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SUMMARY:Last Guided Tour of the Stus Exhibition in Berlin
DESCRIPTION:\nWe warmly invite you to the closing evening of the exhibition
  dedicated to Vasyl Stus — one of Ukraine’s most prominent poets and d
 issident voices. This evening also marks Ukraine’s Independence Day\, ce
 lebrated on 24 August.\n\n\n\nFinissage Program\n\n\n\n 18:45 – Curatori
 al tour in English: a guided journey through the exhibition with insights 
 not only into Stus’s life\, but also into Ukraine\, its history\, and it
 s struggle for independence.\n\n\n Following the tour – Open microphone:
  we invite everyone to read aloud Vasyl Stus’s poems\, in Ukrainian or i
 n translation (German\, Polish\, English).\n\n\nRegistration: https://form
 s.gle/UZByMWKbZUqz6Hg2A\n\n\n\nThis final evening is also dedicated to Ukr
 aine’s Independence Day\, celebrated on 24 August. Today\, Stus is remem
 bered in Ukraine as a human whose words continue to inspire resistance\, d
 ignity\, and freedom.\n\n\n\nJoin us to commemorate Vasyl Stus and to cele
 brate the enduring power of poetry and independence.\nStus might have firs
 t fallen in love with the rhythms and flows of the Ukrainian language when
  his mother sang him Ukrainian folk songs. In conjunction with his disside
 nt freedom-loving instinct\, this love would define his life. Already in t
 he 1960s\, he decided to teach the Ukrainian language\, defying widespread
  Soviet top-down russification policies. No wonder then that this love als
 o had him pay a huge price: throughout the history of the USSR\, he was re
 peatedly arrested\, his works and Ukrainian translations of German poetry 
 forbidden\, his activism in defense of the Ukrainian intelligentsia suppre
 ssed.\n\n\n\nBorn amidst the horrors of World War II\, Stus survived the N
 azi occupation and the hunger of the postwar years\, yet hunger would haun
 t him until his very last day: he died during a dry hunger strike. His sto
 ry is that of an undeservedly unknown European freedom fighter and of a na
 tion struggling for its right to breathe and exist.\n\n\nIndeed\, Stus’s
  struggle was a reaction to the centuries-long Russian insistence that Ukr
 ainianness was not to be accepted as an independent identity. The exhibiti
 on therefore tells not only Stus’s story\, but also that of the underapp
 reciated Ukrainian anti-Soviet dissident movement\, which still remains on
  the peripheries of Europe’s collective memory.\n\n\n\nThese days\, Ukra
 inian poets once again have to fight for their nation’s survival—altho
 ugh this time\, they dropped their pens\, picked up weapons\, and joined t
 he Ukrainian army. Some of them are shown in the exhibition\, reading Stus
 ’s poetry.\n\n\nThe exhibition also reflects on the philosophical nature
  of Stus’s activism: Was he a fairytale-like hero\, or a real human bein
 g with a moral compass strong enough to defend freedom in the face of evil
 ?\n\n\nIn his afterlife\, Stus’s admiration for German and Polish cultur
 e\, writers\, and anticommunist resistance movements has inspired new coop
 eration between Polish\, German\, and Ukrainian organizations—an allianc
 e so urgently needed in today’s Europe.\n
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