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INS!DE: • Donbas poses challenge to Kyyiv — page 2. • UAOC elects patriarch — page 3. • 60th anniversary of the Great Famine — pages 8 through 11.

Vol. LXI No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 50 cents Ukraine's people recall national tragedy of famine-holocaust

by Marta Kolomayets relations with all countries in the world, Kyyiv Press Bureau wise relations with our neighbors. And, if we lose our independence, we are des­ KYYIV - "Only an independent tined to forever lag far behind economi­ Ukraine can guarantee that such a cally, politically and culturally. If this tragedy will never repeat itself," happens, most importantly, we will Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister always face the possibility of repeating Mykola Zhulynsky said as he opened a those horrible pages in our history, scholarly conference on the "Great including the famine, which were Famine of 1932-1933: Its Causes and planned by a foreign power," concluded Consequences," in the nation's capital on the Ukrainian president, who said that Thursday, September 9. previously he had not known the true "This is perhaps the most tragic page reasons for the famine, nor its propor­ in the history of our ancient state, and in tions. the history of mankind the worst crime Educating the people of a govemment against its own people... "One's blood chills when one realizes It is not only the leaders of the the dimensions of this Great Famine, Ukrainian nation who were in the dark which has been rightfully called a mass about the Great Famine of 1932-1933; murder of a people, a genocide, and a most of Ukraine's citizens are only now Ukrainian 'holocaust,' " said the scholar learning of this "harvest of despair." who organized the nationwide 60th Many are ill-informed because the anniversary commemorations. famine was among the biggest blank His opening remarks set the one for a spots in the 20th century history of somber weekend of commemorations Ukraine. and memorial services, ending 60 years But throughout the weekend of of official silence, but only beginning the September 10-12 along the Khreshchatyk, slow process of educating the masses Kyyiv's main street, crowds gathered at about the brutality of the Stalin regime, three stations to read documents about the which claimed more than 12 million famine and eyewitness accounts and to Ukrainian lives during three decades of place bouquets of flowers at makeshift power. altars to famine victims. I Marta Kolomayets "This is moving and helpful for Many stopped to learn of the dimen­ sions of the famine, to read accounts of Representatives of Ukraine's oblasts place wreaths at the base of the first marker- Ukrainians as a healing experience. This cannibalism, of pain and suffering, of monument erected in Kyyiv in memory of victims of the Great Famine. is the first time that the Ukrainian nation has been able to attempt to come to survival in the cities. terms with its past. It is an important step On Saturday evening, September 11, a in terms of the nation becoming whole memorial concert and a tribunal were held Senate passes resolution markingonce again, " said Dr. James Mace, the at the Ukraina Palace. Here survivors of former chairman of the U.S. govemment the famine, old men and women, told Commission on the Ukraine Famine, and moving stories of "dekurkulization," of 60th anniversary of Great Faminea membe r of the organizing committee living on bark and weeds, of selling gold for the 60th anniversary commemoration by Xenia Ponomarenko Maine), Bob Dole (R-Kan.), Claiborne rings for a loaf of bread. in Ukraine this year. UNA Washington Office Pell (D-R.L), Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and That evening, the packed house, "I would hope that this commemora­ Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo.). which included govemment representa­ tion will help Ukrainians remember the WASHINGTON — The United States (Full text of the resolution appears on tives, parliamentarians, church leaders of danger of political chaos and political Senate on September 10 passed Senate page 7.) all denominations and citizens of dependence on neighboring powers," he Concurrent Resolution 42 commemorat­ Sen. Riegle focused his remarks on Ukraine, heard the premiere of a new added. "I think that one single lesson of ing the 60th anniversary of the man- the evil Communist regime, led by memorial/requiem with words by the famine is that Ukrainians have to made famine in Ukraine. The Senate res­ Stalin, which was responsible for this Ukraine's parliamentarian and poet maintain their independence if they want olution is a major public recognition of horrible act of massive starvation. "The Dmytro Pavlychko and music by Yevhen to keep their national distinction, their the atrocities suffered by the Ukrainian world must commemorate this cruel and Stankovych. Titled "Panakhyda for national culture," Dr. Mace noted. people due to Joseph Stahn's man-made inhuman deed perpetrated against Those Who Perished From Famine," it is Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk famine that killed 7 to 10 million Ukraine so that we never forget its mil­ dedicated to the famines of 1922, 1932- Ukrainians in 1932-1933. lions of victims. Only by remembering stressed the importance of building a 1933 and 1946. The resolution was introduced by Sen. free, democratic open society to ensure can we prevent this kind of atrocity from On Sunday, September 12, blue-and- Donald Riegle (D-Mich.), who clarified ever happening again." that such atrocities never repeat them­ selves. During the two-day conference in yellow national flags draped with black the public record by stating, "As we He outlined the efforts undertaken by Kyyiv, he welcomed attendees and con­ streamers flew at half-mast on Ukrainian mark the 60th anniversary of the Ukraine the Stalin regime to deceive the interna­ demned the "planned action, which was govemment buildings, and the dreary on- famine, it is important to recognize that tional community into believing that the carried out with the help of state and and-off rain reflected the mood of a the Soviet government made no mistake. famine never occurred. For example, he party apparatchiks, killing one of every nation mouming its sons and daughters. There was no blunder. Let it be absolute­ described how a former provincial secre­ five citizens of Ukraine. An afternoon commemorative cere­ ly clear: The Ukraine famine was perpe­ tary of Ukraine, Roman Terekhov, "A democratic form of government mony began near St. Sophia Cathedral, trated deliberately by Soviet totalitarian- requested aid from Stalin for the famine dictator Joseph Stalin." protects a people from such misfor­ with the statue of Hetman Bohdan victims. Stalin responded that he should Khmelnytsky serving as a backdrop for Co-sponsoring the resolution with tunes," President Kravchuk said. be removed from office to work in the more than 5,000 people who attended an Sen. Riegle were Sens. Dennis "A prosperous way of life can only be Writer's Union, where he could "write ecumenical prayer service. DeConcini (D-Ariz.), Alfonse D'Amato achieved in a economically strong, inde­ fairy tales for idiots to read." "Ukraine today bows its head before (R-N.Y.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.), Paul pendent Ukrainian state. We can only Sarbanes (D-Md.), George Mitchell CD- (Continued on page 7) rely on our own strengths, building good (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 N0.38 ANALYSIS: Growing challenge Newsbriefs to Kyyiv from the Donbas on Ukraine by Andrew Wilson Ukrainization emanating from Kyyiv. So RFE/RL Research Institute far, Kyyiv has pursued a very cautious approach toward Ukrainization, but there ICBM factory blast kills four campaign that proved insufficient. PARTI are signs, particularly in education, that (Renter) Until the winter of 1992-1993 the this is beginning to change. DNIPRODZERZHYNSK — Four Donbas was surprisingly quiescent. Most In any case, the fear of Ukrainization, workers were killed and 29 injured on Ukrainian-Azerbaijani ties elicit protest of Ukraine's new political parties were manipulated by local elites, has been suf­ September 7 by an explosion at the national democratic or nationalist groups ficient to provoke a political response in world's largest ICBM factory, the KYYIV — On September 9 based in either western Ukraine or defense of the region's "multilingual" Dnipro Metallurgical Combine, located Armenia's Foreign Ministry filed a. Kyyiv, while the interests of eastern and nature. Indeed, on July 28, the Donetske here. The accident occurred when work­ official note of protest accusing Ukraine ers attempted to reactivate a blast fur­ southern Ukraine were largely represent­ Oblast Council voted to hold a local poll of supplying Azerbaijan with combat nace that had been shut down for a num­ ed by the Communist deputies elected in on the same day as the national referen­ aircraft and tanks. It also noted that this ber of days because of a shortage of raw 1990. In the aftermath of the banning of dum on confidence in the Parliament and flies in the face of international efforts to materials. A governmental commission, the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) president scheduled for September 26 end the fighting in Nagorno Karabakh, headed by Vice-Premier Vasyl, in August 1991, traditional elites in the (which the Ukrainian Parliament had the mainly Armenian enclave in Yevtukhov, was established to investi­ Donbas and elsewhere in eastern and agreed to in mid-June under pressure Azerbaijan. gate. (Respublika, RFE/RL Daily southern Ukraine were disoriented and from the miners who were on strike in Viktor Varenyk, a sp"okesman for Report) debilitated, and the nationalist parties the Donbas). Voters in Donetske were Ukraine's security service, rejected the began to exercise an influence out of also to be asked whether Russian should charges, saying at a press conference on proportion to their numbers. be made a second state language along­ Natural gas use controls imposed September 11 that "there is a govern­ However, since the autumn of 1992, side Ukrainian in the oblast .5 mental agreement between Ukraine and eastern Ukraine has begun to find its The second issue is economics. The KYYIV — A one-year cap on the use Azerbaijan on repairing heavy tanks at political voice again. Explicitly regional Donbas contains a large proportion of of natural gas by enterprises will go into Ukrainian plants," but denied that any organizations have come not only to antiquated mining, metallurgical, and effect on October 15, according to a other than repaired tanks were being sent dominate political life in the region but chemical industries. Unlike other regions report by the Ukrinform news agency. to the near Asian country. Nezavisimost, also to influence political life in Kyyiv. of Ukraine, such as Kharkiv Oblast, The government resolution to this effect a Kyyivan daily, reported that a Ruslan In the past year, therefore, Ukraine's which is home to several major research also provided for stiff price increases for AN-124 transport plane had already those firms who do not abide by the new leadership has been forced to conduct a institutes and a sizable percentage of made the first of 19 planned flights to quotas. Another resolution dealt with delicate balancing act between national­ advanced military industries, many Azerbaijan carrying various equipment.. cutting off supplies to those enterprises ist pressure from western Ukraine and Donbas industries remain dependent on (RFE/RL Daily Report, Reuters) in arrears on their payments. (Reuters) Kyyiv and the demands of eastern and state subsidies for survival (interestingly, southern Ukraine for a more pro-Russian workers in Kharkiv did not support the Club of Rome meets in Uzhhorod and pro-Commonwealth of Independent June strikes in such large numbers as Diphtheria hits Russia, Ukraine States (CIS) policy. those in the Donbas, despite a one-day UZHHOROD — The Club of Rome, LONDON — The World Health an international non-governmental orga­ Organization (WHO) issued a statement nization of academics, businessmen and on September 10 suggesting that a diph­ political activists, held its latest meetings Although the June strikes in the Donbas region theria epidemic might be starting, with here on September 12, to discuss issues of Ukraine were settled in the short term by a Russia and Ukraine at its center. In of regional cooperation in central January to July, 6,000 people are known Europe. In attendance were members series of political and economic concessions by to have contracted the disease in the two from Austria, Poland, Romania, the central Ukrainian authorities^ political life countries, with 106 fatalities in Russia Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and and 41 in Ukraine. The WHO report Ukraine. (Respublika) in the region is now controlled by a powerful ominously noted that the disease, which was virtually wiped out 30 years ago, Weapons stockpile danger denied alliance of new regional groups opposed to has shown signs of spreading to neigh­ many key elements of Ukrainian policy as made boring countries, including Azerbaijan, KYYIV — According to a Reuters Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Poland report of September 14, a Russian in Kyyiv. and Uzbekistan, where the contagion has defense ministry spokesman suggested also appeared. to the Russian news agency, ITAR- Diphtheria is a bacterial disease TASS, that Ukraine "had to take urgent Kyyiv has been forced to slow down strike in Kharkiv on June 24.)^ whose symptoms include acute inflam­ steps to make sure weapons were its "return to Europe" and has been On the other hand, many in the mations of the throat, choking and suffo­ shipped safely to Russia" because "a unable to adopt radical economic Donbas feel aggrieved, because they cation. The WHO cautioned that "food serious incident" involving rising tem­ reforms because of fear of what the reac­ believe that the region gets less money handlers, transport workers, military and peratures and background radiation had tion would be in eastern Ukraine. from Kyyiv than it contributes to the medical personnel" were at the greatest occurred at a depot in Pervomaisk. The center of the political reawaken­ state budget and that it receives the low­ risk, but also recommended that all trav­ Ukrainian Defense Ministry officials ing of eastern Ukraine has been the est proportion of state expenditure per elers to Ukraine and Russia be immu­ denied there had been any radiation Donbas, the two eastern Ukrainian capita of all Ukraine's regions.'^ nized against diphtheria. It also men­ increase, only a slight rise in tempera- oblasts of Donetske and Luhanske. tioned that local medical authorities had (Continued on page 16) Between them they account for only 9 initiated a wide-ranging vaccination (Continued on page 23) percent of Ukrainian territory, but for 17 1 Mariian Dolishnii, "Regional Aspects of percent of its population and 21 percent Ukraine's Economic Development," I.S. of its industrial output. ^ The five oblasts Koropeckyj, "The Ukrainian Economy: of eastern Ukraine as a whole account Achievements, Problems, Challenges" FOUNDED 1933 for 34 percent of the Ukrainian popula­ (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Ukrainian Weekly tion and 45 percent of industrial output.^ 1992), Figure 14-3, p. 306. The figures are An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Two key issues have exercised the rounded off to the nearest whole percentage. Donbas since the referendum on Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. ^ Ibid. Eastern Ukraine is here taken to 07302. Ukrainian independence in December comprise the following five oblasts: 1991, when 66 percent of the local popu­ Donetske, Luhanske, Dnipropetrovske, Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. lation supported independence (84 per­ Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv. (ISSN - 0273-9348) cent of those who voted, but turnout was ^ Petro Lavriv, "The National comparatively low). Consciousness of Workers in the Donetske Yearly subscription rate: $20; for UNA members — $10. The first is ethnic and linguistic poli­ Region," Suchasnist, No. 6, June 1992, p. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. tics in the region. The Donbas is over­ 107; and Petro Lavriv, "Istoriya Pivdenno- whelmingly Russian-speaking. Although Skhidnoyi Ukrainy" (History of Southeast The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: 51 percent of the region's population Ukraine) (Lviv: Slovo, 1992), pp. 4-5 and (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201)451-2200 was recorded as ethnically Ukrainian in 132-138. the 1989 Soviet census and 44 percent as "^ Official government statistics as cited by Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz Russian, only 32 percent of the popula­ the newspaper Yug, January 20, 1993. changes to: Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets (Kyyiv) tion named Ukrainian as their mother 5 Radio Ukraine, July 28, 1993. The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew tongue (66 percent named Russian).-^ The 6 Donetsky Kriazh, No. 24, July 2-8, P.O. Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz use of Ukrainian in public places is even 1993. Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Andrij Wynnyckyj rarer, as demonstrated by the fact that '^ See, for example, the article by the only 3 percent of Donetske children and Donetske economist M. Chumachenko, 7 percent of those in Luhanske are taught "Problems of Regional Se!f-Government in The Ukrainian Weekly, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993, No. 38, Vol. LX in.Ukrainian."^ Consequently, the Donbas Ukrairie," Ekonomika Ukrainy, No, 6. June Copyright by The Ukrainian Weekly is extremely resistant to proposals for 1993, pp. 3-І3.' '^ No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 Nominee for envoy to Ukraine appears before Senate Morozov opposes

