“The fact that he is a very talented person is unambiguous. He had his own view of Ukrainian song, he was the brightest melodist,” noted Zlotnik.
Discussing the probable causes of the artist’s death, the composer suggested that Ivasyuk could not take his own life.
“My belief is that he could not inflict such a blow on his family,” he assured, adding that the singer had good relations with his loved ones.
“Were there any mental deviations?” – Gordon clarified.
“It was a little bit. He was a little confused, sometimes he could work hard – day and night. It happens differently, sometimes you overwork it so that you go out the window, but think that you are going through the door. Overexertion – maybe. But I am a supporter of the fact that they nevertheless “ran into him” and demanded money,” Zlotnik answered.
Zlotnik added that the last time the artist was seen before his death was when he went to the bank to withdraw money and then got into a taxi.
“He got into this car and that’s it. That’s it,” summed up the composer.
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Context
Ivasyuk is one of the founders of Ukrainian pop music, the author of more than 100 songs. The most famous of them are “Chervona Ruta”, “Vodograi”, “I will go to the distant mountains”.
On May 18, 1979, 30-year-old Vladimir Ivasyuk was found hanged in the Bryukhovetsky forest near Lvov. The investigation put forward the only version of what happened – suicide as a result of a mental disorder. The case was closed by the prosecutor's office of the Shevchenko district of Lvov due to the lack of evidence of a crime on July 18, 1979.
The official version was questioned from the first days after the incident. Ivasyuk’s funeral in Lviv on May 22, 1979 turned into an anti-Soviet demonstration.
In 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine resumed the investigation into the death of Ivasyuk. In the summer of 2019, a forensic examination established that Ivasyuk could not have committed suicide. In 2009, Ivasyuk was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
