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O; Vol. LI No. 22 -THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, ИMAY 29, 1983 ІМф U.S. coordinating council establishedSamvyda v report on Horyn casm`" e WCFU representation is sought by organization reveals details of KGB frame-up NEW YORK - The Committee for representative of the majority of Ukrai­ NEW YORK - The External Repre­ Law and Order in the UCCA, at its last nians in the United States. sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki meeting on Saturday, May 14, created a In a May 16 letter to the WCFU Group has released details surrounding central community representation, Presidium, the coordinating council the arrest in late 1981 of Ukrainian called the Ukrainian American Co­ noted: "We assert that the present-day activist Mykhailo Horyn which clearly ordinating Council, in order to unite all Ukrainian Congress Committee of show that he was framed by the KGB. those organizations which — since the America has ceased to be the national Mr. Horyn, 52, was sentenced in June takeover of the Ukrainian Congress representation of all Ukrainians in 1982 to a total of 15 years' imprison­ Committee of America by the Ukrai­ America," and that the organizations ment after being convicted of "anti- nian Liberation Front—do not consider that walked out of the 13th UCCA Soviet agitation and propaganda" the UCCA to be the representative of Congress - including UCCA founding under Article 62 of the Ukrainian the entire Ukrainian community in the organizations such as the Ukrainian Criminal Code. United States. National Association, Ukrainian Fra­ But according to the External Repre­ At the same time, the Committee for ternal Association, Organization for the sentation, which based its release on Law and Order in the UCCA was Rebirth of Ukraine and the Ukrainian information published in the USSR in dissolved. The new Ukrainian Ame­ National Women's League of America the clandestine Chronicle of Current rican Coordinating Cou,ncil is seen as — "do not consider the UCCA its Events, the case against Mr. Horyn was the successor to the Committee for Law representative." based on evidence planted in his home and Order, which had as its goal the It went on to say: by the secret police. restoration of law and order within the "In view of the fact that all attempts It said that Mr. Horyn, who previous­ UCCA. to date of the Committee for Law and ly served a labor-camp term from 1966 The May 14 meeting was attended by Order in the UCCA to restore law and to 1972 for his pro-Ukrainian activities, Mykhailo Horyn 41 representatives of member-organiza­ order by returning to the pre-13th was persecuted for his political beliefs tions and branches of the Committee Congress-status ihave bad no; success; ;and);for-;hiS; refusal to testify against at Mr. Horyn's apartment building for Law and Order in the UCCA. The this committee took essential steps to Ukrainian dissident Ivan Kandyba, a told him that he had to put his apart­ meeting participants unanimously voted form a representation of those or­ founding member of the Ukrainian ment number on the door of his base­ to create the coordinating council and ganizations united in the Committee for Helsinki Group. ment storage locker, an odd request to work in cooperation w.th Ukrainian Law and Order. The Ukrainian Ame­ The Chronicle, which documents because Mr. Horyn and his wife Olha Churches and all community organiza­ rican Coordinating Council is this Soviet suppression of dissent, said that had lived in the building for 20 years. tions that walked out of the 13th UCCA representation of Ukrainians in Ame­ Mr. Horyn's ordeal began on March 24, Suspecting that the KGB had asked Congress. rica; formed on May 14, 1983, in New 1981, when his apartment was searched the woman to help them identify the They unanimously decided also that York, it is the successor to the Com­ by the police. locker in order to plant incriminating the new organization should appeal to mittee for Law and Order in the UCCA. In a March 25. statement to M.P. materials, Mr. Horyn immediately went the World Congress of Free Ukrainians "The Ukrainian American Coordi­ Cherpakov, head of the KGB of the down and carefully checked all his for recognition of the Ukrainian Ame­ nating Council asks the WCFU Presi- Ukrainian SSR in Lviv, Mr. Horyn books and journals stored there. The rican Coordinating Council as the (Contlnued on page 15) charged that the KGB had planted a next night, he again examined his copy of the underground Herald of materials. " Repression in Ukraine in his apartment, On November 28, the police, led by and called the action "amoral and Lt. Trykalets, the criminal inspector of Famine resolution introduced in House criminal." the Chervonoarmiysky district in Lviv, In May, he was approached and conducted another search, ostensibly in WASHINGTON - Rep. Gerald B. crime of genocide, as defined by the ordered to provide information on Mr. connection with a burglary. Solomon (R-N.Y.) introduced a resolu­ United Nations Genocide Convention." Kandyba and to testify at his trial which Instead of searching the apartment, tion in the U.S. House of Representa­ The resolution goes on to state that it was held on July 24. Mr. Horyn refused however, they went directly to`the tives to commemorate the Great Famine is the sense of Congress that the U.S. to cooperate with the authorities. storage locker. They emerged with a of 1932-33 in Ukraine, reported the president should: As a result, on September 11 authori­ package wrapped in cellophane, which Ukrainian National Information Ser­ "(I) issue a proclamation in mournful ties launched criminal proceedings contained three copies of a 15-page vice. commemoration of the great famine in against Mr. Horyn under Article 179 of manuscript with the improbable title of The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Ukraine during the year 1933, which the Ukrainian Criminal code, "refusing "Social Research on the Russification Res. Ill) was introduced on April 19 constituted a deliberate and imperialistic to testify." The investigation was of Ukraine." A note in the text read: and referred to the Committee on policy of the Soviet Russian govern­ initiated by V.H. Patsiukevych, investi­ "M.N. - I've read it; it needs rework­ Foreign Affairs. ment to destroy the intellectual elite and gative procurator of the Zaliznychny ing; it must be disseminated around the large segments of the population of district of Lviv. world." It notes that over 7 million Ukrai­ Ukraine and thus enhance its totali­ Under questioning, Mr. Horyn said Mr. Horyn denied any knowledge of nians died in the famine and that the tarian Communist rule over the con­ that his refusal to' take part in the the manuscript and charged the police Soviet Russian government "used the quered Ukrainian nation; proceedings "was not a crime because, with provocation. famine as a means of reducing the "(2) issue a warning that continued in actuality, I did not have steady or The next day, he sent another state­ Ukrainian population and destroying enslavement of the Ukrainian nation fco frequent contacts with Mr. Kandyba ment to Mr. Cherpakov, saying that Ukrainian national, political, cultural well as other non-Russian nations the last few years." over eight months his home had been and religious rights." within the Union of Soviet Socialist He added that "Mr. Kandyba was a searched four times. It also states that "the Soviet Russian Republics constitutes a threat to world close friend and compatriot during our Referring to the March 24 search, he government targeted the Ukrainian peace and normal relationships among student days, and I feel that it would be accused a Major Senkevych of planting people for destruction as a whole by the peoples of Europe and the world at unethical for me to take part in a material and added that the KGB was directing special draconic decrees large; and criminal proceeding as a prosecution conducting a harassment campaign, against Ukrainian peasants as 'an "(3) manifest to the peoples of the witness." which he said included pressuring his enemy class,' against the Ukrainian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics On November 4, Mr. Patsiukevych friends to publicly denounce him. intelligentsia as 'bourgeois Ukrainian through an appropriate and official ordered a search of Mr. Horyn's home, Writing,about the November 28 nationalists,'and against the Ukrainian means the historic fact that the people but nothing was found. The next day, search and the manuscript confiscated Autocephalic Orthodox Church as 'a of the United States share with them Mr. Horyn was formally presented with by the police, Mr. Horyn asked the remnant of the old prejudicial "opiate of their aspirations for the recovery of the charges and a document barring him KGB official to "be objective" and the people" ` — committed one gigantic their freedom and national indepen­ from leaving the city. noted the danger to the social fiber and unprecedented scale the heinous dence." On November 26, a woman caretaker (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 No. 22 Reagan proclaims Sakharov Day Dissident pcofik WASHINGTON - President Ro- Helsinki Commission`efn"Security and nald Reagan on May 18 signed into law Cooperation in Europe, said that the Ivan Sokulsky: a resolution designating May 25 "Na­ resolution calls attention to the Soviet tional Andrei Sakharov Day" in honor government's continued persecution of of the exiled Soviet physicist and Dr. Sakharov, who won the Nobel serving 15-year term human-rights activist. Peace Prize in 1975. "The peoples of all the world owe a JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Few The White House ceremony came exactly a week after the Soviet news great debt of gratitude to this Nobel , people have heard of Ukrainian laureate and internationally recognized political prisoner Ivan Sokulsky. agency TASS announced that the 61- year-old nuclear scientist would not be physicist for his noble and selfless ` When, in the late 1960s and 1970s, contributions to the cause of world the West First got an inkling of the allowed to leave the country because he possessed state secrets. In 1980 he was peace and human rights," the senator groundswell of dissent in Uk/aine, said. names such as Chornovil, Moroz, banished to the city of Gorky, some 250 Kandyba, Lukianenko and Svitly- miles east of Moscow, where he lives The resolution was introduced by chna became part of the vocabulary under strict surveillance. Sen. Dole and Sen. Daniel Moynihan of national opposition to Soviet rule. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), author of (D-N.Y.) on March 3, and authorizes Later, through their numerous ap­ the resolution and co-chairman of the the president to issue a proclamation peals, letters, trial transcripts and calling upon the people of the United photographs that reached the West, States to observe the day with appro­ these names became people, indivi­ Shcharansky's wife priate activities. dual personalities. "Despite ongoing isolation and harassment by Soviet authorities, An­ But Ivan Sokulsky, and countless holds press conferencedrei Sakharov has continued to speak others like him, fdl through the out for human rights and world peace, cracks of the tenuous information MADRID — The wife of imprisoned for amnesty for prisoners of conscience, network supplying news from U- Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky and for international compliance with kraine. In 1979, his name suddenly told reporters here on May 6 that if a (Continued on page 4) appeared on the rolls of the Ukrai­ Ivan Sokulsky final document of the 35-state Madrid nian Helsinki Group, but virtually Conference on European cooperation nothing was known about him out­ and the book. Mr. Vatchenko also did not include human-rights safe­ Soviets release side of a few basic facts. His name saw it as an opportunity to under­ guards, then "it would be signed over had earlier appeared in the footnotes mine the power of Petro Shelest, then the bones of my husband and others like of the few extensive studies of dissent first secretary of the Communist him!" five socialists in Ukraine. Party of the Ukrainian SSR, who, he Avital Shcharansky, whose husband MOSCOW - Five young Soviet But Ivan Sokulsky had a signifi­ suspected, favored a limited form of was sentenced in 1977 to 13 years in socialists arrested here in April 1982 cant role during the re-emergence of Ukrainianization. The book was prison and labor camps for alleged during a massive crackdown on dissi­ a growing nationalist sentiment forbidden to be used in teaching at espionage activities, said at a press dents were released from custody on among the young Ukrainian intelli­ Dnipropetrovske University. conference that she had received no May 6 without being brought to trial. gentsia in the late 1960s, and he is In response to the official cam­ news of her husband since February. The New York Times described the currently paying a terrible price for paign against the novel, three young She said that authorities at Chistopol unusual move as a "partial amnesty" in his staunchly pro-Ukrainian activi­ men - Mr. Sokulsky, Mykola Kul- Prison, 800 miles east of Moscow, which the men did not acknowledge any ties. In 1980, Ivan Sokulsky, then just chynsky and Vasyl Savchenko - stopped his monthly letters. guilt and the prosecutor did not retract 40 years old, was sentenced to a total distributed a letter from "the creative Ms. Shcharansky addressed her the charges. of 15 years' imprisonment — five youth of Dnipropetrovske" which remarks to delegates of the Madrid The five men, who were not identi­ years in prison, five in a labor camp protested the persecution of those Conference to review implementation fied, were part of a large group of and five in internal exile. It was his who had expressed favorable брі– of the 1975 Helsinki Accords on security political and religious activists arrested second sentence in under 11 years. nions about the book as well as other and human rights. The conference, first on April 6 of last year during an Not much is known about Mr. manifestations of anti-Ukrainian convened in November 1980, has failed extensive sweep by the KGB in the Sokulsky. He was born in 1940 and attitudes by authorities. The letter to reach agreement because of East- capital. The police reportedly searched lived in Dnipropetrovske. After was sent to top Communist Party West differences over the language and the homes of 50 suspected dissidents, studying at Dnipropetrovske Univer­ officials. thrust of a concluding document. The including samizdat publishers and sity, he worked for several years as a The letter said that the campaign Warsaw Pact countries, led by the Christian activists. In all, 12 people journalist in Ukraine. He wrote against the book included orders by Soviet Union, have consistently stone­ were arrested during the raids. poetry and served on the editorial university officials forbidding any walled Western attempts to incorporate The independent .socialists had staff of a local journal, but was fired mention of the book by the faculty, substantive references to human rights published numerous underground for his political views. and the banning of a planned dis­ into a final communique. journals that reportedly printed docu­ In the late 1960s, he joined the cussion of the novel. It noted that Ms. Shcharansky's presence at the ments of the Italian Communist Party, growing ranks of Ukrainian intellec­ faculty members were warned that conference touched off a minor diplo­ reports on the progress of the Solidarity tuals, most in their 20s and 30s, any opposition to the campaign or to matic flap. The conference hosts asked free trade union in Poland, as well as disturbed by the growing intrusion of the Communist Party decision would her to leave the conference coffee shop, criticisms of Soviet domestic and Russian culture into Ukrainian life. be met with stiff penalties. where she had met the press, because foreign policies. Their beliefs, grounded in a resur­ On June 13, 1969, Mr. Sokulsky they claimed she did not have the proper There have been unconfirmed reports gence of historic nationalist senti­ and his two compatriots were arrest­ credentials. The U.S. delegates then that the five were released after in­ ments, found voice in such writers as ed and charged with "anti-Soviet arranged for her to acquire a visitor's fluential members of the Socialist Vasyl Symonenko (who had died in agitation and propaganda" under badge. .International in the West intervened 1963 at age 28), Ivan Dziuba, Va- Article 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal The Washington Post reported that with Soviet officials. lentyn Moroz and Yevhen Sverstiuk, Code. Authorities claimed that Mr. Sergei Kondrashev, deputy head of the Another member of the socialist who shared a common concern for Sokulsky had actually drafted the Soviet delegation, bolted for the exit group, Mikhail Rivkin, who was arrest­ human and national rights. letter. He was also charged with when he spotted Ms. Shcharansky in ed in June 1982, was not released, and One novel that eloquently cap­ keeping an unposted letter to the the room. his fate is unknown. tured the Ukrainian attitude toward Central Committee of the Commu­ the onslaught of Russification was nist Party and with writing anti- Oles Honchar's "Sobor" (Cathedral), Soviet poetry. published in 1968. The novel cen­ During the trial, Mr. Sokulsky tered on the controversial proposal admitted writing the letter and, to raze a church. The. authorities' because of the guilty plea, he was devious efforts to condemn the given a reduced sentence of four and Ukrainian Weekl church are counterbalanced by the a half years in a labor camp rather | V deep feelings of the villagers and the than the customary seven. Mr. Kul- FOUNDED 1933 protagonist. In a flashback, it is chynsky. was sentenced to two and a Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc. a fraternal revealed that even the famous anar­ half years in a general-regimen labor; non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 chist leader Nestor Makhno had camp, while Mr. Savchenko got off (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570370) spared the church during the civil with a suspended sentence. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper war. In the end, those who threaten In the labor camp, Mr. Sokulsky the safety of the church are defeated continued his political activities and The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: and the cathedral rises as a symbol of participated in several protests. For (201) 434-0237, 434-0807 Ukrainian national history and hu­ this, he was eventually transferred to (201) 451-2200 man freedom, both invincible. Vladimir Prison in Moscow. Yearly subscription rate: |8, UNA members - J5. The official response to Honchar's Before being released from prison, book was predictable. In Dniprope­ in either 1974 or 1975, he was given a Postmaster, send address changes to: trovske, the oblast Communist Party psychiatric examination at the Serb-( THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Hadzawycz led by first secretary O. Vatchenko, sky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry' P.O. Box 346 Associate editor. George Bohdan Zarycky Jersey City, NJ. 0730^ vociferously condemned the author (Continued on page IS) Aselrtantedrtor Merta Kolomayets No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 3 600 East Coast Ukrainians protest famine at Washington rally by Kateryna Chumachenko from Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, as well as Washington locals WASHINGTON - The two city broke through the barricades holding newspapers, The Washington Post and them 500 teet away from the Soviet the Washington Times, and all four Embassy. local television stations carried stories The crowd, holding signs and chant­ about the UCCA-organized rally held ing slogans condemning the Moscow- in Washington on Saturday, May 21 to created famine, was covered on the 6, commemorate the 1933 famine-holo­ 6:30, 10 and 11 p.m. news,- and the caust in Ukraine. demonstration was the lead story on Four Ukrainians were arrested when two of the news broadcasts. nine busloads of Ukrainian-Americans The rally began peacefully near the Taras Shevchenko monument, as nearly 600 East Coast Ukrainians braved the rain to hear addresses by Reps. Larry McDonald (D-Ga.) and William Dan- nemeyer (R-Calif.), and statements sent from President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush and the mayor of the District of Columbia, Marion Barry. Rep. Larry McDonald (D-Ga.) addresses rally participants. In his statement. President Reagan said in part: "lam indeed proud The crowd then proceeded to a corner all the press. and honored to send my warm greetings approximately two blocks from the Satellite News Network filmed Reps. to the Ukrainian Congress Committee Soviet Embassy, Frustrated at the dis­ McDonald's and Dannemeyer`s speech­ of America as you gather to remember tance, however, they broke through the es, as well as statements by Prof. Symon the 50th anniversary of the forced barricades, chanting slogans and sing­ Wozhakiwskyj, a survivor of the famine famine in Ukraine. ing both the American and the Ukrai­ and chairman of the UCCA National "This event provides an opportunity nian national anthems. Within minutes, Committee to Commemorate the to remember those who suffered and dozens of police and reporters were on Famine-Holocaust in Ukraine, Kateryna died during the farm collectivization the scene. The demonstration and Chumachenko, UN1S director, and and the subsequent period of starva­ statements from the organizers, pro­ Ronya Lozynskyj, SUSTA president. tion and severe repression. Thatat-cmpt testers and police were filmed by tele­ An Associated Press photographer to crush the life, will, and spirit of a vision news crews. covered the demonstration, and a photo people by a totalitarian government Some 700 news releases, along with went out over the wire about the event. holds important meaning for us today." information about the Ukrainian artifi­ Vice President Bush's message noted: cial famine, were sent out by the Ukrai­ Sens. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) and "Our prayers are with you on the 50th nian National Information Service Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), and Reps. Don anniversary of the famine in Ukraine. before the rally. The Washington Times, Ritter (R-Pa.), Sherwood Boehlert (R- A protester with a placard at the This great tragedy of a people lost to the the new conservative newspaper in N.Y.), Bill Green (R-N.Y.), Fernand St. Washington demonstration held on the savagery of Communist repression Washington, printed a story the day Germain (D-R.l.) and Bernard Dwyer occasion of the 50th anniversary of the remains heavy on the hearts of free before the event. At the demonstration, (D-N.J.) all provided statements for the Great Famine. people everywhere." information packets were distributed to rally. 1,000 LA.'ers attend ecumenical memorial service for famine victims LOS ANGELES - Nearly 1,000 survivor of the famine bearing a pro­ and the Rev. Stephen Hallick of St. Genocide In Ukraine 1932-33 Commit­ members of the Los Angeles-area U- cessional church cross, who was follow­ Andrew's. tee. krainian community participated in an ed by the clergy, deacons, altar boys, The highlight of the service occurred KTLA Channel 5 provided television ecumenical memorial service recalling combined community choir and mem­ when survivors and witnesses of the news coverage. In its evening news the Great Famine in Ukraine 50 years bers of the Plast and SUM-A youth famine, assisted by the clergy, carried a broadcast KTLA referred to the 1932- ago. The service was held on Sunday, organizations as well as the Ukrainian memorial wreath bearing black ribbons 33 genocide in Ukraine as the "hidden May 15, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Orthodox Youth League. The pro­ and the inscription "In memory of the holocaust" and displayed film of the in Hollywood Hills. cession proceeded to a large wooden victims of the Great Famine in Ukraine opening procession and excerpts of the The event was organized under the cross erected at the cemetery for the 1932-33" and placed it on the wooden memorial service. ' auspices of the Genocide in Ukraine memorial service. cross. The choir intoned "Vichnaya , 1932-33 Committee and four Los During the service, responses were Pamiat" as bells tolled. The service was Reel Venture Productions, a film Angeles-area Ukrainian churches, the sung by the combined choir directed by concluded with the hymn "Bozhe company, filmed the memorial service First Baptist Church, Nativity of the Gregory Hallick, and lighted candles Velyky." and interviews with Hlib Starowijt and Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catho­ were held by all in attendance. Brief Radio station KFWB, a leading Los M. Chumak, survivors of the 1932-33 lic Church, St. Andrew Ukrainian addresses were delivered in English by Angeles all-news station, broadcast famine. Reel Venture Productions, Orthodox Church and St. Vladimir the Rev. Peter Leskiw of the Nativity several reports regarding the memorial which is headed by Luba Dmytryk, is Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Church and in Ukrainian by the Rev. service, including an interview with preparing a documentary film about the This observance of the 50th anniver­ Hryhorij Podhurec of St. Vladimir's Nicholas Medvid, president of the Great Famine. sary of the Great Famine that killed 7 million men, women and children, began with a solemn procession from the Old North Church to the Forest Lawn cemetery's "Birth of Liberty" mosaic. As the choir sang "Khrystos Voskres," the procession, was led by a U.S. bishops join famine committee PHILADELPHIA - Three Ukrai- nian Catholic hierarchs, Bishop Basil Щ, Losten of Stamford, Conn., Bishop щ Innocent Lotocky of Chicago and Auxiliary Bishop Robert Moskal of ^ Philadelphia, have agreed to serve as Я members of the honorary presidium of the National Committee to Commemo- g rate Genocide in Ukraine 1932-33. In reporting on the new members, the national committee noted that Arch­ bishop-Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church had earlier, agreed to serve on the honorary JaU - presidium: The procession from ОИ North Church to Forest Lawn Memorial І”агк. І^АІв Walter Stoyko - ` . - - -" ` ` THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 No. 22

perspective of how we measure up Obituary y-r- against other fraternal benefit societies. Fraternally yours The National Fraternal Congress of America reports statistical information by Marta Korduba on I IS fraternal organizations. (Only a Martha Turchin, UNA fraternal activities coordinator very small proportion of fraternal insurance companies in the United branch secretary, States and Canada is not included in this report.) The character of fraternal The UNA: how it fares organizations in the United States and Hrushka pupil Canada is varied. Some are religiously affiliated, i.e. the Knights of Columbus, WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Martha vis a vis other fratemals Lutheran Brotherhood; others, like the Turchin, secretary of Ukrainian Na­ tional Association Branch 278 since my life indeed were real, and not UNA and the Sons of Norway, exist for Every profession, however virtuous 1957, died here on Friday, April 29. She imaginary, I delved into the implica­ the welfare of persons of a particular or lucrative, is encumbered with stereo­ was 83. tions of these statements. ethnic group. Still others are oriented types — some less scathing than others. Mrs. Turchin was born in Ukraine Aftei all, we've all known at least one Such comments reflect a less-than- towards a given profession or trade, i.e. healthy self-image: one which auto­ Police and Firemen's Insurance Asso­ and came to the United States in 1913. Mercedes-driving M.D., an avaricious She resided in the'North End section of CEO, an eccentric artist, right? matically regards things Ukrainian to ciation. be of a lower quality and somehow not Consider the following excerpted in­ Wilkes-Barre. In working for the Ukrainian Na­ She was a member of Ss. Peter and tional Association, I've encountered a quite as valid as its non-Ukrainian formation taken from the 1982 NFCA counterparts. As one UNA member put report. Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church and misconception of a different nature; one the parish's Apostleship of Prayer. She I've dubbed the "non-job." It comes it: "The problem with most Ukrainians' perception of the UNA is the 'U.` " was also active in the Senior Citizens' from well-meaning Ukrainians who've Clearly, this data indicates that the Club of the North End. asked me when I plantogeta"real"job. Often smaller-scale non-Ukrainian UNA. in terms of membership and Mrs. Turchin appeared in the UNA- When probed further, they articulately organizations elicit more respect from assets, is a middle-sized fraternal bene­ sponsored film "Helm of Destiny" by explain that they are referring to em­ Ukrainians than do Ukrainian organi­ fit society. Slavko Nowytski, in which she was ployment in the "real" world. You zations. Although fraternal features are more interviewed about the life of the Rev. know, the one where "real" people live This "grass-is-always-greener-on- difficult to gauge than the aforemen­ Hryhory Hrushka, the founder of the and work. Being thoroughly convinced the-other-side" attitude could be re­ tioned categories, the NFCA report Svoboda Ukrainian-language daily that the last two and one-half years of medied, in part, by a more accurate included a description of the societies' newspaper. Mrs. Turchin had been one of the Rev. Hrushka's pupils. INSURANCF IN FORCE, LODGES AND ASSETS OF FRATERNAL Surviving are her daughter Eugenia SOCIETIES (AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1981) Waslasky, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Turchin's NUMBER husband Michael and sons John and NAME OF SOCIETY INSURANCE IN FORCE OF LODGES TOTAL ASSETS William preceded her in death. The funeral was held Monday, May Aid Association For Lutherans 514,333,392,632 5,643 52,515,389,839 2, from the Baloga Funeral Home, with Lutheran Brotherhood 10,899,999,847 4,479 1,930,701,656 divine liturgy at Ss. Peter and Paul Woodmen of The World Life Insurance Society 6,864,261,239 3,492 833,664,296 Church. Burial was at the parish ceme­ Polish National Alliance of U.S. of N.A. 414,395,684 1,158 171,524,033 tery. North American Benefit Association 296,618,078 572 91,204,611 Ukrainian National Association 94,312,243 451 46,350,527 William Penn Association 118,041,239 113 45,183,708 (Union) Saint-Jean-Baptiste 155,038,674 119 25,196.172 UNA/UIA group United Lutheran Society 14,827,429 142 6,174,406 United National Life Insurance Society 74,770,456 97 11,304,809 United Russian Orthodox Brotherhood of America 2,919,664 121 2,850,976 schedules meeting, North American Swiss Alliance 3,326,011 34 1,875,180 seeks new members fraternal benefits. Here, too, the UNA NEW YORK - Young performing fares well, and is by no means out­ artists and enthusiasts,are invited to Free-lancer wins design contestdistance d by the majority of fraternal attend a meeting of the UNA/UIA organizations. Performing Artists Group on Thurs­ day, June 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrai­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Free-lance Like the UNA, many provide aid to nian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. artist Olha Stasiuk of Long Island City, Of YOU/VC, victims of disaster, as well as aid to N. Y., won 5200 which was offered to the charitable, educational and cultural Formed over a year ago, the group first-place winner of a design contest organizations. Some provide `. scholar­ recently completed its first successful sponsored by the Ukrainian National \ ships. A number of societies' fraternal season of four performances at the Association. activities are limited to golf and bowl­ Ukrainian Institute of America, which ing tournaments, and Christmas parties. showcased the accomplishments of its The contest was held in an effort to The UNA offers a wider spectrum of ,members. Jointly sponsored by the find an appropriate design to promote fraternal benefits. Few organizations, Ukrainian National Association and the Panorama of Young Ukrainians `83, for example, operate