important that the textbooks were prepared according to the recommendations of the national institute of national remembrancen organization for the control of educational activities in ukraine, its former leader lived in the united states and took an active part in euromaidan, a topic that is subject to distortion. this, of course, is the great fatherland war, because now this historical narrative is the main uh, the main patriotic foundation of russian society, which holds together uh russian society and, accordingly, the kiev authorities need to find. to destroy is why it is important and necessary to teach history with correct materials , and we cannot allow external influence on our education in greater numbers at home. it's just , uh, it's a matter of honor for us not to let this happen today. uh the influence of external resources on uh, what is happening in our educational programs in our schools. i think that we will cope, and history will be put in place and everything that happened under the leadership of the ukrainian leadership today. what happened will be condemned, including by the world commun

of national memory with anton shrohnych, head of the ukrainian institute of national memory, and volodymyr in yatrovych, people's deputy of ukraine, until recently the head of the ukrainian institute of national remembrance not be bypassing the anniversary of the emsk decree, so somewhere, possibly beyond the urals, someone would have washed this matter we understand that, on the other hand, this is actually evidence of the weakness of the power of the russian empire as such, which wanted to dissolve ukraine into little russia, and as a result, it received a strong state in the center of europe called ukraine. you can imagine how much effort they put into their colonization policy, but on the other hand, we see also that this story will not end, unfortunately, so simply and easily, if we had hoped for volodymyr, it is really worth remembering such sad gifts of the ukrainian side, now there should be a purposeful policy, remembering all these volyn circulars, amma decrees, we have to do everything depending on us in order to create conditions for the development of the ukrainian language on behalf of the already existing ukrainian state, because theses that were often heard already in independent ukraine

for this conversation lesya bondaruk employee of the ukrainian institute of national remembrance about the day of heroes about our nationoes about the fact that heroism is actually in our blood, that's why only victory well, about creative defense, let's talk more about the songs of the times of war, which they should be or is it appropriate to joke in these songs because humor is also a negative component and it is in our blood, our country . but the hadyukin brothers also continue to support the ukrainian people and ukrainian defenders. of the independence of ukraine, because you were known before the announcement of the independence of ukraine, and before that, you used such steps with your creativity to declare this independence at the world level. and how can you describe the situation now? did you expect what might happen this is the case now with our state. hm. i think that the first thing to do at that time in moscow at the pugachov these evenings after our native tarser eh there were such words rock and roll until the morning it was a bomb in general eh not only for ukraine, which was still part of the soviet u

these are the data of the ukrainian institute of national remembrance, so our state is the fourth in the number of righteous nationstoday. approved last year, the romanian embassy resumed work in kyiv. this was written by the minister of foreign affairs, bohdan aureska. he also noted that romania is a partner of ukraine in its courageous struggle for freedom currently, 38 foreign representative offices have resumed their work in kyiv this is another proof that our partners believe in victory, the future and prospects of ukraine reported to the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine a strong signal of bipartisan support for ukraine kyiv was visited by a delegation of the supreme house of the us congress headed by the leader of the republican the minority in the senate , mitchell macondal, they met with the president, volodymyr zelenskyi noted that ukraine is fighting russia, defending not only its state, but also democratic values ​​and freedoms, the president noted the special role of the united states in strengthening sanctions against the aggressor, in particular thanked the congress for the adoption of laws bann

institute of national remembrance even came up with a slogan for victory day. it sounds like this. we defeated it. we defeated it with nazism . er proposed the institute of nationalry, that is, i think it will be successful and will be used, i absolutely agree that racism is a modernized er nazism of hitler's germany and er we don't need a vote of the verkhovna rada a regarding yesterday's vote, i just want to explain . yesterday there was a draft resolution about uh, that uh, the verkhovna rada uh, uh, emphasizes that no country in the world, in particular, meant primarily the aggressor country. the russian federation cannot monopolize for propaganda purposes victory in the second world war because they tell their citizens that they personally defeated the nazis and that it is their merit, we are talking about the fact that this is the collective merit and victory of the civilized world and no country can claim this right for itself monopolize and regarding the holiday and commemoration, i will tell you that, of course, on may 8, together with the whole world and europe, we should commemorate, but victory day will be after our victory over racism. i think the ne

national day of remembrance. do you envision this as a national holiday or simply something that we want schools and public institutionsmber? >> i think this needs to be a federal holiday. we have lost 1 million people. we are unfortunately going to lose more people this pandemic. if you think about it, the 1918 pandemic was just a blip on the radar. it was pushed into the memory hole did i think had we learned about it and had we actually reconciled with the losses, we would have taken this pandemic differently. i think about this memorial day not only as an opportunity for us to heal and remember and mourn those we have lost in the pandemic. i see it as such an important tool over the next five, 10, 15, 20 years to codify lessons learned so that we never make any of the same mistakes that we made during this pandemic again. >> what is the process here? have you spoken with political leaders and where are we in the process of making this a national holiday? >> great question. we have been working with cities and states across the country to introduce the support in california. a revolution-- the city of oakland has pa