claimed first that of the 16,000 pieces of mail which it had received objecting to "The Ugly Face of Freedom," all had
been answered. On being pressed, it later revised the "all" downward to 25%. And only after the Ukrainian community
beat the bushes in a vain attempt to find a single person who had received an answer did CBS revise that figure
downward still another notch - to none at all having been answered. Topping that off, instead of keeping the 16,000
letters of protest on file as is required by the FCC, CBS trashed them. To date, almost one and a half years after
the original broadcast, CBS remains frozen like a deer in the headlights of an onrushing car, devoid on the one hand
of arguments to refute the charges levelled against the broadcast, and devoid also of the courage to admit that these
charges are correct - perhaps taking the advice of its lawyers that when you find yourself unable to say anything
convincing in your own defense, then the best policy is to say nothing at all.
I urge you in the interests both of truth and of redeeming CBS to weed out the incompetents responsible for "The
Ugly Face of Freedom," and to direct CBS to offer its viewers the retraction and apology which are long overdue.
Yours truly,
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace
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Jordan Letter 2 May 7/96 Confusion concerning the Lviv pogrom
May 7, 1996
Michael H. Jordan
Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
11 Stanwix Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
USA 15222
Dear Mr. Jordan:
In your reply to my letter to you of March 6, 1996, I am particularly looking forward to hearing your comments on
the discrepancies between the following three sets of quotations.
VIEW #1: THE LVIV POGROM WAS MASSIVE AND PRE-GERMAN.
SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the Germans arrived, Ukrainian police
went on a 3-day killing spree.
WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6 thousand Jews was killed.
...
SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the police, killed 3,000
people in 2 days here. (60 Minutes, The Ugly Face of Freedom, October 23, 1994)
VIEW #2: THE LVIV POGROM WAS MASSIVE AND POST-GERMAN.
The Ukrainian police ... had played a disastrous role in Galicia following the entry of the
German troops at the end of June and the beginning of July 1941. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not
Vengeance, 1989, p. 34, emphasis added)
Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the retreating Soviets. This gave rise
to one of the craziest accusations of that period: among the strongly anti-Semitic population
the rumour was spread by the Ukrainian nationalists that all Jews were Bolsheviks and all
Bolsheviks were Jews. Hence it was the Jews who were really to blame for the atrocities
committed by the Soviets.
All the Germans needed to do was to exploit this climate of opinion. It is said that after
their arrival they gave the Ukrainians free rein, for three days, to 'deal' with the Jews.
(Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 36, emphasis added)
VIEW #3: THERE WAS NO LVIV POGROM.
From the Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C reported as follows:
Almost nowhere can the population be persuaded to take active steps against
the Jews. This may be explained by the fear of many people that the Red
Army may return. Again and again this anxiety has been pointed out to us.