a daily and weekly the Ukrainian Institute of America,.the which will take place July 7-Ю at publication' as does the UNA. group is composed of vocalists, musi­ Soyuzivka. Ms. Stasiuk holds a bache­ Certainly, we cannot dismiss our cians and actors. The group is presently lor's degree in English from Pace shortcomings by celebrating our posi­ seeking additional members. University. An active member of Plast, tion on the totem pole of fraternal she designed the Plast 70th anniversary societies. However, knowing where we Among the objectives of the group is jamboree logo. Ms. Stasiuk and her stand provides a more realistic base to cultivate interest in Ukrainian per­ husband Ivan Makuch are soon to Olha Stasiuk's design for the Panorama from which we can aspire to reach our forming art forms among non-Ukrai­ become UNA members. of Young Ukrainians. potential. nians as well as Ukrainian audiences. The "U" in the UNA, or in any other For more information, please contact The second-place prize, a compli­ organization, is only a hindrance if we Marta Korduba, UNA fraternal activi­ mentary weekend at Soyuzivka went to Busload of Bostonians believe it is. ties coordinator, at (201) 451-2200. commercial artist Petro Ciupka, who operates his own design business in to visit Soyuzivka Cohoes, N.Y. Mr. Ciupka is a member told reporters at her Moscow apartment of UNA Branch 57. BOSTON - A busload of Bosto­ Reagan proclaims... on May 20 that the presidential resolu­ nians will travel to Soyuzivka on (Continued from page 2) tion was "an unprecedented honor." Panorama of Young Ukrainians '83 is Saturday, June 25, to enjoy a weekend She also said that her husband would a program for young adults which will stay at the year-round resort of the the provisions of the Helsinki Final Act die unless the Soviet authorities re­ include a series of panel discussions, a Ukrainian National Association. and the U.N. Declaration of Human lented and'allowed him to return to Ukrainian cabaret, an art and photo­ The trip is organized by UNA Branch Rights," Sen. Dole said. Moscow for urgent medical treatment. graphy exhibit, a Ukrainian film festi­ 238, and the bus will leave at 5 a.m. from In light of the Soviet decision barring Ms. Bonner said she and her husband val, a live one-act comedy and many St. Andrew's Church. The trip co­ Dr. Sakharov from leaving the country, both had serious heart conditions that other events. Participants can take ordinators are Bill Mihovan, Larissa Sen. Dole added that "it is particularly necessitated я return to the capital, and advantage of discount rates at Soyu­ Dijak and Anne Remick. important that we honor this noble and revealed that she had suffered a heart zivka. For further informations please The weekend (cost: 585, double courageous man and continue to attack in Gorky last month. call Marta Korduba, UNA fraternal occupancy) will feature Saturday lunch, express support for Sakharov to choose She said neither she nor her husband activities coordinator (201) 451 -2200, or cocktail party, dinner and dance, and his place of residence, whether it be would accept medical treatment in write to her at: Ukrainian National Sunday breakfast and lunch. The bus inside or outside the Soviet Union." Gorky because of a pattern of KGB Association, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey will depart for Boston on Sunday interference with medical personnel City, N.J. 07302...... ,v,. , afternoon. Yelena Bonner, Dr. Sakharqy's wife, dealing with the couple. , ,-'j u \\Jt No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 5

PART Myloradovycheva, collected 6,000 rubles and, along with smaHer`dona- Shevchenko Scientific Society: tions including contributions from Volodymyr Doroshenko, the renown­ Galicians, (mainly from the Rev. ed historian, full member and long-time Stepan Kachala, a deputy in the Gali- librarian of the Shevchenko Scientific 110 years of scholarship cian Diet and the Austro-Hungarian Society, characterized the historic role by Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch State Council). Thus, the financial base this society, founded 110 years ago in of the society was established. Lviv, played in the history of Ukrai­ The funds were earmarked for buying educators from eastern Ukraine and a nian academic center and the hopes for nian scholarship. In his preface to the a printing house, which was to become co-worker of Prof. Mykhailo Hrushev- further cultural development in Ukraine history of the Shevchenko Scientific the center of activity for the planned sky, especially deserves the attention of in conjunction with this institution - Society, titled "The Hearth of Ukrai­ society. The by-laws of the society were readers because it was Prof. Doro­ all of this was subjected to attacks as the nian Scholarship - the Shevchenko authored by Mykhailo Drahomaniv shenko who published the first history tsar's absolutist government tightened Scientific Society," published in 1951, and a long-time member of the Ss. Cyril of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in its reign. he wrote: and Methodius Brotherhood, Dmytro 1913. In 1863, only two years after Shev­ Pylchykiv. Thus, the initiative and "The Shevchenko Scientific Society chenko's death, the tsar's minister of the plays an exceptionally important, even financial support for the new society The society in Lviv interior, Peter Valuyev, announced came from eastern Ukraine, while the exclusive role in the history of Ukrai­ that the Ukrainian language "did not nian scholarship. For many years this official founders of the society were The founding of the Shevchenko exist, does not exist, and will not exist," Galicians — Austrian citizens. was the only Ukrainian institution in all Scientific Society 110 years ago in Lviv and with this action he put an end to all of Ukraine which thoroughly developed Among them were the Rev. Stefan was not accidental; it arose out of academic, literary and publishing acti­ Kachala, a deputy in the Galician Diet; Ukrainian scholarship in the-broadest historic necessity. Western Ukraine had vities in Ukraine. sense of the word. Mychailo Dymet, a businessman and once again become the site of political The ukase only hampered the cultural Lviv councilman; Mychailo Kossak, a "The Shevchenko Scientific Society and cultural development, a role it had activities of the Ukrainian activists; it Lviv councilman; Dr. Omelian Ohonov- was a true promoter of Ukrainian taken on after the fall of Kiev, when the did not stop them. They quickly found a sky, a professor at the University of scholarship because its activities helped Ukrainian national state was moved to way out of the difficult situation. In Lviv; Dr. Alexander Ohonovsky, a prepare for the founding of all the later the West and the traditions of the reaction to the Valuyev ukase, the professor at the same university; Dr. Ukrainian academic institutions. 'Kievan Rus' were continued in the Shevchenko Scientific Society was Kornylo Sushkevych, a secretary of the Galician-Volhynian State (1240-1349). formed exactly 10 years later in Lviv, state treasury; Theophil Baranowsky, a "The Ukrainian Scientific Society, After the destruction of the remains the city which was to become the center, state engineer; Lonhen Lukashevych, founded in Kiev in 1907, used the of the Hetman-Kozak autonomous or as Prof. Doroshenko wrote, "the an insurance clerk; and Julian Roman- Shevchenko Scientific Society as its state (1781), the incorporation of hearth," of Ukrainian culture and chuk, a teacher and a deputy of the model and many of its members also Ukraine by Russia and Poland, and scholarship. Galician Diet and Austro-Hungarian became members of this new Kiev later the occupation by the Russian and This center was to concern itself with State Council. Austro-Hungarian empires, western institution. Ten years later the All- the development of cultural and na­ The society was named for Taras Ukraine was once again the center of all Ukrainian Academy of Sciences was tional consciousness for western Ukrai­ Shevchenko, although at the beginning activity. This was due to the fact that founded with the assistance of pro­ nians as well as of Ukrainians from the initiators proposed to name it conditions for the cultural-national fessors from the earlier-founded insti­ Naddniprianshchyna, by printing books Halych, in recognition of its Galician rebirth of Ukraine were better in the tutions. It would not have been able to in the Ukrainian language and dissemi­ character. Without a doubt, this was the West European climate of Austria than get itself organized and develop so nating them throughout Ukraine. first society which accepted Shev­ in Eurasian Russia. quickly if its predecessors had not At the dawn of the society, a group of chenko's name — only 12 years after the existed to pave the way." The Promethean appearance of Taras Ukrainian activists in eastern Ukraine, poet's death. After the passage of the This appraisal of the Lviv-based Shevchenko's works, Ivan Kotliarev- writer Alexander Konynsky, Dmytro society's by-laws on December 11,1873, academic institution by Prof. Doro­ sky's "Eneid," the founding of the Pylchykiv, Mykhailo Zhuchenko and, the first general meeting was held on shenko, one of the most prominent University of Kharkiv with its Ukrai­ especially Elizabeth Skoropadsky- June 4, 1874. At this meeting, the society elected Dr. Sushkevych as the first president. In Commentary: Chicago's ethnics and mayoral race early 1867, he published the first full by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas Chicago had its election, and there (D-Mich.) about the early successes of text of Shevchenko's "Kobzar." He was was no race war. Washington won by Detroit's black-Polish coalition to stem the president of the society until his Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, a teacher, is a getting 18 percent of the white vote, the tide of racial discord in that city. death in 1885. director of the National Center for more than in all similar U.S. black- In a recent Personal View, David The newly founded society was form­ Urban Ethnic Affairs and is associated white mayoral elections except Cleve­ Roth, director of the American Jewish ed for general cultural activities. For with the Institute on Pluralism and land in 1967. Even Atlanta's Andrew Committee's Institute on Pluralism this reason, the word scientific was not Group Identity in Chicago. He is Young received only 11 percent of the suggested similar coalition-building incorporated into its name as the supreme vice president of the Ukrainian white vote. The big question is, what among Chicago's racial and ethnic beginning of its existence. The society National Association. The article below will Chicago's first black mayor do to groups to combat black-white polariza­ immediately bought a printing house appeared in the April 19 issue of the heal the wounds of the campaign? tion during and after the campaign. A and began printing literary works. This Chicago Sun Times. Washington's biggest challenge as I few days later a press conference was service was even more needed three e Chicago Sun Times, 1983. Personal see it will be to move beyond his held to elaborate on the possibilities, years later, in 1876, when the Ems View by Myron B. Kuropas, reprinted immediate constituency and effectively but — with the exception of columnist Ukase took effect in eastern Ukraine, with permission. reach out to Chicago's white ethnics - Irv Kupcinet — none of our media for the ukase did not allow the printing Poles, Italians, Lithuanians, Croatians, pundits commented on this promising of Ukrainian books in the Russian empire, nor did it allow the transporting Press pundits and media moguls had Ukrainians — who are proud of their effort. Such activities apparently didn't heritage, go to church, struggle against quite fit into the "racist" scenario. of Ukrainian books into areas within a ball. They discovered 80 to 90 people the empire's boundaries. heckling Harold Washington in front of redlining by downtown banks, fight The major issue for many white a Roman Catholic church,and succeed­ blight — and had Bernard Epton posters ethnics during the next four years will Among the activities of the society in ed in convincing America that Chicago plastered all over their lovingly main­ center around their neigborhoods. How the first 10 years of its existence, was the was on the brink of a racial war. tained neighborhoods. does one convince frightened people publication of a journal, Zoria, which Although no racial slurs were used Popular liberal attitudes notwith­ that their fears are irrational when their was edited by V. Levytsky (Vasyl against Washington - he was called a standing, the truth of the matter is that perceptions, and in some instances their Lukych). It became an all-Ukrainian "crook" and a "tax cheater" - People America's white ethnics are no more experiences, tell them otherwise? journal, and in 1897 the Literaturno- magazine wrote that the hecklers biased than any other large American You can call them racists, but what Naukoviy Vistnyk, also published by "seethed with racial rage." constituency. On the contrary, studies won't allay their fears. You can scare the Shevchenko Scientific Society, took over this role. An "unruly crowd . of Epton sup­ conducted by the National Opinion the.n into moving, but white flight has porters shouted epithets at Washing­ Research Center at the University of never been a viable solution to urban The Zoria journal and later the ton," echoed Newsweek, leaving the Chicago suggest that some ethnic groups problems. Fear turns into hatred, and Literaturno-Naukoviy Vistnyk publish­ kind of epithet to the reader's imagina­ are less biased toward blacks than many the only beneficiaries are unscrupulous ed not only academic works, but also tion. People have called Chicago many so-called "mainline" American groups. real estate dealers who have no real the literary works of Lesia Ukrainka, things, editorialized USA Today. "Now White ethnic Catholics, moreover, stake in maintaining the city's viability. Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Osyp they are calling it just one thing: racist." will support a black mayor when he Not all ethnics were enamored of the Makovey, Bohdan Lepky and others. Carl Rowan lectured Chicagoans on responds to their concerns. They helped Irish-dominated Democratic machine. It should be noted that the society "the poison of racism" in his Sun-Times elect Carl Stokes in Cleveland, and in They too were used and abused by City also protested the Em Ukase in the column, while the paper's religion his first inaugural address he acknow­ Hall, and they too yearn for a voice in newspaper Pravda and printed the work editor, Roy Larson, complained that ledged his debt by singling out various Chicago's future. If Washington realizes of Prof. O. Ohonowsky of the "the demons of racism are running nationalities for praise. Unlike Wash­ this and reaches out to them, he will University of Lviv titled "Studies of the rampant in Chicago." Ed Bradley of "60 ington - whose advisers seemed learn that white ethnics and blacks have Ruthenian langauge." Published in the Minutes" came to town and, after inter­ reluctant to respond to offers of assis­ more in common than our press pundits German language, the work showed the viewing Mike Royko, Vernon Jarrett tance from some of Chicago's ethnic would have us believe. In the process, he differences between the Ukrainian and and Vito Marzullo, concluded that the leaders — Stokes was aware of ethnic can build a pluralistic coalition that Russian languages. He later wrote the entire campaign was a racist struggle fears and went out of his way to address could well serve as an urban model for six-volume "History of Rus` Litera­ between the "white ethnic power struc­ them. all America, and would forever remain ture." Both works stirred lively polemics ture" and the rising aspirations of the a credit to his humanitarian instincts, between many Russian and Ukrainian Ethnics will also work with black scholars. black community. representatives who are willing to carry his statesmanship and his political Well, it didn't happen. on a dialogue. Ask Rep. John Conyers leadership. The choice is his. (Condoned on paje 13) „..-..., MAY 29, 1983 NO.

