What is significant, though, is that while this was definitely the trend in the 1990s and especially between 2005 and 2010 during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, the position changed when Viktor Yanukovych became president in 2010. He began putting the brakes on this interpretation of history because—being Russian-oriented and from the east—none of this sat well with his constituents or worldview. Yushchenko’s awards of posthumous honors to Shukhevych and Bandera were revoked and the place of the Holodomor in Ukrainian history and outlook was downgraded, which is to say it was not denied
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