UKRAINIAN HELSINKI UNION FOUNDATION
The name of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU) was given to a civil rights organization founded in Lviv on June 7, 1988. It would be no exaggeration to note that the significance of the event was truly seminal. The UHU was the first mass opposition organization that set the goal of facilitating social and political processes, fought against the Soviet repression mechanism and had its own political program.
Emblem of Ukrainian Helsinki Union
The UHU establishment was declared rather openly for the time, "The 66-year experience of Ukraine being a member of the USSR proves that neither the Ukrainian SSR government that had never been a really sovereign government but just an executive body of the central power nor the Ukrainian Communist Party that had b
