in 2011, bishop huzar publicly announced his resignation from the post of head of the church due to health problems. however, he continued his church and public activities. on the 20th anniversary of the referendum on the independence of ukraine, huzar initiated the creation of the initiative on december 1. the participants of the movement called for development ukrainian state. and two years later, in 2013, in during the euromaidan events, cardinal huzar, despite his poor health, often went to the center of the capital to a crowd of thousands of people, when students were beaten and people started shooting for yanukovych, i remember, people did not know how to react, whether they had the right self-defense or not, i remember that situation, and he came out with representatives of the initiative on december 1 and said that ... when the government treats people like this, people have a full moral right to defend themselves with weapons in hands, it was a nation that protested from the bottom of its heart, said: that's enough for us, we have to be ourselves, we have to be people, our task is