1. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA, battled both Soviet andontinued to carry out raids against the Soviets and to disrupt efforts to collectivize farms.

2. Some have painted the insurgents as a group of socialists who just want to give more rights to the downtrodden and to get the government to pay attention to rural peoples and social justice. Such goals are laudable, but other political parties are addressing them without violent tactics. We hope that one day the Maoists too will become part of the political mainstream and give up arms, but for now their own words and actions say otherwise. They want to collectivize agriculture –– a recipe for mass starvation. They want to re–educate class enemies –– a plan to wipe out educated, free–thinking people. They want to export their revolution –– a war that would threaten all of South Asia.