"Eurodonbas" film from the cycle "Ukraine in focus" by Harlem
Tue, Jul 30
|Filmkoepel
In the series of films "Ukraine in focus" on Wednesday, June 26 and Sunday, June 30, the film "EURODONBAS" will be shown: this film is about the loss of culture, partly European, as a result of deliberate destruction by Russia. When watching this film, a historical reference about the history of Donbas is important.
Time & Location
Jul 30, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Filmkoepel, Koepelplein 1b, 2031 WL Haarlem, The Netherlands
About the event
Around 1600, Donbas was a sparsely populated steppe territory, a no-man's land, where people from different directions lived and formed a population group, which is now called Cossacks. Their state, which existed between 1649 and 1764, is considered the first Ukrainian entity. In the 17th century, it became a kind of free military state, which in Russia was called "Free Ukraine", the name Ukraine appears for the first time in history. Later, the region was politically and socially integrated into the tsarist empire, but with a great deal of sovereignty for the Cossacks, who lived mainly in the countryside.
After 1860, the tsarist empire began a wave of industrialization, in particular the development of coal mines: it is noteworthy that much help was requested by Western European investors and technical specialists from England, Belgium, France and Germany. Around 1910, 2/3 of all coal mining capital came from Western Europe. I…