{"id":230557,"date":"2022-12-08T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/symvol"},"modified":"2023-01-02T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:32:52","slug":"symvol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/symvol","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have scattered around the world like peas to gather again and become a symbol of Ukraine\u2019s indomitability\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCry of the Nation\u201d is the name of a play about Vasyl Stus\u2019s life. On September 4, 1985, he died in a punishment cell, where he had been thrown for reading a book, leaning his elbows on an upper bunk. The official cause of his death was heart failure. Two years before that, his book \u201cFrom the camp notebook\u201d was published, in which Stus wrote: \u201cPsychologically, I understood that the prison gate had already opened for me, that one day it would close behind me – and close for a long time. But what could I do? Ukrainians are not allowed to go abroad, and I didn\u2019t really want to go abroad: because who will be the mouth of indignation and protest here, in Great Ukraine? This is fate, and we don\u2019t choose a fate. We accepted it, whatever it may be. And if we don\u2019t accept it, it chooses us by force… But I wasn\u2019t going to bend my head, no matter what. Behind me was Ukraine, my oppressed people, for whose honor I must fight until my death.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years will pass, and the outstanding Ukrainian\u2019s compatriots will leave their native Donbas not only to break free from the Russian occupiers. From the stage, they will prove that indomitability is a trait of the national character that can bring victory in the fight against any enemy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI got out from under the rubble, stepping over human bodies…\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, they have already recorded more than 400 cases of damage and destruction of cultural heritage objects. The All Saints Skete of the Sviatohirska Lavra in the Donetsk Region, the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Museum in the Kharkiv region, the ancient railway station in Okhtyrka, the Church of St. George and the Ascension Church in the Kyiv region, the Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities in Chernihiv – this is by no means a complete list of destroyed and damaged Ukrainian shrines. A particularly tragic page in this list is taken by the Mariupol Drama Theater, where over three hundred people were killed by enemy bombing. Among the Mariupol residents who hid from shelling in its premises, there were many actors of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater. How they got out from under the ruins and out of the city, how the fate of the theater troupe developed – this is what the actors spoke about in Kropyvnytskyi, where they came to the theater arts festival \u201cSeptember Gems\u201d with their own production of the play \u201cCry of the Nation\u201d for the first time after they evacuated from Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five actors and two stage technicians of the 200 employees of the Donetsk Drama Theater, whose cast consisted of 57 people, came to Kropyvnytskyi for the festival. Today it is the entire theater troupe, which was sheltered by the Uzhhorod Drama Theater in Transcarpathia. Most of the actors remained in Mariupol, some died under the rubble of the theater, some were captured, and some managed to evacuate to other countries. Only a small part of the troupe was able to reunite in Uzhhorod. One of those who did not leave Ukraine is the young actor Dmytro Murantsev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boy went to a theater college in Mariupol and lived in a theater dormitory. He came to the drama theater early in March, when there were already a lot people there. He had lived there for 11 days before the fatal bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n