Tarashkevych Iryna

The concept of freedom in Ukraine is equal in principle to the existence of Ukrainians. Illusions that it is possible to meet somewhere in the middle have disappeared. Freedom for Ukrainian society has become not only a declared value, but also the only possible way of thinking and existence.

“I got my hands on old magazines with photos from the late 80s. Flipping through the pages, I looked at a world that no longer existed. But the covered topics remained painfully relevant. Wars, conflicts and suffering seem to have always existed in the world. But to me they were so distant and unreal. Outlying.

Now, holding the paper witnesses of those events in my hands, it became clearer to me why it is so difficult to cry out to the world when trouble came to our country. So, flipping through the pages, I was able to formulate my thoughts and feelings, put them together like a puzzle in a collage. To say that it hurts without choosing the words. Because it has become very difficult for me to choose words in the last year.”