immediately after the entry of the German army. From June 30 to July
      3, German soldiers spread through the streets of the city in the
      company of Ukrainian nationalists and an unruly mob of the local
      population. They fell upon the Jews in the streets, beat them
      murderously, and dragged them away for "work" - especially for
      cleansing of prisons filled with corpses and blood. Thousands of Jews
      were seized and conveyed to the prisons on Zamarstynowska, Jachowicza,
      and Lackiego Streets; to the Brygidki prison on Kazimierzowska Street;
      and to the Gestapo headquarters, at 59 Pelzynska.
      The first mention of these events in a report of the Security Police of July 3, 1941,
      is a statement that angered residents had already seized 1,000 Jews. A subsequent
      report, dated July 16, 1941, notes that "In Lemberg [Lviv] the population rounded up
      about 1,000 Jews, and with mistreatment [unter Mi?handlungen] delivered them to the
      [German] army-occupied GPU prison." In the same report, there is mention of the
      shooting by the Security Police of 7,000 Jews in all of eastern Galicia. Fifty Jews
      were reported to have been killed by local inhabitants in Sambor. Another Security
      Police report, dated July 11, 1941, refers to 600 Jews "liquidated" in the course of
      "persecutions of Jews inspired by the Einsatzkommando" 4b in Tarnopol.
      In conclusion, it would seem that local inhabitants violently seized about a thousand
      of the Jews arrested in Lviv. Because of the German role and the presence of Ukrainian
      militia, I have not called these actions a pogrom, but that may be a matter of
      labeling.
      Sincerely,
      Raul Hilberg [signature]
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      Jordan Letter 1 Mar 6/96 Answering 16,000 pieces of mail
      March 6, 1996
      Michael H. Jordan
      Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
      11 Stanwix Street
      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      USA 15222
      Dear Mr. Jordan:
      In the Wall Street Journal article on you of February 28, 1996, the phrase "pulling CBS from the ratings
      basement" caught my attention, and led me to wonder whether it would be possible to accomplish such a feat while CBS
      continues to be weighed down with personnel who have demonstrated such lapses of intelligence and of integrity as were
      requisite to broadcasting "The Ugly Face of Freedom." If you take the trouble to read the enclosed documentation, I
      am sure that you will be convinced that my depiction of this broadcast as requiring lapses of both intelligence and
      integrity is not hyperbolic, but rather is restrained.
      Let me right now give you just one example of the hatemongering that was offered to CBS viewers as investigative
      journalism in "The Ugly Face of Freedom." It is Morley Safer reading into the camera - without so much as blinking
      "The Church and Government of Ukraine have tried to ease people's fears, suggesting that ... Ukrainians, despite the
      allegations, are not genetically anti-Semitic." One might have expected that no mainstream journalist would be able
      to speak such words in any public forum and still keep his job. Had someone made up the equally fantastic and
      inflammatory "The World Jewish Congress has tried to ease people's fears, suggesting that Jews, despite the
      allegations, are not genetically addicted to usury," then surely he would have been out of a job. Mr. Safer did say
      one of these things - does it matter which one? - and yet somehow he still works for CBS television, reading his lines
      into the camera just as if he is not to be held accountable for his statement, carrying on as before just as if he had
      not played the leading role in what may be the most concentrated fifteen minutes of disinformation and hate to come
      out of the mainstream media.
      CBS's behavior since "The Ugly Face of Freedom" continues in the same vein and encourages the suspicion that
      those at its helm continue to be crippled by the same deficit of intelligence and of integrity. Specifically, CBS
      claimed first that of the 16,000 pieces of mail which it had received objecting to "The Ugly Face of Freedom," all had
      been answered. On being pressed, it later revised the "all" downward to 25%. And only after the Ukrainian community
      beat the bushes in a vain attempt to find a single person who had received an answer did CBS revise that figure
      downward still another notch - to none at all having been answered. Topping that off, instead of keeping the 16,000
      letters of protest on file as is required by the FCC, CBS trashed them. To date, almost one and a half years after
      the original broadcast, CBS remains frozen like a deer in the headlights of an onrushing car, devoid on the one hand
      of arguments to refute the charges levelled against the broadcast, and devoid also of the courage to admit that these
      charges are correct - perhaps taking the advice of its lawyers that when you find yourself unable to say anything
      convincing in your own defense, then the best policy is to say nothing at all.
