An actual Yaroslav Stetsko

From 1946, he headed the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples, and in 1958 took part in the founding Congress of the World Anti-Communist League in Mexico City. He joined it only after accepting the demand of the Ukrainian delegation to oppose Russian imperialism. After the Congress, Stetsko, as President of ABN, visited the USA with lectures as a guest of the American Friends of ABN. Stetsk’s lectures contributed to the growth of American friends of ABN, as his noble ideas were completely harmonized with the high principles of the American Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Based on Stetsko’s numerous speeches, the named book was published, which appeared in the form of many questions and answers. In the foreword, Major General Y.F.Ch. Fuller (JFC Fuller) believes that “no one knows more about Soviet communism than Ya. Stetsko… The fact is that the Free Nations are faced with a world problem and there can be no peace in the world until it is solved. The problem is not nuclear war, which is secondary; the problem is Soviet Russian imperialism.”

In the “Introduction” Nestor Protsyk drew attention to the fact that Stetsko studied the problem of “freedom for every nation and social justice for every person” from his youth. After the Second World War, Stetsko was tirelessly active on the world stage, as the head of the anti-Russian front, as a leading advocate of the freedom and liberation front. Its purpose was to recruit and join the support of all thinking people to the liberation movement of all peoples enslaved by communism and Russian colonial imperialism.

Stetsk’s answers would be very useful in modern times, when various international organizations tolerate aggressive Russian imperialism for the sake of business. World organizations – UN, Red Cross, Human Rights, Atomic Energy and others have been unable to condemn the bloody war of aggression of the Moscow Empire against Ukraine for 15 months. We will quote only a part of Stetsk’s answer to one of the questions, which gives us an idea of ​​why Stetsk’s thoughts are not only true, but also relevant today.

“Question: Can you tell us how and why the Russian Empire is growing so fast?

Answer: During and after World War II, Russia annexed such a large number of new countries that it would not have been able, without the support of the free world, including the United States, to keep them under control for a long time. Before 1939, Russia controlled a large part of Ukraine, Belarus, Turkestan, the Caucasus and other non-Russian countries, which it controlled with difficulty, suppressing national liberation movements towards independence through systematic terror, genocide, artificial famine, concentration camps and prisons. (page 12).

To confirm, Stetsko provides a chronological table of how the Muscovite/Russian Empire grew from the 14th to the 20th (1945) centuries from 216,000 sq miles to 10,070,000 sq miles.

Stetska’s book about “political coexistence or liberation” increased the number of ABN supporters among Americans. Its content destroyed the KGB propaganda about the terrible “nationalists, people of Bandera” who were “fascists, anti-Semites”. With his book, Stetsko convinced his American friends that he and the Ukrainians were fighting not only for their own national existence, but also for the liberation of all peoples and nationalities oppressed by the Moscow Empire.

The modern genocidal war of Muscovy against Ukraine once again confirmed the opinions expressed by the leader of Ukrainian nationalists 64 years ago, that Ukrainians then, as now, were concerned not only with their own liberation from the yoke of the Russian empire. Stetsko fought not only for the Ukrainian State, but also for the right of everyone to be free. In this sense, today’s struggle of Ukrainians against Russian fascist imperialism is a struggle not only for Ukraine, but also for the enslaved peoples and nations of Muscovy, but also for the protection of free Europe.