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VOL. LXXXVI. No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1,1979 25 CENTS Vins released, beaten up Oles Berdnyk arrested

KESTON, England. - Petro Vins, MOSCOW, USSR. - A young NEW YORK, N.Y. - Oles Berd­ 22, was released from a one-year labor Ukrainian human rights activist from nyk, one of the original members of camp sentence on February 15 and re­ Kiev has been beaten up for the second the Ukrainian Public Group to Pro­ turned home, reported the Keston time in a week by a man believed to be a mote the Implementation of the Hel­ News Service on March 15. KGB agent, dissident leader Andrei Sa­ sinki Accords, was arrested earlier this Vins, one of the youngest members kharov said on March 28. month, reported the press service of of the Ukrainian Public Group to Pro­ Dr. Sakharov said that Petro Vins, the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation mote the Implementation of the Hel­ 23-year-old son of imprisoned Baptist Council (abroard). sinki Accords, was arrested on Feb­ leader, Georgi Vins, was set upon Dissident sources in Ukraine feared ruary 15, 1978, on charges of para­ March 27 on the streets of the Ukraini­ for several months that the authorities sitism. Vins's arrest then was his an capital by four men in plain clothes. were preparing a new case against Ber­ second in three months. The same four men picked up Vins dnyk. In early March the homes of He was brought to trial on March several days ago, drove him 40 miles several dissidents were searched by the 28, 1978, and sentenced to one-year in­ outside the city and beat him up after secret police in connection with the re­ carceration. He was the fifth member he tried to see an American consular newed harassment against Berdnyk. of the Kiev group to be sentenced. official. At that time Reuters reported that Dr. Andrei Sakharov told Western uIam sure these men are from the Berdnyk had not been seen since the correspondents then that the trial was KGB," Dr. Sakharov said. secret police entered his home. held behind closed doors. Vins's family The Moscow human rights leader Berdnyk was born on November 25, said the men also threatened Vins that 1927, in the Kherson oblast of (Continued on page 3) he and his family would be killed. Ukraine. He is a veteran of World War II. Oles Berdnyk In 1945-1949, Berdnyk was a theater student at the Ivan Franko Institute in Berdnyk is the eighth member of the 10 Ukrainians elected to Kiev and later he became an actor. In Kiev group to be arrested. Others were: 1949-1955, he was incarcerated in a Mykola Rudenko, the head of the concentration camp. group, Oleksa Tykhy, Lev Lukianen- provincial legislature in Alberta Following his release, Berdnyk ko, Myroslav Marynovych, Mykola began to publish his works. In 1972 Matusevych, Petro Vins and Vasyl EDMONTON, Alta. - Ten Ukrai­ According to the Ukrainian News Berdnyk was expelled from the Union Striltsiv. nian Canadians were elected to the ("Ukrayinski Visti") of March 15, a of Writers of Ukraine for his civic Gen. Petro Grigorenko, a member Legislative Assembly of Alberta on weekly newspaper published here, work and for his deviation from soci­ of the group who served as liaison with March 14 during the Progressive Con­ other Ukrainian Canadians who unsuc­ alist realism in literature. the Moscow group, was given an exit servative Party's landslide victory in cessfully ran for legislative seats were: visa to the United States in November In November 1977 Berdnyk became that western Canadian province. 1977 and in early 1978 he was barred (New Democratic Party) William D. one of the co-founders of the Ukraini­ from returning home. Nine of the 10 Ukrainians who won Kobluk, P. Opryshko, M. Seredniak, an Helsinki monitoring group. Out of Berdnyk, a writer, poet and futur- the elections are members pf the Pro­ S. Leskiv and H. Babchuk; (Social the original 10 members of the group, gressive Conservative Party and one is ologist, is also a member of the Alter­ Credit Party) V. Nakonechny; and only three have not been arrested or ex­ native Evolution Initiative Council and a member of the Social Credit Party. A (Liberal Party) R. Kharuk, R. Pisetsky iled - Nina Strokata-Karavanska, Ivan total of 19 Ukrainian Canadians the council of the Ukrainian spiritual and Orest Boyko. Kandyba and Oksana Meshko. campaigned for seats in the provincial republic. legislature. The Ukrainians who won the elec­ tions are: (Progressive Conservative Party) Bill Wasyl Diachuk, Dr. Ken­ The Ukrainian Museum hopes to increase membership neth R.H. Paproski, Katherine Chi- JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Ukrai­ chak, Julian G.J. Koziak, I. Zaozirny, nian Museum in New York City will S. Kushnir, George Topolinsky, I. Ba- begin a new membership campaign in tiuk and Peter Trynchy; and (Social hopes of increasing the number of mu­ Credit Party) V. Buk. seum members from the present 350 to The Progressive Conservative Party at least 1,000, and, thus, broaden its won 74 out of 79 seats is the legislature financial base, reported the museum's or 93.5 percent. Four seats went to the board of trustees at a recent