Poles were spared by the Russians. The Ukrainians estimate the
      total number of [Tarnopol] victims since the occupation of the
      Ukraine by the Russians at about 2,000. The planned deportation of
      the Ukrainians already started in 1939. There is hardly a family
      in Tarnopol from which one or several members have not
      disappeared. [...] The entire Ukrainian intelligentsia is
      destroyed. Since the beginning of the war, 160 members of the
      Ukrainian intelligentsia were either murdered or deported.
      Inhabitants of the town had observed a column of about 1,000
      civilians driven out of town by police and army early in the
      morning of July 1, 1941.
      As in Lvov, torture chambers were discovered in the cellars of
      the Court of Justice. Apparently, hot and cold showers were also
      used here (as in Lemberg [Lviv]) for torture, as several bodies
      were found, totally naked, their skin burst and torn in many
      places. A grate was found in another room, made of wire and set
      above the ground about 1m in height, traces of ashes were found
      underneath. A Ukrainian engineer, who was also to be murdered but
      saved his life by smearing the blood of a dead victim over his
      face, reports that one could also hear screams of pain from women
      and girls. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 28, July 20,
      1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The
      Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi
      Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,
      Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p.38-40)
      (14) Had their noses, ears, tongues and even genitals cut away.
      F. Fedorenko
      MY TESTIMONY
      When the bolsheviks retreated before the German onslaught in
      the Second World War they took care in advance not to leave any
      prisoners behind when the Germans arrived.
      The prisoners were driven, en masse, under heavy NKVD guard
      deep into Russia or Siberia, day and night. Many of them were so
      tired that they could go no further. These were shot without
      compunction where they fell. Terrible things happened then.
      Sometimes, wives recognized their husbands among the evacuees, as
      the prisoners were being driven through the villages. There was
      great despair when they saw their loved ones taken under the
      muzzles of automatic guns, to far, unknown places.
      The villagers took care of those who did not die at once from
      the NKVD bullets, but this was a very dangerous thing to do before
      all the bolsheviks cleared out.
      But the NKVD could not evacuate all the prisoners, there were
      so many arrests, and jails were replenished constantly. In such a
      case the NKVD, before making a hasty retreat, would murder the
      prisoners in their cells.
      I recall that when the Germans came, in the fall of 1941, to a
      little town, Chornobil, on the Prypyat River, 62 miles west of
      Kiev, 52 corpses of recently murdered people, slightly covered with
      earth, were found in the prison yard.
      These corpses had their hands tied at the back with wire; some
      had their backs flayed, others had gouged eyes or nails driven into
      their heels; still others had their noses, ears, tongues and even
      genitals cut away. Instruments of torture which the communists
      used were found in the dungeon of the prison.
      Many of the tortured people were identified because they were
      mostly farmers from the local collectives who had been arrested by
      the NKVD for some unknown reason.
      For instance, one girl (whose name I cannot recall now) from
      the village of Zallissya, a mile and a quarter from Chornobil, was
      arrested because one day she failed to go to dig trenches. All
      were compelled at that time, to dig anti-tank trenches. The girl
      was sick but there was no doctor to examine her and the NKVD
      arrested her, never to return.
      Two days later, when the Germans arrived, she was found among
      the fifty-two corpses. (F. Fedorenko, My Testimony, in The Black
      Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of
      Victims of Russian Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 97-98)
      (15) Executed 180 persons.
      Andriy Vodopyan
      CRIME IN STALINE
      In this city in the NKVD prison factory the communists executed
      180 persons and buried them in two holes dug in the prison yard.
      The corpses were liberally treated with unslaked lime, especially
      the faces.
      My brother was sentenced to three months in jail for coming
      late to work. After serving 18 days in the factory prison he was
      set free, and a month later was drafted to the Red Army because
      this was in July 1941.
      Later, his wife and my mother found him among the corpses,
      identifying him by the left hand finger, underwear and papers he
      had on him.
