The Ukrainian Weekly 1983, No.9

www.ukrweekly.com lished by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association| rainianWeei:! Ї Voi. LI mNo. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 27.1983 25 cents Feodor Fedorenko ordered deported Yosyp Tereiia arrested Solicitor General's office that the Has 10 days government did not appeal the case by Dr. Roman Solchanyk because, in his view, Mr. Fedorenko to file appeal "may be the unfortunate victim of MUNICH - Western news agencies innocently mistaken identification/' in Moscow, quoting dissident sources, HARTFORD, Conn. - Feodor Mr. Ryan was subsequently to reverse have reported that Yosyp Tereiia, an Fedorenko, 75, who was stripped of his himself. He was named head of the OSI activist of the banned Ukrainian Catho U.S. citizenship in 1981 for withholding in 1980. lic (Uniate) Church, has been arrested in information about his wartime activi On June 28, 1979, a U.S. Court of Ukraine. ties when applying to enter the country Appeals reversed the lower court's The agencies added that last Septem after World War II, was ordered de decision, and directed the District ber Mr. Tereiia and four others formed ported on February 23, reported CBS Court to cancel the defendant's certifi an Initiative Group for the Defense of News. cate of naturalization. the Rights of Believers and the Church The ruling by an Immigration Court to campaign for the legalization of the came nearly 21 months after the case The Court of Appeals decision was Ukrainian Church, which was liqui was first brought before the court by the upheld by the Supreme Court on Ja dated in 1946 after the Soviet occupa Justice Department's Office of Special nuary 21, 1981. In a 7-2 decision, the tion of Western Ukraine, This is the first Investigations. The defendant has 10 court ruled that Mr. Fedorenko's report about the group's existence to days to file an appeal, CBS said. citizenship had been illegally procured have reached the West. Charges against Mr. Fedorenko, and disregarded the defense's conten Mr. Tereiia, who is 40, had already who was born in Sivasch, Ukraine, were tion that Mr. Fedorenko had served spent 14 years in various camps, pri filed in 1978. The government alleged involuntarily and that he was not sons and psychiatric institutions when that he had worked as a guard at the responsible for any individual acts of he was incarcerated in a psychiatric Treblinka concentration camp and had persecution. The government's case was hospital in Vinnytsia on November 2, misrepresented his background when argued by then-Attorney General Ben 1976. Approximately three weeks later, applying to enter the United States in jamin Civiletti, on November 24, he was pronounced 1949 under the Displaced Persons Act. sane, warned that he could be held Deportation proceedings were in responsible for his actions, and re Mr. Fedorenko claimed that he had itiated against Mr. Fedorenko and been taken prisoner by the Germans leased. hearings were held on May 4-5 and July In a letter written on December 21 of while in the Soviet Army, and denied 7, 1981. having committed any atrocities. that year to then-KGB chief Yuri Although Mr. Fedorenko was ordered Andropov, Mr. Tereiia described his On July 25, 1978, a U.S. District deported, it has yet to be determined to activities following his release: Yosyp Tereiia Court in Florida ruled in favor of Mr. which country. A deportee may select ''As a result of repressions, and Fedorenko. At the time, Allan A. Ryan the country to which he will be deported. because they are getting ready to arrest your despotic fist on his own skin." Jr., currently the head of the OSI, If that country refuses him, the decision me, I have quit my job and left my concluded in his capacity with the will rest with the immigration judge. On April 28, 1977, Mr. Tereiia was family, forced to wander and hide with once again confined in a general relatives and acquaintances. I am very psychiatric hospital in Berehovo in the ill, without the opportunity to receive Transcarpathian oblast, from which he The Grea^ Famine treatment and all this because of the escaped on May 19. He was captured on KGB and the police." June 2 in Ivano-Frankivske, and on The letter to Mr. Andropov, in June 21 the Berehovo raion court National committee slates memorial services addition to a detailed account of his ordered that he be transferred to the treatment at the hands of the authori Dnipropetrovske Special Psychiatric SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - The program in Washington is to be a ties beginning in the early 1960s, also Hospital. ^ The first meeting of the National Public two-part event. contains Mr. Tereiia's statement about According to a letter from Mr. Committee to Commemorate the Me It will include a manifestation at the his religious beliefs: Tereiia's wife to the World Psychiatric mory of the