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Mykhailo Mykhailovych Soroka — український громадський та військовий діяч, провідник Крайової екзекутиви ОУН (1934—1936), член Крайового Проводу ОУН, багаторічний політв'язень радянських концтаборів.

Quotes by Mykhailo Soroka

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 Our 'guilt' consists only in the fact that we decided to die standing and not lying down, because we consider it unworthy to give one's life to hungmen without protest. Despite the fact that our freedom was taken away, we kept our dignity.[1]
  — from a speech at the last trial

About him

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 During the five years of my imprisonment in Omsk or Karaganda, Kanchetav [2], I bravely walked towards the unknown, keeping the teacher's holy name in my heart. I saw his eyes, his smile. The mention of him lifted my spirits in a moment of exhaustion.[3]
 

  — Vasyl Zayets, former political prisoner
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 Mykhailo Soroka was one of the organizers of the uprising of political prisoners in the camps of the North (Kengir, 1954). A legendary person, the greatest authority among Ukrainian prisoners for a quarter of a century. Memoirs were written about him abroad, even in Japan (because who did not sit in Soviet concentration camps!)...[4]
  

  Vasyl Ovsiyenko
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  1. Мороз Валентин. Тверкі мелокії. Пам’яті Михайла Сороки// Поступ. - Львів. - 2000. - № 103 (547).
  2. (now Kokshetau, Kazakhstan)
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  4. Світло людей, 2018.