In some cases. their error was in championing a cause that has gone out of style because of the twists and turns in the Soviet political line. In 1958. for example. a declaration by delegations of Ukrainian. Czech and Slovak writers in "Zakarpatska Pravda" extolled the cordiality and sincerity of their meeting on "pressing literary problems." and they vowed to continue to strengthen their creative relations as "our sacred duty to the fraternal peoples of Czechoslovakia and the Ukrainian SSR." A dozen years later. with the warm sun of destalinization past its zenith. a letter to Oles Honchar. secretary of the Ukraine Writers Union. moaned. "How happy would the literary and cultural community of our republic . . . be to hear . . . about a congress . . . of people interested in Ukrainian studies. and ... language courses for writerstranslators from other republics." Smuggled manuscripts and documents or publications. such as the Honchar letter. have been assembled in a frightening dossier for the UN Human Rights Commission. "Violation of Human Rights in UkraineDocuments" published in 1970 by the World Congress of Free Ukrainians reveals some of the details. such as forced Russification. discrimination based on national origin. persecution of churches. arbitrary arrests and deportations. secret trials. subjection of people to cruel. inhuman and degrading treatment and denial of freedom of movement. thought. conscience. religion. opinion. expression. peaceful assembly and association. Combined with careful study of daytoday
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