Сакрат Яновіч: Доўгая сьмерць Крынак

Janovich did not avoid the personal activity in social and political life; it gave him the opportunity to test his artistic and rational disclosures. In his youthful years, at the time of the Stalinist regime, he organized the Union of the Belarusian Patriotes, an underground grouping. Later, he worked as a journalist for the Belarusian weekly "Niva" and was an activist of the Belarusian Social and Cultural Association in Białystok. In the autumn of 1970 the period of his oppression by the authorities of then regime started; Janovich was eventually spared on account of the protest of Polish intelectual circles. Through a decade he made his living taking up odd and various jobs as a workman, a fireman, a work safety instructor and an organizer of educational guidance. In 1980 he joined the organization of the Belarusian Independent Publishers; that underground publishing initiative had suc- cesfully lived to the collapse of communism in Poland. In February of 1990 Janovich took the leadership of the Belarusian Democratic Union, a new-created political party of the Belarusians in Poland.

At present Sakrat Janovich has retired from public and political activities in order to preserve his health. He devoted the energy, the life had stored for him, to his creative work.