Kiev plans occupation of Ukraine museum

KIEV: Kiev risked drawing further Moscow fury on Thursday by approving the construction of an open-air museum devoted to seven decades of Soviet “occupation” of Ukraine.
The city council instructed the Ukrainian capital’s authorities to agree on a single location that could display all remaining communist-era symbols and monuments — now officially banned — after being converted into a public park.
A top Ukrainian culture ministry official had earlier said the controversial exhibit would help various generations remember and learn about “the crimes committed by the totalitarian Soviet regime in Ukraine”.
The Kiev council voted in May to remove all remnants of its Soviet past from across the city of 2.8 million by August 24.
Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from the communist state’s inception in 1922 to its collapse under the dual pressures of economic depression and regional separatism in 1991.