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the NKVD was disproportionately, or even overwhelmingly, Jewish, then one might
summarize by saying that in the pre-German interval, Ukrainians were being killed by
Jews.
I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my letters to you of 30Jun99 and 01Jul99
can now be elaborated with the uppermost entry:
Date of my letter
Subject of my letter
Date of Attack
Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
04Jul99
The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
Summer 1941
15May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
April 1979
30Jun99
Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
February 14, 1992
Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
09Apr99
Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
Summer 1995
17May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
July 7-8, 1997
01Jul99
Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
August 11, 1997
The new "The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny" entry in the table above is of particular
importance not only because of the large number of victims involved, but also
because it demonstrates your going beyond the fault of overlooking Ukrainians being
victimized, to the greater fault of replacing the real killing of a large number of
Ukrainians by Jews with an imaginary killing of a large number of Jews by
Ukrainians.
And I Find My Earlier Conclusions
Strengthened
What a convincing broadcast your The Ugly Face of Freedom would have been if all the
instances in the above table had been ones of Jews or Russians being tortured and
mutilated and murdered by Ukrainians, instead of the other way around! However, in
your broadcast you documented not a single such story featuring Ukrainians
victimizing Jews or Russians. Evidence of Ukrainians being victimized was
plentiful, but you ignored it. Much worse, in the case of the pre-German violence,
you reversed it.
Unless you are able to offer some credible defense, Mr. Safer, two conclusions that
have already gained a foothold threaten to climb to wide acceptance:
(1) that your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes demonstrated
your lack of competence and integrity; and
(2) that your broadcast served to demonstrate to Ukraine's assassins not only that
violence against Ukrainians goes unreported in the world press, but also that it is
even buried under fabricated reports of violence committed by Ukrainians. By means
of this demonstration, you informed Ukraine's assassins that they might expect
impunity for their work against Ukrainians, and in this way you encouraged them to
violence that they might otherwise have feared to commit. Thus, it is possible that
you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to Volodymyr Katelnytsky
together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their lives.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,
Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
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Morley Safer Letter 14 25Jul99 Who did Israel Roitman murder?
"By the time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were
exhausted. The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him."
- Israel Roitman
July 25, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
I bring to your attention the following boastful confession of
former SMERSH agent, Israel Roitman
The translation of Isreal Roitman's autobiographical account below, originally published
in the Russian-language periodical Our View in Thornhill, Ontario in 1998, recounts the
experience of a Jew participating in the torture and murder of a Ukrainian during the
Second World War, and boasts that this one crime was only the first of many:
MUSIC
by Israel Roitman
Our View
05May98
[...]
Once, on the occasion of a talk with students, I was asked: "Did you also kill
people?"
What could I answer? It remained only to smile sadly, and my memory recalled the
first cruelty. Afterward, there were many more, but the first is unforgettable.
It happened, if memory serves, in the Zolochiv region which lies along the
Ternopil-Lviv highway (Western Ukraine). The military SMERSH ("Death to Spies", as
military counter-intelligence was named during the war) instructed us intelligence
officers to investigate the cause of death of one of our sabotage units. On the
second or third day, we came upon the tracks of the perpetrators who were responsible
for the death of our comrades, and caught them relaxing in broad daylight in a large
house on a forest farmstead. There were three men sitting around a table with
moonshine and snacks: a thin, tall German, a heavily-armed policeman, and a
fat-faced, unshaven Banderite [Ukrainian fighting for Ukrainian independence] wearing
a service cap with a yellow-light blue [colors of the Ukrainian flag] cockade and
some kind of stripes sewn on his sleeve. It goes without saying: a merry band.
We had to shoot the policeman right there in the house, his abundance of weapons not
helping him a bit. We took the German and the Banderite out into the yard. The
Banderite, a huge man with long hands large as shovels, just stood there with a
crooked smile. On his unshaven face, his eyes darted nervously about like gimlets.
Evidently, the worsening situation was completely unexpected by him and he didn't
know what to do, and couldn't hit upon any course of action. Of course, under
different circumstances, he could have tossed us boys around like puppies, but this
time the inveterate beast could not do so: we were the ones with the weapons.
Oh, yes! By that time, we had seen a lot of these nationalists, as they were
contemptuously called, the "Samostiynyks" ["Independents"] (the motto of the
Ukrainian Nationalists was "For an Independent Ukraine"). These were veritable
beasts, worse than some Fritzes [Germans].
Volodka Seliverstov hit him first, in the solar plexus. The Banderite groaned,
gripped his stomach with his hands, and doubled over like a folding knife. Then
followed a knee upper-cut to the face. A sobbing was heard and the Banderite started
falling backwards. But we didn't let him fall. There were five of us. We stood in
a small circle and knocked him from one to another. We struck silently with backhand
blows, putting into them all our accumulated rage and hatred. We struck viciously,
probably like hunters striking huge and especially dangerous maddened beasts. By the
time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were exhausted.
The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him. The
German, we delivered safely across the front line and turned him over to the SMERSH
people. (We followed the same practice afterwards. When police, Banderites,
Vlasovites, or Germans fell into our hands, we usually delivered the latter
untouched, but the traitors we executed ourselves on the spot.)
[...]
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I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my previous three letters to you can now be