According to Jerzy Kosinski's novel Painted Bird.

The movie takes place during World War II. In order to protect their son, his parents send him to relatives in a remote village in Eastern Europe. However, the baby's aunt dies and he has to survive in this cruel world himself.

This nationality in North America is called Ukrainians or UKE for short. The magazine of dense living of this people with the peoples of the continent is as long as the statistics themselves.

In the narrow field of sports – the game of stick and puck on the ice, which is called a hook, in American – hockey, there is a tradition: to enter the names of the winners of the Stanley Cup on the trophy itself in the form of inlays. An analysis of the lists of such names over 100 years has yielded unexpected results.

Along with the descendants of the British and French, who founded the countries of the United States and Canada, the UKE nationality is the largest. The names of players with Ukrainian roots are recorded en masse on the rings of the silver prize.