"UKRAINE REPORT 2003"
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"

Excerpts from Ivan Hrushchenko's article in Komunist, November 19, 2003.

"In 1932-1933 Soviet Ukraine, along with many USSR regions, was affected
by terrible famine, caused by unfavorable weather conditions and also
defects in conducting collectivization..."

"After the 1991 counter-revolutionary coup d'etat, and USSR collapse,
[Prof. James] Mace immediately came to Ukraine, gathering together a
supporting group of corrupt academicians, corresponding members, and
writers... to launch an anti-Communist campaign on 'genocide'."

"We are tired enough of you, false friend of Ukraine. Go home, Mr. Mace!"
["Communist," published in Ukraine, November 19, 2003]
[see articles eight, nine and ten]

"UKRAINE REPORT 2003," Number 110
U.S.-UKRAINE FOUNDATION (USUF)
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C., Kyiv, Ukraine, morganw@patriot.net
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2003

INDEX OF ARTICLES:

1. UKRAINE TO BUY 1M TONNES OF GRAIN IN USA, CANADA
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

2. US AMBASSADOR VOICES CONCERN AT DEMOCRATIC
INFRINGEMENTS IN UKRAINE
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

3. HOLODOMORS IN UNDER-SOVIET UKRAINE
A New Book For 70th Anniversary of Holodomor-Genocide
Works by the Members of the Association of Holodomors Researchers in Ukraine
By E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, December 5, 2003

4. RUSSIAN ENERGY CHIEF ANATOLIY CHUBAYS TAKES
DIM VIEW OF UKRAINE-EUROPE GRID MERGER
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

5. PRESIDENT KUCHMA SAYS UKRAINE "NOT READY" TO
SELL STAKES IN ENERGY COMPANIES TO RUSSIA
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

6. USA AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE BELIEVES VERY IMPORTANT
COLLABORATION OF TWO COUNTRIES IN MILITARY SPHERE
UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 4, 2003

7. UKRAINIAN COMMUNIST LEADER CALLS FOR REVIEW
OF FOREIGN-FUNDED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORG. (NGO'S)
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

8. MEMORY CREATES A NATION
The Day WEEKLY DIGEST of Ukrainian News in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 2, 2003

9. "THE DAY DOESN'T FEAR OF BEING ACCUSED OF
ANTI-COMMUNIST....."
Letter to the Editors of The Day by Tamara Demchenko, Dept of History and
Archeology, Chernihiv Shevchenko State Pedagogical University
Published in The Day WEEKLY DIGEST, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2, 2003

10. MACE GO HOME!
["We are tired enough of you, false friend of Ukraine. Go home, Mr. Mace!"]
By Prof. James Mace, Consultant to The Day
The Day WEEKLY DIGEST, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2, 2003

11. HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT AND THE POPE JOHN PAUL II
MARK UKRAINIAN HOLODOMOR [GENOCIDAL FAMINE}
The Day WEEKLY DIGEST of Ukrainian News in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2, 2003

12. THREE GENOCIDAL FAMINE (HOLODOMOR) BOOKS PUBLISHED
"Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook" and "Famine 1932-1933 Years in Ukraine"
and now "Holodomors in Under-Soviet Ukraine."
E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, December 5, 2003
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
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1. UKRAINE TO BUY 1M TONNES OF GRAIN IN USA, CANADA

Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

Kiev, 4 December: Ukraine is planning to import about 1m tonnes of milling
grain in January-July 2004, mostly from the USA and Canada, Ukrainian
Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Kyrylenko said, speaking to journalists today.

Kyrylenko said Ukraine has to abandon the CIS grain markets in favour of
world markets due to Russia's and Kazakhstan's intentions to limit grain
exports.

Kyrylenko said he does not expect prices to soar because of the
re-orientation to a more expensive grain. The state reserve should intervene
to prevent this, he said.

It is expected that Ukraine's grain import over July-December 2003 will
amount to 2.5m tonnes. Kyrylenko said 1.9m tonnes of this product has
already been imported, including 640,000 tonnes in November and 587,000
tonnes in October.

