Odysea „zapomenuté občanky“ Sofie Malyljové
The Odyssey of the “Forgotten Citizen” Sofia Malylya

Summary/Abstract: The fate of Sofia Malylya, a poet from Carpathian Ruthenia who was unjustly persecuted by the Soviet security services, is one of the twelve stories in the final part of the trilogy entitled Czechoslovaks in the Gulag, published by the USTR and Czech Television at the end of 2019. Her story is interesting not only in that it documents the persecution of a former Czechoslovak citizen in the Soviet Union, but also because it is strongly linked to the history of the Ukrainian emigration in interwar Czechoslovakia, and illustrates one of its chapters – the history of the Ukrainian grammar school (“Ukrajinské reálné gymnázium”) in Prague and the presence of ethnic minorities amongst the German army troops in Central and Eastern Europe during World War Two.

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