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The exposition "Red Village: Infernal Vapors of the Soviet Inquisition" dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine

On November 24, 2017, in the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum, the exhibition "Red Village: the Infernal Vapors of the Soviet Inquisition" was launched on the occasion of the commemoration of the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and the 85th anniversary of this terrible tragedy that has become, without exaggeration, a terrible economic, social , a demographic and spiritual catastrophe for the Ukrainian people, fully falling under their definitions of genocide.

Destruction of the Ukrainian peasantry in such a barbarous way under the political conditions of the time was, unfortunately, quite logical and predictable. After all, the Communists, seizing power in the territory of the former Russian Empire, systematically pursued a policy of destroying millions of people who, in the level of their intelligence, education and culture, were far superior to the "constructive communism" and did not fit into the artificially created community under the pathetic name of the Soviet people.

The terrible logic of the Bolsheviks is easy to understand. After all, competent, and even just an adequate person, will not build an illusory "bright future" on the fellow of his fellow citizens, realizing that this is a complete adventure, which from the very beginning is doomed to fiasco. For the construction of the so-called "communist paradise" a new generation of people was brought up, which would faithfully believe in its leaders.

That is why the whole population - the nobility, the bourgeoisie, merchants, priests, intellectuals, who at that time was an elite of society, was sentenced to death. Later the turn came to the peasantry - self-sufficient laborers in the agricultural field and bearers of national traditions, customs, and so on. Their existence was impossible in a totalitarian state focused on declassed elements, which the Bolsheviks skillfully tricked into "counter", "bourgeois", "fists", playing on shameful human feelings - envy, class hatred, the desire to take revenge, quickly enriched at the expense another, realizing in practice the slogan "Rob the loot!".

 It is also necessary to understand that artificially created Holodomor of 1932-1933 was an important stage in the "Battle for Ukraine", which the Bolsheviks, contrary to the "right of nations to self-determination", and did not intend to let go of free navigation. The colonial thinking of the Red Gentiles, multiplied by Soviet fanaticism, "gave" the Ukrainians instead of the promised "communist paradise" a true hell, the devourings of which were swallowed by millions of people. And to this day there is definitely no known number of deaths, which varies from 5 to 10 million in various studies.

The perception of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 to this day, even in the context of hostilities, is perceived ambiguously, playing the role of litmus test, which makes it possible to clearly identify who is Ukrainian or Little Russian before you? Many people brought up in Soviet myths, in fact, do not recognize even the very fact of the famine, especially famine, as one of the forms of destruction of the whole people. This was the result of a long-term ideological overthrow of Soviet people, a tight "taboo" on the subject of the Holodomor and brutal repressions against those who at least spoke about the terrible events of 1932-1933.

Yet, the very slow movement of independent Ukraine on the path of Ukrainization in the prewar period was significantly accelerated after the Crimean occupation and the beginning of the war on the Donbass. The Ukrainian Cossacks and libertarians seemed to be awakened forever, the radicalization of Ukrainian society seemed to be radicalized, the themes of national-patriotic orientation, tragic pages of our history, including the genocide of the Ukrainian people of 1932-1933, sounded new. This is particularly important in an ideological war with a daring aggressor, in which Ukraine only learns to give a decent answer.

It is clear that the Kropyvnitsky Regional Museum of Art does not stand aside these processes, constantly demonstrating its active civil position. The war has made adjustments to the work of our institution, in particular - its exhibit and exhibition activities. And the exposition "Red Village: Infernal Vapors of the Soviet Inquisition" was presented - a vivid confirmation of this. After all, each such exhibition or exposition is another nail in the coffin of Soviet mythology, an indicator of purification from Soviet siege, and a significant step towards the knowledge of its own history. And they are designed primarily for young people to build a new European Ukraine. Well, besides everything else, the presentation of such exhibitions and expositions is a regular meeting with artistic works of unique masters of the brush, who are not indifferent to the tragic pages of Ukrainian history. Among such works are the work of Nikolai Bondarenko "Winter 1933" (1993) and Felix Polonsky "The Despair" (2008). The talented hand of masters, in comparatively small size canvases, managed to convey the full scale of the tragedy and human grief, the atmosphere of horror, pain, suffering, and that the worst thing is the hopelessness of people who are doomed to martyrdom. The logical component of the exhibition is traditionally the theme of sorrow, as our Orthodox duty to people who have taken a terrible martyr's death only through their Ukrainianity and the desire to be masters in their own land. Among such works is the picture of Andriy Nadezhdin "Black Paschalia" (2006) and others.

The part of the exposition consists of information materials that cover the chronology and specifics of the Soviet regime's war against rural workers and, again, raise the topic of commemorating the innocent murderers, both in the territory of modern Ukraine and abroad. In particular, one can see how the representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada celebrated the next great anniversary of the Great Patriotic War in Soviet times. Interesting exhibits of the exhibition are also commemorative coins worth 5 hryvnias from the series "Holodomor - genocide of the Ukrainian people" (2008), executed before the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

So this exposition is another reminder of the "communist paradise", which still causes nostalgia in a large army of supporters of the so-called "Russian Peace".

                                       Oleg Yurchenko - Head of the department tourist
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