www.ukrweekly.com БОДА SVOBODA Український Щоденник Ukrainian Daily РІК L1. Ч. 207. VOL. IX No. 207. II. f f Dedicated to the needs and interest of young Americans of Ukrainian descent Not 41 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1943 VOL. XI the Ukrainians; as the famous H. G. Wells expressed it: "In REDS "REGLORIfY" KHMELNITSKY the treatment of the Ukrainians involved in liberation, Poland equalled any of the atrocities which had been the burden of her song during her years of martyrdom";— Apparently influenced by three important factors, namely, That, as the London "Contemporary Review" (October, (a) the Polish demands that Western Ukraine be restored to 1941) put it. "The conflict which broke out in 1939 in Europe. them after the war; (b) the appeals of Americans and Can­ Totalitarianism versus Democracy, gave the hope to the Uk­ adians of Ukrainian descent that in the post¯war settlement the rainians of some possibility of seeing their country and people inalienable right of the Ukrainian people to national independ­ free again in some distant future. Whoever the Ukrainians ence in a free Europe should be granted; and perhaps (c) as may be and wherever they may be found, they all have one yet an unreported but quite probable resurgence of the cen­ desire: to see their freedom restored, not only on paper, but turies-old national independence movement in war-torn but in fact." fighting Ukraine—Soviet propaganda of late has taken on a Bearing all this in mind, our fair-minded fellow> Americans new turn in respect to its treatment of the Ukrainians. It has can well understand the latest Soviet propaganda stunt, namely, begun to play up the Ukrainians to an extent undreamed of "reglorifying" Khmelnitsky, as reported from Moscow in last in former times. And this has been especially noticeable since Thursday's (October 21) New York Herald Tribune by that the time the current tri-Power conference in Moscow was an­ facile Soviet apologist, Maurice Hindus—who in former times nounced. rarely mentioned Ukraine or Ukrainians, and who during the Where, for example, before the war, and even up to terrible famine in Ukraine denied its very existence. rather recent times, Soviet controlled sources rarely distin­ guished the Ukrainians from the Russians but lumped them all Evidently the Herald Tribune head· fought. He obtained as good an edu­ i line writer fully well understood the cation as times then permitted. He under one common designation—"Russians," today, however, j implications of what was contained knew Polish and Latin well. He had these sources are constantly stressing the Ukrainian national j in Hindus' dispatch, for he head­ also studied French and Turkish. identity. Where formerly American press dispatches from the lined it as follows: "REDS STRESS "Since his earliest years he had Soviet Union rarely contained the words "Ukrainian" or "Uk- CLAIM ON UKRAINE BY RE- accompanied his father on military rainians," nowadays they are replete with them, as well as GLORIFYING KHMELNITSKY." campaigns against Turks and Poles. | "In this land official acts and in- Once during an absence from home, with reports of the valiant role the Ukrainians are playing in ¡ cidents are more than facts," Hindus Polish noblemen led an armed raid battling and driving out the Nazi invaders. A good example ¦ significantly begins his dispatch from against his village. His son was of this were the Leland Sto\ve dispatches to the New York | Moscow. "They are symbols of his­ killed and his wife, a famous beauty, Post from beleaguered Stalingrad of not so long ago. And toric direction and national intent. was abducted. only last Sunday a New York Times correspondent, Alexander That is why the elevation of Bogdan "Khmelnitsky appeared before the ¦ [in Ukrainian it is Bohdan] Khmel­ Werth, wirelessing from besieged Leningrad noted that the Polish King and asked for redress nitsky to the level of national emin­ from the Sejm (Parliament). His ap­ **tough artillery batteries ... of a famous Guards regiment" ence of Alexander Nevsky, Alexan­ peals were unheeded. He returned . defending that city are manned chiefly by Ukrainians. That this ¡der V. Suvorov and Mikhail L. Ku- to the Ukrainian Cossack stronghold. and many other similar references to the Ukrainians are passed tozov and other outstanding military Soon he rose unchallenged to leader­ by the Soviet censorship, is in itself quite significant of the I leaders in R>ussian history assumes ship. particular significance. radically new trend in Soviet policy toward the Ukrainians. "While some Cossacks made com­ "A new military order was created mon cause with the Poles, the vast What is the purpose of this sudden Soviet "recognition" two days ago bearing the name of majority followed him. Smarting of the Ukrainians? And of the truly heroic fight they are this once redoubtable Ukrainian with rancor, he led an army in guer­ waging against the Nazis? The answer is not hard to guess *statesman - warrior.' as the Soviet rilla warfare against the poles. Again at. It appears three-fold: press speaks of him. Today the City and again he won brilliant victories, of Pereyaslavl [Pereyaslav], recently and in January, 1649, he rode tri- First, to demonstrate to world opinion that the people of reconquered from the Germans and umpantly into Kiev." pre-war Polish occupied Western Ukraine are of the same race the scene 290 years ago of the Uk­ Here Hindus follows with an ac­ and nationality as those of Soviet occupied Ukraine; con­ rainian assemblage which accepted count of Khmelnitsky's subsequent sequently the Polish claims to Western Ukraine are unfounded Khmelnitsky's proposal *of a union turbulent career, and in doing so and the Western Ukrainians ought to be reunited with the of Ukraine with Russia, has been he perpetrates several gross mis­ renamed Pereyaslavl-Khmelnitsky. takes, particularly when he states Eastern Ukrainians—under Soviet rule. "It is certain that in days to come that in 1654 "Ukrainian nationhood, Secondly, to persuade world opinion that the Ukrainians military schools, collective farms, became reunited to Muscovy." The simply adore Soviet "freedom" and "democracy," and that museums and other institutions will mistake here is in the term "re­ in battling the Nazis they are striving to preserve Soviet rule be named after bim. He is destined united." That term implies a return and order and, of course, the "Union" as well; consequently to become one of the most highly to the fold. But such was not the popularized immortals, not only of case here. For if anyone returned to any talk of a free and independent Ukraine, no matter how the Ukraine but of the Russian na­ the fold, it was not Kozak Ukraine convincing it may be, is just so much bosh. tion. but Muscovy — to Ukraine. That's where Hindus erred. Nevertheless Lastly, to persuade the people most concerned, the Uk­ "It is unusual that this veneration Muscovy and not Ukraine emerged rainians themselves, that with their national identity officially should occur during the exciting out of that deal as the dominant events of today, such as the battle ^"recognized" and with certain linguistic and cultural conces­ power. In this connection, "The ¦for Kiev and the impending confer­ sions granted them, they ought to be satisfied, happy and Three Periods of Ukrainian Inde­ ence of foreign ministers. The rela­ pendence," on page 4 of this issue, even merry under the benign Red rule. tionship, however indirect, becomes should be read—definitely, especial­ The trouble with this type of Red propaganda, however, apparent when one reviews Khmelnit· ly its extensive references to Boh­ is that there are too many people in this world who are sky's stormy political and military dan Khmelnitsky. not only fair-minded, but who also keep their eyes and minds career and the reason for high dis­ open; they will not allow themselves to be misled by it. Such tinction now bestowed upon him." Concluding his account of that persons cannot help but remember— "He lived at a time when Moscow great Ukrainian Kozak leader, Hindus щ states in his Moscow dispatch to the That the Russian Soviet regime cruelly mistreated the Uk­ had not yet recovered from Tartar invasion. Kiev had lost its former N. Y. Herald Tribune that: rainians before the war; that it tacitly supported in Ukraine сµКл·аІ glory and commercial emin­ "In the present war the Ukrain­ catastrophic famine which took a toll running into millions ence, but it still remained the seat ians have achieved distinction only of human lives; and that, as Harold Denny, former Moscow of movements and societies uphold­ second to Russians, General Kirichen­ correspondent of the New York Times put it, "Ukraine has ing Ukrainian culture and^ independ­ ko, perhaps Russia's greatest cavalry been the field of a strong nationalist movement from the ence. commander; Marshal Semyon K. "Prom the so-called 'Kiev Brother­ Timoshenko, who only a few days ·beginniiig of the revolution;— hoods,' Khmelnitsky received many ago received the Suvorov Order, first That pre-war Poland also was grossly guilty of oppressing ideas for which he subsequently (Concluded oa page ¾ UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1943 No· 41 -ТС Text of Memorandum of Ukrainian Congress Committee 'bo Secretory o¢f State: Hull (Dispatched to Secretary Hull o¤ Saturday, Sketches-І¾«Ц»і»іі history were the first of the East Slavic peoples td October 9, 1943) In establishing their republic, it should be attain Statehood back in the ninth and tenth centuries, the Ukrainians again look forward to The Honorable Cordell Hull. borne in mind, the Ukfnjnia¤s invoked Wood row Wilson's principle of national self-determina­ the recreation of their own State as much as Secretary of State, the Poles did before 1914—so much 80 that they » Washington, D.