Every year, on the third Sunday of May, Ukraine commemorates the millions of lives lost, heartlessly destroyed by the Soviet totalitarian regime. The memorial date was established by Presidential Decree of May 21, 2007, to honor the memory of the victims of political repressions of the communist regime.
After the large-scale Russian invasion, terror and political persecution became a terrifying reality for a huge number of Ukrainians, whose cities and villages were occupied by the aggressor's troops. Torture, extrajudicial executions of innocents, forced deportations, filtration camps, mass persecution for political reasons - it seemed that all this would forever remain in history with the fall of the Soviet system. But the ideological heirs of the USSR in Putin's Russia have once again brought mass political repression to Ukrainian soil. In the conditions of war, the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression takes on a new meaning for us. At the cost of tremendous efforts and many lives, Ukraine is fighting not only to liberate its land from Russian occupiers and restore its sovereignty. It is fighting to ensure that Stalin's methods of the Great Terror are not an instrument of politics in the 21st century.