publishing houses - something which Letters to the editor could be a Book-of-the-Month selec­ tion. Great Famine There are enough Ukrainians now Ukrainian Weekl who know or know of the right indivi­ V and unity duals for such contact. Press releases and organized information are neces­ Moving ahead Dear Editor: sary, but do not always have the same Thank you very much for the extra effect. And considering the resistance copies of the special issue of The Weekly The recent formation of the Ukrainian American Coordinating and disinterest of some in the media, on the Great Famine. They have been individual persistence is most necessary. Council, a successor to the Committee for Law and Order in the distributed to teachers and sent to UCC A, is a direct and logical outgrowth of the political takeover of the various individuals in the media (in­ Dr. Bohdan Cymbalisty's analysis Ukrainian Congress Committee of America during its 13th Congress cluding Dan Rather, CBS), and public that the present activities of the Ukrai­ in 1980. The moment the forces of the Liberation Front seized control libraries. nian community "take place outside the UCCA... fwhichj will be left behind..." of the UCCA, thus disenfranchising the vast majority of the organized Your editorial "Remembering the is proven true in the same issue of The Ukrainian community, that body ceased to be what it was intended to Famine" (February 13) went right to the Weekly (February 27) in the be - a central organization representing the interests of the entire point in emphasizing how we, as a report of the national committee's first Ukrainian community in this country. Despite the current UCCA's nation, would fail if we did not properly, meeting — the "negative response" to dogged and misleading insistence that it still represents the in unity, mark the 50th anniversary of UCCA cooperation with the national community, a position that clearly harms Ukrainian interests in the the famine. committee received from UCCA Vice non-Ukrainian world, numbers don't lie. Twenty-seven national I wish the members of the National President Ignatius Bilynsky. Committee to Commemorate Genocide organizations walked out of the 13th Congress and others later refused Victims in Ukraine 1932-33 well, and 1 cannot imagine a more non-politi­ to work within its present framework. The upshot is that Ukrainians believe that once the time comes to cal, totally patriotic, all-Ukrainian were left without a central organization. travel to Washington in October, event than this 50th anniversary. Does it The creation of the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council is an every Ukrainian with a con­ matter who started what first? I cannot see any individual or organization attempt to give the majority of Ukrainians a collective voice. It was science will go, no matter of what political affiliation. It is a matter placing personal or organizational formed after three series of negotiations between the Committee for ambitions, or petty, divisive, destruc­ Law and Order in the UCCA and the UCCA leadership proved of personal and national honor. 1 find it appalling and embarrassing that the tive interests above the unified marking fruitless because of the UCCA's intransigence on several key precondi­ of this anniversary. What kind of tions to further talks. national executive of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee has not yet form­ example is this for the younger genera­ In a sense, the Committee for Law and Order officially became what ed a national committee on the famine. tion? Because SUM-A is affiliated with it already was, a representative of the majority of Ukrainian In a few Canadian cities, organizations the present UCCA, does this mean that organizations in the United States. Since its primary function, trying and individuals have initiated lectures its membership will not be participating to restore the UCCA to its original intended character, was frustrated and symposiums, but even though the in the Washington commemoration? Is by the UCCA leadership, it was decided that a new central UCC formally has "encouraged" its the membership aware of all that is branches to mark the anniversary, there going on? My heart aches for the organization was urgently needed to fill the void created by the SUMivtsi who are being deprived of emasculation of the UCCA. is no central committee to provide ideas, and to coordinate and provide this opportunity to participate in the all- The decision is clearly a propitious development for the Ukrainian Ukrainian event. community, which has been adrift in uncertainty since the 13th guidelines, especially for the smaller cities and communities. What about the Over 20 years ago, during the Mazepa Congress. As of now, the new central organization is operating under a rural areas where the three or more celebrations, my friends Marijka and provisional name and preliminary by-laws, elements that will be generations live - and where there are Halia and I recited Hetman Mazepa's discussed later this year at scheduled pre-convention meetings and no UCC branches? But then, it is only letter. The words still have deep mean­ later finalized at a national convention. It is also seeking recognition as May... ing for me: "Vsi pokoyu shchyre pra- a national organization by the World Congress of Free Ukrainians hnut, ta ne v yeden huzh vsi tiahnut... І In addition to supporting and partici­ with appropriate representation at the WCFU Congress later this year. prez hezhodu vsi propaly, fami sebe pating in the work of the national zvoyuvaly." As a former SUM-A mem­ Clearly, the new Ukrainian American Coordinating Council is far committee, each of us as an individual more representative of the various elements of the Ukrainian ber, I am very saddened at the present should pledge to ourselves — in me­ "nezhoda." I remember learning that it community than the current UCCA, how dominated by one party, one mory of the millions who were murdered was important to be Ukrainian first, parochial viewpoint, one ideology. The UCCA is now operating by famine - that we will speak or write and party affiliation was secondary. without the consensus of the majority of Ukrainian organizations, and to at least two persons or groups (non- Does this no longer apply? has absolutely no broad-based support. It is nothing but a husk of Ukrainian, especially in the media or education), about the famine. The per­ These "leaders" are betraying the what it was formed to be. But somebody has to speak for the Ukrainian memory of those starved millions by community, coordinate activities, plan the future direction of our sonal contacts of even one individual have great meaning. their actions. This behavior is so un­ hromada. It could only benefit the Soviets if we remain splintered into As an example — the excellent media patriotic, that from this distance, small local pockets of organized activities without a viable nerve center coverage of the 1933 Famine Sympo­ considering their actions, I cannot help to oversee our efforts. sium in Montreal, and the program "No but have a gut feeling that they are being The Ukrainian American Coordinating Council can become such Birds Sang" on the Oscar-winning "The manipulated by, or are consciously or an organization with the help of Ukrainian individuals and Fifth Estate" on CBC television (similar unwittingly working in league with the organizations fed up with the whole UCCA mess. Although leaders of to "60 Minutes") are due primarily to SoViet agents who visited HURI and encouraged Ukrainian Harvard to stop the new organization have made it clear, and rightfully so, that if the the contacts made by one individual, Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhovy. (Inquiries research on the famine. Please convince UCCA leadership shows a genuine interest in restoring the lawfulness, me that I'm wrong. prestige and power of the UCCA by abandoning its muleheaded and about the purchase of "No Birds Sang" Orysia Paszczak Tracz self-serving positions, then the door has been left open for should be addressed to CBC Enter­ prises, P.O. Box 500, Station A, To­ Winnipeg negotiations. ronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1E6.) But the community can't wait forever, rudderless and demoralized. In Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Free It must have leadership now. For this season, we urge that the new Press would not have had three feature Membership in council be accepted into the WFCU and that Ukrainians interested in ,rticles on the famine (with an apology preserving a sense of collective democracy in our community step up for previous non-coverage) were it not Ukrainian groups and work with the new central organization. for the persistence of Oksana Hrycenko Dear Editor: The Ukrainian community is faced with a host of complex Rozumny. The various ethnic group within this problems, ranging from cultural assimilation, a decline in certain Imagine the national coverage by one country are becoming aware of their aspects of community life, the preservation of Ukrainian culture, article in People magazine on Drs. heritage. We can thank the Blacks of serious and potentially devastating anti-Ukrainianism and the like, — Conquest and Mace along with famine this nation who made us realize how problems that must be faced. Moreover, our Ukrainian nation is survivors; an article in Readers' Digest little we know of our ethnic back­ confronted with Soviet repression, Russification, mass arrests of (for mass coverage); something written ground. Ukrainian activists, cultural and linguistic eradication. The UCCA by someone articulate and qualified for Children of Ukrainian parents are problem has clearly received a disproportionate amount of "My Turn" in Newsweek, the op-ed trying so hard to be American that community attention and sapped too much energy in light of these page in The New York Times (if they'll - they are forgetting their ethnic back­ ground. When their parents speak to other, more pressing concerns. publish it) or similar prominent na­ tional publications. On television, them in the Ukrainian language, how It is time to move ahead. It is time to think of the future. It is time for there's "60 Minutes," "The MacNeiI- many times do you hear the children ask our national organizations, particularly those that have remained on Lehrer Report," "20/20," and others. their parents to speak English? The the sidelines waiting for the, UCCA issue to be resolved, to join the Also, what we need is another "The children will always remind the parents Ukrainian American Coordinating Council's efforts in formalizing a Devil's Alternative" on the famine. they are in America. Ouryounggirls are new, relevant and truly representative central organization, one that is Frederick Forsythe got his idea for this forgetting Ukrainian customs. Some­ committed to the needs and interests of the entire community and the best-seller from personal contact with a times you have to wonder if our young Ukrainian nation, and not the self-interests of any one group. This is young Ukrainian in Great Britain. are ashamed of us. an opportunity waiting to be grasped, ,and one that ought not be Scholarly publications are one thing, Look at our Ukrainian organizations: but how about a general interest history ignored. as we lose old members, they are not or narrative from one of the major . (Confirmed on paje 15) ,,,, No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 7

"Deliberate," "diabo/ісаГ starvation THE GREAT FAMINE Malcolm Muggeridge on Stalin's famine by Marco Carynnyk doubt. I realized that that was the big story. 1 could PARTI also see that all the correspondents in Moscow were distorting it. "The novelty of this particular famine, what made it Without making any kind of plans or asking for so diabolical, is that it was the deliberate creation of a permission I just went and got a ticket for Kiev and bureaucratic mind, without any consideration what­ then wentjsn to Rostov. The Soviet security is not as ever of the consequences in human suffering," good as people think it is. If you once duck it, you can Malcolm Muggeridge said. He was talking about the go quite a long way. At least you could in those days. genocidal famine that swept Ukraine and the adjacent Having all those rubles, I could afford to travel in the North Caucasus, two of the most abundant lands in all Pullman train. They had these old-fashioned interna­ This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of of Europe, in the winter of 1932 and the spring and tional trains - very comfortable, with endless glasses history `s most horrifying cases of genocide - the summer of 1933. of hot tea and so on. It was quite pleasant. Soviet-made Great Famine of 1932-33, in which some 7 million Ukrainians perished. The harvest of 1932 had been a fair one, no worse But even going through the countryside by train one than the average during the previous decade, when life could sense the state of affairs. Ukraine was starving, Relying on news from Svoboda and, later, had seemed a bit easier again after three years of world and you only had to venture out to smaller places to The Ukrainian Weekly (which began publica­ war and five years of revolution and famine. But then, see derelict fields and abandoned villages. tion in October 1933), this column hopes to as the Ukrainian peasants were bringing in their wheat On one occasion, 1 was changing trains, and 1 went remind and inform Americans and Canadians of and rye, an army of men advanced like locusts into wandering around, and in one of the trains in the this terrible crime against humanity. every barn and shed, and swept away all the grain. The station, the kulaks were being loaded onto the train, By bringing other events worldwide into the few stores that the peasants managed to put away were and there were military men all along the platform. picture as well, the column hopes to give a soon gone, and they began eating leaves, bark, corn They soon pushed me off. Fortunately, they didn4 do perspective on the state of the world in the years husks, dogs, cats and rodents. more. They could have easily hauled me in and asked, of Ukraine's Great Famine. When that food was gone and the people had puffed "What the hell are you doing here?" But they didn4.1 up with watery edema, they shuffled off to the cities, just cleared off. But I got the sense of what it was like. PART XV begging for bits of bread and dying like flies in the ПІ tell you another thing that's more difficult to streets. In the spring of 1933, when the previous year's convey, but it impressed me enormously. It was on a February 1-ї 2,1933 supplies were gone and before the new vegetation Sunday in Kiev, and I went into the church there for the Orthodox mass. I could understand very little of it, brought some relief, the peasants were dyingat the rate Svoboda reported news from Moscow on of 25,000 a day, or 1,000 an hour, or 17 a minute. (In but there was some spirit in it that I have never come across before or after. Human beings at the end of February 2, 1933, that the Soviet regime was World War II, by comparison, about 6,000 people planning various measures to ensure a successful were killed every day.) Corpses could be seen in every their tether were saying to God: "We come to You, we're in trouble, nobody but You can help us." spring planting, especially in the Kuban and country lane and city street, and mass graves were Caucasus regions. According to the news, Stalin hastily dug in remote areas. By the time the famine Their faces were quite radiant because of this had issued a decree which was aimed at guaran­ tapered off in the autumn of 1933, some 6 million men, tremendous sense they had. As no man would help teeing better agricultural production; he placed women and children had starved to death. them, no government, there was nowhere that they emphasis on the use of machinery, mainly Malcolm Muggeridge was there that terrible winter could turn. And they turned to their Creator. tractors. Svoboda reported that this dependence and spring. As a correspondent for the Manchester Wherever I went it was the same thing. on machinery was odd since during the previous Guardian in Moscow, he was one of the few Western Then when I got to Rostov I went on to the North year, the Soviet press had reported that the journalists who circumvented Soviet restrictions and Caucasus. The person who had advised me to go there use of tractors had proven to be only between visited the famine regions — and then honestly was the Norwegian minister in Moscow, a very nice 8 and 29 percent successful. In addition, reported what he had seen. man, very well-informed, who said, "You'll find that many of the tractors were in dire need of repair, Shortly before Mr. Muggeridge`s articles appeared this German agricultural concession is still working the newspapers reported. there. Go and see them, because they know more in the Guardian, the Soviet authorities declared On February 6, the Soviet press reported that about it than anybody, and it'll be an interesting Ukraine out of bounds to reporters and set about the Communists were urging youths (age 8-16) experience." So I went there. It was called the Drusag concealing the destruction they had wreaked. Promi­ to be informers and to report any falsifications concession. nent statesmen, writers and journalists — among them of information on the new internal Soviet French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot, George passports then being issued. During a Commu­ Bernard Shaw and Walter Duranty of The New York What difference did you see between Drusag and the nist youth convention Stalin had asked the Times — were enlisted in the campaign of misinfor­ collective farms in Ukraine and the North Caucasus? youths to take part in spring planting to ensure mation. the success of socialism. The conspiracy of silence was largely successful. For The difference was simply that the agriculture in the On February 7, the Soviets reported that they years to come Stalinists and anti-Stalinists argued concession was enormously flourishing, extremely would begin relocating their citizens to the whether a famine had occurred and, if so, whether it efficient. You didn4 have to be an agronome, which Soviet Union's northern forests. They wanted to was not the fault of the Ukrainian peasants them­ Gods knows I'm not, to see that there the crops, the conscript the peasant population to work in the selves. Today, as Ukrainians throughout the world cattle, everything, was completely different from the forests because they believed that the lumber (except in the Soviet Union, of course, where the surrounding countryside. would bring in money in the following year. The subject cannot even be mentioned) commemorate the Moreover, there were hordes of people, literally Soviets organized peasant labor groups, which 50th anniversary of the famine, the events of 1933 are hordes of people trying to get in, because there was they called brigades; the brigades were to be still largely unknown. food there, which gave a more poignant sense to the guarded by supervisors, as was customary in the Mr. Muggeridge and I talked at his cottage in Sussex, thing than anything except that service in the church. days of slave labor. According to the news in England. I was particularly anxious to know why he, The German agronomes themselves were telling me Svoboda, the villages were inhabited only by unlike other foreign correspondents in Moscow in about it. They'd been absolutely bombarded with women, children and the handicapped. Every­ 1933, took the trouble to investigate the famine. people trying to come there to work, do anything if one else was sent off to work in the forests. they could get in, because there was food there. That same day, Svoboda reported that the passport system had already taken effect; many I have read in a British Foreign Office dispatch that people were being deported from cities and Why did you decide to write about the famine? Drusag employed five people simply to pick up bodies towns - people to whom the Soviets "did not of peasants who had come in and died of hunger. wish to grant residence" there. Svoboda re­ It was the big story in all our talks in Moscow. ceived the following news from Moscow: "The Everybody knew about it. There was no question Yes, that's what I'd heard too, if not more. The mass deportation of people from towns has about that. Anyone you were talking to knew that peasants staggered in and dropv.,d dead. already taken place, and these tens of thousands there was a terrible famine going on. Even in the of people now roam from town to town, from Soviets' own pieces there were somewhat disguised Were the Germans able to do anything for the village to village. The Bolsheviks`are now acknowledgements of great difficulties there: the peasants? thinking of issuing passports to the peasants in attacks on the kulaks, the admission that the people the villages, and in this way they can keep track were eating the seed grain and cattle. They could help them with a little food - they were of the population, making sure they stay put." You didn4 have to be very bright to ask why they quite charitable in their attitude - but of course they On February 8, a correspondent for The New were eating them. Because they were very hungry, couldn't do more than that flea-bit. York Sun reported on his travels through the otherwise they wouldn't. So there was no possible Soviet Union. Svoboda carried this account: What were you thinking and, more importantly "Everywhere he (the correspondent) went, he saw Marco Carynnyk has published poetry and criticism perhaps, what were you feeling when you saw those 'people hungry, in tattered clothing; for three as well as edited and translated nine books, of which scenes of starvation and privation in Ukraine? How months they have not seen bread, they live on two recent ones are Leonid Plyushch's "History's does one respond in such a situation? husks.' " Carnival" (1979) and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky 's The article was headlined: "Bolsheviks Starve "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1981). First of all, one feels a deep, deep, deep sympathy Out Ukrainian Population in Kuban Region." He is a visiting fellow at the Kennan Institute in with and pity for the sufferers. Human beings look The correspondent said he had found that in Washington and is writing two books 'and filming a very tragic when they are starving. And remember that some cases the peasants were repressed by the documentary about the famine of 1933. Clips from this I wasn't unaware of what things were like because in local units of the secret police. The peasants interview with Mr. Muggeridge have been shown on India, for instance, I've been in a village during a programs about the famine prepared by CKCF in cholera epidemic and seen people similarly placed. So (Continued on page 14) Montreal, Radio Quebec and the CBC. (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 No. 22

Roman Sawycky Sr.: founder of Ukrainian Music Institute Address by Roman Sawycky at the sion of those musical sensibilities and gala concert of the Ukrainian Music other qualities essential to interesting Institute of America on April 24 at the and soundly framed interpretations, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia. rather than merely 'sensational`exploits. "When brilliance was needed it was First of all 1 would like to thank the easily at hand to serve and win admira­ institute for dedicating this gala concert tion, as.in Mr. Sawycky's fine treatment to the memory of my father, Prof. of Debussy's suite 'Pour le piano'; his Roman Sawycky Sr. There could be no beautifully articulated account of a Scar­ better tribute to him, since concerts of latti Sonata and a Liszt group which this type are in the best tradition of the included the now rarely performed institute, a tradition started by my late `Rigoletto` Paraphrase, based on the father. It was he who, a quarter century famous Quartet from Verdi's opera. UMIA founder Roman Sawycky Sr., Philadelphia, 1958. ago, organized gala concerts sponsored Beethoven's 32 Variations in C Minor by the institute, which featured, among' were well evaluated and a pleasing others, such international music stars as Chopin set furnished the 'Berceuse,' the violin virtuoso Alberto Ivan Lysy and C-Sharp Minor Scherzo and a pair of mezzo soprano Eugenia Zarytska Etudes. (Zareska). And if my father were alive "However, for this reviewer and today and could hear Lydia Artymiw because of their unfamiliarity, several and Paul Plishka, he would be im­ pieces by Ukrainian composers gave the mensely proud. evening particular distinction and made What led to the organization of the the event unusually rewarding. All of institute by my father can be explained the works impressed as entitled to a by his biography, by his experience as place in the active piano literature; quite an educator and pianist. worthwhile as to their fabrication and My father was born in Sokal, western content, and highly enjoyable. Mr. Ukraine. His musical training was taken Sawycky, of course, was a most per- with Vasyl Barvinsky at the Lysenko suave protagonist for them, with his Music Institute in Lviv, western U- native affinity for their national inspira­ kraine, later at the Prague Conserva­ tion." tory, where in 1932 he graduated from In the 1950s my father was member of the Master Piano School in the class of the piano faculties of the Settlement Vilem Kurz. From 1932 to 1939 he Music School and of the Philadelphia taught piano at the Lysenko Music Conservatory. He was also a member of Institute, after which he served as the Music Education League, New professor and dean of the piano depart­ York, and of the National Guild of ment at the Lviv Conservatory from Piano Teachers. 1939 to 1941, and was musical director Since 1952 until his death in 1960, of that city's radio until 1944. From Roman Sawycky Sr. devoted himself 1945 to 1949 he founded and directed wholeheartedly to the formation and music schools in Karlsfeld and in development of the Ukrainian Music Berchtesgaden, both in Bavaria, Ger­ Institute of America, Inc. The forma­ many. tion of the institute took place 30 years Since 1932 as pianist he concertized UMIA teachers and composers Mykola Fomenko (left) and Ivan Nedibky, New and appeared as soloist with symphony (Continued on page 13) York, 1955. orchestras in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany and the United States. He was the first performer of Vasyl Barvinsky`s Piano Concerto in F Minor presented first in Lviv (1939) and later performed on a tour through Ukraine with My kola K,olessaand LevTurkevych conducting. On December 15, 1936, he played for Bela Bartok when the famed composer visited Lviv, western Ukraine. As a performer, he was versatile and maintained in his repertoire works of many styles. His many-sidedness can be illustrated by a review of his recital in Philadelphia on February 27, 1950, written by William E. Smith for the Evening Bulletin the following day: "Roman Sawycky, Ukrainian pianist, recently arrived in the U nited States and now living in Philadelphia, gave his first public recital in this country here last evening. Heard in the auditorium and under the auspices of the Settlement Music School, he proved to be a mature and experienced artist who readily established himself in the esteem and favor of his audience. The recitalist`s performances left no doubt of the excellence and resourcefulness of his general technique; his capacities for intelligent appraisal of the varied tonal and idiomatic characteristics of the compositions presented, and the posses` Annual UMIA faculty conference, New York, 1955. No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 , 9 Interview: Dr. Paulina Lewin "The Exhibit," one-act comedy, HURI research associate premieres at Ukrainian Institute interview with Dr. Paulina Lewin, Q: What are your present research research associate at the Harvard interests? Ukrainian Research Institute con­ A: I am working on a monograph, ducted by Prof. Frank Sysyn of Har­ "History of the Early Ukrainian vard. Theater." Much is Based on my archival research and I have published a number of articles in Harvard Ukrainian Studies Q: How did you first become interest­ and other journals on^e topic. There is ed in early Ukrainian literature? at present no comprehensive history of A: While working on my master's the early Ukrainian theater in any degree at Leningrad University, I be­ language. The pioneering work o.` came interested in the penetration of Volodymyr Rjezanov consisted chiefly Western culture in Muscovy. Of course of publication of texts, land since his the model for these processes lay in time much has changed both in metho­ Ukraine, which was in contact with dology of theater studies and in work on Western Europe much earlier. Hence 1 the Baroque age. Hence I see my began my studies of Ukrainian educa­ monograph as a continuation of Rje- tional institutions, poetics and drama. zanov's work, although my perspective and they have occupied me to the is quite different. 1 am particularly present day. interested in the Ukrainian theater's Q: Would you describe your work on relation to Orthodox theology and Ukrainian literature in Poland? traditions. A: After returning to Poland in 1957, Q: What are your impressions of the I began work on a doctoral thesis at work of the Ukrainian Research Insti­ Warsaw University. In the course of my tute? studies I published several articles on A: I first heard of the Ukrainian Ukrainian-Polish-Russian literary rela­ Chairs at Harvard in the early 1970s. I tions. My dissertation resulted in a was invited to cooperate with the book on East Slavic intermedia of the journal, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 17th and 18th centuries. My second and sent my first article while still book showed the influence of Ukrai­ residing in Poland. In general, Polish nian poetics on Russian schools. From scholars are well-informed about the 1964 to 1974 I taught as an associate work of the institute and are impressed professor of the University of Warsaw that'the Ukrainian/ American commu­ NEW YORK - "The Exhibit," a creative forum for the communication and from 1974 to 1976 as a professor at nity was able to make such a tremendous one-act comedy written by Laryssa of ideas," said Ms. Lauret. the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. impact on Slavic studies in the United Lauret, premiered here at the Ukrai­ Her director-husband Volodymyr Q: How would you characterize the States through the institute. nian Institute of America on Saturday, Lysniak divided his time between direct­ state of Ukrainian literary scholarship Since 1980 I have lived in Cambridge May 14. ing the production and designing the in Poland? and have been an associate of the The play depicted the artistic dilemma stage sets. He and his crew, which A: Little attention is devoted directly institute. I have been favorably impress­ faced by a kind-hearted exhibit curator consisted of technical director George to Ukrainian studies in Polish universi­ ed by the scholarly level and dedication whose integrity forced him to reject the Klapischak, assistant Ulana Lysniak, ties. The only organized program is at of the institute and its staff. In addi­ work of mediocre artists, despite com­ stage manager Oksana Cehelsky and the Ukrainian Chair of the University of tion, I am amazed at the dynamism of munity pressure to do otherwise. lighting manager Alexander Balaban, Warsaw, where linguistics and modern the enterprise — so much is done by so Set in a recognizably Ukrainian spent many a wee morning hour con­ literature predominate. Hence scholars few. I have been, of course, grateful for neighborhood, the production was structing the sets for the cast. interested in Ukrainian literature are the grants, however modest, that have filled with references to the Ukrainian The backgrounds of the actors varied. primarily employed specialists in allowed me to continue my research. community, to which the audience Yaroslav Shul, who played the role of Russian, Polish and other Slavic pro­ My thanks will come with my mono­ readily responded. Perhaps most il­ the curator, attributed his acting skills grams. A good example is my colleague, graph, which I plan to finish in 1984. It lustrative was Oresta Fedun's satirical to the Lydia Krushelnytsky Drama Prof. Ryszard Luzny of Cracow Uni­ should open up a hitherto little-known junk sculpture titled "Society in Studio. Bohdan Andrusyshyn, whose versity, who has contributed greatly to tradition to the Western reader. Exile," composed of placards bearing repertoire of international folk songs the study of the Kiev Academy. The I hope someday that I can use my phrases such as "Pyrohy for sale" and drew encores from the Ukrainian Insti­ situation is particularly troublesome, knowledge for reviving staging of the "Free Ukraine." tute's audience last March, is studying because Poles have too little under­ drama of the period. While in Poland, 1 Ms. Lauret, a former daytime tele­ acting at the Actor's Institute in New standing of the culture of their close served as a consultant for staging some vision star and Broadway actress has York. Melania Hrybowych, Irene neighbor with whom their history and old Polish dramas. In my book, I deal turned to writing. "The Exhibit," her Paslawsky and George Rubczak belong culture has been so inseparably intert­ with questions of staging Ukrainian first play, was written expressly for the to New York's Herbert Berghof Studio. wined. school dramas and I hope to find a UNA/UIA Performing Artists Group. Xenia Mokriwsky is a Baruch College Q: What prompted you to emigrate to Ukrainian theatrical group that would Organized over a year ago, the objec­ graduate with a degree in marketing the West? undertake a revival. tive of the group is to generate the whose interest in acting prompted her to A: I had difficulties of a political and At the institute I have been actively creation of new material by Ukrainian join the group earlier this year. personal nature, in part because of my involved in the archaeographiccommis­ performing artists. The evening was marked with an activities in Catholic intellectual circles. sion. In cooperation with Profs. Pritsak "There exists a great lacuna in con­ underlying yet unmistakable excite­ I accepted a proposal to be a fellow of and Sysyn, and Drs. Struminsky temporary Ukrainian American theater. ment on the part of performers and the the Netherlands Institute for Advanced and Gajecky, I work on the When we first started out, we searched audience; partially because the premiere Study in the Humanities and Social preparation of sources to 17th and 18th for modern-day material which might was a vivid departure from many Sciences in 1976, and this was used as a century Ukrainian history for publica­ reflect Ukrainian American life. There performances rendered in the Ukrai­ pretext for dismissing me from my tion. At present, I am working on was very little to be found. This was the nian community. position. Since 1977 I have lived in the Janusz Radziwill`s diary, a major primary reason I decided to write A repeat performance of "The Ex­ United States, teaching at the Univer­ source on the Khmelnytsky period. It is something myself. A contemporary hibit" is scheduled to take place at sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a difficult and demanding task, but our theater is an essential element of a Soyuzivka, on Friday, July 8, during and at Chicago Circle. Since 19801 have work is advancing. thriving community; it provides a the Panorama of Young Ukrainians `83. had positions as a visiting lecturer at the I also am cooperating with Prof. department of Slavic languages at Sysyn in the compilation of a volume of Harvard and as a research fellow of the translations of sources for the study of Ukrainian Research Institute. early modern Ukrainian history. Schreyer Fellowship established at U of T TORONTO - The University of Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation Teachers' organization formed in Philly Toronto Chair of Ukrainian that a fellowship be established and Studies Foundation has an­ henceforth known as the "Edward PHILADELPHIA - The newly tional Forum, Ukrainian Educational nounced that beginning in the 1983-84 Schreyer Fellowship in Ukrainian formed Ukrainian teachers' organiza­ and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road, academic year at the University of Studies at the University of Toronto." tion in Philadelphia has called on all Abington. Pa. I9`111. Toronto, the "Edward Schreyer Fellow­ Ukrainian professional teachers in The organization has said that it ship in Ukrainian Studies" will be The fellowship will be awarded to an public and private schools in Canada would like to hold a convention of all awarded to a Ph.D. candidate. outstanding Ph.D. candidate writing a and the United States to form local groups as soon as possible. The officers In a letter of confirmation dated thesis on some aspect of Ukrainian organizations. of the Philadelphia teachers' organiza­ March 8, Edmond Joly de Lotbiniere, studies in the fields of history, language, tion are: Patricia Sawchak, president; administrative secretary to the governor literature, arts, political science, econo­ For information about forming such an Zenovij Kvit, secretary (Ukrainian general of Canada, advised that the mics or sociology. The sum of 55,000 organization, the Philadelphia group language); and Alexandra Komorow- governor general had agreed to the will be awarded to the successful candi­ suggests writing to: Shevchenko Educa- sky, secretary (English language). proposal of the University of Toronto date. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 No. 22

Bart who? "There's no real answer," he said performance which just might be the "I'm willing to try and get my career when asked how one hockey player can going, but you never know," Sobchuk He never scored more than eight springboard for a second career in the so dramatically turn his fortune^ admitted, "I've been in the situation goals in a professional season before, sport. Sobchuk, a 29-year-old center, around. "I've always worked hard. where it ended quickly and I'm not but he already had 16 goals and 27 scored four goals and added three That's my mo^to. 1 just have to keep going to say whether it could start up or points in his first 17 games this past assists to help the Express take a going. I just have to remember that 15 it could end. It's a day-to-day type of season. He was 19, wearing the jersey of commanding 3-І lead in its quarter­ games isn't going to make a season." thing. the Western Hockey League's Portland final series with the Adirondack Red Wings. "I've got the opportunity to go back Winter Hawks, the last time he scored Bart Who may have underestimated as many as 27 points in an entire season. For nearly two years, Sobchuk, on to Innsbruck, that's in the back of my his own talents. It turned out the season mind already. I'd like to stay in North Who is Bart Yachimec and why was a his farm south of Regina,was resigned to, just may have made his career. And then America and get another two or three defensive forward for the Springfield the fact his playing days were behind again, maybe itdidn4. But, after all, one years out of my career. But if it ends in Indians leading the American Hockey him. A phone call from Edmonton Oiler can only hope. Bart can hope and we North America again, it ends, and 111 League in scoring? general manager Glen Sather last No­ can hope. And we can hope for Bart vember brought the forced retirement just be happy to have gotten this year It's a question Ukrainian Yachimec Yachimec. out of it. can't answer without shaking his head in to an end. Sather offered Sobchuk an disbelief. "Last year I couldn't put the opportunity to play with the struggling "I know the playoffs mean every­ puck in the ocean," he said quizzically. Kasiycki flourishing Moncton Alpines,the Oilers' AHL thing to me," Sobchuk said. "I'm going "This year, everything's going in. 1 сапЧ in St. Catharines affiliate. Sobchuk jumped at the chance to go out there and give 110 percent. If believe it myself." and started an odyssey which has we win (the Calder Cup, emblamatic of carried him across the Atlantic Ocean the championship of the AHL), eyes are As if center Bruce Boudreau and left Chapter one of the Edmonton native's and back again. bound to open up." Cinderella story took place in Spring­ winger Reg Thomas weren't deadly field's training camp. Assigned by the enough as a duo, they got Ukrainian "For two years, it was really funny, I Out of nowhere came this Ukrainian Chicago Black Hawks, the 22-year-old Mike Kaszycki toting a gun on the very couldn't get a job," Sobchuk said. "I upstart in 1982-83! right winger was asked to move to same line. Kaszycki, the AHL's defend­ really didn't put my name back in the center by coach Orland Kurtenbach ing scoring champion, was a center pot anymore. I just said, 'the heck with Hrudey: CHL's MVP because the Indians had only two dressing as a right winger joining the St. it.' Teams were not interested in me legitimate pivotmen. Yachimec didn't Catharines Saints' potent pair. The trio after the year I had with Detroit and so I Two, count 'em two, Ukrainians like the idea then, but he now agrees waltzed through the league's defensive just .decided to hang it up and went and made the Central Hockey League's the switch has been the key. units, although the Saints still didn't farmed and took it easy for two years." 1982-83 All-Star Team: Indy goalie learn to win regularly. In one specific Sobchuk, a bona fide Ukrainian, was Kelly Hrudey and teammate Steve "Orland put me at center from the week which saw the Saints`center Norm one of the bright lights in the old World Stoyanovich, left winger. In addition, first day of training camp," Yachimec Aubin write the wildest story of the Hockey Association. However, he was Hrudey was named league MVP—areal said. "It's given me a lot more skating AHL season when he wasforced to play unable to make the grade in the NHL honor which means this keeper should room and my stickhandling has im­ goal in a 6-І loss to Adirondack, the after the merger in 1979. He spent an find an NHL job next year. He received proved. Plus, I'm playing with two Thomas-Boudreau-Kaszycki line injury-filled 1979-80 season with the this year's edition of the Tommy Ivan really good linemates. The whole line's padded its gaudy totals. Player- Detroit Red Wings, and attended the Trophy. Also, Hrudey and fellow net- playing so well together." assistant coach Boudreau, like Calgary Flames' 1980 training camp as minder Rob Holland won the Terry Kaszycki in 1981-82, made a a free agent. A knee injury wiped out Sawchuk Trophy as the most effective Chicago signed the 5-8, 180-pounder mockery of the scoring race. training camp and after five games with goaltending tandem in the league. (This as a free agent after three seasons at With 99 points in his first 59 games, he Birmingham in the CHL, the Flames award named after the most famous Portland, where he compiled unim­ was a cinch to break the all-time record said they were no longer interested. Ukrainian hockey immortal ever, former pressive offensive statistics in the high- of 119 points. Thomas was fourth in the Sobchuk completed the season in Red Wing goaltender Sawchuk.) scoring Western Hockey League. Play­ league with 29 goals and 46 assists. Switzerland, then turned to farming. MINOR UKRAINIAN UTTER- ing two full seasons for the New Bruns­ Then, along came Kaszycki, back from "This year was unusual. The Edmon­ INGS: Veteran defenseman Mike wick Hawks, Yachimec managed a a brief stint in Toronto, and he had 56 ton Oilers phoned me up, they knew I Busniuk joined the Maine Mariners after paltry 12 points in `80-81 and 23 in `81- points in only 35 AHL games. was retired, in about November and completing his first season playing in 82. asked me to come out of retirement," Italy, where he scored 25 goals in 33 "The last five years I've been known "I've got no right wingers,"said Saints' Sobchuk said. "Things were goinggood games...IHL scoring leader Dale Yakiw- as a defensive hockey player," he coach Doug Carpenter, when asked in Moncton, when all of a sudden, and chuk (Milwaukee) missed a late regular understated. But, somehow, something why a guy who scored 118 points last to this day I don't know why he did it, season game at Flint because of a strange happened in New Brunswick's season would be asked to play out of (coach Doug) Messier put me on the suspension for what manager-coach march to the Calder Cup. Bart Yachimec position. "It's the same thing with bench." Phil Witliff said was "abusing an scored 12 points in 15 playoff gamesand (Gary) Yaremchuk. I have eight centers Even though Sobchuk averaged a official" in a loss to Saginaw.,.Indy was one of the team's leading playoff to fill 12 forward spots." point a game in his 29 starts with the Racer Steve Stoyanovich ran up a 14 scorers. "I think this season sort of Boy, tough spot, coach. Wonder how Alpines, he knew he wasn't wanted. He game consecutive point scoring streak... carried over from the playoffs. I had he'd have felt if he didnt have versatile completed the season in Austria, and Tulsa`s late season addition of veteran confidence." Ukes like Kaszycki and Yaremchuk to placed a call to Fredericton coach Ken Kuzyk proved very fruitful, wit­ shift around from spot to spot. Jacques Demers when he returned to nessed by his scoring rampage of two That confidence has turned him into North America. Demers, who had hat tricks within a span of only three a leader. Although he was learning the Sobehuk rises out coached Sobchuk in the WHA, offered games... Baltimore's Skipjacks received art of the faceoff on the job, Yachimec him a job with the Express. Sobchuk rookie right winger Tim Hrynewich became one veteran Kurtenbach relied of hockey graveyard responded with seven goals and five from Sudbury (OHL) on orders from on. And don't worry about Yachimec assists in nine regular season games and the parent Pittsburgh Penguins... moving back to right wing. Kurtenbach Dennis Sobchuk has returned from a added a goal during a brief two-game Springfield goaltender Bob Janecyk isn4 about to pinch him in the middle of hockey graveyard in Saskatchewan stint with the NHL Quebec Nordiques. named to second team AHL's Southern his dream. with an outstanding Calder Cup playoff In the playoffs, Sobchuk was the Division All-Star Team...Maine's rookie most dangerous player on the Express. defenseman Taras Zytynsky (my favorite Besides his scoring output, he killed name among all Ukrainians in hockey) penalties and played the power play. joined Fredericton goalie Clint Маїаг– МОРСЬКИЙ ТАБІР'83 "I had heard Jacques Demers had run chuk as members of the AHL's Northern для пластунів і пластуном into injuries and had guys called up and Division All-Star squad... Salt Lake 30-го липня - 6-го серпня down. Jacques was my coach in Cin­ Gty Blues promoted rookie defender Stillwater Reservoir, N.Y. cinnati six years ago in the WHA. He Mrke Posavad from the Peterborough told me, 'Sobby, 111 play you a lot and Petes of the Ontario League, following ПРОВІД: try to help you out with your career completion of amateur play this past Андрій Гадзевич, капітан again.' So I came here and everything season...Milwaukee's Yakiwchuk broke Андрій Козак, 1-ий асистент just took off again, I started scoring a long-standing IHLrecord bynettinga Богдан Поритко, 2-ий асистент goals again." new standard of 93 assists in a regular д-р Ігор Савчук, медична опіка Demers couldn't have been happier season... Кошт: 5100.00 with the way things worked out. OTHER TIDBITS: Ukrainian Ken Реченець зголошень: 15-го липня 1983 "The important thing was he added to Keryluk, who played in Europe this past Число учасників обмежене. this team some valuable leadership," year, was named a member of Team Demers explained. "He's definitely Canada in the recent Leningrad-Pravda capable of still playing. 1 think, given Prize Tournament, March 27-April 3... За дальшими інформаціями звертатися до: the right opportunity, he could still play On the college scene, young Ukrainian Andrew Hadzewycz in the NHL." forward Dave Kobryn was named a 24 Conklin Ave. Sobchuk isn't quite sure where his second team all-star in the Central Morristown, N.J. 07960 second career will take him. From College Hockey Association for 1982- (201)538-8910 experience, he knows it's difficult to 83. Kobryn is a Ukrainian Buckeye at look too far ahead. Ohio State... No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 11

Challenges Columbia prof In directing the UCDC's activities, Mr. Lega's responsibilities will include: in space program debate Notes on people identification of all community-based Ukrainian organizations; assessing WASHINGTON - On April 28 at their objectives, requirements and Columbia University in New York City Dr. Saciuk was born in Dubno, A graduate of the Newark College of general concerns; initiating and main­ UNA Supreme Advisor Eugene Iwanciw Volhynia, in 1941. He is the son of Engineering in 1959, Mr. Dydyk re­ taining communications between or­ debated Dr. Richard Garwin on the Oleksii and Maria (nee Chuchmai) ceived a master's degree in electrical ganizations with similar objectives to president's space defense program. Mr. Saciuk. His father was a notable jurist, engineering from the City University of minimize duplications while maximiz­ Iwanciw is a professional staff member writer and publicist" former editor of New York in 1963. He also completed ing use of existing resources; promot­ of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on such periodicals as Litavry (Austria), course requirements toward a doctorate ing community interest and liaison with Intelligence working for Sen. Jake Garn Porohy and Ovyd (Buenos Aires, Ar­ in electrophysics at the Polytechnic public agencies to assist in the delivery (R-Utah). For six years, he served as the gentina). Institute of Brooklyn. of services to affected groups. national security advisor to Sen. Dr. Bohdan Saciuk received his early In 1967, Mr. Dydyk received a certi­ Harrison Schmitt (R-N.M.), a scientist education in Buenos Aires and Chicago. ficate in developing human resources in and former astronaut. He attended the University of the electronics industry from Cornell Pianist Juliana Osinchuk Dr. Garwin is an adjunct Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, receiv­ University. During his employment professor of physics at Columbia Uni­ ing with distinction the B.A. (1964), with Motorola, he has obtained a cruises the Mediterranean versity and a research fellow at IBM. M.A. (1965) and the Ph.D. (1969) certificate in management skills (1976) The debate was moderated by Prof. degrees, specializing in comparative and taken part in technical courses Cyrus Levinthal of Columbia and was linguistics (Romance languages) and (1972-79). sponsored jointly by the Arms Control Spanish. He continues taking general interest Association of Columbia Law School He is married to the former Olena courses at Scottsdale Community and the Ground Zero organization. Hikawij, who also holds a Ph.D. degree College. The debate focused on the President from the University of Illinois in Ro­ In addition to attending school, Mr. Ronald Reagan's announcement in mance languages and literature. Dydyk finds time to be actively involved March"of an enhanced program to Upon completing his formal educa­ in the Ukrainian community. He is the develop space-based directed energy tion, Dr. Saciuk was appointed pro­ president of the local Ukrainian Con­ weapons