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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.)
[...]
The original of the beginning of Israel Roitman's article appears below, the portion
translated above shown enclosed in a box:
I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my previous three letters to you can now be
elaborated with the Israel Roitman entry. As Roitman gives no dates for his crimes, I
conjecture that they began in 1941; as Roitman could have continued his service in the
Soviet secret police for several decades, there is no telling what span of time his
crimes occupied:
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
25Jul99
Who did Israel Roitman murder?
1941
15May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
April 1979
30Jun99
Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
February 14, 1992
Violence that you might have encouraged 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
And I Find My Earlier Conclusions Strengthened
In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you urged the conclusion
that Ukraine was a place where Ukrainians kill Jews. However, you found that conclusion
difficult to substantiate. The conclusion that you would have found easy to
substantiate - as Israel Roitman demonstrates by his lack of inhibition in stepping
forward - is the opposite one that Ukraine is a place where Jews kill Ukrainians. What
Israel Roitman demonstrates is not only that Jews tortured and murdered Ukrainians, but
also that even today, even in Canada, they continue to view the torture and murder of
Ukrainians as their right, and they recount how they did so not with self-doubting
guilt, but with self-righteous pride.
To Israel Roitman, a Ukrainian fighting for Ukrainian independence was, and continues to
be, a "veritable beast," and the chief effect of your broadcast was to demonstrate to
the world that your own opinion is not much different.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace.
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Although you have lost all claim to journalistic competence and integrity, at least you can
console yourself with not being alone and unappreciated. Indeed, you are a valued
member of a large and successful team. Grigory Luchansky, Vadim Rabinovich, and
Leonid Wolf undoubtedly know of your work, and they thank you for it.
July 27, 1999
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