This is a monument to the Great Famine of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor - the result of misguided Soviet economic policies of the time. This led to a catastrophic loss of life: millions of Ukrainians starved to death, marking one of the darkest pages in the history of Ukraine. It is a desperate, haunting space, heavy with symbolism: 24 millstones, representing the 24.000 souls that perished daily during the famine. The skeletal statue of a young girl holding a handful of wheat straws. The two weeping Angels of Sorrow at the entrance. A barrow-like underground Hall of Memory listing the names of 14.000 villages affected by the famine. And the centerpiece of the monument, the Candle of Memory : a 30 meter high tower, whose bells chime eerily along with the sound of ghostly voices as you approach it. The towering Candle is a few meters taller than the obelisk of the nearby Soviet Memorial of Eternal Glory, ostensibly presiding over it. This could be a clue about the hierarchy of importance between these monuments in the Ukraine.