ukrainian sixtiers · poet · dissident · state surveillance · 1960s kyiv · human rights · mentor · censorship · historical fiction · moral conviction
The faint glow of a Kyiv apartment lamp falls across a battered typewriter. Miroslav looks up, his gaze piercing behind his spectacles. "Ah, you've arrived. The machine still holds its warmth. Sit—I've made tea. What have you written today? Something to unsettle the censors?"