ill receive nothing here. And you will be
prosecuted for refusing to see the doctor, - he shouted to me. "I was told
that my x-ray has vanished, and came to check, and also to obtain the
result". He became almost pale - so visually he was frightened, as if he
lost a million of dollars. He disappeared behind the gray door and soon came
out with an envelope (my name and photo on it) and signs of a deep relief.
"Here it is, - he told.
- You must visit a doctor because you have tuberculosis". "Are you
confident about TB you mentioned?" - "Yes, I am". - "I was told that my case
here is cancelled - and I don't have to appear". - "Nobody could tell you
that. You will be prosecuted for your refusal!" -
"Your conclusions about the x-ray was a mistake, Sir, and the film
reveals a technical defect or a shadow of underwear, which I did not remove.
Take a look - and let me see". - "It is possible. But the law says that you
must see a doctor anyway, if even this is our mistake". - "What law, what
paragraph? Then - I have a constitutional right to choose another
institution, not yours, to pay such a visit". Then he started screaming on
me: "You don't want to pay, ah? You don't want to donate to our hospital?
You came to Canada and want to enjoy our good life without giving anything
back? If you don't pay by your fucken money - you'll pay by your fucken
ass!" - I tried to say "This is not only because of money, this is because I
can not trust you!" but he kept screaming on me - and I left him. Before I
left the hospital I could find out that there is no official result in my
case. No paper, no evaluation. Only a checkpoint on the envelope, in
category "4". What if somebody just made a wrong hand movement - and checked
a wrong place?
I did not go to MCI any more. Later I discovered through other ways
that the category 4 means "pulmonary noodles", which was completely
inapplicable to me!
RESUME: Anyone can see that drastic misconduct toward me (or in
general), and hatred towards me (or towards all
immigration-seekers in general?) could explain what's going on in that
institution and what happened around my x-ray.
REMARK: This is not a documentary story. To show the emotional
impression I have distorted some small details. This is more like a literary
piece. However, it is precise in revealing what we are dealing with. Also
the words of Madam Lucy and Mister Doctor were cited with a precise
accuracy.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
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1. JEWISH EXTREMISTS' GLOBAL CENSORSHIP
Jewish organization like Anti-Defamation Ligue, Bnei Brith, so-called
Institute
Against Terrorism, Jewish Congress and others are censoring any
material about Israel, Judaism, Holocaust, Jewish criminal activity, human
rights violations by Israel and Diaspora Jewish groups, etc. It not only
violates basic principles of democracy and free speech, but also gives the
world Jewish extremists the total control over media and - indirectly -
governments of independent countries like USA, Canada, and others. Through
an excuse of fighting anti-Semitism Jewish extremists actually controlling
vide range of topics, practically any one, not only historical or political,
but also cultural, religious, and any other. In many ways they for example
suppressed and forbidden Christianity. There are no Christian signs,
symbolic, ads, announcements, placards etc. in Canadian cities any more. In
the same time there are lots of open Judaism propaganda and missionary
placards, signs, ads, etc.
By forcing Immigration of the variety of countries to prevent people,
whose ideas they don't tolerate, from traveling, or to persecute dissidents,
Jewish extremists are executing functions of sovereign governments. In
Canada they completely seized the control over Immigration Canada, which
became a Jewish institution, and this institution is getting more and more
power, replacing the government. In reality they control many of the
governmental institutions. Little by little we became citizens of a new
totalitarian colonial Jewish Empire, which is constantly expanding and
already includes Canada, US, and a number of European countries.
Like any totalitarian colonial power Jewish Extremism is using (against
dissidents) legal or conspiratory persecutions, lawsuits, administrative
pressure, batteries, imprisonment, devastation of their victims' social,
professional, or economic status. Jewish persecutors act very much as the
"KGB of the modern western world". (MORE).
2. HOLOCAUST DENIERS PERSECUTION: WHO's AMORAL?
The whole military, political, police, intelligence and public machine
of the State of Israel and the powerful Jewish lobbies is used not only
against people who deny Jewish genocide of 1930-s-40-s, but against those
who would like to discuss the correctness of numbers, facts, or attitude
towards the history. Amorality of the Jewish "morality defenders" is first
of all their conflict of interests. For the Jewish extremists Holocaust
became a busyness, a carnage of vicious vultures on top of millions of dead.
