"Stories from the past programme the future": an interview with Andriy Andrushkiv, Master's degree in theology for the Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

In the spring, VOICES exhibition of the Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation held a series of public interviews. One of the guests of the series was Andriy Andrushkiv, Master of Theology, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a lecturer at the Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Ukrainian Leadership Academy. The Istorychna Pravda publication has now published the full version of the conversation.

You can read it here: https://bit.ly/4cJKdi6

The Foundation also made a video of this conversation, which was conducted by Anastasiia Platonova, a cultural critic and curator: https://bit.ly/4cMWAd4

The conversation revolved around theological optics in the context of memory. The speaker also touched upon the topic of diverse documentation of war experiences, as this presents a picture of reality in its entirety.
"It's great that we have many ways of recording. We have videos, we have photos. But there are many other videos and texts, other testimonies. It is the diversity of memory and sources that makes it possible to understand and shout out. For some people, the testimony of journalists may be biased, but a child's diary, or a story, or other things will speak. Because memory shapes the future," Andriy Andrushkiv emphasises.

In his opinion, memory is needed to repeat examples of the past in communities. Something that we consider indicative, a model, valuable for repetition. In addition, the memory of people's actions keeps a person in the public consciousness and continues the actions of that person.

"It is impossible to continue the actions of an unknown soldier. Because who is he? He was taken away to war: "Died at Rzhev" or somewhere else, during the storming of Berlin, a mass grave for everyone. We have a completely different, human-centred, life-centred culture of honouring the dead - we honour their lives," Andriy Andrushkiv says.

You can also read the full interview on the website of the Museum of Civilian Voices: https://bit.ly/4cYad8L

And wait for the continuation, as the Museum is preparing a new cycle of cultural events.

The Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation collects and stores the world's largest collection of first-hand accounts of the war in Ukraine - more than 110,000 stories.

The VOICES exhibition, which was visited by over 5,000 people, ran for three months at the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv based on the living stories collected by the Museum of Civilian Voices and seeking to reveal the depth and power of Ukrainians' stories about the war.

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