The Ukrainian Week

5 October, 2017	History	The Fifth Line What national policy was like in the USSR
19 July, 2016	History	The roads of underground capitalism in the USSR The story of a Stalin-era shady businessman
20 November, 2015	Society	The Gen-3 Mission: Beating the Holodomor effect How much time for Ukrainians to get over the post-genocide syndrome?
21 October, 2015		“One thing you feel in Ukraine, Donetsk or Crimea is this almost unbearable pressure that Russia is putting” American historian about propaganda and political manipulations as triggers of genocides in the 20th century
6 August, 2015	History	The Man Who Never Laid Down Arms Former UPA fighter shares his story of struggle against the Nazis and NKVD, GULAGs and return to Ukraine
12 May, 2015	History	From Munich to Yalta The beginning and end of World War II brought about political collusions that greatly discredited the leaders of Western democracies
16 October, 2013	History	Subjugated Europe Stalin’s moves to establish communist governments in Central and Eastern Europe relied largely on local elements and tools already tested in the USSR
5 July, 2013		Freedom for History The myths of the “Great Patriotic War” are a massive misrepresentation of history and a tricky political trap for Ukrainians who are forbidden from recovering their own history and claiming recognition of their suffering
25 June, 2013		The Legacy of George Orwell On 25 June 2013, George Orwell (1903–1950) would turn 110. He appears to have been the real prophet of totalitarianism, and far and away the most insightful writer in the West who got the very essence of the tragedy of Eastern Europe.
25 June, 2013	Culture	Animal Planet Anticommunist socialist George Orwell and his gift to Ukrainians
25 April, 2013		Russia, a Soviet Slave The 500-rouble Russian bill features a very nice and disdainful picture that shows the state’s heightened interest in the spiritual dimension of Russia’s life and history
14 March, 2013		Inactivity Leads to Hell The first quarter of this year has some remarkable dates. The way people, the media and politicians treat them is an interesting indicator of a society’s moral and political state.
8 February, 2013	History	Freedom Without Liberation For a large part of the Ukrainian population, Stalin’s “liberation from the Germans” was a mirror image of Hitler’s “liberation of Ukraine from the Bolsheviks” in 1941
8 February, 2013	History	Bitter Legacy Philippe de Lara: “Totalitarian regimes are dead, but they continue to exert a strong influence on many countries and their cultures”
27 October, 2011	History	A Death Row Army Stalin used penal battalions in the Red Army as an instrument of repression
16 May, 2011	History	Killing A People Stanford University Professor Norman M. Naimark speaks about various interpretations of genocide and current court practice
21 January, 2011	History	Historical TV Series Mutilate Consciousness Contrary to ephemeral statements by the Kremlin about “de-Stalinization,” the Russian propaganda machine is actively establishing historical myths first produced under Stalin