Advocates of treason [antikvár]

gone with the winds OF HISTORY Oles Honchar History knows many examples of how bearers of fraudulent, misanthropic doctrines invariably slipped into the bog of degeneracy and degradation, of how fighters for a cause turned into habitual criminals, torturers and murderers stigmatized by innumerable crimes against their own people and mankind. The foam from the Munich beer taverns resounding with those nationally enticing slogans, which intoxicated the brains of the narrow-minded burghers and grocers, was eventually to swell into streams of blood that swept across the countries of Europe, culminating in the factories of death, the ashes of crematoria, and atrocities of hitherto unprecedented proportions. This was German fascism, and its brief history was repeated in all its hideous monstrosity by the Ukrainian fascists who appropriated for themselves the name of Ukrainian nationalists. From its very outset Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism, through its maliciously vociferous spokesmen deranged by the nationalistic craze, dismissed the holy of holies the best minds of the Ukrainian nation — Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka — had imparted to their people, educating generations of Ukrainians in the spirit of revolutionary humanitarianism, democratism, in the spirit of respect for other nations and International solidarity with them. The works of the luminaries of Ukrainian culture, their lofty ideas grew from the spiritual life of the people who have always been strong by virtue of their love of freedom and justice, a people who, jointly with fraternal nations of our country, manned the barricades of the October Revolution under Lenin's banner to win themselves freedom to develop, who already in our epoch have gained fame throughout the whole world