellectuals

As part of the “Repressed Art Project”, the Centre for Research of the Liberation Movement, Ukraine has published hundreds of secret documents from …
EuroMaidan Press
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Zmina

StratComUA: 5 technologies Kremlin used to invade Poland, Ukraine

The Soviet Union’s occupation of Poland jointly with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014 have much in …
StratComUA

RFE/RL: 30 years ago, Kazakhstan closed Soviet-Era nuclear test site

August 29 marks 30 years since Kazakhstan closed its Semipalatinsk test site, a vast, remote area that was used by the Soviet Union for hundreds of …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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