" "I just have contributed small amounts of money to Hillary's campaign, but I still feel part of a political group that has proven to be one of the most successful in global politics," Pata said. "
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Politically, the Albanians closest cousin, ally, and friend was and is Stepan Bandera's Ukrainian OUNb and its successor groups. In 1992 they stepped into the presidential elections along with the other CEE groups to help the Balkan ultra-nationalists.
The breakup of the Soviet Union had a lot to do with the Balkan war which would follow. In 1991 George HW Bush gave what became known as the "Chicken-Kiev Speech." This was in reaction to what was happening in Yugoslavia. He didn't want the same situation in Ukraine.
"Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far-off tyranny with a local despotism. They will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred .".. "Mr. Bush reportedly sought to clear his proposed speech on "expeditious" recognition of Ukraine with Gorbachev, ... the former Soviet Union leader read him the riot-act -- warning that Ukrainian independence would be "a catastrophe for the Union, for the Ukraine itself and for Russia, Europe and the world ." WILL BUSH'S DAWDLING ON UKRAINIAN RECOGNITION FURTHER FUEL CHANCES FOR A SOVIET CHRISTMAS COUP?- Frank Gaffney
As I have pointed out over and over, there were no suicidal nationalists in Ukraine in 1991 . The Diaspora lamented that and recorded this fact in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. The suicidal nationalism Bush warned against had to be imported from the Ukrainian-American Diaspora (OUNb) and the Ukrainian-Canadian Diaspora (OUNb). According to Bush policy, they were to be left out of the government and could not just step in as has been done by other Diasporas. Their wrath was quick and decisive.
From Ukraine Weekly-" Additional pressure on the White House was applied by the U.S. Senate, which passed a resolution calling for swift U.S. recognition of Ukraine , and by strongly Republican Ukrainian American lobby groups whose support of the Bush administration has become increasingly important as the president's popularity is falling victim to economic recession...
...In last month's heavily publicized Pennsylvania Senate race. Ukrainian and Baltic groups, protesting the administration's attempts to prevent the break-up of the USSR, supported the Democratic candidate, Harris Wofford. This position contributed to the defeat of Dick Thornburgh, a former attorney general in the Bush administration...." The Ukrainian Weekly, December 8, 1991, No. 49, Vol. LIX
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