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Ukrainian rock legend and former MP Svyatoslav Vakarchuk came close to being blown up by a landmine in Kharkiv, but was saved by Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan, the Okean Elzy singer has revealed.
There is a Ukrainian rock 'n' roll song called "We Will Not Die in Paris" by a band called Dead Rooster that became popular in 1991 as the Soviet Union was losing its grip on Ukraine. The context of the song was that a lot of Ukrainian poets and artists had fled to the West while their homeland was a Soviet client state, and that they intended one day to return.