The fight for historical truth about the Holocaust in Ukraine – The current conflict with Russia has further radicalized the Ukrainian approach to historical Memory | The Jerusalem Post

Ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union slightly more than a quarter of a century ago, the role played by local Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes has been a bone of contention throughout eastern Europe. Rather than adopting the accepted Western chronicle of World War II and the Holocaust, local authorities in many Eastern European post-Communist countries have sought to create an alternative narrative of the events in order to achieve two major objectives.