      This atrocity came to light when prisoners who remained alive
      were liberated. They had also a very close call. Six days before
      the arrival of the German troops they heard muffled shots.
      The prison was secretly mined by NKVD agents in preparation for
      the German invaders. (Andriy Vodopyan, Crime in Staline, in The
      Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of
      Victims of Russian Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 121)
      (16) Had their breasts cut off.
      Yuriy Dniprovy
      INNOCENT VICTIMS
      In the little town of Zolotnyky in the Ternopil region the
      bolsheviks murdered a captain of the former Ukrainian Galician Army
      (UHA) of 1918-1922, Mr. Dankiw, and clerks of the Ukrainian
      cooperative store, the sisters Magdalene, Sophia and Clementine
      Husar from the suburb of Vaha. Clementine and Magdalene were
      tortured in a beastly manner and had their breasts cut off.
      Other people executed at that time were: Slavko Demyd, Yosyp
      Vozny, Vasyl Burbela, Zynoviy Kushniryna, Pavlo Kushniryna and a
      non-commissioned officer of the UHA, Mr. Tsiholsky. (Yuriy
      Dniprovy, Innocent Victims, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A
      White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist
      Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 122)
      (17) The chopped bones and flesh of the victims fell into the sewers.
      P. K.
      THE INFERNAL DEVICE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS
      (By an eyewitness)
      In the year 1942, when the Red Army, harassed by the German
      divisions, retreated from Katerynodar (Krasnodar), the regional
      NKVD division evacuated all the prisoners and sent them in the
      direction of Novorossiysk. The railway line between Katerynodar
      and the station of Krymska was jammed by nearly two hundred freight
      boxcars filled to capacity with political prisoners.
      Suspecting that all these prisoners might fall into German
      hands the Russian NKVD men, as a precautionary measure, poured
      gasoline on the cars and let them burn.
      Thus a few thousand people perished in inhuman torture merely
      because they were suspected of anti-communism.
      When the Germans entered Katerynodar they found in the regional
      divisional building of the NKVD in Sinny Bazar, a horrible torture
      chamber. In the vault of this building there was a dark passage
      which ended with a wooden platform which dipped down at a sharp
      angle. Right underneath it there was a machine which resembled a
      straw chopper. It was a disk equipped with a system of big knives
      that revolved at great speed. It was powered by a motor.
      After questioning, the innocent victims were driven by the NKVD
      agents towards the wooden platform and rolled under the knives of
      the hellish meatchopper. The chopped bones and flesh of the
      victims fell into the sewers and were carried away with a stream of
      sewage into the river Kuban.
      Having discovered this horrible place, the Germans gave
      permission to all who wished to view this inhuman device.
      Thousands of people visited the place, among them the author of
      these lines.
      Other nations direct their talents towards the discovery of
      better medicines, new materials, better means of communication to
      make living conditions better. The Russian people are using all
      their talents for the production of machines and new methods of
      mass murder and torture. (P. K., The infernal device of the
      Russian Communists (by an eyewitness), in The Black Deeds of the
      Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian
      Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 123-124)
      (18) Some had nails driven into their skulls.
      M. Kowal
      BOLSHEVIK MURDERS
      I am Michael Kowal, from the town of Kaminka Strumylova in the
      Lviw Region in Ukraine. During the communist occupation of Western
      Ukraine I personally witnessed three arrests in my native town on
      June 22, 1941, those of Bohdan Mulkevich, and Michael Mulkevich who
      lived on Zamok Street, and Michael Mulkevich's blacksmith
      apprentice, presumably from the village of Rymaniw in the same
      Region. They were suspected of disloyalty to the communist regime.
      After the communist retreat from Kaminska-Strumylova they were
      found in the town prison with 33 other victims, murdered in a
      horribly sadistic manner. All the corpses were tied together with
      barbed wire and all bore signs of terrible beatings. Some had
      nails driven into their skulls. None of them had been shot to
      death. Their bodies, nude and badly mauled, were practically
      unrecognizable to their relatives.
