The writer at his home office where he usually worked . 1947 . '' « Yaroslav Halan is a talented publicist , was a progressive writer in the past . Nowadays he still is the most advanced one among local non-party writers . But he 's infected with the Western European bourgeois " spirit " . Has little respect for Soviet people . Considers them not civilized enough . But just inwardly . In general terms , he understands the policy of the party , but in his opinion , the party makes great mistakes with regards to peasants in Western Ukraine . Halan places responsibility for these mistakes on the regional committee of the CPSU ( b ) , local institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the local Soviet authorities . Believes in Moscow . Does n't want to join the party ( he was advised to ) due to being an individualist , and also in order to keep his hands , mind , and words free . He thinks if he joins the party , he will lose this freedom . » '' Extract from the report of the literary critic G. Parkhomenko to the Central Committee of the Communist Party ( Bolshevik ) of Ukraine December 15 , 1947 . In 1962 , in Toronto , Olexandr Matla , aka Petro Tereschuk , a pro-nationalist historian from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada , published the brochure '' History of a Traitor ( Yaroslav Halan ) '' , in which he accused Halan of being an informer of both Polish and Soviet intelligence services , and of helping them to oppress nationalists and even some pro-Soviet writers from Western Ukraine such as Anton Krushelnytsky , who moved from Lviv to Kharkiv in the 1930s and was killed during the Great Terror
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