Correction

The punctuation in one section of Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky's speech at Columbia University (May 23) rendered the text improperly. The sentence should have read:

This is also not something that most folks who studied the Soviet Union or now study post-Soviet countries seem adequately to have understood and appreciated, so there now seems little awareness that perhaps something important is reflected by the fact that whereas Russia is happily ruled by a career KGB officer, 60 percent of its population thinks Lenin was a great leader, 45 percent of its population thinks Stalin was a great leader, and 30 percent of the Russian population would vote for Stalin if he were running for office, in Ukraine, by contrast, and despite all of the official and media hanky-panky directed at undermining his candidacy, for the last two years a genuine democrat has continued to lead in Ukraine's presidential polls.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 30, 2004, No. 22, Vol. LXXII

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