by Eugene M. Iwanciw the Ukrainian people which won the Union. He went on to state that while Massandra pact UNA Washington Office right to independence and reform." Ukraine needs U.S. assistance, the U.S. He did, however, point out that there is in a quandary due to the nuclear issue KYYIV — Ukraine's defense minis­ WASHINGTON - The Subcommittee has been little movement in the direction and its own economic situation. Mr. ter, Konstantyn Morozov, added his on European Affairs of the Senate of economic reform and that Ukraine is Miller argued that the enormity of the voice to the chorus of opposition to the Foreign Relations Committee held con­ in the midst of a currency crisis. problem actually pales in face of the bat­ agreement struck in Massandra by firmation hearings on September 9 on The nominee briefly discussed "the tle for independence. Specifically, he President Leonid Kravchuk. President Bill Clinton's nominees for legacy of Ukraine's past including Soviet stated that "the problems are doable after In a ministerial press release of ambassadors to four European nations: rule, the famine. World War II, Babi Yar, independence and that the dollars September 7, Gen. Morozov stated: "I Reginald Bartholomew to Italy, Richard and Chornobyl." Pointing out that involved are trivial compared to what regard the sale of the Black Sea Fleet jardner to Spain, Richard Holbrooke to Ukraine has suffered "hundreds of years was spent for defense." militarily unacceptable without the con­ Germany and William Miller to Ukraine. of repression," he said he is "proud that The Delaware senator pointed out sideration of a pull-back of the Russian The hearing was chaired by Senator the United States reached out to Ukraine that in his meetings with Ukrainian fleet from the territory of Ukraine." Joseph Biden (D-DeL), Chairman of the as a partner. U.S. support is at the very leaders "disproportionate attention is He also wrote that although he was a Subcommittee. core of what we stand for." paid to their Russian brothers and for­ member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.L), chairman Mr. Miller also stated that it is vital mer oppressors." Noting that in light of Massandra talks, as far as he was aware, of the Foreign Relations Committee, for U.S. interests that there be stability in the "history of Russia and Ukraine, "there was no agreement reached, [either] introduced Mr. Miller to the subcommit­ Ukraine and that part of the world. there is good reason for Ukrainians to on the issue of the sale of the Black Sea tee. He pointed out that Mr. Miller was "Constructive peaceful relations between worry," Sen. Biden inquired whether Fleet to the Russian Federation, [or] on president of the Committee on Russia and Ukraine are in U.S. interest." Mr. Miller felt that Ukraine's security the lease of naval infrastructures in the American-Russian Relations as well as On the nuclear issue, Mr. Miller stated rests on progress and stability in Russia. Ukrainian city of Sevastopil." its predecessor, the Committee on that he hopes to help "Ukraine carry out Mr. Miller responded by stating that it is Respublika reported on September American-Soviet Relations. its wise decision to be a non-nuclear in everyone's interest to promote demo­ Mr. Miller came to the U.S. Senate in state." 10 that Gen. Morozov has also cratic institutions in Russia and else­ informed Mr. Kravchuk by letter that he 1967 as an aide to then Sen. John Ambassador-designate Miller also where. Sherman Cooper of Kentucky. He later stated that "the fundamental basis for could not be held responsible for the worked for the chairman of the Foreign relations - the values we share for rule of The subcommittee chairman defense of Ukraine's southern flank if Relations Committee, Sen. Frank Church law, civil society and human rights " is expressed concern that the U.S. Embassy the agreement, as outlined by the of Idaho. During the 1970s, Mr. Miller present and that "timely and substantial in Kyyiv is undermanned, to which Mr. Russian and Ukrainian presidents, were served as staff director of the Senate support from the United States could Miller stated that currently there are 61 implemented. Select Committee on Intelligence. Sen. help achieve those goals." staffers at the Embassy and that plans Holos Ukrainy, the Kyyivan daily, call for expansion to 80 individuals. Pell pointed out that Mr. Miller had been When asked about his views on carried an item suggesting that When asked whether this was "sufficient a foreign service officer in the Ukraine's commitment to nuclear disar­ Parliamentary Chairman Ivan Pliushch to do the job and demonstrate the impor­ Department of State, as was the senator. mament, Mr. Miller stated that he felt told a group of local government offi­ tance of Ukraine," Mr. Miller assured the the "agreements at Lisbon were genuine­ cials that the Massandra agreement did Mr. Miller began his statement by subcommittee that "if the staff is not big ly committed to." He added "that politi­ not conform with international rules on stating that it is an "honor to come before enough, then I will let you know." you as the nominee as ambassador to a cal and economic problems facing military deployment. Mr. Pliushch free and independent country which is Ukraine are integral to the nuclear issue Adjourning the hearing. Sen. Biden added that "there is no point shedding vital to our interests." He went on to and that the heart of the problem is the stated that he felt confident that all four tears over the fleet, but there is a princi­ point out that on August 24, the second question of enduring security." nominations would be favorably consid­ ple here." anniversary of Ukraine's independence, Stating that economic and political ered by the full Foreign Relations According to a Reuters report of "the people of Ukraine reaffirmed their security provides military security. Sen. Committee in an expeditious manner. September 11, Mr. Kravchuk has since commitment to independence based on Biden noted that some had argued for a Ambassador-Designate Miller was insisted that the protocol does not oblige the rule of law." He acknowledged that it U.S. policy that was Ukraine- specific accompanied at the hearing by his wife, Ukraine to proceed with the sale of the was the "great courage and sacrifice of even before the break-up of the Soviet Suzanne, and his sons. Bill and Chris. fleet.

UAOC elects Kyyiv patriarch as successor to Mstysiav I

by Marta Kolomayets breakaway tendencies from Moscow, Kyyiv Press Bureau was removed as head of the UOC- Moscow Patriarchate; with nowhere to KYYIV - The Ukrainian go, but with property worth millions of Autocephalous Orthodox Church, one of rubles, Metropolitan Filaret looked for a Ukraine's three Orthodox Churches, union with Patriarch Mstysiav. elected a new patriarch - Patriarch Demetriy - on Tuesday afternoon, Bishops of Patriarch Mstyslav's September 7, as the successor to Church, without approval from the patri­ Patriarch Mstysiav I, who passed away arch, unified Filaret's Church with the in Canada on June 11 of this year. UAOC. To this day, there are disputes as At a one-day particular sobor held in to whether Patriarch Mstysiav had Kyyiv's Teacher's Building, formerly blessed this union at any later date. the Central Rada of the Ukrainian gov­ It is known, however, that all except ernment of 1917-1920, 275 delegates of for two bishops, Petro and Mykhail, left 285 representing all regions of Ukraine the UAOC to join the Ukrainian voted to elevate the former Rev. Petro Orthodox Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate. Yarema, archbishop of Pereyaslav and "Patriarch Mstysiav called all priests Sicheslav to patriarch of the Ukrainian to leave the UOC-Kyyiv Patriarchate on Autocephalous Orthodox Church. December 24, 1992," said Archbishop The 77-year-old priest, who was ele­ Petro of Lviv and Halych, at the sobor. vated to bishop only a few weeks ago, "Our relations are the worst with the told the assembled delegates, among UOC-Kyyiv Patriarchate. Its pastors them 77 priests, 155 laypeople and 63 have gone astray from God and now representatives of brotherhoods: "This serve a golden idol," he continued, refer­ is the fourth rebirth our Church is ring to Metropolitan Filaret. undergoing. We have gathered here to The Ukrainian Autocephalous cleanse our Church, to free it from dic­ Orthodox Church, during its one-day tatorship." seminar did not attack the Ukrainian He was referring to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Orthodox Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate, Patriarchate, headed by Metropolitan which held a unifying sobor in 1992, Volodymyr Sobodan. joining the Ukrainian Autocephalous According to UOAC leaders, the Orthodox Church with a part of the Church, with eight eparchies, five bish­ Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ops, two seminaries, 300 priests and Metropolitan Filaret Denysenko, once 1,500 parishes, will attempt to renew its affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate. registration with the state in the near Patriarch Demetriy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (left) with Metropolitan Filaret, punished for his future. Bishop Ihor during the Churches sobor. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1993 No. 38 Aid to Ukraine amendment is modified at subcommittee session

UNA Washington Office which states: "It is the sense of the Senate an unimportant, second cousin to Russia. committee continues to support the that the United States should allocate Such an approach is not right and is not in administration's Russo-centric policy, a WASHINGTON — The Senate more resources for Ukraine and should the United States best interest." policy that is both wrong and dangerous Foreign Relations Committee on initiate a larger, more effective assistance He added, "Let's note that in spite of for the United States as much as for September 8 considered and approved the program for Ukraine that promotes politi­ the present political statement in there, Ukraine. Sen. Wofford was in the driver's Foreign Assistance Authorization Act for cal and economic reform and that is com­ Ukraine is complying with most of the seat and had to decide between defeat or fiscal year 1994 by a vote of 61-4. The mensurate with Ukraine's size and criteria for eligibility under the Freedom modification of his amendment. It was, I act, as proposed by the administration stature." Support Act - in some instances better am certain, a difficult decision and I am and approved by the House of In proposing this amendment, the than the other states of the former Soviet not in a position to second-guess his Representatives, includes $2.5 billion in Pennsylvania lawmaker stated: "At the Union. Ukraine should be commended judgment in this matter." assistance for the newly independent subcommittee mark-up of this bill I pro­ and encouraged for its efforts." states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. "Despite the actions of the House posed an amendment assuring a level of The committee accepted the amend­ Foreign Affairs Committee in its repor During subcommittee consideration of assistance for Ukraine based on the size ment on Ukraine while defeating other on foreign aid and the Senate Foreign the bill on August 3, Sen. Harris Wofford of its population relative to the other amendments by Sens. Jesse Helms (R- Relations Committee in the foreign aid (D-Pa.) offered an amendment providing nations of the former Soviet Union. I N.C.) that would have restricted assis­ bill, urging increased aid to Ukraine are for a "fair share" of U.S. foreign assis­ understand that the administration and tance to Russia, including a requirement positive, it appears that the administration tance to Ukraine based on population. some of my colleagues have misgivings to the terminate subsidized trade with will continue to ignore congressional The subcommittee deferred formal about, or are opposed to, the whole idea Cuba and the sale of military equipment opinion and Ukraine," continued Mr. approval of the amendment until full of proportionality of foreign assistance to nations identified as exporting interna­ Iwanciw. "That concern is reinforced by committee consideration of the bill due to based on population, and no one would tional terrorism. Sen. Larry Pressler (R- the July 29 comments of Nick Bums of some concerns by its chairman. Sen. Paul want to use this formula to encompass all S.D.) was forced to modify his amend­ the National Security Council who stated Sarbanes (D-Md.) and ranking minority of our foreign aid recipients." ment, which would have conditioned aid that 'Ukraine doesn't deserve any assis­ member Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum He went on to state that he thought "it to Russia on the withdrawal of Russian tance and will not get any." Mr. Iwanciw (R-Kan.). Based on reports from the sub­ extremely important to send an encourag­ troops from the Baltic states, to a sense of added that he is "amazed the committee committee, it was previously reported ing and concrete signal to Ukraine that the Senate amendment similar to the new has closed its eyes to continued Russian (The Weekly, August 8) that clarifying the United States will respond to econom­ Wofford amendment. aggression against its neighbors, includ­ language had been agreed to and that the ic and political reform in that country not In commenting on the change in the ing warfare against Moldova, Georgia amendment will be proposed as a sub­ with just a token aid program, but with a Wofford Amendment, UNA Washington and Tajikistan, and threats against the ter­ committee amendment at the full com­ program of assistance that is commensu­ Office Director Eugene Iwanciw stated: ritorial integrity of Ukraine and others. I mittee mark-up. Since that time, however, rate with Ukraine's size, its needs an4 its "Sen. Wofford did not feel that the votes know that the committee will come to the situation changed dramatically. importance to the future stability of the were there in the face of administration regret not making aid to Russia contin­ At the full committee mark-up, Sen. former Soviet Union and of Europe, opposition to aid specific for Ukraine. It gent on its adherence to internationally Wofford proposed a modified amendment Ukraine has been treated all too often as is unfortunate that the majority of the accepted norms of behavior." Canadian government funds diverse programs for Ukraine by Oksana Zakydalsky pleted training in Canada. The second group is sched­ Ukraine. In Ottawa the program manager is Modest uled to complete its sessions by early fall. Cmoc of the Canadian Bureau for International TORONTO — The Canadian government was one Education; in Kyyiv the program participants are of the first Western governments to recognize Partners In Progress assisted by the Canadian Co-operative Office, whose Ukraine's urgent need to rebuild and establish a politi­ manager is Lubomyr Markevych of Edmonton. cal and institutional framework necessary for the cre­ The Partners in Progress program, begun in ation of democratic institutions and the development January, provides assistance in four priority sectors: One of the projects being funded by the Human of a market-oriented economy. government administration, health, agriculture and Resource Development Program is distinct in that its human resource development. results will be seen both in Canada and the United External Affairs and International Trade Canada, The Human Resource Development Program States. A three-person team from Toronto is hard at through its Bureau for Central and Eastern Europe, has emphasizes support for practical development projects work at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine collecting funded several assistance programs to provide help and direct people-to-people contact through the place­ data in preparation for the "Treasures of Ukraine" and expertise to the fledgling Ukrainian government ment of Canadian volunteers in Ukraine (as well as exhibition scheduled to travel to Toronto, Edmonton, and its institutions. Technical Assistance for Ukraine other East European countries). The placements are Vancouver and (its most recent addition) New York in and Partners in Progress are two such initiatives. short-term, from two to six months, and candidates for 1994-1995. (See The Ukrainian Weekly, July 26.) the program submit proposals that have been devel­ Technical Assistance For Ukraine Dr. Daria Darewych, chief curator of the exhibi­ oped in consultation with a partner organization in tion, heads the project in Kyyiv. She maintains con­ The first Canadian technical assistance program for tact with each of the 24 museums throughout Ukraine Ukraine was a $772,000 grant provided to the that are submitting artifacts for "Treasures of Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Ukraine," and works together with Ivan Yavtushenko, Federation. The program has two components: to pro­ manager of the exhibition's organizing committee in vide consultants and advisors to Ukrainian ministries Ukraine. and government institutions and to provide short-term, Dr. Darewych's assistant, Adrianna Stech, conducts in-Canada training for up to 30 middle- and senior- research and serves as a translator assigned to the level Ukrainian civil servants. Jaroslav Kinach has Ministry of Culture. The third team member, Oksana been the executive director of the Technical Maryniak, is a muscology and art conservation stu­ Assistance Program. dent with computer consulting expertise. In addition The first part of the program, begun in the spring of to designing a database for the exhibition itself, she 1992, is now almost finished. Eleven advisors and advises the museum community of Ukraine in its consultants were placed to work in various Ukrainian ongoing collections automation process. government ministries and agencies. The 'Treasures of Ukraine" project team was invit­ Some examples of the placements are: Dr. Bohdan ed to a conference of museum directors on June 10 in Krawchenko, who was involved in creating the Kyyiv, called to discuss collections automation and the Institute of Public Administration and Local potential for a central data bank on collections, lost Government, a post-graduate school to train senior and stolen artifacts, artifact conservation, etc. Two Ukrainian civil servants; lawyer Christina Maciw, working collections automation systems, including who works as a legal advisor with the Council of sophisticated imaging technology, were demonstrated Advisors to the Parliament of Ukraine in preparing by the State Museum of the History of Ukraine and the draft legislation; Ihor Kowaliw, who is helping design Pecherska Lavra Historical and Cultural Preserve. a national payments system for the National Bank of As a guest speaker, Ms. Maryniak described the Ukraine and providing advice on the selection and mandate and services of the Canadian Heritage design of computer systems and data management; Information Network in Ottawa, the collections data and Dr. Henryk Sterniczuk, recently appointed to bank used by Canadian museums. establish the Privatization, Investment and The "Treasures of Ukraine" exhibition, under the Management Center in Kyyiv to help train govern­ auspices of the Ukrainian Museum of Canada ment officials in preparing privatization programs. Exhibition Committee chaired by Anna Trojan, is well The training program for middle- and senior-level on its way to realization. Thanks to the opportunity Ukrainian civil servants, chosen from 12 Ukrainian provided by the Human Resource Development ministries and government agencies including finance, Dr. Daria Darewych, curator of "Treasures of Program, the potential for long-term cooperation economics, foreign economic relations and the Ukraine," an exhibition funded through the between the Canadian and Ukrainian museum com­ National Bank, was launched in early June of this year Canadian government's Human Resource munities now exists, extending beyond the parameters and the first group of 19 Ukrainians has already com-! Development Program. of the "Treasures of Ukraine" project. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 Nationalities expert questions Nowytski to direct documentary United States policy on Ukraine about "Ukraine in Worid War II" by Anna Mostovych a renewed potential threat to its own security. CHICAGO — Reluctance on the part Mr. Goble, who resigned his State of the U.S. government and media to Department post following President acknowledge the dramatic changes that George Bush's August 1990 speech in have taken place in the former Soviet Kyyiv on "suicidal nationalism," said he Union could have serious consequences believes it was especially inappropriate for U.S. interests in the region, said Paul for the U.S. to speak for preservation of A. Goble, an analyst with the Carnegie the empire. By failing to acknowledge Endowment for International Peace and the demise of the Soviet Union, "we former Soviet nationalities specialist ended up sacrificing our own principles," with Йіе U.S. State Department. and "deprived (ourselves) of a moral Speaking at a seminar sponsored by claim for anyone to listen to us," Mr. the Ukrainian Business and Professional Goble said. More ominously, America's Group of Chicago (The Chicago Group) simplistic "regional bloc" view of the this summer, Mr. Goble argued that the world anid a tendency to personalize for­ Clinton administration is continuing the eign policy in terms of their/our leaders Bush administration's Russo-centric — "the People Magazine approach to policies toward the newly independent world affairs" — has lead to a strange states. This insistence on viewing the passivity in the face of empire-building new geopolital reality as nothing more tendencies in Russia, he said. than "Russia and branch offices," and Ukraine as a country of little significance The "Gorbomania" enthusiasts who beyond its nuclear arsenal has already did not believe that Mikhail Gorbachev had negative consequences. U.S. policy­ could have given personal orders to kill makers, Mr. Goble noted, have succeed­ in Vilnius, Tbilisi and Riga because he ed in reversing the strong anti-nuclear was "such a.nice man" have now fallen sentiments of a population scarred by the in love with Boris Yeltsin, continued Mr. Chornobyl catastrophe and have rein­ Goble. As a result, there was little protest forced Ukraine's determination to in the U.S. when President Yeltsin remain a nuclear power. announced Russia's intention to inter­ vene in the former Soviet republics to Furthermore, by failing to pursue an protect Russian minorities, even though even-handed policy in the region, the he had signed agreements on territorial U.S. is encouraging expansionist tenden­ integrity of borders. The fact that cies in Russia and delaying that coun­ Slavko Nowytski (left) with Volodymyr Kmetyk at the Ukrainian Canadian try's move to democracy while creating (Continued on page 21) Research and Documentation Center in Toronto. by Oksana Zakydalsky on him, Mr. Nowytski said. "We have to stress in the film that these were very Cleveland Museum-Archives TORONTO — The Ukrainian young people —16 to 18 years old, who Canadian Research and Documentation went to certain death. Today, because we Center has signed a contract with Slavko are so far removed from the events, we marks Svoboda centennial Nowytski to be director of the film don't understand the sense of duty that "Ukraine in Worid War II." they had. I realized that I have an obliga­ CLEVELAND — In addition to its well as a good many pre-World War Mr. Nowytski was co-director with tion to show what happened because so other rich collections, the Ukrainian II issues. The exhibit includes original Yuri Luhovy of the film "Harvest of many people died believing in what they Museum-Archives in Cleveland is newspapers with headlines on the Despair," produced by the center in 1985. were doing. I don't want them or their generally acknowledged to have the Ukrainian Famine, the etid of both The documentary film on the 1933 cause to be forgotten. I came back from largest collection of Ukrainian period­ world wars, the assassinations of famine in Ukraine received worldwide Ukraine even more determined to get ical literature published outside of President John F. Kennedy and acclaim and numerous international this film on the way — even more so Ukraine. This year, the UMA is com- Stepan Bandera, the nuclear catastro­ awards; it was shown throughout Ukraine than before," Mr. Nowytski added. n>emorating the centennial of phe at Chornobyl and, of course, in 1991 on the eve of the referendum on Mr. Nowytski said that one of the Svoboda with an exhibit of historic Ukrainian independence. The oldest independence. Although the making of a headlines taken from the museum's issues on display are from 1896 and problems he faces in the making of the film on Ukraine during the second world film is coming up with a fresh approach. extensive collection. 1899. war was discussed right after "Harvest of To help defray the expenses of this "The world has already seen many films The actual centennial of Svoboda's Despair" was released, the lack of funds about World War II. I have to consider exhibit, the Ukrainian National publication will be celebrated with a postponed its realization. Association recently donated $1,000 how to present this film to a primarily birthday party at the museum on "Ukraine in World War II" is planned English-speaking audience in a way that to the UMA's general fund. In a brief Friday, September 24, at 6 p.m. All in six half-hour parts, suitable for televi­ ceremony. Supreme Advisor Taras would intrigue them and make them members and friends of the UMA are sion showing. It will cover the following want to spend the next half hour watch­ Szmagala presented the check to invited to attend. The UMA is located subjects: Ukraine on the eve of World UMA Director Andrew Fedynsky. ing it and jiot switch channels," he said. in Cleveland's historic Tremont War II, the Soviet occupation of western He is now in the process of thinking over The UMA has a complete collec­ Ukraine in 1939-1941, the Soviet- the project creatively to come up with a tion of Svoboda starting with 1946, as (Continued on page 21) German war and the German occupation special approach and a new theme. of Ukraine, Ukrainian resistance against Nazi and Soviet occupiers, the Soviet To date, the Ukrainian Canadian occupation of western Ukraine in 1944 Research and Documentation Center has and Uie consequences of the war. Parts I collected 180 video and 130 audio tapes and II of the film are scheduled to be of interviews with people who played a completed in 1994, parts III and IV.in part in events connected with World War 1995, and Parts V and VI in 1996. II. Most of the interviews were conduct­ ed in the diaspora but, in the last two Mr. Nowytski spent three weeks in years, some were also done in Ukraine. Ukraine in April researching documenta­ Thus, unlike "Harvest of Despair," tion for the film and taping video inter­ which was made entirely with documen­ views with people who were connected tation available a.t the time in the West, with events to be covered in the film. He "Ukraine in World War II" will also use interviewed persons who had served in material now accessible in Ukraine. the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), including women who had been nurses, Mr. Nowytski said he had no prob­ persons who were sent to Siberia and lems working in Ukraine and that no spe­ those who had survived German concen­ cial permits were required, although, he tration camps, as well as regular citizens added, it is very important to deal with who witnessed the first occupation of the right people. "A lot of people are western Ukraine by the Soviets in 1939. very eager to be involved with some­ thing in the West, but they can't deliver," The interviews were done in Lviv, he explained. Kyyiv, Ternopil and Lutske, and Mr. Mr. Nowytski worked with Halychyna Nowytski said he found the interviewees to Supreme Auditor Taras Szmagala (left) presents a donation from the Film (Halfilm) from Lviv, whose direc­ be very forthcoming and unafraid to speak. tor, Volodymyr Kmetyk, assigned an Ukrainian National Association to Andrew Fedynsky of the Cleveland-based An exhibit in Lutske of photographs Ukrainian Museum-Archives. of the UPA made a profound impression (Continued on page 21) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1993 No. 38 Massachusetts group links United States with Ukrainian families

by Lisa Derbyshire "Things we take for granted, like everyday grocery items, are greatly BROCKTON, Mass. — The thou­ appreciated by people in a country where sands of miles between the U.S. and just meeting their basic needs is a chal­ Ukraine soon may seem a little smaller lenge," said Corlette McCoy, MUCB for Ukrainian families in need, thanks to executive director. a new program that will link them with Included in the shipping fee is pay­ U.S. families who want to help. ment for an entrusted courier to deliver "Bridging Families," a people-to-peo­ the package. "We want to be sure that ple service that assists Ukrainian fami­ these donated items get to the families lies while developing cultural relation­ who need them," said Ms. McCoy. ships, is collecting non-perishable items "That's why setting up a distribution net­ donated from across the U.S. for its first work has been so crucial. Not only are shipment to Ukraine in early October. we linked with leading Ukrainian institu­ The program's sponsor, Massachusetts- tions, we have strengthened our relation­ Ukraine Citizens Bridge (MUCB), will ship with the Ukrainian Peace Council, use established relationships in Ukraine ^ which will continue to oversee distribu­ to ensure and verify safe delivery of all tion and expand our assistance beyond packages. our existing Ukrainian contacts." Established in 1986, MUCB fosters Links between two cultures the development of relationships between Ukraine and the U.S., and spon­ Like MUCB's professional exchange sors exchange programs that allow busi­ program. Bridging Families encourages ness, education and health care profes­ development of relationships between sionals from both countries to learn from two cultures. Participants are asked to one another. include family information and a photo "We saw an opportunity to make a in their package. The shipping cost cov­ good thing even better," said Kenneth ers response card postage so Ukrainian Leary, Bridging Families chairman. families can write back to their U.S. During a visit to Ukraine in July 1992, sponsors. MUCB volunteers will trans­ Mr. Leary, who also is director of regu­ late correspondence as needed. Colette McCoy (left), director of the Massachusetts — Ukraine Citizens' Bridge, latory affairs and quality improvement "There is much interest among with Vera Chub, Odessa Peace Council member. for the Massachusetts Hospital Ukrainians in learning how people live Association, joined 20 other their lives in the U.S.," said Vera Chub, people to learn more about each other, St., Brockton, MA 02401-6230; or call Massachusetts health care representa­ principal of the State Foreign Language and the globe will seem a little smaller as (508) 587-6824. (Do not send packages tives in establishing a distribution net­ School of Odessa, who spent several a result." to this address — inquiries only.) The work for donated medical supplies. weeks in Massachusetts this summer on Those interested in participating in the program will be well under way this fall. Since last fall, more than 60 tons of nee­ a business internship with the E. M.. project should write to: Subsequent shipments will occur as each dles, syringes, surgical gloves, ther­ Parker Corp. "This program will allow Bridging Families, 535 West Chestnut 20-foot container is filled. mometers, stethoscopes, antiseptics and pharmaceuticals from Massachusetts hospitals have been airlifted to Ukraine and distributed to 10 hospitals via the Ottawa pastor marks SOtt) ar)niversary as priest network. MUCB also has sent education materials and more than 500 boxes of by Christopher Guly the procession to take me into the old St. with the 1988 millennium celebrations of food and personal items to Ukraine. Nicholas Church." Christianity in Ukraine. Family-to-family contacts OTTAWA — Paul Shewchuk, 78, Most of his priestly career has been So the Rev. Shewchuk bought a two- remembers his younger brother as a devoted to parish work, including a six- and-a-half acre site along the historic After learning about a humanitarian "stubborn little man who stood up for his year term, from 1964 to 1970, at the Rideau Canal and hired New York and program that links U.S. families with rights" when they were growing up. That church in which he was ordained. Ottawa architects to complete the draw­ families in former Soviet countries, the was more than 65 years ago, when the However, from 1952 to 1958, the Rev. ings. Massachusetts-based group decided to two members of a family of 10 were Shewchuk served as provincial superior He started visiting many of Ottawa's expand its assistance program to a more growing up in Sheho, Saskatchewan. of his order in Canada. estimated 5,000 Ukrainians and personalized family bridging effort. But while Paul toiled the fields as a He shined most in church-building. embarked on a national fund-raising They contacted Amy Curtis, founder of farmer, his brother William, or Basil as The Rev. Shewchuk first came to Ottawa campaign for the new church. the original Madisonville, Kentucky- he was often called, left Saskatchewan at in 1959, when St. John the Baptist was By the time the new $4 million struc­ based "Family-to-Family" program. Ms. the age of 14 to enter the religious life. housed in a converted warehouse in the ture and residence actually opened in Curtis endorsed MUCB's project as a On May 16, that brother, the Rev. downtown area. The site was expropriat­ 1987, Father Shewchuk had built up a way to target aid to families in Ukraine. Vladimir Shewchuk, OSBM, marked his ed for low-rental housing, so in 1964 he congregation of 800 — twice as big as Bridging Families assists those inter­ 50th anniversary as a priest. He currentiy bought a new church site. the church could comfortably accommo­ ested in being paired with a Ukrainian serves as pastor of St. John the Baptist That year. Father Shewchuk was date in one sitting. family by providing a letter from a Ukrainian Catholic Church and national transferred to Winnipeg, where he over­ Today, three divine liturgies are cele­ growing list of Ukrainian families on shrine in Ottawa. saw the completion of a new $800,000 brated each Sunday at St. John the file, or linking them with a family of Father Shewchuk's younger sister, home for St. Nick's, which opened in Baptist, often by the pastor himself. Two their choice. Boxes containing up to 50 Marie, 72, a member of the order of 1966. He also increased the parish roster years ago, the shrine, which houses a pounds of non-perishable items are Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in from 300 to 700 families during his six- copy of the miraculous icon of the placed in a 20-foot container to be Winnipeg, explained that Basil hasn't year term. That marked the start of a sys­ Modier of God of Perpetual Help, was shipped by sea with assistance from the changed that much since he was a kid. tem of matching residences to voters' also consecrated as a pilgrimage site. U.S. State Department, which also was "He really believes in what he's doing, lists and telephone directory entries with But the odds haven't always been in involved in previous MUCB humanitari­ he's a man dedicated to his people." Ukrainian-sounding names. the Rev. Shewchuk's favor. Ottawa is a an shipments. Father Shewchuk was bom on January haven for bureaucrats. "It's a very tran­ The Rev. Shewchuk personally visited sient city," he explains. "There's no core Affordable program 23, 1917, to Prairie farmers Peter and each one, door-to-door. He remembers Eudocia Shewchuk. As a boy, he would here, no industry. There are just as many that it wasn't always easy. people moving out as there are people "Because of government support, the often accompany his father, who served "Most people were friendly; some­ cost for shipping a 50-pound box is just as cantor at their parish, the Nativity of moving in." times the *Novak' would turn out to be Yet those who remain and belong to $25, compared to more than $400 if sent the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jewish and I'd have some egg on my via private carrier," said Mr. Leary. "We Sheho. When his older brother, the church credit their pioneering pastor face. But for the most part my homework for keeping them together. "He's a force want to make the program affordable to Sebastian, decided to enter the Order of paid off." everyone who wants to help." St. Basil the Great (Basilian Fathers), that binds the group and provides open­ The same methods worked in ness and vitality," said long-time parish­ Suggested foods for shipment include Father Shewchuk followed suit and Thornhill, north of Toronto, when he joined in 1932. ioner Vera Bociurkiw. sugar, flour, rice, powdered milk, soup moved there in 1971. The Rev. "He has this ability to transcend gen­ mixes, canned vegetables, pasta, tomato He studied at the order's novitiate in Shewchuk launched a new church there, erations," noted Andrij Hluchowecky, sauces, dried fruits, peanut butter, Mundare, where he professed his solemn too, and was itching to work the same who helped start a parish youth group canned tuna or chicken, beverage mixes vows in 1939. On May 16, 1943, he was kind of magic when he was assigned to two years ago. "I'm comfortable speak­ and non-melting chocolate. Due to feder­ ordained to the priesthood by return to Ottawa in 1979. ing to him on any topic." al restrictions, however, perishables, Archbishop Basil Ladyka in Winnipeg. Canada's Ukrainian Catholic bishops The Rev. Cornelius Pasichny, the cur­ glass containers, clothing, and agricul­ "I remember waking up that morning decided a year later that they wanted a rent pastor of St. Nicholas Church in tural items such a^.honey or seeds^ ^re at 7 a>m.," he,i;eGalls, "I.wasn't excited, shrine built in Ottawa ttiat was.to be.tra­ not accepted. J , but І was,upli4Qd,..j!^tietttly awaiting for ditionally \]кщшщі-Ц would coincide : , XContitiued on page 7) , ^. _ , No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1993

Atanas Figol (1908-1993} Senate Concurrent Resolution 42 Whereas, during 1932-1933, m eslittiated 7 million to 10 million peo­ and the Encyclopedia Project ple starved to death in Ukraine because of forced collectivization and grain seizures from the rural population by the Government of the Dr. Oleksa Bilaniuk der beste Geist nur ein Gespenst" ("Without Soviet Union; bread even the best spirit turns into a ghost") Whereas Public Law 99-180 established the Commission on the On July 30, 1993, the Ukrainian — without a material basis the Encyclopedia Ukraine Famine to conduct a study to expand the world's knowledge of Encyclopedia Project lost Dr. Atanas Figol, Project would have withered. It survived the famine and to provide the American public with a better understand­ one of its earliest supporters and movers. He solely because of the tireless dedication of ing of ЙІЄ former Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role in the will not be with us on September 25, when Dr. Figol: he became the "finance minister" Ukraine famine; the final volumes of the definitive English- of the Encyclopedia Project. Whereas the Commission's report to Congress confirms that Soviet language Encyclopedia of Ukraine will be A penniless refugee himself, but an dictator "Joseph Stalin and those around him committed genocide launched in Toronto. uncannily resourceful, enterprising and gainst Ukrainians in 1932-1933'' to repress the Ukrainian peasantry and Until September 25 of this year, for only charismatic personality, he enjoyed the to suppress Ukrainian self-assertion; a very short time now, the English version unreserved trust of a wide circle of devoted Whereas on February 7, 1990^ the Central Committee of the of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia fellow scouts, particularly of the "Lisovi Communist Party of Ukraine acknowledged tha^ the Ukraine famine was (Macmillan Publishers) will remain the Chorty" Plast fraternity of which he was a artificially created by the policies of Stalin and his closest associates; only general reference in which an English- member of pre-war standing. He readily Whereas internationally accepted principles of human rights prohibit language reader may find wide-ranging convinced them of the paramount impor­ the use of food as a political weapon; information on Ukraine. Because for so long tance of the Encyclopedia Project and Whereas the official observances of the Days of Sorrow and it was the handiest reference on Eastern together they formed the first of a later array ЕетешЬгшсе of tibe Victims of the Imposed Famine щ-е commemorat­ Europe, no wonder that American and of encyclopedia support groups that spanned ed this years on September 10 through 12 in Kiev, Ukraine; and British textbooks still present a mostly dis­ the globe and reached all corners of each Whereas members of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine are pre­ torted picture of Ukraine. Even though continent where Ukrainians were to be senting a copy of their findings and conclusions to the Government of Ukraine enters the third year of its renewed found. All of the Ukrainian diaspora, but Ukraine during the official observances in Ukraine: Now^ therefore^ be it statehood, great many Americans and also the Ukrainian nation as a whole, owe a Resolved by the Senate (ue House of Representatives concurring). Britons still have at best only a hazy concept debt of gratitude to Dr. Figol because it was Section L Sense of Congress. about the thousand years of Ukrainian histo­ he who proved to be the highly competent, it is the sense of the Congress that — ry and the much longer Ukrainian prehisto­ charmingly diplomatic and utterly dedicated (1) tte victims of the Sovbt-engineered Ubraine famine of 19324933 ry. Now, when the world faces with suфrise and selfless financial genius who guided the be solemnly remembered on its 60th anniversary; and suspicion the phenomenon of an inde­ early Encyclopedia Project of Prof. (2) this anniversary underscores the hardship and inhumanity of life pendent Ukraine, there exists, more than Kubijovyc through stormy economic seas under the repressive regime of the Soviet Union during the Ukraine ever, a poignant lack of an authoritative, towards relative financialstability . Famine of 19324933; contemporary reference work in English on The wide support the Encyclopedia {3> the Congress соМетш the syslematic disregard for human life, Ukraine, its culture and history. An interest­ Project enjoyed among the individual mem­ human rights and htiman liberty that characterized the policies of the ed English-language reader can easily find bers of the Ukrainian diaspora, and later Government of Йіе Soviet Union <|«ring the Ukraine famine of 1932- objective data on say Hungary or Poland, from prestigious and far-sighted organiza­ 1933; but to find undistorted data on Ukraine is tions and foundations in the U.S.A and par­ (4) the presentation of a copy of the findings and c

Journalist's notebooli Ukrainian Weetlу in иіігаіпе by Marta Kolomayets The Great Famine revisited Kyyiv Press Bureau Ten years ago, the Ukrainian cornmunity in the diaspora solemnly commem­ orated Й1Є 50th anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932-1933. There were pub­ lications, meetings, symposia, public manifestations, concerts, dedications of monuments, etc. Memorial events in October of 1983 in Washington brought Ukraine's "harvest of sorrow" 18,000 to the nation's capital to remember the 7 million to 10 million victims of Although one of Ukraine's greatest survive ors talked about it, fearing the the famine and to protest the Soviet regime's genocide of Ukrainians. tragedies, the famine of 1932-1933, Communist system, fearing that if they In 1986, as a result of Ukrainian community lobbying in the United States occurred more than 60 years ago, 1993 told their children, the children would -— including efforts by this newspaper, which was first to support this initia­ was the first year the Ukrainian govern­ repeat such information in public. And, tive of the late Ihor Olshaniwsky, president of Americans for Human Rights in ment officially acknowledged its exis­ this of course, could ruin their chances Ukraine — the U.S. Congress created a U.S. government-funded Conmiission tence. for a future at a university, or in a job. on the Ukraine Famine. Its mandate: to study the famine's causes and conse­ This year, under the able guidance of Unfortunately, I have yet to see the quences, as well as the reaction of the free world to this atrocity; to provide Ukraine's deputy prime minister in Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian information to government, educational institutions, the media and the public. charge of humanitarian affairs, Mykola educational system pay much attention to Five years ago, in April 1988, the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine Zhulynsky, the nation's "harvest of sor­ the Famine. I was also shocked to see released its findings. The most significant of them was that "Joseph Stalin and row" was solemnly observed with con- that just a handful of deputies and gov­ those around him committed genocide against Ukrainians in 1932-1933." feirences, documentaries, tribunals, ernment leaders attended the memorial At the time of the last meeting of the full commission on April 19, 1988, it meniorial services, and monument services; of 450 deputies, no more than was noted that five years earlier the famine had been little known outside the unveilings. (See front page story). 30 attended the Kyyiv national cere­ Ukrainian community, scarcely a footnote in history. Since then, through the This year, the official silence of the monies. Some journalists in Ukraine efforts of the Ukrainian community and the U.S. government commission, the Ukrainian holocaust became known outside the community and had entered Communist era ended, and the leaders of have called this "spitting in the face of into the consciousness of the public at large. No longer could there be denials an indegendetit Ukraine noted that the the Ukrainian people." that a famine had ravaged Ukraine during the heinous Stalin regime. It was terrorist acts of Stalin's regime in 1932- Some survivors have begun to tell of also pointed out that though glasnost was beginning in the USSR and some 1933 were indeed ethnocide of the their experiences; on Saturday evening, "blank spots" in history were then being discussed, the USSR had not yet Ukriinian people, an artificial famine September 11, a commeftiorative acknowledged that a famine had been artificially and willfully created in aimed at liquidating Ukraine's back­ evening was held in Kyyiv. During a Ukraine and the ethnically Ukrainian Northern Caucasus region of the Russian bone, its hard-working, land-loving tribunal, old men and women from cen­ SFSR by Stalin and his henchmen in order the break the people of Ukraine and peasantry. tral and eastern Ukraine took the stage propel rгфid industrialization of the USSR. Some of the faniine survivors I spoke to tell of their suffering, of their sur­ At that meeting, one of the commission's public members. Dr. Myron to, who came to Kyyiv last weekend to vival. An older woman from the Kuropas, noted: "Today, a full 55 years after the famine, the Soviet Union still niouiti their families, their neighbors and Cherkasy region slowly made her way denies the fact that the famine was a direct result of Soviet public policy. .,. I friends who did not survive those atroci­ onto the stage, her head wrapped in a am aware that there are tiiose who would prefer to have our report buried in ties, told me the healing process had dark kerchief, her trembling hands car­ sotne musty U.S. archival file, never to be mentioned again. This would not be begun. But, as I observed in Kyyiv, and rying a loaf of bread, the food in America's best interest." Another member. Dr. Oleh Weres, pointed out: as is naost probably the case throughout Ukrainians hold sacred. 'The word of the United States carries great authority among people in the Ukraine, the learning process is just But this one weekend of memorials is Soviet Union... I hope and expect that... our work will be recognized and beginning. ^ not enough. Recently, I traveled to the appreciated in the Soviet Union, and members of our commission and staff I myself did not know about the countryside of Kyyiv to find famine sur­ will be invited to visit Ukraine in their official capacity. Then we will have the famine in 1932-1933 until I was a vivors; I spoke to them as their grand­ final satisfaction of knowing that we have helped Ukraine and the Soviet teenager, although my grandparents from children listened. Some were hearing Union take one more step toward joining the community of free peoples." the Poltava region lived through it, saved these stories for the firsttime . Now, five years after the commission released its report and three years their two young sons frpm it by moving As I was getting ready to leave for the after it published three volumes of its Oral History Project containing sur­ from the countryside to the city, and memorial services on Sunday afternoon, vivors' accounts of the Great Famine, the work of the U.S. Commission on the watched their family members die of my neighbor asked me where I was Ukraine famine has come full circle and has indeed been concluded. As a hunger at a time when Ukraine's harvest going in such a rush. When I told her, newly independent Ukraine officially mourned the millions who perished in was hitting peak numbers. she asked: "What famine?" 1932-1933, the commission's findings and documentation were presented to Perhaps it was too painful for my fam­ Ukrainian government officials by a U.S. delegation headed by Bohdan ily to talk about those times, but as I was Obviously, a lot still has to be done Fedorak, a public member of the Famine Commission. growing up I found "The Black Deeds of to make the general population aware of While blue-and-yellow national flags draped with black streamers flew at the Kremlin: A White Book," on a fami­ Ukraine's bleak past, to learn the half-mast, Ukraine began a healing process as family members mourned the ly member's bookshelf. Later, as I began lessons of history. As many of loss of loved ones and a nation paid somber tribute to the millions of its sons my first year at The Ukrainian Weekly, I Ukraine's leaders have noted during and daughters mercilessly killed by an inhuman regime. However, the job of learned that this newspaper had been these commemorations, Ukraine's inde­ educating the people of Ukraine about this tragic episode in the legacy of the founded in 1933 to spread the news pendence is the singular guarantor that USSR — an episode that had been concealed through notorious Soviet rewrit­ about the famine in the American press, such a calamity never again occurs in ing of history — has only just begun. at a time when Walter Duranty of The this nation. New York Times turned a blind eye to But knowing that it occurred is not such events so that he could continue his enough, reasons for the tragedy must be ignoble friendship with Stalin. outlined. Some survivors with whom I The Weekly also published a mono­ have talked do not realize that this was graph on the famine in 1983 and devoted genocide, that it was an act of terror Turning the pages back... many pages to help establish the U.S. aimed at destroying Ukrainians. As I commission on the Ukraine Famine on interviewed one woman, the sole famine the 50th anniversary of this unknown survivor among six siblings, she contin­ holocaust. ued to defend Stalin as a great leader. The following is an excerpt from the 1988 report to Obviously, in Soviet Ukraine, the peo­ Today, she worries she may die of Congress of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, ple did not have the opportunity to learn hunger in an independent Ukraine. which shed light on many details of the 1933 Stalininst- about the famine of 1932-1933. This was Today, Stanislav Kulchytsky, the induced artificial famine in Ukraine that for years had been covered up. one of the "blank spots'" in history. Few (Continued on page 22) This particular passage brings forth observations by colleagues of Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who covered up news of man-made starvation in Ukraine to retain Stalin's favor. They show that he was quite aware to what extent the famine had ravished the country. UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine * * * The Home Office of the Ukrainian In September 1933, after returning from Ukraine and the North Caucasus, National Association reports that, as of (Duranty) shared his impressions with a British diplomat who reported to London, September 10, the fraternal organization's "Mr. Duranty thinks it is quite possible that as many as 10 million people may have newly established Fund for the Rebirth of died direcdy or indirectiy from lack of food during the past year." Eugene Lyons (United Press Moscow correspondent at the time) recalled that at a Ukraine has received 16,307 checks from dinner with Duranty: its members with donations totalling "He gave us his fresh impressions in brutally frank terms and they added up $412,231.90 The contributions include to a picture of ghastly horror. His estimate of the dead from famine was the individual members' donations, as well as most startling I had as yet heard from anyone. returns of members' dividend checks and "'But, Walter, you don't mean that literally?' Mrs. McCormick exclaimed. interest payments on promissory notes. " 'Hell I don't... I'm being conservative,' he replied... Please make checks payable to: UNA "' "When Й1Є issues of the Times carrying Duranty^ s own; articles reached me, I found. that thfey'failed to mention.the^l^f^efigttre^^ hafd'^ver^ fre^y,ar|4 repeatedly to.^li^ Fxindfor.the Rebirth of Ukraine. ч ' No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 Congressional remarks on the Great Famine Ambassador's statement deceive the world. It endeavored to convince the inter­ Sen. Don Rieale national community that the horrible act never occurred. on famine of 1932-1933 As a result, it took half-a-century for scholars, using Below is the text of remarks on the occasion of obser­newly available transcripts and eyewitness testimony, to Statement by Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S. vances of the 60th anniversary of the Great Famine as thoroughly uncover the real story concealed behind Oleh Bilorus on the occasion of the 60th anniver­ submitted into the Congressional record by Sen, Don communist-fabricated distortions. sary of the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-1933). Riegle of Michigan. To understand how six decades were able to pass Ukraine is commemorating millions of victims of Mr. President, 60 years ago the Soviet Union engi­ without the facts of this massive terror ever coming the artificial famine inflicted on Ukraine 60 years neered one of the most loathsome acts of genocide ever fully to light, we must comprehend that Stalin used ago by the totalitarian regime and Stalinist rule. For eфetrated — the Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933. The every means available, including ridicule, to suppress the first time in the history of mankind, food was world must commemorate this cruel and inhuman deed the truth. When, in 1932, Roman Terakhov, a former used for political purposes as a weapon of mass peфetrated against Ukraine so that we never forget its provincial secretary of Ukraine, requested famine aid, destruction, a tool of ethnic genocide and an instru­ millions of victims. Only by remembering can we pre­ Stalin not only threatened to remove him from office, ment of warfare against those who fed the country vent this kind of atrocity from ever happening again. but proposed that he "work in the Union of Writers and that same beastly regime. The forced famine of Sens. Mitchell, Dole, Pell, DeConcini, D'Amato, Biden, where you would write fairy tales for idiots to read...." the 1930s in Ukraine without exaggeration can be Sarbanes, Levin, and Wallop have joined as co-sponsors In "Harvest of Sorrow," a detailed account of the rated as the most monstrous tragedy of the 20st cen­ of this important resolution. Ukraine Famine, Robert Conquest explains that "the tury, a heinous crime against man and humanity, as Although six decades have passed, we must compre­ task of the historian is a notoriously difficult one of try­ the most abhorrent trial survived by the Ukrainian hend that the Soviet government committed this terror ing to represent clearly and truly in a few hundred pages people in the course of their dramatic history. with malice aforethought. There was no blunder. Let events which cover years of time and nations of men The famine, which murdered millions of this be completely clear: the famine in Ukraine was and women." The effort to fit together all of the pieces Ukrainian farmers, was a hateful, felonious, polit­ deliberately planned and carried out by Soviet totalitari­ of this tragic puzzle required extensive research by a ical and state crime also because the truth about an dictator Joseph Stalin. Within only a few short years, team dedicated to learning the truth. For this reason, the barbaric genocide for decades was hushed and Moscow's policies of forced collectivization and grain Congress created in 1984 the Commission on the concealed from generations of Ukrainians with an seizures brought about the deaths of more than 7 million Ukraine Famine to develop a clear account of this event intent to deprive the entire nation of its historical people in Ukraine. and inform the world of the massacre of millions of memory. For more than half a century this nation­ During the famine and after it was perpetrated, the Ukrainians in the early 1930s. al tragedy had neither been menrioned in the Soviet government employed a massive effort to- (Continued on page 22) press, over the radio, television nor in any official documents. Dissemination of any information about the Stalinist famine was persecuted. reminds us, in the starkest of terms, of the brutality of The new independent Ukraine returned to its Sen. Dennis DeConcini totalitarian regimes. The man-made Ukraine Famine people the right to know their history and its trag­ would have been inconceivable in an independent, demo­ ic pages, the right to learn the truth about all the Following is the text of Sen, Dennis DeConcini's cratic country which respected human rights and the rule ordeals and trials that for centuries had stood in statement on the 60th anniversary of the Ukraine of law. As this resolution states, the man-made Ukraine the way to Ukraine's independent statehood. Famine. Famine is a graphic illustration of the unacceptable alter­ Without this truth and historical conscience it is impossible to build a new democratic state based Mr. President, I am pleased to co-sponsor a resolution native to democracy and a free market economy. on the rule of law and justice. I believed then, and believe now, that it is vital for all to commemorate the Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933, During these "Days of Mourning" for the inno­ introduced by my friend Sen. Riegle. The Ukraine Americans to understand what Ukrainians suffered 60 cent victims of the famine in 1932-1933, Ukraine Famine is a subject which is close to my heart. years ago. More importantly, it is essential that we rec­ is not only commemorating millions of men, As a member of the Commission on the Ukraine ognize why the famine occurred, and what can result women and children killed by the starvation Famine in the 1990s, I vividly recall the poignant and from the oppression of inhuman regimes that use food as enforced by the relentless socio-feudal empire, often gut-wrenching testimony of witnesses who lived political weapons. but is also drawing conclusions from the past, through that horrific experience. At hearings I chaired in The commission on the Ukraine Famine, in its report, now open to us and the coming generations. February 1987 in Phoenix, I recall eyewitnesses describ­ concluded that Stalin's regime committed genocide For millions of Ukrainian citizens, the most ing the deaths of their loved ones, the passing of starved against Ukrainians in 1932-1933. The purpose of this important lesson of the famine is that the people bodies on the streets, the eating of treebark and grasses artificial Famine was to suppress any Ukrainian expres­ can fall victim to genocide only in conditions of to survive. I remember one elderly eyewitness describ­ sion of its cultural and political identity — an identity national oppression and colonial servitude. It is ing an episode she witnessed of a mother leaving her that was rooted in the peasantry. Despite the tremendous only advanced statehood and independence that crying, emaciated children at a market in a town. The cost in lives, and the innumerable personal human can guarantee worthy life for all citizens of mother kept repeating, "Don't cry, it will be better for tragedies, Stalin was patentiy unsuccessful in eradicating Ukraine. Independence is the foremost nafional you. They will take you to the orphanage and give you Ukrainian identity. The fact that Ukraine is now indepen­ value of the Ukrainian people. The main historic bread, but at home, you will soon die. If I stay alive, I dent is as much a testimony to Stalin's failure as it is a priority and imperative of our national strategy is will find you." These kinds of scenes were not at all testimony to the indomitable will and spirit of its people. to develop a new democratic statehood. uncommon, as desperate, starving, suffering people But I wish it was that simple and that Ukraine's inde­ The tragic history of the artificial famine in resorted to desperate measures. pendence was assured. Increasingly over the last few Ukraine in 1932-1933 also shows that only But the profound truth of the matter, Mr. President, is months, I have been wondering whether Ukraine will democracy can help the people defend their that this famine, which decimated 7 to 10 million people, remain an independent, democratic state. Unfortunately, national interests and rule out lawlessness and was man-made, and hence, could have been avoided. It (Continued on page 22) abuse of Man, who in the Soviet times was deprived of his basic rights, including the right to live and use the fruit of his labor. As the people of grain out of Ukraine. Watchtowers were erected in the Ukraine build democratic mechanisms of power Rep. David Bonior fields manned by armed guards. Ukrainians caught with and form a democratic state, they pay tribute to excess grain were shot. The number of executions rose millions of innocent souls who perished during Following is the text of a statement in remembrance dramatically during this period. the 22 months of the world's most murderous of the Ukrainian Famine by Rep. David E. Bonior of In the fields, the horror began full scale. As food ran famine in the 20th century. Michigan. out, people began to make bread out of nettles and weeds. Remembering the victims of the enforced Sixty years ago, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered In desperation, they turned to eating unimaginable things famine, we do understand that one of the most sig­ the seizure of the Ukrainian grain crop and forced col­ just to stay alive. In the winter, acorns were collected nificant features of democracy is economic free­ lectivization which resulted in mass starvation that left from beneath the snow. At the height of the famine. dom of man. A citizen had the right to live in eco­ millions of Ukrainians dead. Sadly, too little has been Communist Party officials ridiculed Ukrainians as para­ nomic freedom. Only the owner of his own land, sites who would do anything to get out of working. property or business can be a true master of his life known in the West about this tragedy. To put it in per­ and can live prosperously in a flourishing democ­ spective, it would be as if the entire population of Of course, these same party officials were well-fed while the death ravaged the countryside. It is also these ratic country. The road to that goal lies through Michigan was made to starve to death. radical reformation of the ineffective and uncom­ Stalin began his campaign of terror against Ukraine officials who brutally enforced the grain decrees. In the Kharsyn village of the Poltava province, a women seven petitive post-socialist economy, through the times by arresting scholars writers, students and priests. Then of crisis which Ukraine is experiencing now. he turned to the ruthless annihilation of the Ukrainian months pregnant was beaten to death for plucking some spring wheat. In the same province, Nastia Slipenko At this time of trial, we are aware of the sincere countryside. Stalin made impossible demands on the sympathy toward us by millions of Americans, Ukrainian grain harvest. These initial demands were fol­ was shot for digging up potatoes at night. Here three young children, whose father had been arrested earlier, our brothers and sisters of Ukrainian descent who lowed by even more and more absurd ones on grain that are not indifferent to our plight on the way to a no longer existed. When all the grain was seized, Stalin's starved to death. Houses were searched on a regular basis. Any edible new democratic Ukraine. Your support is espe­ minions took whatever food was left. Millions and mil­ cially evident at these "Days of Mourning" for the lions of men, women and children were forced to starve. food was seized. There were reports of especially brutal Communist Party henchmen who, in order to avoid victims of the famine. Let us together pay homage Through tremendous effort, Ukraine produced to those who innocently died of famine. enough grain to appease Moscow in August 1932. extra trips, brought both the dead and dying to the cemetery. Children and old people were left alive in Let the bright shrine of a new democratic state However, this left the countryside utterly exhausted. By be the paramount monument to Ukraine's millions November, the exorbitant Soviet demands could no mass graves for several days. Stalin blamed the shortfall of grain on sabotage and of victims. The formation of the Ukrainian state, longer be met. At that time Ukrainians were already unity of all patriotic forces and universal reconcil­ starving to death. Instead of easing up on Ukraine, the "un-Marxist approach of a significant part of our vil­ lage communists." Reports of nrtassive famine were dis- iation will guarantee that the horrors of famine Moscow tightened its grip. will never re-visit our free land. An inteiise effort was made to wring every last bit of (Contiffiu^ on pag^ 22) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 No. 38 Ukraine's people recall national tragedy of famine-holocaust (Continued from page 1) the victims of the famine. We bow our heads before the graves of innocent peo­ ple starved to death," President Kravchuk told the crowds. He, along with Parliamentary Speaker Ivan Pliushch, Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, Deputy Prime Minister Zhulynsky, parliamentarians Ivan Drach, Pavlo Movchan and others, joined Ukraine's citizens as Metropolitan Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Roman Catholic Bishop Jan Kurlynsky, Rabbi Yankel Bleich, Evangelical Pastor Mykola Melnyk, Baptist Pastor Honcharov and Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Mykola Shukaliuk, as well as newly elected Patriarch Demetriy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church took turns offering prayers for victims of the famine. Although Metropolitan Volodymyr Slobodan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate was among those attending the memorial service, he was not asked to offer words of prayer. President Kravchuk asked all present to observe the memory of those who died in 1932-1933 with a moment of silence before the people lined up to walk the "Way of the Cross" to St. Michael's Square, less than half a kilo­ meter away. President Leonid Kravchuk calls for a moment of silence in memory of famine victims during a requiem service in St Sophia Day of national mounring Square. Behind him are hierarchs and clergy of all denominations who officiated at the panakhyda. Scores of elderly survivors traveled to regions where the hunger killed millions, administration representatives Leonid and had helped with these first official Kyyiv from Ukraine's black-earth coun­ also brought scoops of soil from the mass Kosakivsky and City Council Chairman commemorations in Ukraine. tryside to witness the unveiling of the graves of famine victims in their area. Vasyl Nesterenko, laid wreaths at the On Tuesday morning, September 14, first official famine market-monument in Some brought clay pots, others brought base of the unveiled monument, which the members of the U.S. Commission on the nation's capital. They walked with steel capsules filled with black earth, a was blessed by Ukraine's Church leaders. the Ukraine Famine turned over the orig­ candles lit, some with tears streaming guarantor of fertility, a promise of bread The monument itself is a cross hol­ inal tapes of testimony by more than 600 down their faces as they remembered the to put on the table. lowed out in stone; inside this cross is witnesses of the famine, recorded in the terror of that harvest. Those representatives from western the depiction in metal of a mother with United States in the early 1980s to "I needed to come here to mourn my Ukraine, where Stalin's artificial famine her hands outstretched and inside her Parliamentary Speaker Pliushch and the family," said Olha Vulokh, who canie did not reach, brought documents show­ likeness is the silhouette of a child in the Presidium of the Supreme Council. The from a village about an hour outside of ing how they had tried to help their form of another cross. delegation was headed by Bohdan Kyyiv. The pensioner lost most of her brothers and sisters during the terrible Despite the constant drizzle, many of Fedorak, a member of the U.S.-funded family during the winter of 1932-1933; tragedy of the early 1930s. the mourners stayed on to pay their commission. she lost others during World War II. Ukraine's leaders, including President respects to one of Ukraine's bleakest and Ukrainian Americans from the commit­ Representatives from almost every Kravchuk, Prime Minister Kuchma, most tragic chapters. tee encouraged the Ukrainian government oblast in Ukraine came to lay wreaths in Supreme Council Chairman Pliushch, Not only citizens of Ukraine mourned to form its own commission on the famine, memory of the famine victims; those organizing committee chairmen Dr. their ancestors. A number of Ukrainians to ask that a tribunal be established and who came from central and eastern Zhulynsky and Dr. Mace, as well as city Americans and Ukrainian Canadians also that those guilty of crimes against took part in the observances. Many were Ukrainians in the 1930s take responsibility members of the organizing committee for their crimes against humanity.

A family views documentation about the famine that appeared at one of three "stations" set up on the capital city's main thoroughfare, the Khreshchatyk. Residents of Zhytomyr Oblast with a memorial wreath to famine victims that Passers-by placed flowers, fruits and bread on the makeshift altar in memory of they placed at the foot of Kyyiv's new marker-monument. those who perished in the Great Famine. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993

Ukraine's leaders, (from left) Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Zhulynsky, Prime A DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING Minister Leonid Kuchma, Parliament Chairman Ivan Pliushch and President On September 12 the people of Ukraine mourned the 7 to 10 million of their Leonid Kravchuk, pay their respects to famine victims; passers-by examine countrymen who had perished in the Stalin-perpetrated Great Famine of 1932- exhibit stations set up on the Khreshchatyk; Kharkiv Oblast representatives 1933. On this page are scenes from the day's observances. Clockwise from with a memorial wreath; the public gathered at St. Michael's Square, where a top right are: A tearful mourner at prayer service; a memorial procession marker-monument was erected in memory of victims of the famine-holocaust. makes its way from St. Sophia Square headed for St. Michael's Square; (All photos in this series by Marta Kolomayets.) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 No. 38 Sydorak wins men's division a record fifth consecutive time in 381

by Roman Woronowycz the men's division and the 45 and over division were played. KERHONKSON, N.Y. — Roman It was the first time since 1966 the Sydorak, a recent graduate of Stanford tennis matches had to be moved indoor University of California, cruised to a in the first rounds. "It was a difficult sit­ record fifth consecutive USCAK men's uation because of the number of matches division tennis title on Monday that had to be moved," said Zenon September 6 at the Soyuzivka estate as Snylyk, director of the tournament. the Ukrainian Sports Association of the U.S. A. and Canada held its 38th annual But before the day was over the rain tennis tourney during the Labor Day fizzled out, which allo\yed the 80 contes­ weekend holiday. tants competing in 10 divisions to return to the hard courts of the Soyuzivka On Monday, he defeated Mark estate. Oryshkewych of the Ukrainian Tennis In the men's over 35 division, Roman Club in Chicago, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. After a Rakoczy Jr. downed Don Kopach, 6-2, second set letdown, Mr. Sydorak 6-4, to win his fourth consecutive title regained control with his sure ground after eliminating George Walchuk in the game and won going away. He pushed semifinals. Mr. Kopach beat Jaroslav aside Viktor Baran, 6-2, 6-2, to get to the Tymkiv to get to the finals. finals, while Mr. Oryshkewych handled Dennis Chomiy, 6-1, 6-4. In the most crowded field, the men's over 45 division, Jaroslav Sydorak of On}y two took part in the women's Soyuzivka retained his crown defeating division where Lesya Bilak, formerly George Sawchak, 6-4, 6-4, after taking from Uzhhorod, Ukraine, and now living Oleksander Terleckyj in the previous in New Brunswick, N. J., defeated Leda round. Mr. Sawchak advanced after tack­ Sawchak-Kopach of the Tryzub sport's ling Oleh Bohachevsky, 6-1, 6-2. club in the women's division for the sec­ In the over 55 division, Konstantin ond year in a row, 6-3, 7-5. The match Ben handily defeated Milan Obradovich, was much closer than last year's 6-0, 6-1 6-0,6-1. drubbing Ms. Sawchak-Kopach took Boys' division results: under 16 years: from Ms. Bilak. Ivan Koremba def. Lesyk Sarachman, 7- A rainy, bleak Saturday boded a long 6, 2-6, 6-4; under 14 years: Stefan Goletz and difficult weekend for organizers and def. Dennis Burachinsky, 6-1, 7-5; participants of the 1993 tennis competi­ Men's under 12 years: Andrew Salak tions. The opening ceremonies were can­ def. Victor Sulzhynsky, 6-0, 6-0. celed and the tennis tourney initially was Girls' division results: older juniors: moved north, because of the inclement Maya Milanych def. Jane Brynzak, 4-6, John Hynansky, chairman of Winner Ford, which sponsored the financial awards, p] weather, to an indoor tennis club near 6-2, 6-0. Younger juniors: Lida Boychuk the men's championship trophy to Roman Sydorak. Next to him are men's rum Albany, N.Y., where the early round of def. Larysa Boychuk, 6-1, 6-2. Mark Oryshkewych and UNA Supreme President Ulana Diachuk.

Downpour and drizzle can't dampen 37th youth

KERHONKSON N.Y. — The rain never let "About the only ones who didn't mii up at the 37th annual USCAK swim meet held were the kids, even though the water was ( Saturday, September 4, at Soyuzivka, but it did er," said the meet's director, Marika Bo not seem to affect the contestants, who swam The rain also chased the scorers into the c through downpour and drizzle. Ten new way of the Veselka Auditorium and kep records were set, eight in individual events and timers and judges under umbrellas. two in relay events in both boys' and girls' More than 60 kids registered, althougl divisions. participants were reduced to 47 because о

Photos by Marika Bokalo, Vara Snylyk and Roman Woronowycz. Three at the mark in a boys' division swimming final on Saturday afternoon.

Two youngsters hit the water as others mill about awaiting their turn in preliminary heats. The 1993 USCAK swim meei No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 13 I USCAK Soyuzivka tennis tourney

Ivan Koremba, winner in the 16-and-under boys' division receives trophy from Supreme Advisor Walter Kwas.. Supreme Advisor Anya Dydyk-Petrenko awards Lesyk Sarachmann the second-place trophy.

Diana Hynansky (left) with women's champion Lesya Bilak, women's runner-up Leda Sawchak-Kopach and Zenon Snylyk, committee member of the USCAK national tennis tourney.

45-and-over winner Jaroslav Sydorak (center) receives trophy from John Flis Jr., И//А77 meet Soyuzivka manager. Standing with them: runner-up George Sawchak (holding trophy), USCAK President Myron Stebelsky (left) and Zenon Snylyk (right).

weather. Ill the end the Tryziib Sports Club, with 14 participants, won the meet with 176 points. SUM with 18 participants followed with 97 points. After that came the 10 Sitch entries with 83 points. Plast registered five competi­ tors who accumulated 36 points. (Final results on page 19)

Slava Rubel awards the Jaroslaw Rubel trophy to men's over-35 winner Roman Rakoczy Jr. Stefan Goletz (dark shirt), winner of the boy's under-14 division, receives trophy from UNA Supreme Advisor Eugene Iwanciw. USCAK official Omelan Twardowsky (left) congratulates runner-up Dennis Burachinsky.

Mary Dushnyck awards her trophy for sportsmanship to Natalya Salak. Zenon Snylyk addresses crowd at closing ceremonies. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 No. 38

SECOND ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS OF UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY U.S. president's greetings Philadelphia Following is the full text of the Ukrainian Independence Day greeting issued by Tamara Stadnychenlio Ihor Kushnir (vice-chairs), Petro Hursky by President Bill Clinton on August 19. and Eugene Nowosad (secretaries), and America joins its Ukrainian community and Ukrainians all over tbe world in PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia My kola Tymczuk (treasurer). marking the second anniversary of that country's declaration of independence. Ukrainians commemorated the second The festivities began in Philadelphia's anniversary of Ukrainian independence City Hall on Tuesday, August 24, when. Throughout the world, the establishment of liberty is trea^red and is a cause in a three-part program organized by a for celebration. After more than seven decades, Ukrainians are free and sover­ specially formed Independence Day members of various Ukrainian organiza­ eign. Hie independence of Ukraine signals progress toward a fully democratic Committee, consisting of Ihor B. tions met with city officials for a special and prosperous nation. Chyzowych (chairman), Borys commemorative ceremony during which This anniversary celebrates this joyous day and commemorates an undying Zacharchuk, Ulana Mazurkevich and desire for freedom and democracy. I join Ukrainians around the world in wish­ (Continued on page 20) ing that this day is only the beginning of many years celebrating Ukrainian independence. Bill Clinton Jersey City, N.J.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Members of Supreme President Ulana Diachuk and the local Ukrainian community attended Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan of the a City Hall ceremony marking the sec­ Ukrainian National Association; the Rev. ond anniversary of Ukraine's indepen­ Volodymyr Vit of Ukraine, who was fill­ dence. ing in for the Rev. Roman Mirchuk of On Tuesday, August 24, a special Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic proclamation designating Ukrainian Church; Judge Robert Cheloc; and Independence Day was presented to com­ Halyna Hawryluk and Peter Palka of the munity activists in the City Council local committee organized to commemo­ Chambers. Afterwards, a flag-raising cer­ rate Ukraine's independence. emony took place on the City Hall bal­ Representatives of several local orga­ cony. Mayor Bret Schundler was repre­ nizations, among them the Ukrainian sented by Deputy Mayor Robert Williams National Home and the Ukrainian and Chief of Staff Michael Cook. National Women's League of America The Ukrainian delegation included: also participated.

Ambassador Roman Popadiuk is welcomed at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center by Olenka and Ariana Dombchewski.

Yuriy Yurevych Jersey City officials, Deputy Mayor Robert Williams (right, back to camera) and Chief of Staff Michael Cook (left) ,and representatives of the Ukrainian Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell (right) reads the Ukrainian Independence community raise the Ukrainian blue-and-yellow flag atop City Hall. Day proclamation as members of the Voloshky dance ensemble and Ihor Chyzowych, chairman of the Independence Day Committee, look on.

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SECOND ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS OF UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY Newark, N.J. Hanover Township, N.J.

Mayor Salvatore lannaccone (second from left) of Hanover Township, N.J., presents his Ukrainian Independence Day proclamation to representatives of Councilman Ronald L. Rice (third from right) with Ukrainian delegation (from the local Ukrainian community, including (from left) lliana Paslawsky of the left) Olena Kosarenko, the Rev. Joseph Denischuk, Bo^hena Olshaniwsky, Zirka Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Branch 61; the Rev. Joseph Bekesewycz and the Rev. Michael Wiwchar. Panasiuk, pastor of St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Whippany, N.J.; and Myron Bytz, president of the Morris County chapter of the Ukrainian NEWARK, N.J. — A resolution The resolution ceremony was con­ Congress Committee of America. Seen in front are Bohdan Paslawsky and commemorating the second year of ducted at 1 p.m. and attended by group Markian Hadzewycz. Ukraine's independence was proclaimed of Ukrainians, including the Rev. during die first meeting of the fall season Michael Wiwchar, former pastor of the of the Municipal Council of the City of St. John's Parish. Oops! Need a back issue? Newark in its chambers on September 1. Councilman Rice spoke and extolled the Ukrainians in his district for com­ If you'd like to obtain a The sponsor of this document was The August 29 article by Bozhena back issue of The Ukrainian West Ward Councilman Ronald L. Rice, porting themselves in a quiet, hard-work­ Olshaniwsky on New Jersey Gov. Jim Weekly, send $2 per copy who has represented the West Ward ing manner. He added that although Florio proclaiming Ukrainian Vailsburg district for a number of years. these law-abiding citizens do not get Independence Day misidentified two (first-class postage includ­ This ward has a large population of much publicity, they have helped to sta­ community activists. Volodymyr Kikta ed) to: Administration, The Ukrainians and includes St. John's bilize the community, which adds to the and Maria Duplak represent the Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. make-up of the solid fabric of American Organization for the Defense of Montgomery St., Jersey John's Ukrainian School on Sandford society. He complimented them for Lemkivshshyna; Ms. Duplak is the City, N.J. 07302. Avenue, Stich Ukrainian Cultural and bringing up their children to become national chaiфerson of the organization. Athletic Association, Ukrainian Self good citizens and respect the law. Reliance Federal Credit Union, Mr. Rice's then read the text of his res­ Ukrainian National Women's League of olution, which stated, among other things: America, the Plast Youth Organization, "Ukraine is determined to remain among Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine the family of free and democratic nations (AHRU) and others. Due to Councilman of our global community; Ukrainian Rice's efforts, the intersection where Americans have contributed enormously these organizations have their headquar­ to the socioeconomic, religious and cul- ters is called Ukrainian Plaza. (Continued on page 20) Irvington, N.J.

Councilman Patrick J. McNally (left), holding his son Patrick Jr., and Mayor Michael Steele (second from left) present the Irvington, N.J., proclamation designating August 24, 1993, as Ukrainian Independence Day to a delegation of Ukrainian Americans> including Michael Dziman, president of the Irvington chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and Anna McNally, the councilman's Ukrainian wife, and their children, Anna and Stephanie. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1993 No. 38

SECOND ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS OF UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY Illinois Maplewood, NJ. . MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — On August Mayor Grasmere presented the docu­ 24, Maplewood's Ukrainian American ment to Andrew Keybida, coordinator of citizens and neighbors met at Town Hall the event, and ordered that the Ukrainian to commemorate the second anniversary flag be flown at Town Hall alongside the of Ukraine's independence. American flag to "pay tribute to the The Rev. Eugene Bohuslawsky, pastor Ukrainian people for their courage in the of Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox struggle for the freedom and Church in Maplewood, opened the cere­ Independence of Ukraine." monies with a prayer and asked God's Mr. Keybida thanked the mayor for his blessings for the people in Ukraine who sincere sensitivity and deep concern for are now enjoying their freedom. the Ukrainian people and noted that 136 Mayor Robert H. Grasmere cheerfully nations have now recognized Ukraine, greeted over 100 community leaders and signing agreements which provide for friends, many of them in traditional reciprocal diplomatic and trade relations. dress, and stated that he was happy to The Rev. Frank Szadiak, pastor of St. sign the proclamation in celebration of John's Ukrainian Catholic Church of the birth of a new independent democrat­ Newark, concluded the ceremonies with ic state called Ukraine. The proclama­ a solemn prayer for those gathered at tion, approved by the entire Township Town Hall and for the people in Ukraine, Committee on August 3, was read by and gave thanks to the Almighty for Mayor Grasmere. leading Ukraine to freedom.

Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois issued a proclamation declaring August 24,1993, as Ukrainian Independence Day in his state, honoring the second anniversary of Heritage Foundation to meet; Ukraine's Independence. From left are: Anatoliy Oliynyk, consul general of Ukraine; Pat MichalskI, assistant to the governor for ethnic affairs; Orest Baranyk, chairman of the anniversary event. youth ieaguers to hold reunion

POLAND, Ohio — Cleveland will guests will be able to see and discuss Interns from Ukraine study host the next general meeting of the UYL-NA memorabilia which will bring Ukrainian Heritage Foundation and the back memories of Labor Day weekends 60th anniversary reunion of the past. Participants are asked to bring any credit union movement in US. Ukrainian Youth League of North publications, photographs, indentifica- America on October 15-17. The affair tions, tags and convention books associ­ by Wolodymyr Pylyshenko meeting held at the Self-reliance Chicago will be held at the Hilton South Inn in ated with the UYL-NA. (If you do not FCU. UWCC directors and committee Parma, Ohio. want to take them back home, arrange­ ROCHESTER, NY. — Under the members from the U.S. and Canada, met The following people have been elected ments have been made with the auspices of the U.S. Department of with WOCCU representative Dale to make sure that all the visitors will have Cleveland Ukrainian Museum to take Commerce SABIT program, the Magers, WOCCU's regional director for an enjoyable weekend: chairman — Steve this material aild catalogue it. Present Ukrainian National Credit Union Ukraine to discuss pertinent proposals Zenczak, secretary — Helen Shipka, pub­ plans are to send any duplicates to Association (UNCUA), the World and concrete actions to promote the cred­ licity — Gene Woloshyn, Friday night Ukraine. So please check your attic and Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) and it union movement in Ukraine. welcome party — Michael Zaderecky, basements for these items; we sure don't reception — Helen Mural and Midge want such historical material to be the Ukrainian government, five interns On June 7 and 8, the Ukrainian from Ukraine studied the credit union Szmagala, and reunion — Dr. John Kulick. thrown in the trash containers.) interns, Bohdan Watral and Wolodymyr Mrs. Mural and her committee will be Saturday afternoon will also be spent movement at five Ukrainian credit Tun from Self-reliance Chicago FCU unions in the United States. at the hotel Friday from 3 p.m. to the in meeting old friends of UYL-NA con­ visited WOCCU headquarters in start of the welcome party. Mr. ventions, for renewing friendships and Stanislav Ardzevitin (Kyyiv) is an Madison, Wise. They met with various Zaderecky and his committee promise talking about the old days. On Saturday intern at New York Self-reliance FCU; leaders of CUNA, CUNA Mutual and the food and drinks will be great. night, the dinner will be preceded by Iryna Drahomoretska (Kyyiv), SUMA - with Al Charbonneau, chief executive On Saturday morning the Ukrainian cocktails at 6 p.m. The dinner to be (Yonkers) FCU; Valerij Kybalnyj officer of WOCCU, to discuss the future Heritage Foundation will hold a general served will be prime rib with all the trim­ (Kryvyj Rih), Newark Self-reliance of the Ukrainian cooperative movement. meeting. Reports will be given by the mings. After a short period of speeches, FCU; Petro Makowskyj, (Stryj) Passaic All expressed great interest in Ukraine's officers and a new direction for the foun­ music by the Majestic Sounds will start Self-reliance FCU; and Andrij Olenchyk future and their readiness to fully support dation will be discussed. This meeting at 8:30 p.m. (Ternopil), Rochester Ukrainian FCU. and promote the establishment of a will take place at 9 a.m. and continue to The fee for registration, the welcome On June 5 they participated in the strong cooperative credit union system in 2 p.m. if necessary. A new slate of offi­ party and dinner-dance is $40 per person. Ukrainian World Cooperative Council Ukraine. cers will be elected to carry on the foun­ Rooms for this weekend will be $65 plus dations' objectives. tax. To contact the hotel directly, call Dr. Kulick will be in charge of the (216) 447-1300, (refer to the Heritage reunion part of the weekend. Here the Foundation for special room rates). Boyko named to Parma court COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. George Mr. Boyko is a member of and legal V. Voinovich has appointed Christopher advisor to the Parma Police Department A. Boyko to the Parma Municipal Court. S.W.A.T. team. He is chief legal counsel Mr. Boyko of Parma was appointed of the Southwest Enforcement Bureau, for a term beginning September 7. He attorney at law with Boyko & Boyko, will have to run this November for the Attorneys, and the children's legal unexpired term which ends in 1997. He guardian for the Cuyahoga County replaces Judge Andrew Boyko of Parma Juvenile Court. who recently announced his retirement. Mr. Boyko is a member of the Mr. Boyko is the director of law for American, Ohio State, Greater the City of Parma, he previously served Cleveland, and Parma Bar Associations. as assistant prosecutor for Parma. He He is also president of the Cuyahoga received his B.A. degree from Mount County Law Directors Association and a Union College and law degree from member of the Ukrainian American Bar Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Association.

60 years of service, Interns from Ukraine who are studying the credit union movement: (from left) The Weekly: Petro Makowskyj» Staidi^tay ArdaEevltto^ Ir^na Jdrabomoretska, Valerij K^fbaln^j 1933-1993. апдАпсМІбіідаїіп^ No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 17

Museum experts from Ukraine New endowment fund established hosted by colleagues in U.S. at New York's Ukrainian Museum

PITTSBURGH — Four Ukrainian uum and store textiles, insect prevention, by Marta Baczynsky Ukrainian artists living outside Ukraine, museum professionals from Kyyiv exhibition techniques for various object past and contemporary. NEW YORK — A new endowment arrived in the United States on July 2 for types, and utilizing appropriate hardware Prof. Mehyk was publisher and editor fund of more than $33,000 honoring the a four-and-a-half-week series of muse­ to safely secure collections on display. of the journal. He also headed the um-related activities and instruction in memory of Artemij Kyryluk and Petro Ukrainian Art Studio, which was found­ In October 1992, Anizia Karmazyn, and Daria Mehyk was recently estab­ New York, Boston and Newark, Del. curator at the Historical Society of ed during that period. In this creative set­ The four Kyyivans — Nataliya lished at The Ukrainian Museum in New ting, in 1977 the Artemij Kyryluk Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh and York City. Interest from the fund is des­ Holenshyna, manager of ethnographic advisory board member for the CCTP, Foundation was established on the basis collections of the National Museum of ignated to support the museum's publica­ of the deceased's estate to provide wrote a grant application to the Soros tions in the area of Ukrainian fine arts. Ukrainian History; Halyna Marchenko, Foundation requesting funding for four encouragement to young Ukrainian director of collections of the Kyyiv- The Endowment Fund of Petro and artists and support the publication of museum professionals from Ukraine to Daria Mehyk was initiated in 1992 by Pechersk State Historical and Cultural participate in the CCTP, which had been works about Ukrainian art. the executors of Prof. Mehyk* s estate Preserve; Olena Pohonets, chief curator offered in previous years to a predomi­ Mr. Kyryluk was an artist and a of the Ukrainian State Museum of Books nantly Mid-Atlantic United States audi­ and supported by donations given in teacher. He was born in the Volyn region and Book Printing; and Natalia A. ence. The grant was awarded funding memory of the deceased by his friends of Ukraine in 1911 and studied art at the Shtchekoldina, curator of the All- through Soros' Kyyiv affiliate, the and pupils. City School of Painting and Applied Art Ukrainian Research Center of Museum International Renaissance Foundation, By the decision of the board of in Warsaw. He was a member of the Conservation and Restoration — began which administered the grant for the four trustees of the Artemij Kyryluk Art artist's union Spokiy that organized their visit in New York City during the Ukrainian museum professionals to Foundation in Philadelphia of January many exhibitions of young artists. independence day weekend. 23, 1993, the assets of the foundation attend the CCTP this summer. After World War II, Mr. Kyryluk There they were hosted by Maria ($32,113.38) were transferred to The "The Ukrainians are having a wonder­ lived for a time in Austria, Canada and Shust, director of The Ukrainian ful time and are amazed by the range of Ukrainian Museum and established as a Museum, and Areta Pawlynsky, architect joint fund in the memory of Artemij finally settled in Philadelphia. Here he materials applicable to and available for became a member of the Ukrainian and historic preservationist with R A collections care in the United States," Kyryluk and Petro and Daria Mehyk Heintges Architects-Consultants. While now totalling $33,612.13 Artists Association, where he was active­ commented Frank McKelvey, CCTP ly engaged until his untimely death in in New York, they visited and met with program director. "They are excited As part of the Mehyk estate settlement staff from The New York Public Library ,The Ukrainian Museum received Prof. 1970. The creation of the Kyryluk about all of the things they are learning Foundation in accordance with his last Special Collections Division, The and getting along well with their 16 Mehyk's extensive library, archive and Metropolitan Museum of Art and past issues of the journal Notatky z will is testimony to the artist's care and American classmates who hail from 11 love for his craft and concern for the Christie's Auction House. They also had smtes," continued Mr. McKelvey. Mystetstva (Ukrainian Art Digest), the the opportunity to view exhibitions at "Petro Mehyk" monograph, as well as welfare of the Ukrainian arts. Ms. Karmazyn's grant requested fund­ The Guggenheim Museum and Ellis copies of "Knyha Tvorchosty Ukrain- Prof. Mehyk, artist, teacher and author, Island Museum. ing also for the visitations with Ukrainian . who was educated at Warsaw Art American colleagues, which resulted in skykh Myststiv poza Batkivshchynoyu" From New York, the four traveled to (Ukrainian Art in Diaspora), all of which Academy, devoted his life to the preserva­ Boston, where they were hosted by the New York and Boston venues for the four professionals. Members of the are presently for sale in the museum's tion and propagation of the Ukrainian arts Myron Stachiw, director for research, gift shop. The anticipated proceeds of through education and publications. He interpretation and education at the Society Ukrainian Museum and Preservation Professionals of North America (UMPP- more than $10,000 from the sale of the was an active member in influential art for the Preservation of New England publications, of which there are 1,474 groups since his youth and a founding Antiquities (SPNEA), and Ksenya NA), organized in 1991, worked together to coordinate the visitations in museums items, will be added to the newly estab­ member of the Ukrainian Artists Kiebuzinski, archivist and bibliographer lished endowment fund. Association (OMUA) in the United States. for the reference library at the Harvard in the United States with professional colleagues from museum administrators, In the 1960s and 1970s a strong A prolific artist. Prof. Mehyk revealed Ukrainian Research Institute. While in Ukrainian art center developed in his talent in meticulously executed oils, Boston, the four visited and met with staff curators and educators, to collections managers and conservators. Philadelphia. Since 1963 an editorial watercolors and drawings, in depictions at the SPNEA, Museum of Fine Arts, The board, whose members were Mykhailo of still life, landscapes and portraits. Northeast Document Conservation Center In preparation for the exchange, Ms. Karmazyn traveled in June to Ukraine, Dmytrenko, Wasyl Doroshenko, Prof. The addition of the new endowment and The Museum of American Textile Mehyk, Stepan Rozok, Volodymyr History in Andover, Mass. where she met with the four participants fund to The Ukrainian Museum's family Shyprykevich and Maria Strutynska pub­ of endowment and memorial funds In Cambridge, the four were hosted by selected and viewed operations at their museums, including storage, collections lished a unique Ukrainian journal underscores the museum's role as an the Harvard Ukrainian Research Notatky z Mystetstva. Through essays Institute, where they presented a panel care and conservation activities, documen­ institution determined to continue tation practices and exhibition facilities. and color reproductions, the publication Artemij Kyryluk's and Petro Mehyk's discussion about their museums and the highlighted the lives and works of changes in interpretation of exhibitions Ms. Karmazyn's assessment of muse­ devotion to Ukrainian fine arts. in museums in Ukraine since the coun­ um practices at their institutions will try's re-establishment of independence. serve as a basis for formulating a modest After seven days of intensive, behind- practicum project that each participant the-scenes exposure to museum practice in will carry out at her institution, such as the United States with their Ukrainian upgrading storage for a given group of American hosts, the four departed for artifacts. The CCTP provides each par­ INEW VIDEO TAPE RELEASE! 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key eastern Ukrainian people's deputies Throughout 1993, Donetske has also for one country alone is Utopia." Only Growing challenge... in the Ukrainian Parliament, such as been the site of a series of revivalist reintegration with the other countries and (Continued from page 2) Albert Korneyev (the only man to vote Communist congresses. A "28th" con­ peoples of the former USSR, "with against Ukrainian independence in gress of the Ukrainian Komsomol was whom we share the same psychology, Nevertheless, the Donbas is used to August 1991) and Aleksandr held in the city in January 1993. It elect­ because we have lived together for so being in a relatively privileged economic Charodeyev,14 who have acted as ed as its leader Vasyl Savin, former first long," offers any hope of economic sal- position, and the June strikes were only spokesmen for the Civic Congress' secretary of the Donetske Komsomol, vation.26 settled after the promise of additional demands (and those of the striking min­ and, along with his brother, one of the huge subsidies to the region. ers) in Kyyiv. founders of the Intermovement of the The author is a senior research fellow A further economic factor is that a The program of the Civic Congress is Donbas.21 A Congress of the at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, higher than average percentage of to all intents and purposes identical, to Communist Party of Bolsheviks of England. Donbas industry was formerly controlled that of the movement, although it places Ukraine (the party of Nina Andreyeva) at the all-union level.^ The region is greater emphasis on social issues (it has was held in Donetske in February 8 Dolishnii in Koropeckyj, 'The Ukrainian therefore disproportionately dependent benefitted greatly from local disillusion 1993.22 on the maintenance of economic ties with Economy..., pp.295-96. with Ukraine's precipitate economic Most important, however, was the 9 Robitnycha Hazeta, December 22, 1990. the former USSR. Both the ethnic/lin­ decline since independence). The Civic two-stage revival congress of the CPU ^^ The appeal of the initiative group to guistic and the economic issue therefore Congress was the key driving force that was held in Donetske in March and establish the Democratic Movement of the have fed demands from the Donbas for behind the attempt to force Ukraine's June 1993.23 The revived CPU attracted Donbas appeared in Vecherniy Donetsk on the rebuilding of links between Ukraine leaders to sign the CIS Charter in the support of 529 delegates from all September 16, 1991. and Russia and for open borders and even January, 15 and it has continued to cam­ oblasts of Ukraine and from the Republic ^^ See the Program of the Intermovement dual citizenship for all residents of the paign against Kyyiv's "anti-Russian" of Crimea. Several leading Ukrainian of the Donbas in Nash Donbass (the two countries who wish it. foreign policy and in favor of closer eco­ deputies also participated and were elect­ Intermovement's newsletter), January 1993. J2 Holos Ukrainy, June 16, 1992; and Four main political forces have nomic and political integration between ed to the party's Secretariat. They emerged in the Donbas since Ukrainian Ukraine and the rest of the CIS. 16 It Nashe Slovo, No. 1, July 1992. included the writer Borys Oliynyk; ^3 Author's interview with Nikolai independence: regional political organi­ was, therefore, instrumental in persuad­ Oleksander Kotsiuba, chairman of the zations, leftist poHtical parties, indepen­ Razogyn, a Civic Congress leader in ing Kyyiv to sign agreements on eco­ Ukrainian Parliament's Committee on dent and official trade unions and Donetske, July 12, 1993. nomic cooperation with Russia and Legislation and Legality; and E. Ukrainian nationalist parties. The first ^^ Author's interview with Korneyev, July Belarus in June and July. After the early- Marmazov. 8, 1993. See also the interview with three substantially overlap in terms of post independence euphoria, Kyyiv has Petro Symonenko, second secretary Charodeyev in Donetskiy Kriazh, No. 1, both leadership and organization, and become increasingly sensitive to the of the Donetske Oblast Party Committee January 22, 1993. they have a very similar agenda. argument that its economic future before August 1991, was elected as the ^5 See Roman Solchanyk, "Ukraine and All three campaign on both the lin­ remains bound up with that of the rest of CPU's new leader. The CPU declared the CIS: A Troubled Relationship," RFE/RL guistic and the economic issue. They are the CIS. itself the "legal successor" to the original Research Report, No. 7, February 12, 1993. likely to dominate the region in forth­ Although the Civic Congress has a CPU and stated its intention of re-regis­ '6 Demokratychna Ukraina, June 12, coming elections, especially as the local 1993. similar name to Arkadiy Volsky's Civic tering all former members of the Ukrainian nationalist movement is decid­ Union in Russia, and there was a formal J7 Holos Ukrainy, March 24, 1993. Communist Party of the Soviet Union •8 Post-Postup, No. 43, November 1992. edly weak. meeting between the Ukrainian group and the CPU in Ukraine by January 1, 19 "Programmniye Printsipy Partiyi Truda and leading Russian politicians in Regional organizations and parties 1994. Wisely, however, the party avoid­ і Ustav Partiyi" (Programmatic Principles of March, 17 it appears largely to be a local­ ed deciding whether to hold a "29th" the Labor Partyand the Party's Statute), 1993 The first explicitly regional organiza­ ly generated phenomenon, although any congress of the CPU or to establish links (author's copy); and author's interview with tion to be formed in the area was the support it receives from Russia is with Communist Parties elsewhere in the the acting head of the Labor Party (While Intermovement of the Donbas, estab­ undoubtedly welcome. former USSR until the party was offi­ Landyk is in Kyyiv), Nikolai Azarov, July lished in December 1990 and led by cially registered. 13, 1993. Dmitrii Komilov, a local political scien- Leftist parties According to the leader of the CPU in 20 See Vecherniy Donetsk, June 11, 1993; tist.9 It was formed to oppose the imple­ Since the winter of 1992-1993, a Donetske, Giorgiy Віко,24 once the and Pravda Ukrainy, June 15, 1993. mentation of the 1989 Ukrainian series of new left-wing parties has been CPU is registered it intends to form a 21 Pravda Ukrainy, January 11, 1993; and Donetskiy Kriazh, No. 1, January 23, 1993. Language Law, which made Ukrainian created in Donetske, and the region has local electoral coalition with the the official state language; but Working Ukraine group, Trudova 22 Holos Ukrainy, February 16 and 17, been at the center of the movement to 1993; and Donetskiy Kriazh, No. 6, February Ukrainization was not perceived to be a Ukraina, which was established in Kyyiv revive the CPU. While nationalist and 26, 1993. real political threat in the Donbas until centrist political parties tended to domi­ on June 26, and is dominated by the 23 On the revival of the CPU, see Holos after the Ukrainian declaration of inde­ nate the Ukrainian political scene until Socialist Party.25 He himself is the local Ukrainy, June 22, 1993; Vecherniy Donetsk, pendence in August 1991. the summer of 1992, since then the new representative of both the Socialist Party June 16 and 22, 1993; and Donetskiy Kriazh, The Intermovement then gave birth to eastern Ukrainian parties have succeeded and the CPU, in any case. No. 23, June 25-July 1, 1993. the broader Democratic Movement of the in shifting the center of political gravity Although the CPU has concentrated 24 Interview with the author on July 13, Donbas, established in October 1991 in in Ukraine sharply to the left, both local­ on its traditiorial forte of economic pop­ 1993. Luhanske,10 which is led by Oleksandr ly and in Kyyiv. ulism, it has realized the value of making 25 On Working Ukraine, see Holos Makhmudov, a former head of the The largest such party is the Labor a tactical alliance with local Russophone Ukrainy, June 25, 1993; and Robitnychna Donetske City Council, and Yuriy Party of Ukraine. Commonly derided as groups. According to Mr. Віко, "Ukraine Hazeta, June 30, 1993. Working Ukraine includes the Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Boldyrev of the miners' movement. The "the party of red directors," it was found­ cannot be a unitary state, because it is Intermovement's program called for not a united country." The CPU supports Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Ukraine, ed in Donetske in December 1992 by the the Front of Ukrainian Workers, the Union of "regional autonomy for the Donbas with­ local autonomy for the Donbas and "the main eastern Ukrainian industrialists' Working Women, the Peasants' Party of in a federal Ukraine," local state status lobby, the Interregional Association of right of every man to use the language of Ukraine, several veterans' organizations, and for the Russian language, and dual citi­ Industrialists, set up a month earlier, in his choosing, both at work and at local "labor fronts" in Odessa, Luhanske and zenship between Russia and Ukraine. It November 1992.18 leisure" — that is, in the Donbas, Kharkiv. promised to "struggle against ethnic prej­ Two of the party's leaders, Viktor Russian. Moreover, in Biko's words, 26 Author's interview with Віко on July udice" and uphold "the right of the indi­ Landyk and Efym Zviahilsky were "escape from this economic catastrophe 13, 1993.S vidual to free choice" in language use. 11 appointed as deputy prime ministers in The Intermovement viewed the rise of the Kyyiv government in June in an Ukrainian nationalism as synonymous attempt by President Leonid Kravchuk to with "the threat of fascism,"also the title build bridges with eastern Ukraine (Mr. Chicago Ps and Bs elect officers of a conference it organized in Donetske Landyk, interestingly, was given special in the summer of 1992. responsibility for trade with the CIS). CHICAGO — The Chicago Group, mon areas. Although this first meeting However, the law on political parties Both were typical members of the local now known as the Ukrainian Business attracted only a handful, plans were passed by the Ukrainian Parliament in elite. Mr. Landyk was the director of a and Professional Group of Chicago made to pursue this networking poten­ July 1992 effectively barred openly local factory that produces domestic (UBPG), has elected a new board. tial. On an informal basis, this meeting regionalist parties from running in future appliances, and Mr. Zviahilsky was a The membership decided to expand created business opportunities and iden­ Ukrainian elections. In order to be offi­ former mine director and mayor of the board from seven to nine members. tified needed health care professionals cially registered as a political party (and Donetske. Following are the new officers for 1993- such as dental hygienists. only parties, rather than "civic organiza­ The Labor Party stands for "the equal­ 1994: Roman Golash, president; Anna The second part of the meeting tions," could run in elections), a group ity of all forms of property," "the struc­ Shaleva, vice-president; Anthony addressed the needs of newly arrived had to have local branches in at least half tural reorientation of the economy Koltuniuk, second vice-president; Dolly Ukrainian medical professionals. Most of Ukraine's oblasts. The Intermovement toward the needs of consumers," and Pelypenko, secretary; and Basil members of this group do not have cars, so therefore joined forces with similar orga- "the union of state and market forms of Hodczak, treasurer. they must seek employment in the nkations elsewhere in eastern and south- regulating the economy." In other words, Executive members elected were: Ukrainian neighborhood. Due to the em Ukraine to form the Civic Congress it opposes radical market reforms and George Babchuk, Zenon Babij, Ulana efforts of UBPG member Basil Hodczak, of Ukraine at two congresses in favors maintaining a high level of "social Baransky and Yuriy Zajac. laboratory manager, five people were Donetske in June and October 1992. 12 protection! of the population." Recently the UBPG had called a meet­ hired by St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Chicago. ijBte Civic Congress now claims 2,100 In politics, it stands for ever closer ing of medical industry professionals to Problems with passing the medical boards numbers in 17 oblasts, although its key union with the CIS, a federal system of discuss networking, business opportunities were also discussed and an expanded men­ caters are in Donetske, Luhanske and government, and "a system of [several] and community involvement. The second toring program was mentioned. Kharkiv.13 It was led by Aleksandr state languages" in Ukraine. 19 During part of the meeting dealt with newly For more information write to: Bgtzeliuk in Donetske and the historian the June strikes, the Labor Party arrived Ukrainians in the medical field. Ukrainian Business and Professional and Ukrainian people's deputy Valery expressed its solidarity with the strikers. The UBPG realized the untapped Group (UBPG) P.O. Box 363, Park Meshcheriakov in Kharkiv. The congress Its leading members were even accused potential of industry professionals meet­ Ridge, IL 60068 or call Roman Golash at has "the sympathy" of half a dozen or so of instigating the strikes.20 ing and exchanging information in copi- (708)885-0208. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1993 '19

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Юymashivska, violinist Bohdan Kaskiv, Philadelphia cellist Yuri Laniuk, baritone Valeriy (Continued from page 14) Bujmyster, tenor Oleh Marcenkivsky, 16th ANNUAL soprano Lesia Horova and tenor Viktor Philadelphia's Mayor Edward Rendell Lisoval. A cocktail reception followed UKRAINIAN read a proclamation designating August the program. 24 as Ukrainian Independence Day in the The Independence Day festivities cul­ FESTIVAL city of Philadelphia. The mayor was minated with a daylong celebration on joined by City Councilman Thatcher the grounds of the Tryzub, Ukrainian Sunday, October 3, 1993 12 Noon-S pm Longstreth, a long-time friend of the American Sport Center "Tryzub," which Ukrainian community who has for many was attended by nearly 3,000 people. Manor Junior College years taken a special interest „ in The day opehed with a private recep­ Ukrainian political prisoners and in tion at the Tryzub clubhouse, with an ele­ 700 Fox Chase Road^Jenkintown Ukraine's struggle for independence. gant buffet prepared b у Vera Andryczyk. The event was covered by local affiliates After the singing of the Ukrainian and •master craftsmen demonstrations of ABC and CBS. American national anthems and an offi­ That evening, approximately 700 mem­ cial greeting from the Independence Day •traditional folk costumes, crafts exhibit bers of the Ukrainian community gathered Committee Chairman Mr. Chyzowych, •folk arts and crafts demonistrations at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural the program was turned over to master of •programs of folk dance, music and songs Center for a formal commemorative pro­ ceremonies Wolodymyr Karpinich, who •"yarmarok'^-market of folk craft items gram, which included an invocation by introduced speakers, performers and Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of the scheduled activities. •ethnic foods-holubtsi, pyrohy, kowbasa Ukrainian Catholic Church and a keynote The keynote address was delivered by address by Ambassador Roman Popadiuk, Dr. Petro Matiaszek, executive secretary who was presented with a plaque in of UCCA. Representing the Ukrainian FREE PARKING recognition of his tenure as the first Embassy was Deputy Chief of Mission United States ambassador to Ukraine by Valeriy Kuchinsky. Greetings and con­ Admission: $4. Adults $1. Children the Independence Day Committee; vice- gratulatory messages were also offered chairman, Mr. Zacharchuk. by Pennsylvania State Rep. George E. FESTIVAL HELD RAIN OR SHINE Citations from the Pennsylvania Saurman (151st District), John A. Senate the Pennsylvania House of Lawless (150th district), John W. Fichter Representatives and the City of (70th district) and Montgomery County For information call (215) 884-2215 Philadelphia were presented by Sen. Commissioner Jon Fox. A stirring Stuart Greenleaf, Rep. Martin Laub and speech which reflected on the difficult Councilman Longstredi. Representing the decades that preceded Ukraine's inde­ Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations pendence was offered by Ms. DO YOU: Have friends or relatives from outside of the United States was the first secretary to Ambassador Mazurkevich, vice-chairperson of the visiting you ? Viktor Batiuk, Alexander Motsyk. Independence Day Committee. WHAT IF: They become sick or suffer a serious injury ? Congratulatory remarks and greetings Guests were entertained by the WHO: Pays the medical bills that might be incurred as a result of that were also offered by Mayor Rendell, Voloshky Dance Ensemble, Hrono and sickness or injury ? State Director Tod Bernstein (represent­ the Prometheus Choir directed by Adrian ARE YOU: Willing and financially able to pay those medical bills for ing Sen. Harris Wofford), Rep. Charles Brytttan. A parade to salute the them ? Dougherty, State Sen. Joseph Rocks, Ukrainian and American flags was led Montgomery County Commissioners by members of Ukrainian youth organi­ THERE IS A BETTER WAY Mario Mele, Joseph Hoeffel and Jon zations Plast and SUM-A, while Fox, State Rep. Dwight Evans and Mark The Ukrainian National Association markets short term medical insur­ Ukrainian Independence was advertised Cohen, and Philadelphia City in the skies above the sport center via a ance for foreign nationals visiting the United States. Councilman Joseph Vignola. Master of large banner towed by an аіфіапе. FEATURING: ceremonies Daniel Махущіик read a An especially captivating event was a congratulatory riiessage from President group of skydivers who parachuted onto Hospital inpatient and out-patient benefits * Bill Clinton. the Tryzub soccer field with Ukrainian Coverage for cost of prescription drugs * The musical portion of tfie^fogram at and American flags. 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Contributing to regional instability is orously resist Russian efforts to rebuild side, you can't win; the issue is to move Nationalities... the new administration's isolationist for­ an empire and reject any ideas that the debate forward." (Continued from page 5) eign policy, marked by "a commitment Moscow has a presumptive right to inter­ He pointed out that forums provided to multilateralism to such an extent that vene in neighboring countries. Failure to by business and professional associa­ Russian aircraft recently dropped leaflets other countries have veto power over do so could lead to "ethnic cleansing" in Estonia calling for armed resistance tions, such as the Chicago and U.S. foreign policy," and "a deep-seated and future Bosnias, the death to post Washington Groups, can be especially from a so-called "Committee to Resist belief that the U.S. should never use cold-war stability and "the most pro­ Apartheid in Estonia" was not even effective. Similarly, strategic alliances force if it will be resisted and if there will found threat to the U.S. that we have with other East Europeans in the U.S. reported in the American press. be casualties," he said. seen in the history of this great country," could create a potential voting and lob­ Even more disturbing, he said, are Taken together, these principles are a he pointed out. bying bloc that could not be ignored. orders to U.S. embassies in the new recipe for weakness and international According to Mr. Goble, Ukrainian states to continue to go through Moscow chaos and an invitation to testing by American need to take a more active Mr. Goble is a senior associate at the and that regional specialists feel little other countries in areas where our inter­ interest in the critical issues facing Carnegie Endowment for International urgency to learn the language of the new ests are declared and not so clearly Ukraine and the U.S. For example, he Peace, a Washington think-tank. Prior to states because "all the people we know declared. "The last time a government said he believes President Yeltsin's joining the endowment in January 1992, speak Russian." was led by similar principles was in "Russian Monroe Doctrine" has not been he was special advisor on Soviet nation­ Britain in the 1930s. And if you didn't sufficiently discussed in The Ukrainian ality problems and Baltic affairs at the like the original you won't like the Weekly and other Ukrainian American State Department. Earlier he worked as remake," concluded Mr. Goble. media, where it should have been a dom­ director of research at Radio Liberty as, a Cleveland... To encourage peace and healthy inant issue. He also noted t hat Ukrainian special assistant for Soviet nationalities in the State Department's Bureau of (Continued from page 5) Ukrainian-Russian relations — "the Americans should help strengthen pivot on which the future of world affairs Ukraine's undersized diplomatic mission Intelligence and Research, and as Soviet neighborhood at 1202 Kenilworth Ave. will turn" — the U.S. should promote to the U.S. and cultivate better press rela­ affairs analyst at the CIA. (Telephone: 216-781-4329.) regional balance of power by supporting tions to ensure that Ukraine's concerns Trained at the University of Chicago, Related to the UMA's commemoration the weaker party in the dispute, much as receive adequate attention and media Mr. Goble reads 11 of the 15 languages of Svoboda's centennial is the cooperative Britain did on the continent of Europe for coverage. 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moving all too slowly to overcome that ganda machine. We must never forget Sen. Dennis DeConcini legacy. Furthermore, Ukraine's problems Rep. David Bonior this tragic period of history. We must (Continued from page 9) are exacerbated by those in Russia who (Continued from page 9) never forget the terrible suffering of the seem to have great difficulty in shedding Ukrainian people — suffering that was Mr. President, the current economic and missed. So, in 1933, more grain was to continue throughout Soviet rule. political situation in Ukraine gives me their imperial mentality. But I cannot stress enough the necessity of economic, demanded at a time when all the grain Commemorating the famine helps us cause for grave concern. Yes, human was long gone. In the spring of 1933, the rights are generally respected, and the market-oriented reform for Ukraine, better understand the very real concerns especially in the areas of privatization, famine reached its height. Entire villages that Ukraine has today about Russia. average Ukrainian is much freer than were decimated. under Soviet domination. And, yes, inde­ credit and monetary policy and land These concerns are based on the deaths of pendent Ukraine is affirming itself as a reform. I believe that at this juncture, the The children were especially hit hard. millions of Ukrainians due to the cruel partner on the international scene. lack of movement in these areas can be An entire generation was wiped out by the policies of Moscow. The best way to pre­ However, political paralysis in the as threatening to Ukraine's political famine. As their parents either died or vent history from repeating itself is to Ukrainian government is precluding any future as any external threat. were arrested, many children were left to support a strong and independent Ukraine. real efforts towards serious economic The Famine resulted when Ukraine did fend for themselves. In Kirovohrad, the There are also enduring lessons from reform. Attempts at market-oriented not control its own destiny. It pains me to orphans were placed in a "children's the famine. The international community reforms continue to be blocked by the so- say this, as one who has monitored close­ town" where they starved to death. A wall failed to act in the face of this great called "red" directors and collective farm ly developments in Ukraine in my capacir surrounding the orphanage prevented peo­ human tragedy. Those who could help chairmen in the parliament, and their ty as Helsinki Commission chairman and ple from seeing what was going on. At either didn't know or didn't want to rec­ bureaucratic cronies in the government. strongly advocated Ukrainian indepen­ night, trucks would haul away the bodies. ognize the brutal reality іп Ukraine. This Meanwhile, the population of Ukraine dence, but right now, Ukraine's future is They fell off tfie trucks so often that each must never be allowed to happen. Food suffers from hyperinflation and lowered becoming increasingly precarious. Only a. morning caretakers would look over their must never again be used as a weapon. living standards. The situation, in my functioning economy in a state based on areas to see if any bodies had fallen there. September 10-12 marks the official view is becoming dangerous, and I am the rule of law will guarantee that Unfortunately, these children had no observance of the 60th anniversary of the not using the word "dangerous" lightly. Ukraine stays independent and does not one else to whom (o turn. There was no Ukraine Famine. On that weekend, I will find itself under foreign, totalitarian dom­ international effort to help Ukrainians. be joining the Ukrainian community to The legacy of the Soviet command News of the famine was either sup­ economy is still deep, but Ukraine is ination as it did in 1932 and 1933. solemnly remember these terrible events. pressed or obscured by Stalin's propa­ I urge my colleagues to join in this effort.

report to the government of Ukraine. In Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s." It is Sen. Don Riegle fact, from the state of Michigan, commis­ "Harvest..." meant to ask some questions. Can the sion member Bohdan Fedorak arrived in (Continued from page 9) (Continued from page 8) same people who held prominent posi­ Kyyiv several days ago to participate in tions during the Communist era continue In 1988, the Commission on the the ceremony. This resolution commemo­ deputy head of Ukraine's Institute of to lead an independent Ukraine into the Ukraine Famine issued a report which rates this momentous event, while pro­ History, Academy of Sciences, sits at the 21st century? After decades of denying successfully rejects the Stalinist false­ viding the Congress an opportunity to head table of a scientific conference on hoods. It confirms that "Joseph Stalin pledge its continued support for Ukraine the truth, can they change years, can the famine, which he has organized. they change their story and have people and those around him committed geno­ and other former Soviet republics as they Today, he edits books on the famine, cide against Ukrainians" in an effort to travel the difficult road to democracy and believe them? when in 1987, only six years ago, as Can these people who changed their repress the Ukrainian peasantry and sup­ market-based economies. chairman of the "department of the press any Ukrainian expression of a cul­ tune respect themselves and their col­ Mr. President, the world must never be building of socialism," he told a presidi­ leagues? I cannot judge. Let history tural or political identity. "The Famine," um meeting of the Academy of Sciences: allowed to forget the victims of the famine judge. the commission explained, "was not, as "We cannot call the famine an ethno- is often alleged, related to drought." in Ukraine. This resolution expresses the cide." He told academics that approxi­ Moreover, the commission uncovered sense of Congress that the United States mately 3 million people died in Ukraine, evidence of "attempts made to prevent must recall those who suffered at the but the cause of this was the "quick pace Correction the starving from traveling to areas hands of Stalin's repressive policies while of collectivization." where food was available," serving only helping to avert future acts of genocide. I In the Vox Populi column of to intensify the calamity. thank the members of the leadership and This last paragraph is not meant to be September 12, a comment by Dr. Mark the Foreign Relations Committee for their a personal attack on Prof. Kulchytsky, Juzych was cut due to a technical error. I am pleased to announce that today, It should have read "...I was the most members of the commission that studied cooperation in moving this resolution for­ who heads the same department as he ward and urge my colleagues to support did in 1987, although it has been popular person here until my sister start­ the Ukraine Famine are in Kyyiv to offi­ ed coming here." cially present a copy of the commission's this important measure. renamed "department of the history of

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Friday, September 24 Women's League of America Branch 3 invites the public to a Las Vegas Night to be HARTFORD, Conn.: The Connecticut PREVIEW OF EVENTS held at the SUM-A Hall, 730 W. Elm, at 8 Committee to Commemorate the Man-Made further information, call (201) 386-5622 or of Russian Studies, the Hebrew University of p.m. There will be food, drinks, music, Famine in Ukraine will hold commemoration (201)659-0906. Jerusalem, to be held in the Board Room, dancing and an auction. For further informa­ ceremonies in the Senate chambers at the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 43 tion, contact Chrystyna Wynnyk-Wilson, State Capitol at 1 p.m. Key note speaker will Sunday, September 26 Queen's Park Crescent E., at 4-6 p.m. (602) 788-7238. be Zenovia Sochor, Associate Proffessor of Government and International Affairs at NEW YORK: Composers Myroslav Skoryk Friday-Sunday, October 1-3 Sunday, October 3 Clark University, Worcester, Mass. and Yuriy Laniuk, with Valeriy Buimister, baritone, Anna Klymashivska, piano, and UNIONDALE, N.Y.: The Long Island CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of CLEVELAND: The Ukrainian Museum- Bohdan Kaskiv, violin, will appear in the Branch of the Ukrainian Congress Modern Art presents the concert "Lviv, 100 Archives will hold a reception from 6-9 p.m. consert - "Lviv, 100 Years of Music," in a Committee of America and Branch 42 of the years of Music," with composers Myroslav to honor the Ukrainian daily Svoboda on its pro-am of works featuring Lviv composers, Organization for the Defense of Four Skoryk and Yuriy Laniuk, Valeriy 100th anniversary of publication. The UMA to be held at the Ukrainian National Home, Freedoms for Ukraine are holding an obser­ Buimister, baritone, Anna Klymashivska, is currently featuring a display of historic 140-142 Second Ave., at 3 p.m. vance of the 60th anniversary of the famine piano, and Bohdan Kaskiv, violin, appearing issues of Svoboda. The reception will be in Ukraine with the following program: a in a program of works by Lviv composers, held at the Museum, 1202 Kenilworth Ave. JERSEY CITY, N.J.: The Ukrainian symposium, with Dr. George Soltys as mod­ to be held at the institute, 2320 W. Chicago Admission is free; donations welcome. Call National Home and Ukrainian Community erator, at Hofstra University at the Hofstra Ave., at 2 p.m. Center invite their members and the general Cultural Center Lecture Hall, Joan and (216) 781-4329 for details. JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior College public to attend the 12th annual picnic to be Donald E. Axinn Library, first floor, South invites the public to its 16th annual Ukrainian held at 90-96 Fleet St., beginning at 1 p.m. Campus, at 3 p.m.; a dinner reception on PHILADELPHIA: Branch 67 of the Festival. Featured will be the acclaimed There will be Ukrainian food, beverages and October 1 at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Ukrainian National Women's League of Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of entertainment. Admission: $15 per person for Catholic Parish Center, 226 Uniondale Ave., America is holding an art exhibit of works Philadelphia under the direction of Andrei both members and guests. For additional at 6:30 p.m. (for reservations, call (516) of world renowned Ukrainian artists: Alexis Pap. In addition, the Cheremosh Ukrainian Gritchenko, Mykola Hlushchenko, Jacques information, call Mary Furey, (201) 656-7755. 293-7891); an ecumenical prayer service, to be held October 3 at St. Michael's Ukrainian Hutsul School, under the direction of Hnizdovsky and Mykhailo Moroz. The Myroslav Soltys and Nick Kuzewycz, and opening of the exhibition will be held at 8 Tuesday, September 28 Orthodox Church, 237 Maple Ave., at noon; the service will be followed by a screening Dmytro Sorochafiiuk's Vesna Dance p.m. at the Ukrainian Educational and Ensemble and School of Dance will perform. Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road. Donation: NEW YORK: The Foreign Language of the film "Harvest of Despair" at 1 p.m. Department of the School of Continuing The Hajdamaky Ukrainian Vocal Ensemble $7. The exhibit will be opened on Saturday, Saturday, October 2 of Philadelphia under the direction of Ihor September 25, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday, Education at New York University announces the following courses in Kusznir with pianist, Lesia Rudyj, will per­ September 26, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. This is a CHERRY HILL, N.J.: St. Michael's form mostly Ukrainian traditional folk music unique opportunity to acquire the works of Ukrainian to be taught during the Fall semester: October 2-January 8: Intensive Ukrainian Catholic Church will hold its and liturgical works. Also entertaining that these artists. For further information, call annual fair in the church hall on Cooper day will be the Soloveyky Vocal Children's (215)663-1764. Ukrainian I, X25.9461; fee: $490; 12 ses­ sions, Saturday, 1:20-4:15 p.m.; September Landing Road. There will be crafts and Ensemble under the direction of Prof. Zoya Ukrainian food for sale. Markowych. Attractions and entertainment YONKERS, N.Y.: Rockstar Vika and 28 - December 14: Ukrainian II, X25.9452; fee: $360; 12 sessions, Thursday, 6:10-8:05 will include master craftsmen demonstrations, L^evko Durko will appear at a cabaret night LEHIGHTON, Pa.: The Lehighton and p.m. The courses will be taught by Prof. traditional folk costumes and craft exhibits, at the Ukrainian Youth Center-SUM-A, 301 Philadelphia branches of the Veterans of the Olga Kekish. For further information, call folk arts and crafts demonstrations, a bazaar Palisade Ave. Starting time is 10 p.m. For 1 St Division of the Ukrainian National Army (212)998-7030. of folk craft items and ethnic food. Children's more information, call (914) 476-6781. invite Ukrainian veterans and the general activities will include a clown, games, hay Thursday, September 30 public to a traditional potato bake to be held and pony rides. A raffle will be drawn after EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Sports at the Ukrainian Homestead at 4 p.m. There the final performance. The festival, which is Authority Bar at the Ramada Hotel is TORONTO: The Chair of Ukrainian will be dancing to the music of the Tempo held rain or shine, is $4 for adults and $1 for pleased to announce Fata Morgana as its fea­ Studies, as part of its fall seminar series, will orchestra beginning at 9 p.m. children under age 12. Call (215) 884-2215 tured entertainment. Music begins nightly at feature a lecture on "Ukrainian Studies in for information or directions. 9:30 p.m. and runs through 1:30 a.m. For Israel" by Prof. Wolf Moskovich, Department PHOENIX, Ariz.: Ukrainian National Friday-Sunday, October 8-10 CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society (UPNS) will host UKRAINPEX '93, an annual con­ The Ukrainian American Bar Association vention and exhibition, at the Ukrainian Village Cultural Center, cordially invites you to attend the 2247 W. Chicago Ave. This year's theme is "Ukrainica." On exhibit will be a variety of Ukrainian postage stamps, postal history and other col­ UABA FALL CONVENTION lectibles. There will be special pro­ grams and presentations on aspects of Ukraine philately. UPNS literature and October 21 - 24, 1993 other aids will be available. Dealers will also be on hand to assist begin­ ning, as well as, seasoned collectors. A at the luxurious banquet will be held the evening of October 9, where exhibition and other Tradewinds Resort society awards will be presented. Banquet tickets need to be reserved in advance. The United States Postal on St. Petersburg Beach Service will operate a substation to sell U.S. postage stamps and accept letters 5500 Gulf Boulevard with a special "Ukrainica" cancellation St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 33706 for each day of the exhibition. Prepared show covers with special cachets will also be available for sale. UKRAIN­ For further details, please contact Walter Lupan, UABA president, at: 20 North Main Street, Suite PEX opens 10 a.m. each day. On 200, Sherborn, MA 01770; 508-653-9275; Fax: 508-653-7791. A block of rooms will be held by the Friday, October 8 it will close at 6 p.m. and it will close at 5 p.m. on both hotel's management until September 21, 1993. For room reservations, please contact the hotel Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, directly at: 800-237-0707; FAX 813-367-4567. Special rates for UABA members are $115/night. October 10. Admission is free. For additional information, contact Bohdan Special airfares on USAir are available via Charles River Colpitts Travel Agency at 800-721-2400. Pauk, (312) 276-0355.

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