Ukrainian Helsinki group

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The Ukrainian Helsinki Group ( Ukrainian Українська Гельсінська Група , also Ukrainian Helsinki Committee ) was a Ukrainian non-governmental - human rights organization , on 10 November 1976 along the lines of the Moscow Helsinki Group , a group of dissidents and human rights activists to Mykola Rudenko was founded with the aim of observing compliance with the Helsinki Final Act , also signed by the Soviet Union , in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and of objecting to human rights violations .

The group was active until all members were either captive or exiled in 1981. Of the roughly 40 members, 27 were sentenced to penalties by Soviet authorities directly for their membership in the group. They spent a total of about 170 years in prisons, labor camps, psychiatric hospitals and in exile. Numerous members of the group were released during perestroika and organized into the Ukrainian Republican Party in independent Ukraine in 1990 . In April 2004 the group was absorbed into the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Association .

Members

Founding members of the civil rights movement were: Oles Berdnyk ( Олександр Павлович "Олесь" Бердник ), Pyotr Grigorenko , Ivan Kandyba ( Іван Олексійович Кандиба ), Levko Lukyanenko , myroslav marynovych , Mykola Matussewytsch , Oksana Meschko ( Оксана Яківна Мешко ), Mykola Rudenko, Nina Strokata and Oleksij Tychyj ( Олексі́й Іва́нович Ти́хий ).

Other well-known members were: Mykola Horbal , Mykhailo Horyn , Vitaly Kalynytschenko ( Віталій Васильович Калиниченко ), Jaroslaw Lesiw ( Ярослав Васильович Лесів ), Leonid Plyushch , Yuriy Shukhevych , Jossyf SISEL ( Йосиф Самуїлович Зісельс ), Vasyl Stus , Nadiya Switlytschna , Volodymyr Chemerys and Vyacheslav Chornovil .

Historical classification and assessment

In April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament, officially declared the Soviet dissidents of the Helsinki Committee to be independence fighters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mykola Rudenko on olexa.org.ua , accessed March 24, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Association , accessed March 24, 2015
  3. ^ Andreas Kappeler : Brief history of the Ukraine . CH Beck , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67019-0 , p. 244.
  4. ^ Ukrainian Helsinki Group employees , accessed March 24, 2015
  5. ↑ Ukraine bans advertising for communism and national socialism on Deutsche Welle , April 9, 2015, accessed on April 19, 2015