The Village of the Living Dead
Rowe, Nicholas
women were raped and the young men sent for military training. I saw with my own eyes two different ways of killing the old. Some were lined up and shot . Others who were very old were simply...
...The "pour encourager les autres...
...Their surveys indicate that a higher proportion of Ukrainians tun e in to these broadcasts than Soviet Rus-sians to Russian-language broadcasts . ' Despite these important initiative s Ukrainian nationalism is still a very minor sideshow for most of the U.S . foreign policy establishment...
...Orders were, "Destroy everything, burn dow n the houses, kill the cattle, neutralize the population...
...But we coped...
...They predicted Russia would never rise again after the war...
...The answer came from an unexpected source, a Cuban who deserted to join UNITA...
...No ef-fort was made by government leaders nor by the U.S...
...The U.S...
...Paradoxically, while in the West th e Ukraine and Ukrainians remain a hid -den nation, in recent years the Eas t European democratic opposition has recognized their central role in the eventual decolonization of the Sovie t bloc...
...press...
...It is very difficult for me to remember these things...
...with an important source for in formation about party, state, and dissident developments in the Ukraine...
...No effort is made, for exam-ple, to take advantage of the fact that the Ukrainian SSR is a putativel y autonomous member state of the United Nations...
...The above testimony makes me think that if Jonas Savimbi and UNITA los e their war, the village of the living dead may become the country of the living dead...
...We coped...
...Forgive me...
...When Solidarity Adrian Karatnycky is director of research at the AFL-CIO Free nude Union Institute...
...In its own way, the Soviet leadership also recognizes the decisive role of the Ukrainians, who historically have been well represented in leading party posts . Official lip service is paid to the Ukrai -nian SSR as an "autonomous republic" with its own government . Moscow's sensitivity to Ukrainian national sen-timents was played out last June befor e an audience of millions of Soviet televi -sion viewers...
...Miguel Garcia Enamorado, from the Cuban province of Gran Ma, explained that any village more than ten kilo -meters outside a town was automatical -ly considered to favor UNITA and was therefore subject to punitive measures, Adrian Karatnycky THE UKRAINIAN OPTION Forty million people waiting to be used . gathered at its historic Congress i n Gdansk in September 1980, it issued a famous call to "the nations of th e Soviet Union" in which it asserted : "We are profoundly aware of the com-munity of our fates...
...government, likewise, ac-knowledges the potential significanc e of the Ukrainian factor...
...Both my mother and father were killed by th e Cubans...
...A consulate will soon open in Kiev, providing th e U.S...
...Were a nuclear ac-cident to occur in, say, Northern Ireland, it would be inconceivable fo r the press to disregard the implication s for nationalism and separatism...
...Polish opposition leader Jacek Kuron has written that "without an in -dependent Ukraine there can be no in -dependent Poland...
...This dissident realpolitik should not be surprising...
...In the period of martial law suc h mainstream underground groupings a s "Fighting Solidarity" and 13'godnik Mazowsze (the official Warsaw-base d newspaper of the Solidarity under-ground) have published extensive infor-mation on the Ukrainian opposition and on Ukrainian history and culture . Indeed, publications in Ukrainian are appearing with increasing regularity i n the Polish underground—with the Ukraine as their intended ultimate destination...
...As Richard Pipes has observed, "With fifty million people, 86 percent of them (as of 1970 ) Ukrainian-speaking, the Ukraine is potentially a major European state...
...Patroniz-ing tribute is paid to Ukrainians i n ritual declarations of "Captive Nations Week" and in commemorations o f Ukrainian independence...
...It is Europe's invisible nation...
...last year, no attention was paid to him in his Ukrainian capacity...
...q Voice of America and Radio Libert y broadcast a substantial roster of pro-grams in Ukrainian into the Ukrainian SSR...
...I'm sorry...
...With a population of nearly fifty million, a territory comparable in size to that o f France, and a history of dogge d resistance to foreign rule, it dimly ex-ists on the fringes of Western con-sciousness . As the Czech writer Milan Kundera has written: . . . over the past five decades forty millio n Ukrainians have been quietly vanishin g from the world without the world payin g heed . In the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the invisibility of the Ukrainians was further underscored . The New York Times, the Washingto n Post, and the three television networks chose to ignore the national dimension of the catastrophe...
...Ironically, this is the same error that is regularly repeated i n the U.S...
...The ver y same members of the House and Senate who routinely place pro forma statements about Ukrainian in -dependence into the Congressional 'In the case of Radio Liberty, however, th e staff of the Ukrainian service is half that of Radio Free Europe's Bulgarian Service, this for a potential audience that is five times larger than the Bulgarian . THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1986...
...First they were clubbed and then shot...
...Some were lined up and shot . Others who were very old were simply clubbed to death, or kicked to death with boots or bayoneted...
...Nothing was left after that...
...But we rose again . . . . For all the people who are striving for good, Russia—er, the Soviet Union, I mean—that is what we call it now, and what it is in fact—for them it is a bulwark . What is noteworthy is that Gorbachev not only recognized he had mad e a slip of the tongue before a Ukrainian public, but that he compounded th e slip by clumsily suggesting that Russi a and the Soviet Union were indeed synonymous...
...In a revealing episode, Mikhail Gorbachev engaged in an im-promptu street conversation wit h Ukrainians in Kiev : Listen [Gorbachev said], we coped after the Imperialist war, after the civil war, when th e country was in ruins...
...No, I can't talk any more about this...
...The noted Polish democratic activist Adam Michnik has echoed this theme...
...The question we all asked ourselve s was why: why attack these villages deep : inside the part of Angola nominally controlled by Jose Eduardo Dos San-tos and his Cuban allies...
...We support those among you who have decided o n the difficult road of struggle for fre e trade unions...
...Thus when Ukrainian Communist party first secretary Volodymyr Shcherbitsky visited th e U.S...
...Its separation would not only deprive Russia of an important source of foo d and industrial products, but also cut it off from the Black Sea and the Balkans...
...I was very sad and also angry with myself that I did nothing, said nothing . But I would have been killed as well . I was afraid...
...Yet U.S . foreign policy does not exploit the con -tradictions of Soviet policy toward th e Ukraine...
...I was there, I saw it . Both were killed in more or less the same way...
...press to hold him ac -countable for the suppression o f Ukrainian human rights advocates nor for an intensified, decade-long clamp -down on Ukrainian culture...
...Mindful of the need for improved relations with its non-Russian neighbors, Solidarity's leader s also declared their commitment to th e defense of the rights of the Jewish , Lithuanian, and Ukrainian minoritie s in Poland...
Vol. 19 • August 1986 • No. 8
