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Published by the Ukrainian national Association inc.. a fraternal non-profit associatioi rainian Weekly vol. LIII No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985 25 cents Marchenko denied Christian funeral Helsinki monitor Petro Sichko FRAM1NGHAM, Mass. - valeriy according to Keston News Service. Marchenko, the Ukrainian human- in his testament. Mr. Marchenko. a rear rested on unknown charges rights activist who died of kidney failure Catholic, had requested a Christian MUN1CH - Petro Sichko, a mem– at age 37 on October 6. 1984. was denied funeral. His body was returned in a zinc bcr of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group a Christian burial bv Soviet authorities. coffin to Kiev from the Leningrad and a veteran political prisoner, has hospital where he died. Mr. Mar– apparently been rearrested. according chenko's mother had made funeral to the most recent issue of USSR News arrangements with a priest in the Brief published here. Ukrainian capital, but under pres– The charges against him are not sure from the authorities the priest known. reneged on his promise. Mr. Sichko was to have been released Another priest began a funeral service on May 26 upon completing a three- in a'different church in Kiev, but the year term for "slandering the Soviet authorities presented him from com– state." That term had been tacked on by pleting it. After lying in the church for Soviet authorities to a three-year term two days, the coffin was taken to the Mr. Sichko was already serving, also for cemetery, it was escorted by 15 persons, slander. five of them close friends and relatives, The 59-year-old engineer and ccono– the others unknown. mist is a former officer of the Ukrai– Mr. Marchenko died from a kidney nian insurgent Army, in 1947 he was illness aggravated by mistreatment and arrested for allegedly attempting to refusal of proper medical care by organize a society for the liberation of authorities in the labor camp where he Ukraine. He was sentenced to death, ..1 ':^^^Ffelrp Sichko .was serving a 10-year term for "anti- but this was commuted to25years'hard- Soviet agitation and propaganda." This labor. He was released in 1957 under a was to be followed by five years of general amnesty. The elder Sichko was rearrested in a internal exile. Mr. Sichko was persecuted by the labor camp on May 26. 1982. and Mr. Marchenko. a prominent activist KGB for refusing to renounce his sentenced to an additional three years in in the human-rights movement and a convictions. Beginning in 1975 ihe KGB a strict-regimen camp. He is an invalid journalist and philologist, had been ill tried t'o blackmail him into working as and suffers from tuberculosis. for some time. His trial had to be an informer, in exchange for his co- vasyl -Sichko. a journalist and sin- postponed at least once because of his operation, his son vasyl was to be dent, was also rearrested while serving poor health, and Mr. Marchenko was allowed to complete his university, the term for slander. On December І 1. reportedly unable to stand through studies. Mr. Sichko refused to co- 1981. he was arrested on trumped-up most of the proceedings. operate and in late 1977 applied for an narcotics charges and sentenced to Upon being sentenced on March 14. exii visa and renounced his Soviet another three years'strict-regimen 1984. Mr. Marchenko reportedly told citizenship. camp. He was due to be released in July. the judge, "You will be guilty of my He joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Petro Sichko is married to Stefania death. Citizen Judge." Group with his son, vasyl. now 28. in Petrash Sichko. His younger son. Amnesty international and other 1978. Both were arrested on July 5. v'olodymyr. now 25. has also been a sources reported that Mr. Marchenko 1979. and each was sentenced to three political prisoner, having served a term (Continued on page 12) years' imprisonment for slander. in 1980-1983 on unknown charges. Edmonton's Ukrainian mayor: businessmanflawyer Laurence Decore by Mykhailo Bociurkiw churches, halls and businesses. School children have long had the option of enrolling in Ukrainian-English EDMONTON - When Edward 1. Koch announced bilingual education programs offered by the local his candidacy for New York City's mayoral race last Catholic and public school boards. month, he proudly declared that he holds the "best Mr. Decore. whose father was a well-known political job in America." politician, is the second Canadian of Ukrainian origin in chatting with Mayor Laurence G. Decore of to serve as mayor of the city of Edmonton. Between Edmonton, one is left with the distinct impression that 1951 and 1977' the late William Hawrelak, a Ukrai– the best political job in Canada belongs to the mayor nian businessman, was elected mayor of Edmonton of the city of Edmonton. That's because Mr. Decore four times. has a hard time containing his pride when he gets to Mr. Decore, 45. was born and raised in vegreville. musing about his job as the head of one of Canada's Alberta, a small town east of Edmonton which is the largest and fastest-growing municipalities. site of the annual Ukrainian Pysanka Festival and the The city of Edmonton is the capital of the resource- largest Ukrainian Easter egg; in the world. His father, rich province of Alberta and is Canada's second Mr. Justice John Decore of the Court of Queen's largest city by area. The most recent figures show Bench, was the Liberal member of Parliament for Edmonton with a population of more than 560,000. As vegreville from 1949 to 1956 and the man who home to the world famous Edmonton Oilers, the game nominated Lester B. Pearson for the Liberal Party of hockey is one of the most popular ways to pass time leadership in 1958. in a city that is battered by some of the harshest winter By his 24th birthday. Laurence Decore had earned a climates in Canada. bachelor of arts and a law degree from the University The city of Edmonton is also the home of the of Alberta. His first business venture was the second-largest Ukrainian urban community in development of a Si million-plus hotel in the Canada: in 1971. the 62,655 residents of Ukrainian mountain resorupf Jasper. Alberta. Since then, he has origin made up more than 12 percent of the total become a– successful developer of hotels, shopping population. With these numbers, the local Ukrainian malls, and residential and industrial subdivisions. He ?Bociurtm community enjoys high.visibility with its numerous (Continued он page 5) Mayor Laurence G. Decore of Edmonton THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985 No. 34 Refusenik sentenced to three years Analysis: the legalization dilemma NEW YORK - viadimir Brodsky. a similar harassment, including an aunt refusenik and anesthesiologist from who died in a labor camp during the of Ukrainian Catholics in USSR Moscow, was sentenced to three years Stalinist "Doctors' Plot," after she was charged with having "inoculated by Andrew Sorokowski at hard labor on a charge of "malicious hooliganism," the Coalition to Free patients with cancer." Soviet Jews– reported on August 16. Dr. Brodsky is one of a dozen Soviet On September 9. 1982. Yosyp Jewish activists arrested or sentenced in Terelia and four associates founded The trial took place on August 15 in an industrial building. Only his wife. the past eight months. Two other trials the Action Group lor the Defense of are pending. the Rights ol Believers and the Dina, was allowed inside. Church with the aim of obtaining Since he applied for permission to legalization of the banned Ukrainian emigrate in 1979, Dr. Brodsky has been Soviets seize tapes Catholic Church. Formerly known harassed, forced to resign from jobs, asthe Ukrainian Greek Catholic physically beaten and given short-term BOSTON - Soviet authorities seized Church, this branch of the Uniate prison sentences. His apartment was set television news tapes belonging to NBC Church formed by the 1596 Union of on fire in 1983. As he described in a and the British Broadcasting Corp– Brest was forcibly dissolved and recent appeal to the West, when he came oration on Friday. August 16. The incorporated in the Russian Ortho– home at that time, he saw four or five videotapes were confiscated from a dox Church at the staged Lviv Synod KGB men "leaning against the car. courier at Moscow's international air- of March 8-10. 1946. smiling." port. in 1980, Dr. Brodsky went on his first Recent information appearing in The Christian Science Monitor re- the underground Chronicle of the hunger strike to protest the govern– ment's refusal to let him emigrate. He ported that BBC correspondent Tim Catholic Church in Ukraine and Sebastian said his tape was about Soviet Ukrainian Catholic Herald indicates was then blackmailed into resigning from his job or else face charges of police work. NBC said its story was that Soviet authorities have offered about espionage by Soviet employees, to legalize the Ukrainian Catholic "stealing drugs." He found a job in another hospital, where he was accused such as clerks and cleaners, at the U.S. Church, but only as an "autoce– Embassy. phalous" church with no ties to the of malpractice resulting in the death of a patient who, in Dr. Brodsky's words, Recently Soviet authorities seized the Holy See. According to the Chro– Yosyp Terelia nicle, Mr. Terelia has refused the "was brought into the hospital in an notes, files and tape recordings of a offer. Obviously, breaking with muses Mr. Terelia, "do we really extremely poor condition, already correspondent for The Christian Science Rome would be tantamount to re– need this legalization? Under condi– dying." Monitor. The materials were held for nouncing Catholicism. But Mr. Tere– tions of constant terror against Dr. Brodsky comes from a line of two days before being returned to the lia's objection is also based on Christians, is it not better to be Jewish doctors who have suffered journalist, Gary Thatcher. another, possibly independent underground? ...And having given us ground, it concerns the manner and freedom,' the KGB would destroy effects, of legalization under Soviet everything that is alive in our islamic faith proves obstacle law and under Soviet religious and Church..." He relates that after his political conditions. last term of imprisonment (Decem– to Sovietization of Afghanistan The sixth issue of the Chronicle ber 24. 1982. to December 26. 1983) contains a mock transcript, evidently he became a fierce opponent of BOSTON - The devout Afghan nistan's diverse ethnic and linguistic compiled from memory by Mr. Tere– legalization. belief in islam is proving a major groups. lia, of his conversations of April 23- "it would be very convenient for obstacle to the Sovietization of Afgha– Even before the Soviet invasion in 24, 1984, with representatives of the you." retorts Mr. Terelia to the nistan. reported the Christian Science 1979, Communist ideology was pro– Soviet Ukrainian government, the Soviet officials in the account of the Monitor. moted by the government in Afgha– Communist Party, the atheist educa– Uzhhorod meeting, "to transform The element of atheism in Com– nistan, where 99- percent of thepopu– tional establishment and, apparent– our Church into what the Russian munist doctrine has provoked an in– lation is Muslim. The Nur Muhammad ty, the KGB, in Uzhhorod, Trans– Orthodox Church already is." Cer– stinctive hostility and resisting Afghans Taraki regime tried direct methods to carpathian region, in response to tainly the experience of that Church have rallied around the banner of islam spread its Marxist message through the their urgings to register his Church illustrates the dangers of legalization. — the only belief that unites Afgha– mosques. However, religious leaders with the authorities, Mr. Terelia One need only peruse the "Furov either refused to read the propaganda at pointed out one advantage of illegal reports" - in which the Council on prayers, or the congregation would status: "Presently, the Ukrainian Religious Affairs informs the Com– walk out. Catholic Church is not under your munist Party Central Committee on High-toed boots? Less direct tactics were then pursued, control and we make the decisions the Russian Orthodox Church in the with the Soviets in reality following a concerning our own matters.... 1 do late 1960s and early 1970s - to see JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - in an effort policy of "de-ls!amization," although want legalization, but not the kind how the government controls the to improve production of consumer Kabul Radio proclaims that islam and that you're offering." Church from the patriarch and the goods, the Soviet Union has organized a socialism are really the same thing and Mr. Terelia's objection to the kind hierarchy down to the parish level. series of exhibits of shoddy and de– that Afghans are free to practice their of legalization offered by the Soviet Furthermore, one can deduce that it fective products. own religion. representatives becomes clear when is government policy not merely to The objective is to hold these manu– Nevertheless, Afghans have become one examines the Soviet legislation regulate a Church, but to subvert facturing mistakes up to public ri– fearful of praying in mosques because of on religious associations (Decree of and. in the long run, to liquidate it. dicule and thus to shame managers surveillance by government agents, and the All-Russian Central Executive if this last point seems an exag– and laborers into working more ef– many more now pray in their homes. Committee and the Soviet of People's geration. Ukrainians need not look ficiently. Religious content in schoo!books has Commissars of the RSFSR of April far for its proof, in the 1920s the At a recent exhibit in Ukraine, among been greatly reduced and anything 8. 1929, as amended by the Decree of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox the items on display were boots with the islamic is considered anti-governmental. the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Church, tied to no foreign center and high heels attached at the toe. Soviets are also attempting to gain of the RSFSR of June 23, 1975). in full compliance with Soviet legis– News of the exhibitions was reported control of the ulema, the college of Registration of a religious society or lation, was progressively manipu– ' in Parade Magazine. (Continued on page 13) group of believers is only the first of a lated. divided and undermined. series of requirements that permit the Finally, in 1930, the Soviet authori– state to interfere directly in the affairs ties compelled it to liquidate itself of a Church and confine its activity altogether. 1 to the performance of religious rites. This lesson has apparently not FOUNDED 1933 Christians who, like Mr. Terelia, been lost on Ukrainian Catholics, if Ukrainian WeeM believe that their faith goes beyond legalization presents the prospect of worshipping within the four walls of submitting to crippling and ulti– An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National a Church, find that these regulations mately fatal regulations, it is not Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N J. suffocate the Christian life. surprising that Mr. Terelia and his 07302. The first issue of the Ukrainian group are skeptical, it is a poor Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J., 07302. Catholic Herald, dating from about substitute for religious liberty. (1SSN - 0273-9348) the same time as Mr. Terelia's en- Meanwhile, Action Group mem– counter with the Soviet representa– ber the Rev. Hryhoriy Budzinsky Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - S5. was detained for six weeks late last tives, includes an article cast in Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. interview format and titled "Ten year.and its chairman, vasyl Kobryn, Answers to Ten Questions." "Some- was arrested and sentenced on March. The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA times the thought arises within me," 22, to three years in a labor -amp (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 under ordinary regimen. Mr. Terelia Andrew Sorokowski is researcher himself was arrested on February 8. Postmaster, send address changes to: on Ukraine at Keston College. The is reportedly charged with ami- The Ukrainian Weekly article above is reprinted from the Soviet agitation and propaganda, P.O. Box 346 Editor Roma Hadzewycz commentary section of Keston News. and is presumably awaiting trial. Jersey City, N.J. 07303 No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985 з Mulmney announces Cabinet reshuffle 50 congressmen urge U.N. ambassador OTTAWA Prime Minister Brian shyn of Saskatchewan, remains as Mulroney announced a Cabinet re- president of the Privy Council. Don to raise issue of Afghanistan shuffle on Tuesday. August 20. Mazankowski of Alberta, who is of WASH1NGTON - Fifty-nine mem– nistan, it is encouraging to note that the ' Ukrainian Member of Parliament Ukrainian-Polish descent, is staying on bers of Congress have asked vernon report of the special rapporteur, Felix Harvie Andre, until August 20 the as minister of transport. Walters. U.S. ambassador to the United Ermacore, on the human-rights situ– minister of supply and services, has A new minister of state lor multicul– Nations, to raise the issue of Afgha– ation will be presented for approval to been named associate minister of na– turalism was also named. He is Otto nistan in the upcoming session of the the General Assembly." tional defense. Jelinek of Halton. Ont. Mr. Jelinek will General Assembly this fall. Mr. Andre. 45, represents the riding take on the multiculturalism portfolio "...Afghanistan, in the words of Dr. of Calgary Center in Alberta. He holds in addition to that of the minister of in a letter to Mr. Walters. 16senators (Zbigniew) Brzezinski. is 'Themoral issue a doctorate in chemical engineering and state for amateur fitness and sports. The and 43 House members, termed the of our times.' ... We hope that the is a former professor. He was first former multiculturalism minister. Jack General Assembly an ideal forum for United States will utilize every oppor– elected to the House of Commons in Murta. has been named minister of addressing the problems of Afghanistan tunity to raise the topic of Afghanistan 1972 and was re-elected in 1974. 