I could cite hundreds of sources.
Suffice it to cite two, one an allegedly objective and certainly not
pro-Ukrainian historian from Yale University, Timothy Snyder: “The
SS-Galizien was not used for any major actions against the Jews,
because the Final Solution had already been carried out…the
SS-Galizien was marginal to the outbreak of ethnic cleansing against
Poles”.
In 1986 a Canadian Commission of
Inquiry on War Crimes ruled: ” The Commission of Inquiry on War
Crimes was established in February 1985 in Canada, with the purpose
of exposing and prosecuting war criminals residing in Canada. The
Simon Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish groups in Canada have
repeatedly denounced the Ukrainian Division Galicia as a perpetrator
of war crimes…Although Communist propaganda has constantly
attempted to depict these, like so many other refugees, as
“quislings” and “war criminals” it is
interesting to note that no specific charges of war crimes have been
made by the Soviet or any other government against any member of this
group….Charges of war crimes of Galicia Division have never been
substantiated, either in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in
1984 when they were renewed, or before this Commission…”
Canada and the United States were allies during World War 2, at the
time of Mr. Karkoc’s immigration and remain so today.
You may have stumbled upon criminality,
however, not that of Mr. Karkoc. He may have withheld specific
information about his whereabouts during the war at the time of
immigration. Many did. Why? Because the United States acting through
President Franklin Roosevelt, either a Stalin dupe or a Soviet
“quisling” influenced by Soviet agents in the U.S.
Department of State such as Alger Hiss, at the Yalta Conference in
February 1945 sold out to Stalin and the Soviets, agreeing to
enslave Eastern Europe and to send its refugees to their death
through repatriation. This policy resulted in the murder of millions
innocent men, women and children. The criminality is ours as
Americans. This criminality even today merits attention,
condemnation, remorse and an apology. Your readers would be better
served exploring that, rather than persecuting a 94 year old
Minnesotan whose only fault was trying to protect his loved ones.
On this Father’s day, I recall my own father. He entered this country with my
mother and my one-year old sister in 1951. He was a member of the
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Like the Galician Division,
the OUN was on an inimical list compiled by the International
Refugee Organization with Soviet assistance. My father did not reveal
his OUN membership. Upon his entry, someone alerted government
officials. He was sequestered for several months on Ellis Island.
Finally the U.S. Government realized that their erstwhile allies, the
Soviets with whom they were now in a Cold War, had placed all
anti-Soviet formations on the list. My father was allowed entry and
subsequent naturalization. It took some time but at last the United
States came to realize that President Roosevelt’s friend Uncle Josef
Stalin was responsible for more murders than the Nazis.
The Soviet Union is officially in
demise, but Russia, very much alive today, carries on its legacy and politics.
Americans were Soviet dupes too often in the past. Why do you insist
on reprising that role?
June 16, 2013
Askold
S. Lozynskyj
New York, New York 10003
Askold S. Lozynskyj is an attorney, former president of the Ukrainian
World Congress and has served as an international election observer in Ukraine
since 1990, including the Oct 28 parliamentary election.
