After serving in the military during World War II, in 1947 he moved to Canada, where he was one of the founders of the Belarusian Canadian Alliance,[1] and its first chairman.
His first work of prose, Zmaharnyja darohi, reveals an insight into Belarusian life during World War II.
[2] In the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, the publication of his works was banned: many Belarusian Soviet writers wrote open letters against him, calling him “an agent of the CIA,” “paid liberator of Belarus,” and “crazy anti-Soviet.” During the Expo 67 exhibition in Montreal, Kastus organized a protest against the USSR, starting to shout anti-Soviet slogans and scatter brochures.
In 1992, he visited his historical homeland for the first time, but after 1995 his books again ceased to be published.
There is a Kastus Akula fonds at Library and Archives Canada.