BRAMA, April 10, 2003, 1:00 am ET
Communist Crimes Exhibit to be shown in Washington
Last Minute Addition to US tour
In Washington Thursday and Friday
Exhibit Dates in Washington DC:
Thursday, April 10, 6pm - opening
Friday, April 11 - all day
Location:
Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family
4250 Harewood Road, NE
Washington, DC 20017
"Not To Be Forgotten" - A Chronicle of the Communist Inquisition in Ukraine 1917-1991 is a museum exposition featuring 70 large panels that create a pictorial and documentary chronicle of the crimes of the communist regime in Ukraine. The exposition contains never before seen materials from KGB archives and unique and provocative photographs that document the tragic events of Ukraine's Soviet past:
- (1917-1920) The Bolshevik Coup and the Beginning of the Terror
- (1921-1923) The USSR Is Born Out of Famine and Violence
- (1924-1931) The Cost of Industrialization and Forcible Collectivization
- (1932-1933) The Ukrainian Holocaust
- (1934-1938) The Collapse of Ukrainianization and the "Great Terror"
- (1939-1941) The Conspiracy of Two Dictators and Its Consequences
- (1942-1952) The Last Decade of Stalin's Dictatorship
- (1946-1947) Famine Strikes a Third Blow
- (1953-1964) The Thaw
- (1965-1985) Bloodless Totalitarianism
- (1986-1991) The Collapse
Also included is a 15 panel display of the Solovetsky Islands, a notorious concentration camp dating back to the early eighteenth century where thousands of the Czar's and, subsequently, during the twentieth century, the commissars' political opponents were incarcerated, tortured and killed.
The "Memorial" Society is a non-governmental organization based in Kyiv, Ukraine. "Memorial's" mission is to unearth, figuratively and literally, the truth about the 7 decade long reign of communist terror in Ukraine and to apprise the world about the historical record. For more information about the Kyiv City Organization of the All Ukrainian Memorial Society of Vasyl Stus, visit their web site at: www.memorial.kiev.ua.
For more information contact or write to: Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine (ODFFU), P.O. BOX 304, COOPER STATION, New York, NY 10276.
http://www.memorial.kiev.ua
Check Brama's Calendar of Events to find out when "Not To Be Forgotten" will be displayed in your area.
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