Iron Man - Ukrainian Freedom Fighter
by Joel Anderson
Dec. 2009 • Issue 21: In 1917, with significant New York Wall Street funding, the Bolsheviks waged war in Russia, and Nikolai Lenin and Joseph Stalin’s bloody reign of terror – the Bolshevik Revolution began. William Thompson, then a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, had given $1 million to the “Reds” to help direct the propaganda machine as well, millions more were funneled to the Bolsheviks through American International Corporation (AIC), Nelson Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Pierre du Pont and numerous other direct wall street connections, et al.

William Sands, executive secretary of AIC (and also a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank), influentially recommended to the U.S. Secretary of State, Robert Lansing support for the Bolsheviks in a letter dated January 16, 1918. Sands had also donated $1 Million to the “Reds.” At that time the war had not yet been significantly tipped in favor of the Bolsheviks. On July 1, 1918, Sands wrote to U.S. Treasury Secretary William McAdoo suggesting a bank commission for “economic assistance” to the Red Army. Sands was looking to profit by providing the Bolsheviks, who were later to become the Soviet Union, with their war machine. The U.S. Govt. did not directly adopt Sands’ “economic assistance” suggestion, so instead AIC organized a private group of Wall Street industrialists who provided the significant war machine.

Ukranian Freedom Fighter - Iron Man
Many people from around the world are drawn to Ojai, one way or the other. Born in a Displaced Persons Camp (DPC) in 1946 in war ravaged Europe, Larissa Young came to the U.S. in 1950. She has two daughters, Lorelei Sadie Hawkins who divides her time between acting in Ojai, Los Angeles and England, and Ms. Lisowsky, an artist who is currently researching the family history and managing Lorelei’s career.

As kids will, Larissa began hearing whispers about her father, Yuri (George) Horodianyn-Lisowsky who was the legendary Ukrainian Freedom Fighter known as “Iron Man.”

“When I was 12-years-old my mother thought it was time that I found out about my father and she told me. We were at the DP camp at Ulm, Germany.... Ukrainians who were running away from the communists. The communists wanted to send Ukrainians back to the old country so they could then send them back to Siberia....so people were very afraid.... and the Americans actually agreed to THAT, so people were killing themselves rather than be captured. My father was trying to fight against that. My father went to the Americans to put a stop to it. Then he disappeared. THAT’S when he disappeared.... No one knows what happened. I was two days old,” Larissa said.

She also found that he had written a book in the 1930s, "Cold Canyon," under the protective pen name of Horlis-Horsky, which documented his fight against the Bolsheviks in 1920. The book remained underground due to Soviet regime control.

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“Ukraine was divided into two before WWII. Half of it was under Poland, half of it was under the Russians. The Polish part is where the book became known because it was allowed. Then, after WWII, Poland became part of the Soviet Union, then it was totally damned until of course 1990,” she said.

“He was known as a real adventurous, courageous individualist. It’s a true story, written as a novel about a 21-year-old soldier in the Ukrainian Republican Army, freedom fighters called partisans, otherwise known as renegades or terrorists...... Yuri, he was on horseback in the brigade. They were riding around. They got to this place called Cold Canyon. Yuri got an infection in his leg. He was out of commission.... they had to leave him and move on. They left him at this monastery at Cold Canyon. He got to know all the residents that lived in the area and they were warrior types.

“There were several towns and villages...,they are used to fighting and they are very patriotic. The Bolsheviks came and tried to break it up.... lots of killing during this time. So, the partisans they went away into the forest.

“They were a secret society. They couldn’t be known. They had pseudonyms. They each had a nickname and Yuri was called Iron Man for his fearless, heroic reputation. You know Iron Man?....it’s Marvel Comics. It’s a story about his relationship with the partisans and the families in the area, and he fell in love with a girl. He was captured by the Bolsheviks... he was going to be shot and they got to his fiance... and they told her if she would give up the names of the rebels, they would set him free and she believed them......” “At the last minute he was about to be shot. He took the opportunity - there was some kind of distraction - to run away and he hid in one of his friend’s cellars and he escaped. They thought he was killed. When he came back they told him his fiance would have to be executed for betraying them -- so, he offered to shoot her instead.....”

“Later, he was sent to Siberia and he was supposed to be executed, but he pretended to be crazy, so he was put in an insane asylum because they were not allowed to execute insane people, and then in the asylum he was able to escape with the help of a nurse,” said Larissa.

His story of this adventure is described in gruesome detail! Yuri’s mother was a Polish Countess and his father was a Cossack in the Czars Army. He had lied about his age to join the Ukrainian Nationalist Army when he was 16-years-old.

Those who grew up under the Soviet Regime were not told their history.

Said Larissa, “When I went to the Ukraine they took me to the place where the book was set and I met people there. They were the previous generation. They were very happy to meet me because they said my father changed their life, because when they were growing up the history was completely wrong. They had no idea that there was a revolution like that or that there were partisans or that there were any fighters against Bolsheviks or that there was any Ukrainian patriotism. So, they were totally brainwashed. So, now, they are beginning to get their patriotism back.”

Larissa is in the process of having the book translated into English as well as placing it in the Ukraine. “Now, I travel around the Ukraine promoting it so more and more people would read it. The book is so intense, intensely patriotic, that it’s really had an effect on them.”

– Joel Anderson

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” – Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Oct. 7, 1952

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