Large-scale celebrations have been planned in the city on the occasion of the UIA’s 70th anniversary.
“These people have sworn their oath to fight for Ukraine back in the 1940s, and they keep fighting even now,” the deputy city mayor for humanitarian affairs Vasyl Kosiv said. “Oath does not mean as much as it did before, in Ukraine and throughout the world nowadays, as people are betraying, abandoning their beliefs, and selling out. At the same time, these 90-year-old veterans are fighting with the same youthful zeal and enthusiasm as they did 70-years-ago. We are fortunate to have them with us and should appreciate every minute of communicating with them.
” So, over a hundred participants will reenact a battle pitting the UIA’s units against the Soviet security forces in a dramatized military history show to be held in Zubra urban forest on Sunday, October 14, 2012, Our Lady’s Intercession feast. The event is co-organized by Memory Society for Recovering Bodies of the Victims of War and members of the military history clubs from all over Ukraine. Meanwhile Memory Society, Plast scouts and members of the military history clubs will march, mostly on foot, through the city center to commemorate the UIA’s glorious history.
The marchers will include about 300 people dressed in the insurgents’ uniforms, including some cavalrymen. The parade will end at Rynok Square in front of city hall, where the Plast Iron Crosses will be presented in the meantime to the children and grandchildren of the organization’s most prominent members. The celebrations will culminate on the central square of the city with the song festival “We Were Born in a Great Hour” which will involve professional choirs, music schools’ choirs and amateur bands who will perform the insurgent songs. Some other events will be held, too.
