National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
War museum beneath a towering stainless-steel woman holding a sword and a trident-emblazoned shield.
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This guide to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv starts on a summer day in twenty twenty-three, when the museum's director stood beneath the giant steel statue on its roof and talked to a reporter while workers dangled from her shield. It reaches back to the Soviet sculptors who designed her and the leader who came to open her, and to the law that left her untouched for years. Best heard on the plaza at her feet, looking up at the shield.
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