Linda Kinstler
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as something that could threaten the greater Soviet project.
And I think something to understand is like, of course, as we know from many of the historians of the Soviet period, there were different moments when the government tried to support minority languages and tried to kind of celebrate the diversity of the Soviet Union.
And then there were other times when they dramatically submerged them.
And this was one of those times.
And so then you get not only the banning of any local efforts to, you know, pray for, memorialize, stand over the graves of those who had died, even though, of course, they didn't know exactly where the graves were.
But you also have the physical destruction of the site.
And Maxime can talk more about that.
But, you know,
there was this infrastructure that was built over the territory, which is quite large, and this kind of flattening.
And, you know, it's kind of rare that you can trace erasure in motion.
So it was a real kind of physical instance of the gravity of the crime, I guess.
Yeah, well, I don't remember the first time that I went to Babanyar.
It must have been like 2014, I think.
about when I kind of first going started going to Ukraine more regularly.
But I had all I you know, I had also always known about the site, my mother's family is from Ukraine.
And so I always knew that we had lost some members of the family there.
And so, you know, first, I wanted to go see it just because it was part of this family history.
And then I started getting interested in
what was going on there right now, particularly in this kind of post-Maidan movement, there were, you know, in the beginning of the BYHMC, where they were really thinking seriously about what should be there, how it should be honored, and also how it should coexist with the life that has, you know, had sprung up around it in part because of what the Soviets had built there, right?
So
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