As reported earlier, the government estimates grain shortage in Ukraine at
3.5m tonnes. Ukraine harvested 20.5m tonnes of grain in 2003, according to
preliminary information. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
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2. US AMBASSADOR VOICES CONCERN AT DEMOCRATIC
INFRINGEMENTS IN UKRAINE

Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

Kharkiv, 4 December: The United States is disturbed that administrative
resources are interfering in the competition among different political
forces in Ukraine, US ambassador John Herbst has said.

At a meeting in Kharkiv on Thursday [4 December] with the head of the
regional state administration, Yevhen Kushnaryov, Herbst said that
US-Ukrainian relations had been developing positively in recent months. In
this connection, he mentioned a short conversation between Ukrainian
President Leonid Kuchma and US President George Bush, and the fact that
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and parliament speaker Volodymyr
Lytvyn met with top US officials during their visits to Washington.

"We welcome Ukraine's ambition to become a member of the Euro-Atlantic
community," Herbst said. However, he said it was "hard to be partners with a
country that does not share our principles", the first of which is the
principle of democracy. Herbst said that Washington was "concerned at the
administrative measures" that were preventing political parties from
expressing themselves, explaining that he had in mind the measures taken in
Kharkiv to prevent the Our Ukraine bloc from holding a forum there.

"It does not matter to the United States who wins the election: that is
Ukrainians' business," Herbst said, adding that the important thing for
Washington is that the Ukrainian people should have the opportunity to hear
a plurality of views and be given free access to information, so that in the
end it could make its own choice. "Our interest is in the right of the
Ukrainian people to realize their democratic right. The democratization of
politics and public life will be a real step in improving relations between
Ukraine and the United States," he said.

Kushnaryov said that he fully agreed with Herbst's views on democratic
society, pointing out that he was himself in opposition in the last years of
the Soviet Union and knew what it is like to feel "pressure from the
authorities". Kushnaryov said that all political forces operate freely in
Kharkiv and there is a dialogue of sorts between the authorities and the
opposition. He also said that he was perhaps the only regional governor in
the country to have had a half-hour discussion with opposition
representatives on live television.

As for the Our Ukraine forum in Kharkiv, Kushnaryov told Herbst: "It seems
that your information about Viktor Yushchenko's visit to Kharkiv is somewhat
distorted." He said that Our Ukraine was able to hold its forum without
hindrance in one of the best buildings in the city, and that Yushchenko met
the Kharkiv mayor and was given half-hour of live airtime on one of the
local channels.

"The fact that other political forces gave them a not very warm welcome -
that's just the political struggle," Kushnaryov said, pointing out that at
the [2002] parliamentary elections Our Ukraine received only 5.8 per cent of
the vote in Kharkiv, while the [pro-presidential] For a United Ukraine
received 16 per cent.

Kushnaryov said that in future everything would be done in Kharkiv to ensure
that "all political forces operating within the law should operate
normally". (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER THREE
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3. HOLODOMORS IN UNDER-SOVIET UKRAINE
A New Book For 70th Anniversary of Holodomor-Genocide
Works by the Members of the Association of Holodomors Researchers in Ukraine

E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, December 5, 2003

KYIV.....The Association of Holodomors Researchers in Ukraine in
conjunction with the Institute of History of the National Academy of
Sciences have published an important new book, "Holodomors In Under-Soviet
Ukraine" for the 70th anniversary of the 1932-1933 holodomor-genocide in
Ukraine. The book is in Ukrainian and has 723 pages.

The book contains articles written by nineteen members of The Association
of Holodomors Researchers in Ukraine. The design and layout of the book
is by Oleksandra Veselova, Liudmyla Hrechyna, Liubov Dubych. The book
was just published by the M. P. Kots Publishing House: Kyiv-Lviv-New York,
2003.

M.P. Kots, through his outstanding generosity, has been responsible for the
publication of a large number of books about famines in Ukraine containing
research and articles compiled by the Association of Holodomors Researchers
in Ukraine during the past twelve years.

Mr. Kots is to be congratulated and thanked for his long years of service
and donations to the cause of publishing new research from Ukraine
regarding the political and genocidal famines.

