Nil Khasevych, Artist Ukrainian Underground Art Album Of The Woodcuts Made In Ukraine, 1947-1950

Page 2 of 5  table of contents     previous   next      "SERIES: IDEALS OF THE UKRAINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT" WOODCUT MADE DEC. 31, 1949 The struggle for the destruction of the "Prison of Nations" - Soviet Russia - can be successful only in alliance with other subjugated peoples of the Soviet Russian Empire: Balts, Byelorussians, Caucasians, Cossacks, Turkestanians and the peoples of the Balkans and Central Europe who found themselves with the Soviet sphere at the end of World War II." ("Ukrainian Underground Art"..Page 35) "USSR - The Prison Of Nations" "Freedom For Peoples" "Freedom For Individuals" GLORY TO UKRAINE! For Ukraine! For Freedom! For People! 300 Killed Near Kruty - 359 Killed Near Bazaar A Lot Of OUN - UPA Killed In Struggle GLORY TO HEROES! "SERIES: IDEALS OF THE UKRAINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT" WOODCUT MADE SEPT. 15, 1949 "The resistance of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska Povstancha Armia - UPA) is but a continuation of that centuries-old struggle which the Ukrainians have been waging to win their national freedom. Hundreds of thousands of heroes have given their lives to attain this goal. The future is certain to crown their sacrifice with victory." ("Ukrainian Underground Art", Page 31) "SERIES: IDEALS OF THE UKRAINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT" WOODCUT MADE AUG. 5, 1949 Principal ideal of the Ukrainian liberation movement remains unchanged: an independent united Ukraine based on the ideals of democracy and social justice. Fighting for the realization of this ideal, the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and its armed spearhead--the UPA--enjoys the unqualified support of all classes of the Ukrainian population." (Ukrainian Underground Art..Page 33) "FOR AN INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN UKRAINIAN STATE" FOR FREEDOM FOR BETTER LIFE FOR UNIFIED STATE THE PEOPLE ARE YOKED SERIES: KOLKHOZES WOODCUT MADE SEPT. 18, 1949 "The people are yoked," says the caption without exaggeration. In many villages and kolkhozes of Ukraine the people are forced to substitute for non-existent horses and tractors to do the ploughing. The driver in the cut is the Bolshevik party." ("Ukrainian Underground Art", Page 51) SERIES: KOLKHOZES GRAVURE IN CELLULOID MADE IN DECEMBER 1949 To this day belief persists in the West that collectivization is an economic measure designed to increase production. In fact it is a political weapon aimed at the destruction of the peasant class based on private property. "Advanced techniques of the kolkhoz system" - the caption above is another Soviet fiction. The pictures shows how this technique looks in Ukraine." ("Ukrainian Underground Art", Page 53) ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF THE KOLKHOZ SYSTEM BUT NOTHING TO EAT SERIES: KOLKHOZES WOODCUT MADE NOV. 3, 1949 BY "MYRON" UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF NIL KHASEVYCH "The Happy Life" on a Stalin kolkhoz is shown to best effect in this picture. While a message brings new "nakazeh" (decrees), even the cows starve. The caption fittingly reads: "..But nothing to eat." Ukrainians have often starved although they live on some of the richest land in the world. The Soviet-created famine of 1932-33 cost Ukrainians more than 5 million lives." ("Ukrainian Underground Art", Page 55)  table of contents     previous   next