Ukraine

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• 7/14/19
  

  HBO’s Chernobyl and the Rendering of History

  by Walter G. Moss

  The value of HBO’s Chernobyl is not just what it tells us about the failings of the Soviet system. It offers much more.

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• SOURCE: Power Technology
  6/10/19
  

  How Accurate is HBO's Chernobyl? Experts Weigh In

  Chernobyl has been a critical success on HBO, we spoke to experts in the nuclear industry about how accurate the show actually was.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/3/19
  

  Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster

  Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• 1/27/19
  

  What Do the Russians Think About Trump, Putin, and America?

  by Walter Moss

  Most Americans know little about Russia and Russians except that they might have interfered in our 2016 elections.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-24-18
  

  85 Years Later, Ukraine Marks Famine That Killed Millions

  Ukrainians lit candles on their tables or windowsills to commemorate the famine, called the Holodomor, which means death by hunger in Ukrainian.

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• 10-28-17
  

  Is the BBC Posting Fake History?

  by Christopher Gilley

  Recently, deeply-flawed articles on the website of BBC Ukraine have been passed off as fact.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  9-25-17
  

  Historian Anne Applebaum Details Stalin's War Against Ukraine

  "I Believe It Was Genocide"

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• SOURCE: Huff Post
  8-25-17
  

  No to Arming Ukraine

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  The question Americans should be asking is whether it is their duty to pick sides in a complex civil conflict and what underlying agendas have been driving U.S. interference in the country to this point.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  1-11-17
  

  World War II Monument Damaged In Ukraine's Lviv Region

  A stone cross was smashed to pieces and two slabs bearing the names of the victims were painted with a Ukrainian flag, Ukrainian nationalist symbols, and a Nazi SS emblem.

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• SOURCE: Euronews
  12-14-16
  

  Crimean treasures should return to Ukraine says Dutch court

  On loan when Russian forces took control of Crimea in 2014, the collection was assembled from four museums and represented fragments of the ancient empires that used the region as a trade crossroads.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  9-29-16
  

  Historian Timothy Snyder: Babi Yar A Tragedy For All Ukrainians

  We need to remember what happened “because memory is not just about history, it is about the future."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-27-15
  

  Ukraine Ban on Russian Symbols Fuels Fight Over National Identity

  Spurred by a historian, Ukraine has embarked on a quest for a new identity, a fallout from the hybrid war that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia unleashed in early 2014.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8-12-15
  

  Researchers open 'neglected chapter' of Ukraine's Holocaust history

  Project commemorating the killing of Jews reveals tensions between Soviet and modern Ukrainian historical narrative

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  7-14-15
  

  This is how Ukraine's dealt with its unsavory past

  It removed the Soviet-established statues to Lenin and others. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  

  Ukraine’s easy, misunderstood Babel

  by Timothy Snyder

  Not a few Russian intellectuals, depressed by the Orwellian state of Russian public discourse, have come to see Ukrainian cities as the hope for the future of Russian culture.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  6-22-15
  

  Yale University historian Timothy Snyder has become one of the unexpected "celebrities" of the conflict in Ukraine

  East and West are fighting Ukraine with different assumptions about the nation state, says Snyder. Russia still believes strong nations should dominate weak ones.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-13-15
  

  In Ukraine, Bones of War Dead Re-emerge to Stir Political Passions

  The regular discovery of World War II remains in mass graves in western Ukraine reignites resentments over which invading army or partisan group was to blame.

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• 5-9-15
  

  The History Wars in Ukraine Are Heating Up

  by Christopher Gilley and Per Anders Rudling

  Bad history is being enshrined in law. Critical historical research is under threat.

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• 5-3-15
  

  Is Vladimir Putin an Ideologue, Idealist, or Opportunist?

  by Walter Moss

  Although Putin is not an ideologue but more of an opportunist, he still possesses some values. The surprise is which values.