The nineteen articles and the forward by Levko Lukuanenko, Chairman
of the Association of Holodomors Researchers in Ukraine, is as follows:

CONTENTS

Levko Lukuanenko. Dear Reader!/[page 3
Pavlo Naniyiv (late). Ukrainian Golgotha. A Documentary Story Of the
Horrors/page 5
Mykhailo Ivanchenko. Tortured by Holodomor/page 115
Hryhoriy Bevz. Holodomors in Ukraine/page 164
Hryhoriy Ilchenko. And Yet, Holodomor!/page 197
Mykola Tverdohlib. The Village of Kamiani Potoky on the Black List/page
217
Yuriy Mytsyk. The Memoirs About the Artificial Famine of 1933/page 251
Fedir Kaliuzhny. From Famine to Famine, or For A Morsel of Salo
(Memoirs)/page 312
Maria Sadovska. People Are Moaning There:Holodomor - 33 in the Village
of Ivakhny of Monastyryshche District, Cherkasy Region/page 338
Maria Kabluchka. Black Confession of My Motherland. Famine of 1933.
Ukraine. Poltava Region. [Village of ] Perehonivka: Memoirs/page 396
Ivan Kozelsky. The Black Bird of Bitter Memory: Pages of Holodomor in
the [village of] Starosyniavshchyna, Khmelnytsky Region/page 459
Fedir Kondratiuk. Memoirs of the Repressed One/page 495
Ivan Smal. Unforgettable/page 533
Petro Nadutyk. The Ballad of Kodyma/page 540
Yakiv Koval. My Family in the Thirty Third/page 568
Dmytro Fedorenko. In Spite of All Deaths: Holodomor in My Life/page 579
Vasyl Rudy. Crucified Tyvriv Area (Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Tyvriv
District of Vinnytsya Region)/page 627
Zynayida Romashchuk. She (A Poem)/page 674
Muza Makarenko. Holodomor in the Works of Sumy Area Writers/page 700
Ivan Hryshyn-Hryshchuk. Death Hour (A Story)/page 714
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Copies of the new holodomor book, "Holodomors In
Under-Soviet Ukraine" are available through the www.ArtUkraine.com
Information Service (ARTUIS). Please contact us at, morganw@patriot.net if
you have an interest in the book and we will send you the necessary
information. ARTUIS can supply you with almost any holodomor book, and
other historical and cultural books that are still available in Ukraine
today.
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
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4. RUSSIAN ENERGY CHIEF ANATOLIY CHUBAYS TAKES
DIM VIEW OF UKRAINE-EUROPE GRID MERGER

UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

Kiev, 4 December: The head of the Russian Unified Energy System, Anatoliy
Chubays, takes a dim view of the prospect of expanding the Burshtyn energy
island [an area in Ukraine's Transcarpathian Region which is connected to
power grids in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania] and merging Ukrainian and
European power grids. He said this at a news conference in Kiev on Thursday
[4 December].

"If I were an enemy of Ukraine and had to commit an act of subversion, I
would advise you to do precisely this: expand the Burshtyn energy island,
move away from Russia. In two years' time the Ukrainian energy system
would fall apart," he said.

In Chubays's view, it is more beneficial for Ukraine to work in a unified
regime with Russia's power grids He recalled that after the two countries'
power grids were hooked up, the frequency in the system rose from 49.2 to
50 MHz.

As already reported by UNIAN, the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry and
the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) agreed
in late November 2003 to continue the work of the Burshtyn energy island in
parallel with European energy systems, and also to start work on merging
Ukrainian and European grids.

The UCTE views the Burshtyn pilot project, which has been carried out since
the autumn 2002, as a great success. In Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister
Serhiy Yermilov's opinion, Ukraine will manage to connect its energy systems
to Europe's by 2009. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER FIVE
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5. PRESIDENT KUCHMA SAYS UKRAINE "NOT READY" TO
SELL STAKES IN ENERGY COMPANIES TO RUSSIA

Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

Kiev, 4 December: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and the chairman of
the Unified Energy System of Russia, Anatoliy Chubays, discussed Russian
capital investment in the Ukrainian economy.

At the meeting, Kuchma confirmed that Ukraine is seriously interested in
foreign investment, Interfax-Ukraine learnt at the press service of the head
of state. But the Ukrainian president said that there can be no talk about
selling stakes in Ukraine's regional power companies to the UES, as Ukraine
is not ready to discuss this issue.

Kuchma believes that, as far as privatization of strategic assets of the
Ukrainian state is concerned, the Ukrainian legislation has to be
elaborated, especially regarding the cases when stakes are acquired by
companies, a large share in which is state property. In such cases, the
issue is, in fact, about an international deal, which should be carried out
in the framework of interstate relations.

During the talk, Kuchma and Chubays touched upon the forthcoming election
in Russia. Kuchma noted in this connection that the slogan of a "liberal
empire", which, as is believed, was coined by Chubays, is viewed with
certain caution in Ukraine. He said Ukraine hopes to receive Russian
investors but that it would not like investors from Russia or any other
country to dictate political will to Ukraine.

Kuchma, at the same time, noted that he is not going to interfere or
instruct foreign politicians how they should conduct their election
campaigns.

At a news conference in Kiev today, Chubays, speaking about his meeting with
Kuchma, said, "I have a very positive overall impression. I understand that
the main thing that was achieved today and on which we agreed with Ukraine's
top officials, is, in fact, a second stage of a large-scale development in
cooperation in the field of energy between Russia and Ukraine."

Also today, Kuchma met the MP and leader of the People's Democratic Party of
Ukraine, Valeriy Pustovoytenko. They discussed political reform in Ukraine.
(END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER SIX
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6. USA AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE BELIEVES VERY IMPORTANT
COLLABORATION OF TWO COUNTRIES IN MILITARY SPHERE

UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 4, 2003

Kharkiv. December 4. UNIAN. The collaboration of Kyiv and Washington in
the military sphere is considered to be very important by Ambassador of USA
to Ukraine John Herbst.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, in such a way the ambassador
commented on the purchase by USA of four T-80UD tanks produced at the
Kharkiv Plant named after Malyshev.

J.Herbst has not reported the details, and also has not said, which exactly
military collaboration may be between the countries. The information on the
purchase of Ukrainian tanks, with a reference to "Ukrspetsexport" company,
was spread by news agencies last week. So far no officials in Ukraine have
reported about the fact of sale tanks to the United States.

As of today, military experts underscore that Americans are interested in
the defense systems of Ukrainian tanks, and do not exclude USA specialists
will use the experience of Kharkiv designers in the development of new
models, or buy "Malyshev" junctions and details to their tanks.

During the visit to Kharkiv, J.Herbst paid visit to scientific-technological
center, the Institute of Monocrystals, the National Scientific Center
"Kharkiv Physical-Technical Institute" and "ProCreditBank:. The ambassador
has also met with Oblast State Administration chairman Yevhen Kushnaryov,
and paid visit to the American Center in Kharkiv. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
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7. UKRAINIAN COMMUNIST LEADER CALLS FOR REVIEW
OF FOREIGN-FUNDED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORG. (NGO'S)

Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 4 Dec 03
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Dec 04, 2003

Kiev, 4 December: The leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Petro
Symonenko, has suggested holding an expert review of the activities of
foundations, institutes, committees and development programmes which are
financed by foreign sponsors.

He said an expert review of such "subjects which act on the political and
electoral process" should be carried out by the parliamentary commission on
monitoring and watching over the rights of citizens during elections and
public acts in cooperation with civic organizations, and when necessary,
with law-enforcement agencies.

Symonenko's opinion [on this] was released by the Communist Party of
Ukraine's press centre on Thursday [4 December]. [Passage omitted: more
of the same] (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
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8. MEMORY CREATES A NATION

The Day WEEKLY DIGEST of Ukrainian News in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 2, 2003

The Holodomor of 1932-1933 was among major topics The Day has been
constantly addressing during the last year. We made our contribution in
rebuilding the horrible truth about those dreadful years by reaching many
hearts: evidence of this was the Candle in the Window action supported by
many Ukrainians in response to The Day's call.

The work has not yet been completed. The world has not finally recognized
the Holodomor genocide of the Ukrainian people. However, November 22
commemorating Holodomor victims became a step toward realizing ourselves
as a nation, a community.

