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“Well, my main topic remains the same, the Holodomor. I now search for more sources in the European archives. I also am preparing a presentation and an article on identity and the warfare of Russia against it, especially on occupied territories, as a new type of human rights violation and a new issue in legislation, as a part of cognitive warfare.”—Tetiana Boriak for Bette Dangerous
This Sunday, we are bringing back Ukrainian historian Dr. Tetiana Boriak, to continue our lessons on the Holodomor and Russia’s attempts to deface history. A compilation of our initial series with Boriak can be found here:
Here is her suggested reading in advance of this Sunday’s lecture:
“History textbooks promote Russian civilisational supremacy and erase Ukrainian national identity. … systematic and overlapping violations of the UNCRC [UN Convention on the Rights of the Child], including the rights to identity, … plausible to assume that Russian efforts to alter the identity of Ukrainian children have intensified. … to indoctrinate and alter the identity of Ukrainian children in Russian hands … The pattern of gradually erasing Ukrainian children’s Ukrainian identity and/or imposing a Russian … a systematic policy of erasing their Ukrainian identity and replacing it with a Russian one through indoctrination in the education system and the range of extracurricular military-patriotic education programmes provided through a variety of mechanisms, including paramilitary youth organizations and re-education camps…”. There is a “Legislative architecture of indoctrination, militarization and re-education of Ukrainian children.”
Source: Report on Violations and Abuses of International Humanitarian, Human Rights and Criminal Law related to Militarization and Indoctrination of Ukrainian Children by the Russian Federation. Comp. by Prof. Hervé Ascensio, Dr. Elīna Šteinerte, and Prof. Stefan Wolff. The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. July 9, 2026, pp. 5, 16, 17, 26, 31, 59
More about Tetiana Boriak’s work here:
Tetiana Boriak – refugee from the Russian war, Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences (Dr. habil.) (2024), PhD in History (2008), Associate Professor, Researcher at History Faculty, Vilnius University (Lithuania). Received her MA in History from Kansas University (Lawrence, KS, 2004–2006). She specializes in Holodomor, Soviet totalitarianism, memory studies and social history. Author of three books, two awards: “Oral History as a Source for Holodomor Studies: Formation of Eyewitness Testimony Collections and their Informative Value” (2024; Research Prize of the Rector of Vilnius University 2024 for “significant research work”); “1933: “Why Are You Still Alive?” (2016; the all-Ukrainian award “the Book of the Year” (2016, nomination “History”, category “Research/Documents”). MSCA4Ukraine (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for Ukraine) Fellow (2025–2027). In 2013–2014 Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University (Ukrainian Research Institute, Boston, MA). Author of 90 articles of them about 40 articles on Holodomor. In 2010–2017 was an assistant of the journalist, researcher, columnist of the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum in the project of preparation of an English-language book about the Holodomor in Ukraine for a Western audience: “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” (2017; two awards). Host of the historical educational program “History with meat” (2017– February 2022) – about 70 episodes, available on YouTube. Editorial board member of several journals and a member of several historical professional associations. Participated in more than 70 conferences.
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