With a touch of sorrow, pain and pride entered the public meeting – requiem in a series of events dedicated to the third anniversary of tragic events on the Maidan - the death of Heaven’s Hundred, that was held in our institute on February 20.
February 20 came into our history as one of the most tragic events in our country, bathed in blood of peaceful protesters that gathered in the square to defend the dignity, freedom and liberty.Among many victims that happened on that day in the Square, was our student Ustym Golodniuk."The boy in blue UNO helmet" - so his country remembered him.Ustym was on the Square from the first day and within three months from students’ protests on November.In the night on November 30, when "berkut" violently dispersed peaceful activists, Ustym was severely beaten, but this didn’t force the young man to refuse from participation in protests.He was a fighter of 38 sotnia of Maidan Self-Defense, has always been in the forefront of barricades.In the morning on February 20 sniper’s bullet hit Ustym’s head, breaking peacekeeping helmet.According to eyewitnesses, Ustym was mortally hurted when he was trying to pull the wounded man from the zone of fire. Touching verses, recited by students Lydia Voychak and Sergey Demchuk, were devoted to the Memory of Ukrainian Hero Ustym Golodniuk and to all the heroes of Heaven’s Hundred.
Clergymen of various denominations, administration, teachers and students of the Institute and college, government officials, representatives of mass media and not indifferent residants of Berezhany, were sincerely praying for souls of fallen heroes - angels in the crowns of thorn.
That moment, when participants of requiem were laying flowers and lamps to the memorial plaque of Usti Golodniuk in front of the Institute, accompanied by a sad melody-requiem "Plyne kachka", has pearced all to tears. Lamps were burning with clean and bright flames, so clean and brightmust be the memory of heroes, who died for freedom and for their state.Requiem has finished with exclamations: "Glory to the Heroes!" and "Heroes do not die!"
