STATEMENT ON DEFAMING UKRAINE AND THE UKRAINIAN CANADIAN COMMUNITY

After Ukraine’s loss of its War for Independence in 1918-1921, the country fell again under the control of neighbouring foreign powers, namely: Soviet Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. This set the stage for the emergence of a massive Ukrainian Liberation Movement spearheaded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which during World War II directed its struggle against Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Ukraine became the main battlefield between those two totalitarian superpowers, and where their violence was especially and unprecedentedly extreme. As a renowned American journalist Edgar Snow noted: “The whole titanic struggle […] was first of all…