      I urge you in the interests both of truth and of redeeming CBS to weed out the incompetents responsible for "The
      Ugly Face of Freedom," and to direct CBS to offer its viewers the retraction and apology which are long overdue.
      Yours truly,
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace
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      Jordan Letter 2 May 7/96 Confusion concerning the Lviv pogrom
      May 7, 1996
      Michael H. Jordan
      Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
      11 Stanwix Street
      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      USA 15222
      Dear Mr. Jordan:
      In your reply to my letter to you of March 6, 1996, I am particularly looking forward to hearing your comments on
      the discrepancies between the following three sets of quotations.
      VIEW #1: THE LVIV POGROM WAS MASSIVE AND PRE-GERMAN.
      SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the Germans arrived, Ukrainian police
      went on a 3-day killing spree.
      WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6 thousand Jews was killed.
      ...
      SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the police, killed 3,000
      people in 2 days here. (60 Minutes, The Ugly Face of Freedom, October 23, 1994)
      VIEW #2: THE LVIV POGROM WAS MASSIVE AND POST-GERMAN.
      The Ukrainian police ... had played a disastrous role in Galicia following the entry of the
      German troops at the end of June and the beginning of July 1941. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not
      Vengeance, 1989, p. 34, emphasis added)
      Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the retreating Soviets. This gave rise
      to one of the craziest accusations of that period: among the strongly anti-Semitic population
      the rumour was spread by the Ukrainian nationalists that all Jews were Bolsheviks and all
      Bolsheviks were Jews. Hence it was the Jews who were really to blame for the atrocities
      committed by the Soviets.
      All the Germans needed to do was to exploit this climate of opinion. It is said that after
      their arrival they gave the Ukrainians free rein, for three days, to 'deal' with the Jews.
      (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 36, emphasis added)
      VIEW #3: THERE WAS NO LVIV POGROM.
      From the Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C reported as follows:
      Almost nowhere can the population be persuaded to take active steps against
      the Jews. This may be explained by the fear of many people that the Red
      Army may return. Again and again this anxiety has been pointed out to us.
      Older people have remarked that they had already experienced in 1918 the
      sudden retreat of the Germans. In order to meet the fear psychosis, and in
      order to destroy the myth ... which, in the eyes of many Ukrainians, places
      the Jew in the position of the wielder of political power, Einsatzkommando
      6 on several occasions marched Jews before their execution through the
      city. Also, care was taken to have Ukrainian militiamen watch the shooting
      of Jews.
      This "deflation" of the Jews in the public eye did not have the desired effect. After a few
      weeks, Einsatzgruppe C complained once more that the inhabitants did not betray the movements of
      hidden Jews. The Ukrainians were passive, benumbed by the "Bolshevist terror." Only the ethnic
      Germans in the area were busily working for the Einsatzgruppe. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of
      the European Jews, 1961, p. 202)
      The Slavic population stood estranged and even aghast before the unfolding spectacle of the
      "final solution." There was on the whole no impelling desire to cooperate in a process of such
      utter ruthlessness; and the fact that the Soviet regime, fighting off the Germans a few hundred
      miles to the east, was still threatening to return, undoubtedly acted as a powerful restraint
      upon many a potential collaborator. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 1961,
      p. 201)
      First, truly spontaneous pogroms, free from Einsatzgruppen influence, did not take place; all
      outbreaks were either organized or inspired by the Einsatzgruppen. Second, all pogroms were
      implemented within a short time after the arrival of the killing units; they were not
      self-perpetuating, nor could new ones be started after things had settled down. (Raul Hilberg
      summarizing anti-Jewish activity in Ukraine, The Destruction of the European Jews, 1961, p. 204)
      The Ukrainian violence as a whole did not come up to expectations. (Raul Hilberg, The
      Destruction of the European Jews, 1961, p. 204)
      Do you not find it disturbing, Mr. Jordan, that 60 Minutes' claim of a massive pre-German pogrom in Lviv is
      contradicted by Simon Wiesenthal's earlier statements that the pogrom was post-German? And do you not find it even
      more disturbing that when we turn from media stars like Simon Wiesenthal and television announcers like Morley Safer
      to respected historians - in fact, the most respected historian of the Jewish Holocaust, Raul Hilberg himself - that
      there is a curious lack of awareness of this most egregious of all World War II pogroms, and in fact flat denials that
      anything of the sort ever happened?
