Babynya Memorial and its Transformation

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This chapter discusses the Babynya Memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, its historical significance as the site of a large massacre during the Holocaust, and its recent transformation into a comprehensive memorial. The speakers also reflect on the impact of recent events on people's perceptions of the site and the importance of preventing such atrocities in the future.

The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, return to Kyiv to to find out if cracks are beginning to emerge in the iron shield of Ukrainian unity and to ask how the war with Russia is reshaping a nation living on a knife’s edge.

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