Kyiv: Dec.12, 2013 In the middle of the night, from 10 to 11 December 2013, Ukrainian special forces troops started another brutal attack on the peaceful demonstrators in Kyiv. Aside from the regular police, militia men were also widely involved, having been brought from the depressed cities of eastern Ukraine. Some of them were deployed to cause provocations, as it had been done during the scripted assault on the interior troops at the building of President’s Administration on December 1. This time the Government and their local and Russian political technologists started to conduct “Nazi-like” activities amongst the protesters. More than a dozen young individuals wearing helmets with swastika and armed with armature rods were trying to break through to Maidan and stir up a fight with the police. Fortunately, the protesters prevented them just in time. This incident could have been dismissed if there had been no ongoing campaign conducted for years by Moscow-financed agents in Ukraine, Russia and the West to discredit Ukraine, the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian nationalist movement, and the modern Ukrainian democratic opposition. The campaign’s aim is to undermine national aspirations to Ukrainian independence and sovereignty, in order to recapture Ukraine and incorporate it into […]

Dec. 4th – Nash Holos Nanaimo – special 2.5 hour live broadcast with long-distance guests: • Mirko Petriw (Vancouver)  – local commentator and author of spy thrillers Yaroslaw’s Treasure and Yaroslaw’s Revenge. Mirko provides an overview of events in Ukraine. • Volodymyr Valkov (Lviv) – Executive Assistant at the Jewish Heritage Museum in Lviv and Project Manager of Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos gives his experience as a citizen of Ukraine during this troubled time. • Mychailo Wynnyckyj – Director of PhD programs at Kyiv Mohyla Business School. Follow his coverage and analysis of Euromaidan here. • Yevhen Hlibovytsky – former news anchor at 1+1 TV Channel and at Kanal 5, and co-founder of Ukraine’s newly launched public broadcasting channel Hromadskе TV . Dec. 1st – Nash Holos Vancouver – one-hour  live broadcast. • In-studio guest: Mirko Petriw Mirko provides an overview of events in Ukraine and a backdrop to them, and discusses the Vancouver rally in support of protests at Euromaidan and across Ukraine.  Mirko is a local political commentator and author of spy thrillers Yaroslaw’s Treasure and Yaroslaw’s Revenge. Follow his blog here. To hear or download podcast audio files just click on radio station logos on the […]

Thanks to CHLY Radio Malaspina in Nanaimo for recording the live performance of Holodomor: Murder by Starvation by Father Edward Danylo Evanko. It took place in Victoria on Saturday, November 16. The recording is available in two parts: Part 1 (17:52) Part 2  (59:21) Father Edward’s series of performances of the play this year are part of the 80th anniversary commemorations of the Holodomor – the famine-genocide in which 7-10 million Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death by Stalin’s communist regime in 1932-33. (Holodomor in Ukrainian translates literally as “death by starvation.”) The western media, in particular, the New York Times, helped Stalin to cover it up … while it was happening, and for decades after. The NYT in fact awarded the Pulitzer Prize to the journalist who deliberately lied about in print, yet admitted the truth “off the record.” The NYT refuses to revoke the award, and to this day many journalists, as well as academics and politicians, still refuse to acknowledge the Holodomor, or dispute the facts about it. Thanks to the good folks at CHLY for being better than that, and providing a venue for the truth to be broadcast. Father Edward is currently on tour across Canada […]

In the early 1930s, in a region considered to be Europe’s breadbasket, Stalin’s Communist regime committed a horrendous act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. An ancient nation of agriculturists was subjected to starvation, one of the most ruthless forms of torture and death. The Soviet government imposed exorbitant grain quotas, in some cases confiscating supplies down to the last seed. In many villages special troops were brought in to gather any and all food that could be found, including meagre supplies that hungry families managed to save or scavenge. Armed units isolated the territory of Soviet Ukraine and the predominantly Ukrainian-populated Kuban region of Soviet Russia, to stop the starving from going to neighbouring Soviet regions in search of food. The result was the Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33, known in Ukrainian as the Holodomor, or extermination by famine. An estimated 10 million Ukrainian men, women and children perished. (Source: www.ucc.ca) For decades, the Soviet regime kept this atrocity a secret, threatening any survivors who dared to mention it. The western media, in particular the New York Times, was also complicit in the cover up. I first learned about the Holodomor in 1982, while studying Russian and Ukrainian history at […]

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