The Ukrainian Weekly 1951
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THE PEASANT, BACKBONE OE UKRAINE, IS STALIN'S GREATEST FOE I eminent had complete control ovet* The peasants represent today grain distribution. 75% of the total population of Uk Ukrainian peasants rose in a ш&Шсьтіий ЩОДЕННИК UKRAINIAN DAILY, raine. Their industrious cultivation spontaneous and determined pro of the naturally good soil under test against the Soviet collectiviza Рік UX 4. 157. VoL UX. No. favorable climatic conditions help tion policy. However, all their ef ed to raise Ukrainian agriculture forts to resist were crushed ruth to its present high standard. lessly by the Soviets who In their Ukrainian peasants differ great "liquidation of the kulaks as a ly in their customs end methods class" did not flinch from a whole ftfcratnian Шее sale extermination of Ukrainian of soil-cultivation from the Russian Supplement peasants. Unlike the Russians, peasantry and deportation of every they have a long tradition of inde peasant suspected of opposition to яяг their policy. In the years 1929-30 5* в Зл Д. ; 7* Закордоном Ти. „Свобода*:1 BErgen fljjm — Тел. У. Н. Союзу: BErgen 4-ІОІв 5* In the United States; 7* Elsewhere pendent, individual farming. The "commune" system of collective, hundreds of thousands of Ukrain repartitional holdings so character ian peasants were deported to Si WEEKLY: No. 28. JERSEY CITY and NEW YORK. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1951 VOLUME XK beria. Many'escaped to the towns, — istic of Tsarist Russia, was un known in Ukraine. At the same where they lived under assumed ACCUMULATED PHENOMENALj THE KOREAN WAR. WHAT NEXT? time, serfdom was less strictly en names. Still others organized par Ukrainians Take Play from Leftists tisan legions to fight against this MARKS forced in Ukraine than in Russia. new serfdom. At£hicago "Peace" Rally MOW that the cease-fire discussions In the Korean war are about to The rebellious and freedom-loving Myron Levitsky, son of Mr. John begin, some of the more optimistically people may think that the spirit of Ukrainian peasants has Using all means at their сид In typical communist fashion the line program for an East-West Levitsky, 216 East 10th street, Soviets hsve abandonned plans for a third world war. Here then comes been demonstrated throughout Uk рова!, but most of all naked vio American Peace Congress invaded settlement, the department said New York City, recently graduated the period of the greatest peril, merely because our guard may be rainian history. Thus, for instance, lence, the Soviets succeeded in col Chicago at the Coliseum on June in a statement: with a Bachelor of Science degree lowered. * the famous movement which led lectivizing the land and, what is 29. 'The sponsors of this meeting in Mechanical Engineering from To be sure, shooting war is the counts with its slave drivers. More to the creation of the Zaporozhian especially significant, in increasing Under orders from Moscow, they hope to establish a permanent Cooper Union in New York. last string to the bow of the So over, the Soviet Union cannot exist Kozak Host in the 17th century the marketed share of agricultural came disguised as. the American U.S. phony 'peace' organization. The Cooper Union yearbook, viets. It seeks to conquer the world side by side with a system of had its origin in the dissatisfaction produce at a time when agricul Peace Crusade, and; 6,600 Chicago- "It is the duty of every Ameri "The Cable", had this to say primarily by such means as sub greater productivity, for sooner or of the Ukrainian peasantry with tural production sharply declined. ana were caught in the trap. can to reject and expose the false about Myron: version, infiltration, і economic later such a system must bring it their masters and oppressors. A This, as well as the severe losses The other four million Chicago- motives of this group." "Levitsky... Myron, that is. known breakdown and political unrest— to an end, either directly in ag large scale peasant revolutionary In livestock, slaughtered by the ana were aware of the true iden The picket line consisted of throughout Cooper as the virtuoso all carefully encouraged by the gressive war, or indirectly through was waged by Ukrainian peasants peasants, prove beyond doubt that tity of the А.Р.