Viktor Yuschenko, third Ukrainian President (2005-2010) has presented an electronic version of a museum exhibition entitled "People's War" and a Web site by the same name with archive documents on liberation fight of Ukrainian people in 1917-1932.
The virtual museum contains about 70,000 pages of archive documents on the liberation fight of the Ukrainian people in 1917-1932 that have been stored at the central and branch archives of the Security Service of Ukraine in 18 regions.
"This exhibition could have been called "Unknown War" because we don’t know the names of most of the heroes," Yuschenko said during the presentation of the Web site at the Kyiv City Organization of the All Ukrainian Memorial Society of Vasyl Stus.
The "People’s War" museum exhibition took almost three-year of work by representatives of the Memorial Society to create. More than 350 collections of documents and some 1,500 archived cases were processed and digitalized for the exhibition.
The exhibition includes over 300 photos, many of which are being shown for the first time. The Memorial Association and the Our Ukraine Party jointly created the project with assistance of Viktor Yuschenko.
The exhibition on the Web site will be continually updated with new materials and documents.
Experts of the Memorial Association and the Civil Institute of Historical Memory have completed textual descriptions of all 24 sectors of the exhibition. In early March the descriptions will be posted on the Web site, and by May they will be translated into the Russian and English languages.
In turn, Head of the political council of the Our Ukraine Party, Former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said: "While textbooks on history are being re-written, we know how to open the truth to people, and first of all to young people… This is not the last project. The truth is in documents and photography, and not in pseudo historical textbooks."
"This Web site is in a way a Wikileaks [working against] those liars who are sitting and managing [Ukrainian] education and science," Nalyvaichenko said, reads a posting on the Web site of the Our Ukraine Party.