1979, tourism. at the international level. and will encourage other states to do so 1980 and 1984. He has been a member Mr. Jelinek, 45, was born in Prague, "in addition to the specific debates on as well during the fall meeting of the of the Queen's Privy Council since 1984. Czechoslovakia. He is a businessman the annual resolution concerning Afgha– General Assembly." Another Ukrainian MP. Ray Hnaty– who was first elected to the House of Commons in 1972 and re-elected in the next four elections. He was sworn to the Koziy surrenders in Costa Rica Soviet Embassy Queen's Privy Council in 1984. Last week, Canadian newspapers had NEW YORK - Bohdan Koziy, a wartime activities. He resided in Fort reported that Prime Minister Mulroney Ukrainian accused of serving in a local Lauderdale. Fla. He was ordered de- location boon was considering the establishment of a police unit while Ukraine was under ported from the United States by a so-called superministry of multicultura– Nazi occupation, surrendered to Costa Miami court on April 9 of this year. The to espionage lism that would combine immigration, Rican authorities on Monday, August U.S. Justice Department's Office of ethnocultural and citizenship affairs. WASHINGTON - when the 19, reported the Associated Press, citing Special investigations is seeking Mr. However, in the newly reshuffled U.S. government sources. . Koziy's extradition from Costa Rica so Soviet Embassy compound is com– Cabinet, the multiculturalism ministry Mr. Koziy has been living in Costa that he could then be deported to the pletcd next year, just above Mount structure remains the same. Rica since October 1984. when he Soviet Union. Alto in Northwest Washington, not in other news. Solicitor General entered the country legally as a depen– only will the Soviets be able to sec Elmer MacKay was replaced by Perrin dent of his wife, who was granted Mr. Koziy's lawyer said that there everything around them, they will Beatty. 35. the former minister of residency earlier. were no charges against his client and also be able to hear everything. And national revenue. Mr. Beatty, who Mr. Koziy was a naturalized U.S. that he could not be deported from U.S. officials are seeing red. represents Wcllington-Dufferin– citizen until 1982, when he was stripped Costa Rica because he was living there According to a recent article in the Simcoe. Ont.. was first elected to the of bis ;-itizenship for concealing his legally, reported the AP. Washington Post National Weekly House of Commons in 1972. Mr. Edition. Post staff writer Kenneth MacKay is now the revenue minister. Brcdcmeicr reported that soon Soviet For. the record officials will be situated at one ol the highest vantage points in the nation's capital.- enabling them to conduct Orthodox Church holds Reagan on Helsinki Accords anniversary electronic surveillance of govcrn– gathered in Helsinki 10 years ago. men't, commercial and personal Below is the text of President synod in Canada President Ford stated. "History will conversations transmitted by micro- Ronald Reagan's statement on the judge this conference not by what we wave. WINNIPEG - over 320 delegates, occasion of the 10th anniversary of say here today, but by what we do Negotiations lor new embassy priests and laymen, attended the 17th the Helsinki Accords. The text was tomorrow not by the promises we construction a reciprocal deal for Sobor of the Ukrainian Greek-Ortho– released in trie August 13 issue of make, but by the promises we keep." the United Stales and the Soviet dox Church in Canada, at which the CSCK Digest, published by the Sadly, despite some gains, the Union began in 1969. At that time, archbishop of Toronto and the Eastern Commission on Security and Co- Soviet Union and several signatories according to U.S. government offi– Eparchy. Wasyly Fedak. was named operation in Europe. The statement of the Helsinki Act have failed to cials. the importance of microwave metropolitan of the Canadian Church was dated July JO. keep their promises. Despite the communications and their inception and elected primate of the Ukrainian Ten years have passed since the solemn pledge that citizens have the was not widely realized. Greek-Orthodox Church of Canada United States. Canada and 33 Euro– right "to know and act upon" their Today, they are calling the deal a and Australia. pean governments joined in Helsinki rights, brave men and women have major blunder, in efforts to combat The office of the metropolitan had to sign the Final Act of the Confe– suffered for taking this commitment this, since 1977. Sen. Daniel Patrick been vacated in early February with the rence on Security and Cooperation by their governments seriously. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) has tried to pass death of Archbishop-Metropolitan in Europe (CSCE). Today. Secretary Those who have tried to exercise legislation to require the president to Andrew Metiuk. Shultz and the foreign ministers of freedoms of religion, thought, con– demand that any illegal surveillance During the Sobor. delegates elected those nations. East and West as well 'cience and belief have often paid a by a foreign mission be stopped and. the Rev. Stepan Yarmus, a professor at as neutral and non-aligned, are tragic price. The Helsinki Accords failing that, declare the responsible St. Andrew's College here, chairman of meeting again in the capital of Fin- called for freer movement of people diplomats persona non grata and the Presidium of the Consistory. Eight land to commemorate this important and ideas across the European divide, expel them from the United Stales. priests and nine laymen were chosen for event. but that flow remains impeded, and However, this measure was first the Presidium of the Consistory. Dele– , in 1975. President Ford affirmed in the case of the Soviet Union it is tacked on to the 1986 State Dcpart– gates also approved a list of resolutions the support of the United States for but a trickle. ment funding bill. and drew up a new Church Charter. the" universal standards of interna– The Helsinki Accords and the Because of reciprocal occupancy vicar Bishop of the Central Eparchy tional conduct and fundamental Madrid Concluding Document of - Soviet and U.S. officials must John Stynko was named bishop of human freedoms contained in the 1983. provided standards by which to move into their embassies at the same Edmonton and the Western Eparchy, Helsinki Final Act. Today, 1 reaffirm judge the conduct of the 35 partici– time - the S70 million Soviet corn- while the Eastern Eparchy remained our commitment to those principles pating states and set down a process pound may not have any official under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan and our equally firm dedication to which can be used to ensure ac– residents for a while. Although the Wasyly. give them meaning in the daily lives countability. The United States will Soviet Embassy is almost completed Delegates to the Sobor also discussed of all citizens whose governments have undertaken the obligations continue to uphold these standards - the S147 million U.S. Embassy in the defamation of Ukrainians in Canada contained in the Helsinki Final Act. and press for compliance with them. Moscow may not be completed until and suspected war criminals, and sent a We consider this a commitment on late 1987 or early 1988. This is telegram to Canadian Prime minister The CSCE process, has long been a the part of all those who voluntarily, because Soviet crews are buildingthe Brian Mulroney asking that he not source of hope that the division of subscribed to the Final Act of the Moscow residence, and they do not allow the Deschenes Commission to use Europe can be overcome, and that Helsinki Accords. necessarily adhere to the American Soviet-supplied evidence in its search the human freedoms enjoyed in the As we mark this 10th anniversary, construction crew's philosophy "time for suspected Nazi war criminals. West will be honored and respected and reflect on the hopes initially is money." reported James E. Nolan The delegates approved a new plan throughout the continent. The Hel– raised by the CSCE process, it is time Jr., director of the State Depart– for insuring its clergy and made a sinki process offers the peoples of to renew our efforts to ensure that ment's Office of Foreign Missions decision on the matter of minimal wages East and West a way that by patient those hopes were not totally without and former counterintclligence chief for priests. and serious dialogue we can improve foundation. We rededicate ourselves for the FB1. Delegates approved the idea of esta– the lives of our individual citizens, to the code of conduct embodied in While the Soviets will have ol'fi– blishing a monastery, the ideological and increase security and coopera– the Helsinki Final Act. We call upon cials "in high places." the U.S. and structural basis of which will be tion among our states. all of those who participate with us in government will house its embassy decided by Metropolitan Wasyly. As Secretary Shultz said in his CSCE to fulfill their pledges. With workers in. what some call the A ceremony honoring the authors of statement in Helsinki, we had no commitment and determination, we "swamp land." The new location for the first volume of the "History of the illusions in 1975, and have none can make the promise of the Helsinki the U.S. Embassy is just a mile from Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox Church in today, that words alone can strcng– Accords' first 10 years the reality of the Kremlin, overlooking the Mos– Canada," the Rev. S.v. Sawchuk and then security and nurture freedom. this second decade of CSCE. eow River. Dr. Jurij Mulyk-Lytsuk, was held When heads of state and government during the Sobor. 4^^„^^^^^.^^^.^^^^^^^^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985,–, ,.–.,...,„„„„„„„„„„,„.No34 Bishop Losten donates S10,000 PRESS REVIEW to Harvard millennium project STAMFORD, Conn. - Bishop Basil HURl associate director scores NCC Losten "of the Stamford Eparchy of NEW YORK The June 10 issued the NCC delegation, declared that the Ukrainian Catholics has donated The New Republic contained an article situation for religious groups had 510,000 to the Harvard Project on the by Prof Frank Sysyn titled "Clergy and improved just.as we were receiving Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. Commissars" that criticizes the Na– clearer evidence ol brutal persecution tional Council ol Churches lor its of believers. A samizdat journal called Members of the working committee policies toward ihc Soviet Union and Chronicle of the Catholic Church in of the Harvard Project visited Bishop Soviet'churches Ukraine began appearing just as the Losten at his home recently to talk The "article concentrates on the visit delegation visited. The nine issues about the millennium and about the of a 266-member delegation of the demonstrated how. far from Western Harvard Project. National Council in June of 1984. At reporters and visiting delegations, thai time. Prof. Sysyn wrote a letter hundreds of activists in the western Bishop Losten said that he realized published in The New York Times Ukraine arc struggling against the KGB the importance of the project and wants which scored the delegation's refusal to and Soviet authorities lor the legaliza– to help as much as possible towards the comment on Soviet persecution of tion of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, realization of the project. He consented religion, in The New Republic article, outlawed since 1946." to the proposal of the committee mem– he examines the brochure of the U.S.– The article ends with the following bers to send all priests under his juris– USSR Church Relations Committee. recommendations to the NCC: - diction letters encouraging their help, "Together on the Way. The Story of the "First, they should state unequivo– both moral and financial. Dialogue Between the Churches of the cally that the USSR persecutes believers United Slates and the Soviet Union." and deprives them of their religious Bishop Losten also said that all He shows that the contributors to the freedom. With this should come an Ukrainians should participate in this brochure range from the naive to the active program for the defense of action, especially on the international tendcntiously pro-Soviet. believers in the USSR that should go forum, and encouraged the idea of in discussing sources of reliable down to the grass roots of the NCC. All international conferences in both italy information. Prof. Sysyn. who is the (Continued on page 11) in 1986 and Washington in 1988, associate director of the Harvard Ukrai– which are being planned by the project nian Research institute, praises the committee. Bishop Basil Losten work of Michael Bordeaux and Keston Australian mites on College. Keston is the institution in which the Ukrainian Studies Fund has Helsinki monitors recently established a research position Women's world federation hosted in Ukrainian religious affairs. L1DCOMBE. Australia - The Aus– illustrating the Soviet government's tralian current affairs publication News by U.S. ambassador to Kenya widespread religious persecution and Weekly recently published an article how the National Council of Churches titled "The Rise and Fall of the Ukrai– by Ostap Kwitkowsky millennium commemorative pin and ignores it. Prof Sysyn writes: nian Helsinki Group." brochures about Ukraine and the "Yet Bruce Rigdon. spokesman for The article, written by Dr. Lev DETROlT - Representatives of the WFUWO. Havryliv, describes the birth of the World Federation of Ukrainian Wo– Present at the reception besides Mrs. largest Helsinki monitoring group, men's Organizations who attended the Kwitkowsky, were Dr. Marta Boha– Columnist cites which incorporated 37 members. The United Nations Women's Decade Con– chevsky Chomiak, Maria Dolishny, group produced at least a dozen state– ference were hosted by the U.S. Am– Christine isajiw, lrene Maiycky, Sophia ments and two dozen bulletins within a bassador to Kenya, Gerald Thomas, at Petrashko, Helen Prociuk, Dora Rak famine documentaryperio d of four years, although Mr. the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on Friday. and lrene Spiech. Havryliv reported that not all of these July 12. Accompanying them was Ostap Kwit– HAMILTON, om. - During a reached the West. The hourlong private reception kowsky, aide to Rep. Dennis M. Hertel recent screening of '^НвґЯШ'О'ТOtc– Mr. Havryliv wrote: "it appears that allowed the WFUWO delegates to (D-Mich.). pair," the documentary film about the the reason why repression of the Ukrai– discuss a variety of topics with Am– Rep. Hertel initially contacted Mr. 1932-33 famine in Ukraine, a member of nian Helsinki Group was so harsh is bassador Thomas, including the millcn– Thomas in March and informed him the audience remarked: "it was worse partly the fact of Ukraine's isolation nium of Christianity in Ukraine, the that Mrs. Kwitkowsky would be head– than what we saw in the German con– from world opinion, and partly because status of women and children in ing the Ukrainian women's delegation centration camps 40 years ago. and І of the Soviet government's fear of the Ukraine, the U.N. conference work- to the U.S. conference. He also in- never expected to see anything like that possibility of Ukraine seceding from the shops and Ukrainian women's activity formed Mr. Thomas that Mrs. Kwit– again." USSR." at the conference. kowsky would be heading the Ukrainian The comment was overheard by Joe On the 10 anniversary of the signing women's delegation to the U.N. confe– Chapman, a columnist for the Hamil– of the Helsinki Accords, Mr. Havryliv Mr. Thomas assured the delegation, rence. He also informed Mr. Thomas ton Spectator, who then devoted a noted, "unfortunately the international, headed by Maria Kwitkowsky, that Mr. Kwitkowsky would be repre– column to "Harvest of Despair." Mr. media and governments paid scant WFUWO president, that he and his senting him. Once in Nairobi. Mr. Chapman relayed historical facts about attention to what was happening to the office would be willing to provide Kwitkowsky informed the U.S. Em– the famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 and group and its monitoring of the Hel– assistance to the delegation during the bassy of the arrival of the Ukrainian the history behind the making of the sinki Act violations." conference. delegation. The ambassador's secretary documentary. Mrs. Kwitkowsky presented the contacted Mrs. Kwitkowsky at the He wrote: "Survivors tell of pets ambassador with a pysanka, a book Nairobi Hilton on July 8 and set up the devoured for food, of people eating National Review notesabou t the art of William Kurelek, a meeting. straw, leaves and grass, and even of cannibalism. At the same time, the film 'Harvest of Despair' shows relief trains bearing food donated by Western nations being turned back NEW YORK - The National Re- UNWLA announces scholarship competition at the border by Russian officials view recently mentioned "Harvest of NEW YORK - The Ukrainian Na– field of Ukrainian studies which has blandly insisting there was no food Despair," the Canadian-produced do– tional Women's League of America has been accepted by a publisher. shortage." cumentary on the Ukrainian famine of announced the fifth competition for The amount of the scholarship will be He acknowledged the fact that the 1932-33, in its "The Week" column. scholarships from the Eva Stashkiw determined by a special committee on film was made possible by the Ukrai– in the column dated July 26, the Scholarship Fund. an individual basis. Only UNWLA nian Famine Research Committee with National Review wrote: "With people The grants are for the study of the members who have joined the organiza– assistance from the National Film starving to death under a Soviet- Ukrainian language for graduates in tion at least one year before submitting Board. He noted that both material and dominated regime in Ethiopia, 'Harvest journalism, languages, library science their entry qualify. volunteer labor was generously donated of Despair' has achieved a grisly topica– and museum science. Those applying in Last year, scholarships were granted to the project, indeed, he added, lity. it deserves an American audience." this category must show that they plan to Oksana Rozdolska to further her enough material was gathered to make The article reports that, until recently, to utilize their knowledge of Ukrainian studies and to Lidia Tarnawsky to aid several films, but was edited to a 55- the Soviets had managed to stifle news in their professional work. her in researching her doctoral thesis on minute film. about their man-made famine. But now lvan Mazepa in German literature. "Our local Ukrainian community, word is beginning to leak out. The second category for which the The deadline for entries is September including many veterans of service in The National Review attributes this grants will be given is for students in the 30. in the first and second category, the Canadian armed forces, hopes the to the fact that "Harvest of Despair" has course of obtaining a doctorate in scholarships will be granted for studies film wiH serve as a memorial to those been seen and acclaimed by viewers in various fields of Ukrainian studies as in accredited American or Canadian who perished and a grim warning of the Western Europe and Canada, it criti– well as comparative studies in literature, universities only. nature of Soviet methods. Some of our cizes the American networks and public history, sociology or music and only For further information contact: more naive supporters of Communist television here in the states for not after the subject matter has received Ukrainian National Women's League propaganda might do well to ponder on seeing it fit to broadcast, even though university approval. of America. Eva Stashkiw Scholarship the message of'Harvest of Despair,' "he the film has won a first prize at the They will also be given as an aid in the Fund. 108 Second Ave.. New York, wrote. Houston international Film Festival. publishing of a scholarly work in the N.Y. 10003.

