1. Mykola Andriyovych Horbal is a Ukrainian former Soviet dissident, human right activist, politician, and poet who was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and later a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
11 Facts About Mykola Horbal
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From 1963 to 1970, Horbal worked as a music teacher.
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On 24 November 1970, Mykola Horbal was arrested by the KGB and charged with Anti Soviet Agitation and Propaganda.
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Mykola Horbal was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and 2 years exile in Siberia.
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On release from prison and return to Ukraine, Mykola Horbal settled in Kyiv, where he joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group which had formed in 1976.
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All of the members of the group were arrested, and on October 23,1979, Mykola Horbal was arrested and sentenced to 5 years hard labour.
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In 1984, having completed the 5-year term, Mykola Horbal was not released from incarceration, but was immediately sentenced to another term of 8 years of hard labour and 3 years in exile.
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Mykola Horbal served as a representative to the Kyiv City Council from 1990 to 1994.
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Mykola Horbal has served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1994 until 1998.
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Mykola Horbal tried to regain his seat in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a candidate of the Republican Christian Party, but failed to do so.
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In 1992, Mykola Horbal was awarded the prestigious Vasyl Stus Prize for poetry.