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The activists prepared dishes with potato skins, corn cobs, tree bark, which people had to eat during the Holodomor.
In the center of Dnipro, activists from the Plast organization on Saturday 28 November showed dishes that Ukrainian peasants had to eat to survive on the Holodomor. Those interested could try this “food”, reports Radio Liberty.
As part of the action, they created an installation: a table with “food”. Among the dishes prepared by the “plastuns” were fodder beet and rapeseed pancakes, potato leaves and corncobs, as well as grated tree bark.
According to the co-organizer of the action, Irina Trifuntova, the recipes for these “dishes” were taken from recorded memories of witnesses to the Holodomor.
“We want to draw the attention of the younger generation, first of all, that they know little about those events. These dishes cannot be compared to anything. It has no salt, it is fried like that, no oil. The beet pancakes have a little bit of Beet taste and bitterness of rape, everything “, – said Trifuntova.
The participants of the action also hung the inscription “32-33” with icons of lamps.
At the same time, a requiem rally dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomors in Ukraine was held in the station square, where the monument to Grigory Petrovsky previously stood. In memory of the victims, the protesters lit lamps and candles. Priests of various denominations – the UOC of the Kiev Patriarchate, the UAOC and the UGCC – served a panikhida.
Also on Saturday, not far from the Dnieper, at the ninth kilometer of the Zaporozhye Highway, near the Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor and Political Repression, a flower-laying ceremony took place.
According to historians, the Dnipropetrovsk region is among the regions most affected by the Holodomor of 1932-33.
Let us remind you that today Ukraine celebrates the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Holodomors. Flags were lowered across the country and entertainment events were limited.
In the 20th century, Ukraine experienced three Holodomors: 1921-1923, 1932-1933, and 1946-1947. Only after Ukraine’s declaration of independence did an investigation begin on the scale of the largest Holodomor from 1932-1933. According to various estimates, around 4.5 million Ukrainians died then.
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