t No. 34 -^^^^,„„.„„„„„„„„„„.THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985. –-. - "-,-,. -:„„„„„„^5

as a political messiah who can lead the Liberals in the Edmonton's Ukrainian mayor... West back to power. Others have speculated that Mr. (Continued from page 1) Decore's next move will be to lead the provincial was at one lime a fund-raiser for Liberal Cabinet Liberal Party to victory in one of the upcoming Minister Jack Homer and is a founder of Edmonton's provincial elections. first cable television station. But Mayor Decore says he hasn't given much Mr. Decore is one of the chief architects and thought to his next job. in an interview last summer he promoters of Canada's multiculturalism policy. He said he plans to occupy the mayor's chair for two six- was the first chairman of the provincially appointed year terms, in the fall of 1983, Edmonton voters swept Alberta Heritage Council, an advisory body to the Mr. Decore into office with the largest plurality of Alberta government on multicultural affairs. Just votes in the city's history and reports indicate that before he was elected mayor of Edmonton in October people are happy with the way he has been handling 1983, Mr. Decore retired as national chairman of the his job. Canadian Multiculturalism Council, a 100-mcmber Mayor Decore has become a high-profile politician body appointed by the federal minister of multicul– because he has demonstrated an ability to tackle the turalism and representing all of Canada's ethnic tough problems facing his city with style and elan. The communities. Mr. Decore played a key role in awesome responsibility of being mayor does not convincing the federal government to incorporate prevent him from picking up hot potatoes: shortly multiculturalism into a section of the country's new after his election, Mr. Decore successfully imple– constitution. raented -an election proposal to replace four city As a prominent businessman, lawyer and politician, commissioners with an executive committee of Mr. Decore has managed to devote a great deal of his aldermen to oversee civic affairs; he later took on the time to the.Ukrainian community. He served on the provincial government in a heated battle over the Ukrainian community's standing committee on distribution of long-distance telephone revenues. One multiculturalism in Edmonton and as president of the of his biggest accomplishments was convincing the local Ukrainian Professional and Business Club. federal government to restore passenger rail service in 1981, Mr. Decore completed a two-year term as between Edmonton, Jasper and vancouver. national president of the Ukrainian Canadian !i Mayor Decore, who receives an annual salary of Professional and Business Federation. On several 5І5,000 (one-third of which is tax free), followed up occasions, Mr. Decore spoke forcefully about the need his 1983 landslide election victory with a major housecleaning in the mayor's office. He advised the for the Ukrainian Canadian Committee to restructure entire office staff to clean out their desks to make room itself into a more democratic and professional body. for "his people." As an austerity move, he dumped his indeed, Laurence Decore is a name that is re- predecessor's 528,000 Lincoln limousine and dis– cognized in almost all of Canada's diverse regions. His missed the chauffeur, preferring to drive himself to involvement in politics — and particularly in the work in his Oldsmobile Cutlass. Since then, he has Liberal Party of Canada — has brought him national tried to get control of city finances, streamline city hall recognition. During last summer's Liberal Party and keep taxes down. leadership convention in Ottawa, Mr. Decore became the focus of attention when he arrived on the Earlier this summer. Mayor Decore spoke with The convention floor with a significant number of Ukrainian Weekly about his experiences as a commu– delegates from western Canada. nity leader, businessman and politician. The following Laurence Decore at a recent barbecue organized by Some Liberal Party insiders speak of Mayor Decore is a transcript of that interview. Ukrainian professionals and businesspersons.

Weekly: What were some of the perhaps was too soon, in 1977,1 ran for factors which primed you to enter mayor and lost by 8;000 votes to a guy public life? named (Cec) Purves. І went back and practiced law and got Decore: There's an x-factor in my involved in business and did well in chromosome make-up that 1 got from business and law. І ran again in 1983 my father and mother: an interest in and got the largest plurality in Edmon– politics; an interest in ensuring that ton's history: 1 beat Purves by about ideas that you have, you come forward 45,000 votes. with and you try to do something with those ideas; a very much action-orient– Weekly: What helped you gain such a ed background from father and mother massive plurality over your opponent? to get out and do things. That's one aspect. Decore: Well, one was the fact that Another is a desire to get things going the incumbent tried to argue that — in the Ukrainian community, it just because my family and 1 were Liberals seemed to grow. І didn't expect to get so - that this would be some kind of a totally and completely involved in plague on the city of Edmonton. The Ukrainian matters until 1 heard a speech attack backfired, and 1 think that was that Dr. (Manoly) Lupul gave in 1967 very much a part of the loss. and from there 1 just got more and more І also think that the incumbent ran involved, and one thing led toanother... out of steam. He has a memorial that he a small involvement in the Ukrainian built to himself: a 5100 million conven– Professional and Business Club (of tion center that was originally supposed Edmonton) to becoming the president to cost about 532 million. and then the national president..., to He also had a bureaucracy that had being the first elected chairman of the become so immovable and had become Alberta Heritage Council, to being one so strong that elected officials were of the appointed chairmen of the federal really secondary in the whole process. multiculturalism council, and on and on So my election highlighted the fact it went. that elected people should be in charge. Politics just seemed to be a natural We have since implemented a system of involvement from that. When 1 got elected people being in charge. The started in municipal politics 1 thought review is just now coming out — in fact that this -would just be an area where І as we sit here 1 have it on my desk — would gain experience and get to know that assesses this new executive system people, but 1 came to like it and the of local government and it's highly action involvement in city politics. favorable to what we've done. The When Mayor William Hawrelak died administration likes it and the elected in 1975, Jhere was an in-house election officials like it and the public seems to and 1 had only been an alderman for one like it. it's much more efficient, it's year..But for whatever reasons, half of cheaper, and the system works a lot the (city) council was split on three votes faster and better. That was a promise. between me and the other chap. On the To just get the city to operate in a fourth, vote, the other chap won - better business-like way was something somebody left my side and went to the that 1 stressed and because of our other. And these are people that came to recession we've down-sized our cor– me and sai3 "Decore, you should poration - which is the largest munici– become mayor." І didn't seek this out pal government in Canada in terms of and want it at that time. budget and employees by some 2,000 An editorial cartoon by Yardley Jones with a caricature of Mayor Decore. Note the And that catapulted me into a public employees. And that hasn't been easy, "Super Uke" teapot. (Reproduced courtesy of Edmonton Journal.) awareness and gave me a profile that (Continued on page 12) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY -..'.і AY, AUGUST 25, 1985 No. 34

