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22: Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Human Rights Movement in the 70s, Right?

A film called Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is by a Georgian Armenian, Sergei Parryanov. It's one of the very best Soviet films, if that's even the word. Our Pro-Po of this film, there were protests about the oppression of Ukrainians. One of the people who took part in these protests was a poet called Vasil Stus,. I'm going to read to you one of his poems. To make this point that sometimes culture is just trying to be culture, right?

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