They are making a fantastic income on the bones of Auschwiz or Maidanek
victims. Jewish writer and human rights activist Gregory SVIRSKY called this
carnage the most amoral thing in Jewish history. The next amoral thing is
that not the victims of Holocaust and their descendants are benefiting from
the fantastic compensation provided by the Western world to the global
Jewish community, but mostly Israeli government and the extremist Jewish
organizations. There are thousands of financial violations in the process of
transferring the contributed money from the Israeli government and
"committees" to ordinary people. Here is just a small example. Elisabetha
EPSTEIN (Montreal) was issued the German compensation as a person who flied
from the German occupation zone. This compensation was frozen by the Israeli
authorities because she was the mother of a dissident and a refugee claimant
from Israel in Canada. Money, which she had to receive, was consumed by the
Israeli government!
The State of Israel has no moral rights to be a representative of the
former genocide (Holocaust) victims also because the Israeli regime itself
is guilty in Palestinian and Russian genocide (see MORE).
Israel as a successor of the Jewish North American and Zionist Jewish
politicians of the 1930-s must pay a huge contribution to the victims of
Holocaust and their descendants because shares responsibility for the
genocide of European Jews. Since the 30-s there was a tendency to wish
elimination of European Ashkenazi Jews. North American Jews, Zionists and
some Sephardic leaders treated European Jews as degraded and wanted them out
of the picture. Zionist leaders did not hide their sympathy to the Nazis
because they both ideologically were national socialists. Contacts between
Palestinian Jewish "Ishuv" leaders - and the top nazi leaders, and between
Zionist - and German leadership in 1930-s-40-s is a well-known historical
fact. Actually, Zionists were fought on the German side, against Britain.
Notes of loyalty of the Ishuv to German Nazis were also well known. By
racism, hatred between different ethnical and sub ethnical groups, fascist
ideology and nazi laws Israel is a sole political successor of the Nazi
Germany. Zionist leaders did not care to hide their joy about the
elimination of the "assimilated" European Jews and the conviction that the
Zionist homeland must be rebuild, based on the Catastrophe of European Jews.
Israeli orthodox religious leaders pointed many times that European Jews
were "punished" by genocide "because of assimilation". Hitler's book "Mein
Kampf" was translated to Hebrew and became the most popular among "sabras"
(Israel-born natives) youths book. Watching movies like the "List of
Schindler", young Israeli neo-nazis are applauding the fascist murderers
because they adore Nazis for their "strong will" and "no sentiments". (see
MORE).
3.JEWISH "HOLY WAR" AGAINST CHRISTIAN AND EUROPEAN CULTURE
The State of Israel has innumerous anti-Christian, anti-European,
anti-Western and anti-capitalist laws and practices. A permanent
anti-Christian propaganda presents on all levels of political and everyday
life in Israel, and became a part of education, ideology, rules and even
laws in Israel. New anti missionary (anti-Christian) legislation goes even
further, threatening to punish people for possession of a Christian Bible, a
picture of a church, a Christmas Tree or a tape of Christian religious
music. Classical pieces with a Christian background like passions or messes
were almost completely washed out of the repertoire of the Israeli symphonic
orchestras. Composers like R. Wagner or R. Schtraus were actually forbidden
in Israel because of the ideological reasons. Christians are severely
persecuted in Israel, by the state as well as by the crowd - and have no
real police protection. Classical music, European literature, any aspect of
European culture became hardly accessible in Israel. The Israeli government
initiated a grotesque and barbaric project to destroy all European
architecture on Israel's territory. They destroyed and continue destroying
old cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, and other urban centers, where European
architectural styles like Bauhaus, Ugendstill, neo-gothic, etc. were
dominated or at least highly presented. There are legislation to forbid
Christians and "assimilated" ("Russians") to reside in Haifa, Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem and other cities. Israeli solders were entering Armenian, Arab,
and other churches - and used to open fire "to kill Christians". Israeli
government is stalking Muslim and Christian communities by giving licenses
