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Part 1: Real name is Fedir Petrovych Podopryhora; born on March 3, 1912 in a village of Burtky, Kyiv region (huberniia); then parents moved to the Kherson region; he is Orthodox; his wife’s name is Kylyna Samiilivna Hudzenko, she was born is a nearby village, Remintarivka (Kyiv region); he had 13 siblings; his 2 brothers were killed in the WWI; his uncles was a General Secretary in the Tsentral’na Rada, he was killed in 1919; villagers then believed the Bolsheviks’ promises; NEP in the 1920s; his father was elected a zastupnyk starosty volosti; his brother had to be conscripted to the Bolshevik Army but was killed the chekists, Sen’ka Pogorelyi killed his father in 1923; NEP and lands; his mother died of grief in 1928; everything was in Ukrainian - Ukrainization Period; Ukrainian Church; his mother’s role in Theodor’s religious and overall development; till 1928 only local villagers were in power, not Communists; CheKa; Russians as “nahabni zhebraky”; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; 1927 - the beginning of changes, cooperation.

Part 2: Cooperation; no Communists in Theodor’s village till 1928; in 1925, were organized MTT (mashynno-traktorne tovarystvo); Tovarystvo “Suspil’na zemel’na obrobka”; villages being forced to joining the kolhosp; Soviet propaganda; Theodor was a batrak in 1928, joined the kolhosp in 1929, married in 1930; radhosp im. Kosiora was organized in his region; Holodomor circumstances in Kyiv region, Kirovohrad, Donbas; cannibalism cases.

Part 3: Holodomor, cannibalism; his life in the Donbas; Spring of 1932 - the beginning of the famine; mass media on the famine; Russification after the Holodomor; Skrypnyk’s suicide; being on a road during the famine; ethnically mixed Ukraine; Ukrainian Army, contacts with banderivtsi; Theodor left his village for Germany; life under German occupation; partizans, Kalashnyk.

Part 4: Return of the Red Army; Theodor fled away (through German colonies in Bessarabia and Romania); propaganda about UPA; Halychyna Division; Theodor was in Munich when the WWII ended; DP camps in Austria; Ukrainian camps in Salzburg; escaping the Soviet zone of occupation and return to the USSR; Fr Fotiy (??); bandarivtsi, Ivaniuk as a holova taborovoi rady; Fr. Savchuk; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the camp; Pundyk (now in Winnipeg); sotnyk Herasymenko, Pestushko; Volyniak; publishing “Promin’” in the first camp; Theodor left the camp for Venezuela in 1947 and lived there till 1955, organizing a Ukrainian colony there, 15 families; Mykola Livyts’kyi; leaving for Canada in July 1955, settled in London, ON; he belongs to CUC; older immigrants, Tomyn (??); Chaikivs’kyi (??); SUZHERO (??); halychany’s attitudes toward him; SUS; Fr. Fedir Kysyliuk - Orthodox priest; an Orthodox church built under Fr. Debryn (??) in 1963 while land was bought under Fr. Hutsuliak; Odyn (??); Ivan Franko Club - Theodor was its member; Tatsiuk (??).

Part 5: Court case RE: the Club money; old and new immigrants’ membership; CUC - Theodor is a Holova kontrol’noi komisii; CUC Statuty; Orthodox community in London; Ukrainian community in Canada, Ukrainian nationalism; mel’nykivtsi.