Victims of the Great Taras Shevchenko Monument in the "By conviction, I am a human being; Association, her husband was placed in Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine took city, followed by a demonstration and by religious belief — a Christian, to be the Dnipropetrovske Special Psychiatric place at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church procession to the Soviet Embassy. In more precise, a Ukrainian Catholic, a Hospital on September 2, 1977. Center's Home of Ukrainian Culture on the afternoon, a commemorative con Uniate. Yes, the very same Uniate who In March 1981, it was reported that Saturday, February 19. cert will be held at the Kennedy Center, has no officially recognized Church, the Mr. Tereiia was transferred from Dni The committee, which held its found featuring performances by a symphony Uniate who under the threat of impri propetrovske to a general psychiatric ing meeting on Saturday, January 29, orchestra, opera singers and an array of sonment is forbidden to take part in institution in the Transcarpathian began planning a program for the 50th talented Ukrainian ensembles. prayers and functions of worship, go to oblast, and in November of that year anniversary of the Ukrainian famine. Over 20 representatives of various confession, baptize his children, repent news reached the West that he had been The committee has decided to comme Ukrainian organizations took part in and celebrate Church holidays lest he be released. morate this tragedy with a special the Saturday, February 19, meeting labeled from above 'a militant Catho program to be held in South Bound which commenced with a prayer delivered lic' Mr. Tereiia's conflicts with the KGB Brook on Sunday, May 15, in memory by the Rt. Rev. Protopresbyter Stephan "The Ukrainian Catholic Church is in resumed again in June 1982, taking the of all the victims of the Great Famine. Bilak. The meeting was chaired by the the catacombs! You, if anyone, know form of "visits" and searches in his The committee plans to invite New president of the national committee. this well. Strange, is it not, that the age home in the village of Dovhe in the Jersey's Gov. Tom Kean and other Prof. Petro Stercho. He greeted repre of Diocletian is long gone, we're in the Transcarpathian oblast. The immediate high-ranking officials to the services. sentatives of the Ukrainian National 20th century, and Ukrainian Catholics cause of this harassment, which in A program is scheduled for Sunday, Association and Ukrainian Fraternal are in the catacombs. (Many other cluded threats on his life, seems to have October 2, in the nation's capital to Association, including UNA Supreme Christian communities in the USSR been the as yet unexplained incident on remind the U.S. public of the genocide Treasurer Ulana Diachuk, UFA Secre also find themselves underground.) But, June 10, 1982, near the village of perpetrated upon the Ukrainian nation tary Dr. Roman Rychok and UFA actually, I wish to speak here about Poliane, in which Mr. Tereiia's brother by the Communist Russian regime. Financial Secretary-Treasurer Edward myself personally, and about you. You Borys was killed in a shootout with the The program in South Bound Brook Popil. are well acquainted with my genealogy police and the KGB. will take place on Seeing-Off Sunday at Following the introductions, the from my camp protests and statements, Prior to his arrest, Mr. Tereiia was St. Andrew's Memorial Ukrainian agenda of the meeting and the minutes but 1 feel that I should refresh your reported by samizdat sources to have Orthodox Church, which is dedicated of the previous meeting were read. memory about who 1 am. I am one of been visiting friends in Moscow in mid- to the victims of the famme. і Continued on page 1!) the thousands of Christians who has felt November of last vear. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1983 No. 9 Soviet deserters in Afghanistan Dissident profile disillusioned by USSR invasion Bohdan Rebryk: NEW YORK - Six Soviet soldiers deserted to the Afghan insurgents in late who deserted from their units in Af summer and early fall of 1982, accord teacher, Helsinki monitor ghanistan said in a television interview ing to the report. on February 20 that they were disillu Two of the six who appeared on the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Teacher sioned with the Soviet military inter broadcast, Sgt. Suleimanov and Pvt. Bohdan Rebryk, 45, is one of the vention, and were tired of killing Meshcheryakov, expressed interest in lesser known Ukrainian dissidents. A innocent civilians. coming to the United States, and two member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Appearing on a segment of the ABC others were said by Freedom House to Group since 1979, he is currently News program "20/20," they said that share that desire.

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