Participants of the Drohobych Children’s Parliament and children of social categories with whom the Drohobych City Center of Social Services works, these days had a thematic excursion to the “Prison on Stryyska” Memorial Complex, which is a symbol of totalitarianism and repression.
In the building, which today houses the museum “Prison on Stryiska”, the Drohobytsk Regional Office of the NKVD functioned from 1939, and from 1941 – the UNKDB together with the investigative prison; in the post-war period and until 1959, other organs of repressive and punitive structures of the USSR — the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KGB.
On the territory of the building in the 1939-40s, the structure of the NKVD organized a torture chamber for Ukrainians who fought for the independence of their country, defended the right to their own culture and language. Hundreds of Ukrainians were murdered here, thrown into pits and covered with stones and earth, and tortured.
Today, the “Prison on Stryiska” reminds every conscious Ukrainian that no matter what bright slogans or promises the “liberators” come with, the result of the appearance of the invaders will inevitably be repression and innocent deaths.
For the participants of the Children’s Parliament, she conducted an informative tour of the entire memorial complex, so the children put candles to the cross as a sign of respect for the innocently murdered victims of the totalitarian regime.
