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| | "I have no fear of dying" - the late Vasyl Stus (11/09/86) |
 | | Charged again with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda," Stus were sentenced in 1980 to 10 years' imprisonment and five years' exile. |
 | | He was then serving the fifth year of a 10-year sentence in a labor-camp, which was to be followed by five years' internal exile, on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." He died on September 4, 1985, at the age of 47. |
 | | Put simply, it is that the Soviet Union is enjoying admirable success in destroying its most powerful critics, especially Ukrainians, who, though they constitute 20 percent of the Soviet population, account for 40 percent of all political prisoners. |
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