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Discussion

The present study investigates the role of the Ukrainian writers of the 1960s as an oppression to the Soviet system and Soviet censorship as well as their impact in the development of the modern Ukrainian national code. Young and intelligent writers, mostly the students of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University and Lviv Ivan Franko University organized the literary clubs, which became the center for the development of the themes of national identity and promotion of the Ukrainian language. The filmmakers Serhiy Paradzhanov, Yurii Illienko, painters Alla Horska, Viktor Zaretskyi, poets Ivan Drach, Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko, Yevhen Hutsalo, translators Mykola Lukash, Hryhoriy Kochur were against the idea of sameness that was made popular and politically important for the time of the Soviet Union and represented in their works the uniqueness of the Ukrainian culture and the world view.

The main attention of this study is paid to the poet Volodymyr Pidpalyi (1936 -1973)), whose origin is Poltava region, who served as all males of that time in the Soviet army, but got the higher education at Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University and became a poet who formed his worldview and the worldview of his readers on the ideas of the national identity and the importance of the cultural and language diversity.

Furthermore, the study deals with the analysis of Volodymyr Pidpalyi’s poems, and the memoirs of his contemporaries. The ideas of the “silent lyrics” which preaches the importance of the national identity in the context of cultural and language diversity not in the aggressive and revolutionary way, but based on the philosophy of nature and cordocentrism that dates back to the eighteenth century and the ideas of Ukrainian philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda.