connected with ukraine among the executed prominent ukrainians theater director les kurbas composer hnat hotkevichkhailo boychuk playwright mykola kulish writer valerian undertaker scientist stepan rudnytskyi, after the end of the terror in 1938, the next step was the physical elimination of the direct organizers and executors of the great terror. after stalin's death, in the thaw years, the repressed were partially rehabilitated. however, the majority of citizens convicted on political charges did not receive full rehabilitation in 1991, in the last months of the ukrainian ssr the law on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in ukraine was approved in 2015 ukraine condemned the crimes of the communist of the totalitarian regime, the law on the condemnation of the communist and nazi totalitarian regimes and the ban on the propaganda of their symbols made our transition to another level in relation to the communist regime to the communist heritage, and it is no coincidence that ukraine is on the labor issue because no state in the world, no nation in the world suffered as many losse