STRUGGLE OF DISSIDENT VALENTYN MOROZ AGAINST THE SOVIET REGIME DURING HIS SECOND IMPRISONMENT (1970–1979)
Journal Title: Науковий і культурно-просвітній краєзнавчий часопис Галичина - Year 2017, Vol 29, Issue
Abstract
Ukrainian historian, native of Volyn Valentyn Moroz from the first half of the 1960’s was an active participant in the Ukrainian dissident movement, a representative of his radical direction. The high intensity of the opposition activity of V. Moroz, his writing of a journalistic essays entitled “Report from the Beria Reserve”, “Moses and Datan”, “Among the Snows”, “Chronicle of Resistance” became the main reasons for his con¬viction in November 1970 by the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Court to 9 years imprisonment and 5 years of exile. The article analyzes the anti-Soviet activity of the dissident Valentyn Moroz during his stay in the Vladimir Prison and the Mordovian labor colonies in 1970–1979. Using the documents of the former KGB archives, the methods of massacre used by the Soviet regime for the purpose of moral and physical destruction of him were investigated. The KGB-inspired conflict in 1976–1979 between the political prisons in the Sosnovka colony with the participation of V. Moroz was highlighted. The author concludes that during the entire period of the second imprisonment of V. Moroz, his intense confrontation with the Soviet totalitarian regime continued. He did not renounce his own views and beliefs, did not make any concessions to the system and in the 1970’s. considered a leader and symbol of the Ukrainian national movement. At the basis of V. Moroz’s opposition to the regime were the following methods: refusal to give testimony against his supporters in the “Block” case, carrying numerous long starvations, writing statements against national discrimination of Ukrainians in the USSR, participation in the movement on the status of political prisoner. The most resonant action of V. Moroz, which attracted the attention of the international community, became his 145-day hunger strike in 1974. A major conflict among political prisoners was provoked in the corrective labour camp in Sosnovka, on the initiative of the KGB to discredit Ukrainian dissidents in general, and V. Moroz, in particular.
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Bohdan PASKA
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