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Brussels – The President of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Metsola and one other hundred folks, together with a number of Slovak MEPs, attended the opening of a documentary photograph exhibition entitled “We Need Freedom” on Tuesday. It was ready within the premises of the EP’s Brussels headquarters by the quaestor of the EU legislative physique, Miriam Lexmann (European Folks’s Celebration/KDH), on the event of the thirty fifth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, stories the TASR correspondent.
Metsola said that the Velvet Revolution modified Slovakia and paved its option to the EU. “With this exhibition, we commemorate the braveness of women and men who stood up for progress, freedom, and democracy,” she stated. She added that their message resonates even after 35 years and is vital at a time when Ukrainians die for a similar values, freedom, and the opportunity of changing into an EU member.
The top of the Nationwide Reminiscence Institute (ÚPN) Jerguš Sivoš additionally addressed the friends, amongst whom have been 50 guests from Slovakia, staff of EU establishments, and the pinnacle of the Everlasting Illustration of the Slovak Republic to the EU Juraj Nociar.
Younger individuals of the Unnoticed Heroes mission, which goals to strengthen historic reminiscence by the presentation of non-public tales of freedom fighters, and individuals of demonstrations from 35 years in the past additionally spoke. For the Czech Republic, former dissident, Constitution 77 signatory, and MEP Alexandr Vondra spoke.
“You will need to go the message from era to era to guard the liberty mission,” stated a deputy, for whom the exhibition can also be a reference to household historical past, as her great-uncles, members of the Dominican Order, have been victims of totalitarian regimes – Mikuláš Lexmann was persecuted by each Nazis and Communists and ultimately died in a communist jail, and Gregor Lexmann was imprisoned in Jáchymov for 9 years.
In line with the EP quaestor, the exhibition centered on pictures capturing the environment of the Velvet Revolution, the political occasions of that point, the jingling of keys, and civic unity. One of many framed pictures was devoted to the pinnacle of the European Parliament.
Sivoš confirmed that ÚPN was a accomplice in getting ready this exhibition, which is a part of a broader collection of occasions commemorating the occasions of 1989. “We’re glad to convey the environment of these days to the European Parliament. On 11 panels, it captures the primary peaceable demonstrations, the function of scholars as a driving drive in these days, the primary negotiations on altering the main function of the Communist Celebration, and different adjustments that then led to free elections in 1990,” Sivoš described the exhibition. (November 12)
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