Wasn’t it Lubomyr Cardinal Husar of the UGCC that made the statement “We were told: If you want to be a real Catholic, you have to be Latin. And they pushed us into it.”? Seems to me that the discussion about the struggles between the Byzantine-Slavic and Latin culture with the UGCC sort of in between is something you wouldn’t want to get into since most Catholics don’t want to admit that there is any schism within the Catholic churches.
That quote is from an interview with Cardinal Husar recounting what he believes happened in the 18th century. If you had bothered to read the entire interview you would have discovered he went on to say what they finally agreed to:
": No, dear brothers, one can be Ukrainian, one can be Byzantine, one can be at the same time Catholic. These different elements do not contradict one another."
Later in the same interview he said:
"Sorry, you'll have to point out to me where in that the Patriarch denies Vatican I's definition of Papal infallibility, I'm not seeing it."
I guess the question you should ask yourself before you most in God's name or defense is; Are you stating the Truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing but the truth?".