“Medvedchuk effect”: censorship attempt fails in Ukraine as prohibited book sold out within an hour
What is the banned book about In 2019, the publisher Vivat published a new book by the Ukrainian…
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Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.
How Ukraine’s Vasyl Stus used poems to fight the Soviet Regime
In 1972, Vasyl Stus was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda. As his wife Valentyna Popeliukh recalls the moment: “Until…
Putin’s occupation force covertly strikes against… dead poet (PHOTO)
Exposed bricks, that’s all that remains in place of the commemorative plaque to one of the bravest people…