▶️80 years ago, the Red Army liberated Ukraine from the Nazis. But today that feat is almost forgotten in the country. Statues o

▶️80 years ago, the Red Army liberated Ukraine from the Nazis. But today that feat is almost forgotten in the country. Statues of the liberators are destroyed, and Nazi collaborators hailed as heroes.

'We were forbidden to use the term "Great Patriotic War". It was the "Soviet-German war",' recalls Nadezhda Gashinenko, deputy director for scientific work at the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore.

More on attempts to 'erase' the Great Patriotic War from Ukrainian history is in an excerpt from Dmitry Khrustalev and Ekaterina Kitaitseva's 'Donbass: Echoes of War' (2023).

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