#executed renaissance

Sooo... Are we just gonna gloss over the Famine in Ukraine during 1921-1923, 1932-1933, and 1946-1947? Like it wasn't a man-made one and the grain wasn't taken from people with no regard for their well-being, with the purpose of extermination?

Are we going to ignore the Red Terror? When communists killed everyone who didn't agree with their ideology? Mind you, these were not only the rich.

Are we going to ignore the Executed Renaissance? When communists killed all the writers, poets and artists for their "anti-communist" and "counter-revolutionary" activity? Even though they themselves (communists) have previously allowed it? Matter of fact, they encouraged it.

Щасливого 139-го дня народження, пане Курбас. Думаю, ви б пишались нашим театром сьогодні.

On the birthday of Mykola Khvylovy, one of the most influential members of ukrainian "Executed renaissance", author of "My self (romantica)", avid communist to the last moments of his life, who poured his blood and sweat into creating a "worker paradise" just to see the monster he created destroy everything he loved, the man who gives the words "problematic fave" it's meaning; the man who killed himself during the peak of Holodomor in 1933 - man-made Soviet-russian famine - and public hunt after ukrainian intellectual elite; the man who killed himself rather than give the regime the satisfaction of getting to him; on this day I want to bring attention to the fact that no matter how much modern tankies pretend to be the last bastion against nazism, the only people they historically manage to successfully exterminate are other communists. Kvylovy was a communist, but he was a ukrainian communist, and the formed has outweighted the latter.

You can acquaint yourself with his works in english translation here. The collection consists of six short stories: "Puss in boots", "My self (romantica)", "A sentimental tale", "The inspector-general", "Ivan Ivanovich" and "His secret".

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russia continues attempting to destroy Ukraine and ukrainian culture today, just like they did almost a century ago. We loose our brightest every day. You can help us by throwing a dollar to ukrainian "Hospitaliers" paramedic batallion, that is saving lives every day on the hottest spots of the frontier.

доки духи й померлі приходять до нас сюди

нас не стримає жоден Спаситель і жоден Аллах.

все минуще, сестро, вічні лише сліди

I think about all the resources that are accesable to me now. I think about all my relatives carrying my culture. I think about all the ways I am allowed to create, to write, to speak. And then I think back to the Executed Renaisaance, to Bykivnia and Solovki, to Slovo building, to Soviet crimes in general, and I realize that it could've been me. I could have been imprisoned for interest in my history, I could have been shot for loving my country, I could have been killed for carrying my culture. Hell, it's happening again, writers and artists and scientists being murdered, all for loving Ukraine.

The Executed Renaissance: A Cultural Reclamation in Ukraine In the annals of Ukrainian history, a group of extraordinary literary artists are remembered as the “Executed Renaissance.” These pioneering writers, poets, and directors experienced a brief yet vibrant period of creativity in the early 20th century, only to have their lives tragically cut short by Stalin’s ruthless purges in the 1930s.…