The time of revolution was a time of a complete chaos. There was a lot of fighting around my town. There was the Red Army and the White Army fighting each other, and an army of Ukrainian anarchists fighting them all.

The Red army were rebels - Communists. Anarchists wanted independence for Ukraine from anyone and they didn't care whom they fought, their motto was - to beat Red before they become White and to beat White until they become Red...

Eventually the Red army won and the cheerful days of communism began. They began with the robbery of rich citizens and expelled them from the country. As the scriptural seven skinny cows ate up a fat cow and didn't become any fatter, so is our ragged fellows robbed a rich fellows and didn't become any richer. Poverty was written all over and the Soviet epoch didn't leave us many valuable things that would be worth digging for them. Many graves were left.

Burial of that time. It is engraved - "rest in peace Maksim Semenako whom bandits killed in 1919".

In 1943 Maksim Semenako got another five bullets in back of his tombstone.

Graveyards were often located on the hills and have been good strategic places on WW2 battles.

It is from modern history of our neighbourhood. A while ago some guy settled on the middle of a graveyard.

Every time I pass by I wonder if it is the piece of cheap land in a green and quiet place that broker told me about.

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