During World War II and in the years following, certain Ukrainian nationalist groups are known to have carried out ethnic cleansing, both helping the Nazis as they exterminated Jews and committing mass murder of Polish citizens in Ukraine. These, historians agree, are the historical facts. But if the new head of Ukraine's Institute of National Memory has his way, they may not be for long.
Volodymyr Viatrovych is a radical historian and political activist who has spent the bulk of his career attempting to whitewash the uglier passages in Ukraine's history in order to paint a more heroic picture of Ukrainian nationalists. As head of the Institute, and facing ongoing Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda, he has more influence than ever before, and has recently helped to pass a series of highly controversial "de-communization" laws that criminalize the denial of the legitimacy of Ukrainian nationalist groups, including those who carried out the known atrocities in World War II.
Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian and Professor of Russian, Soviet, and Ukrainian History at Columbia University. He is one of seventy scholars who signed an open letter to the president of Ukraine protesting the passage of the de-communization laws. Bob speaks to Amar about the effect Viatrovych's whitewashing is having on Ukraine and why some in the West seem to be going along with it.
The Radical Historian Rewriting Ukraine's Past - On The Media - WNYC
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Völlig einseitiger Propaganda-Artikel von "Carsten Luther" auf ZON, da kann man nur noch drüber lachen.
http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2016-05/ukraine-minsk-aussenminister-berlin-russland-frankreich
