30 Years After
Midlife crisis of memories? Not at all! Here we look at events dating back 30 years. Often, they become subject to contestation and negotiation about how to remember them individually and in public.
Where Were You When… The Transition of 1989 Took Place in Europe?
Where were you when the transition took place in Europe in 1989? Trixi from Germany spoke to four EUSTORY organisers who share their personal stories of how they experienced the transition.
“People Were Afraid to Shake Our Hands”
“Who, except ecologists, even still talks about it?” is a valid question Elena exposes in her article and sheds a light on the variety of perspectives and attitudes people in Belarus nowadays have towards the... (more)
The Shadow of Chernobyl in Ukraine – From Secrets to Facts
From keeping the tragedy a secret in the USSR to commemorating and revealing secret information about the exposure in independent Ukraine – this is how the discussion about Chernobyl shifted throughout the years. A trage... (more)
Tents, Silence and Orange Masks – the Memories of a Chernobyl Liquidator
Vsevolod Bohdanovycj Smerechynskyi was one of the 830 000 liquidators who were ordered to clean up the contaminated areas after the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. According to the Chernobyl Foundation... (more)
The Chernobyl Bird / A Live-Tweet of a Nuclear Disaster
More than three decades after the nuclear desaster in Chernobyl, the accident at the nuclear power plant is not just a mere historical fact, instead its radioactive residues still affect people in Belarus and Ukraine tod... (more)