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"History as a Weapon: Soviet Past, russian Narratives, and the War Against Ukraine"

Events / 14 June 2025

On the Main Building of the War Museum will host a public discussion dedicated to the issues of historical memory and russia’s use of history as a tool in its aggressive war against Ukraine.

Speakers of the event will include:

  • Yana Prymachenko – Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
  • Kyrylo Halushko – Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
  • Wojciech Bednarski – Representative of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.

Moderator: Yana Hrynko, Senior Researcher at the War Museum.

During the event, participants will discuss how russia has turned historical memory into a battleground in the russian-Ukrainian war, its manipulative practices aimed at distorting the history of World War II, and the current European memory policies concerning the Soviet legacy amid russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Free entry with prior registration.