Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation at the ER ICA

13.5.2019

On May 8, a frank talk about the history of the Second World War took place at the Institute of Culture and Arts of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University. 

Students of the Institute of Culture and Arts took an active part in the discussion of this issue. 

This year people mark 74 years since the end of the Second World War. It was the war, which brought a lot of suffering to humanity, separated parents and children, broke millions of human lives, sowed devastation, poverty and hunger, destroyed the monuments of architecture and arts. What would be the history of mankind if it were not for the terrible slaughter in which many nations were involved?

As part of the conversation, students were offered to consider the contexts that are created around Victory Day and their role in the further perception and demythologization of the Second World War.

The adopted package of laws on de-communization cancels the Law of Ukraine “On Perpetuation of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, does not provide for the use of Soviet symbols. In Ukraine, the term “Great Patriotic War” has disappeared.

As the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory notes, the new content of the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation and the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II includes: rethinking the events of World War II, the destruction of Soviet historical myths, honest dialogue around difficult pages of the past; equal to the memory of everyone who fought against Nazism, emphasizing the solidarity and military fraternity of all the United Nations, both states and stateless then peoples (Jews, Ukrainians, etc.), shifting the emphasis from the history of hostilities to the history of specific people, and then rejection of the celebration in favor of worship.

The echo of those terrible events responds even now, because even today remnants of ammunition from the Second World War are sometimes found on Ukrainian lands.

Low bow to the memory of the dead heroes, eternal memory to them.

According to the ER ICA