Dissidents: Levko Lukyanenko. Following the Conscience

Overview

He spent 27 years of his life in prisons and camps, 450 days in solitary confinement and punishment cells. He endured 23,000 kilometers of transportation and 45 hunger strikes. He was tortured with cold and hunger, provocations and mockery. Three times they tried to physically destroy him. But he survived. And he became one of the co-authors of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, which was symbolically adopted on his birthday.