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class=541014000-18082008>"</SPAN>There is nothing worse than Ukrainians writing
anti-Ukrainian pieces<SPAN class=541014000-18082008>" What if Ukrainians
(as a State or as groups or as individuals) do something worthy of
condemnation - proven beyond any reasonable doubt? </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=541014000-18082008>Then Ukrainians would be accused (rightly) of
complicity by silence. Also not a good look. Nor a good position ethically. "My
country right or wrong" is one of the worst aspects of
nationalism</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=541014000-18082008>Daria </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> aaus-list-bounces@ukrainianstudies.org
[mailto:aaus-list-bounces@ukrainianstudies.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Roman
Serbyn<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 18 August 2008 7:57 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Natalia
Pylypiuk (by way of Robert DeLossa);
aaus-list@ukrainianstudies.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [aaus-list] Re: most
disturbing event in L'viv<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Jaros</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><FONT
face=AppleGothic>³</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande">aw Junko
</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Geneva CY"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">is a
bona fide journalist of</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Polska agencja
prasowa</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Geneva CY"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">, and as such he must be responsible to the
agency</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT
face=Verdana>,</FONT><FONT face="Geneva CY"> if not to his conscience and
the</FONT><FONT face=Verdana> reading</FONT><FONT face="Geneva CY"> public. If
we are to treat this matter seriously then aaus should write to PAP, make a
complaint and demand an explanation and an apology. It wouldn</FONT><FONT
face=Verdana>’t hurt for individual scholars, especially those involved in
Polish studies and Polish-Ukrainian relations (and who know the Polish language)
to write to PAP individually. There is nothing worse than Ukrainians writing
anti-Ukrainian pieces, knowing very well that these will be immediately picked
up by people who have been conditioned by generations of Ukrainophobic
propaganda (and a good deal of truth as well) to jump at the first occasion to
prove how “genetically xenophibic” Ukrainians are. <BR><BR>I remember, how, many
years ago Barbara Tuchman gave a lecture at a Montreal synagogue and
touched on how some young Jews , formed in a non-Jewish and often anti-Jewish
atmosphere adopted some of these anti-Jewish attitudes in their own approaches
to things Jewish. I don’t know to what degree this still applies to the Jewish
community, but I think it is not hard to see how this is applicable to some of
our own Ukrainians journalists and academics in Ukraine and in the West. We have
seen how a silly article published by (of all newspapers!) Dzerkalo Tyzhnia on
the Hitler doll started the Ukrainophobic waves in Russia and the West.
There is no reason to tolerate such things by the Ukrainian scholarly
community. But, of course, it must find out the facts and REACT.<BR><BR>Roman
Serbyn<BR></FONT><FONT face="Geneva CY"><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>Le
17/08/08 10:17, « Natalia Pylypiuk (by way of Robert
DeLossa) » <natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca> a
écrit :<BR><BR></FONT></SPAN>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Verdana>Dear
Collegues,<BR><BR>On August 5 I wrote the AAUS promising to obtain more
information<BR>on the events in L'viv. An unexpected trip and<BR>the
dramatic events in Georgia delayed my report.<BR><BR>All of the L'viv
colleagues who responded to me indicated that Junko's report<BR>was not
reliable, that no cultural centre was involved, and that in
all<BR>likelihood, it was a *pobutova sprava* involving
neighbours<BR>reacting to noisy neighbours after hours.<BR><BR>The historian
Vasyl' Rasevych has published a lengthy article devoted<BR>to the pogroms of
July 1941. In this article, he critizes Junko for<BR>irresponsible
journalism. I quote:<BR></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT
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