to build new mosques beside the churches. Israeli official ideology prefers
tolerance towards Islam, but not Christianity. Israel is ruled by so-called
Jewish religious laws, a kind of an "iron curtain", which stops any
information about the outside world, European culture, Christian traditions,
values and historical background. Israeli political and religious circles
are encouraging the puppet Palestinian authority to persecute Christians,
close Christian churches and make access for holy Christian objects in
Palestine difficult for Christian pilgrims. Christians are victims of
various assaults in Israel. Israeli propaganda associates Christians with
guilt, crimes, and evil. Ideology highly controls all sides of the social
life in Israel, allowing "public watchdogs" monitoring what people eat, what
they buy, what they read or cook. In Israel you can not open a restaurant, a
store or another busyness without the meeting the requirement of the Jewish
religion, what means that Christians are discriminated in theirs basic
rights. Jewish Extremists are hypocrites when they talk about anti-Semitism
because they know very well that Christians and other minorities are
discriminated and persecuted in Israel. (see MORE)
4. SMALL RUSSIAN "HOLOCAUST" IN MODERN ISRAEL
Since 1960-s Israeli propaganda machine, Israeli embassy in Moscow,
Sochnut and intelligent services began to provoke Soviet citizens to
immigrate to Israel. Most of the Russian-speaking people were
persecuted
and discriminated in Israel even by then. However, close to 1990-s this
tendency has developed in a real "small genocide". In the 1980-s -
1990-s
almost 700 thousands people from USSR (and - later - post USSR) were
smartly pushed to Israel by deception, provocation, sometimes by force.
Israelis had plans to turn most of them into servants and slaves to
replace Arabs, who became too dangerous for "sabras" and "vatikim".
"Russians" were deprived of any social or translation assistance.
Sochnut
and the Ministry of Absorption (Immigration) only pretended to provide
some assistance, in reality not giving any. "Russian" puppet
organizations
like Sharansky's Zionist Forum, etc. were founded by the Israeli
government
and provided no real help either. New "Russian" immigrants were left
one on one with the housing agents (mediators) or landlords, employers,
etc. Most of them became victims of indescribable frauds and cheating.
"Russian" immigrants were deprived of real welfare or financial
assistance.
They were forced to pay $500 - 600 a months for 2-3 - room neglected,
non renovated apartments, and deprived of the social houses. When
hundreds
of thousands of the government-subsidized fresh-constructed apartments
stood empty, thousands of "Russian" families found themselves on the
verge of evictions or homeless in the streets. Under International,
Jewish
Diaspora's and internal criticism the Israeli government in a stubborn
intention not to give "Russians" social houses started to import
astronomically
expensive one-room caravans, which price was higher then a construction
of a conventional apartment. Caravan villages, intentionally placed
in wilderness, far from cities, with no schools, cultural facilities
or clubs, surrounded by barbed wires like prisons, intentionally
populated
not only by "Russians" but also by Hebrew speaking criminals, declassed
social elements, drug-users, alcoholics, and by new arrivals from
underdeveloped
African countries, became artificially-created first "Russian"
ghettoes.
At summer caravans inhabitants suffered from unbearable heat, at winter
- from cold. Each caravan was an overcrowded, miserable tiny place,
never designed as a habitation. Caravan villages were dirty, devastated
cloaks, where generations of undereducated, non cultural, futureless
"Russian" kids were raised. Arik SHARON, by then - Minister of
Construction,
- was mostly responsible for that. Israeli media and state propaganda
was rousing hatred towards Russian speaking people by portraying them
as enemies, alcoholics, undeveloped, wild people. Crimes against
"Russians"
like assaults, batteries, insults, rapes, fraud, racism,
discrimination,
expropriation of property or vandalism against property, lawfulness
illegal evictions, and many others, were never stopped or prosecuted.
"Russians"
had no police protection. "Russian" children were discriminated,
abused,
beaten, killed at schools or even pre-schools, tens of thousands of
"Russian" women have been raped, "Russian" workers were not paid at
all or paid less then the minimum wage, abused, beaten, and injured
at work. Two sections of Israeli law - "Kablanut" and "Kviyut" codes
- enabled to turn many "Russians" into temporary or permanent slaves.
