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Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. : I I c. a fraternal non-profit association| rainian Ш Y Vol. LVI No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988 25 cents Russian Orthodox Church celebrations Catholics in Ukraine secretly mark of its 'Wllennium" move to Kiev Christian Millennium of Kievan Rus' JERSEY CITY, N. J. - After a week Monastery of the Caves (Pecherska JERSEY CITY, N.J. - While news hierarchs gathered, first in Moscow and of officially-sanctioned Millennium Lavra), which was given to the Russian of the official celebrations of the so- then in Kiev, the site of the baptism of celebrations in Moscow, the seat of the Orthodox Church, after being under called Millennium of the Russian Or­ Kievan Rus' by Prince Volodymyr the Russian Orthoddx Church in the Soviet government control since 1961, visits to thodox Church have made headlines Great in 988, representatives of the Union, the jubilant commemorations of the Great Patriotic War Museum and a throughout the world during this past approximately 4-million-member U- 1,000 years of Christianity moved to reception at the Supreme Soviet of the week, as divine liturgies were held amid krainian Catholic Church gathered where they should have begun — Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. However, the highlight ecclesiastical pomp in a state that has outside such villages as Buniv and capital city of Ukraine and the original of the three-day Kievan celebrations been militantly atheistic for the better Bilichin throughout western Ukraine site where Prince Volodymyr the Great was to be a solemn liturgy at the foot of part of this century, the outlawed to solemnly honor their 10-centuries- baptized his people in 988. the monument to St. Volodymyr, whose Ukrainian Catholic Church comme­ old faith. The Ukrainian Catholic, or More than 500 spiritual leaders statue overlooks the Dnieper River. morated the 1,000th anniversary of Uniate, Church has been banned in the representing over 100 nations on June According to several news reports, Christianity by holding secret masses in USSR since its liquidation by Stalin in 5-18 joined the hierarchs of the Russian this last proposal encountered difficulty the woods, its members reported. 1946. Orthodox Church to celebrate the (Continued on page 12) As the Russian Orthodox Church According to reports provided by the Christian faith in a society where the Reuters news service, the liturgies took official line toes atheism. place independently of official celebra­ According to Metropolitan Filaret of Hunger strikes begin in USSR, tions in Kiev, where, on June 14, a Kiev and Halych, exarch of Ukraine, jubilee service in St. Volodymyr's the Millennium celebrations in Kiev Cathedral was attended by Russian were scheduled to include a solemn act focus on political prisoners Orthodox Church leaders and their on Tuesday morning, June 14, to open JERSEY CITY, N.J. - During the bers of the Coordinating Committee of guests. the three-day celebrations. Also third conference of the International Patriotic Movements, which also includes Stepan Khmara, a Ukrainian Catho­ scheduled for that day were wreath- (All-Union) Committee for the Defense activists of the Baltic states, supported lic Church activist and medical doctor, laying ceremonies at the Tomb of the of Political Prisoners, held in Lviv, this defense action, which began on who spent seven years in labor camp for Unknown Soldier, and divine liturgies Ukraine, on June 10-12, representatives Monday, June 13. "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ at St. Volodymyr's Cathedral and the of this organization decided to support Initiated by the Ukrainian chapter of ganda," reported that such forest litur­ other nine houses of worship that a chain of hunger strikes to focus the All-Union Committee with the gies, "lisovi sluzhby" were celebrated on remain open in Kiev. attention on ail political prisoners in the support of the Kiev-based Ukrainian May 29 and June 5. "The powers that be The following day, the Russian Soviet Union, reported the Ukrainian Culturological Club, the action was to doubtless knew about the masses, but Orthodox Church leader said that a National Information Service based in run through the start of the Communist this time they chose to turn a blind eye," solemn liturgy would be held again at Washington and the External Repre­ Party Conference in Moscow, sche­ he said in an interview with Reuters. St, Volodymyr's , to be followed by a sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki duled to begin on June 28. One of the 186 Ukrainian Catholics festive concert at the city's Opera Group in New York. The action, which features a series of who last year signed a petition for House. Representatives of the Ukrainian, 24-hour hunger strikes by individual legalization of the Church addressed to On Thursday, June 16, the Armenian and Georgian chapters of the human rights activists began with both General Secretary Mikhail Gor- celebrations were to include visits to the All-Union Committee, as well as mem­ (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 13)

UNA Supreme Assembly approves B.C. bureau, scbolarsbips, donations KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The an­ June 10. several important matters, voting to: lion's board of directors in Canada; nual meeting of the Ukrainian Na­ Participants of the meeting - the ^ open the Ukrainian National Asso­ о award SI 15,300 in scholarships to tional Association's Supreme Assembly fraternal benefit society's supreme ciation's Washington office for govern­ deserving students who are members of was held here at the Soyuzivka resort on executive officers, supreme auditors mental relations, effective July 1; the UNA; Wednesday, June 8, through Friday, and supreme advisors — acted on ^ approve by-laws of the organiza- e donate 566,500 to various Ukrai­ nian community organizations. Although the Supreme Assembly's sessions began on Wednesday, June 8, the UNA Scholarship Committee held its meetings a day earlier. During their daylong deliberations committee mem­ bers reviewed scholarship applications submitted by undergraduate and gra­ duate students enrolled in colleges and universities throughout the United States. The committee proposed that 241 scholarships in amounts ranging from SlOO to S2,000 and totalling SI 15,300 be allocated for academic year 1988-89. The opening of the Supreme As­ sembly's annual meeting was preceeded, as has become tradition, by a brief ceremony at the Taras Shevchenko monument at Soyuzivka. Supreme President John O. Flis delivered a concise speech, and then Supreme Vice- Presidentess Gloria Paschen and Gene- vieve Zerebniak, an honorary member UNA Supreme Assembly members during their annual meeting at Soyiizlvka, (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988 No. 25

\A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Crimean Tatars rebuffed ott au/onomous homeland demands Soviet press publishes report JERSEY CITY, N. J. - All hopes for responded by vowing greater respect for a Crimean Tatar motherland faded minority cultures and traditions, but on anti-nuclear protest in Kiev earlier this month when a high-level has refused to make territorial conces­ Soviet commission rejected Tatar de­ sions and redraw boundaries, wrote the by Roman Solchanyk exploiting the second anniversary of the mands for an autonomous homeland, Times' Moscow correspondent. Bill Chornobyl accident to "fan passers-by reported the New York Times on June Keller. The Kiev weekly News from Ukraine, into illegal actions." Further, it stated 10, citing TASS. Some 250,000 Tatars were relocated to which is intended for Ukrainians a- that 17 people had been detained and The commission, chaired by Soviet other parts of the USSR on the orders broad, has published a fairly informa­ one placed under [administrative] arrest President Andrei Gromyko, was creat­ of Stalin, who claimed that some of tive and, perhaps most important, for 15 days. ed in response to mass protests by the them had collaborated with the Nazis surprisingly objective article on the Two days later, the same newspaper Tatars in Red Square last year. It stated, during Worid War II. The Tatars claim anti-nuclear demonstration that was published a selection of fiveletter s from however, that the Tatars, which number that nearly half of the deportees died in held in the Ukrainian capital on April readers, all of which denounced the about 300,000, may return individually transit or upon arrival in Soviet Central 26, the second anniversary of the Ukrainian Culturological Club and the to the Crimean peninsula, from which Asia. Chornobyl disaster. demonstration. Stalin forcibly deported them iii 1944, The Soviet government politically The demonstration was organized by It is interesting to note that News wrote the Times. ^ rehabilitated the Tatars in 1967, and has the Ukrainian Culturological Club and from Ukraine, having been rebuffed by Individuals would, however, need the admitted they were treated unjustly, had previously been reported by dissi­ the Kiev militia when it sought more same work and residence permits re­ wrote the Times. Most of them live in dent sources. It was also mentioned very detailed information, decided to con­ quired of any other citizen, a prere­ Uzbekistan and the Krasnodar region briefly by the party and government duct its own investigation. It inter­ quisite that has in practice limited the of Ukraine. daily Radianska Ukraina in a lengthy viewed witnesses of the April 26 events, migration of newcomers to the penin­ The commission stated that the two-part article criticizing various quoting them as describing the demon­ sula, a resort region on the Black Sea. population of the Crimea had tripled aspects of the club's activities; Radian- stration as "a peaceful gathering of Advocates of a Crimean Tatar home­ since World War II, and is now made ska Ukraina characterized the demon­ about 50 people." Among those inter­ land reportedly reacted with disap­ up of predominantly Russian and stration as an attempt to transform a viewed was Mr. Nakoba, the head of the pointment to the decision, even though Ukrainian residents. solemn occasion into '"a noisy gather­ Ukrainian Culturological Club, who it was expected, wrote the Times. "Taking into account all these cir­ ing." told the newspaper that the demonstra­ "Further demonstrations are in­ cumstances, the commission has reach­ The initial information about the tion "was only meant to draw people's evitable," Vaiery Senderov, a Moscow ed the conclusion that there are no demonstration came from Vladimir attention to the dangers of nuclear dissident and long-time supporter of graunds for establishing Crimean auto­ Ryabokon, a member of the editorial power engineering." Tatar autonomy, was quoted as saying. nomy," TASS reported. board of the unofficial Moscow news­ At the same time. News from Ukraine The Tatar commission was evidently Some 2,500 Crimean Tatars have letter Ekspress-Khronika, and was describes the methods used by the the first panel of inquiry created by the been granted residence permits since reported by the Associated Press. authorities in decidedly negative terms. Soviets to handle complaints by a last summer, the commission reported, According to Mr. Ryabokon, more It reports that the crowd "was stormed national group, which evidently set a while Tatar advocates said many others than 500 people tried to march through by a group of plain4:lothed men" as trend in the government's 4iealings with have been turned back because of the Khreshchatyk, Kiev's main soon as banners were raised reading "To nationality problems. The commission shortages of jobs and housing on the thoroughfare, on the evening of April Each a Personal Geiger Counter," "No was widely regarded as a test of Mikhail peninsula, which is part of the Ukrai­ 26, but were blocked by the militia. to Future Chornobyls," "No More Gorbachev's will in solving the nationa­ nian SSR. The demonstrators were carrying Exclusion Zones," and the like. lities question, particularly in light of a The commission also reported that banners that read "Nuclear Power The placards "were ripped from the great increase in mass protests by new state-operated farms and industries Plants Out of Ukraine" and "Openness demonstrators" by the "plain-clothed national groups, such as Armenians, are being created to expand employ­ and Democracy to the End," which men" who "twisted arms, grabbed some Lithuanians and Latvians, since last ment opportunities, and that more pre­ were immediately seized by the authori­ people by [the] hair and took an un­ year. fabricated housing has been allocated to ties. determined number of them to a bus In all the cases so far, Moscow has the peninsula, wrote the Times. Three members of the Ukrainian parked nearby." It was not until later, Culturological Club - Serhiy Naboka, writes the newspaper, that the militia General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev Leonid Miliavsky, and Oles Shev- intervened. plunger strikes... would bring about the release of all chenko — tried to address the crowd. The Kiev weekly concludes by ar­ (Continued from page 1) people who were in fact imprisoned for They were drowned out by loudspea­ guing that the breach of public order in Orysia Sokulsky, wife of political the very ideas encompassed by the kers and subsequently detained for Kiev testifies to the need for legislation, prisoner Ivan Sokulsky, abstaining concept of perestroika, namely reform three hours along with about 20 others. currently in "the draft stages," defining from nourishment on Monday, June 13, and restructuring. For their efforts, they The demonstration is said to have lasted the rules for demonstrations similar to in Dnipropetrovske. She passed on the were sentenced to terms in prison and for an hour. those that have been adopted in Mos­ mantle to Olha Horbal, wife of Mykola concentration camps. This is a paradox. Additional information was provided cow, Leningrad, Riga and several other Horbal, another political prisoner, who It is barbaric that these individuals by the Paris emigre weekly Russkaya cities. Indeed, it refers specifically to a was to have gone on her hunger strike continue to languish behind bars." Mysl and the Munich-based human much larger demonstration in Riga on June 14. The strike was then to have "We have decided that our defense rights newsletter Vesti iz SSSR/USSR commemorating the second anniver­ gone to Lviv, where Ukrainian activists action is necessary to direct world News Brief. sary of Chornobyl, which was also held were to continue the action. The action attention to this inhuman situation. According to these sources, the on April 26, emphasizing that it was will then return to Kiev and continue on How long can we be expected to suffer Ukrainian Culturological Club had conducted peacefully. to other national centers. in this way? It is as though the world has attempted to gain permission for the "With that in mind, the need to work According to Oles Shevchenko, a grown accustomed to this barbarism demonstration from the Kiev authori­ out legislation for handling demonstra­ Ukrainian Culturological Club spokes­ and accepts it as the norm. Either there ties. The latter did not bother to reply. tions in Kiev looks as pressing as ever. If man, "This defense action was launched is to be restructuring and democracy, or Instead, three leaders of the club were some people might find the slogans because everyone expected that Presi­ there is no reason to continue to deceive summoned by the procurator's office irrelevant or provocative, still more dent Ronald Reagan's meeting with society," he added. and warned to cease their "anti-Soviet" would find arm-twisting repulsing," the activities. newspaper notes. Nonetheless, some 60 members of the Such reasoned and balanced report­ club turned up at Kiev's October Square ing in a Kiev newspaper is highly FOUNDED 1933 only to find that most of it had been commendable. It must be remembered Ukrainian Weeltll cordoned off. In the final analysis, that the Ukrainian Culturological Club between 30 and 50 participants were has been severely criticized in the Kiev An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National detained, and one Club member, Mr. press for a variety of sins, including Association Inc.. a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. Shevchenko, was sentenced to 15 days "nationalism." The most recent example 07302. of so-called administrative arrest. of such an "expose" is the above- Some of this information was later mentioned article in Radianska U- Second-class postage paid at Jersey City. N.J. 07302. corroborated by one of The New York kraina. Moreover, even in the age of (ISSN - 0273-9348) Times'correspondents in Moscow. glasnost it is still not quite a daily The article in News from Ukraine occurrence for Soviet newspapers to Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - S5. provides additional details. It reveals portray the militia in such unflattering Also published by the UNA: Svoboda. a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. that the demonstration had been con­ terms. demned in an official statement issued The editors of News from Ukraine are The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: by the local militia and published in the fully aware of this. Referring to their (201) 434-0237, -0807. -3036 (201)451-2200 Kiev daily Prapor Komunizmu on April decision to launch an investigation of Postmaster, send address Editor: Roma Hadzewycz 28. the demonstration, they write that changes to: Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets According to the authorities, ""a "several years ago this might have been The Ukrainian Weekly group of extremists, mostly represent­ put down as blasphemy." P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak ing the 'Ukrainian Culturological Club' Unfortunately, there is a sad but Jersey City. N.J. 07303 Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss (UCQ, tried to whip up unrest, meddle nonetheless comic aspect to all of this. with street repairs and obstruct the flow How many people in Ukraine read an The Ukrainian Weelcly, June 19,1988, No. 25, Vol. LVI of traffic." The statement blamed what English-language weekly produced for Copyright 1988 by The Ukrainian Weekly it described as a ""hidieoiis gathering" for Ukrainians in the West? No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988

