Serhii plokhii here, the director of the Ukrainian Research institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he s been on our list for a long time and we finally found the time to bring him down here. His titles include the last the cossack the forgotten pastors of the eastern front, for peace. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Serhii plokhii. [applause] plokhii thank you for the introduction. Thank you to the organizers for bringing me here. I also want to thank all of you , these coming from boston today, being as it is coming inside to listen to presentations like mine, i really appreciate that sacrifice. Thank you. The organizers really couldnt find a better time to have a conference like that, given that we are really having our symposium 75 years almost day today to the conference that took place in crimea back in february of 1945. And the conference that is still very much with us on many levels. 4 of this year, that was exactly the anniversary of the conference. Coverage,the media an