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12.07.2010
The Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies (CAUS) passed a resolution at its Annual General Meeting expressing its concern about recent events in Ukraine that could have serious implications for the academic freedom of universities there. The recent visit of a Security Service of Ukraine agent to the rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Borys Gudziak, for the purpose of pressuring him to stem potential student protest over “controversial (and in some cases inflammatory) policies of the Ukrainian authorities” was the incident of particular concern. The CAUS meeting took place on 29 May at Concordia University in Montreal during the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. CAUS is a... |
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27.06.2010
As international leaders prepare to attend this year’s G8 and G20 Summits hosted by Canada, troubling events are emerging in Eastern Europe. Russia is steadily intensifying its economic and political stranglehold over its southern neighbour, Ukraine. In November 2004, while in Kyiv as an international election observer, I witnessed the mass demonstrations of the Orange Revolution that brought a pro-Western President to power in Ukraine. After 13 years of nominal independence, Ukraine had finally wrestled itself away from Russia’s sphere of influence towards a fully sovereign democratic state eager to join Europe. I never imagined that, barely six years later, the tide would take an extreme turn. Over the last month, thousands of people in both Canada and Ukraine have taken part in mass rallies condemning the most recent developments in Ukraine, where... |
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10.04.2010
Most historians would agree that one of the most eminent, if not the preeminent expert on the “Holocaust” was Raul Hilberg. Professor Hilberg published a three volume seminal study of this tragic event under the title “The Destruction of the European Jews” and that publication remains one of, if not the single greatest achievement of “Holocaust” historiography. In fact the US Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations has relied predominantly on the expertise of Prof. Hilberg in a large number of its denaturalization and deportation proceedings. The last few years have witnessed an avalanche of anti-Ukrainian nationalist writings and accusations. This has been spearheaded by the Russians, but the Jews and the Poles have attempted to introduce their perspective as well. The object of this calumny has been the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), its leader Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army... |
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08.03.2010
The spurious allegation that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its members in the Nachtigall Battalion carried out pogroms in Lviv in the summer of 1941, continues to be dredged up to defame the Ukrainian liberation struggle during WWII. Despite having been authoritatively exposed as part of a Soviet disinformation campaign from 50 years ago, it is again being forced on unwitting media outlets to discredit Ukrainian President Yushchenko’s decision to confer a posthumous medal “Hero of Ukraine” on Stepan Bandera, leader of OUN during and after WWII. Five separate and exhaustive investigations established that neither the OUN nor its members in the Nachtigall Battalion participated in the heinous war crimes/pogroms in Lviv in July of 1941. First, the investigation of the Extraordinary State Commission on German atrocities, created by... |
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06.02.2010
Only seven people came to bury him. He rests beneath a simple stone in New York’s Mount Hebron cemetery, the sole clue to his historical importance an inscription incised below his name - “Father Of The Genocide Convention.” As a graduate student I was obliged to read his book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress, frankly more door-stopper than page-turner. Nowadays, with advocates for “humanitarian intervention” shilling the notion of a “duty to intervene” whenever and wherever necessary to “stop genocide,” Dr. Raphael Lemkin’s name and words are better known. After all he fathered the term “genocide” by combining the root words... |
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18.10.2009
Honourable Madame Chancellor, We are writing to you in the matter of Mr. John Demjanjuk, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been stripped of his US citizenship and deported from the United States to Germany at the request of German authorities. As you undoubtedly know, Mr. Demjanjuk was accused in the past of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II, including, in particular, of being the notorious guard called “Ivan the Terrible” in the infamous Treblinka extermination camp. He was stripped of his US citizenship and extradited in 1986 to stand trial in Israel on these charges. He was convicted in 1988 based on faulty eye witness identification and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. However... |
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04.06.2009
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics officially came to an end in December 1991. President Yeltsin apparently, forgot to tell the USSR Permanent Mission to the UN. On May 5, 2009 the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations held a briefing entitled “The Outcome and Lessons of World War II and the Present” at the UN headquarters in New York. The event was opened and presided over by Ilya Rogachev, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN. In his opening remarks Mr. Rogachev said... |
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04.06.2009
On May 22, 2009 the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched a criminal case against the perpetrators of the Genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933 under Article 442 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. "The case was started in response to the appeals of the Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Ihor Yukhnovsky, MPs Hryhoriy Omelchenko and Oleksandr Chernovolenko and numerous demands by Ukrainian citizens to investigate the evidence of genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933," stated the SBU press center... |
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09.05.2009
 Twenty thousand Ukrainians gathered on a remote plateau in the Carpathians in mid-March to honor those who fought for the independence of Carpatho-Ukraine that was declared as Europe braced for WWII. In Ukraine, the exact start (and end) dates of WWII depend on the history textbook you’re reading. Soviet apologists prefer to downplay the period of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact... |
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09.05.2009
The Holodomor Memorial Day Act, Private Member’s Bill 147 recognizing the Holodomor as an act of genocide was passed by the Parliament of Ontario on April 9, 2009. The Bill declared Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth Saturday in November of each year in the province of Ontario, The passage of the bill represented the culmination of an arduous process that started more than two years ago. Then Minister of Labour and... |
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