10,354 views
Ivan Oleksiyovych Svitlychny — Ukrainian literary scholar, linguist, literary critic, poet, translator, activist of the Ukrainian resistance movement of the 1960s—1970s, repressed. Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko. Brother of Svitlychna Nadiya Oleksiyevna. On September 20, 1929, a brilliant man was born in Luhansk Oblast - Ivan Svitlychny. A study about his FATE. And another poem that stuck in my heart. My freedom Freedom not to run away from battle, Freedom of honesty in battle, To love what I love myself, And not what you tell me, Freedom for my love Even if I lay my head on it, And still be myself, - I will not exchange it for yours, Livery, beggarly, lazy, Spinning, smeared, like change, Freedom of a rascal and a scoundrel. I carry freedom to court, to prison, They will not take mine from me - And I will die, and it is mine.