Ex-director defends Lviv museum visited by PM
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.
Viatrovych was responding, at the request of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, to historians' complaints that Harper was shown only exhibits focusing on atrocities committed in June 1941 by Soviet secret police against Ukrainians, Poles and Jews....
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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.
Viatrovych was responding, at the request of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, to historians' complaints that Harper was shown only exhibits focusing on atrocities committed in June 1941 by Soviet secret police against Ukrainians, Poles and Jews....