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Linda Kinstler

Linda Kinstler is a writer and PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New Yorker, Wired, and Businessweek among others.

Olena Papevska, 23, art restorer at the Lonsky Prison National Museum-Memorial of Victims of the Occupation Regimes, restores the document in Lviv, Ukraine on August 17, 2020. This office, located in the former prison cell, is also partly being used by the Centre for Research on the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and the digitizing team scanning documents for the Prague-based Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

Into the light 15 September 2020

Opening dossiers — and old wounds

As troves of KGB documents become declassified, former Soviet nations are grappling with their not-so-distant pasts.

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Linda Kinstler

Opening dossiers — and old wounds