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He was 1 of the most active dissidents, a real hero of Ukraine.

Today we will briefly tell you who Vasyl Stus is.

Because if Ukraine does not exist, then the trouble will not exist.

Vasyl Stus is a Ukrainian poet, publicist, human rights activist and a fighter for Ukraine's independence.

in the village of Rahnivka in Vinnytsia Oblast.

Irina's mother was from a wealthy rural family with Polish roots, and Semen's father was an orphan.

The times of famine were difficult for the Stus family.

In 1940, he met a recruiter from Donbass, who offered a family job at a chemical plant.

Then her father and mother, taking only adult children, went to Stalin, now Donetsk.

There the father worked and a year later took the younger children with him.

That's how the whole family settled in a small room in a dormitory.

In the years of World War II, the family did not have time to evacuate and lived in terrible poverty under occupation.

After the war, the Stus got a land plot and began to build their own house.

At that time, Ivanko, Vasily's brother, was blown up on the mine.

young Vasyl Stus went to Donetsk City School No.

He knew almost the entire Kobzar Shevchenko by heart.

At first, the young man dreamed of becoming a geologist, but his life was changed by the poem by Ivan Frank Moisei.

After reading the work, Vasyl forgot about geology and decided to become a literator.

In 1954, he graduated from school with a silver medal and entered the historical-philological faculty of the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Stalin, now Donetsk, specializing in Ukrainian philology.

time, the stupor literally exploded when he was offered to speak Russian

Vasyl studied greedily, often off the program.

He mastered German perfectly to read his favorite genes and rilkes in the original.

In his student years, Stus was a member of the literary association Obrij.

After graduating from the university with a red diploma in

Vasyl agreed to teach Ukrainian and literature in the village of Tauzhne in the Kirovograd region.

In the same year, he was called up to the Soviet army.

Then, in the newspaper Literatura Ukraina, he published his first 3 poems.

Later, Vasyl worked as a teacher at school No.

He had to fantasize to raise interest in his subject.

Until 1926, the share of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass was only 9%.

In 3 and a half decades, terrible things have happened.

The Holodomor, the ban on the Ukrainian language and the Russians' migration to Ukraine.

Not having the strength to teach Ukrainian in the Russian-speaking Donbass, Stus returned to his parents in the suburbs of Donetsk.

He worked a little in the underground platov, and later settled in the local newspaper, Socialist Donbass, where he was a literary editor.

After a trip to Odessa for a monthly seminar of young writers, He first met the leading masters.

Then Stus realized that he should go to Kyiv, because it is there that the new Ukrainian literature is being created.

At the age of 24, Vasil joined the Aspirantura of the Institute of Literature named after Taras Shevchenko, specializing in the theory of literature.

Shortly after, the poet joined the club of the creative youth, But the authorities quickly covered everything.

We had to meet in a small room, where often Vyacheslav Chornovil, Lina Kostenko and many others were.

Very quickly, from a provincial poet, Vasyl turned into a modern modernist writer.

As we were waiting for the train, Vasyl met Valentin Popelyuk.

In a conversation in the car, it turned out that they lived nearby.

They met for a year, Valentin did not even guess that Vasyl was a poet.

in Kyiv, when the film Parajanov's film was premiered, in the shadow of forgotten ancestors, the capital intelligentsia suddenly began to protest against the arrests of

Vasyl rose and shouted that everyone who protests against the arrests should rise.

At first, a few people rose, then more, then even more.

For such an organization of a collective protest, Vasyl Stus was expelled from the post and evicted from the group home.

He had to be a black worker in construction.

Despite all the difficulties that life brought, Vasil finally married Valentina Vasilievna Popelyuk.

Thanks to the support of Roman Korogotsky, he found a job in the Central State Historical Archive, where he began to work as a junior scientific associate.

was interrupted by the deputy director of the institute, Serhiy Zubkov, who managed to fire Stus from his position.

At that time, Vasyl's wife was already pregnant.

He quickly found a job at the Metropolitan Construction.

And 2 months later he took the position of senior engineer in the technical information department.

He didn't like this job, but the 110 rubles salary of the engineer was not a problem.

During that period, during his free time, Vasyl created several stories.

3 years later, Vasyl finished his collection of winter trees.

A little later, Stus published the third, his darkest collection, a cheerful cemetery.

At that time, Vasyl began to actively write letters to various institutions and criticized the authorities, which began to return to totalitarianism and protested against arrests in the environment of his colleagues.

Yaroslav Dovbush, a citizen of Belgium, wanted to show the world what was happening in a totalitarian Soviet Union.

He wanted to export books banned in the USSR.

But the KGB did not allow this to be done.

In a train, Moscow and Prague detained Yaroslav Dobosh for allegedly incorrect filling of documents.

After the interrogations, Yaroslav confessed to everything.

After that, Soviet propaganda was able to present dissidents as nationalistic mercenaries and sellers of the capitalist West.

about 100 people were arrested, 89 of whom were convicted of anti-Soviet activities.

Stus was interrogated with the aim of breaking his spirit.

He was subjected to a formal psychiatric examination.