What we see today as assaults on Arabs was in 1990-s "rehearsed" on
"Russians". Because there were no labor norms of exploiting
"kablan"-hired
unprotected "Russians", thousands and thousands were injured, killed,
or became handicapped at work. Assaults on "Russians" and rapes of
Russian
speaking women became a kind of a sport for Hebrew speaking neighbors,
employers, or supervisors, and the policemen. No killer or rapist was
never prosecuted! The main excuse for crimes against the Russian
speaking
people in Israel was that Russians are hidden Christians. "Russians"
were forced to leave biggest Israeli cities, new legislation to
restrict
them from residing in Haifa, Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv. They were moved
to "developing" cities with no work and law life standards like Afula,
Ashdod, Kiriat-Gat, Dimona, Beer-Sheva, etc. There artificial secondary
(after caravans) "Russian" ghettos were created, where new generations
of "Russians" are raised in poverty, discrimination, futureless and
forced
to the criminal sphere of life. Hundreds of thousands of "Russians"
fled Israel. Israeli government and the local Jewish organizations like
Bnei Brith are responsible for persecuting these people in Canada, USA,
and Europe, influencing or invading immigration institutions in many
countries to force them back to Israel. (see More)
Resources about persecutions of the Russian-speaking people in Israel:
Gregory SVIRSKY, Efraim SEVELA, Efraim MELAMED, Michael DORFMAN,
Savely KASHNIZKI, Alexander ORLOVSKY, Rivka RABINOVICH, Irma
ZIKOL, etc. Main works on "small" Russian genocide in Israel: Lev
GUNIN.GULAG of Palestine. (Editor - Svetlana EPIFANOVA). Lev GUNIN.
JEWISH WARS.
5. PROVOKING ANTISEMITISM
Let's imagine that lobbies of nation X around the world
made any discussions about X-ish genocide forbidden, and this is when
the leaders of X-s continue benefiting from enormous compensation
almost
a century after the genocide. Using historically inevitable from time
to time unfriendly tendencies towards just any minority as an excuse,
nation's X leaders are using excessive force against any manifestation
of such unfriendly attitude or even what they wrongly interpreting as
"unfriendly". Consequently denouncing bloody crimes against
humanity of the regime of the State of X and local X-s councils
(organizations)
in Diaspora is called "xenophobia". Anybody, who raised deep
questions about the human rights situation in the State of X and within
local X-s communities, is severely persecuted. Naturally, such a policy
would provoke spontaneous anti-X-ers feelings, and the denial of X-ish
genocide as the most natural automatic reaction. In the same way simple
as not very simple people will always test extremes of the "Jewish
power"; and "Jewish conspiracy" by denying Holocaust and
watching an expected Jewish excessive force in return. Blocking any
civilized discussion about any topic directly or indirectly involving
Jews (on historical, philosophical, ethical, religious level), Jewish
extremists will face more and more dangerous for innocent ordinary Jews
response on the primitive level. Jewish extremist organizations and
the government of Israel do not care about safety and wealth of
ordinary
Jews. They represent a mighty totalitarian power, which exist in no
one interests. Only a small group of bastards benefits from this power.
This power became a modern inquisition, one of the modern Evils.
However,
only one of Them. Communist regimes, eastern dictatorships, Indian-type
"democracies" (Israel is just one of them), anti-European
regimes like Pakistan, Afganistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, etc. -
they are the same. We (people who consider themselves as Europeans,
no matter what skin color or face they have) must understand who are
enemies and who are friends of Europe. We have already our culture half
destroyed, our leaders corrupted by the Eastern powers, our countries
in Northern hemisphere (plus Australia) have been already transformed
into a "transitional" (remember: Eastern block, Western
block?) between capitalism (democracy) - and Eastern-type
tyranny-slavery.
