Ihor Poshyvailo is the director of the National Museum of Revolution of Dignity (Maidan Museum) and curator of the “Destroyed Temples of Ukraine” exhibit. CIUS: You are the director of the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, or Maidan Museum, which has done groundbreaking work on contemporary history and new commemorative practices in Ukraine. How do you see the Maidan Museum’s role in the present war?
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Thirty years after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, a former interior minister is being tried in Prague for the deaths and injuries of people at the Czechoslovak border.
Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská never met her Nobel-prize winning grandfather. But she had to live with his legacy her whole life – which was both a blessing and a curse.