A museum of occupation was created in Izium: the collection includes propaganda leaflets and newspapers, dry goods, chevrons and personal belongings of the occupiers
Kostiantyn Hryhorenko, publisher of the newspaper "Horizons of Izyumshchina", creates a museum of occupation in Izium, Kharkiv region, where residents bring propaganda leaflets and newspapers, rations, chevrons, and personal belongings of the occupiers
This was written by espreso.tv
The purpose of the museum is to document and collect a database of evidence of war crimes committed by the russian federation in order to prevent the aggressor from lying with impunity about the "civil conflict" or hired actors.
The museum's collection already includes more than 200 artifacts.
"We made the first announcement in the newspaper and called on people to bring artifacts that they kept at home. Because they [the russians] lived in many people's homes, right in their houses, in their dwellings. And people brought a little bit. At first, they were afraid to disclose, they asked for anonymity, and we were sympathetic to this", Hryhorenko says about the creation of the museum.
A local resident who survived the occupation and even interrogations by Kadyrov's men and the FSB brought soldiers' tin bottles, canned food, sugar, and matches with russian markings to the museum's collection. Also among the exhibits is a road sign with a Latin P, which usually indicates a parking lot, which the russians removed somewhere and wrote on the back: "Attention, there is a checkpoint ahead".
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The museum also houses a flag brought to Izium by Zakhar Prilepin, a russian propaganda writer who participated in hostilities against the Ukrainian army.Konstantin says that he read Prilepin's telegram channel to learn about the events in Izium. The propagandist actively posted about local collaborators, right with their names, photos, and videos, which later became evidence of cooperation with the occupiers.
The collection also includes several russian uniforms, worn shoes, helmets and earflaps, the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, a propaganda piece of the Russian Defense Ministry, and almost all issues of Kharkiv Z, which was published in Belgorod.
The idea of creating a museum was also supported by Maksym Strelnyk, deputy head of the Izium MVA.
"This is very important in the renaming process as well. You know that all place names in Izium that had communist names and russicisms were renamed. Now there is not a single place name in our city that is in any way connected with the aggressor country of russia", he said.
Hryhorenko will later transfer all the exhibits to the balance sheet of the Izium Museum of Local Lore, named after M. V. Sibilov. The museum building was also damaged — two hits, but all the exhibits were taken out unharmed.
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