Dead Ukrainians don't matter to most

Once again, you have printed an article about the persecution and murder of Jewish persons during World War II. Samuel Harris is one of the many survivors who speak on the subject in schools around the Chicago area.

Harris served as president of the Holocaust museum in Skokie which preserves the memories of such survivors. In his talk, he warned students that such genocide could happen if people do not "stand up to bullies."

In Chicago's Ukrainian Village, stands another museum, a small building on Oakley Blvd. near Chicago Ave. It educates the public about Ukrainian history and culture. It has a modest exhibit about the Ukrainian genocide, perpetrated by the Communists who ran Russia. Under Joseph Stalin's leadership, they deliberately starved Ukrainian farmers to death because they rebelled against a policy of turning their farms into communes or collectives. They murdered some 14.5 million men, women and children. Yet, no survivors or their relatives go on speaking tours in the suburbs warning student about the dangers of out of control governments and ruthless ideologies.

Major newspapers give no space to this kind of education. Dead Ukrainians don't matter in today's pop-culture. For that matter, dead Polish people don't matter either. The school children around Chicago are unlikely to hear about the systematic murder of 20,000 Polish officers perpetrated also by Communists. No memorial museum in the Chicago area exists to remind future generations what kind of people Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt allied himself with during WWII.

George Kocan

Warrenville