Prague, 5 March – In the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, accompanied by false propaganda and disinformation, we are publishing a freely available Ukrainian story in English, German and Czech from our international educational reader Lest We Forget for EU students to support educational efforts against the current aggression, which is also taking place in the field of recent history and against Ukrainian memory institutions.
Story of Ukrainian teacher Ms Oleksandra Radchenko (1896-1965) describes survival of the Holodomor famine in 1932-1933. She wrote about those times in her diary, documenting the horrors of what was essentially deliberate starvation of the people. In August 1945 she was arrested and accused of anti-Soviet propaganda. She was sentenced to ten years in a Communist concentration camp. Oleksandra returned to Ukraine in August 1955 after completing the full term of her imprisonment. As a result of her poor health, she lived as a free person for only ten more years.