Cadets of the faculty of training specialists for criminal police units of the National Police of Ukraine joined a lecture dedicated to honoring the memory of the Holodomor victims and comprehending the causes and consequences of artificial famines in Ukraine.
The speaker of the event was the chief specialist of the Second Interregional Territorial Department of the Directorate for Ensuring the Implementation of National Memory Policy in Regions and Subordinate Institutions of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Iryna Reva.
During the lecture (“Artificial famines of 1921–1923, 1946–1947 and the Holodomor-genocide in Dnipropetrovsk region”) cadets learned about the criminal policy of the Bolshevik regime that deliberately led to mass famine on the territory of Ukraine. Special attention was paid to the events in Dnipropetrovsk region where thousands of people became victims of artificial extermination.
Participants heard documentary testimonies and stories about the fates of those who managed to survive those tragic times. Stories of eyewitnesses helped cadets to more deeply realize the scale of the tragedy and its impact on Ukrainian society.
Such events contribute to the formation of historical memory understanding of the nature of totalitarian crimes as well as educate in future law enforcement officers responsibility civic consciousness and respect for national history.
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