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W F U W O N E W S WORLD FEDERATION OF UKRAINIAN WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS December 1964 No. 3 80th A nniversary of Ukrainian W omen's Movement Editorial THE GREAT SACRIFICE In Ukraine’s struggle for free dom women have always played an important part. In the stormy days of Ukraine’s early history they were in charge of a great task. Beside care of their family and household they had to de fend their estates from attacks of different nomadic tribes. In more recent times they were in volved in the resistance against the occupants of Ukraine. And they proved their heroic fitness through innumerable deeds. One of their deeds — maybe the most tragic — has now at tained its 10th anniversary. This anniversary marks the death of 500 women in the concentra tion camp, Kingir, U. S. S. R., in June, 1954. This was the most important of all the uprisings of prisoners that spread through the whole Soviet Union, after Stalin’s death. It was not only the greatest of the uprisings — the revolt lasted 40 days — but it was the one treated by the most cruel means: the use of tanks. Eight years ago the news fil tered through the Iron Curtain into the Free World. Released prisoners related the desperate struggle of the inmates of the concentration camp and chain of women who tried to stop the attacking tank unit. Five hun dred of them paid for their de- Eighty years ago Ukrainian women, in Kiev and Stanyslaviv founded their first women’s or ganization. It was the first step of Ukrainian women to put them selves on the march. This movement started in very difficult circumstances. In an agricultural country, under for eign occupation, it had no plat form for the advancement of women. In the central part of Ukraine the икгаіпівп life was subdued by the Russian Czarist regime. Therefore women’s organiza tions could not develop either. But the advancement of women in educational and professional life was great, considering the fact that the first college — The Higher Courses for Women — was founded in 1870. With the proclamation of the Ukrainian votion with death. It proved their concerted resolve in this uneven struggle. Ukrainian women, in the Free World, remember this year, in deep sorrow the great sacrifice of these dauntless women. What ever changes come in the Soviet Union the mass murder of these women can neither be denied nor forgotten. National Republic in 1917 wom en were granted equal rights with men. And they were ready to face it. Eleven women entered the first Ukrainian parliament. With the Soviet occupation of Ukraine all women’s organiza tions were dissolved. The task to lead and represent Ukrainian women centered now in West Ukraine. The women’s move ment was advanced there in many aspects. When after 50 years, the anniversary was celebrated in Stanyslaviv, West Ukraine, thousand of peasant women took part in it. The coun try was all covered with Chap ters, even in remote villages. Their work was educational and humanitarian. It put the Ukrainian woman on the march in every field. World War II in terrupted this drive but could not slow striving towards personal ity. Even today, under Soviet oc cupation, Ukrainian women pro vide for the educational and sani tary services of the country. Among these women 80% are teachers and 70% are physicians. Traditions of the Ukrainian feminist movement were carried on through settlers into the United States and Canada, in the early twenties, and reinforced through refugees after World War II. In 1948 the World Fed eration of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations was founded. It is hard to celebrate one’s 80th anniversary in exile. But the unbroken spirit of its mem bers, the love for their country and the good will to serve its striving for freedom gives us an assurance for the future. HOPE No more can I call liberty my own, To me there’s naught remains but hope alone. The hope to see once more my loved Ukraine, To come back in my native land again. To gaze once more on Dnieper’s azure wave — I care not if alive or in the grave. To view the steppe, its ancient funerBl mounds, To sense the ardent strength which there abounds... Lesya Ukrainka НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ГРУДЕНЬ, 1964 1 7
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