Bitter Harvest Page #4

Lubko!

Lubko!

This is Lubko.

He saved my life.

He has no parents.

He has us now.

Yuri...

Mama?

It's me... Yuri.

Try to eat a little piece.

Just a little.

Please.

- What is it?

- Soup.

Of thistle and grass.

God has forgiven us.

What could he possibly

have to forgive us for?

Yuri...

I traded the icon for food.

I had to.

To save your grandfather,

but Sergei lied.

He still has him prisoner.

It's okay.

I have been painting icons of

Saint Yuri since I was a child.

What you traded...

was merely one of them.

This is the real icon.

Mama... you see?

God has not forsaken you.

She's at peace,

with your father.

She's with him now.

You must hide this.

We are the safe keepers now.

- We'll take it with us.

- Where?

We'll cross into Poland and then

make our way to Canada, America,

where we can tell the world what

Stalin is doing to the people of Ukraine.

But first I must free my grandfather.

Wait!

We still have your grandfather's sabre.

Come on!

Dido!

We're leaving tonight, for Lviv.

Forgive me.

I'm such an old fool.

Dimitri!

Dido!

Fire! Don't let them escape!

It's about time I killed you, old man.

GO ahead!

Kill me!

My grandson will have his revenge.

The painter?

The warrior!

We'll be free.

Have a farm, more children.

It's the river!

We're at the border.

We'll soon be in Poland.

Come on!

- Go without me!

- NO, not this time.

Natalka! Come on!

We'll be together.

My name is Yuri Kachaniuk,

son of Yaruslav Kachaniuk,

grandson of the famous

warrior Ivan Kachaniuk.

Before I grew up and

learned that dragons were real,

and evil roamed the world,

I fell in love.

Only a few succeeded in the

escape to the freedom.

The 1932/33 the Soviet-instigated

starving of Ukraine is now

known under the name of

Holodomor (death by starvation)

The whole horror of that intended

policy was only revealed

after the disintegration of

the Soviet Union in 1991

In 2003 Russia signed a declaration

which confirmed that the

Holodomor cost was between 7 and 10

million of innocent human lives.

Now the Holodomor is recognized as one

of the biggest crimes against humanity.

16 nations are considered as

those who committed genocide.

This film is dedicated to the

victims of all genocides.

Translated from German by SashaS

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