Our team continues its travel inside Ukraine for the project “Gulag: Witnesses”. Recently they passed through an abandoned village in the Kharkiv region. Half the houses are empty, the windows are boarded up, and the courtyards are overgrown. A few months ago, there was an artillery shelling at an infrastructure facility a couple of tens of kilometers away. A plowed field, sown with sunflowers. In the middle of the field is an overgrown piece of land. And a lonely grave. They say that the villagers who died of hunger in 1933 were buried here right in the field behind the village. Whole families. Relocants from outside regions were brought into empty houses. Nobody knows who lived in these houses, whose graves the tractor goes around, plowing the field for sunflowers or corn.