Solidarity underground issues stamps Torontonians marl( Day of Prayer TORONTO - Ukrainians here cele­ alderman of the City of Toronto, read marl(ing IVIillennium of Ctiristianity brated the Millennium of Christianity greetings from the city. Dissident Yosyp in Rus'-Ukraine on May 29 with a rally Terelia and former parliamentarian 10aO-LECIE CHRZTU 1)88 that included the appearance of Don Yuri Shymko spoke about the Ukrai­ Mazankowski, deputy prime minister nian Churches in Ukraine today. Mr. RUSI-UKRAINY of Canada. Shymko's address was highlighted with Some 7,000 people gathered at the an excerpt of a taped interview with cerkiewki niszczonego kosciota obrzi^dku Ontario Provincial Legislature for an activists Vyacheslav Chornovil and grecko - katolickiego I ^) 8 8 ecumenical service featuring Ukrainian others. The two spoke of glasnost, the Catholic, Ukrainian Orthodox, Ukrai­ Ukrainian Church and the Millennium. nian Protestant and Anglican ministers. The rally concluded with a prayer, a Yaroslav Sokolyk, president of the hymn and the Ukrainian anthem. POLSKA zl30 POLSKAzUo POLSKA zl5o Ukrainian Canadian Committee, To­ ronto Branch, the organizer of the rally, greeted the participants. He then issued Bordeaux granted a challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Today we challenge your visa to USSR glasnost, Mr. Gorbachev. Allow our Ukrainian Churches to function freely." LONDON — Reversing an earlier The keynote address of the rally, decision, Soviet authorities have issued organized by the Toronto UCC, was by a visa to the Rev. Michael Bordeaux, Mr. Mazankowski. Member of Parlia­ founder of Keston College. ment Andrew Witer introduced the The Rev. Bordeaux was told by the guest speaker. Mr. Mazankowski said Soviet consul in London on June 6 that that Ukrainian Canadians should be his visa was ready to be picked up. He proud of their religious legacy, their was to lead a group of 46 Christians on a fight for freedom and for civil and tour of the USSR and to attend cele­ human rights. He then welcomed at the brations of the Millennium of Christia­ podium two prominent, recently re­ nity in Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev, leased dissidents, Danylo Shumuk and according to a story in the New York Yosyp Terelia. City Tribune. Greetings for the Province of Ontario The Rev. Bordeaux and his wife, by the Gerry Phillips, minister of Lorna, left for the USSR on June 7. citizenship and by other politicians were The British Foreign Office had exert­ also delivered. ed pressure on the Soviet Embassy to At the conclusion of this one-hour allow the Rev. Bordeaux to travel to the ceremony, the participants paraded USSR. GRUPY OPORU smi down University Avenue, Toronto's The Rev. Bordeaux was quoted as Reproduction of a sheet of stamps, released by the Solidarity underground, that widest street, to City Hall, some 2 saying, "I had a very friendly phone call depicts the destruction in Poland of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. kilometers away. The procession was a from the Soviet consul in London blend of colorful Ukrainian dress; apologizing for the delay and saying my JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Six stamps also appear on the sheet. youth groups, veterans, and the Knights visa was ready." depicting the destruction of the Ukrai­ Each of the stamps features a church of Columbus, led by altar boys and "There was no explanation. They nian Catholic Church in Poland have with the name of the town it is in and the priests. Pennants, banners and flags only said they had been sent a telex from been issued by the Solidarity under­ date it was built. They are identified as waved cripsly in the air as a marching Moscow allowing me to travel," he said. ground, and have been received in the follows: Radruz, I570;Pozdziacz, 1777; band accompanied the procession. Keston College monitors religion in West. Hrebenne, 1797; Griaziowa, 18th cen­ The celebration continued at City the Soviet Union and other Communist The sheet of stamps is titled (in tury; Bartne, 1842; and Rownia, 1792. Hall where William Boytchuk, senior countries. Polish) '4,000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'-Ukraine." The sub­ The stamps were published in late heading reads: "Churches of the Greek- 1987 by one of Solidarity's under­ Ukrainian American lawyers appeal Catholic rite Church [now] being de­ ground publishing houses. Three thou­ stroyed." A Ukrainian tryzub (trident) sand copies of the sheet of stamps were with a cross and the dates 988 and 1988 printed and were very quickly sold out. to Reagan for Lukianenko's release WASHINGTON - Prior to his internal exile for calling upon the Soviet Latvian Youth Association thanks departure for the U.S.-Soviet summit in government to honor its commitment to Moscow, President Ronald Reagan abide by the provisions of the Final Act, received a letter regarding the case of which includes the right of individuals Lautenberg for support of Baits Ukrainian attorney and human rights to exercise religious freedom. WASHINGTON - The American representative of the Helsinki '86 or­ activist Lev Lukianenko, who is cur­ Mr. Lukianenko has been designated Latvian Youth Association (ALYA) ganization; presenting a speech to the rently serving a sentence of exile. a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty had expressed its thanks to Sen. Frank Senate regarding the late human rights The letter was sent by Mr. Lukia- International and, in 1980, the Lawyers Lautenberg (D-N.J.) for urging Presi­ advocate Gunars Astra; and introduc­ nenko's professional colleagues in the Committee for International Human dent Ronald Reagan to raise Baltic ing resolutions on behalf of the Latvian United States, members of the Ukrai­ Rights transmitted a petition to the issues at the Moscow summit. Lithuanian and Estonian Independence nian American Bar Association. procurator general of the Ukrainian The full text of the letter follows. Soviet Socialist Republic urging Mr. In a May 24 letter to President Days. Lukianenko's release. Further, in 1980, Reagan, Sen. Lautenberg urged the The American Latvian Youth Asso­ the American Bar Association adopted president to meet with members of the ciation is a non-profit organization that a special Rule of Law Resolution Latvian human rights group Helsinki 86 represents youth of Latvian descent expressing its concern with the case of during the summit meeting in Moscow. throughout the United States. This Dear Mr. President: Lev Lukianenko. It is our understand­ Although Helsinki 86 leader, Dr. Juris organization works actively with the The Ukrainian American Bar Asso­ ing that the case of Lukianenko was Vidins was unable to attend the presi­ community to promote human rights ciation is a professional association of raised not only by the United States dent's meeting with dissidents, the for the Baltic people. American lawyers who are of Ukrainian delegation but also by the delegations of president did meet with a Latvian descent. Because of our heritage, we are Lutheran minister, the Rev. Modris especially concerned about the viola­ other Western governments. Plate, a representative of the Latvian Italy charges tion of human rights and the lack of As you may know, this year Ukraine Christian movement for "Rebirth and religious freedom within the Ukrainian is celebrating its Millennium of Chris­ Renewal." Demjanjuk SSR. Additionally, as lawyers, we are tianity. It is ironic that in this era of concerned about the preservation of the "glasnost" the Ukrainian Catholic and According to Juris Blodnieks, presi­ CLEVELAND ^ John Demjanjuk, rule: of law within the international Orthodox Churches are banned by dent of the ALYA, "We would like to who is appealing the verdict and sen­ community and outraged by the treat­ Soviet law in their homeland. More­ thank Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg for his tence handed down by an Israeli court ment of fellow attorneys who are being over, individuals, like Lukianenko, who relentless support of the Baltic peoples' that heard his Nazi war crimes case, has persecuted for attempting to defend and merely expressed their respect and demand for human rights and self- received a notice of indictment on war preserve the integrity of the rule of law. support for the freedoms guaranteed by determination. His actions on behalf of crimes charges from the Civil and Of special interest to our association the Final Act are being made to suffer Baltic national activists have helped Criminal Court of Trieste, Italy. is the case of Lev Lukianenko, a Ukrai­ incarceration or exile. bring the concerns of the occupied The notice, dated May 7, was de­ nian attorney who is a founding mem­ In the spirit of the Helsinki Final Act, Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian livered recently via mail to Mr. Demjan­ ber of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitor­ our association most respectfully re­ people to the forefront of American juk at Ayalon Prison in Ramla, Israel. ing Group, a citizens' group formed in quests that, during the course of your politics." The Trieste Court's notice said Mr. November 1976 to monitor Soviet upcoming meetings with Secretary In recent months Sen. Lautenberg Demjanjuk was suspected of committing compliance with the human rights General Mikhail Gorbachev, you take a has initiated many actions on behalf of "voluntary and continuous aggravated provisions of the Helsinki Accords. In moment to raise the case of Lev Lukia­ the Baltic people, including: meeting IjQ^ipjide" in Trieste between 1943 and 1978, Lukianenko was sentenced to 10 nenko and request, thatJie be released with dissident RoJandsSi^ a 1945...... , ; years' imprisonment plus fiy^ jears'. (CoirtifiMf^^Qli pa^^^^^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988 No. 25

