UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN THE SOCIO-POLITICAL LIFE OF CANADA IN THE 1970S – 1980S (BASED ON KGB DOCUMENTS OF THE USSR)
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Abstract
In the struggle to revive Ukrainian statehood, the activities of the large Ukrainian community in Canada played a significant role. This community tried to oppose the Soviet regime, seeking support from Canadian legislative and executive authorities. Therefore, this article aims to highlight, based on materials from the State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, the efforts of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada in the fight for the restoration of Ukrainian statehood, its interaction with Canadian state institutions, and the counteractions from Soviet special services. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that secret archival documents of the KGB, which scholars have not previously utilized in the context of the proposed issue, are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The methodological basis of the research includes methods of historical archival studies, as well as problem-chronological and analytical methods for working with primary sources. Conclusions. The article analyzes and publishes (in the appendices) archival documents from the State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, shedding light on the relationships between Ukrainian organizations in Canada and the government through the lens of how these processes were perceived and reacted to by Soviet special services. Several Canadian government officials and parliamentarians (including Prime Ministers D. Diefenbaker (1957–1963) and J. Clark (1979–1980)) actively supported the Ukrainian movement. At the same time, another trend was evident among some Canadian officials, primarily from P. Trudeau’s team (Prime Minister from 1968–1979 and 1980–1984), who sought to avoid conflicts with the USSR and thus attempted to limit the anti-Soviet actions of Ukrainian organizations. Notably, the KGB systematically tried to provoke or deepen these contradictions through provocative actions. Ukrainians in Canada successfully participated in parliamentary elections and were included in the government, as seen in 1979. The struggle between Canadian Ukrainians and the Soviet regime also extended to cultural issues and religious matters. The KGB attempted to persuade representatives of the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia in the diaspora to collaborate. Conversely, conscious Ukrainians in Canada seized every opportunity to advocate on humanitarian grounds, such as the fight for freedom of religion in Ukraine during events marking The Millennium of Rus’-Ukraine.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".