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Holodomor Memorial

TIME : 2016/2/19 3:05:59

At the far end of Vichnoy Slavy Park, centred around a Soviet-era war memorial, you will find a monument from an entirely different epoch. President Viktor Yushchenko's pet project, it is dedicated to almost four million victims of the famine, artificially induced by Stalin's policy of collectivisation in 1932–33. Inside the round-shaped structure, village household objects are contrasted against bloodthirsty quotes from Bolshevik leaders, such as Lenin's 'We should resolve the Cossack issue by the means of their full extermination; all assets and property to be confiscated'.