Commentary Ukrainian Weekly Pilot program of Ukrainian studies Anniversary of Solidarity fails in Toronto for lack of support on a w de ran e On August 31, 1980, the shipyards of Gdansk gave birth to by Ulana Plawuszczak ' 8 of student performance data obtained throughout the school Solidarity, the free trade union that would forever change the course of After 10 years of struggle with the year, and not solely upon one or two test Poland.. Today, five years later, the Gdansk agreement of August 31, Toronto Board of Education, a con– results, as is the case of evaluation m the 1980, is shattered and Solidarity is banned. cerned group of trustees and principals Pnvate study process, But the memory of those heady days of 1980 will linger forever in the representing the Ukrainian community " 2- The views expressed by the hearts and minds of the Polish people to whom freedom from have lost their bid to renew an important 0ntano Secondary School Teachers- Communist tyranny remains a goal. asset to cultural education and preser– Federation in correspondence sent to During its brief but fruitful 16-month life, the Solidarity free trade vation in this city. The Ukrainian the doctor of education regarding credits union won more freedoms for Poles than any nation in the Soviet bloc Private Study Pilot Program - the obtained through pnvate study brainchild of Ward 1 Trustee Alex in Toronto schools: the president of one enjoyed. Solidarity gained the right to form free trade unions, the right district to strike, reduced censorship, access to government-controlled Chumak, has failed dismally, due to an teachers' association has written appalling lack of recognition and that тапУ teachers view with great broadcast networks for the unions and the Church, a five-day (instead support on the,part of Ukrainian alarm anv extension of the Ukrainian of six-day) work week. liberalization of travel and other concessions. parents, instructors, school officials and Pnvate Study Pilot Program. He em- During its brief existence, the independent union grew to encompass students phasized that private study credits were 10 million members, a full one-fourth of Poland's population — a Presently, secondary school credits originally based on the needs of stu– statistic made even more meaningful when one realizes that after may be earned by individuals through dents who resided in isolated commum– August 1980 some 900,000 Poles quit the Communist Party and thus participation in a regular day. summer ties. who would study privately and who reduced its membership to 2.5 million or a mere 7 percent of the or night school program, or through the WQuld write exams in the local city or population. Correspondence Branch of the Ministry town- ТпеУ a'so have a legitimate use, Perhaps most important, though, was the mood of the country, of of Education. To assist individuals in he continued, in situations where the people of all social classes, intellectual and cultural life flourished, and the acquisition of credits. Trustee students are not able to attend regular people criticized the government freely. Truly, the people - the Chumak proposed that the Toronto classes because of handicap or disabi– 1ІІ was furthe proletarians, if you will - had spoken. And. in the process, they made Board of Education commence a pilot У- " r underscored that rlvate 5Іи(1 credits were a mockery of communism. program in 1984-85 by which credit P У "never" could be earned through private study, designed to replace in-school credits: The first Solidarity congress, held in September 1980, went so far as al 51 1пе are a to urge the workers of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to A private-study student is one who is " be ' У compassionately not required to attend regular classes in '"spired alternative. Their use as 'extra– "struggle for free and independent unions." Moscow's response was to mura1 credlts for send 10.000 troops on maneuvers on the Polish border. a course or program, but who is an ' secondary schools is approved candidate working towards a educationally unsound, unnecessary The Soviet leadership grew increasingly restive. They feared that the diploma or certificate and for whom a and potentially very damaging to our Polish "contagion" would spread eastward to Ukraine and the rest of day-school principal has arranged a system, the Soviet Union, in the spring of 1981, the Kremlin grew even more process of evaluation. " Furthermore, stated the correspon– worried as workers went on strike in Kiev, Ukraine, in Estonia and As a result of discussion at the dence. the board supervises the delivery other areas of the USSR. Forum of the Director of Education, it of curriculum through programs such Finally, the Soviet bosses of Poland could tolerate no more loss of was proposed that the Toronto Board of as the Curriculum implementation control. The Communist Party chief of Poland , Stanislaw Kania, was Education introduce such a pilot pro– Program and the Teacher Performance ousted, and the Kremlin's boy, hard-liner Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, gram for Modern Language Private Review Program. Therefore, to msti– Study in Ukrainian at Humberside tute a system of granting credits where was brought to power on October 18, 1981, becoming the first military the man to head an East European Communist state. Collegiate institute, beginning in the board has "no direct control or 1984-85 school year supervision of course content, philo– in one of his first acts. Gen. Jaruzelski called out the army to restore S0 h or A person who wished to qualify as a P y methodology, is most unwise, order, ostensibly to tackle food distribution delays and other private study student for this program ,f not irresponsible. "There is certainly a economic problems. This foreshadowed what was to come. Gen. would submit an application to the P0,nt t0 these concerns, Jaruzelski was apparently gearing up for a military crackdown. principal of the insitute. The applica– The teachers' group also stated that Then, on December 12. 1981, the radical members of Solidarity, at tion would be submitted by November the board should not be involved in a what was to be their last meeting in Gdansk, voted to call for a national 1, 1984, if the student intended to system "whereby, in return for writing referendum on the future of the Communist government in Poland complete the course by June 30,1985. if exams, creditsaregranted."Thesugges– and for a re-examination of Poland's military alliance with the Soviet the applicant was a day-school student, ,,on here- however, that extracurricular a letter of approval signed by the day– education is somehow unwholesome Union. This provided the perfect pretext for Gen. Jaruzelski to set his and plans into motion. The following day, December 13,1981, he declared school principal had to accompany the "icomplcte deserved immediate martial law, citing the "growing aggressiveness" of Solidarity application. Payment of a non-re– community reaction, extremists while Poland was on the brink of economic disaster. This fundable fee would be due at the time of Finally, the teachers' representative application. The applicant, once accept– deemed private study credits "quite was Soviet intervention by proxy. The regime's action was fierce and ed, would receive from the school a unnecessary" because, where there is swift. Thousands were arrested: Solidarity members, dissidents, course of study and a schedule of sufficient demand for a credit, the board intellectuals; the free trade union was suspended. evaluation dates and times. No textual is able to provide it as part of the night The following year, in August and September of 1982, the Poles held materials would be provided by the scho0' program, in the case of Ukrai– mass demonstrations against martial law and observed the anni– school n'an instruction, "there is even a day- versary of the Gdansk agreement and the establishment of Solidarity. Each private study student taking the scho0' Program available, which could be Then, on October 8. 1982, the Polish' Parliament, the Sejm, passed a course would be evaluated on the results Jeopardized by the competition from rl ate stud new trade union bill that dissolved Solidarity and all independent of two written and one oral examina– P ^ y credits." trade unions, and laid down regulations for the establishment of tion. When a private study student Nonetheless, with dogged pers.s– would obtain satisfactory standing, the tence' the Pllot Program recommenda– government trade unions. Meanwhile, tens of thousands were tlon and otner detained, arrested, imprisoned: scores died in clashes with the police principal of the student's home school recommendations con- would record the standing in the cerning its implementation and ad- and the ZOMO goon squads. Ontario Student Record, as prescribed ministration were introduced by a Finally, in July 1983, martial law was lifted. And this summer, the in Regulation 271, Pupil Records. ?Pecial committee of board members Jaruzelski regime has continued to dismantle the freedoms won by the Despite the extensive system of evolved with continuing education, Polish people thanks to Solidarity. New laws provide for punishment preparations, checks and balances, that program, curriculum and heritage of up to three months in jail for participating in a demonstration, and would effectively stream the private lan8uages, firstly in March of 1984 and suspects can be detained for 48 hours without any charges being filed. study student into the total body of tnen a8a,n ,n June of thls year. How- ever Laws forbid independent student organizations and severely curtail regular and other students, two con– - though the program offered the cerns have made it advisable to make Ukrainian language courses of study academic freedom at universities. Clearly, the government continues used m the to destroy anything it deems offensive or dangerous to its own policies. the program probational and renewable day-school program, stu– only upon favorable review after one dents registered only for the Grades 11 And yet. Solidarity exists clandestinely. Most recently, there were year and 13 credit courses. reports that the free trade union, though too weak to fight the "1. The private study process, while 0пІУ " students registered in the authorities, is still well-organized enough to smuggle a Soviet defector provided for by the board is also in Program, wrth two dropping out early, out of Poland to the West. apparent contradiction to the student 0f the nme remaining, two successfully Although it exists only underground. Solidarity has left Poland, evaluation process defined in board completed the Grade 11 course and indeed the entire world, a legacy a legacy that serves as a reminder regulations. Teachers have for many seven completed the Grade 13 course, that communism simply cannot tolerate freedom and cannot allow years been directed to evaluate students Tnc scho0' board origins-of the nine anyone or anything to loosen its tight control overall facets of life, and students completing the course were as a legacy that reminds the world that communism will stop at nothing ' " follows: Etobicoke Board of Education, to brutally crush its opponents. Ulana Plawuszczak is constituency two: North York Board of Education, assistant to Alex Chumak. trustee of two: Metropolitan Toronto Separate Ward 1, Toronto Board of Education. (Continued on page 14) No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985

BOOK REVIEWS Famine memoir recalls sufferingForme r Helsinki monitor Alexeyeva of one Ukrainian village analyzes varieties of Soviet dissent Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by Miron Doloi. New York- Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious and Human London: W.W. Norton A Co.. 1985. 231 pp. S16.95. Rights by Ludmilla Alexeyeva (translated by Carol Pearce and John Glad). Middle town. Conn.: Wesley an University Press. 1985. 521 pp. S35. by Jurij Dobczansky by Marco Carynnyk During the past two years following EXECUTION observances of the 50th anniversary of We have had collections of samizdat the Great Famine, several publications BY HUNGER documents, scholarly analyses and about this topic have appeared. Most memoirs by the score — for a time it are brief narratives, general summaries, The Hidden Holocaust seemed that every dissident who left compilations of facts and figures. These the Soviet Union signed a publisher's are usually based on secondary sources. contract as he stepped off the plane — They include fragmentary personal but with the partiai exception of Joshua accounts mixed with historical interprc– Rubenstein's "Soviet Dissidents," which tation, and are intended to acquaint the focuses on the Moscow human-rights general reader with the Ukrainian Miron Dolot movement, and israel Kleiner's "The problem and the Great Famine. Nationalities Problems of the Last Miron Dolot's "Execution by Hunger" Empire," which is not, unfortunately, stands apart from the others because it "?ЯРР'ЯЯ^івтаюпі available as yet in English, we have not provides a complete narrative by dctail– had a complete and balanced history of і the Soviet dissident movement. ing the experience of one family living in one village. Both the Ukrainian reader it is the great virtue of Ludmilla (who, one would assume is already Alexcyeva's new book that shesystema– familiar with the famine) and the tically describes all the branches of general reader will find a gripping tf Soviet dissent, thus demonstrating both personal account devoid of statistics or its enormous variety and its internal historical asides. The memoir is not a planned effort to break their indepen– unity — a unity evident, as she says, "in sketchy account of a recent event. Mr. dent ways, even the silent resistance of the application of peaceful means in the vists. Although -her treatment of this Doloi has had 50 years to supplement the farmers withers away. They rc– pursuit of human rights." movement is full and sympathetic, she his recollections of a boyhood ex– luctantly join the collective farms. For the Soviet dissidents, despite the makes it clear that much of the ferment periencc with appropriate research and Mr. Dolot vividly describes the regime's repeated efforts to link them occurs among the non-Russian nationa– documentation. This becomes obvious machinery of collectivization. One day with terrorism, firmly insist on peace– lities — "ethnic minorities"in American when he uses quotations from published the regular army arrives with exploding ful methods of political change and parlance — who now constitute half the sources and footnotes. artillery fire and gunshots followed demand, above all, the rule of law and Soviet population. Thus, she devotes in the opening chapter Mr. Dolot shortly by a propaganda brigade. The due process. "Dissidents hold a variety much attention to Ukraine, where more describes the Ukrainian farmers' easy- villagers begin to clearly see the staged of political, religious and philosophi– people have been tried and the sentences going attitude toward the state during nature of most official policy. This is cal views," a group headed by Andrei have been heavier than in Russia, and to the early 1920s. The idea of collectiviza– especially evident when the activists Sakharov declared in 1977. "They are the Baltic republics. But she also has tion is not taken seriously at first. This proceed to destroy the village church united by their efforts to realize funda– excellent chapters on the little-known attitude changes with the arrival of the immediately after demonstrating the mental human rights; they absolutely Russian nationalist movement and the .party activists from the city. Unaware of wonders of a tractor. reject violence or calls for violence as a movement for social and economic the impending disaster, the Ukrainian Upon joining the collective farm, the means to their goals. Dissidents are, justice that have burgeoned in recent farmers maintain their sense of humor. farmers are no better off than before. repulsed and disgusted by terrorist years. And each chapter is introduced Even Mr. Dolot pokes fun at the city New pressures to surrender more and methods." by a useful potted history of the given dwellers' ignorance of farming techni– more grain replace the pressures to join Ms. Alexeyeva has impeccable cre– national or religious group. ques and rural ways. An official's the collectives. Unable to meet the dentials for the task she set herself. An This is not to say that the book is free inability to distinguish a calf from a state's quota requirements, the Bread editor at a scholarly publishing house, of faults. Long sections read like lightly colt, or a cow from a mare provides a Procurement Commission terrorizes she traveled widely in the Soviet Union, revised research notes. A few facts in the humorous yet tragic picture. the farmers at will, while searching for getting to know the various branches of text are wrong. Some of the endnotes it seems the only characters who are almost non-existent food reserves. independent thought, and worked cannot be tracked down. Ms. Alexeyeva totally devoid of humor arc the self- Since everything has become socialist closely with the dissident movement, ought perhaps to have conveyed more satisfied, trigger-happy Communist property, the farmers are forbidden to typing samizdat, supplying information of the feel of the dissident milieu: the Party functionaries and those they fish or to eat the very crops they have for the underground Chronicle of chaotic personal life; the long nights have immediate control over. Finding produced. Current Events, aiding political pri spent discussing politics, telling jokes themselves in uncertain circumstances, We expect the famine to come on the soners and their families and helping to (sample: How do Hungarians. Czechs the officials succumb to their vicious scene sooner than it does. The first found the Helsinki Watch Group, in and Afghans interpret a dream about instincts and rule with total impunity. description of famine occurs only in February 1977 sh^ was forced to leave army tanks? it means that you can The city dweller, unsure of himself Chapter 17 in the spring of 1932. Mr. the Soviet Union, but she has continued expect friends to visit), readingsamiz.dat among the rural population, suspects Dolot makes us understand that this to support the movement, first by and listening to underground songs sabotage, conspiracy and purpose kind of government-created famine is serving as its spokesman and now by while drinking tea and eating jam; the behind every accident or shortcoming. not a sudden phenomenon, it evolves documenting its history. days spent shivering outside court- Someone rriust immediately be tar– slowly, imposing a gradual, terrible Drawing on her own experiences, on houses where closed trials were taking geted for persecution. death on its victims. The luckier farmers, the huge library of samizdat that has place; the surveillance, harassment and, Ordinarily we could view such self- including the Dolot household, manage reached the West and on interviews and in recent years, the physical violence enamored bureaucrats as ridiculously to survive the onslaught at first. Gra– consultations with well-known dissi– and murder practiced by the KGB. humorous. When we realize-how many dually, as fall of 1932 approaches, the dents — her research took six years - Other failings must be attributed to senseless deaths these fools were direct– famine begins to take on strength. Ms. Alexeyeva has produced a book the translators, who have difficulty ly responsible for, we begin to feel some Finally, at the height of the famine in that gives the lie to the image of the punctuating restrictive and non-restric– of the utter despair the helpless farmers the middle of winter of 1932-33, there Soviet Union as a bland, contented tive clauses, mistranslate on occasion, must have felt. Arrests come unex– seems to be less official activity. All is monolith propagated in the official mangle Ukrainian and Lithuanian pectedly, swiftly and with a chilling quiet. A sense of abandonment per– press. As the Sovietologist Peter Red– names and cite some titles in the original finality, in a forthright and direct style, vades the landscape. Fewer and fewer daway has written, "Soviet Dissent" is and some in English. The ultimate Mr. Dolot tells of people close to him houses show any signs of life. The "a massive work of scholarship, of responsibility, of course, is the pub– vanishing, never to be seen or heard villagers have been left to die in their careful synthesis and evaluation." lisher's. What is happening to editorial from again. Death comes abruptly, as in own houses, totally incapable of affect– Ms. Alexeyeva's book is particularly standards in America when a reputable the cold-blooded murder of vasylyk. ing their fate. valuable as a corrective to the wide– university press issues a book in which The shock comes -when these aliens The deliberate nature of the famine is spead impression that Soviet dissent is subject and verb do not always agree, arrest the first group of villagers. The made even more terrible by the callous limited to Moscow human-rights acti– names are spelled in two or three first to go are those capable of commu– cynicism of the Soviet officials, in different ways, and (admittedly diffi– nity leadership. Without these people relating small incidents of particular Marco Carynnyk. a free-lance writer cult) Russian words are left untrans– the farmers arc lost but greet each new irony, the famine's impact is made more who lives in Toronto, has edited or lated and unexplained? demand with a proud silence. As they horrifying than any number of statistics translated eight books dealing with Having absorbed Ms. Alexeyeva's sense their lack of power to resist the is capable of doing. For example, when Soviet dissent, the most recent being an account of the vicious circle of censor- starving farmers resort to eating dogs annotated edition of all available issues ship, protest and arrest that charac– Jurij Dobczansky is Slavic social and cats, the officials proclaim a ludi– of the Ukrainian Herald, which is being terizes relations between intellectuals science cataloguer at the Library of crous campaign to collect the fur from published by the Canadian institute of and the authorities in the post-Khrush– Congress in Washington. (Continued on page 15) Ukrainian Studies. (Continued on page 15) 8„.^^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985^„„„^„^„No. 34 Harvard hosts 69 students at intensive Ukrainian Summer institute

