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  • CREATIVITY AND FREE TIME
    Kis, Oksana

    Survival As Victory, 03/2021, Volume: 80
    Book Chapter

    Despite the exhausting work, hunger and cold, diseases and injuries, the abuse of guards and criminal elements, and the inhuman living conditions, the need for beauty not only did not disappear but sometimes even grew stronger among Ukrainian women who were incarcerated as political prisoners. Iaroslava Kryzhanivs´kaHasiuk, who spent time in a camp in Inta, explains: In the harsh north, the spirit of freedom did not die, nor did the desire to create and to live. . . . Thousands of women and girls, the flower of Ukraine, were held there, behind barbed wire, and after a heavy day being