"The memory about the events of the Manmade Famine is a nation building
element, stressing fundamental values that unite our society and bind us
with our past. Without it, it is impossible to form a single state organism
either at present or in the future," head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church Cardinal Lubomyr Huzar wrote in his open letter to Ukraine's Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics also expressed his confidence that
on the day of the seventieth anniversary of the 1932-1933 Famine "everybody
should meet [near the Memorial Sign to Holodomor Victims at Mykhailovska
Ploshcha -Ed.] even if for a short while, even if only to look at each other
and feel that, taken together, we are a great single whole, united by common
values of extraordinary character not of this world."

However, not everybody in Ukraine is striving to rally around extraordinary
values. We believe it impossible to pass over in silence other quotations,
those from an article titled " The Day on 'Genocide' and National Rebirth of
the Ukrainian Society" (Komunist [Communist], November 19, 2003).

The article is no eye-opener, since CPU leader Petro Symonenko himself
claimed before journalists that there were no famine, calling all talks
about it political technology used by those in power. When in the heat of
the Tuzla scandal the Crimean Republic CPU Committee organized a pro-Russian
rally in Simferopol, The Day wrote that Ukrainian communists have not yet
chosen a country, whose interests they wish to defend.

In fact, the courts should analyze the article's author vocabulary, and
people whose names are mentioned there have every right to turn to the court
with a request to protect their dignity. We have nothing much to add to what
have already been said and written by The Day 's journalists on this topic.
Our reader, whose letter is published beneath, is right: we are not afraid
of being accused of anti-Communism. We are proud of our cooperation with
Professor James Mace.

We believe that Communist deputies leaving Verkhovna Rada hall during the
parliamentary hearings on the Holodomor was an immoral act and outrageous
condemnation of their own people's history. There are, of course, people in
Communist party with high moral principles, like, for instance, poet,
publicist, head of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund Borys Oliynyk who spoke about
Holodomor as early as at the Nineteenth Party Conference in 1989.

Unfortunately, this seems to be quite he exception. However, there are no
doubts that Ukraine needs a modern leftist party that professes national
ideas, like the Left does in other countries, post-Soviet ones included.
(END)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
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9. "THE DAY DOESN'T FEAR OF BEING ACCUSED OF
ANTI-COMMUNIST....."

Letter to the Editors of The Day by
Tamara DEMCHENKO, Docent, Department of History and Archeology,
Chernihiv Shevchenko State Pedagogical University
Published in The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2, 2003

Dear Editors,

One can gain an impression that Ukrainian Communists decided to mark our
people's tragedy sad anniversary with yet another attack on your newspaper
and its constant contributor, American and Ukrainian historian James Mace.
The article in question is Prof. Ivan Hrushchenko's " The Day on 'Genocide'
and the National Rebirth of the Ukrainian Society" (Komunist, November 19,
2003), which is notable for its excessively free treatment of events,
painful for many our compatriots, and insults the dignity of decent persons.

I would like to say that your newspaper is one of the best printed media
outlets in contemporary Ukraine, and perhaps you are not afraid of being
accused of anti-Communism. Its readers are representatives of
intelligentsia, in part historians, who can find in it interesting and
well-balanced information. Though this year's issues contain many acute
critical materials, it is no accident that professor Hrushchenko chose
precisely Prof. Mace's articles as an aim for his invectives.

We found 31 of them from the beginning of the year to November 18. They
are dedicated to various topical issues of our days, written with ease and
talent, are immensely indulgent toward the dramatic personae of the
Ukrainian political theater and full of understanding of our country's
problems. For instance, we were genuinely touched by his reminiscences
about his only meeting with Oles Honchar.

One can understand why Prof. Mace dislikes the giants of Stalin's industry,
objects of pious devotion of the then and today's Communists. But the
American historian loves things Ukrainian; he cares about Ukraine's history
and complicated problems. A number of his articles concern the Holodomor in
one way or another. This is what our Leftists cannot forgive him, making no
secret of the fact that they are irritated by his mercilessly accurate
analysis of the reasons and consequences of the great national tragedy.

In one of his articles, Prof. Mace says that he was only executive director
of the US Senate Commission. In fact, his role in its activity is much
broader than that: he not only substantiated the Commission's conclusions,
but also was first to apply the oral history method to researching the
Famine. The materials of the 1990 Washington collection became model for
Ukrainian researchers. Thus, we owe Mr. Mace tens of thousands already
collected and published evidences.

