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15 May 2009 13:24

May 17 Ukraine 3000 Foundation presents Broken Fates: Communist Terror in Ukraine in 1920-1950 Exhibition in Bykivnia

May 17, 2009, at 12:00 A.M., the Bykivnia Graves National History Memorial Preserve will host a presentation of the Broken Fates: Communist Terror in Ukraine in 1920-1950 historical documents exhibition, as part of the events dedicated to the Day of the Memory of the Victims of Political repression.

The exhibition was prepared by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation as part of its History Lessons program jointly with the Branch Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and Vasyl Stus Memorial Educational Human Rights Charitable Organization.

The exhibition features 24 posters. Its first part presents to the viewer Ukraine’s situation on the moment of the collapse of the Russian Empire and in the following years of its fight for its statehood. The second part showcases the mechanism of repressions against all strata of the Ukrainian society: peasants, intelligentsia, the army, political elite, clergy, etc. Several posters cover the history of Western Ukraine in the 1940s, after is annexation by Soviet Ukraine, in part, the forced NKVD repressions against the national liberation movement (OUN, UPA) and the civilians, as well as forcible people’s  deportation to faraway USSR regions to destroy their national identity and diversity of the Ukrainian ethnos. The exhibition narrates of the post-war repressions against Ostarbeiters and former POW, shows the places where the victims served their terms. It also contains information on the biggest labor camps mutinies. The final part of the exhibition shows the biggest places of mass burials of the repression victims, along with the consequences of the terror, and honoring the memory of the innocent victims in the Independent Ukraine.

Additional information can be obtained from the exhibition coordinator, head of the History Lessons program Olesia Stasiuk at the phone 8 (067) 265-90-23.