Has anyone heard of Volodymyr Ivasyuk? He was a violinist from the Western Ukraine and wrote dozens of popular songs which have become part of the Ukrainian identity. Chervona Ruta (Red Rue) is particularly well known. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_4XvldJw0 He championed Ukrainian language and culture and was massively popular, which is why the Soviet authorities saw him as a dangerous element. In 1979, he was found hanging from a tree. Suicide, officialy.