Since 1980-s, by eliminating civil freedoms and privacy, Western
governments
slowly but inevitably transforming their countries into societies of
the eastern type. Jewish extremism is an important player in this
process
of blowing up the European civilization from within. Jewish extremists
are traditionally anti-democratic reactionaries, who's goals are to
destroy
democracy and progressive thinking everywhere. Their doctrine is to
take just any rights from the people, turn majority into slaves, and
eliminate basic human rights and freedoms. Their main allay is not USA
or Canada - as most of us are thinking - but UK. How comes that Israel,
a country, where Christians are persecute, beaten and humiliated,
became
the most important "friend" of the Christian world? How comes that the
most brutal regimes in the world - like India, Israel, Pakistan, or
Kazakstan, were called democracies? Why and by whom Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain,
South Korea, Kazahstan, Israel and other countries with hatred to
European
culture and anti-European propaganda were considered as allays - and
Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, or Serbia - not? Tyranny, starvation, exploitation
of children, numbers of repressed people, scale of poverty and
homelessness
in Iraq, Iran, and some other anti-democracies are several times lower
then in "great democracies" like India or Israel, where wide number
of people are treated like cattle. How comes that Israel, a country,
where Christians are persecute, beaten and humiliated, became the most
important "friend" of the Christian world? How comes that the most
brutal
regimes in the world - like India, Israel, Pakistan, or Kazakstan, were
called democracies? Why and by whom Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, South Korea,
Kazahstan, Israel and other countries with hatred to European culture
and anti-European propaganda were considered as allays - and Iraq,
Lebanon,
Iran, or Serbia - not? Tyranny, starvation, exploitation of children,
numbers of repressed people, scale of poverty and homelessness in Iraq,
Iran, and some other anti-democracies are several times lower then in
"great democracies" like India or Israel, where wide number of people
are treated like cattle. Instead of supporting nations, which are
historically,
traditionally, culturally closer to Europeans, our rulers, corrupted
or threatened by the Eastern regimes like Israel, are supporting our
most furious enemies. Support, which is given to the Jewish Extremists
by the governments of the Western world, is not popular. People are
not supporting it. Sooner or later this situation will resolve in
pogroms
and insults against the ordinary Jews. We all must be awaken before
it not too late...
MORE (1)
CONTENT
1. Demonizing nations
(Jewish extremists' lie and columniation of the whole nations like
Ukrainians and Polish)
2. Israel-Jewish Diaspora World-Wide criminal activity
(Jewish extremists lobbism is behind the cover up of the Israel-related
criminal activity world wide and money laundering)
3. Dissidents - victims of the Jewish Extremists' global totalitarian
power (Israeli military assault against Western democracy)
(Thousands or maybe millions of people are persecuted by Jewish
totalitarian machine all over the world. Persecutions include kidnapping,
executions, assassinations, batteries, and administrative, financial and
other terror)
4. Politically and Criminally Motivated Jewish Medical Mafia
5. Victor Ostrovsky's "By Way of Deception" extracts
1. Demonizing nations
(Jewish extremists' lie and columniation of the whole nations like
Ukrainians and Polish)
FROM UKRAINIAN ARCHIVE WEB SITE
http://ukar.org/
HOME DISINFORMATION 60 MINUTES 19628 hits since 26Jan98
We saw above that an entire Ukrainian family was shot by the Nazis for
hiding a Jewish woman,
but can we find a single instance of an entire Jewish family being shot
by the Bolsheviks for hiding
a Ukrainian woman? We saw above that the Ukrainian mayor of a town was
shot by the Nazis for
helping Jews, but can we find a single instance of a Jewish mayor - and
there were many
Jewish mayors in Ukraine - being shot by the Bolsheviks for helping
Ukrainians? We saw above
Metropolitan Sheptytsky risking his life and the lives of other
Ukrainians by hiding Jews on church
property, but can we find a single instance of a rabbi risking his life
and the lives of other Jews by
hiding Ukrainians on synagogue property?
The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes
Lubomyr Prytulak
Last updated:
9Feb98 Rudolph Vrba Accusation added to the section on "Paralysis of
the Comparative Function"
24Feb98 Einsatzgruppen quotes added to the section on "What Happened in
Lviv?"
28Mar98 Himmler quote added toward the bottom of "Were Ukrainians
Nazis?"
9Jun98 Link to Shapoval added toward the bottom of "What Happened in
Lviv? During the preceding few days"
13Jun98 Link to Sion-Osnova Controversy added to the bottom of "Quality
of Translation"
13Jun98 Link to discussion of Jewish Ghetto Police added to the bottom
of "Collective Guilt"
24Feb99 Comparison of German SS and Ukrainian Waffen-SS oaths added to
"The Galicia Division"
24Mar99 External link to Symon Petliura page at bottom of "Symon
Petliura"
12Jun99 Elaboration with external link at bottom of "Sol Littman's
Mengele Scare"
13Jun99 Comment on Jewish chain of command within CBS added to
"Preface"
03Jul99 Nine quotes added near bottom of "What Happened in Lviv?"
