In September, I visited Kyiv to report on the new memorial project at Babi Yar, the place where the Holocaust "began." Everyone working on it believed that by building the memorial complex, they were building the future of Ukraine. (1/4) It is a place that has been repeatedly obliterated, likened to the ancient river Lethe. Last week, it was obliterated once more by a Russian missile strike that killed five people. It also destroyed a building slated to be a museum to the Holocaust in Eastern Europe (2/4)

Grateful to the team @restofworld for letting me take on this piece about a subtle but profound change that has been unfolding throughout the former Soviet Union.

It's about how previously secret KGB files are being published online, for all to see:

restofworld.org/2020/kgb-has-l… @restofworld It may seem like a small thing, but it has profound consequences. In Kyiv, Vilnius, Tbilisi, & more, they are changing how people think about their own families, and shifting the terrain upon which conversations about memory, complicity, and justice are held.