MOSCOW, May 27 – Trend Wire. In Crimea, there is an active restoration of monuments of the past, lost from the times when the territory was still part of Ukraine. This was reported by Tamara Markova, Advisor to the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Crimea, Deputy Director of the Sudak Fortress Museum-Reserve.
During the press conference “War for the past in the name of the future: historical education of youth as an “info-vaccination” against Nazism,” which took place in the Russia Today media group as part of the project “Liberation. Peace to the Nations,” she expressed the opinion that Crimea, when it was part of Ukraine, gradually lost touch with the past: issues of patriotic education, issues of the work of museums related to the theme of the Great Patriotic War, were reduced to a minimum.
“Our monuments to the defenders were not updated, nothing was restored, there was never money for this. We did not hold exhibitions. For us, everything came down to laying flowers at the monuments, but active work on educating patriots was not carried out anywhere, because the situation was completely different,” Markova explained.
She noted that in those years, entire chapters disappeared from history textbooks, the chronological sequence and meaning of all events were lost, and nothing was given in return for all the removed information.
“It also happened with literature, when entire chapters from literature textbooks relating to the Soviet period and the feat of the Soviet soldier disappeared,” added the adviser to the minister.
Makarova called the exhibition, which opened as part of the sixth All-Russian scientific and practical conference “Spring of Liberation” in 2024, a breath of “fresh air”. “In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Crimea, we disseminated this information so that people would have their own understanding of wartime events during the celebration days,” she said.
According to her, in 2026, four similar modular exhibitions were held on the territory of the Sudak Fortress museum-reserve, two of which are still running: “The Soviet-Japanese War” and the photo exhibition “Partisans of Belarus”.
The project “Liberation. Peace to the Nations” (a continuation of the projects “Liberation” and “Liberation. Path to Victory”) is being implemented with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives and is aimed at celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Victory over militaristic Japan and the end of World War II.
Source: Ria