Hranica
Príbehy zo slovensko-ukrajinského pohraničia
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They are only a few tens of meters apart, but each is in a different time zone. What a paradox! After all, the sun rises and sets above them at the same time.
The story of the divided villages of Velke and Male Slemence, which after the Second World War was cut up by the Soviets like a loaf of bread, is known to everyone in the border region. The village with more than six hundred years of history finally paid for the post-war Soviet power expansion. When the Soviets managed to get beyond the Carpathian Arch in 1944, they did not withdraw from the territory, which in the past belonged first to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and later to interwar Czechoslovakia for twenty years. On the contrary, on June 29, 1945, Moscow and Prague signed an agreement that Transcarpathian Ukraine (the Czechoslovak constitution recognized this territory under the name Podkarpatska Rus, author's note) would become part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The area where there was no border before, they began to demarcate with border barriers. Watchtowers were being built, barbed wire was being stretched. The Aktuality.sk reporter began recording the image of the Slovak-Ukrainian borderland and the fate of its inhabitants shortly before the Russian invasion. To a country existing on the imaginary edge of everything, she returned again in the fall of 2022 to find out how the Great War had changed her perspectives. Stories from the Slovakian-Ukrainian borderland are illustrated by Zuzana Gogova's photographs.
