The Ukrainian Weekly 1984
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ОТ 00 ^ Pubiished ХЯ — - I r|L r by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit associationj -Ї-0) ! oo-o І ОІГ1 ! a - M mo о wo чя ОТ - Ukrainian Weekl У О Vol. Lll N0:19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 6,1984 25 cents Newark council Unveil memorial to unknown UPA soldiers votes to back by Marta Kolomayets SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - Metropolitan Mstyslav of the Ukrai famine commission nian Orthodox Church and the Very NEWARK. N.J. - The Newark Rev. Dr. Ivan Hrynioch led a pro Municipal Council on May 2 un cession of hundreds of Ukrainians to animously passe'd a resolution support the unveiling and blessing of a memorial ing the passage in Congress of a bill that dedicated to the unknown soldiers of would establish a special commission to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) investigate the Great Famine in Ukraine here on Sunday, April 29. CJ932-33). Here in the afternoon heat of Pro– vidna Nedilia. Seeing-OfT Sunday, The resolution was introduced by hundreds of former Ukrainian soldiers, Councilman Ronald L. Rice and called uniformed representatives of youth for all elected officials on the municipal, organisations and members of the state and federal levels to back the Ukrainian community, first gathered passage of the bill, which was sponsored around the already-existing cross- in the Senate,by Sen. Bill Bradleyand in monument at St. Andrew's^Ukrainiap– the House By Rep. James Florio (D– Orthodox Memorial Cemetery, where N.J.–). The ,.rncasure is known as HR the Catholic and Orthodox clergy 4459 in the" House and S 2456 in the conducted a panakhyda. The cross Senate. stands as a memorial to all those who gave their fives in fight for Ukrainian The nine-man council declared that liberty and national independence. the establishment of a special commis– Metropolitan Mstyslav then addressed - sion to investigate the man-made fa the crowd on the day Ukrainians believe mine, which killed an estimated 7 that the dead who have also resurrected million Ukrainians. would bea "valuable for Easter make their journeys back to contribution toward the enlightenment heaven. and education of the American people." Julian-Lev Kotliar. the chairman of the memorial building committee, Over 30 representatives from the welcomed the assemblage, which then Ukrainian community attended the I made its way to the separate section of ^p.m. session, including Ihor Olshaniw– the cemetery, specifically designated for sky and Daniel Marchishin, president deceased UPA members. Here, stood and public relations liaison, respective the monument, draped in a blue-and– ly, of Americans for Human Rights in gold cloth, the colors of the Ukrainian Ukraine, which initiated the council's flag. Mafta Kolomayets action. Presiding was council President Ralph Grant. (Continued on page 16) The Rev. Archimandrite Ivan Hrynioch stands before UPA memorial. After 30 years in the gulag, an UPA veteran is released INSIDE: JERSEY CITY. N.J. - Vasyl Pidhorodetsky, a the wave oi repression and arrests in Ukraine in the regional leader of the Ukrainian insurgent Army 1960s, more information became available. (UPA) who spent over 30years in Soviet labor.camps Mykhailo Osadchy, in his well-known prison and became a legendary and inspirational figure to a memoir "Cataract," recalled befriending Mr. Pid new generation of Ukrainian political prisoners, was horodetsky in the Dubrovlag penal complex in the released from custody of March 20, reported dissident Mordovian ASSR. some 350 miles southeast of sources. Moscow. Mr. Osadchy, a journalist, had been Mr. Pidhorodetsky. now 59. was first arrested in sentenced to two years in a labor camp in 1966 for 1951 for his activities with the UPA. which fought "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." against both German and Soviet forces during World In a touching section on Mr. Pidhorodetsky, Mr. War II. and continued a guerrilla campaign against the Osadchy wrote that the veteran political prisoner — Soviets into the late 1950s. tortured, tempted with freedom if the would recant, Charged under the old Article 58 of the RSFSR threatened - never gave up on the ideal of an Criminal Code ("betrayal of the motherland"), he was independent Ukraine. (For an excerpt from Mr. sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp, the maximum Osadchy's book, see page 3.). term, and shipped to" a labor camp near Taishet in the "Nothing transcends the idea, the goal of national remote regions of southern Siberia. independence." wrote Mr. Osadchy of Mr. Pidhoro There, in 1955. Mr. Pidhorodetsky was one of the detsky. organizers and leaders of a massive hunger strike The younger prisoners, men such as Mr. Osadchy or staged by the inmates to protest inhuman treatment, Mykhailo Horynand his brother Kohdan. looked up lor torture and indiscriminate executions. inspiration to men such as Mr. ruihprodetsky and For