In Kiev, offering to call out the name of the Holodomor researcher Conquest

Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ’ memory appealed to the Cabinet with a proposal to name one of the capital's streets named Robert Conquest, British explorer of the Holodomor of 1932-33 in Ukraine, says Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ’ memory. This messagelyaye. &Laquo; In Kiev, the process decommunisation, so the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ’ Memory considers it appropriate to rename one of the capital's streets, which still bore the name ’ I figure the communist party in honor of the world-renowned researcher Robert Conquest & raquo ;, – said the organization. Conquest died on August 3 at the age of 98 Rocks at his home in California, USA. In 1968, Robert Conquest completed a book « The Great Terror: Stalin's purges 30s & raquo ;, which is based both on official Soviet data, including published during the Khrushchev « thaw & raquo ;, and the testimony of Ukrainian and Russian fugitives from Soviet regime. InConquest 1986 published a book « Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and terror famine & raquo ;, whose theme was famine in Ukraine and some other areas of the USSR. Then he called pro-Soviet views left intellectuals in the West « moral disgrace & raquo ;. He explicitly called policy of the Soviet leadership towards Mr.aselennya Ukraine genocide, added the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ’ memory.

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