All the terrible events that followed the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, are a continuation of the genocide against Ukrainians perpetrated by the Soviet Union. Mass shootings, torture, looting, and persecution of the Ukrainian language and culture occurred in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

One of the reasons for the recurrence of these crimes is their forgetfulness and failure to speak at the proper level.

The exhibition "Communism = Rashism" demonstrates in specific stories of exterminated people that Russia's bloody methods have not changed since the last century. As an illustrative example, the exhibition will tell 15 stories of Ukrainians from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who suffered from the communist regime and rashism.

The exhibition is based on archival documents of the Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine, State Archives of Lviv region, Zhytomyr region, Mykolaiv region, Vinnytsia region, Volyn region, modern photographs, and documented crimes of the modern Russian army.

Authors of the exhibition: Director of the Archives of National Memory Ihor Kulyk and Daryna Rogachuk, a communicator from the Archive.

The project was worked on by:

Oleksandr Denysenko, Tetyana Prys, Anna Ryaba, Svitlana Starovoit, Yevheniy Yankevych

Information partners:

Цензор.НЕТ, Новинарня, Літературна Україна