Destruction of Historical Memory

in the campaign “Mazepa's Defection to Sweden and the Baturyn Massacre (1708)”

A campaign to erase the resistance leader's name (damnatio memoriae): "For two centuries the name and deeds of Mazepa were expunged… His coats of arms were knocked off the churches he had built, his name was painted over in books"[1][2].

ID: C0012.T0045
Start: October 1708
End: November 1708
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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