Victory Day celebrations
May 7th, 2007Ukrainians will celebrate the end of World War II, ‘The Great Patriotic War’, on Wednesday May 9. As is traditional on this public holiday, veterans will march down Khreschatyk watched by thousands of onlookers. Ukraine saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war, with over 7 million Ukrainians losing their lives.
Tags: Khreschatyk, Victory Day
May 7th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
So what is it that we are celebrating?
What Ukraine actually did was trade one enemy for another.
The Nazis left, and the Russians came in, and we are still trying to rid ourselves of them.
But the Ukrainian people are proud and strong, and we will win. Truth Will Prevail! With God’s help the Ukrainian poeple will see that President Yushchenko loves his people and his country, and Yanukovich is only interested in power for himself and the Russian government.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Dzvinka Stefanyshyn:
How could you equate Russia with Nazi Germany? I am American. I have no love of the Communist system that ruled from Moscow. But, remember, among the Soviet leaders who ruled from there were N. S. Khrushchev and L. I. Brezhniev, both from Ukraine! So it was not as though Ukraine had no voice in the old Soviet regime. As for Yushschenko, why do you trust him and not Yanukovich? Yushchenko is in with the Euros who only want to take advantage of Ukraine and Russia, cheating and stealing from both countries. Yanukovich understands that Ukrainian security and prosperity is best served by maintaining close ties with Moscow and by not trusting the Euros so much. I hope the day will come when Russia, Ukraine, Byelorusse and Moldava are reunited in a new USSR (Union of Sovereign Slavic Republics). Not only these states but also the whole world be better off and safer, even my country the USA, if the Slavic republics of the CIS were reunited.
Slava Ukrania! Slava Rossiya!
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
July 18th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Forest, do you know your history? The two worst things to happen to the Ukrainians in the 20th century were WW2 and the Soviet forced famine of the 1930′s. When Tsarist Russian dissolved the Ukrainians tried to form their own state but were brutally repressed by the Soviets.