Abstract

The article deals with both ideological context as well as selective mode of the «Decommunization» Laws, and their direct relation to the ethnocentric politics of memory. The author argues that «Decommunization» is an effort of the new Ukraine’s political elite to be legitimized, but under enduring economic crisis and war conflict in East Ukraine the chosen option proves to be a way for a radical construction of the national identity. This kind of consolidation, from the one hand, threatens to disintegration of socially, ethnically and regionally heterogeneous Ukrainian society and, from the other hand, it might sharply strike on the image of the country which is considered to become a subject for European integration.