November 28, 2015 Ukrainians commemorate Holodomor and political repressions victims. Today Ukrainians revoke one of the most dramatic periods in their history.

Famine ... This issue is the most painful one while remembering the terrible years of Soviet terror. According to various estimates from 3 to 7 million people died in Ukraine because of the 1932-1933 famine. Every minute Ukraine lost 17 of its children, every hour - about a thousand, every week - about 25 thousand. According to investigators data about 6,122,000 people were not born because of the famine.

Famine was a powerful weapon to conquer the recalcitrant and was widely used since ancient times. If the attackers could not take an enemy city by assault, they took it in siege and the defendants, exhausted by hunger, finally surrendered in favor of the winner or died. When in 1921 starving peasants appealed for help to Lev Trotsky, he said "Are you starving?! This is not a famine yet. When the Roman emperor Titus took Jerusalem, in the besieged city mothers ate their children. When your mothers start to eat their children, then you can come and say: "We are famishing".

It is necessary to know the history of your own country and draw a lesson from its events. The one, who does not remember the past, has no future. Even today there are people who survived that terrible time. In every Ukrainian village during those terrible years there were death books in which those died of famine were recorded including their age, ethnicity, gender.

This year the Holodomor victims’ commemoration events are held at the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, recalling the “People of the truth” - the brave thanks to whom the world learned about the Holodomor. Each of them could give their life for the publication of the actual facts of deaths in Ukraine. Among such people there are the names of British journalist Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge, American historian James Mace, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrey Sheptytsky and Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk.

Today we can freely go in for sports or scientific activities, express our opinions, choose a dress, read what we like, support any party. Our parents could do far less. Our grandparents even had no opportunities that their children had.

The invaluable thing is that today the Ukrainians can speak freely to the world about millions innocently murdered compatriots. History has proved that Ukrainians are one of the strongest nations in the world and I believe in its future!