Nobel laureate, Ukrainian human rights activist, head of the Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Matviychuk gave advice on how to persevere and win in this difficult period. She reminds us that history proves that every effort matters. Therefore, she calls on everyone to honestly do their job in their place.
She writes about this in her Facebook post.
In this regard, he recalls the events after the Revolution of Dignity:
"When the Revolution of Dignity won and Yanukovych fled to Russia, that's when I first gave an extensive interview about the work of our Euromaidan SOS initiative. We united several thousand people and worked 24 hours a day to provide legal and other assistance to persecuted protesters across the country. At that time, hundreds and hundreds of people were beaten, arrested, tortured, and accused in fabricated criminal cases."
And just the question of "How did you see the victory?" put her in a stupor.
"Of course, I wanted to give some concise and beautiful answer, but there was none. "You see," I began, "we slept 3-4 hours a day. Every day we put out hundreds of fires. We didn't know how it would all end. We were just doing our job honestly," she says.
Later, Matviychuk found similar thoughts in the memoirs of Ukrainian dissidents:
"Later, I found the same thought in the memoirs of Ukrainian dissidents. They understood that they were fighting against the entire totalitarian machine. The Soviets could easily crush them, even their names might not survive. But they had dignity, and this forced them to fight for freedom. Although from the entire arsenal of means they had only their own word and their own position."
"And now, many years later, we know for sure that Ukraine has regained its independence, and thanks to the fact that at one time they fought for it honestly. And that one's own word and one's own position are not so little, after all," the Nobel laureate emphasizes.
Finally, he advises Ukrainians to do their work honestly: "To each his own. Because history convincingly proves that all our efforts have meaning. If there are truths that claim to be universal, then among them would be this one, formulated by Viktor Frankl after surviving Nazi concentration camps: "The first to break were those who believed that everything would soon end. After them, those who did not believe that it would ever end. Those who focused on their actions, without expectations of what might or might not happen, survived."
Earlier, "Apostrophe" also wrote that a big problem is that many foreigners do not understand the realities of the Russian occupation. This opinion was shared on Facebook by journalist and Shevchenko Prize laureate Yevheniya Podobna.