{"id":16948,"date":"2016-01-26T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16948"},"modified":"2016-01-26T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:50:54","slug":"faking-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16948","title":{"rendered":"Faking History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/01\/26\/faking-history\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Faking History<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79181\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/01\/shutterstock_182666510.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_182666510\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is the final struggle<\/p>\n<p>Let us pull together and tomorrow<br \/>\nThe Internationale<br \/>\nWill be the human kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Written by Eugene Pottier in 1871, \u201cThe Internationale,\u201d is the anthem of socialists, communists, anarchists, and social democrats. Anti-fascist Republicans sang it during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Singing \u201cThe Internationale\u201d today in Ukraine is punishable by up to ten years in prison. The Kiev Rada passed a law in December making it a crime to deny the \u201ccriminal nature\u201d of the Soviet regime (1917-1991). From selling a Soviet-era postcard, to membership in the communist party, to singing the Soviet national anthem, the law penalizes all symbols and activities connected to the USSR.<\/p>\n<p>Volodymyr Chemerys calls attention to the law\u2019s violations of human rights in a recent article in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/01\/22\/human-rights-after-euromaidan\/\">CounterPunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A law was passed on \u201cde-communization\u201d which is in conflict with a number of fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. These include freedom of assembly and association (Article 11 of the Convention), freedom of expression (Article 10) and freedom of speech.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though this law consigns both Nazi and Soviet symbols to Roman-style\u00a0<em>damnatio memoriae<\/em>\u00a0(erasure from memory), a second law criminalizes any expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) or the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as Ukrainian independence fighters\u2014though in the actual historical record they were counter-Soviet revolutionaries who collaborated with the Nazis in ethnic cleansing and egregious massacres of Jews, Poles, and others during WW II. One of the authors of the law was the son of Roman Shukhevych, leader of the UPA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDe-communization\u201d\u2014the stripping of all traces of the Soviet past \u2014will cost bankrupt Ukraine millions of dollars. The names of cities, streets, parks and other places bearing the memory of Soviet or communist heroes will have to be changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faking History \u201cThis is the final struggle Let us pull together and tomorrow The Internationale Will be the human kind.\u201d \u2014 Written by Eugene Pottier in 1871, \u201cThe Internationale,\u201d is the anthem of socialists, communists, anarchists, and social democrats. Anti-fascist Republicans sang it during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Singing \u201cThe Internationale\u201d today in Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3299,5493,2500,11983,11984,742,821,1878],"class_list":["post-16948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-communism","tag-counterpunch","tag-history","tag-luciana-bohne","tag-rewriting-history","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16949,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948\/revisions\/16949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}