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"Gomin Ukrainy" is an idea and people
Issue 33 of September 11, 1991, the Voice of Ukraine waited for the hour Ukrainians had suffered for, when the first page of the newspaper announced in its headline that Ukraine had declared its independence. In the first issue of our newspaper on December 15, 1948, the first page announced the task of the “Voice of Ukraine”: to inform its readership about the struggle of the Ukrainian people for the right to be free in their independent state and to serve this sacred cause.
As a thoughtful observer looks through the anniversaries of the Voice of Ukraine, I am struck by the amount of hard work, life experience and wisdom, knowledge, dedication and sacrifice that the leaders of the Voice of Ukraine and thousands of OUVF-OUDF members and supporters have put forth in the service of the Ukrainian Cause, our community and society in general over the more than half-century of the newspaper’s existence. For its leaders, work at the Voice of Ukraine was not just a regular job, but always turned into an all-encompassing lifestyle, fulfillment of duty and service to the Cause. This is the secret of the success of the Voice of Ukraine.
With the collapse of the Bolshevik-Russian empire of the USSR and the restoration of the Ukrainian state, the Voice of Ukraine has entered a new period in its chronicling. One of the main tasks of the Voice of Ukraine is now to promote the processes of state-building in Ukraine, national revival, Ukraine’s withdrawal from Moscow’s “sphere of influence” and Ukraine’s integration into the community of free, democratic states in Europe and the Western world in particular. We believe that the establishment of close friendly and partnership relations between Ukraine and Canada is a significant milestone in this direction.
As always, the Voice of Ukraine strives to truthfully and comprehensively inform its readers about Ukraine and the diaspora, their successes and, with understanding, their challenges at this unique historical stage in the life of our nation. “The Voice of Ukraine strives to inform its readers in a constructive manner, always taking into account the long-term national and state interests of Ukrainians. We believe – in accordance with the democratic principle – that the state should serve the people. However, it should be emphasized that historical experience – and especially the Ukrainian experience – dictates that only its own state can serve its own people – never a foreign one! Therefore, we consider it necessary to establish the concept of Ukrainian statehood, our statehood, state mentality, instincts, feelings and worldview among the widest circles of Ukrainians. Our newspaper has never succumbed to the idea that the idea and necessity of Ukrainian statehood should be dependent on or subordinated to the everyday problems of the day, such as the quality of a piece of sausage at the moment.
In this matter, we are guided by the principle that Yaroslav Stetsko constantly emphasized: it is not where the homeland is good, but where the homeland is good. And HOW it will be in our homeland now depends primarily on us. The priority for the Voice of Ukraine has also been and is to promote 1) the preservation of the achievements of the Ukrainian Western diaspora and its further development, 2) the integration of the Eastern and Western diasporas into one entity in the name of the unity of the global Ukrainian community, and 3) the protection of the interests of the Ukrainian community. We are guided by the premise that a strong, dynamic and empowered Ukrainian diaspora will be able to continue to contribute to the good of Ukraine and global Ukrainians now and in the future.
The greatest moral reward for the Voice of Ukraine is that for more than half a century, our newspaper has successfully and dignifiedly fulfilled the role of an exponent, pulse and cementing factor for the Ukrainian State Front (now OUDF) in Canada and the entire patriotic community, keeping it at a high level of political and social tension. It has made an indisputable contribution to the process of the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people, and now to its state-building and national revival.
With the restoration of the Ukrainian state and the establishment of normal friendly relations between Canada and Ukraine, new prospects and concrete opportunities have opened up for our newspaper in the field of “Homin Ukraine” informatics, publicism and journalism in terms of enriching the content of the newspaper. The fact that “Homin Ukrayiny” is on the right and reliable path of further development is evidenced by the fact that today it is the most widely read and authoritative Ukrainian weekly in the diaspora with readers not only in Canada but in all countries of our settlement. Homin Ukrayiny also enjoys a growing number of readers in Ukraine, where the newspaper is even used to teach Ukrainian ethnic studies in schools.
Ukrainian Millennium.
“The Voice of Ukraine is not just a publishing house and a newspaper, but, above all, it is an idea and people who, back in 1948, combined these two elements to create something bigger, more valuable, and more lasting than each of them was individually. The new shift, which has been replenishing our institution over the years with understanding, inherits this ideological guidance of its predecessors.
To the friends of Homonivka from older generations, we owe our deepest gratitude for always passing on the Ukrainian national idea and Homin Ukrayiny to their successors as a means of further serving this idea and the Ukrainian Cause.
The newspaper is getting published with the support of the Government of Canada
