15th sickle 2023 The exhibition “Religion Repressed” was held at the International Cultural Center “Union” in Odessa. The Last Prayer,” dedicated to the European Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism. The author of the exhibition is the head of the Odessky Center for the Study of the Holocaust, the honored cultural activist of Ukraine Pavlo Kozlenko. Curator: intercessor of the head of the department - head of the department of culture, nationalities and religions of the department of culture, nationalities, religion and protection of cultural objects of the Odessa ODA Yaroslav Riznikov.
The exhibition is held with the support of the Memory Foundation. Gidnist. Freedom". The purpose of the exhibition is to pay respect to the nourishment of functioning religion within the framework of totalitarian systems and to preserve the memory of the inhabitants of Odeshchina-religious figures, deprived of the Stalinist Bolshevik regime at the rocks of the “Great terror" and the fascist regime in the rocks of the Other World War. The first intercessor of the head of the Odessa regional military administration, Boris Voloshenkov, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in the Odessa region, Sergiy Orlov, intercessor of the director of the department of culture, also took part in the entry. nationalities, religion and protection of objects of cultural destruction of the Odessa Regional State Administration of Yaroslav Riznikov, Ordinary of the Odessa-Simferopol Diocese of the RCC Stanislav Shirokoradyuk, clergyman of Odeska Dioceses of the OCU Archimandrite Mikita, Rabbi Elijah Khusid and other high-ranking guests.
After the creation of the USSR, the Bolsheviks and the Nazis consistently and ruthlessly destroyed culture and religion. From the “accusatory” deadly viroku: “Systematically carrying out... agitation of a nationalistic nature for organizing the departure of all Jews of the SRSR to Palestine and the establishment there of an independent Jewish state of direct fascist...” This echoes the current terms of Russian propaganda! I remember. We can overcome it!
