Ukrainians Are the Victims of a Two-Front War, Besieged by Brutal Russians and the Depraved Deep State, by John Zmirak

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

It’s enough to break your heart.

I remember when Westerners hoisting Ukraine flags, and speaking up for Ukrainians, meant something decent and wholesome: It meant you were one of the people willing to talk about the terror famine the Soviets imposed on helpless millions — which Soviet sympathizers and The New York Times denied ever took place. (The old Gray Lady still clings today to the Pulitzer Walter Duranty won for lying about that.) It meant you cared about religious freedom for millions of Orthodox and Catholics, repressed and subverted by a ruthless atheist government.

I’ve prayed in Ukrainian churches, and hung out in Ukrainian restaurants to hear the stories of those who’d survived Soviet genocide, Nazi invasion, and Stalin’s brutal “liberation,” following by mutual ethnic cleansing by Polish and Soviet Communists. (For a deep dive into that, visit The Museum of the Victims of Communism, or watch Famine 33, the first film made in Ukraine under perestroika, which I showed when I taught college.) …

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