With protesters around the world toppling statues and demanding a reappraisal of national narratives glorifying racists and colonialists, the last country one would expect to reject state-sponsored hagiography would be Ukraine. Over the past five years, the post-Soviet republic has repeatedly come under fire from scholars and civil society groups opposed to what they have say has been a campaign to whitewash its often turbulent history, renaming streets after Nazi collaborators and granting state recognition to militia groups whose members took part in the mass murder of Jews.
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