diff --git a/content/articles/2024/2024-02-23-two-ten-years-of-february/index.md b/content/articles/2024/2024-02-23-two-ten-years-of-february/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b86d5e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/articles/2024/2024-02-23-two-ten-years-of-february/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +date: 2024-02-23T22:18:00-05:00 +title: "Two (ten) years of February" +draft: false +see_also: [] +--- + +Today I'd like to share [this bit about my great-grand father Bagriy Ivan](http://www.zbarazh-library.com.ua/writen/history/UPA.pdf): + +> The last bunker in our region was destroyed by the NKVD in 1952 in the Lubianets forest. +> Four shylyans were killed then: +> +> - Antoniuk Volodymyr - born in 1923. +> - Bagriy Ivan - born in 1911. +> - Voznyi Ivan - born in 1905. +> - Hulovskyi Vasyl - born in 1918. + + +Nineteen fifty-two. By that time, Ivan's wife and son (my grandfather) had already been exiled to Kazakhstan. + +One can write a lengthy eloquent essay about never surrendering, believing in independence, and so on. I won't. + +Слава Україні. Героям слава. \ No newline at end of file