by Olga Andriewsky

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. coming from as far away as Argentina. West Germany and the People's Republic ol China. 69 students are currently taking part in the eight-week intensive Har– vard Ukrainian Summer institute pro- gram this year. Classes, reading and exams in the July heat and the dog days of August? it's a tradition in Cambridge and one which the 28 men and 41 women attend– ing the Ukrainian program this year seem to be enjoying enormously. This year marks the 15th consecutive summer that courses in Ukrainian studies are offered as part of the Har– vard Summer School. Since 1971. over 1.000 students have participated in the Ukrainian program, in fact, the 1.000th student to enroll in the Harvard Ukrai– nian Summer institute is somewhere among this year's group. The 1985 participants come from 16 different states and five countries. New York (with 13), Massachusetts (11). illinois (seven), and California. Penn– sylvania and Ohio (all with six stu– dents) are the states most heavily represented among the students. Ca– ШШ nada sent four students to the program. But you can also find among this Students of the 1985 Harvard Ukrainian Summer institute on the steps of the Widencr Library. group students from such unlikely Ukrainian American community centers hour is over. as Atlanta. Ga.. Seattle. Wash., and in response to this level of interest. Seabrook. Texas, not to mention Prof. Boshyk. who is also the director of Buenos Aircs–. Argentina. Heidelberg. the 1985 Harvard Ukrainian Summer West Germany, or Beijing. China. institute, established optional weekly Students range in age from 17 to46. historv seminars for both graduate While the majority arc college students students and undergraduates. Some earning extra credits which can he students have even formed independent transferred to then our, universitv , study groups to prepare lor upcoming degree programs in the fall, a growing exams. . number ol program participants 16 this yeai alone arc older graduate Lectures and films students who arc here to receive train– ing in an area usually not taught in their in addition so regular academic own universities or professionals "taking instruction, the Harvard Ukrainian' a summer off" to stud) Ukrainian Summer institute has sponsored an language, history and literature. evening lecture and film series again this year. Speakers included victor Ma– Popular courses larek. senior reporter for the Toronto Cilobe and Mail, on "The Press and the Since June 24. summer school siu– Ukrainian Community": Prof. Martha dents have been attending daily classes Bohachevsky-Chomiak on "Commu– and conversation sections. Students nism. Nationalism and Feminism in the normally sign up tor two ol six available Framework of Ukrainian History"; Dr. courses, in all, 49 students are enrolled Lubomyr Onyshkevych of the RCA in one of three language courses: be– Laboratories on "Ukrainians in Astro– ginning. intermediate or advanced nautics"; victoria Yarvariv on "Pre- Ukrainian (taught bv l.uba Dyky. Christian influences on Contemporary Students listen to Dr. Donald Ostrowski lecturing on Ukrainian history. George Mihaychuk and Dr. Bohdan Ukrainian Folk Art": and Prof. Danylo Smiminsky. respectively): 55 students Struk on "Contemporary Ukrainian are taking a history course, either Prof. Poetry." Ytiry Boshyk's survey of modern Ukrai– Student involvement in extracurricu– nian history or Dr. Ostrowski's "Topics lar events has also been very high this in Ukrainian History to 1800": Prof. summer. A number of students have Omry Roncn's course in Ukrainian become active in the newly formed literature has 10 students. Ukrainian Media Action Group of According to the numbers, these are Boston. This group, which was or– among the most popular courses offered ganued by Ciloria y'Edynak of the by the Harvard Summer School. Be– Ukrainian Studies Fund, is currently in ginning and intermediate Ukrainian the midst oj a city-wide campaign to were filled to capacity three weeks promote "Harvest of Despair," the before the start of classes, while Prof. award-winning documentary on the Boshyk's history course, with 47 rc– famine by Slavko Nowytskt and Yurij gistcred students, is one of the largest Luhovy, and "Execution bv Hunger," classes in the entire Harvard arts and Miron Dolot's memoirs of the 1932-33 sciences, і igram this summer. famine in Ukra 1 . general enthusiasm lor learning and teaching has manifested itself in Summer yearbook other ways as well. Dr. Ostrowski. a lecturer in the Harvard Slavic depart– Other Ukrainian program students mei і tiring the regular academic yeai have been busy preparing a yearbook and ieweomcr to the Ukrainian pro- for publication, snapping photographs, gran.. І : cx; :nple. has been impressed writing copy, planning layouts. Since by the jualitv ol the students ami then 1479. the yearbook has become an genii!1 interest in medieval and early annual tradition of the Harvard Ukrai– тої : Ukrainian history, it is not nian Summer institute. This year, as in noh lor classroom discussions the past six. it is a student production. , (c c uinuc in one ol the local Cam– initiated, planned and put together by h dee coffee houses once the official (Continued on page 14) Dr. Bohdan Struminsky teaches advanced Ukrainian. NO. 34.^^^.^^^,;.^^^^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985„„„„„„- -. --; 9 interview: six students on Harvard's Ukrainian summer program There are 69 students enrolled in the Harvard Ukrainian Summer institute program this year. Six of them were interviewed at Harvard recently regarding their own experiences and impressions of the program.

TONY F. BAL1STRER1. 42, is a high-school teacher from Wyocena, Wis. This summer he is taking the survey course in modern Ukrainian history and Dr. Ostrowski's "Topics in Ukrainian History to 1800" and lives on campus. He is part Ukrainian, part italian by background and is a member of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Milwaukee. EvELYN BAUSCH is working towards her degree in history at the University of Heidelberg in West Germany. Fluent in Russian, she is learning Ukrainian this summer and is taking the course in modern Ukrainian history as well. KATYA CHUMACHENKO, 23, will be entering her second year of the MBA program at the University of Chicago this fall. She is currently enrolled in Ukrainian literature and Ukrainian history to 1800, and is auditing a Harvard course on economic development. After completing her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University in Washington, she worked for the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America as the director of the Ukrainian National information Service. DOROTHY LUCE KOSTR1KEN, 46, is a clinical psychologist and university-level teacher from Pacific Grove. Calif. Like Mr. Balistreri, she originally intended to study Ukrainian language this summer but has subsequently switched to the two history courses. While she has always known that her mother's side of the family is Ukrainian by background, one of the major discoveries she made this summer is that her father's branch of the family, which was believed to be Russian, is probably Ukrainian as well. B1NG SHEN, 35, hails from the capital of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing, he is an assistant researcher in nationalities studies and has spent the past eight months as an exchange scholar at і he Harvard Ukrainian Research institute. This summer, he is enrolled in the beginning Ukrainian Dorothy Luce Kostriken Bing Shen irene Elizabeth Welvczko class and is auditing Prof. Yuriy Boshyk's course on modern Ukrainian history. me about the Harvard Chair in Ukrainian Studies. ІEW: in my case, it was a friend of my father's u ho IRENE ELIZABETH WELYCZKO. 19. is from ЕВ: 1 first heard about the Harvard Ukrainian had taken the beginning Ukrainian course several Buenos Aires. Argentina. She is an art history major at Research institute from Prof. Mackiw, a Ukrainian years ago and who suggested thai 1 attend the the University of Buenos Aires and an art history historian, now retired in Germany, who gave a guest program. instructor. She is taking intermediate Ukrainian and lecture at Heidelberg last year. He recommended the modern Ukrainian history at Harvard this year. When summer program. What kinds of expectations did you have about 'he she receives her universitj degree, site plans to become KC: Pve known about the summer program for a program before it began? an art critic. long time, mostly from friends and the Ukrainian American press. І have been planning to attend for TFB: My original goal was to learn Ukrainian to he years, but something always came up until now. i'm able at least to read the liturgy when 1 went tochurch. І How did і ou find out about the Harvard Ukrainian glad 1 finally made it. also wanted to learn about Ukrainian history, customs Summer institute' DLK: For me, the Harvard Summer School and traditions. catalogue was my first introduction to the institute. ЕВ: 1. too. came with the intention ol studying the TFB: The language instructor at St. Michael's BS: 1 found out about the summer program when 1 basics ol the Ukrainian language. But 1 also wanted to Ukrainian Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wis., told arrived at the Ukrainian Research institute. (Continued on page 11)

street entertainment by Some of Cam- 1 have to see it again, though, just to Diary of a summer student bridge's finest scruffy musicians, it's a remind me of what it really means to be warm breezy afternoon, a perfect day to a Ukrainian, the responsibility that it by Daria Scharunovych chukin Boylston Hall. "A chapter a day watch a bagpipes performance. Maybe carries. This is the flip side of our keeps bad grammar away," or "if this is ill go cruise the local shops for more inheritance, the non-Hopak. non-py– 6 a.m.: The sun is coming up over Tuesday, these must be gerunds." But souvenirs... sanky. non-varenyky side. Seven million Leverett House and the birds have the clever Mr. Mihaychuk has a surprise 2 p.m.: The moment of truth has dead - for what? For being born in the started their irritating chatter. Only a in store for the likes of us. Blowing all arrived - it's time to do some work. wrong place at the wrong time, for being few hours left before 1 have to drag our expectations sky high, he suddenly Grammar exercises, memorization of peasants, for doing the things their myself out of bed and make myself produces an article on Shevchenko (in vocabulary, reams of history reading — parents taught them, for living the way presentable for the day's events at 20 copies, of course) and out of nowhere so many options to choose from, so they had always lived, for being Ukrai– Harvard...Back to sleep... asks us to analyze the grammatical many opportunities, and it's such a nice nian - as hard as 1 try, 1 can't fully 8:10 a.m.: i've declared victory over structure of surreptitiously selected day. That's what 1 like about Harvard, it comprehend this fact of 7 million dead. my alarm clock, i'm up and off to the phrases. Whew! 1 can hardly stand this offers so many choices. The big ques– 10 p.m.: After the film, we again stay next round - the shower game, or kind of drama so early in the day. tion today, for example, is whether І up to talk about famine, its causes and "who can get in first and take the longest should study in my room or go down to meaning. This evening is more subdued shower in Harvard history." i'm first, so 11:05 a.m.: "Topics in Ukrainian the Charles River and read there. І than most. І skip my nightly slice of І know it's going to be a good day. Hisfory to 1800" with the always- know ill get more work done in my pizza at Pinnochio's. it's not just the 8:40 a.m.: On my way to breakfast at enthusiastic Dr. Don Ostrowski. Today room... movie - who could eat after seeing the Leverett House cafeteria next door, we've really hit an exciting topic - - 5:30 p.m.: І wake up from a refresh– something like that? it's also the І lrtardly have time to admire the local lvan Mazepa. hetman of Ukraine. We ing nap at the Charles River. The sun- realization that in little more than a fauna and flora, the squirrels, pigeons, wend our way through 22 years of worshippers arc largely gone now, but week, right alter final exams, we'll all be sparrows and, today, a skunk. І see the diplomacy, high politics, shifting al– an occasional frisbee can still be seen leaving, it seems as though we just other students rushing in, like me. to liances and treachery....lust as we reach wafting its way along the river bank, it's arrived, that we're just getting started... grab something to eat before the real the Battle of Poltava, the hour ends. time to"gather up my books and head But this is no time to get bogged dow n in mad dash to our 9 a.m. classes in Noon always sneaks up on us in this back to Leverett House for dinner... sentiment, there's still a whole week !elt! Harvard Yard, it's at moments like class. 7 p.m.: Tonight is the second And a mess of exams to study for! these that the red brick sidewalks of 12:15 p.m.: Alter the Battle of Pol– showing of "Harvest of Despair." it's a І a.m.: 1 he last sentence of the last Cambridge, aging, cracked and uneven, tava. it's time to relax and enjoy the shocking but compelling film about the exercise 01 '.lie language homew rk is. lose all their charm and quaintness. bohemian atmosphere of Harvard famine in Ukraine in 1932-33. i've done. Lights out. time for bed. 1 v 9:05 a.m.: І finally made i'1 lnterme– Square. First, my ritual croissant at the already seen it once, so 1 know what i'm what tricks the devious Mr. Mih . ik diate Ukrainian with George Mihav– Au Bon Pain, an outdoor cafe, with getting into and 1 know it's not pleasant. has in store for us tomorrow? -IQ-""–; .„„„„^„.,^„^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985„..^„^^„;„„^„.^No. 34 23 graduate from Hamtramck's immaculate Conception High

