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...biggest draw, students say, is an over-whelming obligation to learn about the Ukrainian heritage and perpetuate it. Many students say they believe they owe that to their Ukrainian ancestors who endured tremendous oppression throughout the last three centuries...
After the Ukraine was absorbed into the Russian Empire in the late 18th century, successive Tsars repeatedly suppressed the nationalist natives. The Tsar's attempts to Russify Ukraine reached its zenith in 1876 when the Tsar issued the Ems Ukaz, which banned all publishing in Ukrainian. Ironically the Harvard building which houses the Ukrainian Institute was built in that year...
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire and the ensuing Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine was carved up among the Soviet Union. Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. While the Poles and Romanians repressed their Ukrainian populations, persecution was even worse in the Soviet-controlled eastern portion...
Many historians believe that Stalin engineered a famine in 1933 in an attempt to break the back-bone of the nationalist-minded Ukrainian peasantry, causing the death of seven million villagers. Despite a relatively normal harvest in Ukraine--considered the Soviet Union's bread-basket--Soviet officials ignored signs of mass starvation, scholars say, requiring nearly all foodstuffs to be exported outside of the republic...
...have a responsibility to carry on a tradition and a heritage, which our forefathers fought really hard for," adds Katherine Fontaine, a Ukrainian American student at the University of Minneapolis. "If we didn't learn the language and keep up the Ukrainian heritage, then we would be traitors to our forefathers...