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This book is not just a chronicle of the author's life. Written by a philosopher, a sixties activist, a dissident and a political prisoner of Soviet concentration camps, it is the result of his special approach to the memory of past events as an important source of future comprehension, a core on which our existence is strung, because self-realisation of the individual is impossible without this bridge between the past and the future - an indispensable condition for knowledge and thinking. The even, restrained tones of the narrative will not prevent the reader from feeling the emotional and poetic tension of perception of events, which the author combines with a strictly rationalistic assessment of them and purely scientific exactingness. It was this uncompromising exactingness that made him follow the path of unity of thought and deed, which, in the realities of the time, quite logically led him to conflict with the authorities. The thoughts of Vasyl Lisovyi (1937-2012) on many aspects of politics, culture, philosophy, religion, mass mentality, etc. are valuable for the modern reader. The author's poetry is the sharpest manifestation of the spirit of freedom in the conditions of the pernicious suffocation of Soviet reality.