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Arrested Christmas

04.01.2018
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| Ukraine in the past

These days we can celebrate Christmas without any condition. But in the 1970s people could lose their freedom or sometimes life for such an innocent event. When I was a teenager I wrote a small poem that dedicated to national politician Vyacheslav Chornovil.  At that time I used to live in a village and had…

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Posted in Ukraine in the past Tagged Christmas 1970s, Evgen Sverstuk., Museum of Ukrainian Sixtiers, soviet concentration camps, Stalin, The Sixtiers, Ukrainian history, USSR, Vasyl Stus, Vyacheslav Chornovil Leave a comment

Why Ukrainians respect bread: The Big Famine

28.11.2017
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Have you ever hear that in the post Soviet countries people treat bread with a big respect? We never throw it on the ground. Our parents always taught us: “If bread falls down you will have to pick it up and kiss it”. For Ukrainians bread is symbol of prosperity. Traditionally Ukrainians were farmers as we…

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Posted in Ukraine in the past Tagged Petro Stolypin, Soviet regime, Stalin, the Big Famine, Ukrainian black soil, USSR Leave a comment

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