Ukrainian-Americans understand all too well the dangers of autocracy and totalitarianism, and the threats they pose to people’s everyday lives and freedoms. For centuries, Ukrainians suffered at the hands of an imperial and expansionist russia, and later of a russia-led communist regime that visited a reign of terror on Ukrainians, deliberately starving millions to death in the Holodomor, arresting and killing intellectuals, religious leaders, prominent cultural leaders and literary figures, and resistance fighters.