Volodymyr Mikolayovich Sosiura ( uk , Володимир Сосюра; January 6, 1898, in

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(today Donetsk Oblast) of the

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– January 8, 1965, in

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Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

of the

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) was a Ukrainian

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, writer, veteran of the

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(1918–1920).

Brief biography

Volodymyr Sosiura was born in a settlement of Debaltseve train station (today city of

).Halchenko, Serhiy Anastasiyovych.
(СОСЮРА ВОЛОДИМИР МИКОЛАЙОВИЧ)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. He started to work in 1909 at the Donets Soda Factory in a settlement Verkhnee (today part of

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) where he worked for couple of years. In 1914–1918 he studied in an agricultural school (uchilische) in a settlement of Yama train station (today

Siversk Siversk ( uk, Сі́верськ, ; rus, Се́верск, r=Seversk; until 1973: Yama �́ма; Я́ма is a city in Bakhmut Raion of Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine situated 99 km north of Donetsk. Population: ; 12,608 (2010). ...

). In 1918 Sosiura was a member of the Donets Soda Factory insurgent workers group. Sosiura fought in Petliura's

Ukrainian People's Army The Ukrainian People's Army ( uk, Армія Української Народної Республіки), also known as the Ukrainian National Army (UNA) or as a derogatory term of Russian and Soviet historiography Petliurovtsy ( uk, Пет� ...

(the 3rd Haidamaka Regiment that was quartered in Bakhmut)Tynchenko, Ya.
Bakhmut Cossacks. Who are they? (Бахмутські козаки. Хто вони?)
'.

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. 14 May 2016 during the winter of 1918 to the autumn of 1919, before being taken prisoner by Denikin's

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. He was sentenced to death, but managed to escape. Later, after the UPR was overrun, he joined the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

. After the

in Ukraine ended (see

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), he studied at the Artem Communist University in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Public Education Institute (

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, VAPLITE, and the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers. In the 1920s-30s Sosiura became very popular, but his ideological loyalties were torn between patriotic feelings for

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and those for the

and its often-changing ideologies. Even though he had long been a member of the CPU(b), he was frequently in conflict with it, and was twice expelled for "nationalistic undertones," he was even forced to undergo a "reeducation" at a factory in 1930-1931. Many of Sosiura's poems were not published. In 1948 he was awarded the highest honors of the

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, but then he came under harsh criticism for his poem entitled ''Love Ukraine'' (''Любіть Україну''), which was deemed too nationalistic in its tone by several

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news-media including

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. Afterwards his wife was arrested and spent six years in

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. ...

prisons. In 1963, he won the Shevchenko Prize for ''Swallows on the sun'' and ''Happiness of a working family''. Sosiura died in Kyiv at the age of 67.

Works

His works include numerous poems that vary from the patriotic genre to love poems such as ''Love Ukraine'', ''The Late Summer'' (Babyne Lito), ''To Maria'', ''Stalin'', and many others.
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Legacy

His portrait and title of his poem, ''Love Ukraine'', are featured on a two

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collectible coin. Sosyura coins

References

External links

Poetry of Volodymyr Sosiura
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''Encyclopedia of Ukraine''

''Volodymyr Sosiura and the Oppressors of National Spirit'' By Ihor Siundiukov, ''The Day''
* * . Read by Basil Bucolic (YouTube)
Poetry of Volodymyr Sosiura
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