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Vasyl Stus Iryna Shutka writes: This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Vasyl Stus, a brilliant Ukrainian poet and an extraordinary personality, whom Ivan Dziuba described as a “morally crystal-clear man.” He died on the night of September 4, 1985, in a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners in the village of Kuchino, Perm oblast (Russia). Iryna Kalynets, a Lviv-based writer, literary critic, prisoner of conscience under the Soviets, shares her memories about Stus, his life, death (and immortality), return to Ukraine, and the understanding (incomprehension) of his human and creative essence by the nation. Stus wrote, “…put your ear to the seashell of memories and listen…” Read the story here.