      Yours truly,
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace
      Jordan Letter 3 May 14/96 Nowhere is the SS so openly celebrated
      May 14, 1996
      Michael H. Jordan
      Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
      11 Stanwix Street
      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      USA 15222
      Dear Mr. Jordan:
      There are certain questions that keep revolving in my mind to which I can't seem to find any answers - perhaps
      you could help me with one of these.
      The particular question which I have in mind at the moment is what it was that led Morley Safer to the conclusion
      that the Galicia Division reunion in Lviv - scenes of which were shown on "The Ugly Face of Freedom" - was in fact the
      most open celebration of the SS imaginable - in Mr. Safer's own words: "Nowhere, not even in Germany, is the SS so
      openly celebrated."
      Now for what strikes Mr. Safer as being the most open of all conceivable celebrations of the SS, I would think
      that the corroborative scenes shown should have contained all, or most, or at least several of the following
      ingredients:
      (1) a display of photographs of Hitler,
      (2) a display of photographs of Himmler, head of the SS,
      (3) a display of swastikas,
      (4) a display of the lightning-bolt "SS" insignia, or any "SS" insignia,
      (5) the playing of Nazi songs, perhaps Nazi marching songs,
      (6) goose-stepping on the part of the participants,
      (7) participants raising their hands in the "Heil Hitler!" salute,
      (8) pro-Nazi literature distributed to the participants as part of the celebration,
      (9) pro-Nazi statements elicited from the participants by reporters,
      (10) pro-Nazi statements made by speakers addressing the celebrants,
      (10) reminiscences of Nazi successes during World War II,
      (12) expressions of anti-Semitism.
      I would think that before a summary as extreme as "Nowhere, not even in Germany, is the SS so openly celebrated,"
      a responsible reporter would have mentally run over such a check-list to measure precisely how much corroboration was
      really at hand. Had Mr. Safer done this, he would have come up with a remarkable figure - and that figure is exactly
      zero! Zero out of a possible twelve! In other words, the scenes aired by 60 Minutes contain not a shred of evidence
      - not the smallest clue, not the slightest hint - that this was in any way a "celebration of the SS." To speak words
      as provocative and inflammatory as were Mr. Safer's, while at the same time offering as corroboration scenes which in
      no way support those words, perhaps demonstrates the contempt in which Mr. Safer holds the intelligence of the 60
      Minutes viewer.
      Had Mr. Safer done just a bit of homework before he started talking, he would have discovered that the Galicia
      Division was a combat unit whose only role was to fight the Soviet advance on the Eastern Front. Had Mr. Safer done
      just a bit of reading before giving vent to his prejudices and stereotypes, he would have discovered that the Galicia
      Division has never been so much as accused of any war crimes or any crimes against humanity - not even by the Soviets
      who have always been rabidly anti-Nazi, and against whom the Galicia Division fought. Had Mr. Safer demanded from his
      support staff even the most superficial research prior to reading his proclamations, he would have discovered that in
      at least three formal investigations, the Galicia Division has been judged to have been devoid of Nazi sympathies.
      So, then, what was the evidence that Mr. Safer was basing his statement on? How could he have said something so
      strikingly at variance with what was being shown on screen? This is the riddle that I wish you would help me solve.
