in Ukrainian fields and forests in the 1940s and 1950s, but what makes any successful popular insurgency work, whether it takes place in America in 1776 or in troubled parts of the world today. History aside, Roman Mac's story is also a moving human document. There is tragedy, heartbreak and heroic endurance here, both witnessed and lived. And Roman depicts it all in modest, straightforward style not only the great struggle that was going on around him, but also the struggle that was going on within himself. We see and feel the rustic joys and travails of village life, the destruction and loss that war, Nazism and Communism bring upon it, and we, too, struggle along the "winding path to freedom" with a young boy who manages to keep his faith, his humanity and not the least of accomplishments amidst so much suffering and sorrow his sense of humor through it all. Although I was already familiar with Ukrainian history and, as an aide to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, was 2 ROMAN D. MAC an eye witness to the last chapters of the Cold War, reading Roman Mac's story made me understand more fully what that colossal struggle was really like for the ordinary people who bore the brunt of it. His gift of making us see it all as he saw it then, through a young boy's eyes, brings alive both the brutality of battle and magic, solitary moments in the still forest with only woodland creatures as companions. We feel the pelting snow and piercing cold, we smell the smoke of the campfires, and we hear both the whiz of bullets and the deep, moving chords of the freedom fighters'songs, just as the young Roman Mac did more than half a century ago. Then, with the battle over, we follow a troubled but determined young man on the road to a new life in the west. We share the ups and downs of a new series of trials and tests from which he emerges once again with his humanity and his humor intact. By book's end, we feel as if we've walked beside him all the way, and we, too, experience his joy in achieving success, dignity and a happy family life in America. Thank you, Roman Mac, for sharing and showing us so much, and for doing it with such clarity, honesty and goodness of heart.
I am writing now The Worshipers of Politically Incorrect God. It's how dictators (Democrats, too) expect their subjects to believe in God designated by the state. Dramatic moments are described when worshipers find different places to pray to their God, not to be noticed and heard by police. My life was saved by nature and my understanding was God is Nature and Nature is God, and was happy to find out about this deity when I took philosophy course and Spinoza, 17th century thinker was the first one to expound this belief to the whole world. Living in the United States, I was feeling depression and guilt instilled in me by society and religion Slogan "Truth will set you free" helped me to sort things out that finally, living on 5th floor room on lower East Side Manhattan, I felt as worthy human being in society as President Roosevelt, or even better than him who did not utter a single word in defense of millions of people starved to death by Stalin in Ukraine. My conclusion is all religions lead their faithful to my God too, except they fight among themselves whose compass azimuth to follow. My God is under attack too now by, as of now undisclosed, secret weapon to set earth quakes and other nature's forces to create drought to win undeclared war at whomever.
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