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The “Student” magazine, which was often the target of party critique, found itself in a particularly difficult situation at the end of 1969. After the public discussion “Socialism and Culture” at the Philosophical Association of Serbia at the end of November 1969 (29.11.–3.12.), a final attack was launched on the editorial staff at “Student”. In reaction to this attack, issue 25 of 9 December 1969 appeared with the cover page displaying prison bars, while a nailed plank was symbolically printed across the magazine's logo – an image used to signify the closure of a company or business.  The magazine's final page showed the illustration of a man in front of prison bars with a sling around his neck – a clear allusion to the pressure the editorial staff was being exposed to. The entire edition abounded with illustrations of torture racks and methods of execution used through history, starting with the gallows to the guillotine. This all predicted the attack anticipated for the middle of December when the city committee of the League of Communists accused the editors of  “Student” of wanting to impose their perspective in the form of a monopoly on art and culture, of rejecting the revolutionary role of the League of Communists, of wanting to take over the “baton of the revolution“, while the final charge was related to counter-revolution (I. Moljković, 2008, „Slučaj ‘Student’“, 10).

Immediately after the founding of the Society of Students of the Faculty of Arts of UJEP Brno, the first issue of the magazine "Ruch" was published (15 March 1968). The magazine provided the information on the reasons for establishing the association and its internal structure. It gave information about events at the university, petitions, public letters, and contacts with other universities in the Czechoslovakia and abroad. In addition to the predominant political focus of this paper, poems, parodic texts, illustrations appeared. The first issue was followed by the second after three weeks. The print had not been published regularly (was published about once a month), and was officially referred to as an interviewer. It was printed in hundreds of copies (400-600) and was sold at the faculty for CZK 1. The authors of texts and graphics were a changing group of students - usually members of the association.

Fotografia face parte dintr-o serie mai amplă a colecţiei Oraşul Memorabil, care reflectă şcoala sub comunism. Percepţia uniformelor şcolare în România post-89 reflectă o anumită nostalgie pentru copilăria trăită în anii comunismului (Marin 2013, 10–12), prezentă şi în alte societăţi est-europene. Această nostalgie are ca obiect mai ales anumite jucării, dulciuri, cărţi pentru copii sau, în acest caz, a uniformelor şcolare, care marcau apartenenţa la structuri de înregimentare politică a copiilor, precum şoimii patriei sau pionierii.
Cei care au copilărit sub comunism nu îşi reamintesc atât de mult componenta de înregimentare politică, pe care nu o putea înţelege la acea vârstă, cât mai ales anumite detalii care sunt încărcate astăzi cu o valoare sentimentală, precum uniformele, momentele festive, participarea la competiţii. În fotografia de faţă, apar două tipuri de uniforme: uniforma pionierilor la elevul din partea stângă şi cea a şoimilor patriei, la cei doi copii din partea dreaptă. Fotografia a fost realizată în cartierul Steagul Roşu din Braşov, unul dintre cartierele muncitoreşti emblematice ale oraşului, construite la sfârşitul anilor 1940 şi începutul anilor 1950.

This photograph is from the ‘Red University’ series that shows scenes of the clashes between militia and students in 1968. On June 3, 1968, students from Belgrade University set off from New Belgrade towards the building of the rector’s office located in the old part of the city with the intention of demonstrating and stating their demands. They were soon stopped by a militia cordon. Veljko Vlahović and Miloč Minić, top officials in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, spoke to the students and tried to convince them not to rally. However, militia and students clashed, resulting in injuries to at least four people. The following day, the students occupied the building of the rector’s office and proclaimed their programme. One of their demands called for changing the university’s name to the ‘Karl Marx Red University’. The occupation lasted seven days, while the protests spread to Yugoslavia’s larger university centres. It was ended by a television address by Josip Broz Tito in which he allegedly supported the students, acknowledging that irregularities did exist and should be removed. At that time a photo reporter with the Belgrade weekly ‘NIN’, Tomislav Peternek recorded the shocking scenes of the riots at the overpass in New Belgrade.

The Vasyl Stus Collection is an incredibly rich resource for literary scholars as well as the broader public. The two volumes of his letters, published in 1997, are considered masterpieces by those intimately familiar with his life and works.. At the end of the second volume is a remarkable essay written by Stus’s mentor, friend and colleague Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska, titled “The Epistolary Literature of Vasyl Stus,” which provides important insights into Stus’s character, his literary influences, his understanding of what was happening to himself and his friends, and how he understood their role in history. The original letters to friends and acquaintances are held at the archives of the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU), while the letters to his wife and son remain in the family’s private archive.