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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018,  № 4 (142), 913–928

UDK 75.052:27–526.62

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.04.913

Received 07.05.2018

THE CONFESSION OF 95–YEARS OLD DULIBY DWELLER

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7241-9466

Taras Yaroslav, doctor of History, professor, Candidate of Sciences in

in the Department of the modern ethnology

of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Svobody Avenue 15,  79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Contacts: e-mail: etnomod@ukr.net

Abstrakt. This is an oral story about the ordinary life of an ordinary woman, Taras Yulia Yurkivna, who, in 2017, turned 95, who to survive and meet their own needs managed to adapt to the challenges and challenges that the political and economic systems of Ukraine’s occupying powers «gave» to Ukraine. This is a story about life in Poland, at times of German occupation, in the Soviet and independent Ukraine.

Keywords: compulsory labor, Austria, son, daughter, hard work, various political and economic systems.

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