Being a dictator is a bad idea. A very bad idea. But even those who could trample on human rights and liberties with impunity have not been forgiven by descendants. Indeed, the dictators’ names have remained for ages, yet just as headlines of the blackest pages of our history.
Final Statements
The Final Statement ‘Even from pre-trial detention, I continue to follow the news, and I still cannot understand why representatives of our state condemn restrictions on freedom of speech in…
‘The final word will belong to the truth and to those who spread it.’
‘When I think about everything I have been through over the past few years, I still cannot figure out for myself whether it was all worth it or not.’
‘I do not consider myself guilty. I am Ukrainian! I was born Ukrainian, just as people are born with a certain hair or eye color’.
‘An unlawful law destroys a state faster than corrosion destroys metal’.
‘For me, it was not enough to know that my voice would not be a ‘yes’–it was important to me that my voice would not be a ‘no’.’
‘I consider it extremely important that the citizens of our country should be truly free. This is important also because our country is the largest socialist state and–whether for better or for worse–everything that happens in it affects other socialist countries.’
‘For ten minutes, I was a citizen.’
‘And I understood that I might pay for five minutes of freedom on Red Square with years of imprisonment.’
‘As a result of the trial, my conviction that I have not violated the law remains unshaken.’
'We are unequivocally, clearly and categorically innocent people.'
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