Shot memories: Ukraine issued postcards with war-destroyed monuments of architecture

The Ukrainian Institute of Memory, together with USAID (US Agency for International Cooperation), launched the international campaign “Postcards from Ukraine”, which will show the world the cultural monuments of this country destroyed by the war, reports ZN.

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The purpose of the campaign is to tell about the damage to Ukrainian culture caused by the bombing and shelling by Russian troops during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Project "Postcards from Ukraine" designed to record and demonstrate the damage inflicted on Ukrainian culture by Russian troops. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they have destroyed more than 388 historical, architectural and archaeological monuments of Ukraine. Embassy of Ukraine in the USA.

Within the framework of the project, more than 100 postcards about cultural heritage sites from different parts of Ukraine will be issued.

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Postcards will be issued in Ukrainian and English, each will tell the story of a particular monument. You can get acquainted with the postcards on the project website, which will be constantly updated. Information can be searched by filters: region, date when the monument was built or destroyed, the type of object and its status, as well as the type of weapon that hit it.

“The malicious, targeted destruction of Ukrainian cultural monuments by Russia is a huge loss for Ukraine, Europe and the whole world. In an attempt to erase the culture and history of Ukraine, the Kremlin seeks to erase the very notion of a Ukrainian nation. The goal of the Postcards from Ukraine project is to show the world the real face of the unprovoked and unjustified war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine, the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian culture,” said James Hope, Director of the USAID Mission to Ukraine.

Russia is not just destroying Ukrainian cities and villages, but is systematically destroying Ukrainian cultural heritage. This is evidence of a war whose goal is to erase the Ukrainian people from their roots to the present. The initiators of the project call on active citizens to tell the world about the destruction of Ukrainian culture by distributing postcards on social networks with the hashtag #PostcardsFromUkraine.

One of the postcards depicts the Palace of Labor in Kharkov.

The Palace of Labor is an extraordinary building in the architectural ensemble of Constitution Square in Kharkov. The house was built in 1916 to be rented out to an insurance company. The architect of the future Palace of Labor, Hippolyte Pretreo, combined Art Nouveau with neoclassicism in the design of a rental house.

Having seized power in Ukraine, the Bolsheviks declared the Palace of Labor state property. After that, various Soviet institutions were located here, such as the All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions and the People's Commissariat of Labor. The Soviet authorities shot the architect of the Palace in 1937. Nevertheless, his creation continued to exist: the Palace of Labor withstood both the red Soviet terror and the Nazi occupation.

However, during Russia's brutal war against Ukraine in the spring of 2022, a Russian airstrike destroyed Constitution Square, damaging the facades, windows, and roof of the Labor Palace.

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The descendants of those who killed the architect Pretreo decided to destroy his architectural heritage, which existed at the intersection of styles and now - at the intersection of eras that divided the world of the early XNUMXst century into "before" and "after".

Everything that held memories can now become memory itself.

“Tell the world about the destruction of Ukrainian culture - share postcards on social networks with the hashtag #PostcardsFromUkraine,” asked representatives of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States.

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