Why Ukrainian Americans are committed to preserving Ukrainian culture – and national sovereignty
- Written by Katja Kolcio, Associate Professor of Dance and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
The author's father, Wolodymyr 'Mirko' Pylyshenko, pictured in an ID card at a German displacement camp for Ukrainians.Katja Kolcio As a child, I would wait with anticipation for my parents to return from trips to the Soviet Union. Often they brought gifts like a few loaves of hearty brown bread, or a wheel of briny, homemade cheese. Sometimes...