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Article: Once upon a time in Kyiv, there was a poet looking for a happy ending
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
- Article date:
- November 3, 1996
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Marta Kolomayets
Ukrainian Weekly, The
11-03-1996
Once upon a time in Kyiv, there was a poet looking for a happy ending.
Once upon a time, not too long ago, there was a young Hutsul named Ivan who encountered a fair Ukrainian maiden named Yaryna. She, a musician, enchanted him with her violin; he, a poet, inspired her with his sonnets. Together, they made beautiful music. They fell in love, got married and had a son, Tarasyk.
But unfortunately, they lived in a drab, gray land called the Soviet Union, where big bad Communists ruled and the only form of entertainment for little Ukrainians was rhymes about socialist tractors plowing for peace and the superheroic escapades of young Vladimir ...