УКРАЇНСЬКА СЕРЕДНЯ ШКОЛА НЕПОРОЧНОГО ЗАЧАТТЯ IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Ukrainian Catholic High School

Hamtramck, Michigan

A tableau of the class of 1985 of immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic High School. HAMTRAMCK. Mich. - The 23rd This Ukrainian high school has a Kristen Pietrzak. the student body is of Ukrainian des– Commencement at the immaculate reputation as one of the top academic Since its opening as a college prepara– cent and the school's curriculum in– Conception Ukrainian Catholic High institutions of its kind in the Detroit tory school in 1959, immaculate Con– cludes four years of studies in Ukrai– School here took place on June 5. A area. Of the 23 graduating seniors, 15 ception High School has graduated 950 nian language, literature, history, cul– solemn pontifical divine liturgy was graduated with honors and received students. Although it is one of the ture and religion for all students. The celebrated by Bishop innocent Lotocky numerous scholarships and grants. smallest high schools in the metropoli– school choir and senior drama groups OSBM of the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Seven of them were recipients of full tan area, year after year, the school's have entertained and pleased Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy and concelebrated by four-year merit scholarships to Wayne alumni continue to excell in university audiences with remarkable perfor– the very Rev. Bernard PanczukOSBM. State University in Detroit, namely: studies and achieve outstanding recog– mances and most of the students are pastor and superior. Following the George Haidukewycz (valedictorian), nition in academics and professional members of various Ukrainian organi– liturgy, diplomas and awards were Peter Demczuk (salutatorian), Sonya fields. zations and are actively involved in a distributed to 23 graduates by Bishop Hryshko, Lynne Kowalczuk, Gregory multitude of community projects. Many Lotocky and Peter Stasiw, principal of Mykolenko, Patricia Petyk (also a Academics are not the school's only of the alumni have already filled the the high school. Presidential Scholarship recipient) and claim to fame. Ninety-nine percent of ranks of community leadership. 1985 tennis season at Soyuzivka Bandura course fought in Munich USCAK Nationals August 30 - September 2 MUN1CH - The first accredited in addition to attending lectures, UNA invitational September 14-15 bandura course was recently completed each day students practiced their ban– Plast September 28-29 at the Ukrainian Free University here. duras for three hours, and each evening KLK October 12-13 The two-week course, held July 8-19. they participated in discussions on was organized through the joint efforts subjects such as: the future of the of the UFU and the Society of Ukrai– bandura. Ukrainian culture, politics nian Bandurists. and music. Also, in the evenings they Titled "Comparative Folklore: U– were taught choral singing. The course FUNNY TEARS krainian Folk Songs and the Bandura," ended with a concert given by the a collection of short stories the course was taught by Dr. victor students at the UFU. by MYKOLA PONED1LOK Kytasty. a professor at the University of Eighteen students from Germany, California at Santa Barbara, and Julian Holland, Belgium. France, England, Kytasty. formerly of the New York vin English translation from the original Ukrainian. ltaly and the United Slates attended the School of Bandura. course. The SUB plans to offer the llustrations by EKO (Edward Kozak) and Halyna Mazepa. Topics covered during three-hour course in the United Slates next year. order send 510.00 plus S1.00 postage to: daily lectures included: the Ukrainian folk song in the context of European Anyone interested in attending such a Svoboda Book Store course should write to: Society of 30 Montgomery St. folk songs; poetics and symbolism of folk songs: historical songs and their Ukrainian Bandurists. 84-82 164th St.. Jersey City, N. J. 07302 Jamaica. N.Y. 11432. value in giving historical information INPK Jersey residents add 6 sales w І on Ukraine; dumy; kobzarstvo; and The SUB is an organization serving шхіцжа^ „"?^ziMsismmxitzs,–' ^^лнашшг development of the bandura. all bandurists in the free world. No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNOAY, AUGUST 25,1985 Ш Millennium concert highlights Bortniansky Speakers address media grouj by Oksana Bryzhun-Sokolyk culminated at the concert which fea– tured those concertos jn their entirety. TORONTO - Music enthusiasts The Millennium Choir, comprised of had a unique opportunity on July 28 to 44 members, was chosen by Mr. Koles– hear a concert of sacred music by nyk from over 200 auditioning singers Ukrainian composer Dmytro Bort– from all parts of North America. The niansky. The concert, sponsored by the singers were chosen for the specific Ukrainian Millennium Foundation, vocal requirements of the musical score. featured the 44-voice choir conducted Mr. Kolesnyk, presently a resident of by Wolodymyr Kolesnyk. Toronto, was the former music director The concert was staged in Toronto's of the State Opera and Ballet in Kiev. prestigious Roy Thomson Hall with From the first words, "Sing to the more than 3,000 people in attendance. Lord a New Song," sung in Old Church in 1984, the foundation organized a Slavonoic, the choir captivated the millennium choir for the purpose of concert-goers. recording, over two years, a five-record The Millennium Choir will now start album of Bortniansky's 35 sacred choral preparing the second half of Bort– concertos. The first half of the project, niansky's concertos. They will be re- Seen from left are: Olha Andriewska, Tamara Nary, Uliana Pasicznyk, Maxim corded and performed in July of 1986. the recording of 18 concertos, was Tarnawsky, Marta Baziuk, Yera Moroz, James E. Mace and Gloria у'Edynak after a recent luncheon of the Boston Media Action Group. Saskatchewan UCC names language officer CAMBR1DGE. Mass. - vcra up calls. Most of the ncwspcople were SASKATOON The Saskatche– tionai strategies tor Ukrainian-lan– Moroz, reporter for the all-news radio courteous and listened. About half wan Provisional Council of the Ukrai– guage education, and facilitating their station, WEEl-AM, and Marta Baziuk. rcquestcd a copy of the book. Approxi– nian Canadian Committee has hired implementations: proofreader for the Boston Phoenix, mately 40 books were mailed or hand- veronica Chuchman of Edmonton on a " developing and maintaining a were hosted by the Boston Media delivered to the media in the Boston full-time basis as a Ukrainian language liaison with groups or individuals in– Action Group at lunch at Harvard's area. Some made a commitment to officer. volved with Ukrainian-language cduca– Faculty Club on July 23. attend the film or arranged for a private Miss Chuchman has been involved tion, including parent support groups, They gave encouraging remarks and screening. A second "phone-a-thon" extensively with the Ukrainian com– school boards. Department of Educa– advice to the group, stressing the will take place later to obtain more munity and bilingual education in tion officials (particularly the Ukrai– importance of a continual relationship commitments to attend the film, since Alberta. She will be responsible for nian language development consultant with the media about important Ukrai– newspcople often do not know what facilitating the promotion and esta– and the multicultural consultant), the nian issues. Friendly persistence places they are covering until that day. b!ishment of Ukrainian-English bi– Saskatchewan teachers of Ukrainian the Ukrainian story in the mind of busy Ms. Moroz noted that about 50 lingual programs in Saskatchewan and Ukrainian community groups. editors, they noted. percent of reported news items result schools. Andrij Bilyk. vice-president of ІМЛХ. from phone calls or letters, it isjmpor.– Specifically, her duties include: The Ukrainian Language Officer will a public media relations firm, provided tanl to communicate positively with the " compiling information regarding be supervised by the UCC Provincial guidelines on attaining media coverage. media. Also a large crowd will attract acts, regulations and policy statements Council executive and Education Com– Names of editors and program mana– media, rather than a few people. She relevant to Ukrainian-language educa– miltee. Miss Chuchman will work out gers at newspapers, and radio and Tv confirmed what Mr. Bilyk had told the tion: of the UCC office in Saskatoon. The stations were confirmed. Personal group: to go through the editors or " acquiring current data on Ukrai– need for the promotion and develop– letters were addressed inviting them to program managers who assign the nian-English bilingual programs, ment of Ukrainian-language education view "Harvest of Despair,"a documen– stories to reporters. particularly in regard to their promo– has long been recognised in Saskalchc– tary on the famine in Ukraine, and to However, the group learned from tional materials and delivery systems: wan. and the Ukrainian Canadian receive a review copy of the memoirs of victor Malarck. a reporter for the " determining community interest in Committee said it believes that the a famine survivor. "Execution by Toronto Globe and Mail, that a reporter Ukrainian-English bilingual education; appointment of the language officer will Hunger." , can have a significant impact on what e developing appropriate promo- assist in addressing this issue. One week later students made follow– crosses or doesn't cross his desk.

TFB: The library system is fantastic, it's a veritable Ukrainian studies in such a high-quality environment interview... treasure house of information, i'm impressed by the is unique. 1 think that at least one year of college (Continued from page 9) instructors' willingness to provide extra sessions and should be a prerequisite for admissions. Students who 'learn the Ukrainian viewpoint of East Slavic history, seminars for small groups of graduate and under– expect Harvard to be a summer camp don't take since it is the Russian version which is usually taught in graduate students. І also really enjoy visiting and advantage of the many opportunities available here Germany. talking with people from all over the world. And 1 like and simply don't get much out of it. DLK: 1 hoped to understand my own ethnicity the speaker and film series sponsored by the institute. TFB: 1 agree. Discipline and seriousness are better, to be able to place it in a larger context, to EB: On the whole, it's a well-organized program. necessary requirements here. connect my own perceptions and feelings to a larger The special events and activities - the library tours system — Ukrainian people and culture. and the evening lecture series — are among the best What do you think the long-term impact of your BS: My aim was to strengthen my knowledge of the aspects. participation in the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Ukrainian language and Ukrainian history, in order to KC: The faculty is of the highest quality and is very Program will be? improve my research skills. responsive to the needs of serious students. The course TFB: Much of what 1 learned in my two history 1EW: 1 wanted to learn Ukrainian properly and also materials are rigorous and well-chosen. The majority classes can be used in my teaching. 1 am now much to meet Ukrainian Americans. of students are bright, interesting and diverse. Boston has proven to be a wonderful place to spend a summer. more familiar with a part of the world that for most of Have the courses in Ukrainian studies measured up DLK: The libraries at Harvard...meeting some us is hazy at best, or terribly misunderstood. to your initial expectations? wonderful people who will be friends forever...the EB: 1 will unquestionably stress the Ukrainian intellectual stimulation...the beginning of a lifelong aspect of East European history much more in my own BS: Yes, they have. І can now read Ukrainian with interest in my own ancestry...Boston and thesurround– work. the help of a dictionary. ing area...the lecture and film series...Harvard's BS: There are few Ukrainian language specialists in KC: in terms of the quality of the faculty and the international atmosphere. China. My knowledge of the language will help me do course materials, my expectations have been sur– 1EW: 1 love the place and the people. 1 really feel at my work as a researcher in nationalities studies better. passed. The program has really opened my eyes to the home. The whole atmosphere at Harvard is exciting. І now have access to the original Ukrainian sources extensiveness of Ukrainian scholarship and, at the With regard to the courses, 1 was glad to learn more and literature. same time, to the overwhelming need for even more about Ukrainian culture and history. The combina– KC: Of course it has taught me more about research into particular areas and periods. tion of an American environment and Ukrainian Ukrainian history and culture, in addition. І go away Studies made my summer terrific. with a greater commitment to supporting Ukrainian DLK: i'm more than satisfied with the history scholarship as one of the most important initiatives courses i'm taking; in fact, i'm overwhelmed by the Any regrets? undertaken by the Ukrainian community. As you can quality, intensity and originality. They are anything tell, i've been pleased with the program, it has been a but banal. І decided 1 couldn't handle studying the DLK: The libraries aren't open long enough. truly enjoyable and enlightening experience, it has language in such a short time. І would prefer to do 1EW: І haven't had enough time to take advantage made me reflect on many issues and has led me to some studying at home, then return for the language of all the available opportunities, i'm always afraid reconsider some of my future career plans. — it's such an integral part of understanding the that i'm missing something good. DLK: it's opened a Pandora's box of interest for culture, the "soul" of Ukraine. TFB: i've also felt rushed, there just isn't enough me. i'm curious about my .ancestry and plan to 1EW: Definitely yes. І am amazed at the progress time to do everything. Because of my involvement in continue to study history, language and, hopefully, Ukrainians have made here at Harvard. class projects, 1 haven't had the time to explore literature and art. Boston's own history and culture. 1EW: 1 am greatly encouraged to continue my study What have you most enjoyed about your summer at of Ukrainian culture. My stay in the United States has Harvard? Do you have any recommendations for someone enabled me to discover some of myWn personal interested in attending the program? strengths and 1 feel that my goals for the future are BS: The language training has been the most much broader, i'm more ambitious than before. Long- valuable for me. KC: The opportunity to immerse oneself in term impact? i'm coming next summer. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985 No. 34

