The statement below was released by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on October 30.
Throughout our nation’s history, the most prominent examples of the disloyalty charge in the United States have come in the midst of major world conflicts. In the years leading up to World War II, anti-immigrant voices in the media would paint Europe’s fight against genocidal totalitarianism as little more than a “Jewish cause,” alleging that Jews in this country sought to involve America in foreign wars against the nation’s true interest. Similarly, when Joseph Stalin began to forcibly starve Ukrainians in the genocide of 7-10 million Ukrainians – remembered today as the Holodomor – Ukrainian Americans were dismissed as liars who sought to create a conflict with the Soviet Union, right at the moment the United States began normalizing diplomatic relations with the USSR.