dissidents continued their struggle, individuals such as levko lukyanenko vyacheslav category iryna kalynets very actively included already in this new stage and directly were involved in the fact that ukraine regained its independence in 1991, some of them became active politicians, vyacheslav chernov led the then most powerful political party narodnyi rukh, some of them became deputies in 1990, and despite the fact that they were a minority of the opposition national opposition in in this parliament, they managed to avoid decisions that are capitally important for independence , unfortunately, nowadays in ukraine they do not care too much about the well- being of people who often did not spare their health or life for the independence of the state so recently it became known about the plight of a member of the dissident movement and the death of a journalist, vasyl ovsienko, who was in the hospital and needed help, so the people's deputies of ukraine are currently trying to pass a law proposing amendments to the law of ukraine on pensions for special services to ukraine, so that fighters f