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public influence against Nina
Antonovna Strokata in order to instill in her a sense of high patriotic duty as a citizen of the USSR." The result of this decision was the persecution of Strokata, condemnation of her behavior in the team and in the administration. Prolonged harassment at work ended with her dismissal in May 1971. As Strokata could not get a job in Odesa, she went to the city of
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298:, and he and Oleksiy Riznikov had distributed it. All three were charged with anti-Soviet agitation, distributing and reading samizdat, and raising funds to help political prisoners. As a result, on 6 December 1971, Strokata was arrested. She was accused of distributing the Ukrainian Herald, samizdat, and writing a letter in defense of
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Article 62 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR to four years in a maximum security camp on charges of "conducting anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." The woman was serving her sentence in the women's department of the ZhKh-385/3 camp,
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and others. It was the first open human rights organization in
Ukraine. But in early 1972, almost all the members of the committee were imprisoned. They managed to publish only two documents - a statement on the establishment of the committee and a bulletin "Who is N.A. Strokata (Karavanska)?" In
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Karavanska spoke, wrote articles, told the Ukrainian diaspora and other Americans the truth about the national liberation movement in Ukraine, organized moral and material support for Soviet prisoners and their families, and conducted public work. There she became a member of the Foreign
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Sviatoslav Karavansky, was Nina allowed a one-day meeting with her husband. After he was released in 1979, the couple tried to get permission to return to Ukraine, but failed. Fearing another imprisonment of Sviatoslav, who had spent 31 years in
339:, Stefania Shabatura, etc. were in the camp with her. Strokata spent the last days of her term in the oncology hospital. At the end of 1975, she was released from a concentration camp with a ban on returning to Ukraine. In response, Strokata renounced Soviet citizenship.
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Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In 1980 she published the book "Ukrainian Women in the Soviet Union: Documented Persecution," and in 1981 - "A Family Torn Apart." On 2 August 1998, Nina Antonivna Karavanska-Strokata died in Denton.
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Sviatoslav for his actions, but the latter remained with him and did not leave her husband. In December 1966, Nina Karavanska appealed to the head of the camp where her husband was staying, as well as to
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