meeting Social Credit Party and one to the New with UNA Supreme Officers and Svo- Democratic Party. boda and The Weekly editors here at The landslide victory of the Progres­ the UNA building. sive Conservatives is a record in The scope of the museum should be Alberta. In the last elections, the Pro­ expanded, according to Dr. Bohdan gressive Conservatives won 69 out 75 Cymbalisty, president of the museum's seats, or 92 percent. recently elected board of trustees. Among the new Ukrainian Canadian Among the plans for the future, legislators are S. Kushnir, who noted Dr. Cymbalisty, are the acquisi­ campaigned instead of his father, I. tion of a larger museum building which Kushnir, and I. Zaozirny. could accommodate new divisions such The board of trustees of The Ukrainian Museum met with UNA Supreme Offi­ After the elections, provincial Pre­ as exhibits of folk art, religious and cers and Svoboda and The Weekly editors during their visit to the UNA building. mier Peter Lougheed said that the new ecclesiastical art and Ukrainian history Seated, left to right, are: Lubov Drashevska, Supreme President Dr. John O. government has a mandate from the with a subdivision for the history of Flis, Dr. Zofia Sywak, Dr. Bohdan Cymbalisty, Maria Savchak; standing: editors people, Mr. Lougheed pledged that his Ukrainian settlement in America. The Eugene Fedorenko, Zenon Snylyk and Roma Sochan-Hadzewycz, Supreme government will represent all Alber- museum should also include a gallery Organizer Wasyl Orichowsky, Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk, Dr. Klemens tans, no matter where they come from Rohozynsky, Natalia Chytra-Rybak, Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan and editors or their ethnic heritage. (Continued on page 5) Basil Tershakovec, Lubov Kolensky and Wolodymyr Lewenetz. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 No. 73 No hope'of release for Plakhotniuk, says samvydav Radio Moscow NEW YORK, N.Y. - For Mykola would raise the question of his release attacks Lukianenko Plakhotniuk, a Ukrainian physician before the committee. imprisoned in Soviet psychiatric insti­ The conditions are very harsh in this JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Soviet tutions since 1972, there appears to be hospital. Plakhotniuk is constantly in government recently began a new at­ no hope of release, according to infor­ the company of genuinely ill persons. tack on the Western press, citing the mation circulating in the samvydav. They are taken for walks very rarely West's campaign against the Soviet A samvydav document received in during the summer, and during the Union, reported the Ukrainian Central the West and made public here by the winter — not at all. That is why Pla­ Information Service. press service of the Ukrainian Supreme khotniuk's state of health is poor. While Radio Moscow condemned the Liberation Council (abroad), noted he was still free, Plakhotniuk had Toronto Globe and Mail for publishing that Plakhotniuk's doctor said there is tuberculosis. an advertisement in defense of Ukrai­ no reason to release Plakhotniuk be­ nian political prisoner Lev Lukia­ fore the conclusion of the Olympic nenko. Games, Radio Moscow said that Lukianenko The full text of the samvydav docu­ The press service added that Pla­ was engaged "in terrorist activity in ment follows. khotniuk was a physician at a chil­ Ukraine with the goal of destroying the dren's sanatorium and a senior labora­ Soviet system there and bringing about The full text of the samvydav docu­ the secession of Ukraine from the ment follows. tory supervisor at the Kiev Medical In­ stitute. KGB repressions of Plakhot­ USSR." niuk began in 1969 in connection with It also reported that Lukianenko Mykola Plakhotniuk the publication of a "Letter from the "propagated the hate of Ukrainians for Russians and disseminated printed Plakhotniuk, Mykola Hryhorovych, Creative Youth of Dnipropetrovske," works of nationalistic character." born 1936. Ukrainian. Since January is no hope of his release. The doctor which documented Russification in 12, 1972, he was under surveillance for who is treating Plakhotniuk said in a that city. Poets Ivan Sokulsky and article 62 of the Criminal Code of the conversation that there is no reason to Mykola Kulchynsky and engineer Ukrainian SSR. Since May 12, 1972, he release him before the beginning of the Viktor Savchenko, who were respon­ Chernivtsi Baptists was undergoing examination at the Olympic Games. sible for the letter, were sentenced in Serbsky Institute. Following a diagno­ January 12 was the seventh anniver­ January 1970 to terms ranging from find house of worship sis of schizophrenia, he was sent to the sary of Plakhotniuk's imprisonment in two to four and a half years imprison­ KESTON, England. - Baptists in Dnipropetrovske Psychiatric Institute psychiatric hospitals (actually six years ment. Their trial was held at a time the town of Chernivsti! in western and later to the Kazan Institute. In and several months, because Plakhot­ when the press condemned Ukrainian Ukraine have found a house of wor­ June 1978 he was freed from Kazan, niuk was at first under surveillance). patriots. Plakhotniuk, who