Dear compatriots!
Today we commemorate millions of victims of political repressions — all those, who were the victims of the communist regime on the territory of Ukraine.
The 1930-1950s were the most tragic years in our history. Famine, political repressions, dispossession, deportation of the Crimean Tatars and the inhabitants of Western Ukraine to Central Asia and Siberia. According to official data, in the years of political repressions their victims were at least 2.8 million of our compatriots. The Stalinist regime fought with anyone, who just might have their own opinion.
Later after so-called Khrushchev Thaw, came new repressions — the repressions of the Brezhnev's era.
Now there is the Revolution of Dignity in the air — the response of the Ukrainian people to those, who wanted to restore the totalitarianism and dictatorship of one person.
In late 1980s, Viacheslav Chornovil said he dreamt of Ukraine as a country of free citizens. Today, we are building the state that makes the issue of personal freedom the major fundamental.
We believe in Ukraine and build the country of free citizens.