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Alla Horska ( uk, Алла Горська; 18 September 1929,
In 1967 Horska attended
A Soviet Ukrainian Alla Horska , Beyond East and West
Alla Horska on WikiArt
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Yalta
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— 17 November 1970, Vasylkiv
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) was a Ukrainian artist of the 1960s, monumentalist painter, one of the first representatives of the underground art movement, dissident, and human rights activist of the Sixtiers
The Sixtiers (Russian: Шестидесятники, romanized: ''Shestidesyatniki'', Ukrainian: Шістдесятники, romanized: ''Shistdesiatnyky''; "people of the 60s") were representatives of а new generation of the Soviet Intelligen ...
movement in Ukraine
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.
Biography
In 1962 Alla Horska became one of the founders and active members of the Club of Creative Youth. In 1962 Alla Horska,Vasyl Symonenko
Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko ( uk, Василь Андрійович Симоненко; 8 January 1935 – 13 December 1963) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in ...
and Les Tanyuk revealed the unmarked mass grave sites of those " enemies of the Soviet state" disposed by NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
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in Bykivnia
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, Lukyanivsky and Vasylkivsky cemeteries. The activists declared it to the Kyiv City Council
Kyiv City Council ( uk, Київська міська рада, translit=Kyivska miska rada), also known as Kyivrada ( uk, Київрада), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The me ...
("Memorandum II").
In 1965–1968 she took part in protests against the repressions of Ukrainian human rights activists: Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn
Mykhailo Mykolayovych Horyn ( uk, Михайло Миколайович Горинь; 17 June 1930 – 13 January 2013) was a Ukrainian human rights activist, Soviet dissident, and politician. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the first c ...
, Opanas Zalyvakha, Sviatoslav Karavansky, Valentyn Moroz, Vyacheslav Chornovil, and others. Because of this, she was persecuted by the Soviet security services. However, a kind of protection for her was that she, together with a group of artists, worked on monumental works of art in Donetsk
Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...
and Krasnodon
Krasnodon (Ukrainian, Russian: Краснодон) is a city in Luhansk Oblast (region) of eastern Ukraine. It is incorporated as a city of oblast significance and serves as the administrative center of Krasnodon Raion (district), though it d ...
(now Sorokyne), which were considered important and had an ideological bias.
In 1967 Horska attended Viacheslav Chornovil
Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil ( uk, В'ячесла́в Макси́мович Чорнові́л; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, ...
’s trial in Lviv
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. There was a group of Kyiv activists who protested against the illegal conduct of court proceedings. The next year she signed ''Protest Letter 139'' addressed to General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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demanding to cease such illegal proceedings. Consequently, the KGB
The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...
began pressuring and threatening the signatories of this letter.
Death
Alla Horska was murdered in 1970 while under surveillance by the KGB. Her funeral was on 7 December 1970. It became a civil resistance campaign in which such well-known dissidents as Yevgen Sverstiuk,Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Semenovych Stus ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active ...
, Ivan Gel
Ivan Gel ( uk, Іван Андрійович Ґель July 17, 1937, Klitsko (today Lviv Raion) – March 16, 2011) was a Ukrainian politician and dissident. He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Par ...
, and Oles Serhienko made their speeches.
Art
She created dozens of works: mosaics, murals, stained glass, etc.Honoring the memory
Films
A Soviet Ukrainian Alla Horska , Beyond East and West
See also
*Soviet dissidents
Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. The term ''dissident'' was used in the Soviet Union in the period from the mid-1960s until t ...
References
External links
Alla Horska on WikiArt
{{DEFAULTSORT:Horska, Alla Ukrainian dissidents 20th-century Ukrainian painters 1929 births 1970 deaths National Academy of Arts of Ukraine National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture alumni Shevchenko State Art School alumni People killed in KGB operations Ukrainian resistance movement