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The author of the book served 10 years of imprisonment in a concentration camp and exile during the Brezhnev era for his participation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG). This was the first legal, not underground, group of the Resistance Movement, which, operating for a long time, opened up the human rights situation in post-Soviet Ukraine to the world.

Born in Galicia after the Second World War and brought up in a Soviet school, the author shows in his memoirs the role of a Galician family in shaping the position of resistance to the totalitarian regime. In a lively, interesting, and frank manner, he tells about life in post-Soviet Kyiv during the Helsinki Movement, the activities of the UGG and its members, and about unjust arrests and Soviet misconduct. He describes in detail the life of political prisoners in a concentration camp. Describes the circumstances of his exile in Kazakhstan. He pays great attention to the spiritual growth of a person. He shares his thoughts on dissent and the nature of totalitarianism. And finally, he passes judgement on the communist system.

Edition 3, revised and expanded.