      Bohdan Mulkevish's wife recognized her husband, but, trying to
      verify her identification by his gold teeth, found them missing.
      All the bodies were taken away for interment.
      That Same day 19 other bodies were discovered near the village
      of Todan about 9 or 10 kilometers from Kaminka-Strumylova. They
      were tied to trees and their chests were pierced with bayonets.
      These were all identified by relatives and taken away for burial.
      (M. Kowal, Bolshevik Murders, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A
      White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist
      Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 529)
      (19) Shot the children in cold blood.
      Andriy Vodopyan
      A RAVINE FILLED WITH THE BODIES OF CHILDREN
      I was serving in the Soviet Russian Army. Our artillery unit
      was retreating before the Germans in the direction of Yeletsk. On
      September 18, 1941, our unit came to a wide ravine situated about
      14 miles from Chartsysk station, and about 60 miles from the city
      of Staline. The ravine stretched from the station of Chartsysk to
      the station of Snizhy. When we approached the ravine we were taken
      aback by a horrible sight. The whole ravine was filled with the
      bodies of children. They were lying in different positions. Most
      of them were from 14 to 16 years of age. They were dressed in
      black, and we recognized them as students of the F.S.U., a
      well-known trade and craft school. We counted 370 bodies
      altogether. All of them had been killed by machine gun fire.
      This group of children was being evacuated from Staline when
      the Germans neared the city. The children had marched 60 miles,
      and, exhausted and unable to continue walking, asked for
      transportation. The officers in charge promised to send them
      trucks. Instead of trucks, a detachment of the Russian political
      police (NKVD) arrived, and shot the children in cold blood with
      machine guns. This ravine, filled with hundreds of bodies of slain
      children, moved even the soldiers, accustomed as they were to the
      sight of death. (Andriy Vodopyan, A Ravine Filled With the Bodies
      of Children, in S. O. Pidhainy (ed.), The Black Deeds of the
      Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian
      Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 529)
      (20) Throwing hand-grenades into the crowded cells.
      Rev. J. Chyrva was imprisoned in 1941 when the Russian Communist armies were withdrawing from the city of Riwne. He happened to be
      cast into one of those jails in which the communists, fleeing from
      advancing German armies, attempted to rid themselves of as many
      prisoners as possible by throwing hand-grenades into the crowded
      cells. When the first grenade was thrown into the cell where Rev.
      J. Chyrva was kept, he was the first to fall - his foot shattered.
      On him fell many mutilated bodies, covering him, thus saving his
      life. Later, when people came into the cell, they found all the
      prisoners dead with the exception of Rev. J. Chyrva. He is alive
      today, a witness of that horrible manslaughter. (Rev. Lev Buchak,
      Persecution of Ukrainian Protestants under the Soviet Rule, in S.
      O. Pidhainy (ed.), The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book,
      Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist Terror,
      Toronto, 1953, p. 529)
      (21) Exhumed corpses were found without skin.
      The Bolsheviks had arrested thousands of Ukrainian patriots, and
      prior to their retreat, they killed them savagely. For some reason
      even highly regarded Jewish authors understate the number of
      Ukrainian victims of Bolshevik terror. Gerald Reitlinger gives a
      figure of three to four thousand in Lviv alone. Hilberg speaks of
      "the Bolsheviks deporting Ukrainians," but he does not furnish any
      overall figures. But on the basis of a German document (RSHA
      IV-A-1, Operational Report USSR no. 28, 20 July 1941, No-2943),
      which I was unable to verify, he recounts one particularly horrible
      episode:
      In Kremenets 100-150 Ukrainians had been killed by the
      Soviets. When some of the exhumed corpses were found
      without skin, rumors circulated that the Ukrainians
      had been thrown into kettles of boiling water. The
      Ukrainian population retaliated by seizing 130 Jews
      and beating them to death with clubs.
      He also quotes the French collaborator Dr. Frederic as saying that
      the Bolsheviks killed eighteen thousand Ukrainian political
      prisoners in Lviv and its outskirts alone.
      Basing his remarks on an anonymous article entitled "The
      Ethnocide of Ukrainians in the USSR," in the dissident journal
      Ukrainian Herald, Issue 7-8, the Ukrainian-American publicist Lew
      Shankowsky gives the following number of victims of Bolshevik
      terror in Galicia and Volhynia: as many as forty thousand killed in
      the prisons of Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Dubno, Ternopil, Stanyslaviv
      (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Stryi, Drohobych, Sambir, Zolochiv and other
      towns and settlements. The fact of the matter is that, justifiably
      or not, some Ukrainians felt that some Jews were in the employ of
      the Stalinist secret police, the NKVD. For instance, it was
      pointed out to me by a resident of Western Ukraine that a high NKVD
      official in Lviv, a certain Barvinsky, was Jewish, despite his
      Ukrainian name. (Yaroslav Bilinsky, Methodological Problems and
      Philosophical Issues in the Study of Jewish-Ukrainian Relations
      During the Second World War, pp. 373-394, in Howard Aster and Peter
      J. Potichnyj (eds.), Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical
      Perspective, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Edmonton,
      1990, footnotes deleted)
      (22) From 15,000 to 40,000 prisoners were killed
      In their hasty and often panic-stricken retreat, the Soviet
      authorities were not about to evacuate the thousands of prisoners
      they had arrested, mostly during their last months of rule in
      western Ukraine. Their solution, implemented at the end of June
      and in early July 1941, was to kill all inmates regardless of
      whether they had committed minor or major crimes or were being held
      for political reasons. According to estimates, from 15,000 to
      40,000 prisoners were killed during the Soviet retreat from eastern
      Galicia and western Volhynia. (Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of
      Ukraine, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996, p. 624)
      However, the Membership of this NKVD was
      Predominantly Jewish
      What was the membership of this NKVD that we see above being so repeatedly blamed
      for the massacre of Ukrainians in the days before occupation by German forces? In
      my analysis of data presented by Yuri Shapoval, I arrive at the conclusion that the
      senior membership in Ukraine of the organization one of whose names became the NKVD
      was as follows:
      Out of every 10 senior members of the Cheka-GPU-NKVD in Ukraine:
      6 were Jewish,
      2 were Russian,
      1 was Ukrainian, and
      1 was other.
      Statements made by others support the conclusion that the NKVD was predominantly a
      Jewish organization. For example, Yoram Sheftel, Ivan Demjanjuk's Israeli defense
      attorney, reports that in connection with his visit to the Simferopol, Ukraine, KGB
      headquarters in 1990, a plaque memorializing the "KGB" dead of the war showed that
      all thirty of the thirty names were Jewish:
      On the right-hand wall was a stone memorial plaque engraved with
      the names of about thirty KGB men from Simferopol who had fallen in
      the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets call World War II. I was
      shocked and angry as I read the names: the first was Polonski and
      the last Levinstein, and all those between were ones like
      Zalmonowitz, Geller and Kagan - all Jews. The best of Jewish youth
      in Russia, the cradle of Zionism, had sold itself and its soul to
      the Red Devil. (The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a
      Show-Trial, Victor Gollancz, London, 1994, p. 301)
      Of course Sheftel's sample of 30 is not necessarily a sample that is representative
      of the entire NKVD in Ukraine; however the Jewish domination of the entire NKVD is
      not a rare or dubious hypothesis, but is one, rather, that is upheld from more than
      one direction:
      As a Jew, I'm interested in another question entirely: Why were
      there so many Jews among the NKVD-MVD investigators - including
      many of the most terrible? It's a painful question for me but I
      cannot evade it. (Yevgenia Albats, The State Within a State: The
      KGB and its Hold on Russia, Past, Present and Future, 1994, p. 147)
      Jews abounded [also] at the lower levels of the Party machinery
      especially in the Cheka and its successors, the GPU, the OGPU and
      the NKVD.... It is difficult to suggest a satisfactory reason for
      the prevalence of Jews in the Cheka. It may be that having
      suffered at the hand of the former Russian authorities they wanted
      to seize the reins of real power in the new state for themselves.
