Quotable notes

"... there's a distinct difference between the populations of Russia and Ukraine. In Russia, more than 50 percent of the people regard Stalin as a positive historic figure, as the founder of a powerful Soviet state. In Ukraine, Stalin is a fallen idol; he is identified with forced collectivization, famine and repression. The defeat of Ukraine's Communists, who failed to get even 4 percent in the parliamentary elections, marks a final break with the Soviet past."

- Viktor Erofeyev, writing in the March 31 issue of the International Herald Tribune, in a commentary titled "Whose Ukraine?"

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, April 23, 2006, No. 17, Vol. LXXIV

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