"History of Ukrainian Statehood": 1981–1991

National Television Company of Ukraine, 1991. The fifth issue, "Third Attempt: 1981–1991," of the program "History of Ukrainian Statehood," covers a decade of the history of the Ukrainian people, which ended with the proclamation of the restoration of Ukraine's Independence.

On the video: footage from Soviet chronicles; queues at stores; harvest; metallurgical production; footage from the chronicles of the Brezhnev period; USSR Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev; Margaret Thatcher; the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident; publications in newspapers about glasnost in Russian; miners' strikes; a rally on Sofia Square; the Constituent Congress of the People's Movement of Ukraine for Perestroika; fragments of speeches by Vyacheslav Chornovil and Ivan Drach; a human chain; the first alternative elections; communist demonstrations; footage from the chronicles of the revolution and photographs on granite; a memorial sign "Eternal memory to the brave sons of Ukraine who fell in Afghanistan"; confrontation in Nagorno-Karabakh; the State Committee for Emergency Situations; tanks on the streets of Moscow; Mikhail Gorbachev and Leonid Kravchuk; demonstrators outside the walls of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; Leonid Kravchuk reads out the Act of Proclamation of Independence of Ukraine; a yellow-blue flag is brought into the meeting hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, led by Vyacheslav Chornovol; a parade on Khreshchatyk; schoolchildren quote the poem "Swans of Motherhood" by Vasyl Symonenko; a fragment of Taras Petrinenko's speech; a memorial sign to Nestor the Chronicler; monuments to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Taras Shevchenko; symbols of Soviet propaganda are present.

Comment: Oles Donii, head of the Ukrainian Student Union (1990), on the events of the revolution on Granite; President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk.

The text was read by Valeriy Shevchenko, directed by Oleksandr Ryabokrys.