The people itself, from the lips of injured old ladies and gentlemen, tells
us about the bitter piece of ersatz bread, goosefoot soup, pancakes made
from clover flowers, unburied bodies, swollen legs of the old, and distended
stomachs of the children. It seems that this information, in addition to the
newly discovered archive documents should finally destroy the myth of
"unfavorable weather conditions" and "defects in conducting
collectivization."

James Mace is absolutely right in his warning that we live in a country
crippled by its own history. This list of this outstanding person's services
to our country is far from complete. He was the first to prove that
political reasons of the famine were no less important than economic and to
point out to the connection between all three famines of the Soviet times.
Finally, one can dare forecast that James Mace will become part of Ukraine's
spiritual life history with his sincere, emotionally tinged, highly moral
Candle in the Window project.

Even half of those "crimes" would be enough, from a Communist's viewpoint,
to proclaim Prof. Mace an enemy. The television cameras reflected the fact
that his attitude toward the Communists' constant attacks is quite tolerant.
However, they make a more and more disgusting impression upon the readers
and TV audience.

Without resorting to the level of discussion chosen by the author of the
article mentioned above or encroaching upon the Communists' right to have
their own views, I would like to advise them to behave more politely with
people having a different scale of values. Civilized peoples have always
esteemed those giving them support in hard times. It would be at least
strange if Greeks began to lash out at Lord Byron for giving his life for
their freedom, or if the Spanish cursed Hemingway for intruding into their
business by writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, or Paris Communards deported
from Paris Jaroslaw Dombrowski, who fought on the barricades together with
them under the slogan, For your and freedom and ours.

One can say that for Prof. Mace Ukraine has become his Hellas, his
Republican Spain. We have enough people able to appreciate his attitude to
contemporary Ukrainian society's sore points. One of them is the
consequences of the horrible disaster we still have not realized and
overcome in full. Prof. Hrushchenko's article is a graphic illustration to
this sad fact. His treatment of even the key issue, the number of Holodomor
victims, is excessively superficial. It seems that the author have never
heard of Stanislav Kulchytsky's calculations made over a decade ago.

Anyway, even those "around 1,500,000 people" he refers to were also human
and wanted to live. Statistics about 13 million experts with high education
in the Ukrainian SSR are in no way explanation for mass mortality in
1932-1933. These figures cannot be compared, nor can the present hard
situation in the economy justify past crimes. What can we say about that
society, which allegedly was "confident in its future?"

It is hard to believe that people who had piles of "UNBURIED, UNPRAYED,
UNWEPT" dead bodies towering behind them, were so confident in their future.
Again, Prof. Mace's approach is closer and more understandable for us. When
he writes, "Who knows how many Shakespeares, Goethes, Tolstoys,
Dostoyevskys, Dvoraks, or Mickiewiczes could have sprung from the Ukrainian
bosom had there not been the crimes of the Stalin period?... Every soul is
precious, and every soul unjustly deprived untimely of life deserves
remembrance," this looks like the stand of a humanist, not doctrinaire for
whom people were nothing but building material to construct the radiant
past.

All of us, who lit candles that Saturday, who care about our compatriots'
losses and sufferings, are grateful to your newspaper for this year's
interesting articles researching various aspects of this most complicated
issue. We hope that you will publish it in your next Ukraine Incognita
collection, thereby reaching a broader audience.

QUOTATIONS

"In 1932-1933 Soviet Ukraine, along with many USSR regions, was affected by
terrible famine, caused by unfavorable weather conditions and also defects
in conducting collectivization..."

"The socialist regime not only never undermined the basics of the nation's
viability, but, to the contrary, favored its consolidation."

"In socialist society, fraternal social layers were collective owner of
colossal means of production." "Our socialistic society was confident in its
future."

"After the 1991 counter-revolutionary coup d'etat, and USSR collapse, Mace
immediately came to Ukraine, gathering together a supporting group of
corrupt academicians, corresponding members, and writers... to launch an
anti-Communist campaign on 'genocide'."

