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Fedor the soldier-teacher giving lectures on video from the Donbass trenches

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Fedor the soldier-teacher giving lectures on video from the Donbass trenches

KIEV – The prof does not miss a lesson. Phone in hand, gun on his shoulder, head down in the trenches: “Good morning, guys.” Good morning to you, Fedor Fedorovich Shandor. From the Donbass frontline, he teaches “Social Psychology” and “Manipulative Techniques” by teleconference to future tourism managers enrolled in his courses at Uzhhorod National University in the Carpathians. “There is a confrontation between the civilized world and the uncivilized one, between culture and its lack. I have to defend civilization”, he explains to those who interview him. That’s why he doesn’t stop teaching even while he’s fighting. But ever since a fellow soldier in the trenches couldn’t resist the temptation to take a picture of him in class and post it on Facebook, Professor Shandor is something of a national hero.

With a cute bow tie and clean-shaven cheeks, before the war he was the most passionate popularizer of Transcarpathia, the wonderful region of forests and sanctuaries, mountains and villages and castles in the far southwestern part of Ukraine. Cheeses and cellars, folk dances, traditions, long colorful dresses, flowers and waterfalls. Not at all, all suspended: today he is at the hottest front against the Russian advance, in the heart of the Donbass. It is in Izyum, where they try to break through. On the front line. In camouflage and boots he digs trenches and takes aim, makes guards and gives lessons.

Professor Fedor Fedorovich, former vice-rector and regional councilor, had not even been in the military, but after the first missiles rained on February 24, he showed up “in a suit and tie” in the recruitment centers: recruited. Now he is a sniper in the 68th Battalion of the 101st Transcarpathian Territorial Defense Brigade. “After a month they moved us to Izyum,” he says. Across the country, at the front.

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Since he has been in the trenches, his students – who continue to lecture at a distance between the pandemic and the war – are “much more present”. Go and explain to him that you have a small commitment or two lines of fever, to the teacher in the mud with his helmet on his head and his butt on the lookout post. The books, the pantries? “I downloaded them to my mobile phone before I left.” Every now and then everything shakes, “boom”, the artillery shakes the trenches, dances the connection but “don’t leave, I’ll be back soon”, says Fedor Fedorovich.

It never stops. He has written local history books translated into ten languages. He has organized a flood of events, and he hasn’t stopped now that the bombs are raging: after the invasion “I gave 37 lectures” in the trench in the Donbass. He has made a pact with the superiors: he gnaws time at the rest shift, not at the combat one. “We do 8-hour shifts, half combat and half rest. Then we start over,” he says.

He’s asked for 4 to 8 combat shifts on Mondays and Tuesdays, so he can take lessons from 8 to 12. “I skip the rest, I don’t sleep,” he says. And he starts digging trenches, fighting and making guards again. For him, he explained in an interview with Censor.net, not giving up teaching was “a duty. They are very specialized disciplines”, it is not easy to replace those who teach them: “I finish my semester: horses do not change never running “.

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