Когда "подвиги" отца покоя не дают
Сын полицая, эмигрировавший в США, Георгий Гамота замолвил перед Американским физическим обществом слово о помощи украинским физикам, эвакуированным киевскими властями с территории, контролируемой ДНР и ЛНР.
Приведу комментарий профессора Теаль-Авивского университета Леонида Ярославского пока не потерли.
The said is true but not the whole truth. Some assertions need comments and clarification. Specifically: “More than 25 universities and research institutes with physical sciences programs have been forced to relocate from the separatist-controlled areas of the Donbass….”. Which mystery force forced them? It is the present government in Kyiv, which, in response to the absolutely legal demand of local people of federalization of the state of Ukraine (similarly to, say, the US or Germany) and providing their native language, which is Russian, a status of the state language (in addition to the Ukrainian), sent armed punitive expedition to Donbass and started bombardment of cities, towns and villages that killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed infrastructure of the area. This is what forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee. “Some 12 000 scientists from the Donbass were uprooted by the conflict, according to Ukrainian Physical Society president Maksym Strikha…. Strikha and Mikhail Belogolovskii, …. estimate that roughly 1000 physicists and physics students have relocated from Donetsk and Luhansk institutions to Ukrainian-controlled areas.” And what about the rest 11 000 scientists? Most of them are apparently fled to Russian Federation. According to the UN, there is more than one million of refugees from Donbass. About 250.000 fled to the west of Ukraine. About 850.000 fled to the Russian Federation. This is what the present situation is. Why do not to think of helping those who fled to Russia? As well as to those who stays with their elderly parents under total blockade and continuous bombardment in Donetsk and Luhansk. "Retired University of Michigan physicist George Gamota, who at age five fled Ukraine with his family during World War II, is among those urging greater APS involvement in relief efforts for the displaced physicists..." Readers may not know, that, most probable, Gamota's father fled Ukraine with retreating German troops in the end of World War II because he, as the majority of Ukrainian émigrés to the US and Canada of that time, was afraid of been punished for service in the German backed police or in German SS-Sonderkommandos", which killed hundreds of thousands of Jews in Ukraine. I am of the exactly same age as Mr. Gamota and know this from my own life experience. My aunt was hiding from Germans in a small village near city of Kharkov. She was caught by a local “polizei” and in couple of days shot down together with other Jews caught in other villages. I know the name of this polizei, and everybody in the villages knew at that time that he went with retreating German troops and then rooted in the USA. Of course, Mr. Gamota is not responsible for his parents. But I would not consider him as an appropriate adviser to APS in this particular issue. In fact, the best APS can, in my opinion, do for displaced physicists from Donbass is to demand from the present government in Kyiv to immediately and unconditionally stop the punitive expedition to Donbass and start to talk to local people instead of bombarding them. L. Yaroslavsky, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Приведу комментарий профессора Теаль-Авивского университета Леонида Ярославского пока не потерли.
The said is true but not the whole truth. Some assertions need comments and clarification. Specifically: “More than 25 universities and research institutes with physical sciences programs have been forced to relocate from the separatist-controlled areas of the Donbass….”. Which mystery force forced them? It is the present government in Kyiv, which, in response to the absolutely legal demand of local people of federalization of the state of Ukraine (similarly to, say, the US or Germany) and providing their native language, which is Russian, a status of the state language (in addition to the Ukrainian), sent armed punitive expedition to Donbass and started bombardment of cities, towns and villages that killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed infrastructure of the area. This is what forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee. “Some 12 000 scientists from the Donbass were uprooted by the conflict, according to Ukrainian Physical Society president Maksym Strikha…. Strikha and Mikhail Belogolovskii, …. estimate that roughly 1000 physicists and physics students have relocated from Donetsk and Luhansk institutions to Ukrainian-controlled areas.” And what about the rest 11 000 scientists? Most of them are apparently fled to Russian Federation. According to the UN, there is more than one million of refugees from Donbass. About 250.000 fled to the west of Ukraine. About 850.000 fled to the Russian Federation. This is what the present situation is. Why do not to think of helping those who fled to Russia? As well as to those who stays with their elderly parents under total blockade and continuous bombardment in Donetsk and Luhansk. "Retired University of Michigan physicist George Gamota, who at age five fled Ukraine with his family during World War II, is among those urging greater APS involvement in relief efforts for the displaced physicists..." Readers may not know, that, most probable, Gamota's father fled Ukraine with retreating German troops in the end of World War II because he, as the majority of Ukrainian émigrés to the US and Canada of that time, was afraid of been punished for service in the German backed police or in German SS-Sonderkommandos", which killed hundreds of thousands of Jews in Ukraine. I am of the exactly same age as Mr. Gamota and know this from my own life experience. My aunt was hiding from Germans in a small village near city of Kharkov. She was caught by a local “polizei” and in couple of days shot down together with other Jews caught in other villages. I know the name of this polizei, and everybody in the villages knew at that time that he went with retreating German troops and then rooted in the USA. Of course, Mr. Gamota is not responsible for his parents. But I would not consider him as an appropriate adviser to APS in this particular issue. In fact, the best APS can, in my opinion, do for displaced physicists from Donbass is to demand from the present government in Kyiv to immediately and unconditionally stop the punitive expedition to Donbass and start to talk to local people instead of bombarding them. L. Yaroslavsky, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Israel