http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180109-120812 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/decommunization-in-times-of-war-ukraines-militant-democracy-problem/ Decommunization in Times of War: Ukraine’s Militant Democracy Problem   Mälksoo, Maria eng 2018-01-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The Ukrainian parliament Verkhovna Rada adopted four ‘memory laws’ shortly after the Maidan revolution in the spring of 2015: One contains a legislation criminalizing both Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, prohibiting the propaganda of their symbols; two laws commemorating, respectively, Ukraine’s fighters for twentieth-century independence movement and the victory over Nazism during the Second World War, and a law guaranteeing access to archives of repressive Soviet-era organs. These laws raise fundamental questions about the legitimate defense of democracy in times of political transformation and war.