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People's Movement: Memories of the Act of Independence

People's Movement: Memories of the Act of Independence

2011, 26 min

Zhytomyr Television. The program "Chervona Kalina" from July 22, 2011 to the 20th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine.

On the video: a march of patriotic forces in Zhytomyr, archival footage from the 1990s with the raising of the flag of Ukraine after the proclamation of the Act of Independence; participants of the People's Movement of Ukraine talk about the first days and months after gaining independence, social changes and the formation of the state.

Comments: engineer-designer, activist of the People's Movement of Ukraine Anatoliy Shevchuk; engineer, co-founder of the regional organization of the People's Movement of Ukraine Vyacheslav Dekhtievsky; entrepreneur, activist of the People's Movement of Ukraine of the city of Korosten Volodymyr Lukyanenko; chief specialist in internal policy of the Lyubarsky District State Administration, activist of the People's Movement of Ukraine Viktor Kanchura; deputy of the Baranivsky District Council, activist of the People's Movement of Ukraine Leonid Gavitskyi; Retired teacher, village of Tyutyunnyky, Chudnivskyi district, Emilia Shevchuk.