KYIV — The American visitor to “Ukraine Wow” — a temporary mini-museum in Kyiv’s train station — will be struck by the contrast with analogous museums in, say, Washington, D.C.
“Ukraine Wow” covers the country’s history, geography, and culture, and spends approximately zero square feet apologizing for Ukraine and Ukrainians.
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In this way, the exhibit reflects the attitude of the country.
“We are the indigenous people of this land,” says Victoria Narizhna, of the Center for Contemporary Culture, a few hundred miles west in Dnipro. “We do not have a lot of ground for apologizing.”
While England and Canada sink in paroxysms of self-hatred, and while American schools, media, and academia preach a self-loathing to our citizens, in Ukraine, patriotism,
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