The Independent - London, November 6th, 1998
BOHDAN BOCIURKIW was lying on what many believed would be his deathbed in 1992 when his wife brought in a package of documents that had just arrived from the formerly closed Soviet archives. The documents concerned the suppression of the five-million-strong Ukrainian Catholic Church on Stalin's orders in 1946, the very subject he had spent years researching.
"The documents electrified me," he later recalled. "It was a turning- point in my hospital stay. I asked the Almighty for a sabbatical to finish the book and I regained enough strength to do it."
Despite poor health Bociurkiw spent the n...
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