capable of destroying ballistic fessor of linguistics at the University of gress Committee of America branch. missiles immediately after their launch. Florida at Gainesville, where he served He is also a member of the Ukrainian Mr. Iwanciw defended the president's with great distinction as teacher and Engineers' Society of America, the proposal while Dr. Garwin argued administrator. In 1976, Drs. Bohdan Institute of Electrical and Electronics against its feasibility and its advisabi­ and Olena Saciuk simultaneously be­ Engineers, and Toastmasters' Inter­ lity. came members of the faculty at the national. Mr. Iwanciw, a Senate staff expert on Inter-American University at San Ger­ He holds 10 patents, with six pend­ space programs, pointed out that the man, where they have remained since. ing, and belongs to Motorola's Science - y\. feasibility of this type of defensive At that Puerto Rican institution, Advisory Board. He is also a contribu­ weapon can only be determined by an Juliana Osinchuk their accomplishments are numerous. tor to various engineering journals. NEW YORK - Imagine docking in enhanced research and development Perhaps the most notable is the intro­ Most recently Mr. Dydyk presented a program. If successful, a layered ballistic Athens and seeing the Acropolis on a duction of a Ukrainian language course paper at the 1982 3M Microwave tour with such talented and renowned missile defense can neutralize most — the first one in Puerto Rico. Integrated Circuit Workshop and Go­ nuclear weapons and end the offensive singers and musicians as Anna Moffo In scholarly and academic circles, vernment Microcircuit Applications and Ruggiero Ricci, then embarking on nuclear weapons race. It would also Drs. Bohdan and Olena Saciuk are well- Conference in Washington. provide protection for the civilian an adventure on a gondola near the known as authors of numerous scholar­ He is the past chairman of the Go­ Piazza San Marco in Venice. populations of the United States and its ly publications, organizers and partici­ vernment Electronics Group (GEG) allies. He called the policy of mutual Sounds exciting? This is only a pants of scholarly conferences, editors, Technical Enrichment Matrix and fraction of the itinerary Ukrainian assured destruction (MAD), which administrators, scholars and dedicated Microwave/ Millimeter Wave/Acoustic holds the civilian populations of the pianist Juliana Osinchuk was scheduled teachers. They are equally well respect­ Technology Matrix Element, and the to follow between April 25 and May 23. United States and the Soviet Union as ed in the Ukrainian community in the organizer and session chairman of the hostages, an immoral and imprudent Ms. Osinchuk signed a contract for a United States and Canada. GED 1980 Technology Update as part two-tour stint with the Royal Viking policy which the Soviet Union has never Since their early days, they were of the Science Advisory Board Asso­ accepted. Cruise lines during the special "Music active members of numerous organiza­ ciates (SABA) Technical Seminar. Mr. Festivals at Sea" tours. The tour is by no Dr. Garwin argued that the threat of tions, such as Plast, TUSM, SUSTA Dydyk is currently chairman of GEG's means a pleasure vacation for the young mass annihilation of civilian popula­ and others. SABA. He is only one of 11 engineers in pianist. She is scheduled to put in long tions has served as a deterrent to nuclear the GEG (out of 1,600) to win the Dan hours of practice with the violinists, war and should be continued. He stated Noble Fellow award. cellists and singers she will accompany. that should the United States achieve a Electrical engineer Mr. Dydyk is the son of Dmytro and Also on her agenda were a number of defense against nuclear war it would Maria Dydyk of Phoenix, Ariz., solo recitals during both of the cruises. result in a destabilized world in which awarded Noble Fellowship formerly of Jersey City, N.J. Between seeing the sights of Athens, the United States would be tempted to He, his wife Lydia, and their two Catania, Livorno, Villefranche, Kotor, launch a first strike against the Soviet sons, Markian and Daniel, reside in Dubrovnik and Venice, Ms. Osinchuk Union. He did not accept the proposi­ Scottsdale, Ariz. The family belongs to was kept busy at rehearsals with singer tion that the Soviet Union was attempt­ UNA Branch 170. Ms. Moffo, violinists Mr. Ricci and ing to achieve nuclear superiority Wanda Wilkomirska and cellist Chris­ through a build-up of offensive and tine Walevska. Other artists scheduled defensive weapons. New development officer to appear on the tours include John The debate entailed a presentation Browning, Montserrat Caballe, Victoria and a rebuttal by each of the partici­ for Manitoba Ukrainians De Los Angeles and Boris Goldovsky. pants, followed by questioning from the WINNIPEG - The Manitoba sec­ According to the tour program, at audience. At the conclusion of the hour tion of the the Ukrainian community sea, concerts were to be held daily. and a half debate, both Mr. Iwanciw Development Committee. a subcom­ Receptions and discussion groups with and Dr. Garwin presented closing mittee of the Ukrainian Canadian performers and prominent music critics remarks. Committee national executive, has were also scheduled. Passengers were announced the appointment of Daniel allowed to attend rehearsals and meet M. Lega as community development with the performers. Humanities director officer. The tour included a strenuous time­ A graduate of the University of table for Ms. Osinchuk, who holds a named dean in Puerto Rico Manitoba with administrative and doctoral degree from Juilliard. "There by Dr. Alexander Sydorenko government experience, and a former are days when a practice schedule takes executive assistant to a provincial its toll, "when four or five hours of SAN GERMAN, Puerto Rico - Dr. cabinet minister, Mr. Lega assumes the practice eat away at the mind and have a Bohdan Saciuk, professor of theoretical responsibilities of directing the activi­ grinding effect," she recently told a linguistics and director of the depart­ Michael Dydyk ties of the Ukrainian Community De­ reporter from the Haverhill (Mass.) ment of humanities at the Inter-Ameri­ velopment Committee. Gazette. can University here, was recently named SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Michael This 15-member committee was esta­ But she added that she continues to dean (vice chancellor) for academic Dydyk was recently awarded the Dan blished in 1981 as a subcommittee of the practice and travels extensively through affairs at the university. Noble Fellowship,'the highest scientific national executive of the Ukrainian the United States and Europe, because The appointment was announced in honor presented by Motorola Inc., Canadian Committee. Its mandate is to she loves it. "Your compensation lies in late 1982 by Dr. Federico M. Matheu, Government Electronics Division develop new initiatives with the objec­ the love for music, being entertained president of the Inter-American Univer­ (GED). tive of involving the unorganized part of while entertaining others," Ms. sity. Mr. Dydyk received this award in the community or the sector of commu­ Osinchuk added. The Inter-American University is the recognition of his innovative contri­ nity organizations which falls outside For the future, Ms. Osinchuk has largest private university of Puerto butions since joining Motorola in 1971. the framework of the Ukrainian Cana­ other plans, according to her newspaper Rico. It boasts 32,000 students and He has worked in pursuing research dian Committee. The committee meets interview. "Ideally, what I'd like to do eight branches. The San German dealing with millimeter wave integrated quarterly to discuss issues and plan professionally is to concertize and branch is its oldest. circuits in Q-, V-and W-bands. activities. work with students;" she said. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1983 No. 22

again searched Mr. Horyn`s home. This Details of Horyn... time, they told him that the case had to ПЛАСТУНКОІ ПЛАСТУНЕІ (Continued from pate 1) do with his alleged violations of Article Чи кортить Вас часом залишити на поротний час щоден­ 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code - не життя та помандрувати в безмежну країну безлюдних лі­ posed by the authorities committing сів і незайманої природи? crimes in the name of the law. "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Якщо цікавить Вас мандрівництво, канойкарство. їзда In maintaining his innocence, Mr. The search lasted nearly 13 hours, на ровераж, веселе товарне тво, побра тимський дух або може Horyn cited several reasons the manu­ before authorities finally took him into новий рід пластового таборування, то зголосіться бути учас­ custody. ником ПОБРАТИМСЬКОЇ ПРИГОДИ!!! script was an obvious plant, among them the caretaker's sudden insistence On December 4, a senior assistant to ВОДНО-МАНДРІВНИЙ ТАБІР that he number his locker, the fact that the Lviv procurator officially informed Де: Суперюр Нашонал Форест. Міннесота . the manuscript was found lying con­ Mr. Horyn`s wife that her husband had Коли: від 18-го до 25-го череня 1983 р. spicuously on the floor rather than been arrested and was being held by the Провід: ст пл. Ігор Фіґлюс. ПБ. комендант KGB. програма: сім днів водного мандрівництва канойками, зай­ tucked in among his books, and the няття з водних вмілостей, природознавства і риболов­ unlikely title', which he said, if any­ Mr. Horyn, a native of Lviv, was an ства thing, should have read "sociological" experimental psychologist before his Вимоги: учасниками може бути старше пластунство або rather than "social." arrest in 1965 during a KGBcrackdown Юнацтво, після закінчення 15 років життя, що вміють пла­ Moreover, he said that the text itself, on the Ukrainian intelligentsia. At his вати та осягнули ступень розвідувача/ки. which he scanned during the search, was trial, he spoke out against Russifica- ТАБІР РОВЕРИСТІВ crudely written, "hastily thrown to­ tion, official discrimination against Де: Спарта. Віскансин і сусідні стейтові парки gether" and lacking "any kind of style." Ukrainians and the fate of Ukrainian Коли: від 6-го до 14-го серпня 1983 р Mr. Horyn worked as a psychologist collective farm workers. Провід: пл сен. Андрій Ріпецький. ПБ. комендант and has extensive university training. During his imprisonment in Mor­ Програма: сім днів мандрівки роверами по різноманітному терені. Mr. Horyn ended his statement by dovia, he wrote several pieces on the Вимоги: учасниками може бути старше ппастунство або saying that if the situation was not colonization of Ukrainian which ap­ юнацтво, після закінчення 15 років життя, що осягнули rectified, he would undoubtedly face a peared in samvydav, underground ступень розвідувача/ки. і мають 5 або 10 біговий роверу long prison term for a fabricated crime dissident publications. As a result, доброму стані. rather than any actual illegal activities. prison officials placed him in solitary ЯКЩО ВИ ЗАЦІКАВЛЕНІ, ТО НЕ ГАЙТЕ ЧАСУ. А ГОЛОСІТЬ– confinement several times. СЯ НЕГАЙНО БО ЧИСЛО ТАБОРОВИКІВ ДУЖЕ ОБМЕ­ On December I, Mr. Horyn penned ЖЕНЕ!!! another statement, this time to V.F. After his release in 1972, he was not Водно-Мандріаний Табір: !ґіог Figlus. 2300 W Talcolt Rd . Dobrykov, first secretary of the Com­ allowed to work in his field, and he was Park Ridge. Ill 60068 Tel. 312/823-5288 munist Party of the Ukrainian SSR in employed at several manual-labor jobs. Табір Роаеристіа: Andrew Ripeckyj. 5873 N Kilbourn Avenue. Lviv, asking him to intervene in the Shortly before his most recent arrest, it Chicago. Ill 60646. Tel : 312/725-1197 ' case. His request was ignored. was reported that he had managed to Two days later, at 7:45 a.m., agents find a job in his area of specialization. Mr. Horyn is scheduled to be releas­ ss'iiiiifiiMiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiii(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiims ed in 1996, when he will be 65 years old. з 1 There's no place like Soyuzivka SOYUZIVKA The Ukrainian National Association RESORT SUMMER in the Catskil Mountains, 1983 near Kerhonkson. N.Y. The UNA:

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to the inauguration of the new branch institute's students often win first Roman Sawycky... and to speak to the new students. The places. The institute's teachers were Shevchenko Scientific... (Continued from page 8) teachers, however, warned him: "We often invited to give demonstration (Continued from page 5) ago with the aid of many fellow Ukrai­ might not get much enrollment; will you lessons to American music organiza­ This discussion was definitely the nian educators. Without financial come if there are only a few students?" tions. Recently one such institute cause of the St. Petersburg Academy support, without buildings, but with the My father thought for a second and teacher was responsible for promoting recommendation urging the govern­ years of experience of its teachers, the then replied: "1 will come if only one Ukrainian works into competitions held ment to cancel the ukase against the new music school took form. student shows up for enrollment." by the Music Educators Association of Ukrainian printed word, which it did in My father wrote several years later: It is hard to enumerate the institute's New Jersey. This alone is a milestone 1905. However, the decision was "The most important goal for us was the attainments in one speech. The institute for Ukrainian music. Let me add that rescinded in 1914. building of a Ukrainian music school, teaches primarily piano, violin, cello the institute's students won a couple of The above-mentioned works were the which could, without luxurious school bandura, voice, theory: harmony and first places in this particular competi­ first steps taken to include scholarly buildings, gather our youth for the other disciplines and has examinations tion. works into the society's activities. At purpose of studying music through the twice a year. After graduating from the And what could be more inspira­ that time, there were not many scholars prism of Ukrainian musical traditions." institute many students pursue music tional to students than an artistically in Galicia. Thus, the society began He also wrote: "The problem of the further at Juilliard and other famous engaging and technically flawless making a transition from a literary to a Ukrainian Music Institute is not only a music schools. Some now have their phonograph record of piano music, scientific society, matter of the enthusiastic faculty; it is active careers as classical or pop per­ Ukrainian and international, executed not only a matter of high aspirations of formers. by their teacher. youth and their parents. It is rather a Ukrainian national problem which Among the institute's attainments are But the institute is not only a teach­ UKRAINIAN cannot be neglected." special recitals of outstanding students ing organization. It often sponsors at Carnegie Recital Hall, thematic concerts of guest artists, of composers, My father believed that "mere talents and gives special programs dedicated FESTIVAL do not create lasting values; this is done concerts with talks, recitals of indivi­ dual students, choral concerts, pre­ entirely to Ukrainian music. The insti­ only by working talents, and only on the tute has published manuals of music basis of a multitude of truly working school music programs,' audio/ visual presentations, even operas staged with history, yearbooks, and miscellaneous talents there can develop individuals printed music. ШвШШії? which will push our Ukrainian music full orchestras. Outstanding students ahead in this world." appear on the New York radio station The Ukrainian national poet Taras SUNDAY For my father the institute was more WNYC-FM. Shevchenko wrote: "Learn what others important than his own career as a The chief achievement of the institute have to offer, but do not forsake your JUNE 19 concert pianist and so in 1952 he gave is that it brings together Ukrainian own." This perhaps is the greatest his last piano recital. professional musicians in one organiza­ achievement of the institute, because in " Bulava Ensemble from Toronto In September 1952 the work of the tion and familiarizes American au­ it students learn not only interriational " Tempo Orchestra institute started, first in New York and, diences with Ukrainian music. The music classics but also the finest " Volya Dancers simultaneously, in branches in Philadel­ institute accepts students of all ethnic examples of Ukrainian musical art. ' Craft, food vendors phia, Chester, Newark/Irvington, backgrounds and has had in its roster A wise man said: "To live without Passiac, Jersey City and Elizabeth. The students of South African, Chinese and music would be a mistake." The Ukrai­ Admission S6.00 years 1953-57 saw the founding of Santo Dominican origin. nian Music Institute for the past 30 Rt. 94 Vernon, N.J. institute branches in Cleveland, Lorain, To prepare students for musical life in years works to correct such a potential Wilmington, Baltimore, Trenton, this great country, teachers enroll them mistake, and with this philosophy looks Detroit, Buffalo, Hartford and New in auditions and competitions where the to the future with confidence. 