Yaroslav Lesiv
Male, Deceased Person
1945 – 1991
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Who was Yaroslav Lesiv?
Yaroslav Lesiv was a Ukrainian poet, priest, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Yaroslav Lesiv was born in the village of Luzhkiv, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Western Ukraine.
In 1965, he joined the Ukrainian National Front, an underground organization working for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union. On March 29, 1965, his membership in this organization was discovered, and Lesiv was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
He carried out a hunger strike
On October 3, 1977, Lesiv joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
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