Historians who say Prime Minister Stephen Harper got a one-sided perspective on Second World War atrocities when he visited a museum in Ukraine last month jumped the gun, according to the museum's former director. Volodymyr Viatrovych, a historian popular with Ukrainian nationalists in both his own country and in Canada, was ousted from his job at the Prison at Lonsky museum after Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's pro-Moscow president, took office this year. Read the story here.
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The Montreal Gazette: Ex-director defends Lviv museum visited by Harper
Yale University professor Timothy Snyder has asserted that Ukrainians linked to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists took part in anti-Jewish programs and later helped the Nazis round up and kill Jewish civilians from 1941 to 1943.
