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The publication is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Vasyl Ovsiienko, a public figure, publicist, historian of the dissident movement, prisoner of conscience who spent thirteen and a half years in captivity for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation and was recognised as a particularly dangerous recidivist.

The book includes the story of the hero of the day about his family, childhood, his own formation and life's "universities". The author, who is merciless to himself, perceives the trials that fell to his lot as atonement for the "sins" he committed during his first arrest."

In addition, the publication contains articles and reviews of Ovsiyenko by his camp brothers, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. All of them testify to Mr Ovsiienko as a multifaceted and active personality: a modest ascetic in the national field, a tireless collector of materials on the history of Ukrainian dissidence, an objective researcher, editor and compiler of many socially important publications, and the author of memoirs about fellow prisoners.

The book is intended for anyone interested in the history of Ukraine in the XX-XXI centuries.