But Vasil did not admit his guilt in the interrogations.

As a result, Vasil Stus was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 3 years in the camp.

All the poems Stus wrote were stolen and destroyed.

After the sentence, Vasily was sent to Zolotyhkopalen, where he worked until

Vasily also refused Soviet citizenship, which he was offered, saying that Soviet citizenship was impossible for him, because being a Soviet citizen meant being a slave.

he joined the Helsinki Human Rights Protection Group and, despite all the pain, continued to work at factories.

Vasyl was again arrested on charges of introduction of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.

He was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor and 5 years of exile.

Vasyl refused to appear in court to the lawyer Viktor Medvedchuk, who was appointed for him, because he did not believe him.

Medvedchuk openly stated in a speech that Stus deserves punishment.

Vasily was taken out of court and the verdict was read without him.

In 2016, 2 lawyers conducted a legal analysis and proved that even under Soviet law, Medvedchuk had the necessary values to protect the defendant, but did not use them and violated the lawyer's ethics, admitting the defendant's guilt for himself.

Stusov was banned from seeing his family in prison.

Stus announced a dry starvation as a sign of protest against the abuse.

Only close people learned that Stus died.

He was buried in an unnamed grave in a camp cemetery in the village of Borisovo Chusovsky district of the Perm region.

Permission to be buried was granted 4 years after his death.

Vasil Stus was buried in Kyiv at the Baikov cemetery at the street number 33.

Vasil Stus was posthumously awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize for the collection of poems The Road of Pain, and in

the title of Hero of Ukraine was posthumously awarded.

a vivid example of how the Soviets were afraid and still continue to be afraid of the Ukrainians.

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Speaker 0: Shevchenko won't be a traitor anymore.

Speaker 1: He was 1 of the most active dissidents, a real hero of Ukraine. Today we will briefly tell you who Vasyl Stus is.

Speaker 2: Because if Ukraine does not exist, then the trouble will not exist.

Speaker 1: Vasyl Stus is a Ukrainian poet, publicist, human rights activist and a fighter for Ukraine's independence.

Speaker 2: Vasyl was born on January

Speaker 0: 6, 1938

Speaker 2: in the village of Rahnivka in Vinnytsia Oblast. Irina's mother was from a wealthy rural family with Polish roots, and Semen's father was an orphan. Irina and Semen had 4 children. The times of famine were difficult for the Stus family. The father was a little lucky.

In 1940, he met a recruiter from Donbass, who offered a family job at a chemical plant. Then her father and mother, taking only adult children, went to Stalin, now Donetsk. There the father worked and a year later took the younger children with him. That's how the whole family settled in a small room in a dormitory. In the years of World War II, the family did not have time to evacuate and lived in terrible poverty under occupation.

Speaker 1: After the war, the Stus got a land plot and began to build their own house. Also, the whole family planted corn.

Speaker 2: At that time, Ivanko, Vasily's brother, was blown up on the mine. For the family, it was a terrible event. Since

Speaker 0: 1944,

Speaker 2: young Vasyl Stus went to Donetsk City School No. 265. He knew almost the entire Kobzar Shevchenko by heart. At first, the young man dreamed of becoming a geologist, but his life was changed by the poem by Ivan Frank Moisei. After reading the work, Vasyl forgot about geology and decided to become a literator.

In 1954, he graduated from school with a silver medal and entered the historical-philological faculty of the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Stalin, now Donetsk, specializing in Ukrainian philology. At that

Speaker 1: time, the stupor literally exploded when he was offered to speak Russian

Speaker 2: in the Shakhtar capital. Vasyl studied greedily, often off the program. He mastered German perfectly to read his favorite genes and rilkes in the original. In his student years, Stus was a member of the literary association Obrij. After graduating from the university with a red diploma in

Speaker 0: 1959,

Speaker 2: Vasyl agreed to teach Ukrainian and literature in the village of Tauzhne in the Kirovograd region. In the same year, he was called up to the Soviet army. Then, in the newspaper Literatura Ukraina, he published his first 3 poems. Stus served in the Urals. Later, Vasyl worked as a teacher at school No.

23 in Horlivka. He had to fantasize to raise interest in his subject. Until 1926, the share of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass was only 9%. In 3 and a half decades, terrible things have happened. The Holodomor, the ban on the Ukrainian language and the Russians' migration to Ukraine.

Not having the strength to teach Ukrainian in the Russian-speaking Donbass, Stus returned to his parents in the suburbs of Donetsk. He worked a little in the underground platov, and later settled in the local newspaper, Socialist Donbass, where he was a literary editor. After a trip to Odessa for a monthly seminar of young writers, He first met the leading masters.

Speaker 1: Then Stus realized that he should go to Kyiv, because it is there that the new Ukrainian literature is being created. At the age of 24, Vasil joined the Aspirantura of the Institute of Literature named after Taras Shevchenko, specializing in the theory of literature. Everything changed

Speaker 2: in Kyiv, including the environment. He met the 60s. Shortly after, the poet joined the club of the creative youth, But the authorities quickly covered everything. We had to meet in a small room, where often Vyacheslav Chornovil, Lina Kostenko and many others were. Very quickly, from a provincial poet, Vasyl turned into a modern modernist writer.