      Yours truly,
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace
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      Michael Jordan Letter 4 12Jul96 Levitas letter to Za Vilnu Ukrainu
      July 12, 1996
      Michael H. Jordan
      Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
      11 Stanwix Street
      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      USA 15222
      Dear Mr. Jordan:
      I am sending you a translation from the Ukrainian of an open letter to Morley Safer
      and the 60 Minutes staff, written by I. M. Levitas, Head of the Jewish Council of
      Ukraine as well as of the Nationalities Associations of Ukraine, and published in the
      Lviv newspaper Za Vilnu Ukrainu (For a Free Ukraine) on December 2, 1994. In this
      letter, Mr. Levitas protests the 60 Minutes broadcast, "The Ugly Face of Freedom."
      Mr. Levitas's letter is a cry both of anguish and of outrage, but its more
      particular significance to us lies in its bringing to light fresh information
      demonstrating the bias of the 60 Minutes broadcast, and as well in showing us that
      Ukrainian Jews are foremost among those waiting for a corrective broadcast, and
      foremost also among those who are offering their cooperation in the preparation of such
      a corrective broadcast.
      Mr. Levitas suggests that the severity of the bias combined with the total
      suppression of contradictory information that is evident in the 60 Minutes story is
      Bolshevik in style. I would go on to suggest to you that just as the countries of the
      former Soviet Union cannot hope to thrive without first throwing off the leaders who
      are inherently Communist in outlook, so CBS News cannot hope to thrive under the
      leadership of individuals whose attitude toward broadcasting is that it is a tool
      placed in their hands for the totalitarian manipulation of mass opinion.
      Sincerely yours,
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace
      WHY DIDN'T YOU SHOW
      THE UKRAINIANS AND POLES WHO RESCUED JEWS?
      Esteemed Gentlemen! Esteemed program host, Mr. Safer!
      It has come to our attention that on October 23, 1994, American television broadcast
      a program about events in the city of Lviv and in the Western region of Ukraine. We
      have acquainted ourselves with the contents of this program, and have also received
      feedback from Jews who recently emigrated from Ukraine to the United States.
      Our conclusion: from isolated and insignificant facts you created a broadcast in
      which you overwhelmingly crammed distortions and emphasized the negative aspects of
      Jewish life, while at the same time hiding the positive aspects which are
      considerably more numerous.
      Everything that you reported in your broadcast unfortunately exists, but exists only
      as isolated events diluted in the normal flow of life in Lviv. By focussing on
      these isolated events, you painted an unrelievedly negative picture, and that
      constitutes your principal error - unless it wasn't an error at all but rather was
      done intentionally.
      We are a young democracy, and the unrestrained expression of democratic freedoms may
      give birth to untoward manifestations, as is bound to happen in any country,
      including the United States - a country of long-standing democracy.
      Many bad things, including attitudes toward Jews, have been bequeathed to us from
      the past, and it is difficult to wholly eradicate this from the consciousness of the
      people.
      In your broadcast, you mentioned streets that were renamed after Petliura and
      Bandera, but didn't mention that Frunze Street, which before the war was called
      Starozhydivska Street ["Ancient Jewish Street"], was also recently renamed
      Staroyevreiska Street [also "Ancient Jewish Street" but without the negative
      connotation that "zhyd" has in Russian and in Eastern Ukrainian] - and, please note,
      not to Starozhydivska Street, in deference to Jewish sensibilities.
      You broadcast that contemporary Ukrainians don't know about the Yanivsky
      concentration camp. Possibly so - but there has grown up a generation which has
      already forgotten about even Auschwitz and Maydanek. But in fact in Ukraine, we do
      know about the Yanivsky camp. Our Jewish Council has established a Yanivsky Camp
      Foundation. Here in Lviv, we have held conferences dedicated to the memory of this
      camp. Where your broadcast shows a woman carrying flowers, a stone memorial has
      been erected bearing the Shield of David. I was present at the unveiling of this
      memorial. Representatives of the Lviv City Council made presentations at this
      ceremony, as did representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic
      Churches. I have in my possession a photograph of this event which I could forward
      to you.