Weekly: The former mayor of Winni– (of Ukrainians). media wizards in eastern Canada have Edmonton's... peg. like yourself, was of Ukrainian 1 think Ukrainians have done very, talked about you as someone who has (Continued from page 5) origin and had quite a large Ukrainian very well in terms of becoming involved the potential to play a significant role in but we've gone through it successfully constituency. After retiring as mayor, in eovernment. Also, one of our school federal politics. Do you have such and so successfully that the Economic he told me that it was important for him board chairmen in Edmonton is a aspirations? Council of Canada has singled out the as mayor to maintain an arms-length Ukrainian. We've done well. city of Edmonton as having been a relationship with the Ukrainian com– Decore: 1 love my city and 1 love my corporation that has down-sized with munity in order to avoid a conflict of Weekly: During your term as na– province and 1 think it unlikely that І much less trauma than one would have interest. Do you have the same type of tional president of the Ukrainian Cana– would ever leave Alberta, it's possible expected. approach in dealing with Edmonton's dian Professional and Business Federa– but not likely. Ukrainian community? tion you often spoke about the necessity Weekly: What are same of the other of the Ukrainian community — and Weekly: Could you describe a typical things which you would like to accom– DECORE: Well, it would be ab– particularly the Ukrainian Canadian working day? plish during your term of office? solutely suicidal to grant Ukrainians Committee — to become more demo– some special preference or treatment. cratic and professional. Do you think Decore: Well, 1 said that we were the Decore: Well, 1 think the downtown That doesn't happen and would never the Ukrainian community has im– largest municipal government in Ca– has to be addressed and 1 think we're happen. proved in these two areas? nada. Our budget, per year, capital in trying to do that. The West Edmonton But 1 have such a high profile as a operating is S 1.5 billion, in terms of Mall - which 1 guess is the biggest Canadian of Ukrainian origin, in fact, Decore: Yes, 1 thinklwe have. І think comparison, that's about twice Calgary (shopping) mall in the world now — and the Edmonton Journal, our leading that there is a much better awareness and vancouver and about S600 million the recession hit our central core very newspaper in the sense of the number of from Winnipeg's view; of the need to more than Toronto's Mayor (Art) badly and the problem now is to build it people that read it, has a cartoon that listen to the regions!of Canada, to Eggleton contends with...remembering up and make the city look like a capital they always come out with. They have involve the regions of! Canada and to that cities like Toronto and vancouver city. We're now in the process of me with a big chain of office around my listen and be more democratic. and Montreal are cities that make up a rejuvenating our main street and build– neck with the insignia "Super Uke" on The Ukrainian Community Develop– city. ing some new buildings. So l want to get it. ment Committee (UCDC) to me is the We also employ more people than that done. Everybody knows it, everybody talks perfect example of that, it's done any other city; we employ about 12,000 about it, it's accepted and it's under- extremely well for Manitoba, Saskat– people. The reason we're that big is ! want to get some economic activity stood. 1 think it's an observation of chewan and Alberta. ' because we own the fifth largest tele- going in this city. І spend a lot of time endearment rather than of condemna– it's almost like a horse-race: Alberta phone company in Canada. Edmonton with the Chamber of Commerce, trying tion. І don't think there's anybody in got ahead on its horse and that was used Telephone, which is ours. And, l'm to create opportunities for business in this city - at least in our community as an example for the other provinces; essentially the chairman of the board of Edmonton. As part of that strategy, the and in many, many communities - that and then Manitoba did some interesting that telephone company; the aldermen city of Edmonton is in the process of doesn't know that l'm Ukrainian and and progressive things' that put them are directors. twinning with the city of Harbin of that 1 spend a lot of time with the ahead in certain ways. And so, we jostle We run a power generation and China. We have already reaped tremen– Ukrainian community. now between Manitoba and Alberta to distribution company, Edmonton dous benefits by simply talkingabout it. see which horse is ahead. Saskatchewan Power. And, we're in the process of what (then Prime Minister Pierre) Weekly: Would you like to see mem– is still lagging behind and needs a little building a Si.5 billion power plant. We Trudeau did. what (Alberta Premier bers of the Ukrainian community and help; we give that help. also own our own airport. All of these Peter) Lougheed did. Twinning Alberta other ethnocultural groups run for So, yes 1 think we've gone a long way things are operated as utilities, and all of with Halying Jong, the province where public office? since 1 first got involved in viewing the these things we set the rates for, and the city is located, has already given us Ukrainian Canadian Committee(UCC) monitor, and watch, and scrutinize and about 100 Chinese students that are in Decore: Oh sure. But we do pretty and the Ukrainian Professional and operate like businesses. That's added a university. One of the Ukrainian entre– well in Alberta, in our city council we Business Club. great load to what a mayor would preneural groups in Edmonton has - have three of us that are of Ukrainian otherwise do. arranged to build aircraft in China for origin: two aldermen and myself. Weekly: in the time since you stepped crop spraying and it's a joint venture The city has a population of about The provincial legislature has a down as national chairman of the 600,000. There are 3,000 social engage– with the Chinese. So, all sorts of new number of ministers and backbenchers; Canadian Multiculturalism Council, endeavors are opening up to us. ments a year that l'm called upon to the federal government has a number have you been satisfied'yvith the thrust attend. There's no way that 1 can do all of the federal government in regards to of them, and 1 have a difficult time its multiculturalism policy? . saying no, and people have a difficult time in accepting no. Decore: Well, whatever iveseen, i've My week is arranged so that every been generally pleased with. Except the other day l'm working for the city; and reduction of the (Multiculturalism my weekends are arranged so that every Directorate's) budget; І фіпк the reduc– other weekend l'm working for the city. tion was about 59 million. if l'm working for the city on a week- . When you come from some S30 end, ill usually do an event on Friday UKRAINIAN INFORMATION CENTRE million and reduce it by S9 million that's evening; i've done as many as five a very big drop. l'm gbing to be in– (events) on a Saturday evening and PRESENTS terested in watching to see if they repair perhaps one on a Sunday. that -— what 1 think was a mistake. in terms of my job, 1 get to work at My view of the (multiculturalism) about 8:30 a.m. and 1 get home at about minister (Jack Murta, who has since 6:30 or 7 p.m. if l'm working that night changed portfolios) is that he articulates for the city, 1 usually speak. the problems well; he seems to under– To conclude and to answer your stand them well. І think that the changes question, in the 20 years that i've been a that he made in his head office in lawyer and a businessman, i've never Ottawa have been very good. His worked as hard in my life and i've never appointment of an assistant deputy been as challenged either. І really enjoy minister was long overdue, and 1 con– that. gratulate him for that. So far. except for the budget. l'm pleased. Weekly: What do you. think is the most pleasant duty of the mayor of the MAKING THE NEWS MEDIA WORK Weekly: Several political pundits and city of Edmonton? FOR YOU Decore: Well, 1 think it would be in September 21, 1985 Marchenko... telling Canadians that 1 was very much (Continued from page 1) part of changing the style of govern– ment in Edmonton - that made it To be held at had been taken to the labor camp hospital in July 1984 when his blood cheaper, quicker, more responsive and pressure was at a dangerously high much, much more efficient than it ever ST. VLADIMIR INSTITUTE level. This was partly due to the strict was. 620 Spadina A venue work routine he had to endure, the We've also gone through a very Toronto. Canada sources said. He was then transferred to difficult recession without very much X M5S 2H4 a Leningrad clinic for political pri– difficulty and scars to ourselves. soners, where he was denied much- 1 think l'm very proud of the fact that Registration Fee: SSO.OO (Students S25.00) needed kidney dialysis treatment. His l'm a Canadian of Ukrainian origin who includes Hot Lunch and Wine and Cheese mother offered to donate one of her has received almost or maybe the total kidneys for a transplant,but this, too. support of his community and almost For registration forms and further information was refused by Soviet officials. the total support of all of the other please contact Conference Co-ordinator Danylo Dzikewicz Mr. Marchenko had previously ethnocultural communities in Edmon– by writing to St. vladimir institute or by phoning served a term of eight years' miprison– ton. 1-416-964-0389 or 1-416-536-1772. ment and exile for "Ukrainian and l'm greatly honored by the support AJierbaijarM:naiiQnalism". after being that multiculturalism and ethnic groups arrested in 1973. have given me. No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 25,1985 13

islamic faith... (Continued from page 2) islamic religious leaders, scholars and clergy, say Afghan refugees, mainly THE CARPATHIAN SKI CLUB OF SEW YORK because of the large influence the under the auspices of the mullahs have on the people. They have, UKRAINIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION OF LSA and CANADA K:SCAK) reportedly, imprisoned anti-Commu– nist religious leaders and have replaced will hold them with a supreme council of ulema. which has close ties to the Soviet secret THE ANNUAL police. Groups are invited to visit Moscow TENNIS AND SWIMMING COMPETITION and other Muslim Soviet Central Asian republics in an attempt to reduce atSOYUZlYKA suspicion of the Communist system. Delegations of about 50 to 100 religious August 30 and 31 September 1 and 2, 1985 (Labor Day Weekend) figures take these tours four times a year accompanied by members of the secret police. The former deputy to the Afghan ambassador in the Soviet Union, Abdul TENNIS TOURNAMENT Majid Mangal. saw what he called for individual CHAMPlONSHlPS of USCAK SWIMMING COMPETITION "frame-up prayer meetings" at a Mos– and trophies of the cow mosque, where 150 Uzbeks and UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SOYLZIVKA. Tadjiks had been imported from Central (1NC1.1 D1NC THE B. RAK MEMORLAL TROPHY), Asia to the otherwise seldom used SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1985 at 11 a.m. SVOBODA. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY and the spons– mosque. for INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, A Peshawar University professor manship Trophy of Mrs. MARY DUSHNYCK UNA TROPH1ES and R1BBONS says that some of the poorest mullahs and PR1ZE MONEY from rural areas are chosen to go, and Qualifications: This competition is open to any player they are impressed with the Soviet whose club is a member of USCAK. - Singles matches are standard of living. Other groups are scheduled in the following division: Men, Women, Women (35 in the following events lor hoys and girh: also invited to see the virtues of the and over). Junior vets (35-44). Senior Men (45- and 55). Junior Soviet system. Peasants visit Soviet (Boys and Girls), 8-10 and 11-12 age groups collective farms, while laborers, lawyers Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while seniors are 25 m. freestyle and judges meet their counterparts. those over 45 years of age. 50 m. freestyle Communists and youth league mem– Registration for tennis matches, including name, age, 25 m. breast stroke bers meet their Soviet parent organ– divisions and the fee of S15.00 should be sent to:: 25 m. backstroke izations. 25 m. butterfly Not all Afghan visitors are taken in 4 x 25 m freestyle relay by this show, however, and many have Mr. Roman Rakoczy, Sr. admitted that they think that the Soviet 158 Manor Avenue, Cohoes, N.Y. 12047 government is still against islam. 13-14 age group Registrations should be received no later than August 22. 50 m. freestyle 1984. No additional applications will be accepted before the 100 m - freestyle HURl associate... competitions, since the schedule of matches will be worked out 50 m breaststroke ahead of time. 50 m. backstroke (Continued from page 4) 50 m. butterfly the discussion of quiet diplomacy and TOURNAMENT СОММІТТЕЕ: 100 m individual medley compliance with the Russian Orthodox R. Rakoczy, Sr., Z. Snylyk, G. Sawchak, Dr Z. Matkiwsky, , 4 x 50 m - freestyle relay and other Soviet Churches' requests for O. Kyzyk, O. Popovych. silence about this persecution should be SCHEDULE OF MATCHES: 15 and over age group abandoned as a capitulation that allows 50 m. -– freestyle the Soviet authorities to exercise cen– FR1DAY, August ЗО, Soyuzivka. 1.00 p.m. Men's preliminary 100 m. freestyle sorship. even in the West. round. Players who must compete in this round will be 50 m. Щ breaststroke notified bv the tournament committee by Thursday. 50 m. - backstroke "Second, the NCC must regain the August 22. 50 m. - butterfly respect of all Americans who are con– SATURDAY, August 31, Soyuzivka. 8:30 a.m. First round 100 m. - individual medley cerned about the tone of its statements junior girls (all age groups), junior vets, senior men, 4 x 50 m. - medley relay and the effect of its policies. Every women and women 35 and over. New Paltz, 8:30 a m.– Swimmers can compete in 3 individual events and im political system has imperfections, men's first round. Soyuzivka, 10:30 a.m. Juniors (all age relay- against which Christians should protest, groups). New Pallz. 10:30 a.m.-men's consolation round. but churchmen should never seek to Soyuzivka. 3:30 p.m. Senior men 55 and over. Time and Registration will be held at the poolside on Saturd; . whitewash totalitarian states or put the place of subsequent matches will be designated by lourna– August 31. starting at 9:30 a.m. Registration lee is S2.00 pel ment director R. Rakoczy. Sr. U.S. and Soviet government on the person. same moral plane." Players in men's division, scheduled to compete Friday but unable to arrive on this day. as well as losers in the prelimenary Swim Meet Committee: R. SLYSH. O. NAPORA. G. round, can compete in the consolation round. HRAB. J. RUBEl.. C. KUSHN1R. 1. SLYSH. M KRYSZ– Because of limited time and the large numer of entries, TALSKY. B. and J YACiW. 1. SOCHAN. Read The Weekly players can compete in one group only they must indicate their cfioice on the registration blank. Swimmers should be members of sport and youth org.:– Players who fail to report for a scheduled match on time- nizations which belong to the Ukrainain Sports Association will be defaulted. (USCAK). 1 YES, YOU W1LL HEAR Reservations should be made individually by the competitors by writing to: Ukrainian language short wave Soyuzivka, Ukrainian National Ass'n Estate. Kerhonkson, N. Y. 12446; (914) 626-5641 broadcasts on our radios, if you live in Eastern U.S. or Canada. Send S8.00 (US.) for our infor– mation packet. This S8.00 is re– fundable if you buy a short wave radio from us. FALA ELECTR0N1CS REGISTRATION FORM - TENNIS ONLY P.O. Box 1376-2 Please cut out and send in with reg. fee of S15.00. Milwaukee, Wl 53201 (Serving short wave listeners 1. Name: since 1962) -J 2. Address:.., 3. Phone: REAL ESTATE 4. Date of birth: 5. Event age group:

