Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine At the time, the Soviet KGB went to great lengths to prevent the establishment of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU) – an international organization whose goals were to consolidate all Ukrainians, draw the…
‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland
The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful past Jakub Knera 20 Aug 2025 The Guardian…
Ukraine’s Forgotten Role in the Liberation of France
By Bohdan Cherniawski | July 23rd, 2025 In the waning weeks of August 1944, as the German military retreated across France and Allied divisions advanced from both Normandy and the south, an organized rebellion unfolded in the Haute-Saône region in…
The Voice Ukraine Refused to Bury
She never lived. But Marusia Churai’s songs have survived empire, silence, and war — carrying the memory of a nation, and the women it tried to forget. By Bohdan Cherniawski | July 9, 2025 Marusia Churai is one of…
ARCHITECTURE AND DECOR OF IVAN MAZEPA’S PALACE IN BATURYN AND WESTERN ANALOGIES
During the years 1995-2021, archaeologists and historians from Chernihiv University in Ukraine and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta conducted annual excavations in the town of Baturyn, Chernihiv Oblast (fig. 1). This archaeological…
The Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic: Legacy of the Ukrainian Resistance in the Far East
By Bohdan Cherniawski | May 18th, 2025 Ukrainian Roots in the Far East In the summer of 2020, the Russian Far East—often dismissed as a remote outpost in the vast geography of the Russian Federation—became the unlikely stage for one…
80 years underground
OUN documents found in a can in the forest will be restored in the Frankivsk region On April 8, 2025, archival documents of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which had been underground for 80 years, were handed over for restoration….
How the student underground was created and then destroyed in Kyiv 100 years ago
Union of Ukrainian Youth Continued from issue 15 A different story happened to Pavlushkov, who studied at the veterinary institute. “One of his comrades, having noticed that he was wearing a cross, reported him. An investigation is underway. They may…
Ukrainian underground of Mariupol: the organization “Freedom of Labor
Yuriy Shchur The Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been known in all corners of our planet for three years. The heroic defense of the city from the Russians and the genocidal crimes of the latter forced thousands of pairs of…
How KGB officers in the Kherson region monitored the “correctness” of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada in 1954
Yuriy Shchur The Soviet government, like no one else, understood the importance of the “correct” interpretation of historical events. Anyone who considers the study and coverage of various, and even more so, key, events in the life of the country…
Ukrainian Writer and His Struggle with the Soviet System: Notes on Serhiy Plachynda
Yuriy Shchur The Soviet state security agencies, as is known, were the “watchful eye” of the communist regime. Accordingly, no anti-Soviet sentiments and manifestations passed their attention, especially if they concerned Ukraine. Flipping through the pages of reports, reports, and…