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first source provides the first two excerpts below, in blue, which by themselves present the chief features of the Kosinski story. The reader

interested only in a broad outline need not read beyond these first two quotations. The second source provides a number of further

excerpts shown in green, which serve to flesh in a fuller picture. The analogy to Audie Murphy in the above title was taken from p. 227 of

this second source. Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier in WW II who went on to become a movie star, and played

himself in the autobiographical war film, To Hell and Back.

Who is James Park Sloan? The dust jacket of the Sloan book informs us of the following:

JAMES PARK SLOAN is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a prize-winning

novelist, and a widely published short story writer and critic. He knew Jerzy Kosinski for over twenty years

before Kosinski's death.

A Personal Experience

I recollect, by the way, many years ago talking to a New York Jewish lawyer about Kosinski's book The Painted Bird, partly on the basis of

which this lawyer held the deep conviction that Poles were pretty close to sub-human. When he told me about Kosinski's description of

eyeballs being torn out as an incident that would not be clearly out of place in a Polish household, I replied - to his discomfort - that such

a scene would be about as typical in a Polish household as it would be in an American one. When I added that the only Poles that I had ever

known were intelligent, civilized, and cultured he did not reply, but his manner suggested that I had told him something that was a patent

impossibility.

What's the Relevance?

Why is so much attention given to Jerzy Kosinski below, even to the point of touching on his sexual deviance and other character defects?

As already mentioned above, Kosinski provides a precedent of a calumniator of a Slavic peoples who has been successfully and thoroughly

discredited, and whose example thus may give Ukrainians courage to similarly discredit their many calumniators, chief among whom is Simon

Wiesenthal. Beyond that, however, the Kosinski biography provides unusually detailed information which brings to the fore several

generalizations which may assist in the understanding of the phenomenon of anti-Ukrainian calumny.

The Gang of Ten

Let us begin. Heading the list of anti-Ukrainian calumniators are the following nine: Yitzhak Arad, Dov Ben-Meir, Yaakov Bleich, Alan

Dershowitz, Sol Littman, Morley Safer, Neal Sher, Elie Wiesel, and Simon Wiesenthal. If we expand this list to include prominent calumniators

of Slavs, Jerzy Kosinski makes it a list of ten. In order to express my disapproval of these individuals, and in order to encourage in Slavs in

general, and in Ukrainians in particular, an attitude of bold intolerance toward their misdeeds, I propose that they be called "the gang of ten,"

as I myself do below.

Incidentally, the link to Sol Littman above will take the reader to the very section in "The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes" that deals with Littman,

but only when using a Netscape browser - readers relying on other browsers will have to use CTRL+F to get down to the section titled "Sol

Littman's Mengele Scare."

Examining the gang of ten, it is possible to arrive at several generalizations, the chief of which may be the following:

(1) The gang of ten is Jewish. One notices immediately that all ten of these calumniators of the Slavs are Jewish. This

observation reminds us that in examining those who were responsible for the 23Oct94 60 Minutes story, The Ugly Face of Freedom, seven

out of seven of those in the chain of command proved to be Jews (three being common to both lists).

But are there any non-Jewish calumniators? Of course there are, and where I find them, I impartially include them on the Ukrainian Archive.

Trouble is, I don't find many, and their calumniation does not rank as high. One of these is University of Toronto historian Robert Magocsi,

and another is Harvard University historian Omeljan Pritsak. Offhand, I can't think of any others. But while Magocsi and Pritsak distort, they

cannot compare with any of the gang of ten (or with any of the CBS gang of seven). The really egregious calumniation comes only from

Jews.

Henryk Sienkiewicz. Henryk Sienkiewicz (among my favorite novelists for his Quo Vadis) comes to mind as a Polish calumniator of Ukraine

(in his novel about Bohdan Khmelnytsky, With Fire and Sword), but he is not discussed on the Ukrainian Archive primarily because he is not

contemporary, and also because, like Magocsi and Pritsak, he is more subtle. The Ukrainian Archive restricts attention to contemporaries

whose calumniation is egregious.

The Ukrainian archive does not focus on Jews. It has been more than once remarked that the Ukrainian Archive focuses on Jews, which

is incorrect - which is no more than an additional calumniation of Ukrainians. The truth is that the Ukrainian Archive focuses on

calumniators, and it incidentally happens that the chief of these are Jews. If the leading calumniators of Ukraine had proven to be Czechs or

Poles or Romanians or Hungarians or Russians or Germans or Armenians or Iranians or Palestinians or Chinese or whatever, I would have

impartially and disinterestedly featured them instead of Jews. If someone can bring to my attention prominent contemporary non-Jewish

calumniators of Ukraine that I have been overlooking, I will gladly give them generous representation on the Ukrainian Archive, and if such

non-Jewish calumniators overwhelm the Jewish calumniators by their numbers, then all the better. The prominence of Jews on the Ukrainian

Archive is not to be explained by looking into my psyche, it is to be explained by examining the characteristics of calumniators of Ukraine. It

is not for me to justify why Jews appear so frequently on the pages of the Ukrainian Archive, it is for Jews to explain why no Gentiles can be