Yury Shapoval

The 80th anniversary of the death of Symon Petliura was recently marked in Ukraine. Commemorations in his honor were secured on the highest level through a decree signed last year by President Yushchenko. Over a period of several days last month, ending on May 25, several events were held in Kyiv...

The editors and staff of The Day asked me to comment on a recent event in Russia. It seems that Marx Draule, the son of Leonid Nikolayev, the killer of the Leningrad Bolshevik leader Sergey Kirov, has been officially recognized as a victim of political reprisals. Placed in an orphanage at age 6,5,...

To explain the meaning of “fatal brand” (reference to the Borotbists), I offer two quotations. No. 1: “Borotbists — a Ukrainian petty bourgeois nationalist party that expressed the class interests of the rural bourgeoisie, primarily the kulaks. Emerged in May 1918, following a schism in the...

Let me begin with a quote: “Based on my own experience and others’, and looking back on the many thoughts, explorations, worries, and calculations, this is my word to you: Woe betide him who overlooks politics. I never said I loved it. I hate and despise it. I’m not pleading with you to love or...

Marquis Adolphe de Custine wrote that a closer look at one’s destiny shows it to be an evolution of one’s character. However, let me first explain the heading. Joseph Stalin called Nikita Khrushchev jokingly a Polish spy. Khrushchev, when retired from Soviet leadership, told playwright Mikhail...

HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? This broad and eventually tragic resettlement was carried out by the USSR leadership and the then pro- Communist government of Poland. As Polish-Ukrainian resettlements also occurred in 1944-1946, before Operation Wisla it would seem worthwhile to dwell at least briefly on...