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The tragic and happy fate of the intelligentsia... To be highly valued by society de jure and at the same time to be humiliated and persecuted de facto, not rising above the definition of "stratum". To be tempted by bribery: sometimes successfully, sometimes not... But also to be unbreakable at all times, pulling oneself and one's people out of the stinking swamp of spirituality and degradation, like Baron Munchausen by the scruff of the neck. According to Malaniuk, "self-sufficient children" are truly gifted by Heaven. The novel At the Distance of Fate is about the amazing and diverse fates of the intelligentsia in the middle of the hellish twentieth century, including the founder of the UPA Taras Bulba-Borovets and the commander of the UNA Pavlo Shandruk.

The Vietnam War (1959-1975) began painfully familiar to modern Ukrainians. Undeclared terrorist actions by sabotage units of communist North Vietnam against the democratic South. The Russian trace and the Russian style of the hybrid war of aggression, which was aimed at spreading communism and eliminating the democratic system. Soviet agents of influence in the anti-war hippie campaign in America. Bribery by the Soviets of key figures and FBI informants. The "Ukrainian trace" in this war was also traditional. Of course, on the side of the democratic camp. And, of course, heroic. The children of yesterday's combatants seemed to have continued the work of their parents, fighting the "red plague" again. The same enemy. The same victory. No wonder one of the pilots, US Army Major Myron Diduryk from Ternopil, was nicknamed "the mad Cossack" by the Americans... He was killed by a bullet as soon as his helicopter touched down. Without betraying Cossack honour and the ideals of freedom. Realising that heroes do not die... These events are described in the novel Behind the Haze, the Mysterious Haze.