Symbols of Ukraine, August 24, 1991: Voting

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

August 24, 1991, Kyiv.

On video: Verkhovna Rada, session hall; Roman Lubkivskyi descends from the rostrum, Vyacheslav Chornovil speaks on the rostrum, speech on symbols; voting on symbols, comments by Leonid Kravchuk: uproar in the hall, congratulations, Roman Lubkivskyi shouts "Please bring the national flag!", exclamations of "Khmara! And what about Khmara?"; speech on the rostrum by Levko Lukyanenko on the need to create a commission that will investigate the crimes of persons who collaborated with the State Committee for Emergency Situations, and the need to consider the case of political prisoners, in particular Stepan Khmara, discussion; Larysa Skoryk speaks to Ivan Plyushch about Stepan Khmara; the flag is brought up, applause, everyone stands up; The flag is carried by Vyacheslav Chornovil, Ivan Zayets and others, fixed on the rostrum of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada, another flag is installed behind the Presidium; Leonid Kravchuk announces the end of the session, deputies: "And Khmara?"; some deputies leave the hall; representatives of the People's Rada sing "Oh, in the meadow, the red viburnum", Ivan Plyushch asks everyone to leave; Vyacheslav Chornovil encourages them to sing "She has not died yet"; singing the anthem of Ukraine, the deputies leave the hall of the Verkhovna Rada.