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parents were under a lot of pressure. So the KDB intimidated her parents, threatening to arrest Olha and imprison her for ten years, deprive her parents of party membership and pensions, and expel her younger sister from school. Olha recalls: ‘My mother supported me in everything. She's such a 'golden mother' that when she was summoned by the KGB for questioning, and they said... And she, she had a corresponding biography, she worked in the
Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine, was the Deputy Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR, and the chief editor of the magazine. And they thought they could influence me through her. They summoned her to the KGB, started threatening... And they said to her: 'Denounce, disown your daughter.' They listed everything to her, including 'you will be expelled from the party.' She took out her party card, put it down, and said 'please.' They didn't summon my mother again after that.’
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Marynovych recalls: ‘Olia embraced our group wholeheartedly and began to help us fearlessly. Somehow, she managed to rent typewriters, and she would clack away, typing up the Ukrainian Helsinki Group materials. Eventually, after our arrest, I found out that Olia had officially joined the group, and this confirmed how courageous and fearless our devoted friend had been at that time.’ In May 1977, Olha Heiko Matusevych fully joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group: ‘When Mykola and Myroslav were arrested, I went to Levko Lukyanenko, asked him for permission to join the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. I was granted permission, although Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska strongly advised against it, saying, 'Olya, you're not signing up for membership, you're signing up for arrest.' But I couldn't do it any other way... We positioned ourselves not as an underground, but as an open group that would defend people's rights.’
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was detained by the police. She was told that if they saw her near the consulate, she would be arrested on charges of theft or prostitution. ‘I was summoned to the State
Migration Service, threatened that I wouldn't be allowed to leave anywhere. And finally, when all my options failed, I even went to Moscow about this. They politely said to me, 'Get out of here! Don't waste our time with your nonsense. Nobody will let Ukrainians go anywhere. We don't even let Jews out much, and you want to open Ukrainian emigration.’ - says Olha.
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that her husband would give permission for emigration. However, they refused to accept her emigration documents until she divorced her husband. Therefore, Olha Heiko
Matusievych sent all the necessary documents for leaving the USSR to Leonid Brezhnev along with a statement that if she were not allowed to emigrate, she would renounce her Soviet citizenship and seek political asylum from the US government.
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asked how she intended to defend her homeland without a military card, she replied that she had no obligations to the so-called motherland (USSR), which violated the rights of its citizens. Furthermore, she stated that she considered the war in
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forbid someone else from having their beliefs. I believe that such a position must be taken. Otherwise, you become a communist. Regardless of whether you call yourself a 'freedom fighter' or something else, if you forbid others from having their point of view and defending it. However, the methods by which your opponent defends their views are another matter.’
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position. It was Hanna Sushan, the mother of one of our new friends, Olia Heiko, who got me this job through her connections. She was well known in elite Kyiv circles because
Volodymyr Semychasny, who had been KGB chief of the USSR from 1961–1967, was one of her friends. So, her recommendation was sufficient to get me the job.’
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Olha continued to be persecuted, and in November 1979, after being beaten on the street, she and the artist Vasyl Kulya were taken to the police station, where they were told that they were responsible for the brawl and would be taken to court. This did not deter Olha, and on December 10 of the same
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and Myroslav Marynovych in April 1977. Mykola Matusevych was charged with ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” under Article 62 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR and with “hooliganism” under Article 206. He was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor in a harsh regime labor camp and 5 years of
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recalls: ‘Nevertheless, Mykola and I had an unfailing ability to find something amusing even in the most tragic events. My attempts to find a job can serve as an example. My first job in Kyiv was as technical editor of the journal Pochatkova Shkola (Elementary school), a maternity leave replacement
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The life and struggle of Olha Heiko Matusevych serve as a case of dedication to one's beliefs and courage to defend them, to fight for freedom: ‘We climbed to our freedom up the stairs. The higher we were, the freer we felt. You have your beliefs - keep them and defend them. You have no right to
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In 1986, Olha Heiko Matusevych returned to Kyiv, where she continued to face problems. She was denied registration near her seriously ill mother for a whole year. However, Olha also continued her public activities. In 1988, she was among the initiators of the Ukrainian Cultural Studies Club (The
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In 1976, Olha graduated from Kyiv State University, majoring in Slavic philology. However, she could not fully realize her professional profile due to the Committee for State Securityʼs - KDB's/KGB's - interference in this process. Therefore, Olha Heiko Matusevych worked as a proofreader at the
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Olha recalls: ‘And when I got to university, I saw that life wasn't so rosy. And I already felt the desire to leave the Komsomol, but somehow I stayed. We didn't make decisions ourselves. Decisions came from above, from the party organization, and my spirit of freedom couldn't bear it. I was
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Olha is the elder sister of the graphic artist Mariia Heiko and the wife of the dissident and human rights activist Mykola Matusevych, with whom she fought against the Soviet regime. Olha recalls: ‘Nobody raised me as a dissident, but I was raised to be honest and decent.’
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Ukrainsky kulturolohychny klub), which discussed history and held events. One such event was a demonstration in Kyiv on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. At that time, while on maternity leave, Olha was beaten in the stomach by the police.
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