Return

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Author:Volodymyr Khodak, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

 

Every year, June 14 is the Day of Mourning and Hope in Lithuania – the day of commemoration of the mass Soviet deportations of Lithuanians, which began on June 14, 1941. Over 203,000 people from the Baltic countries were sent to special settlements in Siberia over 12 years.

 

Ukraine has always remembered the mass deportations of the Crimean Tatar people. However, now, with the beginning of Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine, we are daily counting new losses from the forced deportation of Ukrainians. 2 million 800 thousand citizens of Ukraine were deported to Russia or forced to leave the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion (data of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on human rights).

 

Artist statement: "The project symbolizes the return of people to their native land. Cultivated land is a sign of the return of the owner. The time will come when each of us will return to our native land."

 

 

We will return home as the grass grows again. It is inevitable.