      Yes, the fence which you showed, and the dogs, unfortunately are there - but these
      are remnants of the past. In any case, a decision has been made to get rid of them
      and to build a memorial in the same location. You should have reported this. More
      to the point, the very first monument in our new Ukraine dedicated to Jewish victims
      was erected not far from Lviv, in the town of Chervonohrad. Following that, three
      other monuments were erected in our region.
      You reported that two Jews were robbed and beaten. This might have happened, but
      most likely not because they were Jews. I imagine that in Lviv, Ukrainians are also
      robbed (and significantly more often!), and yet nobody draws from this the sort of
      conclusions concerning ethnic hostility that you draw from the robbing of these two
      Jews.
      Our Jewish Council constantly receives news concerning Jews in Ukraine, but during
      the past five years, we have received not a single report of anyone being beaten
      because he was a Jew. However, it must be admitted that such a thing may have
      occurred without it coming to our attention - there are plenty of miscreants in
      every country.
      Because the facts selected for your broadcast were excessively biased and one-sided,
      it is incumbent upon me to give you a view of the other side of Jewish life.
      In Lviv, where seven thousand Jews live, there are thirteen Jewish organizations.
      There are also active organizations in the rest of the region - in Drohobych,
      Boryslav, Truskavets. I can send you all their addresses. Lviv was the first city
      in Ukraine to have a Jewish Society (1988), the first Ukraine-Israel Society (1989),
      and the first to publish a Jewish newspaper (1989). A Center for the Study of
      Jewish History is functioning in the city. Two Jewish-Ukrainian conferences have
      been held here. We have a Jewish ensemble, a Jewish theater, a philharmonic
      orchestra which recently, at the opening of the season, performed the works of
      Tchaikovsky and of two Jewish composers. A Jew, Kotlyk, head of the Jewish Society,
      was elected as a member of the City Council.
      Two years ago, in the center of the city, not far from "Hitler Square," a monument
      dedicated to the victims of the Lviv ghetto was unveiled. This is the biggest and
      most prominent Jewish memorial in all of Europe. Haven't you seen it?
      As head of the Jewish Council, I was present at all the events that I am describing,
      and I can document them. Your discussing these events in a future broadcast would
      present a wonderful balance which together with your video footage would paint an
      accurate picture of Jewish life in Ukraine, and not a deliberately one-sided one.
      One cannot indict any nation on the grounds that a few of its members were evil.
      Evil individuals exist in every nation. But why didn't you show those Ukrainians
      and Poles who rescued Jews? There are many of them. Initially, we ourselves didn't
      know about them, as they remained silent, and our former regime forbade them to
      speak on such topics. In Lviv, Simon Wiesenthal himself was rescued from death, and
      in Boryslav, the head of the Israeli parliament, Shevakh Weiss, with whom in 1992 I
      personally visited his own rescuers.
      We have a list of almost 2,500 Ukrainians who rescued Jews, and many of these are
      precisely from the Western region. We have brought these rescuers to Israel,
      presented them with certificates, and are now supporting them with pensions. We are
      presently in the process of submitting this list of rescuers to the Holocaust Museum
      in Washington. Concerning this I have been making particular arrangements, as I
      will be in the United States later this year.
      You broadcast that Lviv is being depopulated of Jews. However, this has been
      happening throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and began not
      recently, but even during the Bolshevik regime - but nobody is blaming this on
      anti-Semitism. Rather, other motives are responsible: economics, Chornobyl, the
      reunification of families. Anti-Semitism plays a far weaker role. Our Council
      interviews Jewish emigrants and has definitive information on this question.
      Jews, perhaps more than others, should avoid throwing blanket insults and
      accusations at other peoples because they themselves - as a people and not as
      individuals - have been blamed by the Fascists for all sins. Why do you, then,
      proclaim all Ukrainians to be genetic anti-Semites? Why, in addition to talking
      about the police did you not also talk about the rescuers of Jews, did not show a
      single one of them? And in Lviv, there are many of them. Is it that you couldn't
      find any, or that you didn't want to look?
