The exhibition “Ordinary Nazism” available on the Presidential Library's portal

The Presidential Library's portal features the materials of the exhibition Ordinary Nazism. Historical documents and photographs were donated to the library by the Moscow Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. 

The electronic exhibition is dedicated to the history of the emergence of the Ukrainian version of Nazism from its inception to the present day. Authentic archival documents and photographs illustrate the atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War. The Lviv pogrom, punitive operations against civilians, the Volyn massacre - all these are bloody crimes of Ukrainian Nazism.

After the 2014 coup d'etat, the Ukrainian authorities began to glorify the ideas of nationalist leaders known for their atrocities, actively encouraging the activities of openly Nazi organizations and Russophobic sentiments. All this led to a terrible split in Ukrainian society. The exhibition, based on material evidence, photographs and eyewitness memories, shows the mass crimes and terror of modern neo-Nazis against the inhabitants of Ukraine in 2014–2022. 

The Presidential Library pays much attention to preserving historical memory, countering the falsification of history, and strengthening spiritual and moral values. 

Numerous materials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War are available in the major collection of the Presidential Library Memory of the Great Victory. It includes official documents, photographs and newsreels, newspapers, books, propaganda publications, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies of participants in military battles and home front workers, their personal documents, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes. The collection has been formed since 2010. It contains more than 24 thousand depository items and is constantly updated.

The Presidential Library's portal features a Collection of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials “World War II in Archival Documents”. In accordance with the List of instructions for the implementation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation dated January 15, 2020, the organizers of the Collection of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials “World War II in Archive Documents” are the Federal Archive Agency (Rosarkhiv), the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation and the Presidential Library.

The Collection is carried out by Rosarkhiv and federal state archives with the participation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, the state archives of Belarus, etc.

The Collection is constantly updated, and at the moment its volume includes more than 11 thousand materials: maps, diagrams, periodicals, photographs, newsreels for the period from January 1933 to November 1942.