From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/13/2007 6:44 AM 13.6.2007 15:51 MSK Stalinists threaten to burn Museum of Soviet Occupation in Ukraine UKRAINE, Kiev. (Our Correspondent.) "Every day, the Museum of Soviet Occupation, located in a former kindergarten, receives phone calls threatening to burn the museum if it is not shut down,” reported colleagues of the Institute of the National Memory of Ukraine on June 12 to a correspondent of PRIMA –News.
The museum was opened several days ago on the model of the museum of the organization "Memorial". There are 120 films about political repression, photographs of NKVD interrogation and torture rooms, and an enormous quantity of books, documents, and exhibits. There are 13 stacks on the chronology of Soviet totalitarianism. The Museum is visited daily by diplomats, teachers, journalists, schoolchildren, and others. English versions of the exhibition materials are available at UN headquarters, and in many countries of Europe as well as the US.
Museum employees believe the threat to burn the museum comes from followers of Stalin and the right wing. The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Dmitry Tabachnik, called the creation of the museum an "error", since its work will increase tension between political forces.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency[2007-06-12-Ukr-11] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/6/13/38417.html
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