delivered by Messrs. Flis and Iwanciw. Weekly editor. Ms. Hadzewycz spoke for the awards be active, dues-paying UNA Supreme Assembly... Mr. Iwanciw spoke also about the about the major stories covered by The members, and that they be enrolled as (Continued from page 1) UNA'S soon-to-be-opened office in Weekly during the report period, as well full-time, undergraduate students. It of the UNA Supreme Assembly and a Washington, which is to function as the as staff changes that have resulted in the was decided that meetings of the Scholar­ former supreme vice-presidentess, association's government relations arm. current three-woman editorial team ship Committee would henceforth be placed flowers at the foot of the statue. Supreme Assembly members approved that includes associate editors Marta held after the Supreme Assembly's The assemblage sang the poet laureate's the establishment of the bureau with Kolomayets and Chrystyna Lapychak. annual meeting and that the Scholar­ 'Testament." Mr. Iwanciw as its director. The office is She characterized the current staff as ship Committee would then be em­ The annual meeting was called to slated to open July 1. "one of the best" and knowledgeable powered to allocate grants in keeping order at 9:30 a.m. by the supreme Also approved that day were the by­ about the Ukrainian community out­ with a sum determined by the Supreme president, who, in his opening remarks laws of the UNA'S board of directors of side of Ukraine as well as current events Assembly. recalled the early days of the fraternal Canada, which is to be composed of all in Ukraine. Other committee reports were deli­ society. "Organizing one central organi­ Canadian members of the Supreme The next topic on the annual meet­ vered by the following: Mrs. Paschen, zation, called, in time, the Ukrainian Assembly. The main speakers on this ing's agenda was the selection of a site women; Mr. Iwanciw, Soyuzivka; Dr. National Association, was a natural topic were Messrs. Flis and Hewryk, as for the UNA'S next convention in 1990. Padoch, honorary members of the outcome of the desire of Ukrainian well as Mr.. Olesnycky who, as a lawyer, Mr. Maksymowich proposed that the Supreme Assembly; Mr. Spolsky, immigrants (to the United States) to reviewed all the articles of the by-laws. conclave be held in the Miami area, sports; Mr. Chudolij, youth; Mr. Haw­ better their own lot and guarantee a The entire day on Thursday, June 9, while Mr. Iwanciw spoke on behalf of rysz, organizing. (The text of the better future for their descendants," Mr. was devoted to reports about various Baltimore as a convention site. Other resolutions and recommendations pass­ Flis noted. UNA operations. First to speak was sites were proposed by: Mrs. Paschen, ed by the Supreme Assembly as a result "In order to assure to the UNA the Andre J. Worobec, the organization's who said Chicago would be a fine of these committees' work will be ability to continue rendering the expect­ fraternal activities coordinator, who choice; Mr. Kwas, who suggested the published in Svoboda and The Weekly.) ed fraternal service to our members and reported on his work in that capacity, as Soyuzivka area, more specifically, the Finally, the Financial Committee, with our con^munity," Mr. Flis continued, well as his plans for the future. Granit Hotel; and Mr. Hawrysz, who Mrs. Diachuk reporting, recommended "new blood" is needed among the ranks Architect Jaroslaw Sichynsky filled noted that UNA'ers in the Philadelphia a budget of 512,182,000. Included in the of its members. "To organize even one the Supreme Assembly members in area would be willing to organize the budget are donations to community new member for the UNA means the about the status of construction of next convention. groups totalling 566,150, and funds infusion of new blood into the veins of workers' quarters at Soyuzivka, the As a result of voting by secret ballot, for special publications, including an the UNA, guaranteeing longer life not UNA'S year-round resort. He reported Baltimore, with nine votes, was chosen index to the Svoboda Ukrainian-lan­ only for the UNA, but for the entire that the cost of such buildings would over Miami (eight votes) and the Soyu­ guage daily newspaper, amounting to Ukrainian community being serviced by range between 5600,000 and S680,00O. zivka area (two votes). 559,000. the UNA," he stressed. The Supreme Assembly approved the The Scholarship Committee's report, In miscellaneous matters, the Su­ In his opening remarks, Mr. Flis also construction plans. delivered by its secretary, Mr. Sochan, preme Assembly members decided to recalled the recent deaths of such The new co-managers of Soyuzivka, followed. On its recommendation, the return to the prior system of five-day stalwart UNA activists as Supreme John A. Flis and Lydia Kuczer, deli­ Supreme Assembly members approved annual meetings, citing a lack of time Advisor Walter Hawrylak and former vered a report on the resort's prepared­ SI 15,300 in scholarship grants to 241 during this year's three-day conclave. Supreme Organizer WasylOrichowsky, ness for the busy summer season, as well students. The annual meeting was concluded as well as several branch and district as the forthcoming computerization of Also approved was the committee's with the singing of the Ukrainian officers who passed away during the the resort's bookkeeping. recommendation that students eligible national anthem. previous year. Nicholas Boyko delivered a report In attendance at the Supreme As­ about the work of the UNA's profes­ sembly meeting were: sional sales department, following Supreme Executive Officers Mr. Flis introductory remarks by the supreme (supreme president), John Hewryk president. Mr. Boyko spoke mainly (|5црішіе director fpT^CaiT^ /Mrs, about the insurance sales courses that he Paschen (supreme yice-presid^ntess),j jjias organized in New Jersey, at the Walter Sochari (supittoe secretatry) aind UNA Home Office, and in Pennsyl­ Ulana Diachuk (supreme treasurer); vania, in Lehighton. Supreme Auditors Nestor Olesnycky, The final report of the day was that of Anatole Doroshenko and Stefan Haw- the Svoboda editor-in-chief, Mr. rysz; and Snylyk. Mr. Snylyk said that the two Supreme Advisors William Pa- main stories covered by Svoboda during stuszek, Andrew Jula, Taras Maksymo- the report period were the trial of John wich, Roman Tatarsky, Tekla Moroz, Demjanjuk in Israel and celebrations of Supreme Advisors William Pastuszek, Helen Olek-Scott and Andrew Jula listen to Taras Szmagala, Walter Kwas, Eugene the Millennium of Christianity in Rus'- the proceedings. Iwanciw, Helen Olek-Scott, Andrew Ukraine held throughout the world. He Keybida, Wasyl Didiuk, Alexander spoke as well about the UNA Almanac. Chudolij and Myron Spolsky, as well as The Ukrainian Weekly's editor, Zenon Snylyk, Svoboda editor-in-chief. Roma Hadzewycz, also was slated to Also present were the following report that day, but due to unforeseen honorary members of the Supreme circumstances was unable to arrive at . Assembly: Jaroslaw Padoch, Mrs. Soyuzivka on time. i Zerebniak, Anna Chopek, Walter Za- That evening the Supreme Assembly paraniuk, Mary Dushnyck and Anna members enjoyed the traditional ban­ Haras. quet conducted in a humorous vein by Supreme Vice-President Myron B. Mr. Didiuk. A highlight of the affair Kuropas, and Supreme Auditors the was a "roast" of Mr. Jula, who retired Very Rev. Stephen Bilak and Leonid Fil recently after 45 years as secretary of were unable to attended this year's UNA Branch 161 in Ambridge, Pa. meeting. On Friday, June 10, the sessions Supreme Advisors Myron Spolsky, Eugene Iwanciw and Alexander Chudolij After an opening prayer recited by began with the report of The Ukrainian confer. Mr. Didiuk, the session began with approval of the proposed agenda, acceptance of the minutes of the 1987 annual meeting and the estabhshment of several Supreme Assembly commit­ tees dealing with various areas of UNA activity: organizing, women, youth, culture, Soyuzivka, press and public relations, Canadian affairs, seniors, sports, education, finances, resolutions, fraternal activity and this year's Millen­ nium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine. These committees met separately on Wednesday evening, June 8, and Thurs­ day morning, June 9. Because the reports of executive officers, advisors and auditors were prepami and distributed to all Supreme Assembly members in advance, they were not delivered during the annual meeting. A discussion of the reports did, however, take place. Also on the agenda for the first day of the Supreme Assembly's deliberations was the report of the UNA"s Ukrainian Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan and Supreme Treasurer liana Diachuk take Supreme President John O-Fiis chairs llerit.'^gi Defense Гопіі;:іес, ' \h notes during the session. the meeting No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988

Soyuzivka prepped for summer with something old, something new by Roma Hadzewycz children of various ages under the supervision of two Soyuzivka KERHONKSON, N.Y. - It's quite employees. obvious at Soyuzivka: the summer Weekend art exhibits will feature the season is just around the corner, and the works of numerous artists, among them upstate New York resort is being the late Jacques Hnizdovsky, Peter prepped for its annual influx of Shostak, Petro Kapshuchenko, vacationers. Victoria Varvariv, Ihor Diachenko, This year, new touches — the result of Christina Holowchak-Debarry and a new management team at this Catskill Roksolana Armstrong. resort — are evident as well The season's entertainment willkick- There is more greenery in hanging off during the Independence Day baskets and planters in the dining room weekend with dances featuring the band and the Veselka auditorium; the Akula from Chicago on Friday night, entranceway to the main house is July 1; the ever-popular Tempo brighter; the gift shop decor has been orchestra and Akula on Saturday, July updated and its size has been expanded; 2; and Tempo on Sunday, July 3. there are hospitality books listing the Headlining the stage program inside area's diverse attractions in every Veselka will be the Maryntsi comedy guest's room. and singing duo on Saturday evening, There are also new gifts to be and comedienne Luba Goy and singer purchased in the newly named Spomyn Bohdan Andrusyshen on Sunday. gift shop: works by various well-known Roman Shwed will serve as master of and up-and-coming Ukrainians artists, ceremonies. Soyuzivka teddy bears, and jewelry, Another big weekend this summer, in such as beaded necklaces (gerdany). addition to the mammoth Labor Day Many guests will be pleased to learn weekend festivities, will be August 20- that the dining room is now air- 21, when the Miss Soyuzivka pageant conditioned and that, on Saturday will take place. (The event has been evenings, the screened-in portion of the moved up from its usual September dining room will be turned into a cafe date.) that serves light snacks and beverages, Among the myriad performers who including cheese, fruit, wine and will take the stage at Soyuzivka this espresso. summer will be cabaret singer Alex The resort's menu, too, has been Holub, sibling singers Lesia and Halia expanded, so that now, in addition to Wolansky, singer Ed Evanko, pianist the old stand-bys, there will be new David Bilowus, the Lysenko Opera dishes like lasagne and fettucine alfredo Company, the Cheremshyna vocal (and Mr. Flis promises many more group, the singing duo of Darka and surprises). The snack bar at the Veselka Slavko, the Chaika dancers, Troyanda pavilion will soon be transformed into a trio, harpist Odarka Polanskyj and the New York-style deli, and it will remain Promin girls' choir. open all day on weekends to serve those And that's only a sampling. Soyuzivka guests who are only there for So, the Soyuzivka co-managers have the day and may not have a bit of advice for guests: make your accommodations at the resort. reservations now (some weeks are already sold out), and come to see the There are many, many more updated yet familiar Soyuzivka. improvements at Soyuzivka, "the things And, if you can't make it during the people take for granted," says Mr. Flis, summer, Ms. Kuczer and Mr. Flis invite like upgraded roadways, and electrical, one and all to stop by during the off­ plumbing and sewage systems. season. They add that they are happy to His colleague, Ms. Kuczer, points out serve small gatherings, such as family that guest services also have been reunions, organizations' meetings and The view from a wooded path at Soyuzivka: the Veselka terrace overlooking the expanded. They will now encompass private parties, and that special menus scenic Catskill mountains. babysitting services and a day camp for and receptions are easily arranged. Soyuzivka's new co-managers: John A. Flis and Lydia Kuczer

KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Since time during the off-season, and later, the fall of last year, Soyuzivka, the for three years as full-time assistant Ukrainian National Association's manager. year-round resort in the Catskill Although he holds a bachelor's mountains of New York state, has degree in political science, Mr. Flis, been in the hands of a new manage­ took a liking to the hotel manage­ ment team. ment field during his years at "Suzy- The young, but experienced, duo Q." He's worked in that field at the - John A. Flis and Lydia Kuczer - nearby Granit Hotel, as well as at have overseen renovations and are Quality Inns in the state of Florida. putting into effect innovations aimed He recently completed a two-year at modernizing the resort and better associate's degree program in hotel serving its guests. At the same time, technology at Sullivan County Com­ however, both say they want to keep munity College. the Ukrainian spirit at Soyuzivka. Ms. Kuczer, who hails from De­ The co-managers have divided troit, may be new to Soyuzivka, but their responsibilities as follows. Mr. not to the hotel industry. She holds a Flis is in charge of all food and bachelor's degree in business admi­ beverages at the resort, that is, the nistration and has several years of dining room, snack bar and bar, as experience in sales and public rela­ well as the grounds, maintenance and tions with Hilton Hotels. She has security. Ms. Kuczer handles the worked for that chain in Michigan, office and reservations, gift shop, Colorado and Florida. entertainment, camps and house­ Both co-managers seem quite at keeping. home at the resort, and quite anxious One of the managers is a familiar for the busy summer season to begin face at Soyuzivka, while the other is as they scoot around on his-and-her's new to the resort. golf carts, nicknamed, (you've pro­ Mr. Flis worked at Soyuzivka for bably guessed): the "Flismobile" and nine years between 1972 and 1981 — the "Kuczermobile." first as a summer employee and part- -RM. Soyuzivka's new management team: John A. Flis and Lydia Kuczer. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988 No. 25

