ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alina Cherviatsova

Dr. Alina Cherviatsova is a Research Affiliate at the Human Rights Centre (HRC) and coordinator for the Jean Monnet Module Academy4UA at the Ghent European Law Institute (GELI), Faculty of Law and Criminology, University of Ghent.

POSTS BY Alina Cherviatsova

09 February 2018

Alina Cherviatsova

Memory Wars: The Polish-Ukrainian Battle about History

Recent events show that the conflict between Ukraine and Poland over the interpretation of controversial historical events of World War II has reached a point to be classified as ‘memory war’. These political initiatives from the both sides have destroyed the first achievements of the Ukrainian-Polish dialogue on mutual repentance, forgiveness and commemoration of the innocent victims killed during the conflict in 1940s. Continue reading >>