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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN AND STILL THE HOPE SURVIVES Our native land is wide, rich and beautiful. Vast fields, villages in bright orchards. Gardens add to florid embellishment. The bllue sky in Ukraine is enchanting and bewitching. Ukrainian -evenings were -pictured by poets, and fam ous author Mikola Hohol •exclaim ed : “Oh, you have never seen the Ukrainian night.” The air in Uk raine is salubrious and balmy, vil lages and towns seem dreaming of the great past o*f t)he country and o;f a better tomorrow. But wlhat about the people? They do not «enjoy the beauty of their land. They are not free, they are subjugated by the Russian communists, and are fearfully poor. Work under bolsheviki is compulsory, under stern control by the government, but the work ers exist like, beggars. They have to wear shabby clothes, to starve, and live in cold huts. They are not permitted to change their work, to move to another place, to strike, or to ask for better pay. Those unwilling to submit to ter roristic regime are -either execut ed or sent to Siberia to work un der worst conditions in slave la bor camps. Millions are engaged in slave labor, and hundreds of thousands are dying -every year of exhaustion and starvation. The people live in constant fear. The same nightmare spreads likewise to other countries wher ever the communist terror crosses the border. Still the Ukrainian people, as well as other subjugated peoples, did not accept willingly the Rus sian communist regime of terror and are opposing the force with force since the first day of inva sion o-f their country. During the first years of occupation there w-ere large Ukrainian insurgent armies which were fighting the invaders valiantly, until they were completely exhausted. But during World War II the Ukrainians again formed their large insur gent army, widely known as UP A (Ukrainian Partisan Army). This army was a serious threat to So viet invaders, and it is well known that several years ago Moscow had to conclude a separate under standing with Poland and Czecho slovakia to combat the Ukrainian partisans fighting for freedom of their native land. Yet even the regular armies of the three coun tries under communist regime were not albl-e to wholly destroy the Ukrainian insurgent army. Because as the frightful oppres sion continues so emerges anew t h e r e j uv-e 11 a t ed a r med oppo sit io n. This is a desperate struggle of the people who are determined to shatter the fetters and to live as a free and independent nation. Only the faith in God and His fin al decision for the good of human ity sustain the brave Ukrainian people under unspeakable condi tions. The Ukrainian woman is suffer ing doubly for she is forced to sacrifice her children to the worst •enemy of her people and human race. And the children are forced to hate their mother who hates the hated regime. The Ukrainian woman, the mo ther and the sister of the insur gents who are suffering and en during inhuman physical and mental tortures, is praying to Al mighty God that His kingdom come to the poor, the starved and oppressed, and His will shall be done on earth. The Ukrainians hope, even though against hope,- that the Lord’s will shall be done some bright tomorrow, that ray of hope for freedom shall come from the lands of the free, as there must be, under God, the end to the en thronement of the evil, and the resurrection o-f the reign of good. EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE In 1951 the World Federation o:f Ukrainian Women’s Organiza tions (WFUWO) had instituted as its section an Educational Com mittee in Philadelphia consisting of educators» pedagogs and moth ers. Its aim is to assist the moth ers in their educational task. Ukrainian mothers are scatter ed all over the world. They en counter great difficulties in their new surroundings. The Educa tional Committee is investigat ing these new conditions through gathering of reliable informations which in. turn are given to the per sons desiring such/instruction. The committee is conducting special conferences on these top ics and is also arranging personal consultations. It likewise presents its ideas to the public through the press. LITERARY EVENING AND MEMORIAL TO MRS. JULIA SHUSTAKEWICH / Detroit’s season of concerts, musicals, and various programs has been in full swing. The last Sunday of February has been set aside for a special program of mu sic and literature commemorating the renowned poetesis and writer “Lesya Ukrain.ka.” Part of the program will be devoted to the memory of the late Mrs. Julia Shustakewich, a charter member of the Ukrainian National Wom en’s League of America in Det roit, and its first national Presi dent. This program will take place at S in the afternoon at the new International Institute of Metro politan Detroit, and will be spon sored by the Ukrainian Detroit Cultural Club and also- Chapter 37 of the Ukrainian National Wom en’s League of America, which chapter bears the name “Lesya Ukrainka,” and of which Mrs. Shustakewich had been a member since its existence.
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