It’s a short afternoon walk, but a long national journey, from Kyiv’s Second World War memorial, which was erected by the Soviets, to the memorials to those killed in the Maidan “revolution of dignity” last year, which are makeshift and erected by the people. The national journey is from lies to truth. The Second World War memorial, like all things Soviet, manipulates the truth, in service of party interests. It commemorates the struggle from 1941 to 1945, conveniently beginning the war from the Nazi invasion of Russia, rather than Russia’s original move westward in 1939.
The present Ukrainian government has posters …read more
Source: National Post
