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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN THE FIVE HUNDRED TRAMPLED UNDER The newspapers have recently printed a frightful report brought by a repatriated w ar prisoner fr-om beyond the Iron Curtain. The report relates as follow s: W hen the waves of strikes sw ept over the .Soviet slave labor camps, the bolshevik authorities were s u p p r e s s in g the uprisings m erci lessly and in. various ways. Since the 'Ukrainians were largely the organizers of the resistance, they w ere the ones most painfully hit by the measures of authorities. E.g. in one oif the concent ration camps built for women, the agents of MVD (secret police) were try ing to surround the -camp with tanks in order to bring it under their control. The captive women came forward facing .bravely the u n r u s h in g tanks and refusing to surrender. W hereupon the agents driving the tanks, following the order of their commander, press ed with full speed forw ard and trampled Hinder 500 Ukrainian women-, killing them instantly. * This scanty report fails to give dates or more circum stances in Which this bestial event occured. However, it is only a separate fact out of the whole resistance which is put by all subjugated peoples against the bolshevik re gime» and by the Ukrainian slave laborers in particular. Still this fact is very significant. For we must take into account that a young human being does not rea dily dispense with his life or with possibilities of saving it. W hen one nevertheless readily sacrifices one's life together with a large group condemned to slave labor, then the -mass of these w retched persons is moved by -superhuman emotions. Only the confidence in the righteousness of their cause will bring such a sacrifice. The ideal that led the 500 U k rainian women to certain death under the onrushing tanks, was their love for their native country. This is natural em otion — a sacri fice of (a noble soul for the loved one, or men’s and women’s love for their country’s freedom. And besides, we m ust not forget th a t the injustice the U krainian people have been suffering for 38 years under occupation Iby ibtoishevik tyrants, is creating a desperate situation, so that the people are more ready than ever to sacrifice their only treasure — their poor life. This frightful picture of 500 dead women tram pled by the tanks, proves that the people may be made slaves yet their souls re main free and th at they still value the freedom more than their lives,. The Ukrainian people have nev er stopped their struggle against the w orst enemy o>f humankind. The 'active as well as passive re sistance continues day and night in the cities and villages, in the factories and kolkhozes; the old and the young, the w orkers as well as the peasants» the students and the artists die or go to prisons and slave labor camps for their love for freedom. The U krainian women are m arching abreast of men in their resistance, for their defense of the soul of their chil dren, and this .awe-inspiring event in the slave labor camp testifies to this truth. Does any one doubt about the survival of an enslaved nation which possesses such brave w om en? Most probably not, for even the red regime of Kremlin found it inevitable to yield to some ex tent and to grant some measure of amnesty. No doubt the stru g gle will not cease until freedom is attained, no m atter what sacri fices it will demand, and the U k rainian women will be ever ready to bring these sacrifices. Maria Bilak THE PRESIDENT OF W FUW O SERIOUSLY ILL Madam Olena Kisilevska» P res ident of W orld Federation of U k rainian W om en’s Organizations, who has ibeen residing in Ottawa, Canada, ever since she arrived from Europe, has been seriously ill for several months. The illness of M'adam Kisilev- ska, a renowned patriot, author and social w orker, now 85, has created profound sorrow among Ukainians, and am ong the women in particular, who are trying a r dently to sustain her in her try ing time. She devoted all her adult life and her talents to the good cause of organizing Ukrainian women in their homeland, as well as over seas, no less than to the activities and struggle for U kraine’s free dom,. Ideal for a Gift for your friend or relative TH E NOTED BOOK SPIRIT OF FLAME poems and dram atic works of Lessya Ukrainka the greatest poetess of Ukraine $3.50 Order from the Home Office of UNW LA 909 N. Franklin St. Philadelphia 23, Pa. 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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