Today I’d like to share this bit about my great-grand father Bagriy Ivan:
The last bunker in our region was destroyed by the NKVD in 1952 in the Lubianets forest. Four shylyans were killed then:
- Antoniuk Volodymyr - born in 1923.
- Bagriy Ivan - born in 1911.
- Voznyi Ivan - born in 1905.
- Hulovskyi Vasyl - born in 1918.
Nineteen fifty-two. By that time, Ivan’s wife and son (my grandfather) had already been exiled to Kazakhstan.
One can write a lengthy eloquent essay about never surrendering, believing in independence, and so on. I won’t.
Слава Україні. Героям слава.