On this day we will not talk about the fictitious victories of the Red Army or the real defeat of the Bolshevik troops by the troops of Kaiser's Germany in 1918.

On this day, we honor the memory of the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Noman Çelebicihan, as well as the victims of the Soviet deportation of Vainakh people.

At the Library of the Ukrainian Diaspora named after Senator John McCain (Central City Library) an event dedicated to the memory of a prominent leader of the Crimean Tatar people and victims of Soviet deportations. 

Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918) - a prominent politician, public figure, first head of government of the Crimean Democratic Republic, organizer of the I Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, the first mufti of Muslims in Crimea, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, a talented poet and writer. The last year of his life was outstanding and tragic at the same time. Allegedly, his whole life was a preparation for this year. This year made him the leader of an entire nation. He was shot in Sevastopol, without trial, by the Bolsheviks, who were committing real terror on the peninsula. His poem "Ant etkenmen" ("I swore") was twice approved by the "Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people" as the anthem of all Crimean Tatars, but the last lines were a prophecy of his tragic death.

On this day, Dnipro, together with the whole of Ukraine, commemorates not only the tragic death of Noman Çelebicihan, but also commemorates the victims of the Soviet deportation of the Vainakh people (1944). More than 600,000 Chechens and Ingush were expelled from their homeland. Thousands were shot or burned alive, due to the impossibility of removal from mountainous areas in the winter. These were women, children and the elderly, whose men fought and defended the Motherland. The history of the Second World War remembers many names of the Vainakh people who became real heroes not only of their people but also of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

History is an inseparable chain of bright and tragic events of the past, and national HEROES are an integral part that deserves eternity!

Watch Igor Shchupak's, director of "Tkuma" Institute and Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" Igor Shchupak and Yehor Vradii, deputy director of "Tkuma" Institute and Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" Interview on "Vidrkrutyj" Channel about events in memory of the victims of the deportation of the Vainakh people and anniversary of Noman Çelebicihan death were both held in Dnipro (today, February, 23d), to the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol  (on February 26), about historical webinar dedicated to this day, unique international calendar and School of Young Guide.