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Courage, Art & Ukrainian cultural expression in the age of Soviet censorship & oppression
Not born into #UkrainianCulture, #AllaHorska chose it. Daughter of the #SovietElite, she was an #Artist & #SovietDissident associated with the 1960s #UkrainianUnderground & #Sixtier movements, a generation who reawakened Ukrainian nationalism within the #SovietIntelligentsia. For this she was killed, aged 41. Her life: resistance in colour. Her death: #PoliticalAssassination
In Source: Alla Horska’s Home
#AllaHorska’s #Mosaics have been systematically targeted & destroyed by Soviet authorities as an act of #CulturalErasure since her murder in 1970. Marked a ‘Ukrainian Bourgeois Nationalist’ most of her #Kyiv work is gone. In #Mariupol, leaders hid mosaics #LifeTree & #Kestrel to save them, but the fate of #BannerOfVictory in the East is uncertain #AllaHorskaMosaic #UkrainianArt
In Source: Alla Horska’s Home
#AllaHorska’s Mosaics #LifeTree & #Kestrel in #Mariupol were destroyed in 2022 by a #RussianMilitaryStrike. For 30+ yrs they were secretly hidden behind false walls, by city architect #VasylBocharov & artist #ValentynKostiantynov, to save them from Soviet authority demolition. Rediscovered in 2008, these 1960s monumental mosaics exist in memory only #AllaHorskaMosaic
In Source: Life Tree & Kestrel
Artists #AllaHorska & #ViktorZaretskyi #Mosaic “Bird” on the “Supiy” canteen in #Helmiaziv, was Horska’s last work before her murder. A form of #CulturalExpression Mosaics add to Ukraine’s complex #ArtHistory - under #SovietRepression it signals resistance. This unique monument needs urgent restoration to preserve its legacy & voice of an artist - silenced #AllaHorskaMosaic
In Source: Supiy Canteen
#Kharkiv’s S-shaped #SlovoHouse carries deep social & cultural scars. “Slovo” means word & the Architect #MykhailoDashkevych envisaged a #CulturalHub in the shape of the letter C, or S in Ukrainian, to house prominent Ukrainian writers. Built in the late 1920s when #Kharkhiv was a booming capital city, #SlovoHouse was meant to help intellectuals afford the high cost of living.
In Source: “Slovo” House
Plans to build #SlovoHouse were quickly approved by Soviet authorities who used #SocialHousing to put Ukrainian intellectuals in one house & monitor them. Residents faced #PoliticalRepression & most were shot in the 1930s #StalinistTerror; 11 at #Sandarmokh. Registered an #ImmovableMonumentofUkraine in 2019, this symbol of resilience was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in 2023.
In Source: “Slovo” House
Famed #UkrainianPoet #MykolaZerov was a gifted #LiteraryScholar #Critic #Translator & #Neoclassicist who defied #SovietRepression of #UkrainianCulture. Unjustly condemned in 1935 to serve 10 yrs at the #SolovkiPrisonCamp, he continued to write politics into his poetry & was executed in 1937. His legacy of scholarly work endures, & led to his #PosthumousRehabilitation in 1958.
In Source: Nat’l. Drahomanov Univ
In 2001, #UPA veterans established a memorial to #RomanShukhevych a Ukrainian #MilitaryLeader whose fight for independence ended in 1950, when his house was surrounded by Soviet Forces & he was killed in a firefight. To honor his heroic last stand & Ukraine’s fight for #Freedom, the #LvivHistoricalMuseum turned the house into a #Museum - hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in 2024
In Source: Roman Shukhevych Mus.
Pianist & civil engineering graduate from Lviv, General #RomanShukhevych was a #UkrainianNationalist who led #UkrainianInsurgentArmy partisan troops, Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya #UPA, in a guerrilla war against #Wehrmacht & resist #SovietUnion forces during & after #WW2. Events leading up to his dramatic assassination are told in the Ukrainian film Neskorenyi #TheUndefeated
In Source: Roman Shukhevych Mus.
#Kharkiv’s heart is a vast 12-hectare sq, renamed #FreedomSquare in 1991 when Ukraine gained Independence. Built in 1919 for a #NewPoliticalEra it symbolises Ukrainian national identity & resistance to soviet ideology - protests for sovereignty rallied here. Targeted during the 1st days of the war, its destruction by #RussianMilitaryStrike is symbolic - to shatter its spirit.
In Source: Freedom Square
Ukraine’s beloved #FreedomSquare is the nation’s largest public space & 6th largest in Europe 960×125m. A cultural centre, stage & important #CivicHub, hosting major events, it is home to the #VNKarazinNationalUniversity, #PalaceOfChildrenAndYouthCreativity #BritishCouncil & more. Its targeted destruction aims to cripple vital national, civic & public infrastructure.
In Source: Freedom Square
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