Documentary Film “Free Village” from the cycle “Soviet myths” will be shown on the TV channel “1+1 Ukraine”

Photo press service”Free Happy Village” is a propaganda image, flattened to a campaign poster. “Every day it is more fun and joyful to live” – ​​in Soviet times, the village was painted a wonderful place full of freedom, songs and belief in the communist future. But how was it really?

The “Free Village” episode of the Soviet myths cycle is devoted to the study of how the Soviet authorities have systematically exterminated the peasantry, making once free and educated people with slain beggars. Forced collectivization, punitive operations, artificial famine, slave work for working hours, actual enslavement of Soviet peasants, which by the 60-70s of the twentieth century. They did not have passports – it is all a consistent policy of humiliation and robbery of the peasants for the benefits of the party top and for the economy of war.

The film investigates all stages of gradual destruction of the village by the Soviet authorities. Introduction of total work duty and introduction of pre-layout in the early 20’s. The installation of “prices scissors” in the mid-20’s, when all the goods produced in city factories and factories were evaluated madly expensive, and everything grown in the village was worth a penny. Since 1929, collectivization, which was motivated by the need to depend on a free peasant, taking away from his cattle, land, inventory. The 1932-1933 Holodomor, which was intentionally arranged to kill as many active farmers as possible, and to immerse the rest into fear, which will not have a lot of generations. Records of the Collective Farmers-Was it a compromise with conscience, the desire to survive and not to die from famine already for your own children?

“It was a very personal story for me. For a little boy in the late USSR, I was forced to leave my parents and lived and studied in my grandmother-in the village of Zazyach in Ternopil region. I spent summer there, but only in 1989, only 1989, but only in 1989 In a rural school, I had literally scattered the Soviet picture of the world. There, all this was hidden at some point, a whole layer of family history of tens of Ukrainians became dangerous. Having deprived my passports.

Experts and rare witnesses tell about the enslavement of the village, and the author also reveals some details from the history of his own family illustrating the historical period.

Recall “TSN. Special view” is a journalistic investigation that reveals little -known facts about events and processes that form the history of not only Ukraine but also the world.

You can watch the documentary “Soviet myths. Free Village” on February 8 at 23:00 on “1+1 Ukraine”.

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