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What Emigrants Know And Can Never Know
I was in Kazakhstan in September 2007 with a Ukrainian-American named Ivan. The Soviets had exiled Ivan’s entire family from Western Ukraine to Kazakhstan just after WWII. He first visited Kazakhstan...
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Why Ukraine? Why Me?
The whole titanic struggle, which some are so apt to dismiss as “the Russian glory,” was first of all a Ukrainian war. – Edgar Snow, American war correspondent, Saturday Evening Post, 1945 The...
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A Young Woman in the Resistance: Stefania Protschack Kostuik, Part II
Stefania Protschack Kostuik joined the Ukrainian resistance when she was fourteen. She and her fellow members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists found themselves trapped between—and...
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Outrage and Shame
I just learned that Volodomyr Vyatrovych, a historian who was serving as director of the archives for Ukraine’s SBU, was fired from that post. The SBU is the successor to the KGB, and Vyatrovych made...
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Sometimes The Truth Is The Only Justice
There was an interesting piece on NPR about a three-year push by the FBI to close cold-case murders from the civil rights era. Three years ago, the FBI pledged to investigate cases that had gone...
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A Monument to Ignorance and Barbarism
After five years of studying Ukraine’s history and observing its politics, I thought I could no longer be shocked by Russified Ukrainians, anti-Ukrainian Russians, and those who remain proud Communists...
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ASN Day One: Ukrainians and Jews
I am attending the Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention (April 15-17) at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. This is my first post about the convention. My schedule allowed me...
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NPR Report on Victory Day and Why Ukrainians Don’t Feel Like Celebrating
It is rare to hear news about Ukraine on the radio and rarer still hear a report that evinces an understanding of Ukraine’s history, so I was encouraged by this story on National Public Radio’s...
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The Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union: One Village’s Perspective
Seventy years ago today, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. For millions who lived in Eastern Europe, this marked the end of a brutal Soviet occupation that had begun in October 1939. The...
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A Jew, a Ukrainian Jew, and a Gentile Ukrainophile head onto the Internet…
Consciously or unconsciously, I have largely avoided the controversy concerning Ukrainian–particularly Ukrainian nationalist–participation in the Holocaust. Two primary reasons for this are that there...
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