Masters of humor. Ostap Vyshnia

The program “Masters of Humor”. The program is based on the works and diaries of Ostap Vyshnia. The works are performed by: Anatolii Palamarenko, Pavlo Hromovenko, Anatolii Lytvynov, Volodymyr Ivchenko, Yurii Krytenko, Mykhailo Zadniprovskyi, Volodymyr Tkachenko, Yurii Samsonov.

On the video: Sorochynska Fair, the main entrance, folk festivities.

Info: Ostap Vyshnia (Pavlo Hubenko) was born on a farm near the town of Hrun in Poltava region (now Sumy region). He is a Ukrainian writer, novelist, classic of satirical prose of the twentieth century, and the founder of the humorous type of feuilleton, the “smile.”

He was a prisoner of Stalin's concentration camps. In 1934, he was sentenced to 10 years in the camps for a “terrorist plot”. He served his sentence in the Ukhtym-Pechora camp. In 1937, he was supposed to be executed, but the order for Ostap Vyshnia's execution was lost. In 1943, Oleksandr Dovzhenko persuaded the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Mykyta Khrushchev to get Stalin to release Ostap Vyshnia.