Zuzak GRC Report; Wed., November 03, 2010

(1) Holodomor/Genocide: http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
No updates this month.

(2) Ukrainophobia: http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrainophobia/ukrainophobia.html
The Worst of the Madness  New York Review of Books, 11Nov2010; Anne Applebaum [W.Z.]

Although Anne Applebaum and the authors of Bloodlands and Stalin's Genocides do an admirable job of placing the politics associated  with the Holodomor and World War II in a more realistic context, she (and perhaps the other two authors) fails to include the Ukrainian independence struggle during WWII into the equation. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 23Aug1939 and the Katyn Massacre of April 1940 really were harbingers of things to come -- not only in Poland -- but in Western Ukraine, where the OUN-UPA resisted the Soviet-German-Soviet occupations and struggled for an independent Ukraine well into the 1950s.

The world is slowly starting to realize that the Holodomor was Stalin's (successful?) attempt to break the back of the independence movement in Eastern Ukraine. However, few people realize that the arrests, tortures, murders and especially the deportations to Siberia from 1944 to 1953 were Stalin's (partially-successful?) response to the OUN-UPA struggle for independence in Western Ukraine. Both events left the indigenous people traumatized, broken and resigned to their fate.

(3) John Demjanjuk: http://www.willzuzak.ca/fc/2009/2009.html
Three articles were archived this month.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk trial goes ahead despite health issues Kyiv Post, 26Oct2010; Associated Press
Health issues raised again at Demjanjuk trial  fox12idaho.com, 25Oct2010; Andrea Jarach
Demjanjuk trial session postponed over health  Times Reporter, 13Oct2010; Associated Press
Demjanjuk trial hears evidence on 1978 deposition  Kyiv Post, 06Oct2010; Associated Press
Demjanjuk's lawyer again seeks release Seattle Times, 05Oct2010; Associated Press

(4) John Demjanjuk: http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/Demjanjuk2009/Demjanjuk2009.html
trawniki1393.html (archive)
transcripts2001.html (archive)
Trawniki ID cards: Forms and Stamps  (trawniki1393/trawnikiTypes.html)
G. Dragan Analysis, 1990.02.06
H.  The 4th Directorate of the MGB
I.  Katelnytsky submission, 1993.07.21
Despite having to work from a wheelchair, Volodymyr Katelnytsky was a professional journalist, who was very involved in Ukrainian affairs during the 1990's. As President of the Demjanjuk Defense Committee in Kyiv, he submitted an appeal on behalf of John Demjanjuk to the Supreme Court of Israel shortly before they overturned the guilty verdict of the lower court on 29Jul1993.

On the night of 07/08Jul1997,  Mr. Katelnytsky and his 81-year-old mother were torture-murdered in their apartment in a most brutal fashion. His material on the John Demjanjuk case disappeared. Their murderers were never apprehended.

(5) XoXoL:  http://www.xoxol.org/
Dr. Lubomyr Prytulak has placed much Demjanjuk material at
http://www.xoxol.org/dem/dem.html
wherein one finds
http://www.xoxol.org/dem/blurb.html  Blurb biography of John Demjanjuk case.
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/forge.html  “Forged and Obliterated”: Demjanjuk signature on Trawniki ID card.
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/photo.html “Who glued Demjanjuk photograph to Trawniki card 1393?”
http://www.xoxol.org/dem/letter-from-death-row.html “Letter from Death Row
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/patterns.html  “Four stamp types, Five stamp patterns”
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/closer.html  “A closer look at a stamp-imprint”
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/dog-eared.html  “Why is the John Demjanjuk photograph dog-eared?”
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/stewart.html  “Larry Stewart’s counter-clockwise solution”
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/bazilevskaya.html  Bazilevskaya’s Revenge
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/streibel.html  The Karl Streibel signature
http://www.xoxol.org/traw/creases.html  Even the creases are wrong
Dr. Prytulak has posted three of his UKAR articles on Volodymyr Katelnytsky on xoxol.org:
http://www.xoxol.org/kat/safer10.html
http://www.xoxol.org/kat/kat01.html
http://www.xoxol.org/kat/kat02.html

Respectfully submitted
Will Zuzak,  2010.11.03