      (Leonard Shapiro, The Role of Jews in the Russian Revolutionary
      Movement, Slavonic and East European Review, 1961, 40, p. 165)
      But if in the pre-German interval Ukrainians were being killed by the NKVD, and if
      the NKVD was disproportionately, or even overwhelmingly, Jewish, then one might
      summarize by saying that in the pre-German interval, Ukrainians were being killed by
      Jews.
      I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
      The table which I have been developing in my letters to you of 30Jun99 and 01Jul99
      can now be elaborated with the uppermost entry:
      Date of my letter
      Subject of my letter
      Date of Attack
      Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      04Jul99
      The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
      Summer 1941
      15May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
      April 1979
      30Jun99
      Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
      February 14, 1992
      Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      09Apr99
      Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
      Summer 1995
      17May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
      July 7-8, 1997
      01Jul99
      Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
      August 11, 1997
      The new "The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny" entry in the table above is of particular
      importance not only because of the large number of victims involved, but also
      because it demonstrates your going beyond the fault of overlooking Ukrainians being
      victimized, to the greater fault of replacing the real killing of a large number of
      Ukrainians by Jews with an imaginary killing of a large number of Jews by
      Ukrainians.
      And I Find My Earlier Conclusions
      Strengthened
      What a convincing broadcast your The Ugly Face of Freedom would have been if all the
      instances in the above table had been ones of Jews or Russians being tortured and
      mutilated and murdered by Ukrainians, instead of the other way around! However, in
      your broadcast you documented not a single such story featuring Ukrainians
      victimizing Jews or Russians. Evidence of Ukrainians being victimized was
      plentiful, but you ignored it. Much worse, in the case of the pre-German violence,
      you reversed it.
      Unless you are able to offer some credible defense, Mr. Safer, two conclusions that
      have already gained a foothold threaten to climb to wide acceptance:
      (1) that your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes demonstrated
      your lack of competence and integrity; and
      (2) that your broadcast served to demonstrate to Ukraine's assassins not only that
      violence against Ukrainians goes unreported in the world press, but also that it is
      even buried under fabricated reports of violence committed by Ukrainians. By means
      of this demonstration, you informed Ukraine's assassins that they might expect
      impunity for their work against Ukrainians, and in this way you encouraged them to
      violence that they might otherwise have feared to commit. Thus, it is possible that
      you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to Volodymyr Katelnytsky
      together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their lives.
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,
      Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
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      Morley Safer Letter 14 25Jul99 Who did Israel Roitman murder?
      "By the time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were
      exhausted. The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him."
      - Israel Roitman
      July 25, 1999
      Morley Safer
      60 Minutes, CBS Television
      51 W 52nd Street
      New York, NY
      USA 10019
      Morley Safer:
      I bring to your attention the following boastful confession of
      former SMERSH agent, Israel Roitman
      The translation of Isreal Roitman's autobiographical account below, originally published
      in the Russian-language periodical Our View in Thornhill, Ontario in 1998, recounts the
      experience of a Jew participating in the torture and murder of a Ukrainian during the
      Second World War, and boasts that this one crime was only the first of many:
      MUSIC
      by Israel Roitman
      Our View
      05May98
      [...]
      Once, on the occasion of a talk with students, I was asked: "Did you also kill
      people?"
      What could I answer? It remained only to smile sadly, and my memory recalled the
      first cruelty. Afterward, there were many more, but the first is unforgettable.
