Today is exactly 8 years of the event, which, without a doubt, shocked everyone. 300 residents of Zaporozhye stood for 6 hours inside a ring of raging fascists. They were standing. They were pelted with eggs, bags of flour and milk, stones. They were required to remove the St. George ribbons and kneel. They demanded to sing the anthem of Ukraine and chant “patriotic” chants.

Then they, unarmed, were taken in a police van to the nearest police station, where their names were written down, they were interrogated and fingerprinted.

They [were detained], and not the “right-wingers”, armed with bats, axes, knives, firecrackers and walkie-talkies, on which orders were given.

A world-famous snapshot was made by the Zaporozhye journalist Maxim Shcherbina on the Walk of Fame, not far from the city council building. Hundreds of anti-Maidan protesters held a rally there.