Ivan Blyok
41,
private entrepreneur,
Horodok, Lviv region
"As the developments in the capital became more and more horrible, Ivash-ka (Ivan’s nickname among family and friends) got terribly anxious and stuck to his TV. He kept saying there were very few people left on the Maidan and it might come to an end, so he had to be there. I realized I couldn’t stop him. It was frightful, but I failed to stop him,” Natalka, the wife of the hero of the Celestial Hundred Ivan Blyok, recalls the night of February 18-19.
...As his daughter Lilia came out to see him off to the taxi, he hugged her tightly, kissed her and said, ”Bye, daughter. I’ll come back a hero!” Those were his last words. On February 20 he was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Instytutska street. The metal flak jacket his brother ha
