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that it would be healthy to occasionally entertain is that those who call loudest for the

suppression of information may be those with the most to hide.

Salem's Was Not the Last Witch Hunt

Surely the above data convinces us that many of the horrors that we all despise - that even Mr.

Safer might profess to despise - are being realized as contemporary actualities. Slanderous and

unfounded allegations. Anonymous letters of accusation. Government agencies investigating

people for no other reason than that someone has submitted their names. McCarthyism. A witch

hunt. Individuals accused of having committed war crimes while they were still in diapers. And

instead of standing back from this mass hysteria or exposing it, 60 Minutes has chosen instead

to play a contributory role.

The Deschenes Commission cites 31 newspaper accounts between 1971 and 1986 of Nazi war criminals

residing in Canada, and points out that this list is not exhaustive. Decades of coverage of

such sensational accusations leaves a permanent impression on the minds of the public, while the

Deschenes Commission refutation takes place only once, and does not carry the same lurid

appeal. The net effect is a propaganda victory for the false accusers. 60 Minutes is making

its contribution to this phenomenon - its false accusations in "The Ugly Face of Freedom" were

long and sensational and will be remembered by many, its retraction will be short and dull and

will be remembered by few. 60 Minutes hands Ukrainophobes another victory.

Letters to Simon Wiesenthal

I have written a number of letters to Simon Wiesenthal asking for his clarification on the

issues raised above, and on other issues relating to his credibility and to his calumniation of

Ukraine. These letters can be found by clicking the above link. Other material relating to

Simon Wiesenthal can be found scattered throughout the UKAR site, and can be located using the

Internal Search Engine whose link can be found on the Home Page. One item particularly worth

mentioning might be my sixth letter to Michael Jordan, Chairman of Westinghouse. Following

examination of any of these materials, clicking BACK on your browser will return you to this

location (if your browsing trail has not been too long).

CONTENTS:

Preface

The Galicia Division

Quality of Translation

Ukrainian Homogeneity

Were Ukrainians Nazis?

Simon Wiesenthal

What Happened in Lviv?

Nazi Propaganda Film

Collective Guilt

Paralysis of the Comparative

Function

60 Minutes' Cheap Shots

Ukrainian Anti-Semitism

Jewish Ukrainophobia

Mailbag

A Sense of Responsibility

What 60 Minutes Should Do

PostScript

What Happened in Lviv?

According to Simon Wiesenthal on the 60 Minutes broadcast, in three days following the

evacuation of the Communist forces and before the arrival of the German troops, Ukrainian police

killed between five and six thousand Jews:

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the Germans arrived,

Ukrainian police went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6 thousand Jews was

killed.

...

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the

police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

Some 60 Minutes viewers may have been struck by the curious observation that while the 60

Minutes expert witness - Simon Wiesenthal - claimed that the number of Jews killed was "between

5 and 6 thousand," in three days, the interviewer - Morley Safer chose to reduce that number

killed to "3,000" and the duration of the killing to two days - but without informing the viewer

on what grounds he did so.

Let us begin our examination of this claim by reviewing the historical context.

Historical Context of the Lviv Pogrom

Eight Years Previously. Although Western Ukraine was spared the induced famine of 1932-1933 in

which some six million Ukrainians perished, Western Ukrainians were nevertheless aware of the

famine in adjacent Soviet Ukraine and aware that it was administered at the top by Lazar

Kaganovich, a Jew, and was supported at the bottom by cadres, many said to be Jewish, who moved

from village to village confiscating grain and livestock.

During the previous 21 months. Western Ukraine was a

period of 21 months until the Germans arrived in 1941. What was the experience of Western

Ukrainians under Russian communism? It was traumatic. On top of suppression of culture and

confiscation of property, there was terror:

The most widespread and feared measure was deportation. Without warning,

without trial, even without formal accusation, thousands of alleged "enemies of

the people" were arrested, packed into cattle cars, and shipped to Siberia and

Kazakhstan to work as slave laborers under horrible conditions. Many of these

deportees, including entire families, perished. ... According to Metropolitan

Andrei Sheptytsky, the Soviets deported about 400,000 Ukrainians from Galicia

alone. ... West Ukrainians found their first exposure to the Soviet system to

be a generally negative experience and many concluded that "Bolshevik" rule had

to be avoided at all costs. (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, pp.

456-457)

Vasyl Hryshko (Experience with Russia, 1956, p. 117) puts the number killed or deported in

Western Ukraine during the Soviet occupation at 750,000. It was commonly perceived by

Ukrainians that Jews were disproportionately represented among the Communists inflicting this

suffering upon Ukraine.

During the preceding few days. As the Soviets retreated, the NKVD perceived by Ukrainians to

be ma

seems to be widespread agreement. Particularly relevant to our discussion, is that even Simon

Wiesenthal can be found adding his voice of assent in the fifth of the series of quotations

below:

While the movement to the East was taking place, the NKVD carried out mass

arrests and executions, chiefly of Ukrainians - especially those who tried to

avoid evacuation. In the jails most prisoners whose period of imprisonment was

more than three years were shot; others were evacuated if possible. In several

cities the NKVD burned prisons with prisoners in them. (Volodymyr Kubijovyc,

editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto Press, Toronto,

1963, Volume I, p. 878, Vsevolod Holubnychy and H. M. wrote this section)

The Bolsheviks succeeded in a

Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of hostilities (massacres took

place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv, Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Volodymyr

Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto

Press, Toronto, Volume 1, p. 886)

Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime murdered

thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the city's [Lviv's]

intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume 3, p. 222)

The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands of political

prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to evacuate them in time,

the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse during the week of 22-29 June

1941, regardless of whether they were incarcerated for major or minor