They called it "The Most Dangerous Book Club in the World." Because Ukrainian textbooks and literature had been deemed "extremist," simply owning a physical copy of a poem by Taras Shevchenko could carry a five-year prison sentence. To survive, the teens went underground:
: To avoid looking like a suspicious gathering, they met in networks of no more than three people at a time. ukraniane teens
Despite the trauma of lost homes and disrupted educations, a new wave of "teen entrepreneurs" emerged from the chaos. They called it "The Most Dangerous Book Club in the World
Youth in action: How UPSHIFT is helping shape Ukraine’s future ukraniane teens