Faces and Places Ukrainian Weelly by Myron B. Kuropas Evhen Konovalets and America Upset Filaret? Last May, in what is hopefully a sign 1933) and a few UNA branches, in at­ of the times, all factions of the Organi­ tendance. Greeting the Congress on zation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) behalf of OUN was Gen. Mykola Ka- together commemorated the 50th anni­ pustiansky who urged the delegates to We've obviously hit upon a raw nerve in Metropolitan Filaret Denysenko versary of the death of Col. Evhen set aside all organizational differences of Kiev, a hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. Whereas this should be Konovalets, founder and first head of and consoHdate their strength into one, a joyous occasion - a celebration of 1,000 years of the Christian faith, that legendary society of Ukrainian mighty, revolutionary Ukrainian Na­ Metropolitan Filaret doesn't seem to be in the mood for celebrating. patriots. tionalist Front. Recognizing OUN as Instead of basking in the jubilee's glory - after all, he occupies the Col. Konovalets was assassinated on "the only true beacon in Ukraine's Metropolitan See of Kiev, the birthplace of Christianity in Kievan Rus', the May 23, 1938, in Rotterdam, Holland, struggle for independence," the con­ site where Prince Volodymyr the Great baptized his people — Metropolitan by a Soviet agent posing as an OUN gress concluded its deliberations with a Filaret has come upon difficult times. courier. It was exactly 10 years earlier political rally in Carnegie Hall where, in With the modification of religious policies throughout the Soviet Union, that he visited the United States for the the presence of hundreds of delegates even the reopening of churches, the Russian Orthodox Church, a loyal first time. and guests, prominent OUN, ODVU, apparatchik of the Soviet government, has enjoyed more attention. It has The purpose of Col. Konovalets' 1928 UNA and other organizational leaders been presented as the Mother Church, the bastion of an estimated 70 million visit to America was to establish pledged their support of the newly believers (which is about three and one half times more people than belong to branches of the Ukrainian Military created Nationalist Front. the Communist Party.) It has also been treated with more respect by the Organization (UVO), a Ukrainian Encouraged by the success of the Soviet authorities, as they have highlighted the centuries-old tradition of veterans' society he headed in Polish- First Nationalist Congress and the Christianity with official Millennial celebrations throughout the Soviet occupied western Ukraine. Before his periodic visits of such OUN luminaries Union. departure, UVO branches were esta­ as Col. Konovalets, Omelian Hribiw- Thus, it seems that the Soviet Union wants the West to view it as a place of blished in New York state — Astoria, sky. Gen. Victor Kurmanovych, Col. renewed religious liberties. So, with the high visibiHty the Russian Orthodox Amsterdam, Troy and Cohoes — as Roman Sushko, Jaroslav Baranovsky Church has recently been granted, it is only natural for the West to begin well as in Chicago, Hamtramck, Mich., and Alexander Kandyba, ODVU con­ targeting questions about the ongoing persecution of other religious groups, and Hartford, Conn. tinued to increase its organizational such as the Ukrainian Catholics. In 1929, soon after UVO was trans­ prestige in the Ukrainian American What is the Kremlin to do? In this particular case, it seems that General formed into the Organization of Ukrai­ community. On June 20, 1935, ODVU Secretary Gorbachev has put pressure on the Russian Orthodox Church, nian Nationalists, Konovalets returned began to publish NationaUst, a weekly more specifically Metropolitan Filaret, to meet with Vatican officials to to America for the purpose of creating a newspaper edited for most of its exis­ discuss the Uniates, a church of believers, who according to Soviet "history" Ukrainian nationalist organization with tence by the late Walter Dushnyck. accounts, self-liquidated in 1946. a broader community appeal than UVO. Some 200 delegates attended the In a recent article. Felicity Barringer of The New York Times reported that It was during his second visit to the sixth ODVU convention in 1936. Dr. Metropolitan t^ilaretexpre^^ displeasure at the prospect of meeting United States that the idea for the Alexander Granovsky, a professor at with Vatickn oMciiis in Mriland (neutral territory) next month to discuss the formation of the Organization for the the University of Minnesota, was elect­ status of Ukrainian Catholics. He warned that if the Vatican's representatives Rebirth of Ukraine (ODVU) was born. ed president, replacing Gregory Her­ became 'aggressive' about legalizing the Ukrainian Catholics, it would strain According to its New York State Certi­ man. By then, the rapid rise of ODVU the improving relations between the Orthodox and Catholic hierarchies. ficate of Incorporation, the purpose of had come to the attention of America's "Restoration of the Church will mean a deterioration of brotherly ecumenical the new organization was to: Ukrainian Communists who, in keeping relations," he said. ^ "Associate Ukrainians for the with directives originating in Mos­ He added that legalizing the Ukrainian Catholics would mean "creating on purpose of instilling in them principles cow, began labeling ODVU a "fascist" Ukrainian territory the kind of tool that would start a religious struggle of racial solidarity, discipline, loyalty organization. Responding to the charge, within the Orthodox Church. "I don't doubt this would be inevitable," he and the love of national ideals; the convention passed a resolution said, his first clenching the unclenching as he spoke, reported Ms. Barringer. ^ "Cultivate self-respect, self-re­ condemning the "unconscionable iden­ Ah, the gestures of a truly religious holy man, a pious leader who embodies liance and independence of thought and tification" of Ukrainian nationalists Christian principles. action; "under the rubric of fascism." Seems that Filaret's upset. However, we shouldn't feel too bad for him. He ^ "Encourage thrift and industry is a prelate of the same Church that, after the Soviets occupied all the ODVU's growing community in­ among members; fluence soon extended beyond the territories of Ukraine in 1945, took charge of the 3,961 Ukrainian Catholic ^ "School Ukrainians in the prin­ churches. After the Ukrainian Catholic Church was forcibly liquidated in formal nationalist organizational ciples of American democracy and its framework. At the 19th convention of 1946, the Russian Orthodox Church did what it pleased to these houses of institutions and to compel observance worship, from demolishing them to turning them into car repair garages, the Ukrainian National Association in of its laws and Constitution; 1937, delegates representing some bazaars, or museums of atheism. ^ "Hold real and personal property According to 1987 estimates, there were about 4,000 churches (Russian 30,000 UNA members, elected 11 necessary for the furtherance of the ODVU and Red Cross members to the Orthodox) still open in the Ukrainian SSR, while 14,332 were either above objectives and to maintain its destroyed or converted to other uses. Only 842 church structures were 22-seat UNA Supreme Assembly in­ branches in any state of the United cluding the president (Nicholas Mu- preserved because of their historical architectural significance. States and in any foreign country. These churches were both Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox rashko), the vice-president (Gregory The story of the Ukrainian nationa­ Herman), the vice-presidentess (Maria houses of worship. Most of the churches destroyed by the Soviets were those list network first established in the built during the Kievan Rus' statehood, or the Kozak Ukrainian (Hetman) Malievych), two auditors (Stephen United States by Col. Konovalets is one Kuropas and Roman Smook) and six State. Churches built in more recent years, were converted to other uses. of the most fascinating chapters in So, Who has the right to be upset, Filaret? advisors (Taras Shpikula, Nicholas Ukrainian American history. Davyskyba, Illia Husar, Stephen Slo- The network grew quickly. Two other bodian, Onufriy Zapotochny and Volo­ nationalist organizations came into dymyr Didyk). By 1938, the year Evhen being in the early 1930s — the Ukrai­ Konovalets was murdered, the network ACTION ITEM nian Red Cross in 1931 (its name was he had founded in the United States later changed to the Ukrainian Gold included, according to Volodymyr The Commission on the Ukraine Famine Extension Act (S. 2304) which Cross because stateless nations were not Riznyk, ODVU national secretary at was passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress, awaits the president's permitted to establish a Red Cross) and the time, some 70 ODVU branches, 70 signature. the Young Ukrainian Nationalists (in Gold Cross branches, and 41 branches It is essential that Ukrainian Americans demonstrate their support for the Ukrainian, Molodi Ukrayinski Natsio- of MUN with a total American mem­ continued existence of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine either nalisty or MUN) which was established bership in excess of 10,000. by phoning the White House, or by sending telegrams (political opinion in 1933. Created under ODVU's initia­ messages) to the president. tive, both eventually becanie auto­ Today, of course, ODVU is a shadow The number of the White House comments line is (202) 456-7639. nomous affiliates within the ODVU of its former self and all of the OUN A prepared message urging the president to sign the extension bill may also organizational structure. factions in America combined probably be sent by phoning Western Union, 1-800-257-4900, and asking for operator The First All-American Congress of don't total even half of the number of No. 9423. The special prepared message can be sent through June 22, the date Ukrainian Nationalists took place on organized nationalists who walked by which the president must act on the measure. Its cost is SI 1.95. August 31-September 1, 1935, in New American soil in 1938. The message reads as follows: "Dear Mr. President: Please sign Senate S. York City with 223 delegates represent­ The memory of Evhen Konovalets, 2304, the Commission on Ukraine Famine Extension Act. We Ukrainian ing ODVU, MUN, the Ukrainian Red however, lives on. Now that we've Americans have financially supported the work of the commission so that it Cross, the Chornomorska Sich (which witnessed a united OUN commemo­ will continue its work, at no cost to the American taxpayer.'' (Of course, had agreed to become part of Kono­ ration of his death, can we expect less callers can choose to send their own personal message to the president at a valets' nationalist network in 1932), the acrimony and more unity in the future? cost of S7:95 for the first 20 words, and'S2 for each additional 20 words.) Ukrainian Veterans Organization I'm not holding my breath, but I sure (which joined the nationalist network in hope so. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988

FOR THE RECORD: Helsinki Commission's letter to Ukrainian SSR deputies In March of this year, the U.S. Senate and House Bibles, if filled, would be significant. Furthermore, accusations on the 1946 banning of the Ukrainian of Representatives received a letter from 10 we are encouraged by a recent article in the Kiev Catholic Church are unsubstantiated. The state­ deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian monthly atheist journal Liudyna і Svit condemning ment further claims that the Church's self-dissolu­ Soviet Socialist Republic condemning a U.S. "vulgar atheism" as a failure. Also, Soviet television tion and reunification with the Russian Orthodox Congressional resolution (S.J. 235 and H.J. 429) broadcast part of the Russian Orthodox Easter Church were voluntary. Assuming the statement to that denounces the Soviet government's suppres­ service from the Epiphany Church in the Kremlin be correct, how can the following questions be sion of religious freedom in Ukraine and dis­ — probably for the first time under Soviet rule. We answered: Why, in the winter of 1944-45, did Soviet courages the official participation of the United would note, however, the broadcast was shown at 3 authorities summon Ukrainian Catholic clergy to States in any official Millennium ceremonies in the a.m., and without any prior notice. "re-education" sessions conducted by NKVD? Soviet Union. Despite these steps, the commission believes that Why, on April 5, 1945, did the Soviet media begin The three-page letter, an unprecedented action the treatment of religious believers in the Soviet an anti-Catholic campaign? And why, on April 11, taken by the deputies, a representative group of Union falls seriously short of the Helsinki Final 1945, did the NKVD begin arresting the entire Soviet Ukrainian citizens from all corners of the Act, Madrid Concluding Document, as well as the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchy of western Ukraine, republic, labeled the joint resolution of the Senate United Nations Universal Declaration on Human among them Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj, the head of and House, as one of "biased character" which Rights and the International Covenant of Civil and the Ukrainian Catholic Church? carries "groundless'' statements on violations of the Polifical Rights. As the Congressional resolution According to the deputies' statement: "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and con­ states, regardless of these obligations, the Ukrai­ decision was adopted by the Uniates themselves at tended that "no people here (in Ukraine) are impri­ nian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches the Lviv Church Council on March 1946, with the soned or persecuted for their religious convictions." are still banned, despite recent petitions from participation of 216 delegates of Uniate clergy and The undated Soviet letter attacks both the believers requesting registration and expressing representatives of laymen." Yet, according to the underground Ukrainian Catholic Church and the willingless to abide by Soviet laws on religion. Catholic Church, synods must have the approval of outlawed Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox These appeals include an August 1987 declaration the pope of Rome and must be attended by bishops. Church, identifying the Churches' members as by two bishops, 35 clergy and 174 laity in Ukraine The March 1946 synod had neither the approval of "collaborators of foreign oppressors" and "zea­ asking that the Ukrainian Catholic Church be the pope nor was the Church hierarchy present — lous underlings of Nazi invaders." restored its rights. This appeal announced that, in they had been arrested almost one year earlier. Below, is the text of the response to the Soviet connection with the Soviet reforms and the Furthermore, there is strong evidence that this Ukrainian letter, written in June by the Helsinki Millennium, they no longer wish to remain entire exercise was planned and directed by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in underground; another appeal this February to the Soviet authorities. According to a January 1987 Europe, which according to the speaker of the U.S. USSR Supreme Soviet was signed by over 5,000 Report by the United States Department of State House of Representatives was the appropriate individuals. To the best of our knowledge there has (Special Report No. 159): "Knowledge of the department to handle the response to the Soviet been no official response to these appeals from 'Sobor' was withheld from the public; no advance letter. The CSCE was established as a result of the believers. election of delegates was held, and only 216 clerics 1975 Helsinki Final Act. It monitors human rights In addition, numerous government regulations and 19 laymen — allegedly representing the violations among the 35 signatory nations. The restrict religious life in the USSR: religious Ukrainian Catholic Church - brought about commission is chaired by Rep. Steny H Hoyer (D- communities are dependent upon the state for 'reunification.' Not surprisingly, the NKVD was Md.), and co-chaired by Sen. Dennis DeConcini legalization, for registration of local congregations entrusted with the task of coercing the remaining (D-Ariz.) and the clergy, for permission to maintain theologi­ Catholic clergy to join the Russian Orthodox cal schools and monastic institutions (with limita­ Church." We are waiting in reference to the letter you sent tions on the number of students) and for publica­ Virtually no Ukrainian Catholic believers knew to the Hon. Jim Wright, Speaker of the House of tion of religious books and periodicals; organized what was going on behind the closed doors of the Representatives, concerning the Congressional religious instruction of minors is prohibited; St. George's cathedral on that weekend in March resolution on religious believers in Ukraine. As you proselytizing outside church premises and mis­ 1946. They certainly had no idea that they had know, Speaker Wright has referred this letter to this sionary activities are prohibited; and at present, "accepted" Russian Orthodoxy. Furthermore, commission, which is mandated by law to monitor believers are forbidden to conduct social services many of the 216 delegates to the "Sobor"(out of the and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final and philanthropical activities. nearly 3,000 Ukrainian Catholic priests) were Act. We welcome the comments of the deputies to The right to conduct religious worship is forced to attend, while others did not even know the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet guaranteed, but groups of citizens may not freely why they were there. The deputies claim that the Socialist Republic in the spirit of establishing a choose the time and place for religious worship. Uniate Church cannot be revived because this dialogue between the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Under Soviet law, religious communities may form would contradict the "autonomous decision" of Soviet and the Congress. and register with state authorities. However, in believers. Yet if the public knew nothing of the We find the deputies' assertion that the resolu­ contradiction to "separation of Church and state," "Sobor," how can one claim that this is something tion reminds them of the "cold war" period any group that worships without state permission is on which believers made a decision? Indeed, to unfortunate. This is, after all, the era of glasnost, subject to criminal penalties. contend that after a 350-year histoiy, an entire when problems are being raised and discussed more As to the statement of the deputies that no one in religious denomination decided to dissolve itself openly in the USSR. The resolution addresses these Ukraine is imprisoned or persecuted for religious almost overnight strains credulity. problems not out of a desire to interfere in internal convictions, the commission has received con­ In truth, the Ukrainian Catholic Church was affairs, but because Soviet compliance with its firmed reports about harassment, fining and destroyed: its dioceses liquidated, its bishops freely undertaken international commitments has imprisonment of religious believers, the destruction imprisoned, killed or exiled, its monasteries and not been forthcoming. Congressional concern for of churches, and publication of hostile anti- convents closed. Bishops and many priests, faced the fate of believers in Ukraine, as manifested by religious propaganda. Documentation exists with either accepting the "Sobor" or imprisonment, this resolution, is both legitimate and appropriate detailing instances of believers in Ukraine, in­ chose the latter. Hundreds of priests were killed or in view of Soviet obligations in Principle VII of the cluding Ukrainian Catholics, Baptists and others, went into hiding and thousands of laity sent to 1975 Helsinki Final Act to "respect the freedom of suffering harassment, illegal searches, beatings and camps. And yet, 42 years after the "self-dissolu­ the individual to profess and practice, alone or in a arrests solely for attempts to practice their religion. tion," an active Ukrainian Catholic movement community with others, religion or belief in If the separation of Church and state and non­ exists today in western Ukraine. accordance with the dictates of his own con­ interference of state bodies into Church affairs are Furthermore, regarding the deputies statement science.'' consistently adhered to, as the deputies' letter on the Ukrainian Catholic Church's alleged The Soviet government has recognized human claims, why, for instance, are Baptist prayer collaboration with Nazi occupiers, the then-head of rights issues, including freedom of religion, as a meetings broken up? Why was the Ukrainian the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Metropolitan legitimate topic of international discourse. It is in Catholic church in Kalinivka in western Ukraine Audrey Sheptytsky, condemned Nazi policies in this spirit to further open and honest dialogue invaded and disrupted during Christmas Eve Ukraine in official pastoral letters and lodged a between the Congress and the Supreme Soviet of services this year? Police and local officials took protest with Himmler against the murder of Jews, the Ukrainian SSR — that these concerns are reprisal against its priest, the Rev. Petro Zeleniuk, and directed his faithful to hide victims of Nazi raised. who has publicly defended the Church's claim to oppression, particularly Jews, in St. George's While you state that the freedom of conscience as legality. Pentecostals in Lviv recently renewed their Cathedral and in monasteries and nunneries. In guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution is campaign for emigration, engaging in hunger fact, when Metropolitan Sheptytsky died in 1944, strictly observed, in fact, the peaceful practice of strikes and demonstrations, because they cannot Soviet authorities permitted the Church to hold an this right is frequently thwarted by Soviet authori­ practice their religion freely. elaborate funeral ceremony for him and did not ties. The Soviet Constitution stipulates separation Repression of religious believers has even been interfere with the enthronement of his successor. of Church and state,^ however, secular authorities discussed recently in the Soviet media. According Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj. must approve church appointments. Even officials to the Liudyna and Svit article (No. 2, 1988, pp. 2- Even if one were to put aside history and assume of the All-Union Council on Religious Affairs have 7), believers have been persecuted to "re-educate" that the "self-dissolution" and "reunification" of publicly admitted that local state officials have them, contradicting your claim of non-interference. the Ukrainian Catholic Church were voluntary and sometimes groundlessly refused legal requests by This article and others agree with the need for a accept the status quo, a basic question remains: believers to open churches. comprehensive public law on religion (present Suppose 20 people want to perform Orthodox There have been steps taken recently with regard instructions and decrees are known only to some liturgy but instead of looking East to Moscow want to religion suggesting a reappraisal by the state. state functionaries and clergy.) The article also calls to look West to Rome? Why are they not permitted Criticism in the Soviet Ukrainian press of abuses by for more democratization in Church-state rela­ to do so? This is the fundamental question. authorities of religious communities have appear­ tions. We only hope that issues raised within this As to the deputies' remarks on the Ukrainian ed. We would urge that this more tolerant attitude article will be acted upon favorably, thereby Autocephalous Orthodox Church, it should be also encompass the Ukrainian Catholic Church and improving Soviet compliance with its commitments noted that this Church was liquidated in 1930 Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Fila- under Principle Vn of the Helsinki Act. (despite Soviet laws proclaiming the separation of ret's recent request for 100,000 Ukrainian language The statement by the deputies claims that (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988 No. 25

