In Memory of the Soldiers Who Perished in the Great Patriotic War

On June 22 the leaders of Ukraine took part in unveiling ceremony of a memorial sign in Kyiv to the militaries killed in the Great Patriotic War (known elsewhere as World War II, but that is another tale —Ed.), which was timed to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its beginning. The memorial was erected on the territory of the National Great Patriotic War History Museum complex. The monument represents a bronze sculpture of a soldier wearing a soldier’s shirt, bareheaded, depicted in the moment when he falls injured, reports Interfax- Ukraine. Answering the question of the German television journalist on the current relations between Ukraine and Germany, Leonid Kuchma stressed, “The years pass, but this event must never be forgotten under any circumstances. And it is not only the great number of those killed in the war and the threat which hung over civilization in those years. It is like a reminder to Ukraine’s posterity that this misfortune must never happen again,” adding, “This is the principal lesson of the past war.” The head of the state also expressed his wish that the modern relationship between Ukraine and Germany further develops.