A Few Words About Me

My name is Taras. I'm 29. I live in a provincial town in Western Ukraine.

I finished high school, and then worked at a plant, after that entered the institute. My life was just the same as the life of other boys. But I wanted something different, some changes. And I joined UNA-UNSD (Ukrainian National Army - Ukrainian Self Defence). My life began to twirl and whirl. We were fighting with the police and only God know with whom not, were going with flags and torches, were taking the floor at different meetings, were sticking up the sleeping, not guilty at all, town with leaflets. We wanted to make a revolution. As you can see we weren't successful. But the impression remained for the rest of my life. And the lung disease with what I've spent eight months in hospital and the certainty that our police is the best in the world remained as well. And one more thing: treason is the cause of time.

Do I regret that I've spent all those six years like that? Probably, I don't. The organization has acquainted me with a lot of interesting people and taught me a lot as well.

Then I worked as a teacher in the village, forgotten by God. Afterward I worked in my hometown, in Gymnasium - I create books for the students. Then I worked at the huge plant near Lviv. And now I work as an engineer in Poland.

I am just the average town-dweller. I stop fighting against authorities, regime, dull and ordinary life. Probably, because I became dull and ordinary myself. But I'm satisfied with such development of events. After all, from the point of view of eternity, not so much life is before me. And as experience proves, initiative people are punished. That's why those years, that God gave me, I want to live quietly watching the world's developments on the monitor's screen.