Berlin From the start, Russia’s war against Ukraine, which has been raging for eight years, was against its culture, its ideas about religious freedom and its institutions. This was already evident in 2014, when Crimea and parts of the Donbass were occupied.
Buildings and property of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox and the Greek Catholic Union Churches were handed over to the Moscow-based Orthodoxy, mosques and temples were closed, and the exhibitions in the regional museums and in the popular palaces of the Crimean Tatar Khans were systematically revised.
Researchers who still have contacts in the occupied territories report that the supposedly ancient power of Russia in the Crimea and the Donbass is being highlighted in the new permanent exhibitions.
The violent resistance of the Cossacks, Ukrainians or Tartars against their Russification, especially the catastrophic deportation of the Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in 1944 and their decades of discrimination disappeared from the exhibitions.
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