In order to implement the Work Plan of the Faculty of Law and to mark the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, a number of events dedicated to this event took place at the Faculty of Law.
Thus, on May 8, 2023, students of higher education group PR-303B of the Faculty of Law, together with their mentor Iryna Varava, held a corporate hour, thanks to which students returned to the past and familiarized themselves with documentary archives that testify to the scale of Stalinist repressions in the pre-war years and in the first months of World War II world war.
On May 9, 2023, Inna Polishchuk, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Commercial, Air and Space Law, held an hour of corporate culture for students of the PR-304B group of the Faculty of Law on the topic "Remember. We win". At the beginning of the meeting, the mentor noted that by introducing this memorable date, Ukraine sought to join the European tradition of celebrating the victory in World War II, honoring all fighters against Nazism and the victims of the war. This year, Ukraine is marking the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation for the second time in the face of full-scale armed aggression by russia, a totalitarian state. The current war is also accompanied by horrific war crimes committed by the russian army and political and military leadership, which seek to appropriate the victory over Nazism in order to manipulate both their own citizens and the international community. That is why, since the Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine has been consistently implementing a European approach to the memory of World War II.
On May 11, 2023, students of the PR-301B group together with their mentor Liudmyla Shapenko held a thematic conversation during a corporate hour and made an online excursion to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. Honoring the feat of the Ukrainian people and the memory of all those who fought against Nazism, defended freedom and independence during the Second World War of 1939-1945, students discussed important issues of the history of our nation during this period, which has left its mark on almost every Ukrainian family. I was particularly impressed by the presentations that highlighted the outstanding role of Ukrainians in the victory of the United Nations in the terrible war, as well as the human costs of war crimes, deportation, and crimes against humanity. After all, the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation and the Day of Victory over Nazism are not a symbol of the triumph of the victors over the vanquished, but a reminder of a terrible tragedy and a warning for all generations and ages.
At the end of the event, students had the opportunity to join an online tour of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II. The exhibits presented reminded us even more of the difficult history and the price of victory in the war. Difficult because of its multifacetedness, diversity, and consequences. It is also difficult because of its transition into "wars of memory" and because it directly rests on the current war.
At the end of the corporate hours, the students observed a minute of silence in memory of all those who died defending our country during World War II and the current Russian-Ukrainian war.