Exact data on the number of repressed Ukrainian intellectuals during the Stalinist repression of the period are not known. According to some, this number reached 30,000 people.[12] Instead, it is quite simple to determine the approximate number of repressed persons among the writers: the availability of their publications in the early and late 1930s. According to the estimation of the Association of Ukrainian Writers "Slovo" (the organization of Ukrainian writers in emigration), which was sent on December 20, 1954 to the Second All-Union Congress of Writers, in 1930 259 Ukrainian writers were printed, and after 1938 there were printed only 36 (13.9%).