Andy Williamson (@andywilliamson.com)

A taste of Ukraine's poetic Renaissance executed by Stalin British translator and poet Stephen Komarnyckyj presents his translations of some of the most striking poems by Ukrainian authors from the creative outburst of the USSR's "Ukrainization" period of the 1920s. Only a dozen years later, most were brutally executed by Stalin. Some have opined that the Communists allowed the brief revival of Ukraine's national culture only to reveal the gifted representatives of its elite, in order to ease the elimination of potential leaders of the republic that could rise up against the forceful incorporation of the Ukrainian republic into the USSR. https://euromaidanpress.com/longreads/executed-renaissance-in-ukraine/