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Most of their writings, although addressed and submitted to the appropriate official agencies. Odajnyk said, went unanswered and unpublished. Instead, they circulated in handwritten and typed copies--samizdat--and were eventually reprinted in the Ukrainian Herald, an underground publication...
...lecturers reported that on January 12-13 the KGB, the Soviet security police, arrested nineteen Ukrainian intellectuals in Kiev. Lviv and Ivano-Frankivs'k and conducted searches in many more homes throughout the Ukraine...
...January 1972 arrests were the second wave of arrests to sweep the Ukraine. In 1965, 30 Ukrainian intellectuals were secretly arrested...
...arrests were the result of the subsequent protest movement of individual Ukrainian dissidents. Odajnyk said. "What the 19 individuals were demanding was the internal implementation of the human and civic liberties guaranteed them by the Soviet constitution," Odajnyk said...
...What all these men have in common is an interest in the national equality and preservation of the Ukrainian culture. Their struggle is in terms of human rights, and it is only in terms of human rights that the national question has come to the surface...