Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet regime has recently conducted a new pogrom of the contemporary Ukrainian cultural revival." Walter Odajnyk. Professor of Political Science at Columbia University told an audience of nearly 60 in Burr A last night...
...lecture -- which was a joint effort by Odajnyk and Martha Skorupski. Editor of the Digest of the Soviet Ukrainian Press--was sponsored by the Harvard Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners to galvanize activity and interest in the plight of the political prisoners in the Soviet Ukraine...
...lecturers reported that on January 12-13 the KGB, the Soviet security police, arrested nineteen Ukrainian intellectuals in Kiev. Lviv and Ivano-Frankivs'k and conducted searches in many more homes throughout the Ukraine...
Medvedev quotes from a private family archive an eyewitness account of how Stalin personally led the interrogation and humiliation of his purged Ukrainian party chief, Stanislav Kosior. There is also an authoritative description of the death of Stalin's prewar Aviation Minister, Mikhail Kaganovich, a Jew whom Stalin accused of collaborating with the Nazis. The man was summoned to the office of Anastas Mikoyan, one of Stalin's most durable aides and later Foreign Minister and President of the U.S.S.R., now retired and writing his memoirs. When Kaganovich was confronted with the false evidence against him, he asked...
Still, the month's only dramatic action came not from much-publicized liberal quarters, but from the church's Ukrainian hierarchy. Exiled Josyf Cardinal Slipyi took the synod floor to break an eight-year silence over the persecution of the 4,500,000 Roman Catholic Ukrainians, who have been forced into Eastern Orthodoxy by the Soviet regime. They have, he said, "sacrificed rivers of blood and mountains of bodies because of their fidelity to the Apostolic See, but they are defended by no one"-an obvious attack on Pope Paul's diplomatic Ostpolitik. The Ukrainians want...