CONTENTS:
Preface
The Galicia Division
Quality of Translation
Ukrainian Homogeneity
Were Ukrainians Nazis?
Simon Wiesenthal
What Happened in Lviv?
Nazi Propaganda Film
Collective Guilt
Paralysis of the Comparative
Function
60 Minutes' Cheap Shots
Ukrainian Anti-Semitism
Jewish Ukrainophobia
Mailbag
A Sense of Responsibility
What 60 Minutes Should Do
PostScript
Preface
On 23 Oct 1994, CBS television broadcast a twelve-minute segment on its
weekly
investigative-journalism show 60 Minutes titled The Ugly Face of
Freedom, produced by Jeffrey
Fager and hosted by Morley Safer. The program's goal was to indict
Ukrainian society and
history and to discredit the legitimacy of the Ukrainian State. The
program's method was to
pack the broadcast with what may be the most concentrated segment of
disinformation, calumny,
and hatred ever to make its appearance in the mainstream media. The
program had been ready for
over half a year, but was not broadcast until the first official visit
to the United States of
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Whether this timing was by
coincidence or design became the
subject of comment among some program viewers.
From the beginning of the affair, it could not escape notice that this
broadcast was not only an
attack upon Ukrainians and upon the nation of Ukraine, but that it was
a Jewish attack, this
because every last person bearing responsibility for the broadcast,
from the very top of the
chain of command to the very bottom, was Jewish:
Laurence Tisch, Chairman and CEO of CBS
Eric Ober, President of CBS News
Don Hewitt, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes
Jeffrey Fager, Producer of The Ugly Face of Freedom
Morley Safer, Program Host
Simon Wiesenthal, one of the two featured program witnesses
Yaakov Bleich, the other of the two featured program witnesses
That attacks upon Ukraine come overwhelmingly from Jews has been amply
documented on the
Ukrainian Archive (UKAR), as for example in the discussion of Jerzy
Kosinski, where it is noted
that ten out of ten of the leading calumniators of Ukraine are Jews.
Possible reasons for this
phenomenon have been discussed throughout UKAR, with three of the chief
reasons being: (1) the
acceleration of the brain drain from Ukraine to Israel with the help of
a partly-magnified and
partly-incited resentment against Jews, (2) the heightening of Jewish
cohesion through the
inculcation of fear and hatred of Gentiles, as by the Jewish keeping
alive of a distorted memory
of the Khmelnytsky rebellion of 1648, and (3) the need to discredit the
historical observation
that Jews typically victimize Ukrainians by inculcating the opposite
image of Ukrainians
victimizing Jews.
On 15 Nov 1994, I mailed a letter to then CBS Chairman Laurence A.
Tisch which consisted of a
lengthy critique of the 60 Minutes broadcast. I simultaneously mailed
copies of this letter to
the host of the broadcast, Morley Safer, as well as the co-hosts Ed
Bradley, Steve Kroft, Lesley
Stahl, and Mike Wallace. I received no reply from any of them. On 17
Dec 1994, I mailed a
covering letter to Laurence Tisch together with an expanded version of
my critique (the critique
was now titled The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes, and was dated 11 Dec 1994),
with copies to the same
host and co-hosts. I again received no reply.
In an attempt to clarify the accuracy of the 60 Minutes broadcast,
other letters were sent,
among them letters to Michael Jordan, Chairman of Westinghouse,
following the Westinghouse
purchase of CBS in 1995, letters to Simon Wiesenthal, star witness on
The Ugly Face of Freedom,
and letters to Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, supporting witness on the same
program. Nor were my letters
the only ones sent - in fact, CBS received some 16,000 pieces of mail
protesting the 60 Minutes
broadcast. To my knowledge, not a single one of these letters has ever
been answered, or even
acknowledged, the muteness of CBS and others involved leaving the
impression that they are
unable to muster any defense for the 60 Minutes broadcast.
