Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Yuri Vynnychuk

National Republic from 1920. They all had died for Ukraine, but what was Ukraine for them? No one had an answer to this question. Bazar - for each of us remained something mythical, warriors who went on that tragic campaign, grew in our imagination to the grandeur of the Argonauts, who set off for the Golden Fleece, for they also set off for the Golden Fleece of freedom, but every last one of them died for Ukraine. Before execution by firing squad the Bolshevik commissar offered the following to the doomed 360: “If any of the convicted repents and swears to join the Reds to fight against the Ukrainian gangs, he will be pardoned!” But in response to this call Lieutenant Colonel Mytrofan Kuzmenko darted out and shouted to the villagers,whomtheBolsheviks had herded to the spot of the

sparrow, her little sunshine, and a cute little frog, a baby hamster, and a little snail... But it was just not I who could not accept the death of my father, for there, near the village of Bazar, the fathers of three of my friends Yoska, Wolf and Yasko died: Leopold Milker, a Jew, born in Galicia in 1901, the son of a teacher, who studied in Vienna, a pharmacist in charge of a field hospital pharmacy during a campaign; Bronislaw Bilyevich, a Pole, born in 1895 in the village of Hvizd of the Novohrad-Volyn district of Volyn Province, a villager, in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic from 1919; Ernest Yeger, a German, born in 1890 in Prague, graduated from the Polytechnic Institute and officer training school in Vienna, a lieutenant in the army of the Ukrainian

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