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Communist ideology did not recognize the existence of religious groups, and suppressed religious history. Because Jews were the only victims at Babi Yar, the event was ex-cluded from Soviet history books. So those who died at Babi Yar were symbolized by a non-specific Soviet resistance fighter in the distant memorial...
...while the Soviets refused to acknowledge the genocide on their soil, the massacre was a terrifying addition to the history of the Holocaust as recognized by the West. In 1961, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem to memorialize those who died at Babi Yar. Family members of the victims kept their pictures, and last week they were finally able to mourn at the grave of their relatives...
...Soviets forgot what happened at Babi Yar. And the lack of a proper memorial became another symbol of totalitarian oppression--this time the Soviet repression of ethnic minorities...
...important for the Ukraine and for the former communist world. It is a remembrance of a true history rather than a convenient history or a propagandized history. Like the Vietnam Memorial, erected after years of denial and marginalization of the veterans of that war, the monument at Babi Yar is an important part of a history that many don't want to admit...
...building a memorial to those who were murdered at Babi Yar, the Ukraine is taking an important first step towards a responsible historicism and a bold new democratic society...