Soviet repressions "They paid for independence with their lives"

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2006.

Documentary film "They paid for independence with their lives" with interviews with former political prisoners, repressed people, fighters for the independence of Ukraine. They talk about the years of struggle on the way to an independent Ukrainian state: about the actions of the Soviet government against Ukrainians, the deportation of the Ukrainian people to Siberia, the cruel torture of the repressed in Stalin's camps and about the methods of struggle.

Contains fragments of documentary black-and-white newsreels.

Comments: public figure, dissident Viktor Kuksa; member of the OUNR and UPA Mykhailo Bun; researcher, poet, member of the All-Ukrainian Brotherhood of the OUN-UPA named after Roman Shukhevych Mykola Barbon; Ukrainian writer, linguist Oleksa Riznyk.