EIGHT YEARS AGO

Scene of a mass demonstration at the foot of the Lenin monument in October Revolution Square in Kyiv on August 23, 1991, the day before the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR proclaimed Ukraine's independence. Three days later the site was renamed Independence Square. Source: Photo essay by Tania D'Avignon/The Ukrainian Weekly Archives.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 22, 1999, No. 34, Vol. LXVII

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