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The Traditional Captive Nations Week VOL. XXII, NO. !, BUMMER, 1966 The Traditional Captive Nations Week RED NIGHTMARE, FREEDOM' S HOPE By Lev E. Dobriansky diasporiana.org.ua Just Publlshed UKRAINIANS AND JE"\VS: A SYMPOSIUM Content INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: FEATURE ARTICLES "Why the Jewish Problem Has Been Connected with Ukraine"­ Matthew Stachiw; "Ukrainians and Jews"-Leo Heiman; "Russia, the Jews and the Ukrainian Liberation Movement"-Lew Shankow­ sky; The Puppets of Soviet Russian Colonialism"-Michael Broida; "The Revived Myth of Ukrainian Anti-Semitism"-Lev E. Dobrian­ sky; "Shevchenko and the Jews"-Roman Smal-Stocki. CHAPTER II: TESTIMONIES Dr. Volodymyr Bemko, Ivan Lyuty-Lyutenko, Stepan Lisovy, Alex­ ander Hladyshovsky, Petro Pyasetsky, Yaroslava Forovych, Moses Diamond, Dr. M. Shkilnyk. CHAPTER III: UKRAINI.1~N .3TATE DOCUMENTS Decree of the Ukrainian Government on Assigning a Budget to the Ministry for Jewish Affairs; Decree of the Ukrainian Government Concerning Pogroms in Ukraine (No. 171); Order of the Supreme Command of the Ukrainian Arm ,, Concerning Pogroms in Ukraine (Order of the Day No. 131); A _ peal of Petlura to the Ukrainian Army; The Personal-National Autonomy of the National Minorities in Ukraine. CHAPTER IV: UKRAINIAN-JEWISH DISCUSSION IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Walter Dushnyck, Judd L. Teller and Eugene Sanjour. CHAPTER V: STATEMENTS REJECTING MOSCOW-SPONSORED ANTI-SEMITISM Statment of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; State­ ment of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee; Statement of Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky before the House Sub-Committee on Europe. CHAPTER VI: EDITORIALS AND COMMENTS "Moscow's War on Judaism and Religion in General" (Editorial, The Ukrainian Quarterly); "Kichko: Latest Pawn in Anti-Semitic Game" (Editorial, The Ukrainian Bulletin); "Kizya's Interview on Kich­ ko's Book" (The Ukrainian Bulletin); "Radio Free Europe, NCWC News Service Comment on UCCA Statement Denouncing Anti-Semi­ - tism'' (The Ukrainian Bulletin). 200 PAGES PRICE: $3.00 Order from: THE UKRAJNIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA, INC. 302 West 13th Street New York, N.Y. 10014 The Ukrainian uarterry. A JOURNAL OF EAST EUROPE.AN AND ASIAN AFFAIRS Published by the UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA, INC. SUMMER, 1966 VOLUME XXIl - No. 2 $1.25 A CoPY AU artk'leB publt.shed 'n th'8 joumal and 3'gneil by the authors ilo not neceBBarily reflect the mews of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. EDITORIAL BOARD FOR THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: Chairman of the Board: Prof. Lev E. Dobriansky Editor: Walter Dushnyck Members: Anthony Dragan, Walter Dushnyck and Matthew Stachiw ~ITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Prof. Adolfo Munoz Alonso University of Madrld, Madrid, Spain Prof. Au.stin J. App La.Salle College, Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. James D. Atkinson Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Prof. Anthony B. Bouscaren LeMoyne College, Syracuse, N. Y. Prof. Raf!ae'le Gia.Bea University of Rome, Rome, Italy Prof. Jose Fernandes Silva Dias University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Prof. Kurt Glaser South Dllnols University, Alton, DL Prof. Jerzy Hauptman Park College, Parkville, Missouri Prof. Melvin R. Karpaa Chicago Teachers College North, Chicago, Ill. Prof. Jan Karski Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Prof. Watson Kirkconnen Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S. (Canada) Prof. Jun-Yop Kim Korea University, Seoul, Korea Prof. Yintang Koo Taiwan University, Taipei, China Prof. Peter Lejins University of Maryland, College Park, Md. Prof. Kenneth 0. Lottich Montana State University, Missoula, Montana Prof. Clarence A. Manning Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Prof. Birger Nerman State Historical Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Prof. Michael S. Pap John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio Prof. Stefan T. PoMony Stanford University, Stanford, California Prof. Joseph S. Roucek University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Conn. Prof. Roman Smal-Stocki Catholic University, Washington, D. C. Prof. Georg Stadtmuller University of Munich, Munich, Germany Prof. Franco ValBeccM University of Rome, Rome, Italy Subscription: Yearly $5.00; Single Copy $1.25 Checks payable to: UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA, . INC. BdttoriaZ and Managing Olfice: THE UK.LUNI.AN QUAJlTEBLT 302-304 West 13th Street, New York, N.Y. 10014: CONTENTS The Soviet Myth of Cultural Freedom Editorial __________ - - - _-_ -- - -- - - -- -- - __ ------- __________ 101 The Traditional Captive Nations Week Red Nightmare, Freedom's Hope Lev E. Do~nsky ------~-------------------------------107 Ivan Franko and the English Poets Vera Rich ---------------------------------------------- 122 Baltic Exiles Continue Struggle for Freedom Rt. Rev.. Msgr. John BaZkunaa ---------------------------- 129 From Erevan to Eternity Victor Simonian, as told to Leo Heiman ____________________ 137 Ukraine in the Twentieth Century: A Brief Survey Nicholas Andrusiak ____________________________ :._ ________ 152 A Diary which Horrified Moscow VasyZ Symonenko --------------------------------------- 164 The Twenty-Third Communist Party Congress Clarence A. Manning ------------------------------------ 169 BooK REVIEWS The Soviet Empire. By Commissioh on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate Lev E. Dobriansky -----------------------------------------177 Russia at the Dawn of the Modern Age. By George Vemadsky The Bolsheviks. By Adam B. tnam Walter Dushnyck __________________________________________ 179 Russia at the Dawn of the Modern Age. By George Vemadsky A History of Russia. By George Vemadsky John V. Sweet -------------------------------------------- 181 The Berlin Wall. By Pierre Galante with Jack Miller Austin J. App -------------------------------------------- 184 .The Development of the Communist Bloc. By Roger Pethybrudge Clarence A. Manning ___________________. ;_ ___________________ 186 UCRAINICA IN AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PERIODICALS ____________ 187 CONTRIBUTORS.T() THIS ISSUE: NICHOLAS ANDRUSIAK, Ph.D. from the Jan Casimir State University in Lviv; historian and author of over 500 publications in Ukrainian, Polish, German, French and English; in 1959-65 Professor of Modem Languages at the following colleges: Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio; St. Vin­ cent College, Latrobe, Pa.; Walsh College, Canton, Ohio; Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.; Vincennes University, Vincennes, Ind., teaching Russian, German, French and the history of Russia. RT. REV. MSGR. JOHN BALKUNAS, born United States; received preliminary education in Lithuania, at Russian and Lithuanian gymnasiums, studied philosophy in Giza.i, Lithuania, and philology at Our Lady of the Angels Seminary, Niagara University; ordained in 1926, has served as pastor of the Church of Transfiguration in Maspeth, L. I., since 1933; in 1948 made "Papal Chamberlain" by Pope Pius XII, and in 1962 "Domestic Prelate" by Pope John XXIII; President of the Baltic Appeal Committee to the U.N.; for eleven years President of the Conference of Americans of Central and Eastern European Descent (CACEED) in New York City. LEV E. DOBRIANSKY, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University; President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America for the fifth consecutive time; Chairman of the National Captive Nations Committee in Washington, D. C.; former faculty member of the National War College; author and lecturer; in September, 1965 he took part in the annual con­ ference of the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League (APACL) in Manila. CLARENCE A. MANNING, Ph.D., former Associate Professor of Slavic Lan­ guages at Columbia University; author of several books on literature and history of Ukraine and other Eastern European peoples; Associate Editor of Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, published by the University of To­ ronto Press in 1963. VERA RICH, educated at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and Bedford College, London; studied Ukrainian at the School of Slavonic Studies, London; in 1961 published Song out of Darkness: SeZectionB from the Poetry of Taras Shevchenko, and her other book, Lesya Ukrainka: Selected Poems, is now being printed; a member of the Poetry Society (Great Britain) and the Poetry Society of America, the English and International Centers of the P.E.N., and editor-responsible of Manifo"ld, A Quarterly of New Verse; she is a freelance writer and translator. VICTOR SIMONIAN is a pseudonym of an Armenian businessman, born in Istanbul, Turkey, and now a resident of Nicosia, Cyprus; his parents fled to the Middle East during the persecution of Armenians in Turkey; he attended the Armenian Orthodox School in Haifa and the American Uni- versity in Beirut; his story was told to Leo Heiman, a veteran Israeli correspondent and our contributor. VASYL SYMONENKO, was a young Ukrainian poet whose restless spirit and passion for liberty caused a fury of Communist persecution; he died of cancer in 1963 at the age of 29; his diary is a flaming indictment of So­ viet Russian oppression and tyranny; it was smuggled out of Ukraine to the West, resulting in the arrest of several Ukrainian writers and lit­ erary critics. THE SOVIET MYTH OF CULTURAL FREEDOM Editorial So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new pris­ ons. So that all frontiers should fall, we surrounded ourselves with a Chinese wall. So that work should become a rest and a pleasure, we introduced forced labor. So that not one drop of blood be shed any more, we killed and killed and killed. Andrei Sinyavsky, Imprisoned Soviet writer The case of Sinyavsky and Daniel, Soviet writers recently im­ prisoned for writing "anti-Soviet" works, once again brings to the fore the eternal muzzling of free thought
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