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From Labor Action, Vol. 14 No. 11, 13 March 1950, p. 3.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
WESTERN ZONE, Germany – Authorized delegates representing the resistance movement of the Russian Ukraine crossed over the Czech-Bavarian border early in February. Among other important documents they brought with them were newspapers and pamphlets illegally printed in the Russian Ukraine. A contributor to their newspaper had the opportunity to see these unique documents himself, and the photograph he made accompanies this article.
Some of this printed material is dated October 1949. Some of these pamphlets, brochures and leaflets are produced in a first-class typographical manner. Two leaflets are even printed in two colors. Only a small part of this material is mimeographed. Among the materials brought are not only articles of a serious political nature and content, but also a collection of novels, history, a drama, .as well as a calendar for partisans of the year 1949.
So far as the content is concerned, it must be said that there is a great difference between material from the center and the provinces. The central organ unequivocally states that the resistance movement in the Russian Ukraine “struggles for a classless society freed from the Stalinist yoke,” “which will develop itself on the basis of an economy with socialized production,” and all call upon the Russian worker “to build up socialism without Moscow.”
The arrival of these delegates from the resistance movement (UFA) is of the greatest significance for all those who follow events in Russia with attention. The material brought was also a surprise for the revolutionary groups among the Eastern immigrants. There is no doubt that the resistance movement in the Russian Ukraine is organizationally an amazing phenomenon against which the Stalinist apparatus is powerless. The published material signifies that illegal printing facilities are in the hands of the resistance movement.
In conclusion we will further note that the representatives who were sent by the Ukrainian resistance movement immediately upon their arrival placed themselves in contact only with the UPA mission abroad, and gave all documents and material to them. This is a further indication that the resistance movement in the Russian Ukraine has no relationship to so-called “Banderovki,” a right-wing reactionary group of the Ukrainian immigration which misuses the Ukrainian opposition for its aims.
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