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From Poland and Russia 1919 - 1945, James T. Shotwell, Max M. Laserson, 1945
The Ukrainian peasantry, having lived under better economic circumstances than the Russian peasantry, were more concerned with private
ownership and therefore suffered more than the White Russians when Collective farms were established in the Soviet Union.5 A considerable number of American Ukrainians stem from these rural classes and so remain to various degrees opposed to the Soviet regime. But Allied victories over Germany, though won by the Soviets, and the consequent liberation of Ukrainian soil from the retreating Germans brought about a kindlier feeling towards the Soviets even in these circles. Memories of the German occupation of 1918-1920—to say nothing about the recent, more devastating Nazi occupation—memories of requisitioning, of pillage and destruction, and of the arbitrary conduct of the military and civil administration, combined with a deeply-rooted hatred of the Germans, gave even these anti-Soviet Ukrainians an incentive to compromise.
Svoboda, however, expressed apprehension from time to time lest the Kremlin�s promises of post-war liberation of the Ukraine were not honestly meant. [Hah.] On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lithuania�s sovereignty, in its issue of February 25, 1943, Svoboda expressed the fear that, just as the promised liberation of the Vilna district and its inclusion in Lithuania was turned into an aggrandizement of the Soviet Union, when, in June, 1940, the Soviets annexed both the Vilna district and Lithuania, so the liberation of the Ukraine might suffer a similar fate.
The February, 1943, this question came to a head when Alexander Korneitchuk, member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, in an article published in the Soviet Ukraine, and later reprinted in Pravda, called for a refusal of all demands of the Poles, and demanded that the White Russian and the Ukrainian areas, which had formerly been Eastern Polish territory, should be retained by Russia. The article was actually directed against certain Polish politicians and publicists in London, in particular against Bielecki and others connected with the Polish Government-in-exile. Korneitchuk called them �landlord imperialists� who were opposing the union of the Ukrainian people in order to protect their own narrow social interests in the Western Ukraine where, before the war, 88 per cent of the land belonged to the Polish nobility of whom they are members.
The American Ukrainian paper Svoboda supported Korneitchuk�s claims against Poland but took pains not to be identified with Ukrainian Bolshevism in general, as may be seen in the issue of February 24, 1943. In Svoboda�s issues of February 18 and 19 Professor M. Chubaty clearly described the attitude of the Rightist [?] circles. His desire is to see the Ukraine free from both German and Russian domination. He cites the common
political and historical background of all Ukrainians, who, he says, ever since the days of the Ukrainian King Danilo, in 1250, have demonstrated their political maturity and their capacity for statesmanship. Professor Chubaty also points out that in their recent past, on January 22, 1919, the Western Ukrainians joined the great Eastern group to form one United Ukrainian Republic. He repudiates the outcome of the October, 1939, plebiscite which was favorable to the absorption of the Western Ukraine into the Soviet Union. �Anyone,� he ways, �who knows the attitude of the Ukrainian majority and of the Polish and Jewish minorities toward Russian Communism, knows also that under free voting conditions not more than 10 per cent would have favored absorption.� He asks for an independent Western Ukraine which �should have the right to join freely in kind of federation with the independent democratic neighbor states. In any event, the people themselves should decide their future.� While admitting that the Western Ukraine is only a part of the whole Ukraine, this is Professor Chubaty�s interpretation of the Atlantic Charter for Western Ukrainians.
In January, 1943, a congress of Americans of Ukrainian extraction was convoked by the Rightists [?] in Philadelphia. It was attended by representatives of Rightist [?] organizations, of Svoboda, and by many politically non-partisan or wholly indifferent Ukrainian Americans. The extreme Rightists, [?] adherents of the Hetman regime, also sent delegates. The most important resolution, introduced by Professor Chubaty, demanded an independent Western Ukraine but it was definitely rejected. The congress as a whole, however, was somewhat hostile to any idea of unifying all Ukrainians under the Soviet Union.
The central democratic wing of Ukrainian Americans took still another attitude. . . .
5. Some eastern Galicia Ukrainian peasants were, under Soviet occupation in 1939-1941, deported to Siberia together with some groups of Ukrainian �national-revolutionary� intelligentsia.
( New York : King's Crown Press, 1945. )
Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 1976, pages 40 - 42.
U poshukakh istorychnoĭ pravdy : zbirnyk na poshanu Mykoly Chubatoho 1889-1975 / redakt︠s︡ii︠a︡ Hryhor Luz︠h︡nyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ i I︠A︡roslav Padokh.
Publisher Ni︠u︡ Ĭork : Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1987.
Description xxxii, 548 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Zapysky Naukovoho tovarystva im. Shevchenka ;t. 205.Istorychno-filosofichna sekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ pravnycha komisii︠a︡ ;ch. 2
ISBN 0880541539
Note Summary in English.
Title on added t.p.: In search of historical truth, Mykola Chubatyj, 1889-1975.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Chubatyĭ, M. (Mykola), 1889-1975.
Title Istoriia khrystyianstva na Rusy-Ukraini
Publisher Rim, 1965-
Description v. 24 cm
Series Vydannia Ukrains'koho katolyts'koho universtytetu. Pratsi Hreko-katolyts'koi bohoslovs'koi akademii,t. 24, 43
Note Includes bibliographical references
Contents t. 1. Do r. 1353.--t. 2, ch.1. 1353-1458
Chubatyi, M. (Mykola), 1889-1975.
Title Istoriia khrystyianstva na Rusy-Ukra�ni / Mykola Chubatyi.
Imprint Rym ; Niu Iork : [s.n.], 1965-
Descript v. ; 24 cm.
Series Pratsi Hreko-Katolytsko� Bohoslovsko� Akademi� ; t. 24-26, 43
Note At head of title on p. preceding t.p.: Vydannia Ukra�nskoho Katolytskoho Universytetu im. Sv. Klymenta Papy.
On added t.p.: De historia christianitatis in antiqua Rus-Ucraina.
Includes index.
Bibliography: vol. 1, p. 781-800.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents t. 1. do r. 1353 -- t. 2, ch.1. 1353-1458.
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Chubatyi, M. (Mykola), 1889-1975.
Title Ukraine and the Western world / by Nicholas D. Czubatyj [i.e. Mykola Chubatyi]
Imprint New York : [s.n.], 1947.
Descript 16 p. ; 23 cm.
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Chubatyi, M. (Mykola), 1889-1975.
Title The problems of modern Ukrainian historiography / by Mikola Czubatyj.
Imprint New York : [s.n.], 1944.
Descript 16 p. ; 24 cm.
Note "Paper read at the Conference on the History of East Central Europe in New York City, October 30, 1943."
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The Ukrainian quarterly.
Imprint New York.
New York.
LIB. HAS 1(1944)-58(2002).
Vol./date v. 1- Oct. 1944-
Descript ill. 24 cm.
Note Published by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
Edited for some years by N. D. Czubatyj.
Absorbed the Ukrainian bulletin, Jan. 1970 (in Old Catalog)
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 19-
Indexes Vols. 1-10, Oct. 1944-54. 1 v. - Vols. 1-20, Oct. 1944-winter, 1964/65, with v. 20.
Local note Cumulative indexes available in print ed. (See entry under: Ukrainian quarterly. Cumulative index)
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