“It is not enough to fight. You must know what you are fighting against. I know the Germans. 1 saw them fighting in Spain . . . T have lived under foreign occupation. In 1919, the Rumanians took over my country. They would not allow us to speak our Ukrainian language—not even in church-, es. So I decided to quit. My uncle wrote to me from Canada: ‘We are free here.’ So I went to Canada. There are a good many Ukrainians in Canada. We have our own schools, and Canada has become our home.”—Private Konstantin Oleinik, speaking in a 8.8. C. newsreel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1943, Page 3
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