Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though most goalies on their off nights look as though they could no more stop a pumpkin than a puck, Goalie Sawchuk, a steel-nerved youngster of Ukrainian descent, never seems to get rattled. Says admiring Detroit General Manager Jack Adams: "In all the years we have watched Terry he's never had a bad game. He is always alert and reacting to every player's maneuverings from the minute that man gets the puck...
Sipping slowly at his Pilsener, the man in the Berlin café recalled that the German invasion of Russia in 1940 had given the Ukrainians new hope of winning their 240-year-old fight for independence. Throughout the Ukraine, guerrilla units sprang up and took advantage of the confusion to fight both Germans and Russians. By the end of World War II, the guerrilla Ukrainian Partisan Army (U.P.A.) had 200,000 men and ruled much of the Ukrainian countryside...
...people's hope for aid from America, however, has been weakened. In their camouflaged forest bunkers the U.P.A. men listen to the Voice of America. "Sometimes it drives them crazy," said the Ukrainian. "For example, when your Secretary of State says that the U.S. does not intend to undermine the Soviet government. When we hear things like that from America, we clutch our heads in horror . . . My people say to me: 'The Soviet Union has a complete plan for the whole world. And the United States?What plans does it have for eastern Europe...
When they had finished their beer the correspondent and the Ukrainian walked out of the cafe into Berlin's brilliant May sunshine. Before they parted the correspondent asked: "What do your people really hope for?" The answer was quick and passionate: "The thing we've hoped for for years. The end of foreign rule and exploitation by Moscow, either through czars or commissars. A life where we can travel more than 20 kilometers without an MVD permit, where we can be without fear and terror, where we are free...
...story goes, picked up the wife of a Polish nobleman. The lady's husband surprised the lovers and ended the courtly phase of Mazepa's education by tying him naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most of his Cossacks, seemed to be loyal to Czar Peter the Great. Later he switched his allegiance, thereby thoroughly confusing nearly everybody. Defeated with his Swedish allies...