‘The final word will belong to the truth and to those who spread it.’
Final Statements
‘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.'
'We had no intention of committing any crimes.'
The Final Statement ‘I want to say that, whatever happens next, we all have one important feeling in this case. The greatest and most important one. It illuminates life and…
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