Dear Editor:
Re: “UCRDC interviews Ludmilla Temertey, a child of Holodomor survivors” by Oksana Zakydalsky (September 20), this is a most worthwhile project covered in a fascinating story that was very well written.
Let’s have more of these testimonies from Holodomor survivors’ children, as well as from the children of World War II survivors. These are the stories not just of Ukraine’s history but the history of the lands that took us in – a global history.
At present, there is resistance to erecting a monument in Ottawa called The Tribute to Liberty representing some 8 million Canadians who fled communism. Although it’s shrouded as opposition to the venue and design, the real reason appears to lie elsewhere: the other name for the monument is the Memorial to the Victims of Communism.
Today it is still more acceptable – even fashionable – to hold Nazis as the world’s most horrid criminals while communism’s crimes continue being underexposed, even protected.
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn
Ottawa