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In Vilnohirsk to victims of political repressions was paid homage

18.05.2015

A meeting dedicated to a day of remembrance of victims of political repressions (1937 – 1938 years) took place in Vilnohirsk on May 15. On this day deputies of Vilnohirsk city Soviet together with members of Executive Committee and workers of companies and enterprises came together near the T.G. Shevchenko monument. Representatives of the biggest enterprise of the city  - Vilnohirsk MMP  - HR manager V.A. Smirnova, chief of a social development department K.V. Nosov, chief of a personnel development department A.N. Povstyanko and representatives of workforce of the plant also came to honour the memory of the victims of political repressions.
At the meeting it was spoken about a bitter period in a history of our country when more than one million of Ukrainians were repressed for dissent, prosperity based on denouncement or on hunch. Those present hold a moment of silence in a memory of the victims of political repressions.
Special attention was paid to a great poet, artist and national hero of Ukraine T.G. Shevchenko that made an invaluable contribution in Ukrainian nation development. Flowers were laid to the T.G. Shevchenko monument to the end of the meeting.