To 30 year anniversary of Vasyl Stus tragic death.

To 30 year anniversary of Vasyl Stus tragic death.

3 variations in multi-exposition snapshots of a meeting of near 15 people who came this day to the poet`s grave.

On September 4, 2015 it will be 30 years since the death in the Perm-36 labour camp of Vasyl Stus, the Ukrainian poet and human rights defender, who is once again arousing antagonism in modern Russia and among Kremlin-backed militants in Donbas for Ukrainian nationalism and anti-state activities Stus was 47, with a wife and teenage son, and was serving a second term of imprisonment for what the regime called “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.

The circumstances of his death remain unclear but it seems likely that Stus died of heart failure while on hunger strike.  The conditions that the political prisoners were held in at Perm-36 were extremely harsh.  Then on Aug 27, Stus was placed in the punishment cell for a fabricated infringement of regulations. He is reported by Vasyl Ovsiyenko, a fellow political prisoner, to have told one of the guards that he was going on hunger strike “to the end”...

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