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 Statement from headquarters of Ukrainian Canadian Congress (11/20/94)
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was formed in 1942 and fought the Germans until their retreat from Ukraine, then continued the struggle against the Soviet occupation until the early 1950s.
Ukrainian leaders in Galicia supported the division's formation, realizing that Ukrainians would need an organized military force to resist the Soviet reoccupation of western Ukraine as the Third Reich collapsed.
CBS and "60 Minutes" must apologize to the Ukrainian people, retract their story and provide equal time to produce a thoroughly researched and balanced account which is not defamatory or racist.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1994/479419.shtml   (1485 words)

  
 Who are we, LEMKOs......
Over there Lemko united themselves at first into general Ukrainian organizations, to be followed by their own, regional ones.
With assistance of the army and police units, Lemkos were forcefully chased out of their native lands.
In connection with UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army - wm) activity in the cited territory, after 1945 repatriated to Vrotslav, Shchetsin, Olshtin and Koshaleen districts".
www.lemko.org /lih/whoarewe.html   (1662 words)

  
 Ukrainian Literature in English, 1980-1989 by Marta Tarnawsky - Articles in Journals and Collections A-I - CIUS Press
Marko Boieslav was the pseudonym of an underground poet of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Wasyl Jaszczun, professor emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh, author of studies in Ukrainian language and literature, was awarded the Ukrainian of the Year award by the Ukrainian Technological Society in Pittsburgh.
As to the provincialism of Ukrainian culture, it is due primarily to "bureaucratic centralism, which has exxagerated the role of the centre to an unbelievable degree"..
www.utoronto.ca /cius/HTMfiles/Intpub/Tarnawsk/RR62/rr62-a1.htm   (11577 words)

  
 Ukrainians in Canada
Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Hamilton
Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Toronto
Litopys UPA - Chronicle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
www.infoukes.com /canada   (66 words)

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