Echoes of Ukraine: Anatoliy Kalinovsky’s Greeting to Putyatyntsi Immigrants

Poem greeting Putyatyntsi immigrants at a reunion celebration. Written by renowned Ukrainian author Anatoliy Vasilyevich Kalinovsky (1903-1987), psedonym Anatoliy Galan.

Greetings to the people of Putyatyntsi,
who sailed together here, to the new world.
Greetings to the families, or rather groups,
that left our land.

Now an evil enemy reigns there.
He is in the fields and in the forests.
And on houses and on cathedrals,
a red cloth hangs.

Communist rascals
sold both faith and language
for the smoke of Moscow tobacco
and beggar’s bowls.

But the kingdom of the boor will burst.
The sun will look down from the heights
and the bell of the destroyed temple
will call the disgraced people.

Then the entire stolen land
will rise from its ruins
and in the vast expanses of Ukraine,
Shevchenko’s truth will shine.

More from the author Anatoliy Kalinovsky:

https://www.library.rochester.edu/rbscp/blog/poetry-ukrainian-roots#_edn8