As we were waiting for the train, Vasyl met Valentin Popelyuk. In a conversation in the car, it turned out that they lived nearby. They met for a year, Valentin did not even guess that Vasyl was a poet. But later Stus told that he wrote poems. On September

Speaker 0: 4, 1965,

Speaker 1: in Kyiv, when the film Parajanov's film was premiered, in the shadow of forgotten ancestors, the capital intelligentsia suddenly began to protest against the arrests of

Speaker 2: the creative youth. Vasyl rose and shouted that everyone who protests against the arrests should rise. At first, a few people rose, then more, then even more. For such an organization of a collective protest, Vasyl Stus was expelled from the post and evicted from the group home. 2 weeks later, Stus became unemployed.

He had to be a black worker in construction. Despite all the difficulties that life brought, Vasil finally married Valentina Vasilievna Popelyuk. Thanks to the support of Roman Korogotsky, he found a job in the Central State Historical Archive, where he began to work as a junior scientific associate. Life slowly began to get better. But the rapid career of Vasily

Speaker 1: was interrupted by the deputy director of the institute, Serhiy Zubkov, who managed to fire Stus from his position.

Speaker 2: At that time, Vasyl's wife was already pregnant. He quickly found a job at the Metropolitan Construction. And 2 months later he took the position of senior engineer in the technical information department. He didn't like this job, but the 110 rubles salary of the engineer was not a problem. On November

Speaker 0: 15, 1966,

Speaker 2: Stus' son Dmitry was born. During that period, during his free time, Vasyl created several stories. 3 years later, Vasyl finished his collection of winter trees. A little later, Stus published the third, his darkest collection, a cheerful cemetery. At that time, Vasyl began to actively write letters to various institutions and criticized the authorities, which began to return to totalitarianism and protested against arrests in the environment of his colleagues.

Yaroslav Dovbush, a citizen of Belgium, wanted to show the world what was happening in a totalitarian Soviet Union. He wanted to export books banned in the USSR. But the KGB did not allow this to be done. In a train, Moscow and Prague detained Yaroslav Dobosh for allegedly incorrect filling of documents.

Speaker 1: After the interrogations, Yaroslav confessed to everything. After that, Soviet propaganda was able to present dissidents as nationalistic mercenaries and sellers of the capitalist West.

Speaker 2: Mass arrests began soon. On January

Speaker 0: 12,

Speaker 2: Vyacheslav Chornovol was arrested. On January

Speaker 0: 13,

Speaker 2: Vasil Stus was arrested. During

Speaker 0: 1972,

Speaker 2: about 100 people were arrested, 89 of whom were convicted of anti-Soviet activities. Stus was interrogated with the aim of breaking his spirit. He was subjected to a formal psychiatric examination. But Vasil did not admit his guilt in the interrogations. As a result, Vasil Stus was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 3 years in the camp.

All the poems Stus wrote were stolen and destroyed. After the sentence, Vasily was sent to Zolotyhkopalen, where he worked until

Speaker 0: 1979.

Speaker 2: Vasily also refused Soviet citizenship, which he was offered, saying that Soviet citizenship was impossible for him, because being a Soviet citizen meant being a slave. Returning to Kiev In

Speaker 0: 1979,

Speaker 2: he joined the Helsinki Human Rights Protection Group and, despite all the pain, continued to work at factories. However,

Speaker 1: on May

Speaker 0: 14, 1980,

Speaker 1: Vasyl was again arrested on charges of introduction of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. He was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor and 5 years of exile.

Speaker 2: Vasyl refused to appear in court to the lawyer Viktor Medvedchuk, who was appointed for him, because he did not believe him. Medvedchuk openly stated in a speech that Stus deserves punishment. Vasily was taken out of court and the verdict was read without him. In 2016, 2 lawyers conducted a legal analysis and proved that even under Soviet law, Medvedchuk had the necessary values to protect the defendant, but did not use them and violated the lawyer's ethics, admitting the defendant's guilt for himself. Stusov was banned from seeing his family in prison.

The last time he saw his family was in

Speaker 0: 1981.

Speaker 2: Stus announced a dry starvation as a sign of protest against the abuse. On September

Speaker 0: 4, 1985,

Speaker 2: Stus' camera did not make a sound. Only close people learned that Stus died. He was buried in an unnamed grave in a camp cemetery in the village of Borisovo Chusovsky district of the Perm region. Permission to be buried was granted 4 years after his death. Vasil Stus was buried in Kyiv at the Baikov cemetery at the street number 33.

In

Speaker 0: 1991,

Speaker 2: Vasil Stus was posthumously awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize for the collection of poems The Road of Pain, and in

Speaker 0: 2005

Speaker 2: the title of Hero of Ukraine was posthumously awarded. Vasyl Stus is

Speaker 1: a vivid example of how the Soviets were afraid and still continue to be afraid of the Ukrainians. That's all for today. Join, comment and become a patron of the channel. Glory to Ukraine!

Speaker 2: You

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