Arrest
In 1949 he was arrested for his pro-Ukrainian nationalistic rhetoric and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the copper mines of Steplag Karaganda. His family was deported to Kazakhstan where they lived until 1953. Later that year he was released on amnesty.
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