      It happened, if memory serves, in the Zolochiv region which lies along the
      Ternopil-Lviv highway (Western Ukraine). The military SMERSH ("Death to Spies", as
      military counter-intelligence was named during the war) instructed us intelligence
      officers to investigate the cause of death of one of our sabotage units. On the
      second or third day, we came upon the tracks of the perpetrators who were responsible
      for the death of our comrades, and caught them relaxing in broad daylight in a large
      house on a forest farmstead. There were three men sitting around a table with
      moonshine and snacks: a thin, tall German, a heavily-armed policeman, and a
      fat-faced, unshaven Banderite [Ukrainian fighting for Ukrainian independence] wearing
      a service cap with a yellow-light blue [colors of the Ukrainian flag] cockade and
      some kind of stripes sewn on his sleeve. It goes without saying: a merry band.
      We had to shoot the policeman right there in the house, his abundance of weapons not
      helping him a bit. We took the German and the Banderite out into the yard. The
      Banderite, a huge man with long hands large as shovels, just stood there with a
      crooked smile. On his unshaven face, his eyes darted nervously about like gimlets.
      Evidently, the worsening situation was completely unexpected by him and he didn't
      know what to do, and couldn't hit upon any course of action. Of course, under
      different circumstances, he could have tossed us boys around like puppies, but this
      time the inveterate beast could not do so: we were the ones with the weapons.
      Oh, yes! By that time, we had seen a lot of these nationalists, as they were
      contemptuously called, the "Samostiynyks" ["Independents"] (the motto of the
      Ukrainian Nationalists was "For an Independent Ukraine"). These were veritable
      beasts, worse than some Fritzes [Germans].
      Volodka Seliverstov hit him first, in the solar plexus. The Banderite groaned,
      gripped his stomach with his hands, and doubled over like a folding knife. Then
      followed a knee upper-cut to the face. A sobbing was heard and the Banderite started
      falling backwards. But we didn't let him fall. There were five of us. We stood in
      a small circle and knocked him from one to another. We struck silently with backhand
      blows, putting into them all our accumulated rage and hatred. We struck viciously,
      probably like hunters striking huge and especially dangerous maddened beasts. By the
      time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were exhausted.
      The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him. The
      German, we delivered safely across the front line and turned him over to the SMERSH
      people. (We followed the same practice afterwards. When police, Banderites,
      Vlasovites, or Germans fell into our hands, we usually delivered the latter
      untouched, but the traitors we executed ourselves on the spot.)
      [...]
      The original of the beginning of Israel Roitman's article appears below, the portion
      translated above shown enclosed in a box:
      I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
      The table which I have been developing in my previous three letters to you can now be
      elaborated with the Israel Roitman entry. As Roitman gives no dates for his crimes, I
      conjecture that they began in 1941; as Roitman could have continued his service in the
      Soviet secret police for several decades, there is no telling what span of time his
      crimes occupied:
      Date of my letter
      Subject of my letter
      Date of Attack
      Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      04Jul99
      The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
      Summer 1941
      25Jul99
      Who did Israel Roitman murder?
      1941
      15May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
      April 1979
      30Jun99
      Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
      February 14, 1992
      Violence that you might have encouraged by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      09Apr99
      Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
      Summer 1995
      17May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
      July 7-8, 1997
      01Jul99
      Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
      August 11, 1997
      And I Find My Earlier Conclusions Strengthened
      In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you urged the conclusion
      that Ukraine was a place where Ukrainians kill Jews. However, you found that conclusion
      difficult to substantiate. The conclusion that you would have found easy to
      substantiate - as Israel Roitman demonstrates by his lack of inhibition in stepping
      forward - is the opposite one that Ukraine is a place where Jews kill Ukrainians. What
      Israel Roitman demonstrates is not only that Jews tortured and murdered Ukrainians, but
      also that even today, even in Canada, they continue to view the torture and murder of
      Ukrainians as their right, and they recount how they did so not with self-doubting