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...Ukrainian language in schools and other forms of cultural autonomy for their 48.5 million countrymen. For this, hundreds of Ukrainians in the past decade have been sentenced to terms of up to 14 years in camps or committed to prison lunatic asylums. Still, the names of Valentyn Moroz, Leonid Plyushch, Ivan Svitlychny, Ihor and Iryna Kalynets and other Ukrainian political prisoners are scarcely known in the West. Elsewhere in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, other obscure and often heroic dissidents have also disappeared with equal finality into what George Orwell called "the memory hole." Only one case...
Harold R. Moroz...
Included in the group of writers invited by the Ukranian Institute is Valentine Moroz. He has been imprisoned for speaking out against the government, and went on a much-publicized hunger strike two years ago to protest his treatment by the government...
...Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian historian and sociologist and one of the invited scholars, has spent all but nine months of the last nine years in prison on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda...
...Moroz is now on a hunger strike to protest the charges, and asserts he has been treated inhumanely by prison authorities...