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“I Hid Food in Plain Sight.” The Holodomor in the Fates of Dissidents

Events

Dozens of unique artifacts were presented at an exhibition in Dnipro, shedding light on the Holodomor-genocide of 1932–33, the Holodomors of the 1920s and 1940s, and political repressions

“The Voice of Ukrainian Political Prisoners”: Human Rights Defender from Luhansk Oblast Nadiia Svitlychna Would Have Turned 85

Events

She fought for the rights of Ukrainians in the Soviet Union. For this, she was blackmailed with her child and sent to a labor camp in the north for 4 years. She managed to escape to the West, where she deciphered the microscopic letters of Vasyl Stus's camp diary and began to demand justice for those unjustly persecuted in the USSR.

Do you remember, comrade, how we fought together?

Events

This year, it coincides with the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Exodus of Soviet Jews from the kingdom of the Red Pharaoh. To mark the occasion, commemorative rallies, gatherings, meetings, symposia, and seminars are being held all over the world. Due to coronavirus safety requirements, all of this is taking place via remote communication, a sort of private internet conversation among a narrow circle of select participants. This opens up unprecedented room for a torrent of personal fabrications, falsifications, and myth-making.

The Group of Twenty-Four

Recollections

Yulia Viner's memories of an event that took place 50 years ago, when 24 Jews gathered in the reception office of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, demanding a solution to the problem of emigration to Israel.

Anniversary of the Sandarmokh Executions: A Memory That Cannot Be Destroyed

Events

On these days 83 years ago, in the Sandarmokh wooded tract in Karelia, the death machine operated with particular cruelty: executioners, with rabid zeal, killed people to serve the authorities on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the so-called October Revolution.

The Moral Code of the Destroyer of Communism

Works by dissidents

We are publishing this 2005 article by Zinoviy Antonyuk, but it seems as if it were just written, so well does it suit today’s challenges. The article, to our knowledge, has not been previously published and was found in the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) archive.

Babyn Yar, or a Memory of How a Recalcitrant Tribe Became a People

Research

The article reveals the process of formation of Jewish national consciousness in the USSR through the prism of the struggle to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and the formation of the Zionist movement in Kiev.

To Be Free in an Unfree Country: The Story of Hanna Yurchenko and Oleksa Tykhyi

Research

A new page has appeared in the history of Ukrainian resistance to the Soviet regime in the Donetsk region. It is connected with the fates of a student from Kramatorsk, Hanna Yurchenko, and a teacher from Druzhkivka, Oleksa Tykhyi.

Dissident Mykola Horbal Turns 80: “Don’t Be Disappointed and Don’t Stop. Ukraine Will Win Because Truth Is on Its Side”

Interviews

In 1988, he was still in a labor camp… But the then-leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, was constantly being asked—including by U.S. President Ronald Reagan—how he could speak of “perestroika” while political prisoners of the communist regime had not yet been released. And so, in his 16th year in the camps, Mykola Horbal was released. And what a release it was! The KGB of the Ukrainian SSR flew Horbal from the Perm colony to Ukraine by plane. Today, Mykola Horbal, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, turns 80. Radio Svoboda asked the celebrated figure for his views on current events.

Prisoner of Zion Natan Vershubsky: Lawyer Viktor Medvedchuk Set Me Up in 1985

Interviews

One of the last prisoners of conscience in the USSR, convicted of “stealing” books from the synagogue in Podil, author of short stories who became known under the pseudonym Abrasha Lukyanovsky, Rabbi Natan (Noson) Vershubsky spoke at the invitation of the Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine, Yaakov Dov Bleich, at the scene of the “crime”—the Main Synagogue of Kyiv. On observing Shabbat at a Soviet university, informants in yarmulkes and KGB officers, his arrest and investigation, the setup by his lawyer—Viktor Medvedchuk—and Margaret Thatcher's intervention in the prisoner's fate—in Natan Vershubsky's interview with the newspaper “Hadashot.”
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