"With obtuse persistency they cast slurs upon our people's history..."

"The cowboy professor has no idea that sheep, as biological species, don't
exist in out post-Socialist republic any more, as it happened with American
Indians due to their genocide and manmade famine..."

"The fact that contemporary Ukrainian society has turned, according to the
pseudo-scientific term coined by Mace's brother in anti-Communism Anatoly
Halchynsky, into a 'broken nation' is a result of not "Stalinist
totalitarianism" but destructive anti-national reforms..."

"We are tired enough of you, false friend of Ukraine. Go home, Mr. Mace!"
(Excerpts from Ivan Hrushchenko's article in Komunist, November 19, 2003).
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER TEN
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10. Mace Go Home!
["We are tired enough of you, false friend of Ukraine. Go home, Mr. Mace!"]

By Prof. James MACE, Consultant to The Day
The Day WEEKLY DIGEST, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2, 2003

This writer is always happy to respond to readers, especially when they
disagree. It means, after all, that they have read what I wrote and thought
about it enough to respond. As a scholar I cut my teeth on the historical
problem of Ukrainian Communism when the very word Ukrainization was
forbidden here and whole periods of Ukrainian history were erased, national
memory banned, and writers murdered. This makes particularly welcome the
article by one Professor Ivan Hrushchenko (professor of what is not
indicated) in Komunist on November 19.

It seems that in the learned professor's view I have been speculating on the
Holodomor for some thirty years, which would have been when I was 21 years
old, busy earning my bachelor's degree, growing my hair long, smoking
marijuana (I confess), enjoying the favor of similarly inclined ladies, and
marching against the Vietnam War. But, as the professor continues it becomes
clear that we can expect little in the way of accuracy from our Communist
readers.

Many people, our learned reader tells us, went hungry in the early 1930s
because of "inauspicious climatic conditions and also mistakes in carrying
out the collectivization of agriculture and grain procurements." What kind
of bad weather was there? Let us perhaps ask one Mr. Stalin, who was General
Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party for a number of years. In his
Sochinenniya (Works), volume XIII, pp. 216-217, he stated that, while in
1932 there had been some losses due to bad weather in the Kuban, Terek
regions, and some parts of Ukraine, they were not half that of the previous
year.

Should our professor wish to learn about the history of weather, he might
also consult a volume edited by A. I. Rudenko, Zasukhi v SSSR (Droughts in
the USSR), published by Leningrad's Hydrometeorological Publishing House in
1958. On page 168 he will find that there were droughts in some areas of the
Soviet Union in 1931 and 1934 but not in 1932-33.

The drought of 1931 was addressed by Chairman of People's Commissars of the
USSR Viacheslav Molotov, who announced in Pravda on February 6, 1932 that
aid would indeed be mobilized for the Russians of the Volga Basin, and on
March 20 of that same year the same paper announced that 40,000 tons had
been obtained through "shock work methods" from people in the North Caucasus
(mainly Cossacks) who had already met their quotas. Translated into simple
language, this means that those who had earlier taken the required amount of
foodstuffs before simply came around again and took more.

On October 22, 1932, this same Mr. Molotov (his real name was Skriabin and
his uncle a composer) was named to head a special commission on grain
procurements to Ukraine, and on November 18 he pushed a resolution through
the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine to the effect that all bread
resources in all collective farms in Ukraine would be audited and all grain
from those that had not met their quotes completely would be seized.
Moreover, those outside the collective farms that were "maliciously" short
of bread were to be fined by having other edibles taken from them.

The decree in question may be found in the book, Holod 1932-1933 rokiv na
Ukrayini: Ochyma istorykiv, movoyu dokumentiv, which was published in
accordance with a special decree adopted by the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine on January 26, 1990. Or shall we assume that the
Communist Party of Ukraine in 1990 that opened its archives is some
different one from what our learned professor defends? In any case, I can
discern no error here.

Those who took the food and starved the people were doing precisely what
they had been ordered. That millions died could only have been the only
intended result. What else could one expect if one takes the potatoes,
beans, and meat from one "maliciously" short of bread? Of course, the
learned professor counters this with figures from years for which there were
no censuses in an attempt to show that the population was growing while
nobody could find them when the actual counting was done. One thinks of
certain German propagandists who came to prominence in the years under
discussion who would have been proud of such argumentation.