A TRAGIC GALLERY: Raisa Rudenko, wife and prisoner

From a series of biographical sketches dedicated to sumably called upon to defend the security of the ground sources reported that she had been arrested. the memory of Yuriy Lytvyn, a Ukrainian publicist USSR, took up a task as a result of which Mykola In September 1981, Raisa went on trial for distri­ who died in a present-day death camp in the USSR. Rudenko could have lost faith in his wife and friend. buting "anti-Soviet" poems of Mykola Rudenko and It is necessary to remind the reader that the accused for the harm done to the USSR as a result of the by Nina Strokata has the right to correspond only after he arrives at the publication of certain of his works outside of the place where he is to serve his sentence. When, for some country. Friendship with those who viewed Soviet ''Release my husband, war invalid and Ukrainian reason, he is not transported there, he can correspond reality in the same way as Raisa was also part of the writer Mykola Rudenkor - inscription on a placard only with the approval of the public prosecutor. For accusation. At the trial Raisa defended herself as best carried by Raisa Rudenko in a Moscow public square the most part such approval is given by the public she could, having refused to accept the services of the on May 9, 1979. prosecutor who is assigned to oversee the activity of lawyer that was assigned to her by the KGB. Her It is harder to write about Raisa Rudenko than the KGB. (Such a post exists in every regional sentence: 10 years of confinement (five years in a camp about other women because Mykola Rudenko has prosecutor's office.) of severe regimen and five years of exile.) Thus, in already written about her. Nevertheless, the genre of The prosecutor in Kiev gave permission for Mykola 1981, the court sentenced the wife of Mykola Rudenko biography permits the writing of prose, even about a Rudenko to write to his wife, and Mykola, incarce­ almost exactly as.it did him in 1977. disturbing and extraordinary life. rated in a KGB prison in Kiev, began to do so. Raisa Raisa did not appeal her sentence, having already Raisa was born in 1939 in the village of Petrivka in also wrote to him. But not a single letter of Mykola's learned the futility of such appeals. Shortly after the the Syneinikivsky district of the Dnipropetrovske ever reached Raisa, and not a single letter of hers ever trial Raisa was taken to a prison camp. The KGB, region. Shortly after her birth, her parents moved to reached him. apparently, did not have any need to play more games the Vinnytsia region, where she spent her childhood. Those who organized this mystification assured with the Rudenko marriage. Her early years were spent in the shadow of World Mykola that all of his letters were sent to his wife and The women's camp in Mordovia to which Raisa was War II. Her father died in the war: his death occurred that if he did not receive a reply that was because Raisa taken, was situated next to the same camp in which in the days immediately after the war's conclusion was was no longer interested in the fate of her husband and Raisa had made her official visits to her husband. announced. Raisa's mother had to bring up three had abandoned him. The KGB continued to suggest Since men's and women's camps in Mordovia, as in children while working on a collective farm. the idea that he recant. other remote parts of the gulag archipelago are strictly After finishing her schooling, Raisa became a Mykola Rudenko did not recant, although the isolated, Raisa had no hope that she could see her laboratory assistant and found work in her profession Chekists assured him that, in refusing, he hurt only husband in confinement. The KGB, however, has its in Kiev. Her meeting with Mykola Rudenko resulted himself. Later we learned of this time of torment from own program: at the same time that Raisa was being in a deep love and made possible a wide and those poems that reached the free world from behind taken to the Mordovian camp, Mykola was being independent self-education, which they began to prison bars: transported to a camp in the Urals. pursue together. Their lives were rewarding, though From the beginning of her arrival in camp Raisa full of difficulties, including material want. Raisa If that storm which swept the soul became ill from the prison food. When the KGB found shared her husband's philosophical search, guarded Could burst out of the innermost part of me, out about this, it was decided that the time was right to his peace of mind, and stayed with him in the world О how much evil would engulf the world. pressure Raisa either to repudiate her husband or to that the poet-philosopher created in his soul. denounce his activities. To this end she was taken to Later, in poems composed in prison, Mykola Finally the time came when Mykola was taken to the "capital" of the Mordovian KGB in Saransk. A Rudenko wrote: the prison camp. Raisa immediately set out to visit him number of other prisoners also were brought here, and subsequently came on every visit allowed her meanwhile, in the now deserted camp, installation of a Life is you. Your small hands husband. These camp meetings took place until 1981, system of eavesdropping devices began. Hold the world which lives in me. when Raisa herself became a prisoner. Failing to obtain a recantation and having com­ When it became clear that Mykola's poems had pleted installation of the hidden microphones, the In 1976 Mykola Rudenko became one of the co- overcome all obstacles and had appeared in the KGB brought the women back to their camp quarters. founders and the head of the Ukrainian Helsinki underground press, Raisa became the object of intense Here it should be mentioned that Raisa found herself Group; he was arrested a few months later. The harassment: she was detained at train stations when in the same camp in which Kateryna Zarytska and members of the group spoke up on his behalf, as did she was returning from camp visits, was the subject of Odarka Husak had finished serving their prison terms, Amnesty International, writers in the West and unexpected searches, and sometimes a "thief" would as did other women who were sentenced for their activists in public life in the Ukrainian diaspora. seize her handbag from her. Ukrainian patriotism during the "stagnant" 1970s. Out of all those who took it upon themselves to Whoever knows even a little of the "Soviet way of Out of the group of Ukrainian women only one, preserve Mykola Rudenko's freedom, the most active life" will already have guessed that Raisa was in Oksana Popovych, still remained in this particular was his wife, Raisa. She wrote and sent out declara­ danger. Attempts to destroy the harmony between camp, and she saw that Raisa Rudenko was a tions of protest, which were a source of information husband and wife did not cease. Now even the local harbinger of the wave of repression that, in the first for us about the planned repressions that were carried police where Raisa lived alone were co-opted into this half of the 1980s, would become an added adornment out against Mykola Rudenko. Raisa even demon­ "work." In April 1981 there were rumors in Kiev that of the period of "stagnation." strated in a public place in Moscow where the liveliest Raisa had disappeared. Shortly thereafter, under- During Raisa's incarceration (1981-1986) a number protest demonstrations often occurred. of activists in the human, national and religious rights During the trial of Mykola Rudenko, Raisa was movement served their sentences in the same camp. called as a witness and informed that her husband was They were not a large group, but the women prisoners accused of preparing, possessing and distributing his of the 1980s wrote one of the most outstanding pages writings. in the history of camp resistance. This fact needs to be "Preparing" texts is a writer's profession; "pos­ mentioned because Raisa Rudenko was one of the sessing" and "distributing" what one has written is the authors of this history. logical result of a writer's work. But the judges of the The women prisoners of the '80s raised the sense of USSR have their own logic: they were looking for human dignity to the status of a cult. They permitted three signs of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda," only one form of rule over themselves: the rule of the ^ and "preparing, possessing, distributing" fulfilled the spirit of solidarity. requirements exactly. An exceptional modus vivendi emerged in the camp: Called as a witness, the writer's wife declared that every attempt at unjust punishment by the administra­ she had typed several copies of some of her husband's tion was forcefully met by protests, either in the form works. She did this not because she agreed to be a of work stoppages or hunger strikes. The women witness against the accused but because she hoped that prisoners of the '80s refused to submit to the degrading such an admission would lessen the weight of rules of camp etiquette. Soviet law forbids prisoners to accusations against her husband. participate in any kind of defense of another person. Her hopes proved to be futile: the court imposed the Yet in a 1983 document from one of the women's harshest penalty against the writer that it could under camps, we read the following: "We support the natural the laws of the USSR. Mykola Rudenko was sen­ right of a human being to organize his actions and to tenced to 12 years: seven years in a camp of severe come to the defense of another." These words are regimen and five years in exile. taken from an appeal to the government of the USSR, After the trial, Raisa awaited the day on which her signed by eight persons. One of the signatures is Raisa husband would be transported to camp, where she would Rudenko's. be able to visit him (unless he was punished by having In the same year Raisa also signed a collective letter his visiting rights denied, a common practice with by women prisoners to the leaders of the 35 nations political prisoners.) Mykola, however, was not taken that were signatories to the Helsinki Accords. The to camp, but to the KGB prison in Kiev. There the following statement from the letter is particularly organizers of his "case" tried to persuade the convicted striking: "The citizens of the USSR ... undergo writer to recant his views. They promised him freedom national and religious discrimination and suffer if he would only do so. The KGB "knights," pre- persecution for their beliefs." Having signed her name to such a statement, Raisa Rudenko took a step Nina Strokata is a founding member of the toward the defense of the collective rights of the nation Ukrainian Helsinki Group who has resided in the to which she belongs. United States since 1979 when she and her husband, In 1984, 10 women in the Mordovian camp, after Sviatoslav Karavansky, were forced by Soviet hearing of President Ronald Reagan's re-election, authorities to emigrate. This article appeared earlier in wrote a letter of greeting to the president who was Vira (Faith), a quarterly publication of the United popular in dissident circles. The prisoners of the gulag Ukrainian Orthodox Sisterhoods, in the January- March 1988 issue. Raisa Rudenko after her emigration to the Weste (CoBtiiiiieil on page IS) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988

PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: May 22 events in Kiev, a flashback to the 1960s

These photographs, taken by 17- krainian American tourists who visited Ukraine in May, depict scenes from the events, both official and unofficial that took place at the Taras Shevchenko monument in Kiev on May 22, The Ukrainian Culturological Club (UCC), based in the Ukrainian capital, had organized an unofficial cultural program to mark the day Shevchenko's body was moved from St. Petersburg to Ukraine for burial. Ц^еп the organizers, among them Oles Shevchenko, Serhiy Naboka and Vitaliy Shevchenko, arrived at the monument, located in a park across the street from Shevchenko State University, much to their amazement an official program was in progress. While UCC members and sup­ porters, such as Ukrainian Herald editors Vyacheslav Chornovil and Mykhailo Horyn, were allowed to place flowers arid a bouquet of wheat at the foot of the monument during the official program, they were denied permission to read the bard's poetry. Thus, a group of Kiev University students, UCC members and other dissidents and cultural rights advo^ cates conducted their own informal program of song and poetry-reading some 300 feet away. Several Ukrainian American tou­ rists also attended this rare, but stirring display of national sentiment and unity honoring the poet who Boris Oliynyk, Ukrainian writer and director of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, welcomes Kievans to official links all Ukrainians in spirit world­ program honoring Shevchenko on May 22. Programs marking the date, a tradition among dissidents of the 19||i0s, wide. had heen banned since the early 1970s.

