After the war, it will be possible to return KGB archival documents exported by Russia to Ukraine, and an international coalition will be forced to do this.

The head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Anton Drobovych, told about this on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel.

He recalled that as early as 2015, a departmental Archive of National Memory was being created in Ukraine with a volume of several million documents.

But the construction of this structure is not finished, the story continues.

"If such an archive existed, it could systematically implement the digitization of documents. But, to be honest, it would take a hundred years to digitize such a large number of documents with the existing capacities. This is a difficult issue that needs to be dealt with," explained Drobovich.

"After the de-occupation of our territories, I hope that the international coalition, if Russia itself does not change its leadership and stop this Putinism, will be forced to do this. Then we will establish effective control over the territories where the Russian archives are kept, as well as those

documents

that exported to interested countries, of which there are a lot," said the head of the UINP. 

He added that the interested countries are all Russia's neighbors who have claims against it due to the theft of archival documents.

These states must assemble the appropriate commission and return their archival funds and documents.

"I want to emphasize that

we have archival documents from the 16th century as well, which are stored in Russia 

- the annals of Samiyl Velichka are stored in St. Petersburg. That is, such things must be returned," Drobovich noted.

He warned that this would be a huge humanitarian issue after the war, which would take decades. 

"But then justice will prevail. They 

(Russians - ed.) will not be able to falsify history, memory or archival materials

of recent centuries," explained the head of the Institute. 

We will remind you that the Russian invaders in Ukraine completely destroyed or severely damaged 529 cultural monuments with fired rockets.

At the same time, digital archives of damaged historical buildings are being actively created in Ukraine, so that after the victory it would be easier to rebuild them and document the enemy's crimes against history and culture.

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