15:28, October 27, 2012
We have an Armenian poet who was anxious about the fate of Armenia, who was ready to sacrifice his life to Armenia, who used to say about those always awake the following "Offspring sleeping in coats". Exactly like this was Vasyli Stus for his Ukraine.
My friendship with Stus has a history of 35 years.
I had friends, who sacrificed their lives in the battlefield for the sake of immortality of their country. Up to now I love them and keenly appreciate their deeds. But what Stus did for his country was much more than just to sacrifice his life. Stus was not simply a soldier. He was a whole ideology, type of prototype. I also had friends, who used to be my ideological comrades-in-arms-wise and reasonable, self-sacrificing and self-denying friends. But Stus is quite another world for me. He is beyond comparison, beyond all criteria; my dear, incomparable, perfect Vasyli Stus.
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