Lev Golinkin is a regular contributor to the Forward whose work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com. His memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, chronicles his immigration from Ukraine.
Lithuania has installed monuments to Jonas Noreika and Kazys Škirpa, figures who are still celebrated by the country's far-right
In 2019, the United Macedonia Diaspora petitioned the U.S. State Department for aid in pressuring North Macedonia to remove their memorials
Octavian Goga is honored throughout Romania for his poetry. But as prime minister, he stripped a third of Romanian Jews of their citizenship
Dragoljub “Draža” Mihailović collaborated with the Nazis yet, near the war's end, used his troops to rescue over 400 American airmen
Jozef Tiso, who deported tens of thousands of Slovakian Jews, is honored with plaques in several cities and towns
Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014
There are statues and streets in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin
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