A new exhibition “The Triumph of Man. Ukrainians who defeated Gulag” was presented near the Main Post Office on Khreshchatyk st. in Kyiv, Uryadoviy portal informs.
The exhibition was created by the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the Center for Research of the Liberation Movement in Ukraine and the National Museum and Memorial to Victims of Occupation Regimes (Lonts’koho Street Prison).
The 21 banners, presented at the exhibition, tells about the human triumph over the system through the prism of the fate of iconic Ukrainians, among them Valerian Pidmogilny, shot in Sandarmokh; Isidora Kosach, sister of Lesja Ukrainka, who served a sentence in special settlements of the Arkhangelsk region; fighter for the Crimean Tatar people rights, Mustafa Dzhemilev; one of the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), organizer of the resistance network to the GULAG administration, Mykola Soroka; Stepan Bandera’s sisters; Vasyl Kuk’s mother; dissidents Vasily Stus, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Levko Lukyanenko and others.
During the opening ceremony of the exhibition, the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Volodymyr Vyatrovich, noted that Ukrainians made up more than half of the prisoners in the Gulag labor camps in 1953.
“The Gulag system continued to operate after the World War Second, when the Nazi camps were gradually turned into museums of totalitarianism and inhuman cruelty. More than 20 million Ukrainians passed through the Gulag camps, special settlement and other punitive agencies,” the report says.
As The Journalist reported, Ukraine marks Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II.
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