Mykola Tomenko: Construction of a memorial complex to the victims of the Holodomors should become the common cause of Ukrainian community.
Today Mykola Tomenko, Vice-Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, participated in the ceremony in commemoration of the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine.
Mykola Tomenko visited the memorial monument "Svichka Pamiati" ("A Candle of Memory") that had been officially opened in Kyiv as a first part of a new complex to the victims of the Holodomors. Mykola Tomenko deems reasonable that construction of a memorial complex to the victims of the Holodomors should become the common cause of Ukrainian community in view of the national scope of the tragedy.
«It would be fair to hold an open discussion of the final design of the construction, so that communities and experts from entire Ukraine could contribute to it", - supposes Mykola Tomenko. Moreover, he believes that further funding of the memorial complex should be carried out at the expanse of donations.
"Similar approach should be employed by the construction of memorial monuments to the victims of the Holodomor in the regions. Opening of the memorial monuments should be the cause of a local community, not the officials. Current approach, according to which most monuments are constructed at the expanse of the State or local budgets, is wrong and unfair", - believes the Vice-Chairman.