Visual Arts Exhibit “Childhood Embraced by War” Opens in Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba, Feb 22 (ACN) An international visual arts exhibit entitled “Childhood Embraced by War” opened Wednesday at Santiago de Cuba’s Francisco Prat Puig Cultural Center marking Homeland Defender Day, which is observed every February 23rd in Russia and other former Soviet republics.

The exhibit, set up with the cooperation of the Rossotrudnichestvo Federal Agency, is made up of 19 pictures depicting child human rights violations during war conflicts and at WWII concentration camps (1935-1945).

Cuban Friendship Institute delegate in Santiago, Juan Carlos Vaillant, said that the artistic sample constitutes a denunciation of the abuses committed at the US Naval Base in illegally occupied Cuban territory of Guantanamo. It is also a call for world peace and protection of the children in any place of the world, he added.

Antonina Yatsuk, coordinator of the Russian-speaking community in Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo provinces stressed the excellent relations of friendship between Cuba and Russia and the opening of the exhibit here.

Some 216 thousand 431 children were exterminated in a premeditated manner in Soviet territory temporarily occupied by the Nazi troops during WWII, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.