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Article: THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY: Our 69th anniversary
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
- Article date:
- October 6, 2002
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Ukrainian Weekly, The
10-06-2002
Today, October 6, 2002, The Ukrainian Weekly marks the 69th anniversary of
its founding. It was on October 6, 1933, that the first issue of this
newspaper rolled off the presses at the Svoboda Press print shop in Jersey
City, N.J.
In its first year the neophyte newspaper reported on the Great Famine of
1932-1933, created by the Soviet regime to crush the people of Ukraine and
ethnographically Ukrainian areas. It wrote also of the dearth of young
leaders in the Ukrainian American community, the need to perpetuate the
Ukrainian heritage and the role of our younger generations in giving voice
to the aspirations of the subjugated Ukrainian nation. Its founding mission
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