UCC members and Kiev University students sing Ukrainian songs in a light Vitaliy Shevchenko places bouquet of wheat at foot of the Shevchenko drizzle during unofficial program on May 22. monument on behalf of the Ukrainian Culturological Club.

Yevheii Sverstiiik (left), well-known literary figure and UCC adviser, chats wllli Uk rainl^ii Herald editors Yyaclieskv Clioriiovil and Mykhailo Standing In front of his alma mater^ Vyacheslav Chornovil(left) speaks with Heryis ciMriiig file events. UCC mttWM Oles Shevcheeto, ш Mykhtilo Moryn looks on. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1988 No. 25

Philatelists release history video TORONTO - The local branch of Ukrainian Republic of 1917-1921. A the Ukrainian Philatelic and Numis­ wide variety of trident overprints are Who, what, when, matic Society has just released a video featured. Reference is made to U- "A History of Postage Stamps in kraine's membership in the Universal Ukraine." The video is the branch's Postal Union. Millennium project. The video also documents the stamps where and why... "A History of Postage Stamps in of Western Ukraine, Carpatho-Ukraine Ukraine" is a unique documentary and the German occupation of Ukraine which traces the development of the during World War II. postal system in Ukraine and explores "A History of Postage Stamps in the diversity of the postage stamps that Ukraine" provides not only the philate­ were used on the lands that are Ukraine. list but also the uninformed with an La Salle holds Millennium Forum Produced by Peter Palijenko, the opportunity to experience the exciting by Erast Z. Pohoryio an illustration. video is based on a script by Mykola history of Ukrainian philately. The On the whole, the course revealed the Hawrysh. Mr. Hawrysh himself pro­ stamps, envelopes and cards featured PHILADELPHIA - Sixteen stu­ importance of Christian spirituality in vides the narration. The video was are numerous, well-selected and worthy dents and dozens of scholars from La Ukrainian literature from earliest times filmed and edited by Ihor Lomaga, with of any collection. The video is an Salle University and from neighboring to the present. the assistance of Myroslava Baker- educational medium which brings out institutions of higher learning partici­ The Millennium Forum began with a Oleksiuk. the vibrant and turbulent history of pated in a unique academic venture lecture by Dr. Miroslav Labunka, also The documentary spans over 250 Ukrainian postage. dedicated to marking the Millennium of of La Salle University, on the subject of years of postal history in Ukraine. It Ukraine's baptism, i.e., the "Millen­ The video, narrated in Ukrainian (an the baptism of Kievan Rus' by V0I0- begins with the development of the English version will appear in October) nium Forum" of La Salle and a course dymyr the Great in the year 988. postal system in the 1720s. The regional in Ukrainian literature. is available for S35 (make checks Dr. Labunka reviewed the historical or "zemstvo" stamps of the 19th century payable to Ukrainian Philatelic Society Organized and coordinated by Dr. facts of this event and indicated some of are then explored. The video places of Toronto) from: Philatelic Video, 120 L.D. Rudnytzky, both the forum, which the wealth and power of Kievan Rus', much emphasis on the stamps of the South Drive, Toronto, Ont. M4W 1R8. consisted of a series of lectures, work­ later to be called Ukraine. He also shops and seminars funded by various emphasized the significance of the individuals and institutions (among baptism to the Ukrainian nation as a Utica plans various events them the Philadelphia Millennium unifying and strengthening force in Committee and the Ukrainian Congress Ukrainian history. by Myron B. Rabij Americans in an effort to raise commu­ Committee - Ukrainian Community The next event in the forum was a nity awareness of the Ukrainian cultural of Metropolitan Philadelphia), and the UTICA, N.Y. - The Utica Commit­ slide presentation on the meaning, tee to Commemorate the Millennium of heritage and its repression by the Soviet literature course provided an excellent significance and symbolism of the opportunity for students and visitors Christianity in Ukraine has organized a Union, which does not allow freedom of Ukrainian icon, by the Rev. Marian series of memorial activities this year to worship. alike to gain a more than cursory Procyk. The Rev. Procyk discussed the acquaintance with Ukrainian culture. mark the historic anniversary of a The year's highlight event will be a history of iconography and explained thousand years of Christian faith in concert and banquet featuring Ukrai­ The Ukrainian literature course itself the subtle symbolism of the icon. He offered a survey of the history of Ukraine. nian opera singer Stefan Szkafarowsky pointed out that, by the 19th century, and the Canadian American vocal Ukrainian writing, focusing on some of the icons which were being painted no Scheduled events include a concert the most important authors and works. and banquet on June 25 at the Shera­ ensemble Verkhovyna. The keynote longer conformed to the traditional address will be given Dr. George Soltys, '"The Lay of Ihor's Campaign" was iconography. ton Inn Ballroom, and scheduled meet­ discussed in detail, and it was shown ings with Mayor Louis La Polla and national Millennium committee chair­ how this earliest known Ukrainian epic The Rev. Procyk used a large number County Executive John D. Plumley. man. The Utica Ukrainian Women's of slides of individual icons and ikono- contains the basic principles of Chris­ Organized by chairman Prof. Boh- Ensemble and the Youth Dance En­ tian ethics and morality. stases as examples of the richness and semble also will perform. beauty of this deeply spiritual art. dan J. Rabij as a joint coalition of the various Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrai­ Locally, the committee distributes to Several of the works of Taras Shev- In the following gathering of the chenko and Ivan Franko were con­ nian Orthodox parishes in the Utica the public free informational leaflets forum. Dr. George Perfecky, who also area, the committee was founded last and brochures regarding Ukrainian sidered with special attention to their teaches at La Salle, spoke about the religious content. Christian themes and April as a local affiliate of the National religious and cultural affairs. A very Russification of the Ukrainian lan­ Committee to Commemorate the successful Ukrainian crafts and Easter motifs in Soviet Ukrainian literature guage, providing an alarming glimpse were also traced, and Мукоїд Ru- Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. egg exhibit also has toured several area denko's poem "The Cross" was used as (Continued on page 13) The group unites local Ukrainian shopping centers. Northeastern Pennsylvania's Ukrainians present exhibit SCRANTON, Pa. - The Millen­ Pa., presented several selections, in­ followed with delightful entertainment Paul and Helen Ewasko, Andrew Gre- nium Committee of Ukrainians of cluding "The Millennium Hymn" writ­ of Ukrainian folk music and dance. gorovich, the Very Rev. Mitred Stephen Northeastern Pennsylvania, in conjunc­ ten especially for the Jubilee Year by the Hrynuck, the Very Rev. Canon Bohdan Rev. John Sembrat of Edmonton and A reception, compliments of Dr. and tion with the Pennsylvania Anthracite Mrs. Kenneth Lilik and Dr. and Mrs. and Maria Izak, Christine Chomyn- Heritage Museum, is currently display­ an Olyphant native. The chorus was Izak, the Very Rev. Mitred Nestor and under the direction of Prof. Nicholas Eugene Stec, concluded the afternoon's ing Ukrainian artifacts here at the festivities. Tamara Kowal, Msgr. Bohdan Olesh, McDade Park Complex. Martynuk. Jerry and Helen Pronko, Charles and The display formally opened on May The Kazka Ensemble, made up of five The exhibit contains artifacts from Mary Warholak, the Rev. D. George 15 and will continue until mid-August. young persons of Ukrainian heritage the collections of the following: the Rev. Worschak, Olga Yudisky and Parania The exhibit is a tribute to Ukrainians from the McAdoo-Pottsville, Pa., area. Alex Burak, Paula Duda, Ann Ewasko, Zalitach. and their Millennium of Christianity. Titled "Ukrainians in the Anthracite Region: A Millennium of Christianity — A Millennium of Traditions." It consists of various religious and cul­ tural articles including vestments, century-old Gospels, icons, kylyms, candle holders, oil paintings, early photographs of the first hierarchs of both the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic Churches in the USA, etc. The program and reception on open­ ing day attracted more than 800 per­ sons. Chester Kulesa, curator of collec­ tions, opened the program with a welcome message, and Paul S. Ewasko, president of the local Millennium of committee, spoke on behalf of his ecumenically composed organization. Keynote speaker Dr. Walter Karpi- nich, associate professor of languages and literature at Wilkes College in ^entre/The Scrantonian Tribune Wilkes-Barre, Pa., spoke on the Ukrai­ Kazka Ensemble members, (from left) Sandra Minarch!k- Museum; William Roditski, vice-president, Millennium nian Millennium of Christianity. Hoilko, Joseph Zucofski, Mary Ann Kolativa, Michael Committee of Ukrainians of Northeastern Pennsylvania; and Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Duda, Paula Duda; keynote speaker Dr. Walter Karpinich; Paul S. Ewasko, committee president. Catholic Church Choir of Olyphant, Cbester Kulesa, curator of collections. Anthracite Heritage No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988

