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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN VAIN HOPES There appeared in recent months crevices in the Iron Cur tain which divides the world into two camps, the free world and the subjugated world. Various dele gations are journeying ■east and west, foreign corresipondents among them, who -can more freely report of the situation in non-free part of the world than it had -been possible heretofore. The press of the world devotes much space to the problems behind the line drawn -by the Kremlin. A ll these occurences interest the readers west of the -line, and the U krain ians in ,particular. Yes, the Ukrainians are follow ing these reports. Not because they m ight present new material or would relate 'something un known to them. The .persons who had lived in U SSR for 20 years or more, do not «expect anything surprising or any secrets in the developments in USSR. However, we of the free world, are -eager to find out how the representatives of the western world are 'conceiv ing the Soviet reality, and w heth er they have grasped the way of looking behind the Iron Curtain. These traveling correspondents have varied approach. Some o*f them lim it themselves to observa tion of capital cities, others reach the interior of Central Asia. Some are appraising the Soviet reality only superficially, after having visited Moscow and a model kol khoz kept for mere demonstration to foreigners. Others, however, are trying to check up the cost of living and the wages of the Soviet workingmen. Still the deep and thorough probing of Soviet real ity is too difficult for them, in sipite of the fact that some of the visitors may sipeak Russian and that they are granted more free dom of traveling and movement than it had been possible just a few years back. One of the rea sons is, as the New York Times correspondent, H arry Schwarz, states, that the people in the So viet Union are unw illing to con verse, especially w ith the strang ers. They may be friendly toward a stranger, yet reserved and si lent. Thirty eight years of terror ism and fright have produced such a state of affairs. Some visitors even get enthusi astic during their visits in USSR. Senator Ellender (D.., La.), was jesting with a family of kolkhoz- niks and probably believed that he understood their grim way of life. And Miss W hitney found out such phenomena that the Soviet w om en care nothing about their hairdo or wear, so that, in her opinion, there would be no girl in U SSR who could be selected a Miss U SSR. Yet they are far too un concerned to dig into the back ground of such appearances. Those who had been up t-ill 1945 under $oviet yoke, ibut are now in the Free W orld, do realize that the system of U SSR remains as it has been for 38 years and w ill re main unchanged in humanly fore seeable time. The same extremely centralized government, the same terrorism, the same rigorous con trol of all shades of life, and the same general line and objective to seize the rest of the world, to black out the rays of the sun of freedom and hope for better to morrow of humankind. Thus- we are not apt to lightly accept such misconception as e.g. that there m ight ibe a possibility of form ing free and independent women’s organizations within the U SSR or its satellites, as some opdnjions An. some international circles m ight imply. For we do know it .perfectly well that if there would be such organiza tions, they would be formed at the instance of Soviet government w ith the strictest instructions to follow verbatim its dictates. They m ight be even sent throughout the world, however, solely w ith one and only object — to serve bolshevism. In the feminist movement in all free countries, which has been leading the masses of women to coordinated action toward attain ing complete equality, the princi ple of freedom of thought, of the press and speech has always been supreme. Since the women have been w inning these civic rights through persistent struggle and From the booklet “The Woman of Ukraine” published by the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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