Photo: Official KGB photo from Stus file after arrest 1972 (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

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Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)

Also known as: Wassyl Stus, Vasyl Semenovych Stus, Wassyl Semenowytsch Stus, Василий Семёнович Стус, فاسيل_ستوس, 바실 스투스

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