was dis­ ship, reported the Keston New Service but on August 8 he was transferred to Plakhotniuk is not allowed any visi­ gusted by this, disseminated in the on March 15. the hospital in the city of Smila, Cher- tors now. The passports of his relatives samvydav a letter titled "The Truth is The Baptists have renovated an un­ kaske oblast, and assigned to section 5. are reviewed (the hospital is of a gen­ Behind Us. A Reply to the Sland­ used church building in the town and February 8 marks six months of his eral type). The doctors say that nothing erers." This letter led to Plakhotniuk's the dedication was held last year. P.A. stay in Smila. His case should be re­ is dependent upon them, but earlier arrest in January 1972 during the anti- Tseon was ordained minister of the viewed soon by a committee. But there Plakhotniuk's doctor had said that he Ukrainian campaign of the Soviets. church. Recently imprisoned philologist faced harassment since 1972

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A recently a search of his apartment. The UCIS re­ participated in a one-day hunger strike imprisoned Ukrainian philologist and ported that there is proof that Ovsien­ organized by the political inmates who teacher has been the victim of Soviet ko did not impede the search. demand official recognition as political harassment since the early 1970s, re­ The information service claims that prisoners. Ovsienko also participated ported the Ukrainian Central Informa­ Ovsienko was arrested for maintaining in a hunger strike-demonstration on tion Service (UCIS). contact with the Ukrainian Public March 8, 1975, which demanded the Vasyl Ovsienko, 30, was sentenced Group to Promote the Implementation release of all Ukrainian political pri­ on February 8 to three years incarcera­ of the Helsinki Accords and with poli­ soners on the occasion of International tion for his refusal to allow KGB tical prisoners іл the Soviet Union. Women's Year. agents to conduct a search of his Ovsienko is a 1972 graduate of the In December 1976 he signed a joint apartment. He was also charged with Ukrainian division of the department appeal to the Presidium of the Supreme maintaining contact with human rights of philology of the Kiev State Univer­ Soviet of the Armenian SSR in sup­ activists and political prisoners. sity. port of the efforts Jby Armenian politi­ The trial was held in Radomyshl He was arrested for the first time on cal prisoners to have the National Uni­ February 7-8. His family was given March 5, 1973, and charged with ted Party of Armenia legalized and permission to attend the opening ses­ "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ their requests for a national referen­ sion of the trial, but they were barred ganda." The UCIS said that his arrest dum on self-determination. from the courtroom on the second day. then was connected with the cases of Va­ In early February 1977 he was trans­ According to the UCIS, Ovsienko was syl Lisovy and Yevhen Proniuk, two ferred to Zhytomyr and on March 5 he arrested soon after he was visited by Ukrainian philosophers who were was released. Ovsienko settled down in two relatives of Ukrainian political pri­ arrested in July 1972 and sentenced in the village of Lenino, Radomyshl re­ November 1973. gion, Zhytomyr oblast, where his 67- soners. The UCIS said that one person Vasyl Ovsienko is an activist in the dissident movement Ovsienko was sentenced then to four year-old mother resides. Being a and the other is the sister of a political Ovsienko denied that he had refused years imprisonment in a Mordovian former political prisoner, Ovsienko prisoner. to allow secret police agents to conduct concentration camp. was placed under a six-month period of Despite incarceration, Ovsienko surveillance and probation. continued his activity in the area of hu­ On March 31 he requested local man rights. Yes, we want him! On February 22, 1974, Ovsienko (Continued on page 11) In September 1975, I.S. 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P.O, Box 346, Jersey City, N.J.- 0"303 R о m a Soc h a n - H ad/e w \ c /. No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 3 Grigorenko feels no need for Soviet citizenship Vins... (Continued from page 1) PARIS, France. - Gen. Petro Grigorenko, the exiled For that reason, said Gen. Grigorenko, the Soviet autho­ Ukrainian human rights activist, said in an interview with rities are using force to obtain recantations from well known "Kontinent" that he has no need for Soviet citizenship Ukrainian rights advocates. because of the repressive nature of that state. Gen. Grigorenko denied statements made by "Konty- 4'Soviet citizenship is not necessary for me. I am not en­ nent" that he is a "defender of the purity of Leninism" or ticed whatsoever with the prospects of being an eternal slave that he shares the same ideas as Roy Medvedyev, a Soviet of the colonial empire called the USSR, the fatherland of a dissident. savage bureacracy - a partisan-governmental locust," said The former hero of the Soviet army said that he does not Gen. Grigorenko, a onetime member of the Ukrainian Pub­ have anything in common with Medvedyev and that he