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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

A Sorry Sight 

3 November, 1998 - 00:00

Thursday marked the eightieth jubilee of the Dnipro Flotilla which fought
heroically during World War II. The memorial on Poshtova Ploshcha Square
by the river was visited by seven persons: two press photographers, two
surviving veterans, two sympathizers, and Vasyl Arestov, head of the city
Socialist committee. According to The Day's photographer Viktor
Marushchenko
, the ceremony lasted exactly four minutes.

The Socialist dignitary brought a small basket of flowers and placed
it at the foot of the monument. No rally or speeches followed, except a
red placard reading "Socialist Party of Ukraine" which was unfolded and
folded up in a minute, leaving several passers-by mystified as to what
it was all about.

 

 

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