Still more in the vein of one Mr. Goebbels is that charge that I was
accompanied in my campaign of disinformation by citing actual official
Communist documents by such allegedly venal scholars as Ivan Kuras, Dmytro
Tabachnyk, and Stanislav Kulchytsky. Was I supposed to have bought them? I
never had the money to attempt it, and, in fact, the only one of these
gentlemen with whom I have ever had anything remotely resembling financial
dealings was Academician Kuras, in whose institute I once worked.

Here I become confused. Was I supposed to have bought him or he me? In any
case, I must admit that it was his institute that paid me when I was
employed there and not the other way around. Who is supposed to have sold
out to whom?

Nobody can possibly be against social justice, which our Communist friends
have sought in what I think has been demonstrated to have been a misguided
way. There are problems with Nietsche's project of an art of forgetting as
an antidote to the art of history, of remembrance. Starving to death the
innocent is not justice, nor is jailing a nation's writers and historians.
Memory has an important place, and I am honored by the calumny brought
against not only me but against all who have sought to recover from
documents the memory of those to whom their memory was denied.

Whether one believes in humanity or the God who created it, there are things
that were and that deserve to be part of a nation's memory. Those who
justify or deny the crimes of the past also deserve to be remembered, but
God alone is qualified to judge them. I am thankful that this is not my
burden.

The author calls upon me to go home. And where is his home? What country
does he defend if not a Red Fourth Reich? (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER ELEVEN
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11. HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT AND THE POPE JOHN PAUL II
MARK UKRAINIAN HOLODOMOR [GENOCIDAL FAMINE}

The Day WEEKLY DIGEST of Ukrainian News in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2, 2003

The Hungarian Parliament has passed a resolution in connection with the
seventieth anniversary of the 1932-1933 Holodomor Manmade Famine in
Ukraine, referring to these events as "a horrible tragedy in human history,"
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Special Commissioner Natalia Zarudna said at
Tuesday's briefing.

The Hungarian lawmakers express their solidarity with famine survivors and
descendents of its victims. "It is important that Hungary also has
commemorated this tragedy, one of the most horrible in world history. Our
common duty is to remember so that such dreadful crimes never happen again
anywhere," the decision reads.

Ms. Zarudna said that the Hungarian Parliament passed the decision on the
petition of Hungary's Ukrainian self-government, an official organ of
national autonomy.

She added that on November 23, Pope John Paul II also signed an address
to the Ukrainian people dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the
Holodomor.

"Millions of people have died a horrible death because of the criminal
actions of ideologies, which during the whole twentieth century caused woe
and suffering in many parts of the world," the address says. The Pontiff
called upon all countries to commemorate the anniversary of the Manmade
Famine, Ms. Zarunda told the journalists. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 110: ARTICLE NUMBER TWELVE
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12. THREE GENOCIDAL FAMINE (HOLODOMOR) BOOKS PUBLISHED
"Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook" and "Famine 1932-1933 Years in Ukraine"
and now "Holodomors in Under-Soviet Ukraine."

E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, December 5, 2003

Kyiv, Ukraine..........Three outstanding new books about the genocidal
famine in Ukraine 1932-1933 have now been published this fall.

1. For complete information on the very unique, interesting book, "Ukraine
1933: A Cookbook," linocuts by Ukrainian artist Mykola Bondarenko,
click on: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/bondarenko.htm. Artist
Mykola Bondarenko visited the holodomor exhibition in Kyiv last week
where some of his artwork from the new book was exhibited.

2. For complete information on the new 888 page book from Kyiv,
Ukraine, "Famine 1932-1933 Years in Ukraine, Reasons and Consequences,"
click on: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/reasons_conseq.htm

3. For complete information on "Holodomors in Under-Soviet Ukraine" A
New Book For 70th Anniversary of Holodomor-Genocide. Works by the
Members of the Association of Holodomors Researchers in Ukraine
[See article number 3 above for details about this book that has just
been published]

All of these books are available from the www.ArtUkraine.com Information
Service (ARTUIS). Contact them at morganw@patriot.net.
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