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The expanded exhibition "Hunger, punishment for resistance", dedicated to the Remembrance Day of the Holodomor Victims in Ukraine

November 24, 2016 in the regional art museum there was the exhibition "Hunger, punishment for resistance" as part of the Remembrance Day of the Holodomor Victims in Ukraine.
The celebration at the state memory level of those who died from the criminal, well planned and organized actions of the Soviet regime in 1932-1933 is a small tribute that can provide modern Ukrainian previous generation that was in the 30s of the last century. Memory candle which is burned on the window sill in many homes is a sign that despite the catastrophic sacrifices which Ukrainian nation incurred, the tasks which were set for a criminal occupation authorities, its execution was failed.
They could not suspend a genetic code of the Ukrainians, having destroyed the foundations of the Ukrainian nation, namely Ukrainian village and intellectuals. In the Bolshevik State there was a plan with the aim to destroy Ukrainian generation that survived the events of 1917-1921, Ukrainians who saw and took part in the national liberation struggle for the Ukraine’s independence in the Ukrainian People's Army under the command of Simon Petlyura, or in groups of hundreds otamans throughout Ukraine, people who had relatives and friends - participants of those events, or just the people who lived at the time. The purpose of the totalitarian regime that existed in Ukraine was certainly the destroy of the Ukrainian peasantry as the cradle of Ukrainian nation, interrupting of genetic link between generations of Ukrainian, raising and educating the faceless, non-national community called "Soviet people". The means to fulfill its misanthropic plan of Bolsheviks were not bullets and prison, not economic and social policy, but the simple food deprivation of the rebellious Ukraine’s population. Under the guise of grain procurements people were frustrated by everything that could be eaten for starving regions people could not leave the locality otherwise they were just surrounded by the troops, who didn’t allow to do it. People died in horrific pain.  There were the facts of cannibalism recorded in the most fertile lands in the world.
The Orange Revolution of 2004, the Advantages Revolution of 2013-2014 have shown the world and Ukrainians in particular, that the genetic link of generations, the totalitarian Bolshevik regime couldn’t interrupt and destroy the consciousness of Ukrainians.
The aim of the exhibition "Hunger, punishment for resistance" is to remind the public about the terrible page of history of the Ukrainian nation and demonstrate misanthropic essence of Bolshevism on the basis of objective information.
The unique exhibit is also the commemorative coins of 5 hryvnias from the series "Holodomor – a genocide of the Ukrainian nation" (2008), created for the 75th anniversary of Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. The part of the exhibition also constitutes illustrative materials, highlighting the chronology of events, tools, and effects of fighting of the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian peasantry. The artistic element of the exhibition consists of Kropyvnytskyi professional artists’ works, the members of the National Artists Union of Ukraine, who have demonstrated an active citizenship and indifferent attitude of the prehistory by showing the terrible consequences of Holodomor 1932-1933. Among these patriots is Mykola Bondarenko (1914-1999) – the author of national-patriotic works series. The artist managed to convey the enormity of the tragedy of the Ukrainian people, who became the victim of an artificially arranged genocide in his small size paper with the laconic title "Winter 1933" (1993). The painting is impressed by its drama of the Kropyvnytskyi distinctive artist Felix Polonskyi (1941) with its eloquent title "Despair" (2008), which realistically conveys the hopelessness of people doomed to martyrdom. There are also the paintings of the hunger tormented figure of a woman and a boy frozen in anticipation of death as escape from inhumane suffering. The works of Andryi Nadezhdin (1963) "Lost Paradise. Black paschal "(2006) and Mykhailo Nadezhdin (1935)," Requiem "(1967) consist the memory of the victims and the warnings to alive.