July 31, 2015

Kyiv OKs museum of Soviet occupation

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KYIV – Kyiv on July 23 approved the construction of an open-air museum devoted to seven decades of Soviet occupation of Ukraine. The Kyiv City Council instructed authorities in the Ukrainian capital to agree on a single location that could display all remaining Communist-era symbols and monuments – now officially banned – after being converted into a public park. A top official of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture had earlier said the controversial exhibit would help various generations remember and learn about “the crimes committed by the totalitarian Soviet regime in Ukraine.” There was no immediate reaction from Moscow about the move. In May, the Kyiv City Council had voted to remove all remnants of Ukraine’s Soviet past from across the city by August 24. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Agence France-Presse and the Kyiv Post)

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