Voices of the Revolution: survivors Kuznetsov & son – “We didn’t even recognize ourselves in that photo” (Eyewitness interview).

Father & son survivors of February 18th attack on Maidan (eyewitness interview)

Voices of Ukraine

Mykola Kuznetsov: “We didn’t even recognize ourselves in that photo.”

Lenina Bychkovska, “FACTS”, Olexandra Bychkovska, exclusively for “FACTS”
March 4, 2014 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Translated by Paweł Łapiński
Edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: Repost http://archeos.org.ua/?p=2813 , original source: http://fakty.ua/177712-nikolaj-kuznecov-na-snimke-my-s-synom-dazhe-ne-srazu-uznali-samih-sebya

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The photo published by Agence France-Presse news agency showing the atrocities of Berkut riot police, hit the headlines in Europe and the United States. On February 20, 2014, a newspaper “Fakty” [Facts] in Kyiv published this photo on their front page. Two residents of Kyiv – the bloodied father and son – have become one of the symbols of the rebellious Maidan.

Mykola Kuznetsov, a Doctor of Science, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Laureate of the State Prize in Science and Technology, and his 27-year-old son Ihor, also a science post-graduate, were brutally beaten on Instytutska Street in Kyiv on…

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