ob Walkden wrote:
> You may be interested to know that part of my trip to Romania last year took in
> part of Ruthenia. I met some genuine Ruthenians who were speaking an
> interesting blend of Ukrainian and Romanian. I was staying in the town
> of Sighetu Marmatiei a few k from the Ukrainian border and spent a day
> walking & photographing in a beautiful valley a few hours drive from Sighet.
> >From the hilltops I looked right over into the Ukraine and could have
> walked there along a small country path.
My grandfather's hometown, Mukachevo, would be about 65 miles northwest of where you
were. Of course, when he came
to the US in 1895, they labeled him an "Austrian." Today, in Ukraine Rusyns are under
pressure to become
"Ukrainians," and the culture is disappearing. First the Austrians, and then the
Soviets, used "Ruthenian" to
include the Ukrainian people and language as well, in order to justify their
territorial claims. Some confusion
remains because of this misusage of the name, so the native termm "Rusyn," is now more
commonly used to identify our
language and culture. Sandra Dee, Robert Urich, and the late Andrei Warhola (Andy
Warhol) are some of the Americans
who recognized their Ruthenian heritage.
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