Word: danylo
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...January, the Chronicle reported the trial of eleven members of the Movement for Ukrainian National Rights, a moderate group devoted to Ukrainian civil rights. Charged with disseminating "anti-Soviet" propaganda, the defendants were sentenced to an average of ten years' hard labor and exile. Among those convicted was Danylo Shumuk, 58, who had previously spent 28 years in prisons and camps-in prewar Poland for being a Communist, under Nazi occupation for the same reason, and under the Soviet government for "Ukrainian nationalism." After his release in 1967, Shumuk wrote his memoirs of prison life and apparently circulated...