Taras Shevchenko: The slave who became a symbol of Ukrainian independence
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Shechenko - Is He a Poet?
After the russian tsarist empire ended with the bolshevik revolution in 19 17, yukraine found itself under soviet rule. Olha: The fact that gives e sense of enko's fame is that his portraits were in many houses in ukraine and he was quite a celebrity. So as the sovits could not ignore him, they censored sachenko's works. And it was completely in an agreement with the general soviet line to present ukranian literature as something not serious,. Shechenko perfectly fitted into this scheme. But for many ukranians, he's not just some old poet from the past. His works seem alive to the
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