Voice of Ukraine

From: Maia Mikhaluk (839th day)

Danny is back in New York attending the United Nations Intensive Summer Study Program, designed to immerse participants in the political dynamics of the United Nations and to familiarize students with the inner workings of the UN by bringing them together with practitioners working in the field of multilateral diplomacy. No doubt it will be an interesting experience!

Danny told me today about this statue near the UN building. The “Good Defeats Evil” sculpture portrays the figure of St. George sitting on horseback slaying a dragon. It is created from parts of two Soviet and US missiles destroyed under the terms of the INF Treaty in 1987 (Elimination of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty).

This statue is supposed to be a symbol of disarmament and a monument to peace. It symbolizes the hope for a world free of nuclear weapons and was gifted by the Soviet Union to the United Nations in 1990. Symbols are all good, but the problem is that ruzzia has picked up where Soviet Union left when it fell apart and ruzzia continues its imperialistic agenda and threatens the world with nuclear weapons on a regular basis for the last two years.

You probably looked at the photo before you read my post. Without reading the text in the post, who did you think the dragon symbolized? I thought of ruzzia right away. The battle is not over, but “Good will most definitely Defeat Evil”