Mrs. Procyk spoke of local UkrainianAmerican groups as striving to "teach their children a love for their homeland and at the same time a love for their American heritage and an appreciation of the freedoms they have here." Ukrainian dreams of freedom were trounced when the revolt against czarist Russia failed. To this day the policy of "Russification" continues in Ukraine with a ban on the teaching of the Ukrainian language. the imprisonment of dissidents. religious persecutions. mass postwar deportations. and manmade famines. The Buffalo Chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America has "adopted" jailed dissidents and sent food to their homeland in an effort to alleviate human suffering. The following appeared August 2. 1982. in the Buffalo Courier Express: "Buffalos Ukrainians Keep Memory.
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