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are secretly intimidated, having had no Pilot program. formal teacher's training and finding it (Continued from page 6) difficult to converse in the English School Board, three: Mississauga Sepa– language. rate School Board, two. Often, instructors and administrators The Toronto Board of Education, the fail to create a dialogue among them– initiator of this long-sought service, was selves and with parents about current not even represented. educational matters: they merely fulfill in addition, the Toronto Board of their individual functions and retain a Education concluded that this style of certain reserve toward one another and program delivery did not and does not toward outside reality. Moreover, any generate any income for the board, discussion with students is simply other than the examination periods and unheard of. the nominal registration fees collected " Levels of student knowledge and SELF REL1ANCE (N.Y.) which, in sum, did not meet staff time preparation: Many students are ill- costs or provide the teachers with prepared for testing and evaluation FEDERAL CRED1T UN10N satisfactory remuneration. outside their school environment. Re- While it could be said that the pro- source materials used are outdated, 108 Second Avenue ш New York, N.Y. 10003 gram has been successful from the teaching methods are casual and aim- Telephone: (212) 473-7310 viewpoint that nine students earned less, and graduating students often have credits, it does not appear to be required to plow through years of material to be to meet the needs of Toronto Board of able to make it through "matura," or, Effective September 1, 1985 Education secondary school students. they are tested on what they've assimi– Therefore, it has been recommended lated thus far, which, in gauging most that the program not be continued and, subjects, is nowhere near where they NEW should principals of Toronto secondary should be by Board of Education OFFICE schools become aware of special course Heritage Language Programming stan– HOURS needs, such needs can be detailed at the dards. Therefore, students see private study Monday Closed next Forum of the Director of Educa– tion and other arrangements can be credits as nothing more than an extra Tuesday 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. made to meet the demand. load, and the examinations as near Wednesday 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. Prior to the specific efforts made to impossibilities. Uninspired, under- Thursday 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. conceive and implement the Ukrainian appreciated, having run through a veritable 1 1-year mill of tired and Friday 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. Private Study Pilot Program, parents, uncaring teaching, these young people 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. principals, instructors, and especially students, had long made overtures to often lack the academic skills, the sense Saturday 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. their local trustees to negotiate con-– of self-esteem and cultural purpose to Crete recognition of studies completed make an attempt to solidify their in the Ukrainian school system. This Ukrainian education. writer remembers all too well the Having been through the system and consternation and indignation of having experienced the results first... Announcing . . . "matura" students, saddled with six hand. 1. like many other young Ukrai– written and six oral exams at the end of nians. can attest to these facts, it is A Major Work on 11 years of relative toil, at the same time therefore possible to conclude that the that high school exams, piano exams, Ukrainian community is defeating Genocide b– Terrorism in dance exams, etc.. had to be taken - all itself. Hypocrisy has set in where with equal dedication, preparation and exhaltcd ambitions for our young finesse. people and the future of our culture Ukraine: Why, then, the lack of follow-up? formerly prevailed. Ewald Ammende's HUMAN LIFE IN RUSSIA is the There are many reasons, all of which As Trustee Chumak has noted in many long unavailable history of the "Hidden Holocaust" shed light on the state of Ukrainian conversations, it would indeed be and the cover-up which prevented news of the star– education and, thus, make board con– unforgivable if another 10 years had to cerns and protests understandable. pass for us to come to our senses and vation of nearly 7,000,000 Ukrainians from being ' Poor communications: The line of actively cooperate with Canadian insti– reported in the West during 1931-1934. Ammende, communication between students, ,in– tutions in order to develop and refine a professional humanitarian whose career is structors, administrators and board our culture. The responsible adult markedly similar to that of Raoul Wallenberg a representatives is almost non-existent. element of our community must realize decade later, gathered eye-witness testimony on the Many instructors and school officials now that it must look to itself for feel the Board of Education intrudes change: young Ukrainian Canadians Famine as a means of exposing the awful truth of are awaiting your leadership. the genocide and terrorism then occuring in upon their teaching domain, while some Ukraine. As such, his work is one of the earliest histories of the Gulag, wherein the Archipelago students who come from such a variety Harvard hosts... of backgrounds and places." consisted of an entire nation to be punished for its (Continued from page 8) Katya Chumachenko, a second-year opposition to totalitarianism. Human Life in Russia the students themselves. student from the University of Chi– has long been unobtainable; we make it available But even with this demanding pace of cago's Graduate School of Business with the hope that the lesson of the Ukrainian classes and activities, most students Administration agrees. "The majority Famine will not be lost on our times. The book, 330 have found time to relax, take in local of the students are bright, interesting pages in a cloth binding and striking jacket, is well Boston sights, and simply enjoy each and diverse." She adds, "Boston has other's company. proven to be a wonderful place to spend illustrated and documented; it belongs in every col- Mark Chuchra. a June graduate of a summer. lection of books on Ukraine. Rutgers University, like many others lrene Welyczko. an art history stu– considers this lo be a highlight ol the dent from Argentina, sums it up,"1 love program. "Perhaps the best aspect of the place and the people... 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This explanation suggests nians owe it to the memory of the 7 October 23 to November 8, 1985 to Mr. Dolot that anyone could be million victims to ensure that memoirs ' New York departure vARlG A1RL1NES labeled a kurkul. No one was safe. such as "Execution by Hunger"gain the There were no Jews or Gentiles in this universal recognition they deserve. 17-Day Tour Escort - PETRO BOKALO $ 1,779 Former Helsinki... Ms. Alexeyeva, "what citizens among includes air S private motorcoach transportation, hotels, most meals, sightseeing, visits the inert 60 percent prefer depends on to the Ukrainian colonies S institutions, escorts, tips. (Continued from page 7) which trend in Soviet dissent the West Registration until September 9, 1985 chev era, the reader is left with two large will support fandj on whether the West questions. Why should the West pay will be sufficiently consistent in its attention to Soviet dissent? And what, support... 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Surveys secret– because they are decent and courageous UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ly conducted by Moscow sociologists, men and women who espouse the same call upon you to she writes, suggest that one-fifth of the principles as we do — though that is population of large cities - more, certainly true — but because dissident probably, in the non-Russian republics minorities have been known to become DONATE FUNDS — is a "potential reserve of democratic dissident majorities, it happened when for their work and actions: orientation"; one-fifth is anti-democra– Solidarity tempered Poland. The lands 1. To promote the Ukrainian Story tic, and the rest are indifferent, "if this to the East may one day also find their balance is to be preserved," concludes mettle. 2. To counter inaccuracies about Ukrainians 3. 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mmw At Soyuzivka r PREVIEW OF EVENTS Labor Day weekend September 6-8 Starting at 1 p.m.. the program will include Ukrainian dancers and ban– CLEvELAND:The Ukrainian Heri– durists, children's games and ethnic І August 30 - September 2 tage Foundation of North America food. : KERHONK.SON. NY. - The Soyuzivka will be the site of the will hold Reunion 11 at the Cleveland Hilton South. 6200 Quarry Lane, at ',Labor Day weekend festivities at annual national tennis tournament PLEASE NOTE: Preview items ^Soyuzivka begin on Friday evening. and swim meet organized by the 1-71 and Rockside Road. The week- end s activities will include a Friday must be received one week before August 30. with a dance to the music Carpathian Ski Club of New York desired date of publication. No .of the Nova Khvylia band. under the auspices of the Ukrainian night welcome party, and a banquet and ball on Saturday. The full information will be taken over the On Saturday evening, there will be Sports Association of the United package of activities will cost 535. phone. Preview items will be a concert featuring international States and Canada (USCAK). For more information call (216) 351- published only once (please note 1 cabaret signer Alex. The Tempo 1700. desired date of publication). All Щ Orchestra will provide accompani– items are published at the discretion jp . men.t as well as perform several of the editorial staff and in accor– f September 8 selections from its popular reper– dance with available space. !oire. A dance to the music of two bands. STAMFORD, Conn.: The Connec– Гетро and lskra. follows the enter– ticut State Ukrainian Day Commil– ainment program tee will sponsor its 19th annual PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open Metropolitan Opera bass Paul Ukrainian Day Festival on the grounds of St. Basil's Seminary. to the public, is a service provided 'lishka will perform during the Glenbrook Road. "1 he day will begin free of charge by The Weekly to the Sunday evening concert. Pianist with a Divine Liturgy at 11 a.m.. Ukrainian community. To have an ihomas Hrynkiw will perform as a followed by a program of Ukrainian event listed in this column, please oloist and as accompanist tor Mr. songs and dances, arts and crafts send information (type of event, Mishka. Л dance to the lempoand exhibits and the annual volleyball date, time, place, admission, spon– S'ova Khvylia bands will be held tournament. sor, etc.), along with the phone mmediateh afterward. number of a person who may be The weekend's shows will be cm– PARMA, Ohio: The 10th annual reached during daytime""hours for eed by Soyuzivka's master ol cere– Ukrainian homecoming event spon– additional information to: PRE– nonies-in-residence Roman l.upan. sored by St. Andrew's Ukrainian viEW OF EvENTS. The Ukrainian is well as guest emcee Anya Dydyk. Catholic Church will take place at Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey Also during the Labor Day week– the picnic grove. 7700 Hoertz Road. City. N.J. 07302. nd. August 30 to September 2. Paul Plishka

The Washington Group plans gala WASHINGTON The washing– Canadian Professional and Business ton Group. An Association of Ukrai– Club. nian American Professionals (TWG). TWG, which will be celebrating its and the Ukrainian American Bar Asso– first anniversary on the weekend of th; ciation (UABA) have announced a gala, was organized to promote contact Scholarship.Benefit Gala to be held among Ukrainian American profes– on October 19 at the elegant Capitol sionals. While it was conceived as a Hilton Hotel here. Washington organization, its member- The "black tie" benefit is planned as ship stands at over 170. including an annual TWG event. This year's gala individuals from throughout the United is being co-hosted by the UABA in States. Canada and Europe, it has conjunction with its annual meeting sponsored a variety of social and scheduled for October 18-20 at the professional activities with Ukrainian Capitol Hilton Hotel. The gala will and non-Ukrainian speakers on topics include a cocktail reception, banquet ranging from American foreign 'policy with a prominent speaker to be an– to Ukrainian music, it also publishes a Thomas Hrvnkiw Alex nounced, and a bail to the music of the monthly newsletter called TWG News. popular lskra orchestra of New York. The proceeds from the S50-a-plate gala will be donated to a mutually The UABA, a national association of agreed upon education program for 1C to air "Harvest of Despair" Ukrainian American lawyers, was Ukrainian students. Reservations for famine, as well as such noted indivi– TORONTO - "Harvest of Despair" formed in 1977. its membership is the banquetyball are required, inquiries duals as British journalist Malcolm award-winning film on the Ukrai– comprised of more than 100 attorneys and reservations may be directed to: The Muggeridgc. Ambassador Johann von n famine of 1932-33 will be tele– in the United States, who have actively Washington Group, P.O. Box 11248, Herwarth. then the German attache in ,-d in all provinces in Canada on the participated in the association's annual Washington, D.C. 20008. Moscow, and Andor Hencke. then C Network at 9 p.m. on Thursday, and semiannual meetings, and various Further details about the gala and the German consul in Ukraine, and others. nember 5. projects of significance to the Ukrainian UABA annual meeting will be an– The film was produced by the Ukrai– The film probes the tragic conse– American community, its most recent nounced in early Septemberand through nian Famine Research Committee in ences of the Ukrainian nation's semiannual meeting, held in May in the newsletters of both TWG and the Toronto. Produced by Slavko Nowyt– uggle for greater cultural and politi– Toronto, was a joint meeting with the UABA. autonomy in the 1920s and 30s. ski and Yurij Luhovy, and directed by rough rare archival footage, the Slavko Nowytski, the film has been ults of Stalin's lethal counlermea– shown in Canada, the United Statesand Ukrainian courses offered at U1A res unfold in harrowing detail. High– England, and won a "Golden Award"at nting the film are intensely moving the international Film Festival in NEW YORK The Ukrainian lnsti– independently. The course will trace the ewitness accounts of survivors of the Houston, Texas. tutc of America is offering three development of culture on ethnically Ukrainian studies courses this fall, Ukrainian lands from prehistoric times beginning during the week of Labor to the 16th century. Classes will be held Day. 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