Kruty Heroes Memorial
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Kruty Heroes Memorial (
History
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The events at Kruty rail station have long remained outside the official attention of
In Soviet times, the dead soldiers of Kruty were considered traitors or simply ignored. The student mounds at Askold's grave were flattened and at first a city park planted. Later, after the Second World War, the area of the monument was used for burial of Soviet soldiers who died in battles for the Ukrainian capital. Since the initial event at Kruty in 1918, the first memorial action was undertaken in the 1990s by the People's Movement of Ukraine or Rukh which erected a wooden cross. This initiated plans for a more permanent monument. In 2000, architect Volodymyr Pavlenko seriously commenced efforts at memorial design. On August 25, 2006, the Kruty Heroes Monument was dedicated.[2]
Dedication of the memorial
The ceremony began with a liturgy by the
I think this battle was a very challenging historical lesson, and it taught us to win and to defend our independence.
President Yushchenko noted that for almost 90 years, Ukrainians were forced to ignore this event in their history, "never stop at this site and never even look at this field." In conclusion, Yushchenko applauded those who preserved the site, and allowed "another page of our history to come back to our memory."[4]
Vandalism
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On May 20, 2007, the monument was vandalized with yellow paint covering the statue and anti-Ukrainian messages written over it. The monument's sculptor stated that this was the second time the monument was attacked by vandals.[5]
References
- ^ This article relies on the figure given in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Archived August 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Others have cited the figure at 300; see Orest Subtelny's Ukraine:A History (2000), pg. 352
- ^ Material for this section taken from Битва під Крутами, Ukrainian Wikipedia. 21 May 2006.
- ^ Yushchenko opens Kruty Heroes Memorial (in Ukrainian) BBCUkrainian News. 25 August 2006.
- ^ a b President opens Kruty heroes memorial. Office of the President of Ukraine. 25 August 2006
- ^ "Vandals attacked the monument to Heroes of the Battle of Kruty in Chernihiv Oblast". Korrespondent (in Russian). May 20, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
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