Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation at the ER IHIRSPS

9.5.2023

The Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation at the ER IHIRSPS was celebrated with a thematic lecture by Professor Oleksandr Naboka.

Thus, on May 8, a thematic lecture by Oleksandr Naboka, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor and Head of the Ukrainian History Department, was traditionally held at the Educational and Research Institute of History, International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences.

The main speaker was introduced by the director of the institute Anton Bader. He noted the importance of scientific and social rethinking of the events of the Second World War, which for Ukraine began in 1939.

According to Professor Oleksandr Naboka, today, in the conditions of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the tragedy experienced by our grandfathers and great-grandfathers during the Second World War is felt and understood more than ever. “In fact, for the first time in such a terrible way, we were able to fully understand what our ancestors felt,” noted the author of the event, the theme of which is “Bloody Lands. Deportations of Unconquered Peoples of the USSR During the Second World War”. “The sin of cynically using this tragedy for the manipulative purposes of reviving Putin’s Russian half-empire looks all the more terrible now,” he added.

The main emphasis of the lecture was focused on highlighting the mass deportations of indigenous peoples and part of Ukrainians, which were carried out by the Soviet authorities from the end of 1943 to 1947. According to Oleksandr Naboka, these were real genocides against peoples who for a long time consistently fought against the Soviet policy of the previous years – Ukrainians, Crimean, Chechen-Ingush, Oirato-Kalmyk and Karachay-Circassian. The author drew an analogy between the tragedy of the peoples at that time and the modern demographic policy that the Putin regime is conducting today in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian lands.

Educational and Research Institute of History,
International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences