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Vol. LVIi No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 50 cents Portrait of a Ukrainian patriot Thousands gather at Kiev area site Vitally Kalynychenko's fateful story of mass murders by Stalin's NKVD ST. CATHARINES, Ontario - victims of the invading Nazis. However, Thousands of residents of Kiev took a government commission — the fourth part in a mass meeting in the village of to have investigated the Bykivnia mass Bykivnia, site of a mass grave of Stalin- grave — found in March that the era victims on Sunday, May 7. thousands buried were victims of Stalin News of the mass meeting, held on the killed by his secret police, the NKVD outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and (forerunner of the KGB). organized by the Ukrainian Memorial Unofficial estimates give the number Society, was reported by the St. Sophia of bodies buried at the site as 200,000 to Religious Association of Ukrainian 300,000. Catholics in Canada. The St. Catha­ The St. Sophia Association also rines, Ontario-based organization noted noted that Memorial is headed by Les that the meeting began with a march Taniuk, an activist in the arts who is from Kiev to Bykivnia and that it also a candidate to the Congress of received official sanction, though after People's Deputies from Kiev region No. much delay. 33 and is one of only two candidates It is in the forest near Bykivnia that supported by the Ukrainian Helsinki tens of thousands of people killed Union. during Stalin's reign of terror are One of the surprises of this meeting, buried. the St. Sophia Association noted, was A monument erected on the site in that the Russian Orthodox exarch of Vitaliy Kalynychenko with his wife, Yaryna. 1988 had proclaimed that the dead were (Continued on page 2) by Marta Ko!omayets teachers. His father was killed in 1938, betrayed by a local resident for teaching MOUNT AIRY, Md. - His bio­ in the Ukrainian language. Hanna Sverstiuk turns 3 graphy reads like a John le Carre novel. Vitaliy grew up without a father, Born in 1937, in the village of Vasylkivka, whom he was told he greatly resembles by Chrystyna N. Lapychak hematologist who has been para­ in the Dnipropetrovske region of U- physically; his mother's friends would lyzed from the waist down since a kraine, Vitaliy Vasyliovych Kalyny­ tell the young boy what a patriot his PHILADELPHIA" Hanna 1987 accident. chenko, was the son of village school (Continued on page 3) Sverstiuk celebrated her third birth­ According to Dr. Roger Packer, day on May 2, her first one ever in the director of neurology at the Cj^ilU "City of Brotherly Love." dren's Hospital of Philadelphia and New evacuation, concerns mark The granddaughter of prominent Hanna's attending physician, the Ukrainian dissident Yevhen Sver­ little girl's tumor on the brain stem is СИогпоЬуГз third anniversary stiuk, Hanna came from Kiev, U- stable and remains in remission. kraine, to the United States with her the USSR Academy of Medical Hanna, who was born in a Kiev by Dr. David Marples mother, Maria, last July for emer­ hospital less than one week after the Sciences, which is based on Kiev. They gency medical treatment for brain Amid the inevitable publicity that indicate, through questions asked of a Chornobyl nuclear accident oc­ greeted the third anniversary of the cancer. A month later they were curred just 70 miles north, under- senior scientific worker at the Institute I joined by her father, Andriy, a Chornobyl tragedy, official and unoffi­ for Nuclear Research, Evgeniy Karbet- (Continued on page 11) cial gatherings of people in Minsk and sky, that the information about the Kiev, a press conference and prolonged radiation situation provided by Prof. interviews with officials responsible for Lekhtarov was erroneous. the clean-up work and operation of the In Nozdryshchi, the authors dis­ station, appeared one of the most covered, one woman with three children startling series of articles about the has been tending a garden which is 'effects of the disaster to date. The series, bordered on two sides by the barbed published in the Ukrainian youth news­ wire democrating the "zone of aliena­ paper, Molod Ukrainy, was a bitterly tion," the most seriously contaminated cynical piece of prose by Viktor Kosar- zone. In another village, they found chuk and Ivan Petrenko, with a date­ residents cultivating land only two to line from the village of Narodychi, in three kilometers from the wire. Zhytomyr Oblast, which has been the In Khrystynivka, which hitherto had center of new controversies about been considered "clean," a dosimeter irradiation for nearly three months. revealed that radiation at one end of a The two authors explain that the street was tens of times higher than at region received two visits last February the other, yet people were walking the from members of the Institute for street in ignorance of this situation. The Nuclear Research with the Ukrainian worst situation of all appears to be in Academy of Sciences. The visitors the local forests, where radioactive reported their findings to a meeting of hotspots have collected on fallen leaves. the institute on February 22, which Following the revelations about concluded that in the villages Klishchi, Narodychi in Moscow News, the two Khrystynivka and Nozdryshchi exists a journalists relate, a Japanese reporter sizable area which is unsuitable for arrived at the settlement. He was human habitation. informed by the chief veterinary sur­ The two authors of the article lay the geon of the raion that some 30 mutant blame for the lack of attention to the livestock had been born in 1988, where dangerous situation at Narodychi part­ previously no deformities had been Celebrating her third birthday on May 2, Hanna Sverstiuk blows out three ly on the shoulders of Prof. L Lekhtarov discovered. On several collective farms birthday candles with great determination. Her mother, Maria, looks on. of the Center for Radiation Medicine of (Continued on page 2) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 14. 1989 ^ No. 20

rate the third anniversary of the nuclear that the branch is gathering detailed New evacuations... accident, the secretary of the Ukrainian Thousands gather... information about this incident of (Continued from page 1) Writers' Union, Dmytro Pavlychko, (CofJtmued from page 1) Stalinist terror. in the area, he learned, it is forbidden to declared that all the lessons of Chor­ Ukraine sent an official representative A woman has recently come forth drink milk, or eat eggs and meat. nobyl had not yet been learned. Hence­ to participate. Father Anatoly closed and told of ho\y, during one of the A local postal worker apparently forth, he maintained, anyone who is the meeting with a requiem (panakhyda) times that the grave was dug up, not pleaded with Messrs. Kosarchuk and sent to work at Chornobyl should go service for those buried near Bykivnia. only were local residents' bodies found Petrenkotoensure that the children are there for one of two reasons: either to but also the bodies of slain Polish Army dismantle the station, or to assist in The mass grave had been uncovered a officers. This statement was made to removed from the zone. The authors day after the Nazis entered Kiev in 1941. provide a harrowing description of life sanitizing the zone. Nuclear power Ukrainian Helsinki Union member operation must be guided by the wis­ The exhumation revealed fresh cada­ Zinovij Melnyk. on local farms, where the cows are not vers: a woman with her infant child and tested for radiation, yet are being milked, dom of the people, he stated. The Ukrainian Memorial Society While party and government leaders many men. Photographs of these atro­ held its inaugural conference in Kiev on and where children ate taken by their cities were published widely in the mothers into the fields in which there attended the meeting, led by Borys V. March 4. The following day several Kachura, secretary of the Politburo of German occupation newspapers thousand people participated in the are high levels of radioactivity. These throughout Ukraine. The Germans also latter examples are evidently extracted the Central Committee of the Commu­ society's first public rally focusing on nist Party of Ukraine, and may not have brought a local priest to the site and honoring the victims of Stalinism and from the raion newspaper, Zhovtnevi had him celebrate a requiem service. Zori. agreed with the sentiments expressed by filling in the "blank spots" of Ukrainian Possibly as a result of the situation in the poet, it is made clear from reports The head of the Kievan branch of the history related to that period, including Narodychi, a Kiev press conference held that Mr. Pavlychko's was among the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, Oles Shev- the 1932-1933 Great Famine in which 7 on April 20 discussed the possibility of most warmly received of all the speeches. chenko, told the St. Sophia Association million perished. providing the population with indivi­ Mr. Umanets acknowledged the dual dosimeters to measure radiation clamor for the shutdown of Chornobyl levels. but said that he preferred to look at the Les Taniuk: head of Memorial Society An outspoken demand for such question from the scientific viewpoint. instruments has also been issued by He declared that there is a possibility Les Taniuk, head of the Ukrainian Andrei Pralnikiv, writing in Moscow that the station could last out its 30-year Memorial Society, is the former chief News. After commenting on the rela­ lifespan, which would mean that reactor stage director of the Kiev Youth tively poor quality of the dosimeters in No. 1 would be decommissioned in the Theater. In April 1988 he was re­ use at Chornobyl, Mr. Pralnikiv ob­ year 2007. However, faults with the lieved of this post as professionally served: graphite reactors (which have now been unfit. He had hoped to turn the "But even the instrument used at removed from the future building theater into a cultural center, but his Chornobyl was thought highly of. On program) are necessitating detailed attempts were reportedly met with several occasions 1 saw people beg reconstruction work every 15 years. resistance. Finally, the Ukrainian workers to sell or exchange their 'pee­ Work now being carried out on the SSR Ministry of Culture issued an pers' — in the zone it became a kind of Leningrad RBMK, which has the oldest announcement that he was fired. hard currency, as valuable as a field set graphite reactors in the Soviet Union, is Prominent Ukrainian writer Ivan of fatigues worn by our men in Afgha­ being studied for its cost effectiveness. If Drach was reported to have said of nistan." it turns out that such reconstruction the firing: "All this is very reminiscent However, according to the First work is not viable economically, stated of the old method of making short Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Mr. Umanets, then Chornobyl, along work of men of art who not always Council of Ministers Ye. V. Kachalov- with other graphite reactors, will be pleased high-ranking bureaucrats." sky, although a Kiev factory has now shut down over the next three years. A letter in support of Mr. Taniuk begun to produce dosimeters, based on The response, like some of the others signed by more than 2,000 people, plans divided by the Ukrainian Aca­ provided in the interview, fails mani­ including writers, artists, composers, demy of Sciences, the price of one is a festly to address the concerns expressed directors and actors - among them prohibitive 450 rubles, or slightly less by the two authors in the Molod U- Mr. Drach, first secretary of the Les Taniuk than three months' salary for the ave­ krainy article and by many readers who board of the Kiev branch of the Kurbas's system to which he devoted rage rural worker. have written to the Kiev newspaper Ukrainian Writers' Union, and Nina 30 years of his life), be set up in the Other key questions being asked by Robitnycha Hazeta. Logically, it would Matvi'enko, a singer who holds the building located on ITSverdlovStreet the public today concern the radioactive appear that by keeping the Chornobyl distinction of People's Artist of the in Kiev, which bears a bas relief of fallout, the complex situation in many plant in operation, the authorities are, Ukrainian SSR — was published Kurbas. The dramatically inter­ villages that has resulted in some being ipso facto, prolonging the insecurities several months later in Sovietskaya rupted tradition of Les Kurbas must reinhabited and others being depopu­ not only of the 3,500 plant operatives Kultura. News about the letter ap­ be revived: A new theater should be lated almost simultaneously, and the who have to make the daily journey peared in the December (No. 51) set up as a cultural hub which would continuing operation of the Chornobyl there from Slavutych, but also of the issue of News from Ukraine. promote the development of creative nuclear power plant. Kombinat workers who have to con­ "We believe that the ministry's cooperation of representatives of Several newspapers published re­ tinue decontaminating the zone, but order on the disqualification of Les various arts - actors and literati, sponses to questions of readers in their still have nowhere safe to live. Taniuk is illegal and should be artists and producers, moviemakers anniversary issues. Among the most Moreover, several experts cited in the cancelled," the letter stated. and musicians, critics and play­ frequent respondents were M. Syedov, press acknowledge that the psychoso­ As published in News from U- wrights - as a center of international the director of the Kombinat produc­ matic illnesses associated with "radio- kraine, the letter also noted: and patriotic education of the young. tion association, and Mikhail Umanets, phobia" continue to elicit concern. "We suggest that a new Ukrainian Given the conditions of restructur­ the director of the Chornobyl nuclear There is perhaps no greater root cause theater, under the directorship of Les ing, the model of Kurbas's theater, as power plant. Mr. Syedov informed rea­ of such anxieties in Ukraine and Byelo­ Taniuk, whose entire life has proved a researching laboratory of mutual ders that the current radiation levels at russia today than the unexpected longe­ his right to this(asa stage director of enrichment and unity of different Prypiat, the former residence of plant vity of the station itself. many talented performances, an branches of culture, must be re­ operatives, vary from 0.2 to 2 milli- One of the biggest obstacles in ob­ author of books on theater, and vived." roentgens per hour (or up to 400 times taining information about the situation popularizer and researcher of Les (Continued on page 10) the normal background), while those at in the area, as critics well realize, is an the city of Chornobyl range from 0.1 to absence of frankness and candidness in 1 milliroentgen per hour (up to 200 reporting. times the normal background). The Thus, whereas the editors of Izvestiya conclusion is that while Chornobyl may denounced the Ministry of Power and FOUNDED 1933 be uninhabitable for "tens of decades," Electrification of the USSR for intro­ Ukrainian Weetli Prypiat, which is being preserved, may ducing a new law to prevent the press never again be fit for residence. from publicizing accidents at nuclear An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National To the logical sequential question as power plants, even if they result in non- Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. to why members of the Kombinat fatal environmental contamination, 07302. production association are permitted to Boris Paton, the president of the Ukrai­ live in such cities, Mr. Syedov replied nian Academy of Sciences, informed Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. that they still work there only on a shift readers of that same newspaper that the (ISSN - 0273-9348) basis. The goal is to transfer these clean­ chances of radioactive substances up crews to Zelenyi Mys, the settlement spreading beyond the boundaries of the Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - JIO. for shiftworkers constructed on the 30-kilometer zone were slim - this in Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Kiev reservoir in 1986-1987, which the very article that noted the future evidently is now being expanded. "Be­ evacuation of a further 12 contami­ The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: lieve me,"he stated, "people do not live nated villages from outside the zone, (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 here because they want to." In short, the partly as a result of wind-carried radio­ active dust. Postmaster, send address Kombinat workers are making grave changes to: sacrifices to their health in remaining in Such apparent inconsistencies, as Editor: Roma Hadzewycz risky zones at both day and night. Messrs. Kosarchuk and Petrenko note, The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets The continuing operation of the are the main reasons for the persistence P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak nuclear plant itself continues to puzzle of radiophobia. Jersey City. NJ. 07303 and anger many. In Kiev, on April 26, Finally, while several reporters noted The Ulcrainian Weelcly, May 14, 1989, No. 20, Vol. LVII when a reported 40,000 people gathered that over three years Chornobyl has Copyright 1989 by The Ulcrainian Weekly in the Dynamo stadium to commemo­ (Continued on page 7) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989

Paris archbishop not allowed Books confiscated from Sapeliak by Andrew Hluchowecky Ukrainian Literature" by distinguished to visit Kiev, then invited back Ukrainian Information Bureau Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hru- shevsky which examines Ukrainian PARIS - Cardinal Jean-Marie Lus- that no one could receive me in Kiev," OTTAWA — Soviet customs offi­ literature up to the beginning of the 17th tiger, the archbishop of Paris, who cut Cardinal Lustiger said. cials in Moscow confiscated personal century in relation to the development short a visit to the Soviet Union because The archbishop's visit was seen as written material, including all copies of of Ukrainian culture. he had not been allowed to visit the testing the waters for a possible visit to a Canadian edition of a collection of his During a recent visit to Ottawa on Ukrainian capital city of Kiev, has been the Soviet Union by Pope John Paul. poetry from Ukrainian poet Stepan April 19, Mr. Sapeliak indicated to the invited back to the Soviet Union to Cardinal Lustiger declined to com­ Sapeliak as he was returning home to director of the Ukrainian Information complete his visit, the archbishop of ment when asked if his experience had Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 4, Bureau that if Soviet authorities were to Paris told Radio Vatican, on Wednes­ affected the chances of the pope going after a three-month speaking tour of confiscate any of his personal poetry day, May 10. to the Soviet Union, saying however Canada and the United States. upon his return to the USSR, that he The cardinal had said that "no satis­ that Russian Orthodox Church officials Mr. Sapeliak, in a telephone conver­ would go on a hunger strike until all factory reason has been given for the were keen on a visit by the pontiff. sation from Kharkiv, told friends in seized material would be returned to refusar' and therefore he cut his visit by Ukraine has an estimated 5 million Toronto that all copies of a Canadian him. In the telephone hook-up with his three days, returning to Paris on Mon­ Eastern Rite Catholics. This is a publication of his poetic works titled Toronto friends, the Ukrainian poet day, May 8. The trip to Kiev had been a controversial subject for Moscow, "Without Sword and Native Land"and stated his intention to commence a crucial leg in the archbishop's tour of which banned the Ukrainian Catholic an American edition published by hunger strike immediately to force a the Soviet Union, which began on April Church in 1946. Pope John Paul II has Suchasnist were seized by Soviet autho­ positive resolution to the impasse. 30, reported Agence France Presse. made it clear that any eventual papal rities at Sheremetievo Airport in Mos­ Mr. Sapeliak, 38, spent a decade of The archbishop said his Russian visit to the Soviet Union hinges on cow. imprisonment in forced-labor camp No. Orthodox Church hosts had said he officials lifting the ban on this Church. Among other items seized was the 36 in the Perm region of the Ural could not be properly welcomed in Kiev During his stay in the Soviet Union, five-volume edition of the "History of mountains. because of the absence of a senior the cardinal visited Moscow, Lenin­ Ukrainian church leader. grad, Riga, Vilnius and Kaunas. "The initial invitation was not com­ No details were available as to when Briefing covers Conference on Human Dimension pletely honored. 1 have not received Cardinal Lustiger would return to the by John A. Kun vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission enough of an explanation about the fact Soviet Union and Kiev. UNA Washington Office on Civil Rights, chairman of the More- land Act Commission on Nursing Kiev, where Mr. Kalynychenko be­ WASHINGTON - The U.S. De­ Homes and Residential Facilities, and Vitally Kalynychenko's... friended him. One day they decided to partment of State provided non-go­ president of Brandeis University. (Continued from page 1) go to Moscow and the Ukrainian passed vernmental organizations (NGOs) with Director Bohlen spoke on the "vital father was, but Vitaliy wanted to be just on his papers about his plans and his a briefing on May 8 about the upcoming role" the CSCE plays in East-West like everyone else. At the age of 16!^, he views to the American. Paris Conference on the Human Di­ relations. "It is now more important left his native village to attend a mili­ The serviceman left for the West and mension. The conference, scheduled for than ever. Human rights is one of the tary/naval academy in Riga. Here, he Mr. Kalynychenko decided to try May 30 through June 23, is mandated success stories of CSCE, it is an area did everything to hide his Ukrainian another route, via a student from by the Vienna Concluding Document of where the East must give attention to roots. "I was embarrassed to be Ukrai­ Ghana named Fitikh. Fitikh was going the Conference on Security and Coope­ Western concerns. We look to the Paris nian; 1 saw how Ukrainians and Byelo­ to London and was expected back in ration in Europe (CSCE). Conference to continue those success­ russians were discriminated against by Kiev on September 6, 1964; his mission Paris represents the first of three es," he noted. Russians, both teachers and students," was to contact the American service­ meetings of the Conference on the Ambassador-Designate Abram gave he recalled during a recent interview at man and tell him that Vitaliy was on his Human Dimension. Future meetings his thoughts on the CSCE process, the home of pastor Harry O. Wachs- way to the West. Through the student, are scheduled to be held in Copen­ saying "We have a long way to go to muth from the Valley Fellowship Mr. Kalynychenko passed along his. hagen in 1990 and Moscow in 1991. implement Vienna and Madrid (con­ Church of the Nazarene, the parish that diploma and other papers. During the course of these meetings, the cluding documents). The U.S. govern­ sponsored the Kalynychenkos to the September 6 came and Mr. Kalyny­ United States will seek a comprehen­ ment must be persistent, insistent and United States (see Weekly, April 16 for chenko got on the metro with his escape sive review of the implementation of relentless in pushing the Soviets to live full story). plans in his breast pocket; the last of the human rights commitments by the 35 up to the accords." Quoting President After completing the academy, Mr. arrangements were to be made once he signatory states of the Helsinki Final John F. Kennedy, Mr. Abram said, Kalynychenko entered the Kiev Insti­ saw Fitikh. Getting off the metro, he Act. "What is peace, but a matter of human tute of National Economy and con­ noticed one of Fitikh's comrades on the The session began with a key an­ rights?" sciously decided that he would begin his platform. As he made his way to the nouncement by Avis T. Bohlen, director Mr. Abram also praised the work of own process of Russification; he had as friend, a KGB officer nabbed him, of the Office of European Security and the NGOs in the CSCE process, for his goal to learn Russian perfectly, to be ready to take him down for questioning. Political Affairs, that Ambassador- their persistence in pressuring foreign a human being on the level of others in With various scenarios going through Designate Morris T. Abram had been governments, informing the U.S. go­ the Soviet state. "I didn4 want anyone his head, Mr. Kalynychenko asked to selected to head the U.S. delegation to vernment and focusing media attention to see even a trace of my 'khakhoP use a lavatory before the questioning the Paris conference. Mr. Abram was on human rights violations. accent,'' he said. "And so I became an began. He quickly flushed his plans recently designated by President George Paula Dobriansky, deputy assistant avid student of Russian, learning it so down the toilet, as well as a token to a Bush to be the U.S. representative to the secretary for human rights and humani­ well that I was able to distinguish a locker in the train station, where he had European Office of the United Nations tarian affairs, indicated that "the Paris Moscow accent from a Leningrad all of his belongings and necessities for located in Geneva. meeting is an opportunity to follow up accent. And this made me very happy." making a border escape. Mr. Abram's public career includes in a collective way on implementation But what did not make him happy The KGB officers produced the such positions as the chairman of the (of Vienna and Madrid documents). It was what he found to be the lies of the package of papers Mr. Kalynychenko National Conference on Soviet Jewry, (Continued on page 4) Communist system. The more educated had given Fitikh, and as a result of this he became, the more he began talking to evidence he was sentenced to four D.C. conference examines perestroika foreigners, many of them students in months in prison. On January 5, 1965, Kiev from Third World countries. The his mother came to pick him up and he by Maria V. Lischak Lefever discussed "Gorbachev's Unila­ more disenchanted he became with the returned to his native village of UNA Washington Office teral Initiatives," syndicated columnist ideology, the more frustrated he grew. Vasylkivka, with strict orders not to and former director of the U.S. Arms He burned his Komsomol card, but the return to Kiev for one year. With no WASHINGTON - The Ethics and Control and Disarmament Agency KGB soon found out about Vitaliy's future ahead of him, Mr. Kalynychenko Public Policy Center on April 17 spon­ Kenneth Adelman outlined "Three subversive thoughts, and decided to decided to go to Leningrad, where his sored an all-morning conference on Obstacles to Better Relations." He turn the situation around and have Mr. sweetheart resided. perestroika which was attended by 85 argued that steady, clear and deter­ Kalynychenko work for the secret Here he married this young woman, people. The conference marked the mined pressure must be applied on the police. Impressed with the contacts he and tried to resume a normal life, but publication of the center's new 26- Soviet Union to remove its military had with foreign students, the officers even in Leningrad he could no lon­ author anthology edited by Ernest W. presence in Eastern Europe, to take threatened to get Mr. Kalynychenko ger live in the Communist system^^ 'І Lefever, president of the center, and down the Berlin Wall, and to reduce kicked out of the institute if he did not remember, everything irritated me. I Robert D. Vander Lugt. their funding of military outposts comply with their plans. So, at the age had to go to work, become an actor at The new book, "Perestroika: How around the world. of 25, Mr. Kalynychenko found himself my job, live life hiding the fact that I was New is Gorbachev's New Thinking?" Mr. Adelman went on to assert that playing a high-stakes game. He would Ukrainian," he said. includes comments by statesmen, scho­ the U.S. must pressure the Soviets to meet with students and tell the KGB the ''And this became impossible, 1 lars and journalists such as Zbigniew respect the rights of their citizens, to truth about the conversations - some­ decided I had to leave the Soviet Union. Brzezinski, Vladimir Bukovsky, George allow more circulation of information, times. Sometimes he would make things I was obsessed with thoughts of the F. Kennan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry and to allow increased emigration. He up. West. My new bride and I decided that Kissinger, Jean-Francois Revel and emphasized that we must "hammer But the whole time he found this life she could not make the trip, and we Margaret Thatcher, among others. home on these three obstacles" to impossible, with no way out. "I had to divorced. 1 went on with my plans." He Mr. Lefever, commenting on the improved relations. escape. This was the only way out of my decided he would need some help once publication, noted that each author has He further stated that reforms are not situation." he decided. he made it to the West. Encountering ''adopted a wait-and-see attitude" taking place because Mr. Gorbachev He met an American serviceman, who Hutsuls in a Leningrad bar, thoughts on toward events taking place in the Soviet wants to reform, but that the USSR wound up in Moscow alter a drunken his roots were stirred up and he thought Union today. "must reform or become a third world brawl in Mannheim, West Germany, he should look up some Ukrainians, The first half of the conference country, with a [nuclear] bomb, in the and on the advice of the U.S. ambassa­ when he got to the West. focused on the defense and interna­ next century." dor took up the Russian language in (Continued on page 11) tional policy of the USSR. After Dn (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEtKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 No. 20

ment's concern about the visa denial to Briefing covers... the Lithuanian American group. Flag flap in Philly: Responding to a question from Rok- (Continued from page 3) solana Lozynskyj on the objections of Ukrainians await next step has ramifications on Copenhagen and many Ukrainian Americans to the 1991 Moscow." Moscow meeting, Ms. Dobriansky by Paul Dubiansky this particular flag was flying. Concerning human rights trends in replied that the Soviets would be judged According to city officials, this and the Soviet Union, Ms. Dobriansky on "standards of human rights perfor­ PHILADELPHIA -Takeawalk other incidents prompted the city to stated, "there has been a resolution of mance, openness, access and thematic along the Benjamin Franklin Park­ adopt the new flag policy. A press many cases, relating to divided families, issues." way in Philadelphia now and you'll release from the communications refuseniks, political prisoners and dual Jane Fisher, deputy staff director of hear little more than the roar of office of Mayor W. Wilson Goode nationals; but, a concentrated agenda is the Commission on Security and Co­ automobiles and the clanking of stated that the policy was developed ahead - thematic issues, questions of operation in Europe, stated that Sen. wind-whipped chains against the in consultation with the U.S. Depart­ religion, legal changes and reform." Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) and Rep. empty flagpoles that line this broad ment of State ''because of the emer­ With regard to Central and Eastern Steny Hoyer(D-Md.) would be attend­ thoroughfare. Indeed, there is little gence of Philadelphia as an inter­ Europe, Ms. Dobriansky indicated the ing the Paris conference, indicating the to indicate that this street was the site national city, which has established human rights record was mixed. In level of importance of the upcoming of an incident last summer that tested cultural and economic ties to other Poland and Hungary there has been session. the will of the Ukrainian community lands, and hosts thousands of foreign improvement and over-all progress. Ms. Fisher also announced that the and changed the way Philadelphia visitors each year...'' However, human rights violations Commission on Security and Coopera­ would present itself to the world. Ms. Hewka and other leaders of continue in Czechoslovakia, East Ger­ tion in Europe would hold a public Last summer, and during every the Philadelphia Ukrainian commu­ many, Bulgaria and Rumania. hearing on May 17 on "the changing summer since 1976, the flagpoles nity immediately began a letter- "Since Vienna," Ms. Dobriansky Soviet society" and invited interested along the Benjamin Franklin Park­ writing campaign and engaged in continued, "we have implemented the parties to attend. way held the standards of 74 nations quiet diplomacy with the city. At first CSCE mechanism in four cases: the Orest Deychakiwsky of the commis­ and nationalities whose people have the city^ representative refused to Soviet Union's visa refusal to a Lithua­ sion staff will serve as the NGO liaison made their home in Philadelphia. In meet with the community on the nian American group, a Rumanian in Paris. NGO participants planning to May, however, city officials removed subject and was quoted as asking denial regarding an exit visa, Czecho­ be in Paris for the conference can be in the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, "Why are you getting so upset? It's slovakia's trial and conviction of (Va­ contact with Mr. Deychakiwsky (202) along with the Armenian, Latvian, only a flag!" clav) Havel, and dissidents in Bulgaria." 225-1901 or with Susan Richwagen of Scottish and Welsh flags, from their When diplomacy failed, Ukrai­ She explained that these were not the the U.S. State Department's Office of poles as part of a new flag policy, nians took to the streets. In early only issues the U.S. State Department European Security and Political Af­ stating that only the flags of the 152 August about 75 Ukrainians, 50 was handling, nor was the CSCE me­ fairs. nations formally recognized by the Latvians and several Afghans pro­ chanism the only method of raising United States Department of State tested beneath the empty Ukrainian human rights violations with partici­ would now be flown. It must be and Latvian flagpoles on the parkway pating CSCE nations. Perth Amboy erects noted that very quickly the mayor on a sweltering Sunday afternoon. 'Taris will also allow us to address announced in the press that the "It was a good show of strength- failures in the mechanism process,"said Millennium statue South African flag, although for­ and unity. With only 24 hours'notice, Ms. Dobriansky in regard to the Soviet mally recognized by the U.S. govern­ we gathered that many people. We failure to respond to the State Depart- ment, would not be flown in Phila­ brought our national flags, the U- delphia. krainians wore embroidered shirts D.C. conference... In May, immediately before the and we our national costumes," said scheduled 1988 Soviet peace march Eriks Likums, a leader of the Lat­ (Continued from page 3) through Philadelphia, Orysia vian community. Another dilemma with which the Hewka, executive director of the The demonstrators were aided in Soviet government will be confronted, Ukrainian Educational and Cultural their cause when local TV station Mr. Adelman asserted, is higher birth Center, discovered that the Ukrai­ WTAF, Channel 29, sent its news rates in the non-Russian republics nian flag was down. She called city team to cover the event. This co­ which will cause increasing nationality officials and was told by them that verage led to an editorial on CBS's problems. the flag was taken down for cleaning. local affiliate, WCAU, by Stephen J, The second panel of the conference Not satisfied with his answer, Ms. Cohen, the station's vice-president included panelists Dmitri Simes, senior Hewka pursued the matter further. and general manager. Mr. Cohen's associate at Carnegie Endowment for Finally she learned that the flags editorial was broadcast three times International Peace; Ludmilla Alexe- were not just out for cleaning, but after the first demonstration. After yeva, commentator on Soviet affairs were down for good. A new policy that, the wire services as well as other for Radio Liberty; and Nicholas Eber- would soon go into effect. local media began calling. According stadt, research fellow at the American She also found out that the whole to Ms. Hewka "Mr. Cohen's interest Enterprise Institute. The three panelists issue arose in early 1988, when in our plight helped us a great deal." discussed domestic pressures arising Deputy City Representative and Mr. Cohen's editorial called for within the Soviet Union, including the Chief of Protocol Oliver Franklin the city to put the flags back up. change in politics as well as internal and hosted a Soviet delegation from "Let's call it our own simple foreign external economic factors. Leningrad and several religious policy message," he said. "Ukraine The featured speaker during the leaders who came to Philadelphia exists, its people are good Ameri­ luncheon was Dr. Kirkpatrick, for­ from the Soviet Union to mark the cans, and Philadelphians should fly mer U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and Millennium of Christianity celebra­ whatever flag they want on our presently a senior fellow at the Ameri­ tion. The delegates pointed to the parkway." can Enterprise Institute. Her overview Ukrainian flag and questioned why (Continued on page 13) and evaluation of \ erestroika focused on "Revisionism in the Kremlin." She maintained that Soviet leaders today are revisionists because they are de­ viating from Marxism-Leninism, indi­ cated by the factionalism that clearly exists today but did not exist at the beginning of the Gorbachev period. The former ambassador stated that Mr. Gorbachev is associated with one faction and Yegor Ligachev with another debating ''about the degree of deviation from Marxism-Leninism, openness and restructuring." She also said she believes that communism is in a "broad, comprehensive crisis — econo­ mic and political, social and cultural." In answering a question relating to the personality of the Soviet leader. Dr. Kirkpatrick stated that "the genius of This monument to St. Volodymyr Gorbachev has been to see a political as the Great was dedicated \n Perth well as an economic problem...[He] has Amboy, N.J., on April 2 by Arch­ a different sense of what is required for bishop-Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk his country...but we сапЧ conclude that of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in he's a nicer man [than his predecessorsj. the United States. The monument He's doing it because he wants to was a project In celebration of ше During the first demonstration in Philadelphia protesting the removal of preserve Soviet power and he's clever Millennium of UKraine's Christianity certain national flags (from left) are: Areta Harasymovych, Mohamed enough to know how to achieve ii. The organized by the Assumption of the Shahaleni (Afghan representative), Eriks Likums (Latvian representative) direction he is.moving is the only Ble^^^fl^Virgin Mary Ukrainian Ca- . ; , ,, ., and Orysia Hewka. J direction he рдд ir^ov^.J'V.. ^ tholic Church in Perth Amboy. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 ишіїишійшштіїшмт Youngstown to honor Oslaviany hosted at UNA headquarters building longtime UNA'ers YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The Youngstown UNA District's united branches will hold a "Recognition Dinner" on June 4 here at the Ukrai­ nian Orthodox Center. The purpose of the dinner is to honor active dues-paying rfiembers who have been in the Ukrainian National As­ sociation for 50 or more years. These are the people who became members of Soyuz early in their lives and have maintained their ties to the organiza­ tion. Approximately 50 members will be honored by the district and the Ukrai­ nian National Association. Supreme Vice-Presidentess Gloria Paschen of Chicago will be the main speaker and will present tokens of appreciation and recognition to each honoree. In addition to the 50-year members, leaders of each branch who have con­ tributed their time and effort for a long period and have showed exceptional leadership qualities will be honored. Estelle Woloshyn, president of the united branches, will send letters to the members to be honored. Family and friends of the honored guests may also During their stay in New Jersey, the Oslaviany Ukrainian Song and Dance Ensemble visited the Home Office of the attend at a nominal cost of S7 for a sit- Ukrainian National Association,sponsor of the U.S.-leg of their North American tour. The troupe, which hails from down dinner to be served at 5 p.m. the Lemkivshchyna area now part of Poland, is seen above with UNA supreme officers and representatives of Tickets may be obtained by contacting American Arts Cinema and Entertainment Enterprises, the agency that arranged their tour. The ensemble members branch secretaries. are wearing UNAT-shirts presented to them as souvenirs from the fraternal organization. The UNA district committee meetings Fraternal Corner by A ndre t/. Worobec Cleveland Anthracite area Fraternal Activities Coordinator PARMA, Ohio - The UNA District MC ADOO, Pa. - A meeting of the Committee of Cleveland held its annual Anthracite District of the Ukrainian meeting on April 8 here at the Andrey National Association was held on April Some ideas and reminders Sheptytsky Hall. 9, here at St. Mary's Ukrainian Catho­ Wasyl Liscynesky was re-elected lic Church hall. The meeting began with In this article I would like to share your questionnaire reporting on the chairman of the committee. Also elec­ a prayer for all members, living and some thoughts and include some re­ branch's fraternal activities during the ted to the executive board were Petro deceased, and the singing of "Khrystos minders for all UNA branch secretaries, calendar year 1989? I am still accepting Pengryn, secretary; Dr. Zenon M. Ho- Voskres." branch leaders and district leaders, and them. The deadline for submitting them lubec, treasurer; and Maksym Za- members. will be postponed one week to May 22. District chairman Tymko Butrej dojniy, controller. ^ Have you filled out and mailed in After that date I need time to submit my welcomed Supreme President John O. report to the National Fraternal Con­ The meeting was convened by Mr. Flis to the meeting. This was his first gress. However, until May 30 you may Liscynesky who welcomed the 28 UNA meeting in McAdoo. Father's Day still phone in your information to the representatives present and thanked Joseph Petruncio was elected as fraternal activities coordinator, at the them for taking time from their busy chairman of the presidium and minutes atSoyuzivi(a Main Office, (201) 451-2200, ext. 56. schedules to be present. He also of the preceding annual meeting were ^ Concerning the district commit­ acknowledged the presence of Dr. read. June 18 will be a notable day at tees, have you chosen your District Myron B. Kuropas, UNA supreme vice- Reports were presented by the district Soyuzivka for two reasons. First, Fraternalist of the Year 1988 and sent in president, Taras Szmagala, UNA officers, with each promising to work Soyuzivka will hold its annual his/her name and information about supreme advisor, and Genevieve Ze- harder in the ensuing year to increase Father's Day celebration. Second, his/ her accomplishment to the fraternal rebniak, an honorary member of the membership, and to hold more fraternal Bishop Basil Losten will pay Soyu­ activities coordinator? I will be accept­ UNA Supreme Assembly. activities. The districts organizing zivka a visit in order to bless Sich, the ing the names until June 30. Your In his report, Mr. Liscynesky mentio­ champ are Joseph Chabon, with 27 building which will house the resort's District Fraternalist of the Year will ned that his major function during the policies sold, and Margaret Hentosh summer employees. become a candidate for the UNA Fra­ past year was to successfully coordinate with nine policies. On Sunday, divine liturgies will ternalist of the Year, and the UNA's the Cleveland appearance of Oslaviany, Nomination of officers followed. be celebrated in the morning at the nominee for the National Fraternal the young folk ensemble from Michael Chomyn placed Mr. Chabon's Ukrainian Catholic church and the Congress Fraternalist of the Year. the Lemko region of Poland. As part of name in nomination as chairman of the Ukrainian Orthodox chapel. Bishop ^ Did you know that in addition to (Continued on page 12)' (Continued on page 12) Losten will officiate at the 10 a.m. the generous annual scholarships, the service at Holy Trinity Ukrainian UNA provides financial awards to top Catholic Church. graduates of Ukrainian high schools? It With thanks and appreciation There will be lunch, and at 1 p.m. is important to be aware of this fact as The Supreme Executive Committee hereby desires to thank the members of the ceremony to bless the building graduation bells will be ringing in our will begin. the Banquet Committee which helped to conduct the banquet com­ schools. Is every graduate of a Ukrai­ memorating the 95th anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association. At 3 p.m. a concert of music and nian school a UNA member? If not, he The banquet was held on the evening of April 1, 1989, at the Ukrainian dance is scheduled. Featured will be or she should be asked to join the UNA. Petro Marunchak's Ukrainian Folk National Home in New York City with the participation of over 250 UNA ^ May through September is a time members and friends. Dance Ensemble from Montreal, of the year when many outdoor activi­ The Banquet Committee, composed of members of New York UNA and the eight-voice Mriyi vocal ties are held. This includes festivals, District Committee, was responsible for the professional manner in which the ensemble of the Dumka Choir of picnics, sporting events, concerts, banquet was organzied and conducted. The Banquet Committee members New York. exhibits. What an excellent time for were: Michael Shpontak(chairman), Mychajlo Sawyckyj, Iwan Jaremczuk, All UNA members are invited to fraternal activity. It would be an excel­ George Kostiw, Stefan Chuma, Stefania Rudyk, Marijka Sheparowych, Soyuzivka. Branches and districts lent idea for branches to become in­ Iwan Choma, Myron Zalipsky, Iwan Wynnyk and Mychajlo Juzeniw. are urged to plan bus excursions for volved in the above type of activities. the entire weekend. Guests can take The Supreme Executive Committee extends its thanks and appreciation to advantage of lower off-season rates, It's a perfect occasion to display and the entire committee for a job well done. which are in effect at this time. So call encourage the Ukrainian heritage and (914) 626-5641 and make reserva­ culture. It is way of providing opportu­ Supreme Executive Committee tions at Soyuzivka for Father's Day. nities lor our youth to Decome involved Ulcrainian National Association (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 -. No. 20

NEWS AND VIEWS Ukrainian ІА/ЄЄУУ United States Information Agency: More defamation still a bastion of Russophilism? Recently, thanks to UNCHAIN (Ukrainian National Center: History and by Dr. Frank Sysyn special policies and materials for a Information Network), Ukrainian community activists were made aware of a political entity of 50 million and a legal memorandum submitted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to the In 1987, the United States Informa­ language spoken by more than 40 U.S. attorney general. The purpose of the memorandum, prepared by a New tion Agency (USIA) planned an exhibit million are not tenable. York-based law firm, was to demonstrate that the U.S. Immigration and "Information USA" to tour several An immediate campaign is needed to Naturalization Service is "misapplying the appropriate standard in its Soviet cities, including Kiev. The agency overcome bureaucratic resistance and determinations of the refugee status of Jews,'' The memorandum, notes hired 20 to 30 Russian-language inter­ outdated foreign-policy thinking. What HIAS's letter to Attqrney General Richard Thornburgh, '4races the history of preters from the U.S. to serve cities such should be done? as Kiev, Tashkent, Minsk and Tbilisi. anti-Semitism in the USSR and points out the context in which individual ^ I. The Ukrainian information applicants must be evaluated.'' The agency thought it sufficient to find one or two "local" language speakers to agencies. The Washington Group, and The document argues that Jews still have a "well-founded fear of other national organizations should persecution" in the USSR and that a "presumption of persecution" should be take into account the non-Russian character of these republican capitals. approach the USIA immediately to find applied when Soviet Jews'applications for refugees are reviewed. Part of the out the exact plans for the Ukrainian memorandum is a 12-page "Discussion"on "The History of Anti-Semitism in After a major campaign by academic and Ukrainian community institutions, cities and the procedures for hiring the Soviet Union" (although the report covers this history beginning in tsarist interpreters. times). For some reason, Ukraine is singled out for special mention. "In the the USIA sent some of its own em­ Ukraine there were over 2,000pogroms in 1918- I92!,"it states unequivocally. ployees so that four of the 27 guides in ^ 2. Academics and organizations A little further down, the report notes. "When tsarism fell in 1917, one of the Kiev were Ukrainian speakers. The should contact Bruce Gelb, USIA first acts of the Provisional Government was to abolish all legal restrictions Ukrainian-speaking guides were con­ director (United States Information on Jews. The October Revolution proclaimed national rights for Jews and stantly surrounded by large groups and Agency, Washington, D.C. 20547) and recognized Jewish people as a nationality in the Soviet Union." (How the the Ukrainians in Ukraine viewed even Ambassador Jack Matlock (American October Revolution could recognize a nationality in the Soviet Union is this token gesture as a sign of increasing Embassy, Moscow, APO New York another matter; perhaps such misinformation is due to the fact that this report American understanding of the multi­ 09862) to point out the importance of was prepared not by historians but by lawyers.) Not a word here about the national nature of the Soviet Union. using Ukrainian in Ukraine in this age Ukrainian National Republic that recognized Jews as an important minority Two years later, much has changed. of glasnost and perestroika. Specialists in Ukraine, issued documents and currency in Yiddish, and guaranteed them During perestroika and glasnost the who have addressed this issue, such as equal rights. republics are obtaining greater auto­ Zbigniew Brzezinski, might be enlisted The next mention of Ukraine comes during the section about the Nazi nomy, and movements for the increas­ in this effort. invasion of the USSR: "... some Soviet citizens joined the Nazis in their ing use of non-Russian languages exist attempts to exterminate the Jews. Mass machine-gun executions were in all republics. Lithuanian, Latvian ^ 3. Community organizations conducted by the Germans and their allies in cities (sic) such as Odessa, Babi and Estonian have been declared the should turn to their senators and Yar and Minsk. In the Ukraine, the Organizations of Ukrainian Nationalists official languages of these republics, congressmen to urge the USIA to vowed obedience to Hitler and a Europe free of Jews; many Ukrainians joining Georgia and Armenia, where establish the procedures needed to volunteered for Hitler's SS. Even today, the Ukrainians are among the most such status already exists. Similar ensure that Ukrainian will be the virulent anti-Semites in the Soviet Union." No mention here of the legislation is being drafted in Ukraine primary language used in Ukrainian chauvinistic and anti-Semitic Pamiat organization active today in the and Byelorussia, and is expected to be cities. Well-informed officials such as Russian SFSR. enacted by the fall. Sen. Bill Bradley could be very valuable The report concludes: "The memories of the pogroms, of the Pale (of Much has changed, except in the in this effort. Special attention should Jewish Settlement), of the Ukraine, and of Stalin do not fade." thinking of the USIA. be paid to congressmen who serve on It is obvious, upon reading the entire report that Ukraine and Ukrainians A new exhibit, "Design USA," will be committees dealing with American are portrayed in a biased manner, and that the research for the legal sent to nine cities, probably including foreign policy and funding of the USIA. memorandum was shoddily prepared. Asa result of such carelessness — if not Odessa and Donetske. Twenty-four Russian-speaking guides have been ^ 4. Baltic, Armenian, Byelorussian malice — an entire nation is being unjustly defamed. and other organizations should be Ukrainian community organizations including UNCHAIN and the hired. It appears that the USIA will once again resort to only token use of approached to join in the lobbying Ukrainian National Association, through its Washington Office, are already effort. busy preparing reactions in an effort to undo the damage done to the Ukrainian. The USIA's justification Ukrainians in this report, which has been distributed within the Department will be that this is less expensive, that ^ 5. The Ukrainian American press of Justice and other offices of the administration, as well as the Congress. they are unsure what cities will be should publicize widely for Ukrainian Persons interested in supporting these activities are hereby urged to contact included until the last minute, and that speakers to apply for translation posi­ UNCHAIN and the UNA Washington Office. they must serve the entire Soviet Union. tions. The defamation of our nation is an issue that affects each and every one of Paradoxically, in 1989, when legisla­ tion is being drafted to make Ukrainian ^ 6. A standing group should be set us — and our children. It's time we all become actively involved in combatting up to assist the USIA in dealing with such disinformation. (Well keep you posted on further developments.) the state language of the Ukrainian SSR, the USIA will appear to be an ad­ Ukraine. It should concern itself with vocate of Russification. It is essential providing links to Ukrainian-speaking that the Ukrainian American commu­ interpreters, assisting in translating nity act decisively to avert this blunder materials, advising on projects such as for American foreign policy. I propose producing a Ukrainian-version of the Turning the pages back... the following principles: USIA journal Amerika. The Harvard ^ 1. All guides for the Ukrainian Ukrainian Research Institute would cities should be Ukrainian speakers. seem to be the best organizing institu­ Other languages of the Soviet Union tion for such a group. The Harvard On May 17, 1984, Literaturna Ukraina reported the death (Russian, Polish, Yiddish, etc.) should Ukrainian Summer Institute :ould of Borys Antonenko-Davydovych at the age of 84. The be used depending on the circumstances. serve to train the growing numbers of translators and interpreters whr will be newspaper, an official publication of the Ukrainian Writers' ^ 2. All materials should be available Union, carried a tiny notice of the death at the needed as contacts with the Ukrainian in Ukrainian, including the main catalo­ SSR increase. bottom of one of its back pages; a somber ending gue. for the writer and journalist, who was an active ^ 3. All American officials visiting ^ 7. Official and unofficial organiza­ participant of the post-1917 renaissance of Ukrai­ the exhibit should use Ukrainian-speak­ tions in Ukraine should be contacted to nian culture, and an inspiration to the literary ing interpreters. express their views to the USIA. In generation of the 1960s. 9 The USIA should deal directly particular, the Shevchenko Society for Born on August 5, 1899, in Romen, Poltava with officials and institutions in U- Ukrainian Language in Ukraine should region, Mr. Antonenko-Davydovych studied kraine, not just through Moscow. take up a position about the language natural science at the University of Kharkiv and ^ 5. The USIA should adopt a policy used in USIA exhibits. philology at the Kiev Institute of People's Educa­ that the national language should be the Requests should be made to Voice tion. primary mode of its communication in of America and Radio Liberty to A contemporary of such Ukrainian writers as each of the republics. inform their listeners about this issue Mykola Khvyliovy, Mykhailo Ivchenko, Andriy ^ 6. The special nature of Ukraine and the actions of Ukrainian Ame­ Holovko and Evhen Pluzhnyk, Mr. Antonenko- should be recognized as the site of a ricans. Davydovych gained prominence in 1928 with the publication of his novel "Smert" future consulate, a member of the What is needed is a policy statement (Death), which was sharply criticized for nationalism. It told the story of the United Nations, and one of Europe's by the highest level in the USIA and the betrayal of his nation by a Ukrainian intellectual who becomes a Communist. He largest and most populous countries. State Department. It must be made was again accused of nationalism for his book of travel vignettes, "Zemleyu Any excuses that the USIA cannot form clear that this is not an issue for the Ukrainskoyu" (Through the Ukrainian Land, 1930). Ukrainian American community alone. Arrested in 1935, he was imprisoned until 1956, and exiled to Central Asia. Dr. Frank Sysyn is an associate of the Use of the Ukrainian language in Rehabilitated, he returned to Kiev where a volume of his short stories was Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, dealing with Ukraine is in the best published in 1959. During revival of Ukrainian art and Hteratn-^Jn th^ 1960s with who is currently at the Kennan Insti­ interest of people-to-people communi­ (Continued on page 11) tute, Woodrow Wilson Center. cation and of American foreign policy. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989

NEWS AND VIEWS Faces and Places Defamation of Ukrainians seen by Myron B. Kuropas in memorandum issued by HIAS Ukrainian bashing continues by Bozhena Olshaniwsky dable that our lawmakers strive to faci­ litate Jewish immigration to the U.S. When 1 first read the press release "Your information is different from Defamation of Ukrainians in the from the Soviet Union, but why does issued by the Ukrainian National Cen­ ours," I countered. "Ukrainians coming United States has been occurring for the background material have to be at ter: History and Information Network here, especially our human rights acti­ quite some time — peaking during the our expense? Why portray Ukrainians (UNCHAIN) regarding a report sub­ vists, tell us a different story. They years of the John Demjanjuk court as anti-Semitic villains? mitted to U.S. Attorney General Ri­ speak of Ukrainian-Jewish coopera­ trials in the United States and Israel. The following has been excerpted chard Thornburgh by the Hebrew tion." Those who think that the defamation from the HIAS document: "In the Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), I was and unpleasantness associated with this incredulous. "Human rights activists are diffe­ Ukraine there were over 2,(Ю0 pogroms rent," Mr. Freedman responded. "They trial can be wished away with the "Not again," I thought. "Not another between 1918-1921... The pogroms did do not reflect the sentiments of the erosion of time are finding out different­ bashing of Ukrainians by a supposedly not subside at the turn of the century." Ukrainian man-in-the-street. There is a ly. reputable Jewish organization." And further: "In the Ukraine, the long history of anti-Semitism in U- A piece of evidence of a well-en­ I asked UNCHAIN President Bo­ Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists kraine. Ukrainians collaborated with trenched Ukrainophobia may be found zhena Olshaniwsky to send the complete vowed obedience to Hitler and a Europe the Nazis. They joined the SS." in a report issued by the Hebrew report. She did, I read it, and now I'm free of Jews; many Ukrainians volun­ "Ukrainians in the SS fought the Red Immigration Aid Society (HIAS) to prepared to add HIAS to the growing list teered for Hitler's SS. Even today, the Army," I argued. "The Ukrainian SS of Ukrainophobic organizations in the U.S. Attorney General Richard Thorn- Ukrainians are among the most virulent unit 'Galicia' was investigated by the Jewish community. burg. A law firm which prepared this anti-Semites in the Soviet Union." Deschenes Commission in Canada. report based it on sources authored by The statements in this report single The report is the resuh of a visit to the They found no record of war crimes. writers such as Gittelman, Dulzin, out Ukraine and Ukrainians out of U.S. Attorney General's Office last Some 7 million Ukrainians died as a re­ Freedman, Korey, Kochan, Okuneva historical context in order to pin collec­ January by HIAS officials concerned sult of the Nazi invasion. It's the Soviets and others, using them as authorities on tive guilt on them. This comes at a point with the U.S. denial of refugee status to who have perpetrated the lie that Ukrai­ Jewish history during the past two in time when statements by Pamiat, a 683 Soviet Jews in Rome. nians were Nazi collaborationists and centuries. virulent anti-Semitic, chauvinistic Rus­ Jew-killers." ' sian organization in the Russian Fede­ To qualify as a refugee, one must The detriment of such a document to demonstrate a well-founded fear of the Ukrainian community cannot be rated Soviet Socialist Republic, are "If anyone knows about Soviet disin­ openly reported in the Soviet press. persecution. With the onset of glasnost formation, it's us," retorted Mr. Freed­ minimized. This February 1989, 53- and perestroika some INS officials have The HIAS document further states: man somewhat testily. page document (plus over 80 pages of apparently begun to question the con­ "The memories of the pogroms, of the At that point our discussion began to enclosures) was sponsored by HIAS tention that all Soviet Jews are "refu­ Pale, of the Ukraine, and of Stalin do deteriorate. I informed Mr. Freedman and the Legal Council for Soviet Jewry. gees" and not simply immigrants seek­ not fade." The linkage is perceptible. that I would be writing a column about It was submitted by the legal firm of ing a better life in the U.S. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and UNCHAIN (Ukrainian National the HIAS report and urged him to Jacobson of New York to the Depart­ Center: History and Information Net­ The distinction between refugee and respond to The Ukrainian Weekly. He ment of Justice and other representa­ work) will prepare and issue responses immigrant is significant because the promised he would. Both of us agreed that it was important to continue the tives of the U.S. government in order to to the appropriate authorities in order former receives benefits from the U.S. dialogue. facilitate Jewish immigration to the to clarify and correct the historical government, while the latter does not. distortion and misrepresentation of the United States from the Soviet Union. To prove that all Soviet Jews, espe­ TheHIASreportis typical of how one­ facts. A flurry of new immigration legisla­ cially those from Soviet Ukraine, are sided some Jewish "research" on Ukrai­ Insulting and defamatory remarks tion in both houses of the U.S. Con­ indeed in danger of persecution - and nians is. It relies exclusively on Jewish directed toward Ukrainians should not gress ensued as a direct result of this do­ hence eligible for refugee status - sources and the kind of "visceral" anti- go unanswered. UNCHAIN is orga­ cument. The UNA Washington Office HIAS and the Legal Council for Soviet pathies many Jews have cultivated nized to combat the defamation of reports with precision on these newly Jewry sponsored and sent a 53-page against Ukrainians for generations. Ukrainians and appeals to concerned proposed laws in the May issue" of The document (plus 80 pages of enclosures) Totally ignored are the countless ex­ individuals and organizations to help in Ukrainian Weekly. It is commen- to the Department of Justice and other amples of Ukrainian good will and co­ these endeavors. representatives of the U.S. government. operation over the centuries, as well as Bozhena Olshaniwsky is president of For further information write to Prepared by the legal firm of Fried, the fact that Ukrainians have rarely the Ukrainian National Center: History UNCHAIN, P.O. Box 300, Newark, Frank, Harris, Shiver and Jacobson of been in command of their political and Information Network. N.J. 07101. New York, the document argued, destinies. When they were, as during the among other things, that: days of the Ukrainian National Re­ public, Jews were accorded a significant ^ "In the Ukraine, there were over role in the governing body of the Ukrai­ ACTION ITEM 2,000 pogroms between 1918-1921." nian government The April issue of Smithsonian Magazine contains an article by ^ "In the Ukraine, the Organization Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, "Keeping the faith in the USSR of Ukrainian Nationalists vowed obe­ Like the eadier reports of the World after a thousand years." In this article there are numerous references to dience to Hitler and a Europe free of Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defama­ milleiyiial celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church and, that Vladimir's Jews; many Ukrainians volunteered for tion League of B'nai B'rith, the HIAS contacts with Byzantium launched "Russia's first crash project: transplanting Hitler's SS." report appears to be part of a calcu­ the art and architecture of Constantinople to Kiev." There are also references lated defamation campaign against all to "Russia's first icon painters in medieval Kiev." ^ "Even today, the Ukrainians are Ukrainians. As readers of this column Letters should be written to: Smithsonian Magazine, 900 Jefferson Drive, among the most virulent anti-Semites in know, I have often written that the Washington, D.C. 20560. the Soviet Union." slander originated and was orchestrated The first two statements were attri­ by the KGB. Vehement denials by Eli - Submitted by Larissa M. Fontana, Ukrainian American Community buted exclusively to Jewish sources. Rosenbaum and other Jewish leaders Network of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. The third had no attributed source of have convinced me that it is no longer any kind. controlled by the Soviets. I now believe Chornobyl is manifest from the title of I called the HIAS office in New York the ahti-Ukraiman campaign is a phe­ New evacuations... the seminar - "EuroChornobyl"- but and spoke with Phil Saperia, the execu­ nomenon which may have originated in (Continued from page 2) at the same time it amounts to some­ tive vice-president. Without wishing to the USSR but which is now maintained remained a source of concern, and while thing of a diversion from the issues at engage in a long, drawn-out telephone by that segment of the Jewish community Mr. Umanets stated that the problem of hand. After the Chornobyl explosions conversation regarding the first two which needs to find villians in order to "liquidating the consequences of the occurred, one recalls, the authorities points, I was, nevertheless, interested in remind the Jewish people that they can accident" would not be completed for at commented that the disaster illustrated the documentation for the last state­ never feel secure because "the enemy" least a century, in some quarters, the the wisdom of Mikhail Gorbachev's ment. Mr. Saperia was polite, empha­ always lurks just outside the gates. anniversary date and events did not policy of removing all nuclear weapons sizing that HIAS was not interested in arouse much concern. At the comme­ from the face of the earth by the year slandering any group. He referred me to 1 have little quarrel with Soviet morative meeting in Minsk, for ex­ 2000. Ed Freedman, director of political Jews receiving refugee status, as long as ample - in the republic most affected Three years later, the theme of a affairs and coordinator of the Legal other groups receive equal treatment. by radioactive fallout - no government "common European home" and de­ Council for Soviet Jewry, By the time I The cost to the American taxpayer or party functionaries were in atten­ bates on conventional warfare, using called Mr. Freedman, he had been would be substantial but the United dance. Chornobyl as the unifying factor - the apprised of my interest. States is, after all, a haven for the In Kiev on April 25, an international evidence of what might happen in a war 1 came right to the point. "What is homeless. I just resent some Jews conference began with representatives situation - almost overshadow the your documentation for the...conclu­ wiping their feet on my community from 17 countries, including the United increasingly formidable obstacles now sion that Ukrainians are among the every time they need to conjure up States and Canada, that is studying the being raised by the nuclear fallout. virulent anti-Semites?" I asked. another threat to their people. It may effects of conventional war in Europe, In short, in some official circles at "We have the documentation," re­ produce greater group cohesion and looking at factors such as the density of least, there appears to be more concern plied Mr. Freedman. "Every Jew; that funds for Jewish causes, but it is no way nuclear power plants. with an imagined future scenario than comes out [of Soviet UkraineJ confirms to win friends and influence others. All That such a meeting is being linked to with the results of an actual disaster. the fact...It's a visceral thing." hatred has its price. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14. 1989 No. 20

BOOK REVIEWS

has you seeing in your mind's eye the Even the title of the book comes from Ukrainian Canadian women's poetry individuals about whom she writes. In "silent Sundays" being mentioned in '"Yevhenia," "Kateryna," "Mykola^and two very different poems by each writer. Land of Sikni Sundays, by Chrystia Hnatiw, Gloria Kupchenko Frolick, Lydia "Mykhailo," she has a way of making In writing about people, each is so Palij, Stratford. Ontario: WilliamS' Wallace Publishers, 1988. 77 pp. you feel the longing, the sorrow of what precise and so painfully true to the by Orysia Paszczak Tracz was lost in that last war. In an untitled character, that 1 want to know more This collection of poetry is by three poem, in his nursing home room, old about these people - who were they, Ukrainian Canadian women of diffe­ Petro puts away a dime "into a tin box what happened to them? Then, Ms. rent generations a^d backgrounds. overflowing with other dimes and other Frolick and Ms. Palij write about Gloria Kupchenko Frolick is a child of reasons," after trying in vain to reach Toronto. western Canada, whose parents were РЯРН of Ніч three sons on Christmas — There is a unifying thread in the pioneer teachers in Alberta. Lydia Palij "there must be a reason they're not works of each of the three poets. was born in Ukraine and arrived in here." Through what is said, and left unsaid, it Canada as a teenager after World War Her first poem in the collection is obvious that each has suffered a loss II. Chrystia Hnatiw was born in Slo­ irritated some readers in Toronto. Its of someone close. No details are pro­ vakia during the war, and arrived in message was lost on them. It is to a vided, but there is a sadness, a longing, Canada with the "new" immigration. Jewish friend, and talks about the and a personal loneliness coming across. Their poetry is sensitive, subtle, often Great Famine and the Holocaust, and Except for a few typographical errors, very moving, and reflects the expe­ the futility of now counting who had which should not appear in contempo­ riences of people living in one land, but more dead. rary books, "Land of Silent Sundays" attached by the heart and soul to Ms. Palij's poems are more introvert­ is nicely presented, with a color cover by another. ed than the other two writers'. There is Mary Firth. Black and white inserts by Personally, I found myself drawn to little about other people, more about Vera Yurchuk illustrate each section, the works of Ms. Hnatiw and Ms. her own feelings and expressions. Of the but they are small. The paintings look Frolick. While I am of the same genera­ three women, she is the one who remem­ so interesting that I would have liked to tion as Chrystia Hnatiw, and therefore bers Ukraine, longs for it, and yet she is see them larger. have similar experiences (for example, the one who writes about Lake Ontario, wondering about the grandparents I Toronto and the Humber River. Her I have reread this book many times, never knew), I really have little in writing is more abstract, more figura­ have enjoyed it, still see the images common with Ms. Frolick and her the 1930s and 1940s - even one about tive. "Seed of Pain" is especially intri­ created - and hope that there are many Canadian generation. And yet, her her mother in 1915 — give a moving, guing. She translated all of her poems in more works where these came from. poem "I Remember" about how her unidealized glimpse into history. Two this collection from Ukrainian. Seventy-seven pages is not enough - father mourned his Ukraine could have poems are about a friend, a child Other than all being women and all maybe now a separate collection of been written about my father. survivor of Auschwitz who commits being Ukrainian, it would seem that poems from each writer? Ms. Frolick's two poems about Wil­ suicide in Canada. these three poets should have nothing in "Land of Silent Sundays" is available liam Kurelek show us another side of Ms. Hnatiw's poems pack a mean common. And yet they do, especially for S 10.95 (Canadian) from Williams- the artist, and her observations about punch - but ever so gently. In very few Ms, Hnatiw and Ms. Frolock, born on Wallace Publishers, P.O. Box 756, Ukrainian life in the Canadian West of words, she moves the reader deeply, and different continents decades apart. Stratford, Ontario, N5A 4AO.

cribes Volodymyr's conflict against the son, Sviatoslav, the Seer, the Kievan Historical drama about St. Volodymyr circumstances which intervene between boyars, the elders and the townsmen. Volodymyr Velykyi/Volodymyr the Great by Miroslawa Lassovsky-Kruk. him and a goal he has set for himself. Even Father Gregory, a Christian English translation by Anna Stepaniuk Trojan. Toronto: 1988. 95 pp. The characters of Sviatoslav, Olha, priest who accompanied Princess Olha Malusha, Rohnida, Dobrynia and the to Byzantium, tacitly gives in during his by Dr. Wolodymyr Zyla pagan high priest. Seer, are also well discussion with Sviatoslav and offers The Millennium of Christianity in delineated and solidly grounded for his blessings to the prince, his wife, Ukraine, celebrated in 1988, has stimu­ development of their moral nature, Malusha, and their unborn child. Thus lated numerous works of art, from icons personality and appearance. Their there are a number of obstacles which through music, to literature of various actions are clear and consistent. Some slow down the process of Christianiza- kinds. Among them is a historical of them are very convincing and lifelike, tion, but they also help to crystallize the drama in three acts, ''Volodymyr especially Sviastoslav. ultimate goal which Volodymyr sets for Velykyi/Volodymyr the Great," in a Princess Olha is radiant, a well himself in the remaining acts. Millennium edition of 1,000 numbered balanced character, full of grace, know­ In Act II the character of Volodymyr copies. ledge and deserving of respect. A develops, his popularity grows, and Written by Miroslawa Lassovsky- woman of about 50 years of age, Olha Christian ideas gain more power in the Kruk and translated into English by Anna ruled Ukraine from 945 to 964. When struggle with paganism. The declara­ Stepaniuk Trojan, this work appears in many of her retinue are enraged by tion by the Seer that "there are more of both Ukrainian and English, side by Byzantium's humiliation of her coun­ us who worship our ancient gods. I ... side, on double-column pages. A well try, she speaks prudently: "We have no shall never cease to believe in Dazhboh known Ukrainian playwright and nove­ need for their destruction, but of their and Perun," cannot stop Volodymyr in list, Ms. Lassovsky-Kruk is the author knowledge, for knowledge is the most his determination to see his land Chris­ of three other dramatic works. ("The powerful of weapons." tian one day. The break between Volo­ Oracle of the Old Oak," 1956; "The One will likewise find a very ad­ dymyr and his wife, Rohnida, a deter­ Icebreaker," I960; "The Poet and the mmww шкнп mirable character in Malushr (who is 17 mined pagan, culminates the crisis of Devil," 1963; and two novels "Under years old in Act I and 49 in Act III). She the main conflict. Black Skies," 1966, and ''Vibrant \\^ШЖФ.Е^ІЖ is the mother of Volodymyr. When she In Act II, Volodymyr's character Youth," 1982, all works written in persuasive drama. discovers herself pregnant with Volo­ reveals traits which make him resemble Ukrainian.) She has received three The work is primarily a realistic dymyr, she exclaims, "I couldn't be a present-day ruler. His statement: "It is literary prizes from the.Ivan Franko drama in which we witness a powerful happier. I only fear that my happiness is difficult to give life. It is even more Ukrainian Literary Fund in Chicago. conflict between paganism and Chris­ too great to be real." The Polotsk difficuh to preserve it. Honorable and Somehow the subject of Volodymyr tianity. The immediate subject is love princess, Rohnida, is the wife of Volo­ wise counsellors, Christ taught us to the Great has attracted very little and valor, heavily influenced by the epic dymyr, but a totally different type of forgive. He himself forgave the thief," is attention from Ukrainian playwrights. form. It includes a warrior-hero, Volo­ person, an ardent pagan, who "shall a notable example. He wishes "to issue a We know of only two other authors who dymyr the Great, whose actions decide never allow her children to be chris­ decree by which criminal acts are to be have tried to portray this great states­ the fate of the Kievan state. The play is tened." She would gladly kill Volo­ punished by fines." Another example of man. In 1705 Teofan Prokopovych written in an elevated prose style, except dymyr and cause him pain, which will contemporaneity in his attitude is the wrote in verse his tragicomedy "Volo­ for the verse prologues which introduce bring her pleasure, because this is the way in which he handles his wife. She dymyr." The work, however, proved each of the three acts. There are no long only means of revenge-uj^oft her hus­ promises him that her "vengeance shall unsuitable for staging because of its lack monologues; even the dialogues consist band. be terrible! It shall descend upon his of dramatic appeal. Nevertheless, over of short sentences, terse, but pleasant The unity of action in the play is sons ." Yet he, medieval ruler though he the years, it has attracted the attention and musical. preserved despite the fact that there are is, after some contemplation asks of many literary scholars. The cast of characters is extensive, some 32 years between the time of Act I himself "Shall I punish her? Lord God, In the 1930s Vladislav Kovalchuk although many of them are presented and that ofthe final two acts. The action give me strength to forgive my ene­ wrote the play "Volodymyr Velykyi," only in outline without much indivi­ throughout is linked primarily through mies!" which was probably intended for the dualizing detail. The chief character is the Seer, the chief antagonist, Dobrynia The introduction of Olaf Tryggva- commemoration of the 950th anniver­ Volodymyr, who is portrayed elabo­ and Malusha. The conflict of forces son, the crown prince of Norway, in Act sary of Christianity in Ukraine. rately and colorfully. His determina­ between Christianity and paganism II, ushers in a note of ceremony and Thus, in her undertaking, Ms. Las­ tion to Christianize Ukraine is clear and commences in Act 1. The forces of the national prestige. It shows that Vt)lo- sovsky-Kruk had very little literary strong. He says; "I pray often. Pro­ former are visibly represented, mainly dymyr associated himself with Western material to build upon, and had to rely strating myself I pray for the sins 1 have by Kniahynia Olha, and these forces royalty who were Christians. Olaf upon her own genius. Her resulting committed. I ask for wisdom, to help me suffer defeat when confronted by paga­ appears as a good friend of Volodymyr. interpretation of the history involved instill in my people faith in the One and nism. Their friendship started in Novhorod, has generated a vivid, interesting and Only God." The author skillfully des­ Ranged against Olha are her own (Continued on page 15) No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14. 1989

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR the accuracy of this account might nizers meet. Contacts with Stefania the ghetto and immigrant frame of mind UCCA actions due inquire of His Excellency Bishop Basil Sichko, Stepan Sapeliak and the like we it had sunk into. Losten, who chaired each session. encourage. Despite our endeavors, including a to pragmatism The Ukrainian Liberation Front Some of the other allegations in Mr. lot of effort to combat the anti-defama­ Dear tditor: (ULF) is the major underpinning of the Sich's letter are too incomprehensible to tion campaign which began in Great The Ukrainian Congress Committee Ukrainian Congress Committee of rebut. Indeed, it takes a truly fertile Britain three years ago, we have been of America (UCCA) decision to recall America. If this is what Mr. Sich implies mind imbued with considerable malice attacked, banned from buildings and its negotiators from talks with the in his letter then, at least in this regard, to concoct an allegation that ''The publications, and vilified by slanderous Ukrainian American Coordinating he is accurate. However, such has been Liberation Front looks upon itself as whisper campaigns. At various times I Council (UACC) and neutral organiza­ the case for the last 40 years. The bulk of freely entitled to change and to control have been accused of being a "Leftie- tions is a prudent one, based more on the programs carried out by the UCCA not only a person's allegiances and Melnykite-Dviykar-CIA agent" (the the pragmatic organizational needs of was through its branches in which behavior as a political being, but also Soviet press meanwhile continue to the UCCA rather than on the ideologi­ overwhelmingly the most active and his readings, his tastes and in some cases insist that I am a member of OUN). cal convictions of its member-organiza­ dedicated workers were also members even his religious orientation." Sadly Since an interview appeared in the tions, as was erroneously suggested by of the ULF. The 13th Congress of the this is symptomatic of the writer's total special Millennium publication we Alexander Sich in his April 16 diatribe UCCA and the attendant rift merely disregard for the truth, produced last year where one critical in The Weekly. highlighted this undeniable reality. 1 hope that Mr. Sich's infortuitous remark was made about the Society of While negotiators met off and on for Predictably, not much has changed letter and distorted vision of the ULF St. Sophia/ Ukrainian Catholic Univer­ more than eight years in New York since that watershed Congress. The and the UCCA constitute only a lack of sity building in London (that the ULF deciding how to best accommodate the salient cause for the abysmal failure of credible information. Members of the controls) we have been banned from it. internal rift following the 13th Con­ the Ukrainian American Coordinating Ukrainian Liberation Front stand All attempts at compromise and gress, the UCCA's National Executive Council in functioning as a genuine ready to assist him in furthering his conciliation on our part for an entire Board policy emphasis during this central representative organization, edification regarding the role of the year have not managed to awaken the hiatus period has gradually shifted from "umbrella" if you like, is its minimal ULF in the development and streng­ Christian charity that people who run a role of internal affairs coordinator for grass roots support. How many thening of the Ukrainian American these religious institutions are supposed the Ukrainian American community to branches does the UACC have? community and its efforts to assist the to possess. Their actions make a more of a role as external affairs On the subject of ideology, the national liberation struggle in Ukraine. mockery of any academic credentials it spokesman for community concerns. Ukrainian Liberation Front's political We have no other wish but to cooperate alleges to have and merely add to the This policy shift is in line with the platform is inherent in its name. It's as constructively as possible with all poor image Ukrainians already have in changing dynamic occurring within the particularly important to emphasize other strata of the community in fur­ the British community as "political Ukrainian American community, i.e., a this name today in light of the "capitu- therance of this purpose. extremists." desired emphasis on external rather lationist" positions of groups in the Askold S. Lozynskyj The blame for this state of affairs than internal affairs, and quite logically Ukrainian American community pro­ New York rests squarely upon a small clique who - more community dollars being spent pounding the perpetuation of a "union" run the ULF along the same lines as any in Washington rather than in New between colonial Ukraine and imperial anti-democratic and intolerant political York. Russia. One would have thought that at Great Britain party. If they were to go, my discus­ The move to recall its representatives this juncture in the tragic history of sions with Ukrainians of all generations from the bargaining table underscores Ukraine, such notions sourced in per­ and the ULF and of all political views indicates to me the UCCA's seriousness in reorganizing nicious or naive motivation would have Dear Editor: that we would have no problem in its day-to-day operations to deal more been put to rest. Some assert that a I agree wholeheartedly with the cooperating together for the general effectively with eternal community polemical discussion on this subject is criticism levelled in Alexander Sich's good of Ukraine and the community. issues and concerns. worthwhile. letter (The Weekly, April 16) which is Until glasnost and perestroika reaches As an alternative to the negotiation Yet the Ukrainian nation has pro­ more evident within the Ukrainian them, and I fear they are as antagonistic process, the UCCA resolved at its nounced itself on this subject in unmis­ community in Great Britain than towards it as is Scherbytsky, then the February meeting that the best way to takable terms - with blood and human elsewhere. The activities of the Ukrai­ problems Mr. Sich and I have outlined approach the problem of unification is life - on January 22, 1918, in Kiev, on nian Liberation Front (ULF) which led will remain. to do so on the grass-roots level. This March 14, 1939, in Carpathian Ukraine to the division within the Ukrainian Meanwhile, the nature and develop­ would allow all community interests and on June 30, 1941, in Lviv. While community in the U.S. are a reflection ment of the national-democratic move­ and organizations to come together at talk of confederation and federalism are of that which took place in this country ment in Ukraine and its interaction the 16th Congress of Ukrainian Ameri­ a tactic for some in Ukraine, within the in the late 1940s. with the Ukrainian democratic emigra­ cans in 1992 and elect a new executive emigre community this minimalist Since 1949 the Ukrainian community tion is making the ULF all the more body. This is without a doubt a more approach is seen by many as an end in in Great Britian has been divided irrelevant, both in Ukraine and in the democratic approach towards solving itself. between the Association of Ukrainians West. the unification problem as opposed to The Ukrainian Liberation Front (a member of the ULF) and the Federa­ Taras Kuzio the "troika-brokered" approach being seeks independence for the Ukrainian tion of Ukrainians (all non-ULF politi­ London promoted by the Ukrainian American nation. If the minimalists wish to be cal groups and Orthodox Ukrainians). Coordinating Council. enslaved they have the right to offer If Ukraine today is the last reservoir Congratulations Myron Wasylyk themselves for servitude to foreign for the Brezhnevite dinosaurs, as a Member, National Executive Board oppressors. But they have no right to British newspaper recently stated. Great to Alexander Sich impose their will to be enslaved upon Britain remains the home of the Ukrai­ Ukrainian Congress Committee of Dear Editor: America the Ukrainian nation. nian ideological museum where time has stood still since the 1940s. With great interest I read the letter to Washington With reference to cultural exchange, the editor by Alexander R. Sich of Mr. Sich fails to distinguish between Mr. Sich's description of the ideology Cambridge, Mass., (The Ukrainian officially sponsored cultural exchange which underpins the ULF is entirely in Weekly, April 16) under the title "Libe­ Sich's letter: programs with representatives sanc­ keeping with what we have experienced ration Front cause of problem." tioned by the colonial administration in in Great Britain. The result has been a The author is a very good observer of disinformation Kiev and contacts with Ukrainian bitterly divided community and Ukrai­ events in our society and as a defender Dear Editor: patriots. nian Catholic Church (the ULF orga­ of democratic and Christian principles For Alexander R. Sich (The Weekly, The ULF does oppose official meet­ nized a boycott of the established describes the characteristics and ele­ April 16), no distortion is too gross, no ings with representatives of the Ukraina Ukrainian Catholic Church for 12 ments of the Liberation Front. ' fabrication too farfetched and no invec­ Society, Ivan Dzyuba and the like. years) which has had a profound impact Because of their ideological orienta­ tive too outrageous. These people are merely propagandists, on the second-generation Ukrainians tion they do not support the Ukrainian On September 1, 1988, representa­ some of whom may or may not harbor a born here. Thousands of young Ukrai­ Encyclopedia published by the Shev- tives of the Ukrainian Congress Com­ Ukrainian spirit. At the same time, we nians have been lost for good to the chenko Scientific Society in Sarcelles, mittee of America (UCCA), the Ukrai­ do not condemn Ivan Dzyuba because community in this country, and its France, or Harvard projects and Ukrai­ nian American Coordinating Council he found himself under difficult circum­ future survival placed in jeopardy nian studies at Harvard University. They (UACC) and the "neutral" organiza­ stances and lacked the political forti­ because of the activities of the ULF. did not support a demonstration in 1983 tions concluded an agreement subject to tude to stand firm on his earlier posi­ A number of years ago a large group by Ukrainians in Washington in order to ratification by their respective mem­ tions. of young Ukrainians in the London memorialize victims of the Great Fa­ bers. Unfortunately this "agreement of However, we do condemn sponsoring region decided to break away from the mine in Ukraine, the holocaust of 1932- reasonable men" was unreasonably a conference with representatives of the political stranglehold that the ULF 33, they do not support the U.S. Con­ abrogated by the leadership of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations holds over the larger of the two com­ gressional Commission on the Ukraine UACC. All subsequent negotiations for the purpose of establishing econo­ munity organizations it controls, the Famine. For the same ideological were intended to resurrect the settle­ mic ties with Soviet Ukraine. The association. We formed a neutral politi­ reasons they are against negotiations to ment of September I, but at each purpose of such a conference is twofold: cal and religious organization called the create one united central coalition. personal financial aggrandizement of Ukrainian Graduates and Professionals negotiating session, the UACC repre­ It is strange that the Soviets, too, are sentatives grimly restated their leader­ the organizers or assistance to Gorba­ Association, modeled on the American against these matters. chev's frantic efforts to resuscitate the and Canadian Ukrainian professionals. ship's intransigent unwillingness to do Mr. Sich's letter was written, I as­ so. Consequently, settlement talks were Soviet Union's moribund economy and We have remained the largest and sume, by a young man with a good terminated when it became evident that thus to preserve the empire. Such most productive second-generation world view. I wish to congratulate him no progress was being made. motivation is particularly repugnant Ukrainian group in the London region for this splendid letter. My source in this regard is personal when Ukrainian patriots in Ukraine are working for the general good of the knowledge, having attended every being bludgeoned and imprisoned by community attempting to take it both Dr. Roman Baranowskyj session. Anyone wishing to corroborate the very regime with which these orga­ into the 20th century as well as out of Kerhonks^n, N.Y. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 No. 20

FOCUS ON ГНЕ ARTS CONCERT REVIEW: Slobodyanik Ukrainian Canadian composer at Ukrainian Institute of America Lubomyr Melnyk to perform

by Oles Kuzyszyn against the other. That elusive coupling by Lida Syrotynska of colossal technique and gift for It was to no one's surprise that melody, so indigenous to Mr. Slobo­ NEW YORK - The Ukrainian com­ Alexander Slobodyanik's recital at the dyanik, came to full bloom in this poser Lubomyr Melnyk will give a Ukrainian Institute on Sunday, April compelling work. concert of his piano works at the 23, attracted an audience which filled all The second half of the program Ukrainian Institute in New York City. three rooms of the second floor to well featured the works of Chopin and Liszt, This will be Mr. Melnyk's first concert over capacity. This was to be the only and it was here that Mr. Slobodyanik annearance in New York. New York recital of a pianist hailed by mesmerized the audience. In Chopin's Born in Munich after World War 11, respected music critics nationwide as Fantaisie — Impromptu, Scherzo No. 1 Mr. Melnyk has lived mostly in Ca­ one of the world's best, in a program as in В minor, and Polonaise in E-flat nada. In the mid-70s, Mr. Melnyk challenging as one could expect to hear major he showcased some brilliant developed a unique and unprecedented anywhere. passagework so elegantly phrased that musical "language" for the piano, based A rather personalized reading of even the rest seemed to take on more on tonal harmonies/melodies that are Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibi­ than a strictly rhythmic significance. sustained in time. One critic has likened tion" opened the evening, i.e. one in Throughout, the melodic line seemed to the result to "the Prelude to Lohengrin which the pianist seemed to be striving evolve as if spontaneously, taking on an re-created for the piano." Another critic to uncover some hitherto undiscovered improvisational character. Dynamically, referred to "a waterfall of sound that secret in the work, rather than capi­ the pianist's ability to play pianissimo resembles a rumbling organ or an entire talizing upon its familiarity. Mr. Slobo­ and yet project to the very last seat in the orchestra." dyanik opted for subtle shadings of tone house was uncanny. Mr. Melnyk has recorded about 20 of and some rather novel phrasings, rather Liszt's "La Campanella" and "Tran­ his works for the Canadian Broadcast­ scendental Etude" No. 8 in C minor than the more conventional "fire and ing system, as well as six LP records on proved to be a tribute to Mr. Slobo­ brimstone" approach. Given the pro­ the Bandura label of Toronto. He has dyanik's endurance, as the pianist was Lubomyr Melnyk gram of the work (Mussorgsky was also performed and recorded for Euro­ able to elevate the intensity level of the inspired by a posthumous exhibition of pean radio stations. In 1983, he was the Mr. Melnyk has devoted many com­ evening one last time in a stunning paintings by his dear friend Victor only Canadian musician to perform at positions to Ukrainian themes, with display of virtuosity. These works of the Hartmann, which took place in St. the International Society of Contempo­ music for Shevchenko's "Poslaniye"as composer who is generally regarded as Petersburg in 1874), Mr. Slobodyanik's rary Music in Denmark. well as a concert-requiem for the 8 ''alternative" interpretation is both the ultimate test for pianists were million Ukrainians murdered in 1932- fresh and contextually appropriate. delivered by Mr. Slobodyanik with a He has also created a large repertoire 1933. Lyatoshynsky's Sonata-Ballade, Op. power and self-assurance that very few of two-piano compositions that have At this New York concert, he will 18 (1925), fared well in the hands of Mr. pianists could rival. been likened '4o the sound of two perform a piano work titled "A Portrait Slobodyanik, who only recently had At the demand of the extremely trickling brooks running harmoniously of Petliura on the Day He Was Killed," added the work to his repertoire. Within enthusiastic audience, Mr. Slobodyanik side-by-side." Mr. Melnyk is considered one of his most moving and melodic the one-movement sonata,, sections of added a short Shostakovich work as an to be an extraordinary and innovative pieces. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. at the dramatic intensity and poetic lyricism . encore, bringing to a close what turned pianist, with music that both broadens Ukrainian Institute, 2 E. 79th St. in New co-exist, and Mr. Slobodyaniak suc­ out to be one of the highlights of the the listeners' horizons and appeals to a York, on May 20. For further informa­ ceeded brilliantly in playing off one Ukrainian Institute's musical season. wide variety of public. tion, call the UIA, (212) 288-8660.

e The UNA is inviting its members to Forestburg - Glen Spey, N.Y. Some ideas... Les Taniuk... attend its annual Father's Day celebra­ (Continued from page 2) COTTAGE (Continued from page 5) tion at Soyuzivka on June 18. Bishop Kurbas, it should be noted, was an with 50 ft of lake front, 2 bedrooms, living in concerts, folk dancing, as well as Losten will bless the new summer em­ outstanding actor and theater direc­ room, new eat-in-kltchen, remodeled bath­ sporting events. It's an occasion for ployees' quarters. (More information tor of Ukrainian avant-garde theater room. 16 ft X 16 ft + new roofed pDrch. Ukrainian artists to display products of on this event appears in a separate who was repressed during Stalinist Owner asking Ї75.000. . his/her artistic labor. It's an excellent article.) time. According to the Encyclopedia (914) 638-2181 opportunity to conduct fund-raising for of Ukraine, ''It was at the Berezil ^ Remember, the aim of the fraternal charity, church and other good causes. Theater in both Kiev (1922-1926) and activities office is to encourage its Here is the perfect means for a branch in Kharkiv (1926-1933) that Kur- members and branches to become more or a district to become more financially bas's creative genius became most De Robertis Pastry Shoppe, fraternally active. Being active benefits self-reliant and raise funds for its evident." 176 First Ave. (Between 10th 8i 11th Sf s), fraternal activities program. Remem­ both the community and the UNA. The "In 1933, Kurbas, his ideas and his Manhattan, looking for ber, the Main Office provides assistance UNA gives a lot to the Ukrainian dynamic, innovative and often con­ when the branch shows initiative in community, but does need support COUNTERPERSON fie WAITRESS troversial productions were con­ fraternal activity. from it. for lull or part-time employment, must demned as nationalist, rationalist, formalist and counterrevolutionary. speak English, come in and fill-out UKRAINIAN The more support the UNA gets from Employment Application. the Ukrainian community the more it In October he was dismissed as the (212) 6747137 TYPEWRITERS can give back to it. So support the UNA director of Berezil, and all of his also other languages complete by becoming a member. If you are one productions were banned from the line of office machines fii Soviet Ukrainian repertoire. He equipment. already, then become an active member. JACOB SACHS moved to Moscow, where he was arrested in December and impri­ LAW 251 W. 98th St. New York. N. Y 10025 WANTED soned on the Solovets Islands. He Tel. (212) 222-6683 EAST VILLAGE SUBLET was last heard from in 1937," the OFFICES 7 days a week encyclopedia notes. Ukrainian PhD. student in finance doing Letters in defense of Mr. Taniuk of research on Wall St. seeks a sublet (w or wo roommates) for June, July, and Aug. Ukrainian and in support of his idea to establish UKRAINIAN POLO SHIRTS area prcf. Please call Basil at (617) 661-4188. a Les Kurbas theater in Kiev, were and SWEATS AVAILABLE sent also by the Friends of Ukrai­ ZENON B. nian Theater (in North America) and WITH TRYZUB EMBLEM the New York Group of Ukrainian Colors Navy, Royal, Yellow, Lt. Blue MEET NEW FRIENDS, RENEW OLD writers. MASNYJ Sizes S.M.L XL ACQUAINTANCES! Mr. Taniuk is currently writing on (212) 477-3002 Polo Shirts: Price 26.00 US. 32.00 SIXTH ANNUAL the theater and drama for various Can. CLUB SUZIEQ publications, writing scenarios and 140-142 Second Ave. Sweats Price: 20.00 OS. 26.00 Can. preparing plays for publication. Postage 3.50 per Order VACATION WEEK AT SOYUZIVKA Recently he was officially invited New York, N.Y. 10003 by York University in Metropolitan AUGUST 12-19, 1989 California Residents Add бУо Tax Toronto to participate in a conference PURCHASE AND SALE OF CO-OPS, A gathering place for young Ukrainian pro­ CCNDOS, HOMES, REAL ESTATE FOR Send Orders With Check/Money fessionals (age 25 and up) from across the of Canadian Slavists to be held in early June. hiVLSFMENT PURPOSES, NEC. WITH Order to: U.S. and Canada. (Not for singles only!) According to a story in News from ::-^:RNMENT AGENCIES, SMALL TRIDENT APPAREL CO. For info., call (eves): Halya Duda (203) 6587775, Julie Nesteruk (203) Ukraine. Mr. Taniuk presided at the ;K;0 MEDIUM BUSINESSES, PER- P.O. BOX 91837 953-5825, or George 8к Anisa Mycak inaugural conference of the Ukrai­ LONG BEACH, CA. ^-\!AL INJURY ACTIONS, WILLS, ETC. (718) 2637978. nian Memorial Society on March 4 90809-1837 -i^n Kiev.' ' - ' ^ -^^^ ^.^^ ^ -. . No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14. 1989 11

Horyn brothers, Bohdan and Mykhailo, political prisoner, who also was sen­ who no longer speak Ukrainian, but Vitally Kalynychenko's... Levko Lukianenko, and other political tenced to imprisonment for planning to they feel Ukrainian and as they see (Continued from page 3) prisoners, former members of the escape from the Soviet Union. It was matters moving along in other parts of "So, 1 started learning about Ukrai­ Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this man that inspired true patriotic Ukraine, they are inspired. Eastern nians. I took out an encyclopedia bv ymino япН olH nrtnnctc O1;VP feelings in many prisoners, according to Ukraine is awakening. We have young Yedokynenko, turned to the letter U and "There were these people, there was an Mr. Kalynychenko. Mr. Klymchak people and students attend our meet­ started reading. 'Ukrainian bourgeois idea, and I became a patriot. And this is designed a monument to a free Ukraine, ings because they want to have a forum nationalists/ it said. how I emerged from camp, 10 years which includes a 100- to 300-meter to voice their concerns," he said. "Later when Yedokynenko came to later, a nationalist. After my release, I Dvramid-like structure, surrounded by "No one believes in perestroika... to the labor camp, where I served my had my ideas of what Ukraine should be kalyna bushes and willows/poplars, because there has been too much term, I told him, you Ye the one who like and I saw that the reality was a long and topped off by a tryzub. inertia, and no signals have come from made me into such a nationalist," he way from this ideal - and this was not He also clearly remembers Vasyl the Kremlin regarding Ukraine, and the recalled. enough for me. So what could I do? I Stus, a victim of the Soviet labor camps, bureaucratic party apparatchik in "1 made my plans to escape via joined the human rights movement. At a man who embodied the Ukrainian Ukraine... In Ukraine, the movement Leningrad and Murmansk, and from this point, (Oleksa) Tykhy was already spirit. "It was for him that we named a has to come from the ranks, from the Murmansk to Norway. This was my in prison, Lukianenko and (Ivan) society of Ukrainian language in Khar- people and therefore it must be a route. I studied the bus routes carefully, Kandyba were active in the Ukrainian kiv, for this great poet; and sometime I patriotic movement," he concluded. I mapped out a plan, made clothes that Helsinki Group. I became a member of feel guilty that we did not do his "Fate has brought me here," said Mr. would make me resemble a Murmansk the group in October 1977 and signed a memory justice by naming our small Kalynychenko. It was always my dream resident, and began my attempts." series of documents on behalf of the group in his honor. Now Kharkiv is left to be in America, and it is exactly like I July 10, 1966, was the start of Mr. UHG. I could not live life in the system with no one, as its leader Stepan pictured it," he said. "However, I am Kalynychenko's third and final try to and I was ready to become a sacrifice for Sapeliak is currently in the States and not happy. I would have been happy if make it across the border. He remem­ our cause. If 1 could not leave the Soviet Canada (he returned to Ukraine on I had come here as a young man, but bers eating his last meal offish, thinking Union, I wanted to work for the Ukrai­ May 4) and I have emigrated." now I feel that I could have done more to himself, well, this is the last meal I nian national movement." "But I do see that the people of in Ukraine today. I am not happy. I am will eat in this Communist regime. In November 1979, Mr. Kalyny­ eastern Ukraine are also demanding sorry that I left Ukraine at this time, but "Walking 10 days toward the border, chenko was arrested again. He was tried more rights for the language and that I must say, Yaryna helped me with this counting the trees, memorizing the in May 1980, found guilty of "anti- leaves me with an optimistic feeling," decision. It was for her I decided to landscape, I already felt that internal Soviet agitation and propaganda" and said the secretary of the Kharkiv Ukrai­ emigrate now," he said, referring to his freedom," he said. labelled an especially dangerous re­ nian Helsinki Union. young bride. "In my head, I had memorized a cidivist, sentenced to 10 years of impri­ The Kalynychenkos were married in sonment in a special-regimen camp and "We may not move as quickly as they June 1988; their wedding ceremony was map; і saw the lake, I knew once I do in western Ukraine, in Lviv, but I reached that and a road, past it, I'd be five years of internal exile. celebrated by the Rev. Ivan Senkiv, a During this time he became friends sensed the same kind of mood at our Ukrainian Catholic priest. Mr. Kalyny­ almost in Finland. I had my compass, I meetings in Kharkiv (he points out that aimed it West. with Bohdan Klymchak, a Ukrainian chenko, 52, and his bride, Yaryna, 29, they have two unofficial societies, met soon after his release from prison in "I already saw the signal wires, and Spadshchyna and the Vasyl Stus Ukrai­ April 1988. He came to Kharkiv to visit thought to myself, should I cross it nian Language Society) as we had at the friends, met Yaryna and never left. She stepping over, or crawling under, being Honno... (Continued from page 1) initiative meeUng of the Taras Shev- was studying languages at Kharkiv tired, I thought Fd cross under. I got chenko Ukrainian Language Society in University, and had always hoped to past those wires and saw border towers, went surgery and six weeks of radia­ tion therapy at the Children's Hospi­ Kiev," he reported. live in America, where she could perfect and these I crossed. By that time, my "I must point out that the loss of one's her language skills. heart was pounding quickly... I thought tal late last summer. Although Dr. Packer reported in a language is not the loss of nation," he It was fate that brought them to- to myself Vm hearing the strokes of said, "for, in Kharkiv there are many gether, they concurred. hammers working, but it was my heart. May 10 telephone interview that "Hanna is doing quite well," he said "Fifteen meters from the border, I that the little girl suffers chronic Turning the pages back... saw a guard, he looked at me, and problems with a "low-grade scalp turned away... Seconds were ticking (Continued from page 6) away, and I spotted the second guard, infection." As a result Hanna was who saw me; then both guards aimed hospitalized on May 8 for two weeks the rise of dissent, Mr. Antonenko-Davydovych fell out of official favor and he their automatics at me. I raised my of treatment with intravenous anti­ signed numerous appeals and protests, most notably the "Appeal of the 139" to hands above my head; they were young biotics. Leonid Brezhnev in 1968, which was signed by scores of leading Ukrainian guards and they were nervous, but I let Hanna undergoes regular check­ intellectuals. them tie my hands together and they ups at the hospital's neuro-oncology His best known post-war novel, "Za Shyrmoyu" (Behind the Screen, 1963) was gained confidence, and led me away." clinic every six weeks, said Dr. also harshly critized for deviating from the principles of socialist realism. He Packer. Every three months the continued writing, and left two unfinished novels when he died. Collections on This scene has probably gone through condition of her tumor is examined literary topics, literary criticism and on linguistic themes also appeared from the Mr. Kalynychenko's head thousands of with a type of brain scan called a early 1960s through 1970. times. If he had stepped aside, hidden Magnetic Resonance Image, or Mr. Antonenko-Davydovych was married twice, and had intentions to marry behind trees, would life have been MRL Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska, a literary scholar and niece of Ukrainian writer different for Mr. Kalynychenko? It was During her small birthday party in Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, but died before he took his constant companion as his fate, he claims. the family's apartment, Hanna blew wife. He was sentenced to 10 years of out the three candles on her cake with Mr. Antonenko-Davydovych had one son from his first marriage, Levchyk, who imprisonment for "treason" in a camp great pride. Although partially pa­ of severe regimen. His sentence was died as a youth of blood disease. He had one son, Evhen, with his second wife, ralyzed on her right side, she tries to Hanna Antoniva. She died at the age of 53 in a psychiatric hopsital where she had published in samvydav,and read: "...led use her right arm whenever she can an improper mode of life, taught the been confined for some time because of mental illness. He also had a daughter, with her parents' encouragement. Yaryna, who was his first wife's daughter from a previous marriage. reactionary philosophy of existentia­ Supported by her mother's arms the lism ... resulting in the appearance of spirited little girl also tries to walk. anti-Soviet sentiments ... Destroyed his "Intellectually Hanna is progress­ If" UKRAINIAN SITCH SPORTS SCHOOL |Г^ Komsomol membership card ... began ing very well," said Dr. Packer. And to form a plan for escaping across the Wt^Jm An Unforgettable Learning Experience ^^^ indeed Hanna is bright and alert, and LEARN: SOCCER, VOLLEYBALL. SWIMMING or TENNIS FROM AN border ... Publicized facts ubout certain reveals a playful sense of humor. instructions given to him in matters OUTSTANDING STAFF THAT HAS BEEN HANOPICKED TO WORK WITH Her prognosis however, is guard­ ALL AGES A ABILITY GROUPS concerning the committee of state ed, said the doctor, and the tumor is Ages 6-16 security CKGBJ..." relatively unpredictable. ''We, of Place: "Verkhovyna" Resort, Glen Spey, N.Y. And in the camps he began to see the 1969 1989 course, hope it remains in remission When: July 23 - August 19, 1989 truth. "I saw that 60 percent of all politi­ for as long as possible." ^^^ cal prisoners were Ukrainians." Register now - Capacity is limited - For information write to: At first he decided to be a model Ukrainian Sitch Sports School prisoner work conscientiuosly in hopes HURYN MEMORIALS 680 Sanford Avenue m Newark .N.J. 07106 that he would get his sentence reduced. FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE However, this did not happen and so in MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ the mid-1970s, he decided to change his TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA VIDEOTAPES VIDEOTAPES tactics and give up his passive anticipa­ of New York including Holy Spirit in MILLENNIUM OF CHRISTIANITY IN UKRAINE tion of his release. He began to pursue a H^mptonburgh, N.Y., St. Andrew's in South Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in September 1988 new course and set his hopes on a return Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery to freedom through protesting the in Gten Spey. New York. original pretext for his arrest. CZESTOCHOWA CELEBRATIONS He sent an appeal to the Soviet l^e offer personal service A guidance in your Two VIDEO TAPES of processions, sermons, liturgies home. For a bilingual representative call: government and to the Human Rights and concerts, are now available Commission at the United Nations, IWAN HURYN protesting the view that his distaste for P.O. 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Cleveland Dr. Kuropas congratulated Bohdan period which followed, one branch Still another UNA member wondered Semkiw, secretary of Branch 240; secretary suggested that rate books be about having to pay income taxes on (Continued from page 5) for enrolling five new members published in Ukrainian. "This would annual endowment policy benefits on a his report, Mr. Liscynesky suggested during 1988. Also recognized by Dr. help us in our work with those Ukrai­ policy he had taken out for his grand­ that the business agent for all such Kuropas were Mary Kapral and Jerry nians who have arrived most recently," child with a one-time payment. That future appearances of Ukrainian Ficher, who recruited four new mem­ he said. "And if we have another mass could have been avoided, he was ad­ cultural ensembles be a Ukrainian. bers, Wlademir Wladyka for signing up immigration, it will help even more." vised, had he provided his grand­ "Our people worked hard to house and three new members, and Nicholas Another secretary suggested that the child's social security number rather host these fine young people," he said, Bobeczko, Petro Babych, Genevieve UNA offer broader insurance coverage than his own. "'but our community realized little Zerebniak. . Stephanie Bohanek and - medical, auto and home protection financial benefits. This is not right." A Wolodymyr Stryhun for enrolling one policies, for example — to its present The meeting ended with a delicious spirited discussion followed. member each. and new membership. buffet. In his remarks to the meeting. Su­ "But all is not rosy," Dr. Kuropas UNA rates are more than competitive preme Vice-President Kuropas empha­ insisted. "Our Ukrainian institutions with the commercial companies, he sized the positive aspects of UNA life are experiencing a membership crisis," Anthracite area stressed. during the past year, especially its he said, "and few of us have any viable (Continued from page 5) Mr. Flis presented the newly elected financial growth. Dr. Kuropas also suggestions on how to stem the tide. district, which seconded by Walter district chairman with a check for the stressed the many donations the UNA There is little danger the UNA will Salak. district's organizing award. has made to various community organi­ disappear in the years ahead because Mr. Butrej's name was placed in In 1988, the UNA suffered a loss of zations and individuals. "We've awar­ our financial base is solid," Dr. Kuropas nomination for re-election to head the 2,178 members. The Anthracite District ded 5115,000 in scholarships to worthy concluded. "It's our membership that district, seconded by Mary Petruncio. is eighth on the organizing list of 30 Ukrainian students," he declared, "and troubles me. Forty years ago, we were Mr. Chabon was elected as chairman of districts. Mr. Flis stressed that the UNA 580,000 to scientific and educational saved by a mass immigration. It can the district. is looking for full- or part-time profes­ organizations. We can also be proud of happen again if things continue to Other officers of the Anthracite sional salespersons. the fact that we responded to the improve in Ukraine and we are pre­ District of the Ukrainian National The UNA Washington Office is now Armenian people during their terrible pared to handle still another mass Association for 1989-90 are as follows: fully operational, Mr. Flis said. He also earthquake with a donation of immigration." Mr. Petruncio, first vice-president; gave a detailed report on the 511,500." During the question and answer Mrs. Hentosh, second vice-president; mcome of the UNA, whose assets are Helen Slovik, secretary; Adolph Slovik, growing beyond expectation. He con­ treasurer; and Mr. Chomyn, chairman cluded by reporting that the 1990 ACT IN TV COMMERCIALS -of the auditing committee. convention will be held at the Hyatt No Experience Mr. Flis addressed the officers and Regency Inner Harbor Hotel in Balti­ members attending the meeting. In more. Children, Teens, Young Adults, Families, 1988, he stated, 1,161 new members Mature People, Animals, Etc. were organized for insurance coverage A question and answer session of 58,051,000. The average policy was followed. The district's next meeting CHARM STUDIOS S6,934. Secretaries are now selling will be in Frackville (tentative date: policies in higher amounts. October 22). CAU NOW! Out of 17 branches in the Anthracite Mr. Chabon then made a motion to District, eight are not active and have adjourn. 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AVENUE A CORNER commerce. It was a tug-of-war be­ Flag flap... VESELI NOCHI High rise construction in area, very clean tween the Soviet superpower and a (Continued from page 4) six story apartment building. Sstoresand small Philadelphia immigrant com­ Records S( tapes S 10.00 U.S. to 20 apt's, private bathrooms, marble After various negotiations with the munity." U.K. RECORDS stairs, tile halls, metal doors, ^4 oil. Rents city and a CBS-TV editorial response At least some eyes in the Soviet P.O. Box 297 5109,000. Price 5995,000.00. by Ms. Hewka, which was aired three Union were focused on this battle. In Liverpool, N.Y. 13088 times, no progress seemed to have a somewhat ironic twist to end this Band Reservations: been made. A second protest was DOMINIC PACCIONE - tale, an article appeared in the 1315-468-0088 organized for September 2, 1988. September 8, 1988, edition of the (212) 6777120 The Armenian community was con­ Soviet newspaper Radianska U- tacted, as well as the Puerto Rican kraina (the very day the flag was back community. Their flags too, had, in place), praising Philadelphia been removed. ''We intended to officials for removing the Ukrainian muster up the communities one at a flag. "This 'nationalistic' flag, which time. We tried to find leaders of the has been discarded onto the trash- Scottish and Welsh communities heap of history by the Ukrainian also," Ms. Hewka said. "Fortuna­ people, had earlier flown with the tely, no more were needed after the flags of many other countries along second demonstration." the entire parkway..." the article The second protest was held out­ stated. "Contrary to sane reasoning, side City Hall, and apparently the this had lasted for many years, until protesters were close enough this at long last, the officials of this time for Mayor Goode to hear. "The American city came to their senses mayor called me two weeks ago and and made a decision not to hang the said the issue would be resolved 'separatist' flag." Regarding the within 24 hours," Ms. Hewka said Philadelphia city officials' decision UKRflininn after the second protest. "Гт still not to raise the flag of the "nationa­ waiting." lists," the paper contends this deci­ The mayor's office announced sion does credit to the city. soon after the second protest that the As unlikely as it is that the city ever flags would be ''grandfathered" and considered Radianska Ukraina's line рєяпті put on a rotational basis, each of the of reasoning in formulating the now- approximately 154 flags flying every defunct flag policy, it is apparent that SATURDAY SUNDAY other year. "ГИ only believe it when 1 Ukrainian communities throughout JULY 1, 1989 JULY 2, 1989 see it," Ms. Hewka said, "but if it's the free world face the daunting true, we'll party on the parkway." challenge of educating public offi­ UKRAINA COUNTRY CLUB And so what was planned as a cials on the possible duplicity of third demonstration turned into a Soviet tactics. festive affair on September 25, under This victory by Ukrainians and all LONDON, ONTARIO the flags many had fought to win of Philadelphia's ethnic communities back. is more than a symbolic one. It sets a "We were planning a sit-in at the precedent which will not allow the mayor's office if the second demon­ glasnost machine to whitewash the stration didn't work," Mark Mom- worst of Soviet intentions. KVITKA UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL jian, a Philadelphia attorney and R.R. i1 (GORE RD.) Armenian leader, recalled later. DORCHESTER, ONTARIO NOL 1G0 Instead there was champagne, bal­ ADMISSION AT THE GATE (PER DAY) S10.00 To order tickets on Mastercard or Visa call 1-519-659-2963 loons, song and dance. Join the UNA PHONE (519) 659-2963 After the sense of elation had passed, many realized that the city's plan was just a quick fix to a bigger problem. Councilman Thatcher Longstreth presented a resolution calling for the mayor to decide what criteria the city would follow in choosing which flags would fly. Mr. Longstreth noted in his reso­ lution, for example, that flying the ST. VLADIMIR INSTITUTE ІНСТИТУТ CB. ВОЛОДИМИРА flags of all countries recognized by "SUMMER STAGE '89'' <> the State Department, in addition to PURPOSE ЦІЛЬ КУРСІВ those taken down, resulted in several '^To enable students to acquire new skills in performance and Дати учасникам можливість набути знання і практичипн inconsistencies. Displaying the flag production under the direction of theatre professionals. досвід у різних галузях театральної постановки та виконай: я of the USSR, he said "turns a blind під керівництвом майстрів сі^ени. eye to the continuing efforts of Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians and DATES ЧАС others to free themselves of Soviet ''This intensive 2-week series of classes and workshops will take Програма навчань триватиме від 30-го червня до 16-го лип; я domination." place from June 30 to July 16, 1989 (inclusive). включно. In addition, it should be noted, the TOPICS TO BE COVERED ПРЕДМЕТИ НАВЧАННЯ U.S. has never recognized the an­ - Voice ' Set/Costume/Props - Голос ' Декорації/Костюми/ nexation of the Baltic states therefore ' Movement ' Stage Make-Up/Mask work ' Рух/Жести Буфаторія it is not clear why the Latvian flag " Electronic media ' Music ' Електронні засоби ' Грим/Маски ' Text/Scene study ' Playwriting ' Завчання ролі/Інтерпретація ' Музика/Звучні ефекти should have been removed if indeed ' Освітлення/Звук ' Драматургія the city was following State Depart­ ' Lighting/Sound ment guidelines. SUMMER STAGE '89 ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІ ЗА <<ЛITHЮ СЦЕНУ 89>> The resolution was passed by the Мистецький керівник: City Council and the ball is now in Artistic Director: Андрій Тарасюк Mayor Goode's court. So far no policy '"Andrey Tarasluk А дміністратор: has been announced by Mr. Goode, but Administrative Co-ordincitor Дарія Дяковська a positive step has been taken with an '^Daria Diakowsky invitation by the mayor to meet PLACE Місце quarterly with the ethnic groups to ''The Residence as well as classes and workshops will be at Виклади і практичні заняття відбуватимуться в приміщенню: hear their concerns. Therefore, an Інституту Ethnic Coalition is now being form­ St. Vladimir Institute Тут також знаходиться гуртожиток для учасників курсів. ed. Three coalition meetings have WHO IS ELIGIBLE? ХТО МОЖЕ БУТИ УЧАСНИКОМ been held to date, the primary topics ^'Students ages 14-18 who have an interest in acquiring theatre of which were group composition Студенти/ки у віці від 14-ти до 18-ти літ, тр бажаюті skills in a Ukrainian environment. познайомитися з театральним мистецтвом в yKpaiHCbKONr and issues of protocol. оточенні. "The issue, as far as the flags go, APPLICATIONS appears to have been a matter of both Application forms are available at: ФОРМУЛЯРИ insensitivity and a lack of under­ Формуляри можна одержати в бюрі Інституту: standing of the issues by city offi­ St. Vladimir Institute cials," Ms. Hewka said. "That lack of 620 Spadina Avenue St. Vladimir Institute understanding was colored by glas- Toronto, Ontario 630 Spadina Avenue nost. Soviets wanted the fla^^ down M5S 2H4 Toronto, Ontario M5S 2H4 and the city complied л) promote Iclcphone: (416) 923-3318 . -- ' ' Телефон: (416) 923^^18 No. 20 м THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Monthly reports for February RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 1989 MEMBERSHIP REPORT

Juv. Adults ADD Totals TOTALAS OF JANUARY 31.1989 18.218 47,408 6,185 71.811 Paid To Or For Members: GAINS IN FEBRUARY 1989 Cash Surrenders 542,828.68 Endowments Matured 98,118.01 New members 28 75 14 117 Death Benefits 85,893.00 Reinstated 32 77 4 113 Interest On Death Benefits.... 105.80 Transferred in .". 2 15 4 21 Payor Death Benefits 18326 Change class in 7 4 11 Indigent Benefits Disbursed.. 1,535.00 Transferred from Juv. Dept. Total... 5228.663.75 TOTAL GAINS: 171 262 LOSSES IN FEBRUARY 1989 Operating Fxpenses: Washington Office 58,652.83 Suspended 13 18 11 42 Real Estate 95,513.24 Transferred out 2 9 4 15 Svoboda Operation 112,514.93 Change of class out 7 4 11 Official Publication-Svoboda 50,000.00 Transferred to adults. - Organizing Expenses: — 59,602.52 Died 2 76 - 78 Advertising Cash surrender 27 31 - 58 Medical Inspections 250.60 Endowment matured 20 47 - 67 Reward To Special Organizers... 1,346.16 Fully paid-up 24 94 118 Reward To Organizers 2,095.19 Reduced paid-up 2 - 2 Field Conference..... 2,013.13 Extended insurance. - - Cert, terminated 23 Total... П5.307.60

TOTAАГL LOSSESШ : 95 285 34 414 Payroll. Insurance And Taxes: INACTIVCTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Salary Of Executive Officers 514,233.34 GAINNSIS IN FEBRUARY 1989 Salary Of Office Employee 38,978.36 Employee Benefit Plan 26,519.05 Paid-uPaid- p 24 96 - 120 Insurance-General... 7,608.00 ExtendeExtei d insurance..... 7 11 . 18 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages... 37,632.52

TOTAALGAL GAINSi : 31 107 138 Total... 5124.971.27 LOSSESES IlN^ FEBRUARY 1989 - General Expenses: Died 1 30 31 Bank Charges 523.00 Cash surrender 17 17 34 Books And Periodicals...... 86.00 Reinstated.....: 2 9 11 Dues To Fraternal Congresses 85.00 Lapsed 5 5 10 General Office Maintenance...... :. 2,546.90 Insurance Department Fees...... 1.886.00 TOTAL LOSSES; "ТГ "5Г Operating Expense Of Canadian Office... 175.64 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP Postage 1,401.36 AS OF FEBRUARY 28.1989 18,198 47340 6.173 71.711 Printing And Stationery 2250.07 Rental Of Equipment And Services 603.43 WALTER SOCHAN Telephone, Telegraph 2,133.57 . Supreme Secretary Traveling Expenses-General 1,726.79

Total ШМ7.76

Miscellaneous: FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Investment Expense-Mortgages.... 550.00 Youth Sports Activities 600.00 INCOME FOR FEBRUARY 1989 Taxes Held In Escrow 138.02 Professional Fees 3.000.00 Transfer Account 534,006.49

Total 5537.794.51 Dues From Members 1244,498.65 Income From "Svoboda" Operation 117,661.78 Investments: Investment Income: Bonds 550,486.94 Bonds 5438,937.43 Mortgages 180,000.00 Certificate Loans 92.89 Certificate Loans... 3,967.89 Mortgage Loans 40^50.74 Real Estate 25,92625 Banks 1,750.02 Stocks 25.00 Total- 5260.381.08 Real Estate.... 77,992.63 Disbursements For February. 1989.. 51,446.716.97 Total : 1559,048.71

Refunds: Taxes Federal, State 4 City On Employee Wages 533,910.90 Taxes Held In Escrow ; 1,153.00 BALANCE Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 963.72 Official Publication "Svoboda" ....1 69230.34 Cash Surrender Ret'd 649.00 Endowment Matured Ret'd 500.00 ASSETS Liabilities Scholarship Refd 289.90 Operating Expense Washington Office Ret'd 50.00 Cash 51,492,766.38 Lite Insurance 562,065,220.17 Bonds 48,107,699.47 Accidental D.D 1,713299.36 Total Я06746.86" Mortgage Loans 5.111,237.48 Fraternal (111,020.72) Certificate Loans 626,828.06 Orphans 386,72324 Miscellaneous: Real Estate 1,485,358.09 Old Age Home (245,691.12) Profit On Bonds Sold Or Matured 55,317.00 Printing Plant S E.D.P. Emergency 72,516.96 Transfer Account 533,785.49 Equipment 305.673.54 Stocks 1,326,933.83 Total 5539.ІМЖ Loan To O.H. - U.N.A. Housing Corp 104,551.04 fiwestments Loan To U.N.U.R.C 5,320,000.00 Bonds Matured Or Sold 5408.249.39 Mortgages Repaid : 140,042.59 Total 563,881.047.89 Total... 563.881,047.89 Certificate Loans Repaid 7.075,79

Total— 5555,367.77 ULANA DIACHUK Income For fabruary. ІШ;...... „.„. .;...... ІІМІ.ШЖ Supreme Treasurer No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989

our world into a better place to live. Historical drama... In summing up, this publication UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP (Continued from page 8) speaks well for the great event which it Summer 1989 where Olaf found refuge at Volodymvfs commemorates. It presents an impres­ court. He is grateful to Volodymyr and sive amount of information on cha­ UKRAINIAN DANCE WORKSHOP AND DANCE CAMP tells him openly "that no LotherJ earthly racters based on up-to-date research at Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, N.Y. king cares so much for his subjects." and a significant body of critical insight Roma Pryma Bohachevska, Artistic Director Act III begins with an event full of into the history of 10th century U- pomp and circumstance. In Kiev "they kraine. Last but not least, it is a pleasure і DANCE WORKSHOP - advanced dancers from 16 yrs. of age shall hold a liturgy to celebrate the safe to read the play and it will be still a June 25 -July 16 arrival of Princess" Anna, Volodymyr's greater pleasure to see on the stage. At I DANCE CAMP - from 8-16 yrs of age new wife from Byzantium. The people the present juncture, when pretentious­ July 23 - August 5 ness and opaqueness are all too often everywhere rejoice. Three envoys also I Teaching staff: VALENTINA PEREYASLAVETS, ROMA PRYMA, ШВА WOLYNEC came from Rome with greetings, gifts mistaken for sophistication, it is re­ and letters from Pope John XV, Soon freshing to see a sound and imaginative I Ukrainian folk dance, character, mime, ballet and choreography classes they learn, however, that they arrived Ukrainian dramatic work couched in I Lectures on the origin and ethnographical history of Ukrainian customs and costumes too late and Dobrynia explicitly states lucid and graceful prose. The English For information and registration write or call that Prince Volodymyr "will not subor­ translation is good. It transmits all the UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP 8i WORKSHOP details of the Ukrainian original and dinate the Ukrainian Church either to c/o Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Rome or to Byzantium." preserves the playwright's ideas and style. In its final reckoning, this drama 523 East 14th Street, apt. 3B, New York N.Y. 10009 a (212) 677-7187 In the meantime, the pagan faith emerges as a balanced, competent and Deadrme - June 15th, 1989 which had been so firmly entrenched in serene work. Ukraine, begins to lose ground with each passing day. No one realizes more than Volodymyr's antagonist, the Seer, that the ancient faith is disappearing. He commits suicide and Volodymyr confirms his people in the new faith, saying "It is we, your prince, who say this to you: from this day henceforth the Christian faith is established as the only legal state religion in all Ukraine." The play ends with the ringing of bells and singing of "Glory to God on high..." Between the acts the author employs short prologues by personifications of time and of history. These narrators bring us closer to reality, filling in the historical gaps with helpful narrative foreshadowing. The play as a whole is coherent and well structured, holding audience interest through its characters - carriers of facts and ideas. The publication is well prepared, illustrated with stylized likenesses of the main characters by Bohdan Holowacki, provided with notes and maps. It also 3 DAYS LIVE has an excellent scholarly yet eminently readable preface in Ukrainian by Vale­ rian Revutsky, an authority on Ukrai­ FOLK DANCING a SINGING HAHILKY nian drama and theater. The English preface by James Reaney, Canada's foremost modern dramatist, focuses on ARTS gc CRAFTS the play's merits in portraying "other times and other traditions,'' which PYSANKY a CERAMICS a EMBROIDERIES a GERDANY a enrich the culture of Canada and provide the faith which can transform DELICIOUS UKRAINIAN FOOD 8c PASTRIES Ukraine trip... (Continued from page 16)

Washington Hotel, in Washington. COME, CELEBRATE SPRING IN THE EAST VILLAGE! Coincidentally, the main theme of the 7th STREET conference will be "Our Response to Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues Changes in Ukraine"and will include an NEW YORK CITY overview of the current situation in Ukraine with panels and discussions focusing on trade, exchanges and hu­ man rights and featuring speakers from the U.S. government, the media, the diaspora and from Ukraine. Friday Щ Saturday щ Sunday May 19th 20th 2Ist The .Washington Group invites 4 PM-11 PM 11 AM-11 PM 1 PM-10 PM everyone to join TWG members on this unique trip to Ukraine. Registration and a S250 deposit is required by July 1. Please note that the cost of the tour is tax-deductible for professional pur­ UKRAINIAN poses. There will be a meeting for everyone interested in going on the trip to learn more about it on Thursday, FESTIVAL May 18, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Sophia's Religious Center in Washington. 1989 For further information please con­ tact Laryssa Chopivsky, (202) 363-3964, or write to: The Washington Group, P.O. Box 11248, Washington, D.C. 20008. HUCULKA Icon 8г. Souvenir's Distribution 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R Bronx, NY 10461 REPBESENTfiJNE and WHOLESALER ofEMBROBERED BLOUSES for ADULTS and CHILDREN Tel. (212) 931-1579 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1989 No. 20

Ukraine trip PREVIEW OF EVENTS planned by TWG May 14 Women's Eeague of America invite proceeds LTOinP to tbp Ре"-лу5|іір the public to the opening of an Fund of The Washington Group, by Marta Zielyk CLIFTON, N.J.: The Rev Vasyl exhibit of modern paintings by snnnsor of the event For more Romaniuk will co-celebrate divine Themosticles Wirsta of Paris at 4 information call Yaro Bihun, (202) WASHINGTON - What does U- liturgy at Holy Ascension Ukrainian p.m. in St. Josaphat's School audito­ 4S5-2G7u K^ay). kraine mean to those of us born in the rium on Stanton Lane. Gallery hours United States? Is it a country of Orthodox Church at 9 ^.m. For more NEWARK, N.J.: Branch 86 of the are: 4 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 20; thatched-roof huts complete with stork information call the Rev. George Ukrainian National Women's League and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, nests, where modern-day Kozaks walk Halycia, (201)473-8665. of America will sponsor a slide May 21. A lecture on "Ukrainian the streets? Or is it imagined as a bleak presentation, "Passing Through Our May 17 Artists in France" will begin at 4 p.m. landscape painted in stark, unrelieved Lands - Lemkivshchyna, Kholmsh- on Sunday. Refreshments will be colors, with an unsmiling, sullen popu­ chyna, Pidliashshia," by Natalia PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian served on both days. Admission is by lation? These obviously are stereoty­ Cooperative Nursery will hold its donation. Danylenko at 12:30 p.m. in St. pical images of Ukraine, which can best annual Open House at 10 a.m. at the John's Ukrainian Catholic Church be dispelled with personal observations. Ukrainian Educational and Cultural hall, 715 Sanford Ave. NEWARK, N.J.: As part of their To this end, and more importantly, with Center, 700 Cedar Road. The nur­ 25th jubilee celebration. Branch 86 of an eye toward establishing professional sery will be accepting registration the Ukrainian National Women's May 23-26 contacts. The Washington Group, an for the 1989-90 school year for League of America will sponsor an association of Ukrainian American children 2Y2 years old with a general TORONTO: The Avant Garde U- professionals, is organizing a special knowledge of the Ukrainian lan­ exhibit of watercolors by the Rev. Serhij Kindzeriavyj-Pastukhiv and krainian Theater and St. Vladimir's tour to Ukraine this fall. guage. For more information call Ukrainian Institute will present Vira Borys-Homick, (215) 379-3374. woodcuts by Olia Pastukhiv this This very special two-week tour is weekend at St. John's Ukrainian "Mysterium," a puppet and mime planned for October 12-26 at a cost of Catholic Church hall, 715 Sanford play by Myroslava Betlej at 8 p.m. at May 20 S2,550 (U.S.). There is an additional S30 Ave. The opening reception will be St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Institute, fee for non-TWG members which can held on Saturday, May 20, at 4 p.m. 620 Spadina Ave. Tickets are S8 for NEW YORK: The Columbia-Bar­ be applied towards membership and a Gallery hours will be 3 to 8 p.m. on adults and S5 for students and senior nard Ukrainian Club invites every­ subscription to the monthly TWG Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on citizens, available at the door. one to its annual zabava-dance at 9 News. Included in the price of the trip is Sunday. a round-trip ticket between Dulles Air­ p.m. at the Ukrainian National June 10 Home, Second Avenue, between port in Washington and Moscow (one night) and flights between Odessa (three Eighth and Ninth streets, featuring May 21 PHILADELPHIA: The Tryzub Golf the music of Vodohray, who will nights) Lviv (five nights) and Kiev (four Committee will sponsor its 13th nights), three meals daily, Soviet visa celebrating their 10th anniversary. NEW YORK: An opening reception annual Philadelphia Ukrainian golf processing and a theater outing. As an Admission is SIO per person. for an exhibit of art works by Ad- tournament at the Bucks County added attraction, there will be an riana Kulczycky will be held at 1 Country Club, in Jamison, Pa., be­ optional side trip (offered for a small SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.: The 23rd p.m. at the Ukrainian Artists' Asso­ ginning with tee-off at 12:30 p.m. The additional fee) from Lviv to the Car­ annual installation dinner/dance will ciation Gallery, 136 Second Ave. tournament entry fee is S50 and pathian Mountains to visit one of the be held at the Ukrainian Hall, 16 Gallery hours are: 1 to 8 p.m. on covers greens fees, riding carts, tro­ Hutsul villages famed for its folk art. Twin Ave., sponsored by the Ukrai­ Saturdays and Sundays, 6 to 8 p.m. phies, door prizes and refreshments. The tour is being organized through nian American Veterans of Post 19, on weeknights. The exhibit will run A free buffet dinner reception with TWG member Zoya Hayuk's Four beginning at 6:30 p.m. Music will be through June 4. an open bar will be take place at Seasons Travel Agency in Baltimore, provided by the Pyramids. A dona­ Tryzubivka, Lower State and County (301) 666-8544. Ms. Hayuk, who is tion of S20 per person is requested. WASHINGTON: The winners of the Line roads in Horsham, Pa. The experienced in organizing tours to For tickets call Teddy Dusanenko, 1988 Antonovych Foundation prizes deadline for mailing in entry fees and Ukraine as well as facilitating ex­ (914) 634-5502, Michael Wengreno- for Ukrainian literature and Ukrai­ registration is May 27. Checks may changes between the two sister cities of vich, (914) 735-5241, or Joseph nian studies — Hryhory Kostiuk, be made out to: Eugene A. Luciw, Baltimore and Odessa, will be the escort Brega, (914)268-6523. George Shevelov and John-Paul P.O. Box 346, Lower State and on this trip. Himka — will receive their awards County Line Roads, Horsham, Pa. May 20-21 during a special ceremony and recep­ 19044. There will be a S5 late charge Immediately preceeding the trip to tion at 4 p.m. in the Copley Formal for fees received after the deadline. Ukraine, TWG will hold its annual ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Branches 46, Lounge at Georgetown University. For more information call (215) 343- leadership conference on Columbus 47 and 120 of the Ukrainian National Donations of S20 are requested, with 5412. Day weekend, October 6-8, at the (Continued on page 15)

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