Keeping in mind the primary source of support for the public law, Le. the Ukrainian-American community, we have an obligation to, in general, provide more factual infor¬mation to the masses on the Ukrainian famine and to clarify provocatory rebuffs, misinformation, and individual questioning of the famine’s authenticity which has recently taken form in some circles (see attached article from April 11, 1986 issue of National Review and April 13,1986 issue of The Ukrainian Weekly).

As well, basing our professional staffs research on the political and economic policies of the Russian sponsored regime, we will have to analyze the psychological, ra¬cial, and social effects the famine has had on the Ukrainian farmer and the Ukrainian population. Stressing the importance of the political aspects of the famine as specifi¬cally targeted towards the Ukrainian population. I have requested that historian Volodymyr Kosyk of Paris, France prepare a short paper (which I have attached F.Y.I.) on the political nature of the 1932-33 famine.

Recognizing the long-run need for furthering information about the famine, coupled with the commission’s limited life-span, I would like to propose a few programs for the strategic implementation of the Commission’s findings which undoub¬tedly will aid in expanding knowledge about the famine and, at the same time, will benefit the general American public long after the commission has been disbanded.

• Establish a distinct Library of Congress classification for the Ukrainian famine which would highlight the famine’s uniqueness with regards to the Uk¬rainian population. Classification titles such as UKRAINIAN FAMINE, FAMINE IN UKRAINE, or FAMINE, UKRAINE would be apropos. Such a classification would have a positive result in terms of gathering all published materials for public use and consumption.
• Establish a depository at some university for publications, archives, and infor¬mation which would be centrally located for research purposes.
• Work with the Department of Education for the implementation of the Uk¬rainian famine into the textbooks of secondary and undergraduate world his-toiy curricula. Recent problems have developed in various states regarding the famine’s inclusion and space allocation into various State Board of Educa¬tion world history curricula. Examples of this have recently developed in New York, New Jersey, and Ohio.
• Review and update already published government documents on the Uk¬rainian famine.

Keeping in mind the commission’s limited life-span, I would like to stress the impor¬tance of formulating concrete do-able goals and projects which would have a lasting ef¬fect OQ the general American public

In establishing an agenda for the commission, we must realize that working through already existing organizations and specific-purpose coalitions, we will be able to imple¬ment and further information about the famine. Thus, as a publicly funded commis-