At that time, and since, I have circulated copies of my critique
widely, and have received many
favorable comments. In a small number of instances, I was grateful for
helpful suggestions as
to minor revisions; however, no one challenged any of my major
criticisms or arguments,
encouraging me to believe that these were fundamentally correct.
Below you will find the latest version of this same critique,
substantially longer and more
detailed than the original, but basically offering no more than an
elaboration of the material
already long in the hands of CBS. I will not again waste postage
mailing this critique to CBS -
with the advent of the internet, there are less costly ways to
disseminate information; if CBS
wants to see this latest version, it will have no trouble finding it.
The defects of the 60 Minutes broadcast as so multifarious, that it is
difficult to capture them
in one brief statement. If one were to attempt to do so, then the
statement might mention that
60 Minutes misrepresented the historical record, provided
mistranslations of statements
originally made in Ukrainian, suppressed pertinent information
concerning Ukrainian-Jewish
relations during World War II, encouraged retrogressive notions of
collective guilt, altered the
dates on which events were supposed to have occurred, doctored the
sound track, accepted dubious
and implausible statements from sources whose credibility had not been
established or whose
credibility should have been suspect, and generally in numerous
instances employed questionable
evidence to point to conclusions that were untrue, provocative, and
inflammatory. There follows
below an outline of the chief defects of this 60 Minutes broadcast.
CONTENTS:
Preface
The Galicia Division
Quality of Translation
Ukrainian Homogeneity
Were Ukrainians Nazis?
Simon Wiesenthal
What Happened in Lviv?
Nazi Propaganda Film
Collective Guilt
Paralysis of the Comparative
Function
60 Minutes' Cheap Shots
Ukrainian Anti-Semitism
Jewish Ukrainophobia
Mailbag
A Sense of Responsibility
What 60 Minutes Should Do
PostScript
The Galicia Division
60 Minutes' chief piece of evidence for Ukrainian anti-Semitism and
predilection for Naziism
seems to be the official celebrations commemorating the Galicia
Division. Elderly men in
civilian dress are shown wearing military insignia in a recent reunion
in the city of Lviv,
Ukraine (Lvov in Russian, Lwow in Polish, formerly Lemberg). Mr. Safer
informs us that
"Thousands of Ukrainians joined the SS and marched off to fight for
Naziism," and that "Nowhere,
not even in Germany, are the SS so openly celebrated," and that "Many
of the Ukrainian men of
Lvov who marched off as members of the SS never returned - killed
fighting for Hitler."
The impression created in the viewer's mind is that these veterans are
unanimously guilty of war
crimes and crimes against humanity, that they were once supporters of
and now continue to be
admirers of Hitler, that they sympathized with Nazi ambitions during
World War II, that they are
the remnants of a much larger group of Ukrainians who shared a similar
orientation, and that as
their reunion was sanctioned by the Lviv City Council and the Ukrainian
Catholic Church, similar
charges must apply to Ukrainians generally. To all this, however, I
must echo Cardinal
Lubachivsky's words: "It is not true!"
The Galicia Division was recruited by the Germans only well into the
war, in the summer and fall
of 1943 when they were beginning to experience setbacks on their
Eastern front. That the
Galicia Division was considered an "SS" division does not bear the
significance given it by 60
Minutes - it was a Waffen SS division, which is quite a different
thing: "Like other German
volunteer units, the Division Halychyna [Galicia] was included in the
14th Grenadier Division of
the SS-Waffen." (Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, Volume 2, p. 1088.)
Five qualities of the Galicia Division make it a most atypical
component of the stereotype of
the SS: (1) it was strictly a combat unit and so played no role in the
management of
concentration camps or death camps, (2) its Ukrainian members wore a
lion rampant instead of an
"SS" on their right collars during most of the life of the division,
(3) it was accompanied by
Ukrainian chaplains who attended to the spiritual needs of the troops,
(4) it was kept separate
from other German forces, and (5) it was created with the proviso that
it never be used against
the Western Allies, but only against Soviet forces on the Eastern
front. These five qualities
alone render the Galicia Division an entity unlike any that was being
conjured up in the minds
of 60 Minutes viewers.
Photographs contrasting different insignia of
German and Ukrainian members of the Galici