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This paper analyzes the Ukraine’s revised policy on national memory and gauges the impact it has had over the last year. The 2015 revision consisted of four parliamentary bills which focused primarily on 1) accessing the archives of the communist-totalitarian regime from 1917–1991; 2) clarifying the legal status and commemoration of Ukrainian independence fighters; 3) the immortalization of the victory over Nazism in WWII; and 4) the condemnation of the Communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes. As the text’s author points out, the latter two reforms have successfully reached the implementation phase, but the legislation pertaining to the independence fighters has thus far carried little or no weight.