Illinois legislature passes resolution UKRAINIANV by Marianna Liss sion: it is the Ukrainian "Millennium of faith" that "promises great hope for the SPRINGFIELD, 111. - On May 11,a future of humanity and for the victory Who, what, when, few weeks before the U.S.-Soviet ...of the soirit over materialism and summit began in Moscow, the over tyranny." Illinois General Assembly — the state's Julian Kulas spoke of the significance legislative body — passed Joint Resolu­ to Ukrainians of holding the Millennial where and why... tion 5 asking President Ronald Reagan celebrations in Springfield, "the home of not to visit the Danilov Russian Ortho­ our great President Abraham Lincoln dox Monastery. ... who brought freedom to millions." In the resolution, the assembly first The occasion "intimates. to us," he applauded the president for signing continued, "that the liberty and free­ Congressional Joint Resolution 235, dom of this country will eventually Bridgeport supports Harvard Project urging U.S. government officials not to become the precious heritage of the participate in Soviet celebrations of the Ukrainian people and all enslaved Christian Millennium. people of the world." However, the Illinois state body also Also seated on the dais were the Rev. requested that the president "pursue the Olexa R. Harbuziuk, president of the matter of the outlawed Ukrainian All-Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Churches," instead of visiting a mona­ Fellowship; Roman Mycyk, chairman stery which was characterized as "a of the Millennium of Christianity in showcase to bolster the state-sanctioned Ukraine Commemoration Committee, submissive Russian Orthodox Church Illinois Chapter; Myroslaw Samchy- while cloaking Communist persecution shyn, vice-chairman of that committee; of religion." and Dr. Myroslaw Charkewych, the State Rep. Myron J. Kulas, (D-lOth Illinois Division president of the Ukrai­ District), who sponsored the state joint nian Congress Committee of America. resolution, said that he hoped the Among these watching the proceed­ president would note their concern. It ings were former Soviet political priso­ was the state legislators themselves ner Mykola Rudenko, who recently though, that were the most affected. emigrated from the Soviet Union and Rep. Kulas said, "Representatives came now heads the Ukrainian Helsinki up to me, especially the more recently Group's External Representation. elected, and said 'We've learned so The Bayda Choir ended the program much.' " with the singing of "Mnohaya Lita," And, he noted, it was rare enough for wishing the legislators many years. a state assembly to comment on a The same choir also started the Rep. Christopher Shays, honorary member of Bridgeport's Millennium presidential decision on foreign affairs. Springfield celebrations earlier in the committee, addresses the banquet. To his right are Dr. Frank Sysyn (seated) of It was rarer still, he said, for an assembly day. Prior to the legislative session, the Harvard University's Ukrainian Research Institute and Philip Yachmetz, master oif to meet in joint session to honor the group entertained legislators and visi­ ceremonies. Millennium of Ukrainian Christianity. tors in the Capitol Building's rotunda by Constance Nosevich sity and Fairfield University, with gifts That day's legislative program in­ area with selections of Ukrainian folk­ pf these volumes. They were accepted cluded the reading of the joint resolu­ songs and church compositions. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Saturday with pleasure, thanks and the hope that tion by Rep. Kulas, and State Senate Legislators representing the Chicago evening, April 30, was a festive and the high ideals of the Harvard Project Resolution 1000, sponsored by State metropolitan area were present to greet memorable occasion for the Bridgeport will be realized. Sen. Walter Dudycz, (R-17th District). Chicago's Ukrainian community, in­ area Ukrainian community and their Also included in the Harvard Project Rep. Kulas and Sen. Dudycz are the cluding students of St. Nicholas Ukrai­ friends. The Harvard Project benefit will be the publication of an encyclo­ two Ukrainian American state legisla­ nian Catholic Parochial School. banquet and dance, sponsored by the pedic reference work on the history of tors in Illinois. Welcoming the groups were: State Greater Bridgeport Committee for Ukrainian Churches, the recently con­ Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Innocent Reps. Rodger P. McAuliffe (R-14th Millennial Celebration, was held at the vened international conference on the Lotocky gave the invocation, while District), Jane Barnes (R-38th District). Hillandale Country Club. Millennium held in Ravenna, Italy, and Ukrainian Orthodox Archbishop Con- Bernard E. Pedersen (R-54th District), The committee was privileged to have endowment of a chair of Ukrainian reli­ stantine of Chicago gave an address, as Thaddeus Lechowicz (D-6th District), Dr. Frank E. Sysyn, associate director gious thought at the Harvard Divinity did Julian Kulas, the well-known Chi­ as well as State Sens. Adeline J. Geo- of the Ukrainian Research Institute at School. cago attorney. Karis (R-31st District), Bob Raica (R- Harvard University, as the keynote 24th District), Judith Baar Topinka (R- Honored guests present included Dr. The importance of the resolution to speaker. Thomas F. Melady, president emeritus the Illinois Ukrainian community was 22nd District) and Miguel del Valle (D- The evening began with a social hour 5th District), who represents the Ukrai­ of Sacred Heart University, who is now apparent from the 400 people in Ukrai­ and mingling of the approximately 200 active in the Republican Party; Edward nian attire crowding the galleries, nian Village area. guests present. Sen. de Valle expressed his long and Louise Kirchner, whose association watching the special program. Philip and Marusia Yachmetz, who with the Ukrainian community goes Archbishop Constantine was the first admiration of the Ukrainian commu­ served as masters of ceremony, wel­ nity's determination and "its ability to back to post-World War II and caring community leader to speak at the joint comed all to the celebration. The Rev. for refugees; Rep. Christopher J. Shays; session, explaining Soviet efforts to come together and to speak with one John Terlecky of Holy Protection voice and do the kinds of things neces­ and Rosa Correa, a Hispanic commu­ undermine the Ukrainian celebrations. Ukrainian Catholic Church gave the nity leader. Yet, the ultimate victory, as he indi­ sary to strengthen a community." invocation after which an inspiring cated, will not belong to Soviet oppres­ (Continued on page 15) rendition of Verbetsky's "Otche Nash" All of the honored guests spoke was sung by a combined choir from the briefly and their remarks all had the three area Ukrainian churches under pervasive theme of the joy of the the direction of Daria Santerre. Millennial celebration and the bonds of Dr. Sysyn spoke about the Harvard the Ukrainian people. Project, its meaning and its goal to A donation of over S5,000 was pre­ preserve and make accessible the trea­ sented to Dr. Sysyn for the Harvard sures of Ukrainian Christian culture. To Project, and the dinner was concluded this end four volumes have thus far been with a benediction by the Rev. Dennis published. Dr. Sysyn presented two Kristof of St. Mary's Ukrainian Ortho­ area universities. Sacred Heart Univer- dox Church. Gala concert held in Clifton CLIFTON, N.J. - An enthusiastic The master of ceremonies for the crowd of 600 individuals attended a gala event was Kenneth Wanio. Introductory concert in celebration of the Millen­ speeches were given by Maiion Hrubec nium of Ukrainian Christianity on and I. Tatarenko, representatives for Sunday, April 17 at Clifton High area Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox School. parishes, respectively. Clifton Mayor The program featured Metropolitan Gloria Kolodziej delivered a short Opera bass-baritone Andrij Dobrian- address to the gathering. Other digni­ sky, the Dumka Choir of New York taries included clergy of area Ukrainian City and performers from the School of parishes. Ballet of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. The concert was sponsored by the At the joint session of the Illinois House and Senate, are: (from left) Dr. Myroslaw Selections for the evening concert Passaic-Bergen chapter of the Ukrai­ Charkewych, Archbishop Constantine, Dr. Myroslaw Samchyshyn, Bishop included religious and secular Ukrai­ nian Congress Committee of America Innocent Lotocky, Roman Mycyk, State Rep. Myron Kulas, Julian Kulas and nian music as well as a ballet titled, in conjunction' with area Ukrainian State Sen.. Walter Dudycz. "Fight for Freedom." Catholic and Orthodox parishes. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1988 No. 25

to operate. At least 17 Ukrainian Orthodox airing of differences is the only way to contribute to Helsinki Commission's... churches were burned by the Nazi occupation a positive businesslike dialogue on various problem (Continued from page 7) forces in the Volhynia region in Ukraine, including areas. We hope that your government will continue Church and state). The Soviet secret police (GPU) five full of worshippers, and over 100 Ukrainian to take more positive steps in its treatment of called an "extraordinary council" in 1930, pres­ Orthodox priests were killed. These are hardly religious believers. We are particularly encouraged suring the Church to announce its liquidation. actions one would take towards "a zealous by General Secretary Gorbachev's recent state­ During the 1930s, most of its bishops, hundreds of underling." The Ukrainian Orthodox Church ments on religion to Russian Orthodox Patriarch priests and thousands of its followers were ceased to exist in Ukraine during the return of Pimen on the drafting of a new law on freedom of executed. Even in the 1920s, Soviet authorities had Ukraine to Soviet control. conscience. We welcome any further comments you meddled in the affairs of this church, demanding Nevertheless, dissenters, such as the Rev. Vasyl might have. There are many differences, real and the ouster of Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky, Romaniuk, who considers himself to be a member substantial, that separate us. But we stand on banning the Church organ Church and Life, and of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, common ground when we invoke the Helsinki Final imprisoning Church activists. continue to be harassed for their beliefs; also, in Act. It is in the spirit of the Final Act that we The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox January, former political prisoner Oles Shev- express our concerns on these issues and welcome Church re-established itself in September 1941, chenko wrote an appeal to General Secretary constructive dialogue. shortly after the German invasion, but was viewed Gorbachev requesting the restoration of this by Nazi occupiers with suspicion and hostility. The Church on the occasion of the Millennium of the With kindest regards, we are Nazis dissolved the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Christianization of Kievan Rus'. Sincerely, Church Council and banned all of its activities. ^ We recognize that our views on these issues are Church services were restricted, religious publish­ sometimes in sharp disagreement with the deputies' Dennis DeConcini Steny H. Hoyer ing banned, and theological schools not permitted stated views. Nevertheless, we feel that an honest Co-chairman Chairman Russian Orthodox... to continue from June 18 through July| voiced his disapproval of the idea of 'іЖЖЗлШШЖЖЖЖЖШШ 10 in the various dioceses of the Soviet revival and legalization of the r^ (Continued from page 1) Union. Ukrainian Catholic Church. He has A UNA II from Mykola Kolesnyk, chairman of In a recent interview published in The j said that legalizing the Catholic Church the Council of Religious Affairs in Ukrainian News, a pro-Soviet monthly will strain the relationship between the I insurance policy || Ukraine, who showed little enthusiasm newspaper published in New York City, Russian Orthodox Church and the Ш for the metropolitan's proposal, stating Metropolitan Filaret stated: "I consider Vatican and promote Ukrainian 75 an investment Щ that unlimited access to the the celebration of the Millennium of the nationalist sentiments. Ш Volodymyrska Hora (St. Volodymyr's baptism of Rus to be in itself the most Soviet officials, among them, Soviet Hill) would entail organizational convincing proof of the freedom of President Andrei Gromyko had been in the Ukrainian || problems. conscience and religion in the Soviet more open-minded about the Vatican- m However, all the proposed programs Ш Union. Those who attend the jubilee initiated talks with the Russian community had received official state will see with their own eyes whether Orthodox Church leaders on the subject m permission and they were to be there is freedom of conscience in this of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, M conducted as part of the officiad country." scheduled to take place in Finland next m Millennium celebrations before the The metropolitan has been in the month. festivities moved to Leningrad and news quite often lately, as the situation u Vladimir on June 17. 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the process of making a pysanka. River that Prince Volodymyr baptized LaSalle... On the same day, the Rt. Rev. Frank Catholics... his people. (Continued from page 10) Estocin, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, (Continued from page 1) Mr. Khmara welcomed as a small of the Russians' ongoing efforts to lectured on the history of the division bachev and Pope John Paul II, the Rev. Victory for the Church the fact that two destroy the Ukrainian culture. between the Orthodox and Catholic Mykhaylo Kutz officiated at the Bili- Uniate bishops and several priests and Dr. Albert Kipa of Muehlenberg Churches and explained some of the chin liturgy in a woodland chapel layman met in Moscow last week College lectured on the development of differences between them. For the many rebuilt after authorities destroyed it, with Cardinal Jan Willebrands of the Ukrainian music, a topic with which students who were not very familiar Mr. Khmara reported. Netherlands, one of three Vatican very few people are familiar, during the with the Orthodox Church, this talk In an interview conducted by Reuters representatives at the Millennium cele­ following meeting of the Millennium proved to be a most valuable learning late Tuesday evening, June 14, Mr. brations. Forum. His talk canvassed the history experience. Khmara explained that in 1946 Stalin Roman Catholic and Russian Ortho­ of Ukrainian music from the 11th The Millennium Forum of La Salle accused Uniates of collaborating with dox representatives are due to set out century to the present, and several University and the concomitant litera­ the Nazi German invaders and forced their position on the Uniate problem at a recordings of various pieces were played ture course were both instructive and their Church to merge with the Russian meeting in a monastery in Finland next as illustrations. The richness of U- entertaining. A very broad range of Orthodox Church. He added that not a month. kraine's musical heritage, as seen in the subjects was covered and various realia single Uniate bishop had agreed to this But Mr. Khmara said he expected vast store of liturgical music and the (films, slides, photos and art objects) merger (by this time, they, along with little from this meeting as Uniates works of composers such as Bortnian- were used to endow the course with a Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj, had been would not be involved. He said the aim sky, Hulak-Artemovsky, Lysenko and greater sense of reality and depth. arrested). Of these hierarchs, 11 died in of the Church was to achieve legal others, was made evident^ Students who participated in both labor camps in the 1940s and 1950s. status, but not at any price. The lecture served to introduce to the ventures as well as guests from the Mr. Khmara said that the Church has "We will preserve the integrity of audience the little-known musical cul­ community who attended both the survived and currently ministers to our Church... We will not allow the ture of Ukraine and showed it to be on a forum and the lectures by Dr. Rudnyt- several million faithful at liturgies in government to interfere in our affairs as par with the great musical traditions of zky, agreed that this was truly a unique private apartments and forests which the Russian Orthodox Church has the world. academic way of marking the jubilee of the police periodically break up. bowed to the state," he said. The next event was a visit to the Ukraine's baptism. The Kiev-based Ukrainian Culturo- studios of the Ukrainian artist Marko As a culmination of the course, Dr. logical Club, according to Мґ. Khmara, JOIN THE UNA- Zubar, who is known for developing a Rudnytzky will deliver a lecture in the has objected to the Millennium jubilee- INSURE YOURSELF new technique for making ceramics. university's "Concert and Lecture celebrations billed as the Millennium of AND BE SAFE! Mr. Zubar explained his work and gave Series" titled "Light from the East — A Russian Christianity, stating that, a slide presentation highlighting some Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine was where the faith was born. HURYN MEMORIALS of his pieces. Although one can find Eastern Europe," which will take place Reuters reported that ordinary Kiev FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE certain Ukrainian religious undertones on September 22. Members of the residents say the celebrations should MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ in Mr. Zubar's work, it was noted that, Ukrainian Community of Greater have begun in their city rather than TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA like the modern icons which are now Philadelphia and students from neigh­ Moscow, because it was in the Dnipro of New York includinjg Holy Spirit in painted, much of it is lacking in terms of boring universities and colleges are H^mptonburgh, N.Y., St. Andrew's in South HUCULKA Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in traditional elements. invited to attend. Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery Following the Easter recess, a lecture Icon 8L Souvenir's Distribution 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R in Glen Spey, New York. and workshop on pysanky, the tradi­ Bronx, NY 10461 tional Ukrainian Easter eggs, was given Ukrainian American... We offer, personal service A guidance in your ЯЕРвЕ8ЕтлтЕап(і\МЮІЕ8АІЕИо(ЕМВВОЮЕИЕОВШи8Е8 fiome. 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UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Monthly reports for April RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR APRIL 1988 MEMBERSHIP REPORT Paid To Or For Members: Cash Surrenders 533,140.14 Endowments Matured 78,879.50 Juv. Adults ADD Totals Death Benefits 48,650.00 TOTAL AS OF MARCH 31.1988 18.482 48.674 6.432 73588 Interest On Death Benefits 103.57 GAINS IN APRIL 1988 Reinsurance Premiums Paid 25.66 New members 35 52 5 92 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 1,190.00 Reinstated 31 61 7 99 Scholarships 1,000.00 11 2 13 Change class in 4 3 7 Total... 5162,988.87 Transferred from Juv. Dent TOTAL GAINS: 70 127 14 211 Operating Expenses: LOSSES IN APRIL 30 „ . Real Estate 579,11220 Suspended.. 16 17 13 46 Svoboda Operation 137,159.92 Transferred out 8 2 10 Official Publication-Svoboda 85,000.00 Change of class out J J _7 Organizing Expenses: Transferred to adults... Advertising , 53222.97 Died...... 3 57 60 Medical Inspections 40020 Cash surrender..... 31 47 78 Reward To Special Organizers 2,07924 Endowment matured... 28 31 59 Reward To Branch Secretaries 91,539.14 Fully paid-up 21 69 90 Reward To Branch Presidents And Treasurers... 2.00 Reduced paid-up Reward To Organizers... 14,976.67 Extended insurance Supreme Medical Examineґs Fee 375.00 Cert, terminated 1 12 13 Field Conferences 864.37 TOTAL LOSSES: 10-3 233 27 363 INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Total.., 5113.459.59 CAINllN APRIL 30 Paid up 21 69 - 90 Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: Extended insurance 8 8 16 Salary Of Executive Officers... 512,916.68 TOTAL GAINS: 29 77 — - 106 Salary Of Office Employee 52,721.87 LOSSES IN Employee Benefit Plan 12592.06 1 26 27 Insurance-General.... 50.00 Cash surrender 21 15 - 36 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages... 24,01029 Reinstated 1 7 8 Canadian Corporation Premium Tax 3,052.00 Lapsed 5 5 10 TOTAL LOSSES: 28 53 81 Total... 5105.342.90

TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP General Expenses: AS OF APRIL 30,1988^^.^ 18,450 48,592 6,419 73,461 Actuarial And Statistical Expenses 56,300.00 Books And Periodicals 22423 Dues To Fraternal Congresses. 168.00 WALTER SOCHAN General Office Maintenance 2296.75 Supreme Secretary Insurance Department Fees..! 12,300.98 Operating Expense Of Canadian Office... 160.18 1,421.50 Printing And Stationery 6,26420 Rental Of Equipment And Services 262.61 Telephone, Telegraph 829.99 Traveling Expenses-General 2,04220

Total.. ІШТІШ FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Miscellaneous: I nvestment Expense-Mortgages 5175.00 INCOME FOR APRIL 1988 Loss On Bonds... 382.50 Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund Disbursements... 2,171.00 Fraternal Activities.. 564.10 Dues From Members... S221,308.89 Accrued Interest On Bonds.... 4,339.73 Income From "Svoboda" Operation.... 134,629.68 Professional Fees 3,000.00 Investment Income: Bonds 1450,978.99 bffiL 510.632.33 Certificate Loans 2,920.62 Mortage Loans 42,200.38 Investments: Banks 857120 Bonds 5599,750.00 Stocks 6,765.18 Mortgages 21,773.68 Real Estate 41,641.65 Stock 6,765.18 Certificate Loans 2,920.62 jmz t553.07i.fl2 Real Estate 2348.00 E.D.P. Equipment 418.10 Refunds: Taxes Federal, State i. City On Employee Wages... Я9.328.43 5634.475.58 Insurance Workmens Compensation 25.80 Disbursements For April, 1988.. 51360.442.03 Taxes Held In Escrow 1,623.00 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 437.38 Official Publication "Svoboda" 34,615.17 BALANCE Bank Charge Ret'd 171.87 Book і Printed Matter Refd 30.00 Insurance Group Ret'd 250.00 Scholarship Ret'd 300.00 ASSETS , Liabilities Travel Expense Ret'd 1,465.90 Cash 52,448,107.49 Life Insurance 559,648,918.99 ' Mernal Activity Expenses 564.10 Bonds 44391,348.74 Accidental D.D 1,62925429 Mortage Loans..... 4,979,964.19 Fraternal..... 98,615.96 ?58.811.65 Certificate Loans 666,851.76 Orphans 374,596.10 Real Estate 1,196213.98 Old Age Home (26214.78) Printing Plant Jt E.D.P. Emergency 79,318.28 553,539.87 Equipment 319,03328 Stocks 1273,418.36 ^X. ""''- 553,539.87 Loan To D.H. - U.N.A. Housing Corp 104551.04 Loan To U.N.U.R.C 5,925,000.00 11309,05437 48,94122 Total t61.804.488.84 "IrtJL 561.804.488.84 5,655.15

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Kiev, not over the tangled roads used for transporting sentence, however, called for five more years of exile. Raisa Rudenko... prisoners, but by plane. Raisa was not given any She was, therefore, taken from the Mordovian camp (Continued from page 8) explanation or reason for such a breakneck "opera­ to her place of exile, the very same place where her were not able, however, to send such communications tion." In the Kiev prison the KGB allowed her to see husband had been serving his exile since 1984. through the regular mail, so they had to convey their her brother and then her mother, and even offered to In the latter half of the '80s a period began in the "greeting" through the byways of the underground take her to the theater. Raisa did not refuse the family USSR which is called "openness," "reconstruction" press. visits, but said no to being accompanied to the theater and "new thinking." But whatever the name for the The "greeting" eventually found its way beyond the by guards in disguise. At the time of this "operation" characteristic processes of this particular time, in 1987 borders of the USSR. And in 1986, in one of his Raisa was still a long way from finishing her sentence, Raisa and her husband were released before com­ speeches. President Reagan mentioned a letter that he yet the KGB was already talking about where she pleting their sentences. Raisa Rudenko had spent had received from the gulag and showed his audience a would serve her exile. more than six years in confinenient. piece of thin cigarette paper with small, closely spaced They told her that if she were to write that she would Because Raisa lost her apartment in Kiev after her writing on it. Among the 10 signatures under the text no longer conduct "anti-Soviet activity" then she arrest, she and Mykola did not return to Kiev, since, was Raisa Rudenko's. could serve her term of exile together with her having no residence, they would not be able to be Many protest hunger strikes took place in the husband. Raisa did not write any such declaration, registered there. They asked permission to leave the women's camp from the fall of 1983 to the beginning of although she did state that she would not participate in USSR for medical treatment. Their request was summer in 1984. The camp chronicle, which the anti-Soviet activity, since she had not done so before. granted. In December 1987 they arrived in West samvydav brought to the West, lists 286 days of Some in the KGB also advised her to write for a Germany, and in January of this year they came to the hunger strikes carried out by 11 participants in the pardon and even offered their help in obtaining one. United States, having decided to settle in that country. camp resistance. Of those 286 days, 25 were days of But Raisa did not ask for a pardon, and eventually Thus, Ukraine lost two more of its children, who hunger strikes for Raisa Rudenko. returned to camp. were not born to drag out their existence under the In December 1984 Raisa was unexpectedly taken to In 1986 Raisa's term of imprisonment ended. Her yoke of totalitarianism — even a reformed one. the first time Ukrainians held services at Illinois.. the Vietnam memorial. (Continued from page 11) After the short service, in which After the program and joint session Bayda sang the responses, Archbishop t988 Tennis Season at Soyuzivka had ended, a small group of about 40 Constantine reminded the people that Ukrainians, on the initiative of Arch­ Lincoln holds high honor among Ukrai­ USCAK East (Juniors' A and B) July 2-4 bishop Constantine, went to the nearby nians because he represents the ideals of tomb of Abraham Lincoln and the freedom. Doubles August 13-14 newly dedicated Vietnam memorial. Afterwards this group of Chicago USCAK Nationals September 2-5 It was the first time that any group Ukrainians returned to their buses to Plast September 17-18 was permitted to hold a memorial make the 200-mile trip back to the KLK October 8-9 service at the Lincoln mausoleum, and Ukrainian Village.

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For concert of Ukrainian Religious district, at 8 p.m. in the Ukrainian Zetick, (215) 663-0212. more information call Osyp Hawry- Music featuring the choir Dibrova, Educational and Cultural Center, luk, (716)674-5185. under the direction of Michael 700 Cedar Road in Abington. Ad­ Kuzma, at 7 p.m. in Conner Chapel mission is S25. For information call June 25-26 July 4-August 2 on the campus of St. Joseph College, Vera Andreyczyk, (215) 539-8^6. 1678 Asylum Ave., West Hartford. WARNERS, N.Y-: St. Luke's Ukrai­ EDMONTON: St. John's Institute, a The choir will perform works by nian Orthodox Church invites the non-profit organization, is sponsor­ Bortniansky, Koshetz, Vedel and June 24-26 public to its ninth annual Ukrainian ing a high school Ukrainian Lan­ Verbytsky. The evening perfor­ festival at 3290 Warners Road. 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Officiating will be Bishop includes pysanky, woodcarvings, PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian part of a series of lectures sponsored Basil Losten of Stamford, assisted by embroideries and ceramics. A special American Veterans 41st Convention by the Baltic Appeal to the United various members of the clergy re­ section is devoted to the Millennium, Banquet will take place at St. Josa- Nations. The lectures will begin at 7 presenting the Byzantine, Latin and featuring icons, a wooden church phat's School Hall, Ditman and p.m. at Estonian House, 243 E. 34th Orthodox traditions. For informa­ replica and embroidered vestments. Disson streets in Northeast Philadel­ St. To register for the lecture series tion call the rectory, (403) 762-2733. The exhibit will be displayed on all phia. Newly elected officers of the and for more information call three floors of the library. For UAV and the Ladies Auxiliary will BATUN, (212) 828-2237. June 24 be installed. The keynote speaker will information call Olena Martyniuk, be Judge Bohdan A. Futey. A special Julys (216) 923-2971, or Oksana Zurow- PHILADELPHIA: "Friends of D. recognition award will be presented skyj, (216) 762-0303 (days), 724-7487 Roman Kulchitsky" of Delaware to Vera Ann Bey, Pennsylvania BUFFALO, N.Y.: Plast Pryiat- (evenings). 4i ft U. of Illinois announces conference on Ukrainian Christianity URBAN A, 111. -The planning of the reception in the evening of June 19 for Its main theme is tripartite: Ukrai­ deliver the conference lecture on the program of the seventh annual confe­ the arriving participants and guests. nian culture from pre-Christian times to traditions of the Brotherhood of Ss. rence at the University of Illinois is now This year's conference is a part of the the end of the 18th century; the in­ Cyril and Methodius. completed. worldwide celebration of the Millen­ fluence of Christianity on modern This is the seventh conference of the The conference, as usual, will take nium of the christening of Ukraine, Its Ukrainian culture; the history of the Ukrainian Research Program at the place on the central campus of the title is "From Kievan Rus' to Contem­ Ukrainian Church. University of Illinois. Earlier confe­ University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- porary Ukraine: A Millennium of Some topics of the 52 papers to be rences dealt with Ukrainian literature, paign, on June 20-25. There will be a Growth." presented at the conference will be: the history, culture, Ukraine during World principle of dualism in Ukrainian War II, Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, Job Announcement mythology; traces of paganism in the and contemporary Ukraine. Approxi­ Ukrainian rituals and rites; literary mately 300 papers were presented at ASSISTANT DIRECTOR monuments of medieval Ukraine; me­ these conferences. dieval Ukrainian architecture; the Next year's conference is now in the OF influence of Byzantium on various early planning stages. It will be devoted phases of Ukrainian culture; the in­ to the "post-DP-camp" history of the fluence of the liturgy on the dumy; the Ukrainian emigration in the years 1949- GOVERNMENT RELATIONS work of Vyshensky, Prokopovych and 1989. Ukrainian National Association Washington Office Skovoroda; the influence of earlier This year's conference director is Dr. DUTIES: The Assistant Director will work at the direction of the Director of Government Re­ traditions on Kotliarevsky and Shev- Dmytro Shtohryn, professor at the lations in the carrying out of the policies and programs of the Ukrainian National Association chenko; Christian motifs in modern and University of lUinois at Urbana-Cham- and the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee. The functions of the Director and Assistant contemporary poetry, prose and drama. paign. The program coordinator is Dr. Director include: (1) national education and research programs; (2) educational and in­ Some papers will touch on broader Bohdan Rubchak, professor at the formational programs aimed at the U.S. Government; (3) monitoring of legislation, governmental social issues, such as the role of Chris­ University of Illinois at Chicago. policies and media reports on issues of concern to the Ukrainian American community; tian symbolism in Ukrainian society or The conference is sponsored by the (4) management of the Washington office; and (5) formulation of development programs on a the function of the Church in the Summer Research Laboratory of Rus­ national level. organization and maintenance of immi­ sia and Eastern Europe at the Univer­ REQUIREMENTS: Applicants should have a minimum of a bachelor's degree and at least three grant communities. Four sessions will sity of Illinois, the foundation of the years experience in a responsible position. Other factors to be considered include: (1) expe­ be devoted to music and the visual arts. Ukrainian Studies at the University rience in government; (2) knowledge of the workings of the Congress and the Executive Besides the 52 scholarly papers, there of Illinois and the Committee of the Branch; (3) writing and speaking skills in the English language; (4) knowledge of the Ukrainian will be a conference lecture, a panel Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine^ language; (5) familiarity with the workings of the media; and, (6) basic public relations skills. discussion, several evening events and a Illinois Chapter. Prof. Vasyl Markus banquet. represented the Millennium Committee SALARY: Negotiable based on experience and past salary history. The conference will honor George Y. in the planning of the conference. APPLICATIONS: Resumes including salary requirements should be sent no later than July 15, Shevelov, in gratitude for his invaluable For information, contact: Ukrainian 1988, to: contributions to awareness of Ukrai­ Research Program, 1208 W. California, UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION nian culture. Prol. Shevelov will Urbana, 111. 61801. 30 Montgomery Street jersey City, New Jersey 07302 BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ATTN: Director of Government Relations Finalists will be interviewed prior to July 31, 1988. For the current rate call... f -800-US-BONDS ^