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A painting in support of Iranians fighting against the dictatorship of the Islamic regime. And the undeniable connection between free Ukraine, Crimea, and Iran

 

Hostages surrounded by insane oppressors

Trapped or in bondage

We will never agree to live with our honor destroyed.

We will not be happy while our loved ones disappear with tortured voices.

Behind the high ceilings of prisons, women's bodies are beaten to death—is this not the last straw before the end of the world,

if we do not free them!

If we do not stand up against the murderers with weapons.

 

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Yunus Qandım is a Crimean Tatar poet, prose writer, translator, publicist, literary critic, and historian. He is an Honored Artist of Ukraine.

Yunus Qandım's poetic style is characterized by exquisite metaphoricality, lyricism, accuracy, and unexpected imagery, which follows the traditions of Eastern ornamentation.

 

My love, you resemble the sea,

Which, like me, the shore, is not at peace.

 

Sometimes the waves embrace me, and in a minute,

Having thrown their debris on me, they recede.

 

I cry, I rejoice, I patiently

expose my shoulders to the waves...

 

It's no use that I want to escape from that sorrow

Far away across the steppes and mountains,

 

But my heart-shore won't let me, saying

That there is no such thing as a boundless sea.

 

Translations of works by Ukrainian writers occupy a prominent place in Yunus Kandym's translation work. Yunus Kandym translated Taras Shevchenko's Ukrainian poems “To the Dead and the Living...”, ‘Caucasus’, Lesya Ukrainka's poems “Iphigenia in Tauris”, “An Ancient Tale”, “Robert Bruce, King of Scotland”, the cycle of poems “Crimean Echoes,” the fairy-tale drama “The Forest Song” (staged in 2002 at the Crimean Tatar Academic Music and Drama Theater – “Orman Türküsü”), works by Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky “On the Stone,” “In the Shackles of Satan,” “Under the Minarets,” selected works by Mykola Voronyi, Agatangel Krymsky, Pavlo Tychyna, Volodymyr Sosyura, and many other Ukrainian writers. According to Danylo Kononenko, Yunus Kandym “built bridges of spirituality between our literatures with his extraordinary talent as a translator from Ukrainian into Crimean Tatar.”

Size: 58х59 cm

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They did not pay reparations and did not ask for forgiveness.

They did not return what they had stolen, did not honor the victims of their own madness.

They feel impunity

They are reborn in the hearts of youth

They use the power of “useful idiots”

This is not a new world, it is an old corpse decomposing into new poisonous forms while we try to adapt to this disease

 

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