LAW OF UKRAINE

of April 17, 1991 No. 962-XII

About Recovery of victims of repressions of communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on behalf of the Ukrainian people - citizens of Ukraine of all nationalities,

feeling deep sympathy for the victims of repressions of communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991, members of their families and relatives,

being guided by provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the Convention on human rights protection and fundamental freedoms of 1950 and in view of resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe No. 1096 (1996) on liquidation of heritage of the former communist totalitarian regime, No. 1481 (2006) of January 26, 2006 about need of the international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regime,

considering that in 1917-1991 communist totalitarian regime and its repressive bodies performed policy of the state terror therefore millions of people underwent to repressions for political, social, class, national, religious and other motives, lives, freedoms, property were deprived, deported, banished, sent on the special settlement out of limits of Ukraine and the USSR, compulsorily moved, evicted, involved in forced labor in the conditions of restriction of freedom, compulsorily repatriated and interned, deprived of nationality, compulsorily placed in mental health facilities, deprived or otherwise limited in the civil laws and freedoms, underwent to tortures, prosecutions concerning themselves and members of the family, to other physical or moral sufferings,

in view of condemnation by the Law of Ukraine "About condemnation communistic and national socialist (Nazi) the totalitarian modes in Ukraine also you will lock promotion of their symbolics" communist totalitarian regime and recognition its criminal,

condemning repressions which were performed by communist totalitarian regime and its repressive bodies during 1917-1991 in the territory of Ukraine, and refusing method of the state terror in government, adopts this law.

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