Just over two years ago, on April 9, 2015, Ukraine's parliament adopted a
historic law on opening up the country's Soviet-era secret-police
archives. In the new law's first full year in effect, requests for
information and access boomed by 138 percent.
"It is very important for us that everyone has the chance to look at the
complex history of the 20th century through the prism of their own
family," says Andriy Kohut, director of the historical archives of
Ukraine's SBU security service. "It is one thing when they speak of
enormous historical events without any connection to real people. It is
something else entirely when you see how these historical events are
connected to you."
The new rules of archive access could hardly be simpler, Kohut said.
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