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By Barbara Kline
April 27, 2023

Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus in exile in late 1970s in Magadan, Siberia, the most frigid labor camp in Stalinist Gulag system. After dying in prison in 1985, he was brought to Ukraine and reburied four years later. His poetry has gained in popularity since.

Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus in exile in late 1970s in Magadan, Siberia, the most frigid labor camp in Stalinist Gulag system. After dying in prison in 1985, he was brought to Ukraine and reburied four years later. His poetry has gained in popularity since.