201-827-2000 Haven. 1957 also gave us a branch in Washington and a little later we saw branches in Brooklyn, Chicago and LANGUAGES other cities. taught by college instructors: French. Here is an example of my father's Italian, Spanish, Latin, German, tenacity and dedication. Washington Russian, Polish, English. was about to open their branch of the (201) 773-6933 institute. 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describe an event of such magnitude? Certainly the eating of cattle and the consequent Malcolm Muggeridge... complete destruction of whatever economy the farms (Continued from pa jc 7) Perhaps you do need another word. 1 don't know still had was true. it wasn't a complete novelty. what it would be. The word "famine" means people I remember someone telling me how all manners The novelty of this particular famine, what made it have nothing whatsoever to eat and consume things and finesse disappeared. When you're in the grip of a so diabolical, is that it was not the result of some tha^are not normally consumed. Of course there were thing like this and you know that someone's got food, catastrophe like a drought or an epidemic. It was the stories of cannibalism there. I don't know whether you go and steal it. You'll even murder to get it. That's deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind which they were true, but they were very widely believed. all part of the horror. demanded the collectivization of agriculture, im­ mediately, as a purely theoretical proposition, without Berlin, the story explained that the Soviet any consideration whatever of the consequences in February 1-12, 1933 Communists were exiling Ukrainian peasants human suffering. (Continued from page 7) who did not fulfill their work quotas. The Berlin That was what I found so terrifying. Think of a man rebelled and killed some ot the officers; in paper noted: "Where they send the peasants in an office who has been ordered to collectivize response to this, the secret police exiled the nobody knows." agriculture and get rid of the kulaks without any clear peasants to Siberia. ' The story said that in the last few days, over notion or definition of what a kulak is, and who has in The correspondent reported that he had been 1,000 peasants had been shipped out of Ukraine what was then the GPU and is now the KGB the arrested a few times by the secret police, who dis­ from the Poltava region for not meeting their instrument for doing this, and who then announces it regarded the fact that he had permission from the quotas and for rebelling against collectivization. in the slavish press as one of the great triumphs of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs to travel All family belongings were confiscated and the regime. through the Soviet Union. In all the train people were deported in the tatters they wore. And even when the horrors of it have become fully stations the correspondent said he had seen The number of people dying from hunger, cold apparent, modifying it only on the ground that they're hungry people in rags, waiting for deportation and disease was reaching catastropic propor­ dizzy .with success, that this has been such a wonderful trains to take them to Siberia for hard labor, tions, Svoboda reported. success, these starving people, that they must hold Svoboda reported. That same day Svoboda also had news from themselves in a bit because otherwise they'd go mad Svoboda received news from Moscow on Berlin which revealed that the 15-member with excitement over their stupendous success. That'sa February 9, which stated that the Soviets were Ukrainian Communist Party delegation for the macabre story. relocating 10 million people from towns and central party convention in January had been cities. To put into practice the internal passport arrested while attending the sessions. The There were kulaks throughout the Soviet Union, system, the Soviets had begun expelling people members had objected that the central Commu­ and they were "liquidated" as an entire class. from the towns, deporting what they considered nist Party had not adhered to the Soviet Collectivization also took place throughout the Soviet the "unwanted elements." Constitution which granted Ukraine a certain Union. And yet the famine occurred at the point when According to the news Svoboda received, tens autonomy. The Ukrainian Communists also collectivization had been completed, and it occurred of thousands of people were exiled to Siberia stated that Stalin had meddled in national and not throughout the Soviet Union, but largely in and hundreds of thousands were being transferred agricultural interests in Ukraine, harming its Ukraine and the North Caucasus. How do you explain to villages. In February, the Soviets were citizens. that'' working on ridding the bigger cities of their dwellers. Next on their agenda were the smaller Those were the worst places. They were also the towns. richest agricultural areas, so that the dropping of Svoboda reported that some of the people Around the world: productivity would show more dramatically there. But tried to escape to villages rather than risk being Vladimir Macek, a Croatian leader and they were also places, as you as a Ukrainian know exiled. The Soviet Communists themselves successor to Stefan Radich, was imprisoned for better than I, of maximum dissent. The Ukrainians reported in Soviet newspapers that after the city revolutionary activities in Yugoslavia. hated the Russians. And they do now. Therefore, and town purges, over 10 million people will A worker's strike took place in London's insofar as people could have any heart in working in have been relocated. Hyde Park, during which workers protested the a collective farm, that would be least likely to occur in February 10 brought news to Svoboda from lowering of their wages and demanded improve­ Ukraine and the North Caucasus. Berlin. The short news item reported that ment in issuing financialai d to the unemployed. peasant rebellions by relocated Ukrainians were Poland's Joseph Pilsudski agreed to support Given the deliberate nature of the famine in taking place in Siberia and the Far East. the candidacy of Ignace Jan Paderewski for Ukraine, the decision on Stalin's part to proceed with The next day, February 11, Svoboda reported president of the republic. The Polish people collectivization and to eliminate resistance at any cost that after the mass deportation of Ukrainian believed that Paderewski's international popula­ and to get rid of the kulak, vaguely defined as that peasants from the Kuban region, the Soviets had rity would help the future of Poland. category was, and given the fact that food continued to begun cracking down on the Ukrainian peasants Ukrainians throughout the United States be stockpiled and exported even as people dropped in Ukraine. The subhead read: "People are dying began planning booths for Chicago's Century of dead on the streets, is it accurate to talk about this as a from hunger, cold and disease." Also datelined Progress Exposition. famine? /s it perhaps something else? How does one

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chairman of the committee. U.S. coordinating... The meeting agenda included a report On April 11, 1980, he was arrested (Continued from page 1) and discussion on the unsuccessful Ivan Sokulsky... again, this time for his activities with dium to recognize it as the representa­ negotiations with the UCCA, which (Continued from pate 2) the Helsinki Group. Charged with tive of the organizations it unites. rejected the committee's preconditions and declared mentally ill. He was "anti-Soviet agitprop," he was sen­ "Denial of recognition to the council for the talks, including the requirement released, however, with a warning tenced to 10 years'imprisonment and would be a denial of the rights of the that representatives of Ukrainian that a resumption of his political five years' internal exile, the majority of Ukrainian Americans with­ Churches participate in the negotia­ activities would result in a long term maximum sentence for a second in this freely elected world institution." tions. After determining that further in a mental institution. offender under the statute. In addition, the council's letter asked talks with the UCCA were pointless and Mr. Sokulsky.was undaunted. He the WCFU to accept its representatives voting to create a new representation, returned to Dnipropetrovske and Mr. Sokulsky is reportedly being to several pre-congress committees and the meeting participants noted that the continued to follow the dictates of his held in Labor Camp 36-1, part of the suggested that the following be named: door to future negotiations would, conscience, remaining active in huge penal complex in Perm in the John O. Flis as vice chairman of the however, still be left open if the UCCA efforts to protest Russification. In northern Russian SFSR. He leaves a preparatory committee; Dr. Bohdan accepted the previously proposed pre­ October 1979, he joined the Ukrai­ wife and mother in Dnipropetrovske. Hnatiuk as vice chairman of the pro­ conditions for negotiations. nian Helsinki Group, set up in Kiev First arrested when he was 29 years gram committee; Ivan Oleksyn as a Also at the meeting, it was decided in 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance old, Mr. Sokulsky is scheduled to member of the by-laws committee; and that a one-day conference of the Ukrai­ with the human-rights provisions of complete his term in 1995, when he Dr. Bohdan Shebunchak and Olha nian American Coordinating Council the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. will be 55. Kuzmowycz as members of the nomina­ would be held on the eve of the solemn tions committee. manifestation dedicated to the 50th The May 14 meeting of the Commit­ anniversary of the Great Famine that is аД^^С^ ішЩ,іь,Щ,ШиН^ ак tee for Law and Order in the UCCA was scheduled to be held in Washington on conducted by Mr. Flis, the acting October 1. IN THE FOOTSTEPS Some mothers set poor examples for OF THE PIONEERS Membership... their daughters when it comes to teach- IN UKRAINIAN (Continued from page 6) ing them Ukrainian customs. The A SAGA OF UKRAINIAN AMERICA being replaced by our young. The mothers might miss the soap operas on Ukrainian National Women's League TV. Mixed marriages do not make By Ulas Samchuk of America has suffered the most. Of the women forget their Ukrainian back­ A 268 page hardcover novel about the Ukrainian settlement in the United States, spanning some people reading this letter in this paper, ground. I have found husbands of 100 years of history Cover design by BOHDAN TYTLA how many are members of the Ukrai­ mixed marriages are just as interested in nian National Women's League? Our the'Ukrainian people and their customs Price: S15.00 (including postage and handling) membership rolls should be made up of — so that is no excuse. "In the Footsteps of thf Pioneers" is now available at the Svoboda Bookstore Please send mothers and daughters together. Both 1 say to all you Ukrainian Americans a check or cash for each order (New Jersey residents add 5" tax) mothers and daughters should be work­ out there, mothers take your daughters SVOBODA BOOKSTORE ing to keep the Ukrainian heritage alive by the hand, and daughters take your 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City. N.J. 07302 in this country. mothers by the hand, and join the Should you ask a mother why her UNWLA in your community. daughter is not a member of the Olga Alvino psat UNWLA you get all kinds of excuses. Ozone Park, N.Y. "^ .^^- A UNA insurance policy is an investment in the Ukrainian community. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiii| I DR. ANDRIJ V. R. SZUL I I Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law | | announces the RELOCATION of his OFFICES 1

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Tuesday, May 31 Gural, featuring puppeteer Sonya PREVIEW OF EVENTS Gural, will perform "Rukavytchka," NEW YORK: Bandurist Victor a traditional Ukrainian story at Mishalow will give a solo concert at from June 4 through June 19. The teams on Friday night. Games begin Lachine Ukrainian School, 875 Pro­ the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 first joint program of the Lemko early Saturday at the school in vost St., at 2 p.m. For more infor­ E. 79th St. at Fifth Avenue, at 7 p.m. Research Foundation and the Ukrai­ Emlenton and the awards banquet is mation please call Mrs. Moroz, the nian Institute, the exhibit will in­ planned for Saturday night. Weather director of the school at (514) 637- Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4 augurate a series of programs focus­ permitting, there will be bonfires on 4011. ing on Lemkivshchyna. A lecture on both Friday and Saturday nights at PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio: The the artist will be given by Irene the camp. A get-together with music ROUND LAKE, III.: The Chicago Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance Petrenko-Fedyshyn at 5^30 p.m. on is planned after the awards dinner Regional Council of the Ukrainian of Greater Cleveland, under the the opening day. and a wiener roast is also scheduled at National Women's League of Ame­ direction of Markian Komichak, will the bonfire. rica will sponsor its annual UNWLA present its recital on Friday, June 3, EMLENTON, Pa.: The annual U- Everyone is invited to come and Festival Day, here at the Self-reliance at 7:30 p.m. The following evening krainian Orthodox League Basket­ watch. For further information, resort. A liturgy will be served at 11 the group will present its annual ball Tournament will be held today contact Anatol Bilyk, recreation a.m., followed by a noon lunch, a concert at 8 p.m. Both concerts will at All-Saints Camp for UOL teams coordinator, 6540 W. 94th Place, fashion show of embroidered cloth­ be held at Valley Forge High School. across the country. Tournament Oak Lawn, HI. 60453, (312) 430- ing, a lottery and many surprises. Admission is S8 for adults, S6 for participation is limited to senior and 1911. Everyone is invited to attend. senior citizens and students. For junior UOL members, with a stipula­ more information call the school at tion that three junior members must Sunday, June 5 (216) 888-4211. play in the game at all times. Every ONGOING team member listed on the roster NEW YORK: Watercolors and Saturday, June 4 must play. drawings by a precocious artist, 5`A- CLEVELAND: Environmental Trophies will be awarded to the year-old Olexa Denysenko, will be paintings by Arcadia 01enska-Petry- NEW YORK: An exhibit of paint­ first-, second- and third-place teams exhibited at the Mayana Gallery, 21 shyn are on view at the Garden ings by Nikifor, the native painter of as well as most valuable senior, E. Seventh St. from June 5 to 12. The Center of Greater Cleveland, 11030 Krynytsia, from the collection of the junior player and every member of youngster, who attends the Interna­ East Blvd., through June 19. Over­ late Vadim Lesytch, will be shown at the selected all-star team. tional Play Group school in New sized renditions of foliage, trees and the Ukrainian Institute of America Pizza will be served to incoming York and has completed two years of branches, done in oil on canvas, Suzuki violin studies, is the son of make up the exhibit. A resident of Martha Halij Denysenko and Yuri New Jersey, Olenska-Petryshyn has Denysenko, a film cameraman who had work exhibited in galleries in the teaches cinematography at the New United States and Canada. She is THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY York University film institute and represented in numerous private the University of Bridgeport. collections in many countries, and a number of major public collections We give you the WHOLE picture. in the United States have acquired Saturday, June 11 her works. „-..-Ї22!: SKOKIE, III.: The Ukraina Ukrai­ ADVANCE NOTICE nian Folk Dance Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Centre TOMS RIVER, NJ.:The Ukrainian East Auditorium, 7701 Lincoln Ave. American Club of Ocean County is Tickets are available at the box office sponsoring a bus trip to Glen Spey (312) 673-6300, or by mail on VISA, for the festival on Saturday, July 16. MasterCard, American Express, Cost per person is S15 and includes check or money order, for SI0, S8 bus transportation and light refresh­ and S6. ments. Contact Nick Horun (201) The ensemble's fast-paced and 929-0993 or George Stycheck (201) colorful interpretations of Ukrai­ 270-9117 for details and reservation. nian folk dance have captivated audiences of all ages throughout North America. Guided by choreo­ PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing grapher Evhen Litvinov, formerly of of Ukrainian community events open the Virsky Dance Ensemble of Kiev, to the public, is a service provided this Chicago-based group will per­ free of charge by The Weekly to the form its second solo concert in the Ukrainian community. To have an Chicago area. event listed in this column, please send information (type of event, Sunday, June 12 date, time, place, admission, spon­ sor, etc.), along with the phone HAMPTONBURG, N.Y.: Bishop number of a person who may be Basil H. 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