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7,000 People Participate in the Memorial Action in Ivano-Frankivsk

A mourning procession with candles was held today in Ivano-Frankivsk through the city streets to the Cross of Sorrow to commemorate the victims of Holodomor and political repression. Over 7,000 people took part in the procession.

In the morning, memorial and funeral services took place at the oblast churches for the victims of Holodomor and political repression, with the participation of leaders of executive power and local self-government.

After that, the procession moved from the Saint Resurrection Cathedral to the Demyaniv Laz memorial where Prykarpattia residents had been shot by NKVD.

In the day mourning music was played in the oblast center’s Vichevy Maydan, in part, Requiem for the Victims of Famine by Yevhen Stankovych. Also, the Famine’33 film was demonstrated, followed by live transmission of President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko’s speech in St. Sophia’s Square (Kyiv).

Before the national minute of silence, a mourning meeting was held in Vichevy Maydan, with OSA head Mykola Paliychuk, head of the oblast council Ihor Oliynyk, and Ivano-Frankivsk mayor Viktor Anushkevychus delivering speeches.

After that the mourning procession leaded by high clergy of various churches marched with candles through the city to the Cross of Sorrow in the Memorial Park.

Oblast and city leaders together with schoolchildren laid compositions of rye and wheat ears and snowball branches to the Cross. The ceremony was followed by an ecumenical requiem for Holodomor and political repression victims.

A requiem soiree took place at the oblast philharmonics.

Tonight candles were lit in the windows of private houses, offices, enterprises, institutions, etc. to commemorate Holodomor victims within the framework of the all-Ukrainian Light a Candle action. Also, a cross shape was made of lit candles before Ivano-Frankivsk OSA building.

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