“Museum of Soviet occupation” was opened in Kyiv

The “Memorial” society named after Vasyl Stus has opened the “Museum of Soviet occupation” on 6 Stelmah str., Kyiv.

The decision on that was made at the Kyiv’s regional society department conference on May 26, 2007.

The exposition “Beyond the oblivion: the chronic of communist inquisition of the years 1917-1991” forms the museum basis.

The expositions “Ukranian Solovky”, “Kyiv’s passional (Kyiv’s memorial destroyed by the communists)”, “Holodomor in documentary photos”.

The exposition “National war”, dedicated to peasant-cossack rebellions, is being developed.

The museum is opened from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. except for Sunday. The admission is free in June. “The museum works on a voluntary basis”, as it is said on the “Memorial” site.

At the same time, information about museum creation has been met doubtfully in Ukraine, as “the 5^th channel” informed.

“The museum’s staff complains of threats directing against them. The hacker attack has been already made on the “Memorial’ site. At the same time, people say this exposition opens quite a number of “blank spots” in the Soviet history, “the 5^th channel” notes.