Ukraine Germany Lithuania Belarus Ukraine Czech Rep. Poland Hungary Romania Bulgaria Turkey 94 Since 2014, two new memory nodes have been formed. Memory Nodes Loaded with Potential to Mobilize People by Yuliya Yurchuk n Ukraine, several topics have become the focus of memory politics since the end of the 1980s and have remained the focal points of memory until now. These topics have become memory nodes that have triggered discussions, disputes and tensions in Ukrainian society. At the same time, they have united masses of people into a group that fnds meaning in these memories and builds national identity around them. To put it briefy, these memory nodes have a great potential to mobi- lize people who are both for and against certain ideas and political agendas. These memory nodes include Holodomor (which means delib- erate death by hunger in Ukrainian and refers to the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine), the Second World War, the attempts at state building in 1917–1921, as well as the Soviet repressions (especially in connection with the Great Purge of 1937). Since 2014, two new memory nodes have been formed: the memory of the Euro- maidan protests (which are referred to as the Revolution of Dignity in memory space) and the memory of the fallen soldiers of the ongoing military confict in Donbas. T here are common characteristics to all the topics of memory politics that developed between 1991 and 2014. They all function as “chosen traumas” 1 and most of them are ad- dressed because they were tabooed or disfg- ured by the ofcial Soviet historical narrative. 2 This approach to memory that was silenced by the Soviet regime largely defnes the post-colo- nial character of memory work, i.e. memory is framed as a liberation project by a society that claims its right to tell its own history. 3 Another important common feature of these memo- ries is the fact that the forms of remembrance of these historical events were shaped by the diaspora of politically- active émigrés who very often had direct memories of the events and transmitted them as communicative memories to subsequent generations. In such a way, the