Friends!

Today we should remember one of the horrible pages of Ukraine's history. On this day were shot 28 Ukrainian celebrities - writers, public figures. The reason was the verdict of the visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. They wereaccused of involvement in the fictional "Association of Ukrainian Nationalists", which was aimed to "preparing terrorist acts against the captains of the Russian Communists."

Everything started with the murder of the first secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the CPSU (b) Sergei Kirov. He was shot in the corridor. This event was a catalyst for cleansing all that enemies of the Bolshevik regime. It is possible that the murder was committed under the patronage of the government, which used it on their advantage.

The outcome of the event was the approval by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union the resolution "On the order of cases on training or committing terrorist acts". According to it, "investigation" was conducted for only 10 days.

Firstly, Russians were blamed. 66 people were shot and 5 - exiled. Later, it was Ukrainians. In total 37 people were sentenced. They were outstanding representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, people who could do a lot for the development of the Ukrainian nation. Among them there were well-known writers Dmitry Falkivskyy, Oleksa Vlyzko, Kostya Byreviy, Gregory Kosynka, Ivan and Taras Krushelnytska, as I told you before.

Before his death, Gregory Kosynka wrote a letter to his wife. "I am sorry that I brought you so much grief through a short age. Forgive me, dear wife, and when you do - goodbye. Do not grieve, I say, tears of don’t fill grief. Wish you health. Do not ask for meetings, do not!" It was Tamara Moroz-Syrilets, who first learned where the buried people were. This is - a place at station №7 in the northeast corner of the Lukyanovka cemetery in Kiev. There, in a mass grave, are all the executed by the one thing "terrorists." On the 18th of December, 1994 on the site installed a wooden cross with a sign with the names of all the people, who were unjustly tortured.

Unfortunately, the echo of these terrible events is still heard in our reality. The terrible anti-Ukrainian policy then led to the complete destruction of Ukrainian intelligentsia, which is not so easy to recover even after a century. But such people would be at the helm of state. I hope that Ukrainian youth are studying this pages of history, and they will make them to follow the example of their ancestors.