      I wish to declare to you officially: in the new Ukraine, there is no state-sponsored
      anti-Semitism. Not long ago, a Jew fulfilled the obligations of the prime minister
      of Ukraine. The mayors of Odessa and Vynnytsia are Jews. The mayor of Cherkasy was
      a Jew. There are six Jews in parliament. Some Deputy Ministers are Jews. It is
      such outstanding facts as these that convey the predominant attitude of Ukrainians
      to Jewish rebirth, to Jewish culture.
      Among the CIS, Ukraine was the first to hold a Jewish Congress. The Days of Jewish
      Culture were celebrated this year as a National holiday, dedicated to the 135th
      anniversary of Shalom Aleichem. In Ukraine, there are active Jewish organisations
      in 89 cities. Eleven Jewish newspapers are published. Ten schools are in
      operation. Jewish groups have been formed within Pedagogical and Theatrical
      Institutes (composed of 80% Ukrainians who have mastered Hebrew). We have held a
      festival of children's vocal and dance ensembles in which 46 groups applied to
      participate. Ukrainian television broadcasts two Jewish programs. Jewish
      spectacles are performed on the stages of Ukraine.
      For the fifth year now we have honored the victims of Babyn Yar, where there has
      been erected the Jewish monument "Menorah," and at which have been placed wreaths
      both from the President of Ukraine and from the Kyiv City Council. Just this year,
      the Days of Babyn Yar commemorations were conducted over the period of an entire
      week. In all cities (in all!) in which Jews were shot during the War, annual
      remembrance days are observed.
      All this you failed to see, and so you did great harm not only to Ukrainians, but to
      Jews as well.
      In our work of resurrecting Jewish life, we receive help from such prominent
      Ukrainian intellectuals and parliamentarians as B. Oliynyk, P. Osadchuk, O. Yemets,
      D. Pavlychko, V. Yavorivskyi, I. Drach, P. Movchan, M. Shulha, I. Dziuba, V.
      Durdynets, and many others. We do not want to return to former times, and yet that
      is the direction in which your broadcast is pushing us. You have done as the
      Bolsheviks used to do - you presented information that is one-sided, suppressed
      information that does not fit your stereotype, biased the selection of materials,
      strengthened and reinforced negativism. It would be as if the Los Angeles riots
      were shown to us here as representative American events.
      If you want to convince yourselves that everything I have been saying is true,
      please come to us and film anything you want. Please regard this as an official
      invitation of our Jewish Council.
      Certainly there exist many disappointments in our work. A lot remains to be done in
      revitalizing Jewish culture. We cannot immediately realize all our goals. But this
      is never merely because we are Jews; it is never attributable to either
      state-sponsored or spontaneous anti-Semitism. You must be aware in what a difficult
      economic situation Ukraine finds itself - and yet despite this, the government gives
      high priority to the support of cultural diversity, included in which is the support
      of Jewish culture. For example, the observance of the Days of Jewish Culture in
      Ukraine was funded entirely by the Ukrainian government - close to two billion
      karbovantsi, and this in our difficult economic times!
      It is these many things, then, that are of importance to us, and not the activities
      of individual ultra-nationalists who don't receive support from most Ukrainians;
      where in fact most Ukrainians condemn their activities.
      Oh, democracy! Is there any country, even the United States, which has succeeded in
      ridding itself of anti-Semitism? And are the American anti-Semites representative
      of official government attitudes toward Jews? Or are isolated events in Los Angeles
      reflective of United States government attitudes toward Blacks?
      Esteemed gentlemen! You didn't do a good thing insulting the Ukrainian people.
      Imagine if someone collected similarly true but unrepresentative facts to paint a
      negative picture of the Jewish people. Remember the Biblical injunction: Don't do
      anything to another that you would not want done to yourself.
      Please revisit us with an open mind, and not with any fixed bias. The United States
      is presently awaiting the visit of our President, and we don't want his visit to be
      marred by any anti-Ukrainian actions from anybody, especially not from Jews; nor
      would we want American assistance to our country to depend on isolated individuals
      who are opposed to granting such assistance.
      We await you in Ukraine.