From AP:
“Ukraine marks 80th
anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre”
(Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi
massacres in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021.)
Ukraine on Wednesday marked the
80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass
slaughters of World War II. Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv,
is where nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in 1941 when the city
was under Nazi occupation. The killing was carried out by SS troops along with
local collaborators. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy laid flowers at
the monument the the victims of the massacre on Wednesday. “Babi Yar. Two short
words that sounds like two short gun shots, but carry long and horrid memories
for several generations. Because they know and remember that not two gun shots
sounded in Babi Yar, but hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands times more,”
Zelenskyy said. All Ukrainian schools on Wednesday held a lesson dedicated to
the 80th anniversary of the tragedy. “The Nazis in Babi Yar, according to
various estimates, executed between 100,000 and 200,000 people. Aside from
Jews, those were Ukrainians and Roma, prisoners of war and patients of a
psychiatric hospital. ... Someone will hear these two scary words and these
scary numbers for the first time,” Zelenskyy said. Ukraine has started the
construction of a Babi Yar memorial complex and a museum at the site of the
mass executions and plans to unveil it in 2025-2026.
^ 80 years may have passed, but
that doesn’t mean the 34,000 innocent men, women and children’s deaths no
longer mean anything. The Soviet Communists censored any real mention of the
victims for 46 years. It is only in the last 30 years (since Ukraine became independent)
that the whole truth has come out. ^
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