Ivan Fotijewitsch Stadnyuk
Ivan Fotijewitsch Stadnjuk ( Russian Ива́н Фо́тиевич Стадню́к , born 1920 in Kordyschiwka , Ukraine ; died 1994 ) was a Soviet - Russian writer and journalist of Ukrainian descent. Stadnyuk is known for works that mostly deal with Ukrainian village life before and during the Second World War , known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War .
Career
Stadnyuk was born in the village of Kordyshivka (Ukrainian: Кордишівка) in the Vinnytsia district. In 1932, during the great famine in Ukraine , he fled to his brother, who lived in Chernihiv Oblast and was a party official. Ivan Stadnjuk attended school and began to publish in the newspaper Stalinsky schljach (Сталинский шлях - German about "Stalinscher Weg"). From 1940 he was a member of the CPSU . He took part in the war from June 22, 1941. After the war, he graduated from the editorial work faculty of the Typography Institute at Moscow University in 1957 .
Ivan Stadnyuk served from 1965 to 1972 as deputy editor of the magazine Ogonyok (Огонёк).
Works
His multi-part series “Krieg” is well known ( published several times in German in the GDR ). He was considered loyal to the regime and advocated Soviet patriotism, yet he also truthfully portrayed the terrible hunger of the early 1930s.
In 1993 Stadnyuk published his memoirs under the title "The Confession of a Stalinist" (Исповедь сталиниста).
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| SURNAME | Stadnyuk, Ivan Fotievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Стадню́к, Ива́н Фо́тиевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Russian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kordyshivka, Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |