Yevhen Pronjuk
Yevhen Wassylowytsch Pronjuk ( Ukrainian Євген Васильович Пронюк ; born September 26, 1936 in Chomiakówka , Stanislav Voivodeship , Poland ) is a Soviet dissident , Ukrainian author and politician and honorary chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association for Political Prisoners and Victims of Repression .
Life
Yevhen Pronjuk was born in what is now the Ukrainian district of Tysmenyzja ( Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ), the village of Khomyakivka, the son of a blacksmith. In 1945 the NKVD arrested his father, who as a member of the underground organization OUN -UVO was sentenced to 15 years of forced labor in the mines of the northern Russian labor camp Vorkuta . In 1947, Yevhen Pronjuk and his family were deported to a special settlement in Karaganda , Kazakhstan . After his mother died of hard work, he and his brother were sent to an orphanage in Saransk and later to Karkaralinsk . In 1952, Jewhen Pronjuk came to Kiev, where he worked as a lathe operator and electric welder, and studied at the same time from 1957 until he left his job in 1960. From 1957 to 1962 he studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Kiev University and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .
He has been a member of the Ukrainian human rights movement since the late 1950s. In 1964 he wrote the samizdat article State and tasks of the Ukrainian liberation movement . Thereafter, Pronyuk was increasingly exposed to reprisals by the KGB and was finally arrested on July 6, 1972, charged with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, among other things, and sentenced in December 1973 to 7 years in a labor camp and 5 years in exile. Until 1984 he was imprisoned in camps 35, 37 and 36 in Perm . In 1994 he was rehabilitated.
In 1988 he was a founding member and board member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU). From 1990 to 1994 Pronjuk was a member of the Kiev City Council and in 1994 he became a member of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament.
Yevhen Pronjuk wrote about eighty scientific works on the history of Ukrainian philosophy and political science and is the author of the book You Can't Pay for Bread With Freedom ( За хліб не платять свободою ) from 2010.
Honors
Yevhen Pronjuk received numerous honors. Including:
- Hero of Ukraine (2006)
- Ukrainian Order of Freedom (2010)
- Ukrainian Order of Merit 1st Class (2005), 2nd Class (2001), 3rd Class (1996)
Web links
- One cannot pay for bread with freedom Article about Yevhen Pronjuk in Ukraine Moloda from September 26, 2006 for the publication of his book (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Biography Jewhen Pronjuk ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on "Ukrainian Heroes"; accessed on August 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Biography of Yevhen Pronjuk on the website of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union; accessed on August 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b biography of Yevhen Pronjuk on the dovidka website; accessed on August 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pronjuk, Jewhen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пронюк, Євген Васильович (Ukrainian); Pronjuk, Yevhen Vasylowytsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian dissident, author and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chomiakówka , Stanislau Voivodeship , Poland |