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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN HAHILKY In Ukrainian tradition the Easter singing games are most picturesque and famous. They were known for centuries as ha- hil'ky or hayivky and they re mained almost unchanged until recent years. They originated in pre-Christian 'times when the re awakening of all life in the Spring was celebrated with joy ous festivals. The Spring was sig nalized then with pagan songs and dances, which were full of al lusions to the green and blossom ing awakened nature. With the coming o-f Christian ity the festivities were a>p’tly ap plied to celebration of the Resur rection of Christ, with the prom ise of renewed life and haip-piness. Howev-er, the songs still retained the old pagan allusions to nature and with the onset of political op pression they began to contain The editor of the newspaper “'Ukrainian News,” published in Neu-Ulm, U.S. Zone, Germany, had an interview with a young Ukrainian who has recently es caped from the Red army. His ansiwers are very interesting and revealing, as the conditions ’be hind the Iron Curtain, which he describes, are little known in the Free World. Here we only relate his answer to the question about the youth in Soviet Ukraine. Question: What is the attitude of the youth toward the Soviet regime ? The answer of the interviewed: — It could be stated with cer tainty that the grown-up youth of the preceding generation, in cluding 1'he members of the “com* somol” (communist youth organ- izatio: і ?f nurturing the deep- allusioiis to historic events, so 'chat haihilky of late years real ly contained a fair history of the Ukrainian people. Until World War II this Uk rainian custom of resplendent games with singing on Easter Sunday afternoon was widely practiced almost all over Ukraine. The games were played in the village churchyard, where the lovely surrounding landscape, the green grass, the picturesque church and belfry became a per fect background for the kaleido scope of color created by the bril liantly colorful dress of the vil lagers. This glamorous parade of color and song lasts until the shadows of the evening call the youth home. During all the celebration the bells in the belfry never cease their clamorous pealing. est hatred toward the present re gime. The “comsomol” is not en rolling the youngsters as mem bers полу as it did before. A tick et is delivered to a youngster with ‘“greetings” and one does not know where this comes from. One is just 'being enrolled and cannot refuse to join the group. — The boys in the army talk among themselves that they are not going to fight in the -next war. Let the veterans of the last war go on fighting! — they pro test. — The ‘boys and girls in Uk raine are nowadays the most un lucky lot. They cannot determine anything for themselves. They can be forced to toil in “kholkho- zes” (on communal farms) or at building canals, also in mines, or be sent to Kamchatka. And they must obey the orders of the bol shevik authorities and forget any thought of selecting their place or kind of employment. — The girls are the worst vic tims of the regime. Many men died during the war, hence there are a great deal more women than men. Most suicides are among the girls. They usually prepare a solution out of saltpeter, J:ake it, and after a few hours’ spasm they are dead. — The boys do not want to serve in the armed forces and that's the reason for so many suicides and desertions to the woods. The students in the schools, mostly the sons of peas ants w*ho were foirpiibly taken from the parents, drag on in hor rible conditions. Besides their studies in the school they are like wise obligated to work in the shops. And the serious problem is that they are undernourished, and thus are forced to engage in some illegal trade in order to scrape up some food. People in the West may not believe when I shall tell them that hungry students under bolshevik regime may often be seen at garbage cans of govern ment officials looking for some thing to eat. GETTING READY FOR MMM CONGRESS The Educational Committee of the World Federation of Ukrain ian W omen's Organizations (WFUWO) is getting ready to participate in the congress of the World Associations of Mothers (MMM) which is to be held in Brussels, Belgium, this June. The congress is being prepared under the slogan “The educational role of the mothers.” The WFUWO Educational Committee is endeavoring to ex pound an educational mission of Ukrainian mothers in Ukraine and abroad. It has twice -conduct ed an. inquiry sending out to its member organizations question? THE YOUTH UNDER SOVIETS
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