his role in the Taishet rebellion. Mr. Pidho other so-called "twenty-livers" such as former l.'PA rodetsky was given an additional 15-year term. During leader Mykhailo Soroka. the investigation, authorities decided to reduce his Sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Mr. previous sentence to 15 years, leaving his final term 30 Pidhorodetsky was transferred from Mordovia to ш Christening of Yakiv Gumovsky is just one of the photos on years' in labor camp. іаоог camp No. J3 in tne nugc penal complex near view at The Ukrainian Museum - centerfold. Perm in the Ural Mountains. Other political prisoners W Soyuzivka prepares for opener - page 5. Little was known of Mr. Pidhorodetsky's where Ш Dziuba on Russification - page 7. abouts in the late 1950s, but with the new influx into at the camp included young Ukrainian dissidents and the camps of Ukrainian political prisoners tollowuig (Continued on page 3) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY ,jiwuv MAY 6, 1984 No. 19 Brailovsky released from exile ; JERSEY CITY. N.J. - Viktor Re-organization of Soviet schools Brailovsky, a former editor of the ^defunct underground journal Jews in stresses vocational training the USSR, was released from exile in Kazakhstan on March 14 after serving JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A sweep tional training has been couched over three years ol a five-year term, ing re-organization of the entire almost entirely in ideological terms. according to dissident sources. Soviet school system recently came a Discussion in the press, the L.A. Mr. Brailovsky. 49, was sentenced in step closer to being the law of the Times has reported, has put heavy 1981 to five years' internal exile for land when the Supreme Soviet, the stress on instilling a work ethic in 'defaming the Soviet state." The country's nominal legislature, firmly children and a sense of patriotic charges stemmed from his involvement endorsed the plan. responsibility for building a new i"h the Jewish emigration movement and After three months of unusually society. Yet the real motives are the samizdat journal, which ceased lively public debate in the pages of almost certainly the worsening publication in 1979. Soviet papers, the plan, which will shortage of manpower made still There was no explanation as to why effect the country's 143.000 elemen worse by a lack of interest among Mr. Brailovsky did not serve the full five tary and high schools and cost an Soviet youth in manual labor and years. estimated S14.3 billion, is the first semi-skilled jobs. According to Keston News, Mr. 'major educational reform the Soviet This shortage is compounded by Brailovsky has been given permission to Union has attempted since the late an increase in death rates in recent re-register to reside in Moscow, where Viktor Brailovsky 1950s. And it promises drastic and years, especially among men of prime he lived prior to his imprisonment. The controversial changes in the destinies working age, possibly as a result of former cyberneticist is married, and he a leading Jewish activist. Hisapartment of the country's 45 million school- rampant alcoholism, poor hygiene and his wife lrina have a daughter. became an unofficial meeting place for age children. and a rapidly deteriorating health Dalia. 10, and a son, Leonid, 23. Soviet Jews, many of them fellow The heart of the reform is to be a care system. In addition, compulsory scientists who had been refused per massive infusion of vocational train military service^tjeT'up nearly 5 Sources indicate that the family plans mission to emigrate to Israel. The ing in Soviet education that is de million able-bodied men. and Soviet to apply for an exit visa to Israel as soon gatherings became known as Sunday signed to steer millions of students industry is notorious for its ineffi as they collect the necessary documents. seminars, and were sometimes attended away from white-collar careers in the cient use of available manpower. Before his arrest, Mr. Brailovsky was by guest scientists from the West. bureaucracy that require higher At first glance, the educational education and into semi-skilled, reform plan sounds like a revival of blue-collar jobs, where the Soviet child labor. According to the guide Union faces a critical labor shortage lines published several months ago in Walesa leads May Day marchers between now and the end of the the Communist Party newspaper WARSAW - Solidarity leader Lech ing stand, flailing truncheons? century. Pravda, by the fifth grade, children Walesa and thousands of supporters Mr. Walesa, who was spirited out of Less than 20 percent of high school will be fulfilling simple factory orders slipped into an official May Day parade the crowd before police moved in, later graduates are currently allowed to go in school. By the 10th grade - at age in Gdansk on May I and shouted pro- spoke to reporters by telephone from on to a higher education — down 16 - boys and girls would spend one Solidarity slogans as they marched past his apartment.