A travelling photo-documentary exhibition compiled in 2022 from the archives of the Ukrainian State Institute of National Remembrance demonstrates that Russia’s bloody methods have not changed. This is illustrated by the fates of thirteen women and men from 20th and 21st centuries. Most of them were exterminated simply because they were Ukrainians, worked on parental land and spoke their mother tongue. All of them, the Russians believed, had no right to live.

Communism, which was not condemned after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has led to its repetition in modern-day Russia, in the form of modern-day Rashism (or Russian fascism). It has led to the war that we are witnessing now. Ukraine now has a historic chance to properly clarify its past. The material of this exhibition is one such step in the new phase of de-sovietisation and de-Putinisation of modern Ukraine.