One of Kiev's streets offer to name in honor Holodomor researchers - Conquest
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory appealed to the Cabinet with a proposal to name one of the capital's streets named Robert Conquest, British explorer of the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-33. Robert Conquest. Photo: nytimes.com This was reported by Ukrainianand the Institute of National Memory ’ memory. &Laquo; In Kiev, the process decommunisation, so the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ’ Memory considers it appropriate to rename one of the capital's streets, which still bore the name ’ I figure the communist party in honor of the world-renowned researcher Robert Conquest & raquo ;, – said the organization. In 1968, Robert Conquest completed a book « The Great Terror: Stalin's purges 30s & raquo ;, which is based both on official Soviet data, including published during the Khrushchev « thaw & raquo ;, and the testimony of Ukrainian and Russian refugees from the Soviet mode. In 1986 he published a book Conquest « Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and terror famine & raquo ;, whose theme was famine in Ukraine and some other areas of the USSR. Then he called pro-Soviet views left intellectuals in the West « moral disgrace & raquo ;. He explicitly called policy of the Soviet leadership in relation to the population of Ukraine as genocide, reports « Padio Freedom & raquo ;. Recall Holodomor researcher Robert Conquest died on August 3 in the US 90-year life.Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/