Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., Jan. 02, 2008
(1) Holodomor: An
article “denying” the Holodomor as genocide
by Daniel Stone in the 02Dec2007 issue of the Winnipeg Free Press was
critically refuted by Roman Serbyn in the 09Dec2007 issue, as well as
by a
short response by Iryna Mycak of the UCC Holodomor Committee in the
04Dec2007
issue of the paper. These articles are archived on my website at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
(2)
Income Trusts: I
have continued archiving material relevant
to the ongoing Income Trust controversy on my website at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/caiti/caiti.html
These include 3 older articles by Yves
Fortin, a Green Party call for a public inquiry on 07Dec2007 and
especially an
8-page analysis by Louis Mix titled “Energy Trusts in Alberta” on
14Dec2007.
In my
latest submission on 01Jan2008 titled
“Road to Serfdom”, I conclude with the following admonition:
“I
would urge all Canadians to examine the
implications of destroying income/energy trusts very carefully. The
future of
your children depends on it. Will they be serfs or will they control
their own
destiny?”
I
further utilize Ukrainian history as an
example of the dangers of allowing foreign control of the economy:
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As a person of Ukrainian origin, allow me
to utilize the history of the Ukrainian nation as an example of what
happens
when you allow a foreign nation to control your economy. Around the
middle of
the seventeenth century, Ukraine was a hetmanate state with its Cossack
army
fighting for survival against Poles/Lithuania to the west, the
Tatars/Turks to
the south, the Asiatic hordes to the east and the Muscovites to the
north.
Despite the difficult politics of the day, Ukrainians were reasonably
well off,
had a high literacy rate and its leaders were well received in various
European
capitals.
Unfortunately,
in 1648 Ukraine entered a
military alliance with Moscow, which has haunted Ukraine to the present
day. It
was soon dominated by Tsarist Moscow, its Cossack army was exiled to
the Kuban
region and serfdom was established. In 1711, with Swedish help, Hetman
Mazepa
attempted to revolt against the Tsarist regime, but was defeated. With
the
closure of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy and transfer of its professors to
Moscow,
educational conditions continued to deteriorate resulting in a drastic
decrease
in the number of schools serving the population. [746 population/school
(in
1768), 6750 (in 1775), 17143 (in 1860) until in 1902 more than 83% of
Ukrainian
children did not go to school.]
The
horrors of the twentieth century
included Ukrainians fighting for their enemies in opposing armies
during WWI,
failure to establish and maintain independence, Bolshevik
collectivization,
Siberian exile by the millions, the Holodomor (famine-genocide of
1932/33), the
Great Terror of 1937/38, destruction by both Hitler and Stalin during
WWII, UPA
struggle for independence until 1956, and arrest/exile of dissidents
until the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The
advent of independence in 1991 did not
result in the expected economic benefits. This was largely due to the
looting
of the country by the criminal Oligarchs in Ukraine and the Russian
Federation
with the help of "Western experts" such as Mark Carney -- our future
Bank of Canada governor. Even today many of the deputies (Members of
Parliament) to the Verkhovna Rada proclaim their primary loyalty to
Moscow
rather than Ukraine.
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Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2008-01-02