Confrontation. Opposition movement in Ukraine

National Television Company of Ukraine, 1997. The program "Confrontation. Opposition Movement in Ukraine" covers the memories of former political prisoners, public and political figures, and artists about the resistance movement in the Ukrainian SSR from the 1960s, their stay in prison, the measures used by the KGB to destroy the resistance, and the creation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

The following participated in the program (in person or via attached video recordings): Yevhen Sverstyuk, PhD, editor of the newspaper "Nasha Vira", former political prisoner, author of the books "The Cathedral in Scaffolding", "Prodigal Sons of Ukraine", "Shevchenko and Time"; Mykhailo Horyn, labor psychologist, politician, member of the Republican Christian Party's Leadership, former political prisoner; Ivan Drach, poet, film playwright, public figure, author of 20 poetry collections; Vyacheslav Chornovil, journalist, politician, former political prisoner, author of the books "Relapse-Terror", "Woe from Wit"; cultural scientist, author of introductory articles and editor of books about Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Valeriy Shevchuk, Pavlo Tychyna, the Sixties and prisoners of conscience, author of the films "Anatol Petrytskyi", "Hryhoriy Havrylenko", "And the Truth Will Make You Free", "Ukrainians. Love" Roman Korogodsky; People's Deputy of Ukraine, First Deputy Chairman of the Republican Christian Party, former political prisoner Mykola Horbal; monumental artist, ceramist, painter, graphic artist Halyna Sevruk; Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Head of the Department of the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, former political prisoner Vasyl Lisovyi; writer, human rights activist, author of many collections of poetry and prose works, former political prisoner Mykola Rudenko;

On the video: books by Ivan Drach, Vasyl Symonenko; Ivan Drach reads his own poem "Where Are We Going"; the book "Good-Eyed. Memories of Ivan Svitlychny" (compiled by Leonid and Nadiya Svitlychny); a signpost with the inscription "Kuchino" and footage from the camp for political prisoners "Perm-36"; books by Mykola Rudenko; a certificate about human rights activist, co-founder of the Ukrainian Public Group for Assistance in the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords, prisoner of Stalin's and Brezhnev's gulags Oksana Meshko; one of the documents of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union "Not long ago in prisons... Here is a list of victims of that Ukrainian St. Bartholomew's Night on January 12, 1972 in Kyiv compiled from memory";

photographs: Ivan Dziuba, Ivan Svitlychny; Mykola Rudenko, Raisa Rudenko, Zinaida Hryhorenko, Petro Hryhorenko; Vasyl Stus, Oleksa Tykhy; Yuriy Lytvyn;

paintings: Veniamin Kushnir "Trembits are sad", "Horses", "Cossack Mamai", "Horse",
Alla Gorskaya: fragment of the panel "Banner of Victory", "Portrait of a Collective Farmer", "Pripyat. Ferry"
Victor Zaretsky: "Roosters", "Tree. Origins of Art".

The poem "We are men" by Ivan Svitlychny is read by actor Volodymyr Shevchenko.

The program was made by Nataliia Ilchenko, Oleksandr Riabokrys, Vadym Krainyk, Valerii Hrusytskyi, Viktor Soboliev, Oleksandr Postoiuk, Nataliia Hermashevska, Nataliia Parynova, Serafyma Panchenko, Viacheslav Surovtsev, Oleksii Fisiun, Serhii Sakovych, Bohdan Kamburov.