Є. ("Americans" American veterans, veterans of of the violin, accumulated phe Kremlin. і . its superior civilization. during the years 1734-70. Once as an agricultural policy collectivi Plotting for Communism), and 200 the Ukrainian Insurgent Army nomenal marks during his four Bescides it all, jthe Kremlin Some observers of the interna again in 1917 the peasant revolts zation met with complete failure. of them exhibited their protest (UPA), Ukrainians, Lithuanians, years and still had the leisure time spreads the impression among con tional scene are of the opinion that spread across the whole country. It was, however, regarded as a suc in the form of a picket line. and others. to continue his various hobbies. fused intellectuals iof the West the Soviet Union does not oarry They expressed the century-old de- cess because it gave the govern ment absolute control over the The packet Unas was organized No trouble ensued between the Honored by membership in both that the coming struggle will be an aggressive war policy because terminstion of the Ukrainian peas peasants. The final inhumanity through the efforts of the Uk marchers and the leftists, although the Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta mainly an ideological fight. So it is driven to do so by hunger, ants to own and to cultivate their committed by the Soviets against rainian Organization for the De several of the anti-communists Pi, Myron is also the present they consider it vital to meet Com nor to realize Stalin's or any other farms. the Ukrainian peasantry was the fense of Pour Freedoms for Uk pickets said they were "elbowed" chairman of the ASME." munist ideology by the creation of Red leaders's dreams of world Ц deliberately created famine of raine, and the .Ukrainian Youth a little by the "peace" crusaders. a new ideology. The whole thing dominance; nor docs it do so to Because communism was, by its 1932-33 when several million peo Association of America (SUMA), Among the signs carried by would be quite simple if, behind "liberate" the proletarians of the yery nature, alien to the establish GRADUATES FROM HUNTER ple starved, because inapite of a in cooperation with the Lithuan the pickets were ones reading Communist Ideology, there did not West from "capitalistic slavery", ed tradition of Ukrainian peasant good harvest, the grain was with ians, and American veterans in "Russia wants peace—a piece of stand a power with an enormous or for other ideological purposes. life, it has been fought by the peas Alice Shipka, daughter of Ste held from them. the Chicago. America," "Soviet Peace — the phen and Stephanie Shipka of 127- war potential. It would suffice It does so, they say, simply 'to ants in Ukraine ever since 1917. Among the latter was a con Judas Kiss," "We Like It Here!" 28 102 Road, Richmond Hill, L I., if at least the wont, the most maintain and assure the position, Most Ukrainian partisans fighting By 1934 the impoverished and tributor to these- pages, Alex J. "Fifth Column Meeting in the humanly appaling misery was and thus also the lives, of Its against the Red Army were re propertyleaa peasantry was finally Zabrosky, 2624 West 17th street Coliseum," "America the Land of liquidated, and Communist ideo governing classes—the Soviet state cruited from the peasantry. The forced to do their well defined The Chicago press .quoted him as the Free—Russia the Land of the logy was without life-giving soil, buresucracy. Soviets made an attempt to crush tasks on collective farms. Under saying that when .he served as an Slaves." limited to a narrow circle of fan Whether that is correct is hard peasant resistence in Ukraine by strict supervision and constant infantryman in Europe during the Three Lithuanians, dressed to atics which would do no more than to say. In any case a third world inciting the so-called poor peas compulsion the peasants cultivated Jehovah's Witnesses and other re the land which once they owned last war he "sawt what commu represent the M.V.D. (Soviet Rus war seems impossible to escape If ants against the other, the more nism and cummunists do to a coun sian secret police, otherwise known ligious sects. its causes remain.. і .prosperous ones. Special commit and now belongs to the state.. As try." as the 'Russian Murder Inc.) led Soviet Russia, which rides hitp Today, of course, the situation tees (komnezamy)—committee of the reward for their hard labor. "We just got together and the picket line with "We will free battle under the flag communism is such that, as pointed out by mil poor peasants were set up and dl- they are given the chance tb work marched down here to show these you of your homes, automobiles, and imperialism, is in actuality itary experts, Soviet divisions can rected by the' Party In an effort late In the evening on their small leftists that we realize what they life, etc." printed on their backs. not carrying.an ideological fight at any time set out on a march to intimidate the peasants into sub- private plots and somftv of them are up to," Zabrosky told the re While the picketing was going at all and cares nothing for any to the Atlantic and there is noth- missiveness. However, the disss-1 may even be mentioned in the porters.