Exhibition "Ordinary Nazism" opens at Victory Museum in Moscow

19 апреля 2022
Along with the preservation of the historical memory, it is our duty to prevent a repeat of the tragedy of Nazism. The Volyn massacre, the punitive operations of the SS division "Galicia" and the deaths of civilians in Donbass these days. The exhibition "Ordinary Nazism" opened at the Victory Museum in Moscow. The history of the emergence and development of the Ukrainian version of Nazism from its inception to the present day is told t hrough photographs, archival documents and newsreels: over 200 exhibits.

For example, in just an hour and a half bandits of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed over 100 people in the Ukrainian village of Lozovoye using terrible tortures. During the Great Patriotic War more than 3 million Soviet citizens were killed by the Nazis in Ukraine. 

Svetlana Klevtsovskaya, officer of the Victory Museum (Moscow, Russia):

“We have documents and unique criminal cases that prove that nationalist movements flourished in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War, despite the fact that Ukraine lost almost 1.5 million people at the front, in the ranks of the Red Army, who valiantly fought this Nazism, and every sixth soldier of the Red Army was a native Ukrainian. That is, there was such a split then and it is still there now, because descendants of those and others still live in Ukraine.”

The "Nazism Today" section of the exhibition features dozens of pieces of evidence, proving the pro-Nazi attitudes in Ukraine today: books, military uniforms of the "Azov" regiment, which is associated with radical ideology, propaganda paraphernalia of Ukrainian nationalists and items with Nazi symbols. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an installation dedicated to the dead children of Donbass. At the bottom there are toys, and at the top there are 66 angels with the names of those who died during the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine.