State Committee asks the media to highlight the Independence Day Carpathian Ukraine

State Committee for Television Broadcasting of Ukraine addresses the media with a request to use in their work training materials Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, prepared for the 76th anniversary of the independence of the Carpathian Ukrayius. As the press-service agency, offering historians note March 15 Independence Day Carpathian Ukraine and honor the city ’ Five of its defense, which in 1939 stood up for Ukrainian statehood proclaimed in Transcarpathia authoritarian forces against Hungary. Carpathian Ukraine by March 14, 1939 was proclaimed nezalezhnoyu state – important stage of the Ukrainian liberation movement, an example of the Ukrainian wish to build their own state, even in adverse conditions, foreign policy, said in a statement. &Laquo; Symbolically, the state symbols of the Carpathian Ukraine were blue and yellow flag, anthem « Ukraine is still alive » and TRIZUB St. Vladimir the Great in combination with regional coat of arms of Transcarpathia, – said First Deputy Chairman of State Committee Bogdan Chervak. &Ndash; Ukraine found itself in a similar situation: its integrity encroaching Russia. And also, as in '76 because Ukrainian in arms defending their country, their independence & raquo ;. Ukrainian Transcarpathia buwere the first people in the interwar Europe that did not put up with the annexation, and with arms stood up for their freedom from aggression of neighboring countries. After the refusal of the president of Carpatho-Ukraine Augustin Voloshin include the Carpathian Ukraine into Hungary, began a general offensive Hungarian troops who opposed the few voices UkrainianENGLISH Patriots Transcarpathia. Even with a full occupation of the land struggle ended: a powerful guerrilla movement acting to end in May 1939, and rare underground – to January 1940, said in a statement. Told

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