Ihor Siundukov

During the Soviet period Nikolai Kuznetsov was regularly described in publications as none other than a “legendary intelligence agent,” a celebrated Soviet hero, and the pride of the famous partisan unit “Pobediteli” (Victors), which operated in the Rivne area between 1942 and 1944, under the...

According to a time-honored truism, man becomes what he is through exposure to adverse circumstances and struggle with an alien environment. The young, 24-year-old retired Second-Lieutenant Aleksandr Kuprin, who arrived in Kyiv in August 1894 with the goal of devoting himself to journalism and...

History has a healing function. But its medicine is extremely bitter. Informed knowledge of the unvarnished truth about the past causes a thinking patriot of Ukraine (someone who is unable or unwilling to think is perhaps not a patriot by definition; a stupid patriot is either an unnatural...

It is extremely interesting and useful to study the life story of a gifted and contradictory personality, especially if this life is replete with political, psychological, and even amorous affairs. When the person in question is also a figure whose path in life coincided with the path of historical...

The representatives of the 1960s generation of Ukrainian writers, the so-called “sixtiers” (shestydesiatnyky) are not simply concerned with the problems that confronted them at the time; these writers have also entered mainstream life in Ukraine. Many of them will obviously withdraw from active...

At around 10 a.m. on October 12, 1957, a middle-aged man with strong-willed features was walking quickly to his place of work in a building located at 8 Karlplatz in Munich. He must have been in quite a hurry, because he didn’t notice a stranger with a folded newspaper waiting for him in the...

The events of the Orange Revolution this past November and December have not yet been consigned to history or the dim and distant past. They are our present-day burning reality, which has given rise to diametrically opposing opinions and colliding ideas. Therefore, it is imperative to fathom this U...

History is marching forward with clear, sober, and unclouded eyes. Cleansing the public conscience is the only precondition of social progress, but it is of the utmost importance. While primitive, bare-faced lies affect people’s souls like a dangerous poison, its toxic effects dependent on the...

Armed struggle in the history of humanity — especially in the past few centuries — has often been accompanied by a struggle of ideas, views, and doctrines, along with information warfare suited to the specifics of the given epoch. People tested the strength of their enemies’ convictions with...

Trying to picture the manager of the Shevchenko Homeland State Preserve, one is likely to end visualizing a dignified academic-type lady wearing thick glasses, or maybe an overconfident bureaucrat, one of those “cultural workers.” Wrong! This preserve, revered by all Ukrainians conscious of their...