that lady out." Following this visit, Sophia Ivanivna Ivasiuk received
the "insult in the name of Dobryk." She has been in ill health ever
since.
Sooner or later will arrive the day when truth will emerge victorious.
But in the meantime, those who come too near to the truth concerning
what happened to Volodymyr Ivasiuk find themselves the victims of an
unusual number of accidents. One man's wife unexpectedly hangs
herself, another man throws himself from a balcony, still another
drowns, yet another falls under the wheels of a car.... But remember,
butchers, God's punishment will descend even upon you!
M. Masly, Volodymyr Ivasiuk: Light and Shadow of a Legend, Halas
(Clamor), 3Jun97, p. 12, as translated by Lubomyr Prytulak.
Mr. Safer, you went to Ukraine determined to come back with a story of Ukrainians
persecuting Russians and Jews. You failed to find any substantiation for such a story.
You failed to find any Russian composer and poet who had been found hanging in a forest
under mysterious circumstances. You failed to find any Jewish composer and poet who had
been found hanging in a forest under mysterious circumstances. And you were not
interested in a Ukrainian composer and poet who had indeed been found hanging in a
forest under mysterious circumstances. You went to Ukraine determined to prove that
Ukrainians persecute Russians and Jews, and you reported that story to tens of millions
of 60 Minutes viewers despite a lack of evidence, and despite plentiful evidence that it
is Russians and Jews who persecute Ukrainians, as they have done throughout history.
In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, then, you sided with the
strong against the weak. You sided with the oppressors against the oppressed. You
sided with the butchers against the butchered. You sided with those who hang composers
and poets and against Volodymyr Ivasiuk.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,
Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
Morley Safer Letter 10 17May99 Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
It is conceivable that had you not broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, Volodymyr
Katelnytsky would be alive today. And it is all the more conceivable that had you used
the opportunity of your broadcast to defend Ukrainians against their oppressors,
Volodymyr Katelnytsky would be alive today.
May 17, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
Who Murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
The death of Volodymyr Katelnytsky
My source is a Ukrainskyi Holos (Ukrainian Voice) article mailed to me by someone that
knew Volodymyr Katelnytsky. The citation that is hand-written on the article is "4-20
August, 1997, p. 1."
The Ukrainskyi Holos article reports that Volodymyr Katelnytsky was tortured to death in
his apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine on the night of 7-8 July 1997. His mother, Lykeria, who
was 81 years old, was tortured and died before the eyes of her son; her body was found