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НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Березень-Квітень 2024 7 A Conversation with the Past After launching in 1944 as a tabloid, Наше життя / Our Life underwent several changes in the 1950s, including adopting the magazine format that has continued to the present day and devoting a few pages in each issue to an English-language section titled “Ukrainian Woman.” The content of that section varied widely, from branch reports and organizational announcements to editorials and political perspectives. News from Ukraine was a regular feature, particularly news about Ukrainian women. The September 1956 issue, for example, included “A Letter from Slave Labor Camp,” about a letter from Ukrainian women political prisoners in a Mordovian concentration camp that had been smuggled out to the West. The letter was written in purple “ink” on a piece of linen cloth, enabling it to be hidden in the lining of an item of clothing. “The writing is legible,” says the article, “and similarly clear are the well-measured thoughts expressed therein. In scanty sentences its authors are trying to convey the matters of great concern to them.” The letter begins with a description of the conditions in the camp: famine, hard labor, and appalling sanitary conditions, compounded by a ban on correspondence with the outside world and on “engaging in handiwork.” In the second half, the prisoners inform the Ukrainians of the free world that the Bolshevik regime is watching their activities, but the prisoners “wish them firmness ... and believe that one day they will be found working for the restoration of nationhood to their native land.” The article concludes with a paragraph that could have been written today: “Hence we realize that the struggle for independence waged by the Ukrainian people is growing and is striking ever deeper roots. And our women, abreast of men, are in the first lines of resistance.” From the Our Life Archives: The 1950s Each issue throughout this 80th anniversary year of Our Life will feature an article from one of the magazine’s eight decades. This month, Our Life editor Romana Labrosse shines the spotlight on the 1950s.
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