lic Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki would not "even sit in the same row with him." Accords and now its representative in the West. As to why certain Western Communist parties disapprove Gen. Grigorenko added, however, that "with a feeling of of Gen. Grigorenko now, the 71-year-old human rights lea­ great pride and respect I would carry the status of being a der suggested that is the case because "they have become citizen of a smaller, but independent and free, country — disappointed because I am saying something which they do my fatherland, Ukraine. not want to hear." He said that today the people of Ukraine are slaves of a "I am not now a Communist, though I subscribed to that government which "does with the people what it wants." teaching all my life," said Gen. Grigorenko. "From the Gen. Grigorenko said that the government can "force the 'classics' of communism one can learn how to suffocate a people to do thoughtless and worthless work, it can resettle nation and demagoguery which can only impress politically them from one region to another, it can send them to con­ immature people." quer foreign territories and people..." He said that if Western Communists want to build a Petro Vins Gen. Grigorenko cited the efforts of Yuri Orlov and My kola different form of communism, then they should not begin and friends were barred from the Rudenko in forming the Helsinki monitoring movement in by overthrowing governments in democratic countries, but courtroom and on the final day of the the Soviet Union. Orlov was the founder of the first group in totalitarian Communist states. trial the secret police detained 10 per­ in Moscow and Rudenko formed a group in Ukraine. Both "Personally, I do not believe in such a possibility," he sons. He was sentenced in Kiev on of them are currently imprisoned. said. April 6. The effect of the groups was felt across the Soviet Union, Gen. Grigorenko ciritized "Kontynent" for not having an Soon after his imprisonment, his said Gen. Grigorenko. Soon after the Moscow and Ukraini­ editorial policy on the nationalities question and for not dis­ mother told the Rev. O.R. Harbuziuk, an groups were formed, similar bodies were founded in proving lies about alleged Ukrainian anti-Semitism. president of the All-Ukrainian Evangi- Lithuania, Georgia and Armenia, he said. The Moldavians, He said that while certain Jewish organizations, aided by cal Baptist Fellowship, that the Soviet he added, made contact with the Ukrainian group. the KGB, are searching for Nazi war criminals, "the ruckus government intends to "destroy" the "Repression in Ukraine is increasing, but it cannot halt Vins family. (Continued on page 12) the opposition," he said. Mrs. Vins, who was allowed inside the courtroom only at the conclusion of the trial, told the Rev. Harbuziuk that her son was ably defended, but the Three members of Western Helsinki group verdict was a foregone decision. She said that two witnesses who were seek aid for Serhiyenko, Meshko to testify on behalf of her son were arrested and detained for the duration NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Western The full text of the appeal follows. camps and fear for the life of her son of the trial. One of the witnesses, Luba Representation of the Ukrainian Hel­ The Western Representation of the from whom she has been separated for Mozhenko, was in custody for 12 days. sinki Group, in an appeal titled Ukrainian Helsinki Group has received seven years, is now subjected to new Prior to his first arrest in December "Crime after Crime,'' has called for verified information that Oles Serhi­ suffering. 1977, Vins was a truck driver for a protests against the continuing perse­ yenko has been exiled to the Far East, bakery. After his release from deten­ cution of Ukrainian political prisoner to a region into which free entry is for­ The lives of Oles Serhiyenko and his tion then, Vins was not able to find Oleksander Serhiyenko, and his mo­ bidden. His mother, Oksana Meshko, mother, Oksana Meshko, are subjected employment and was accused of para­ ther, Oksana Meshko, a member of the has not been given a pass to visit him. to great threats, and this is not through sitism. Kiev Group to Promote the Implemen­ Oles Serhiyenko is suffering from court sentencing, but through the high­ The son of the imprisoned Baptist tation of the Helsinki Accords. tuberculosis. The conditions in exile handedness of the authorities. leader, Georgi Vins, the younger Vins The appeal, released this week, was for a person debilitated by camp life The lawless retribution for Oksana had been a frequent target of KGB signed by Gen. Petro Grigorenko, Na- are no better than those in camps. Meshko's activity in the Ukrainian scare tactics. The secret police also dia Svitlychna and Zinaida Grigoren­ Oksana Meshko, a 74-year-old woman Helsinki group continues. used many of Vins's former college ko. exhausted by 10 years of Stalinist We call for a protest. friends to inform on him. Let's not escape into silence

The following address was delivered by Edward Mez- Shall I continue with the gory details of man's in­ explicit in the Universal Declaration of Human vinsky, United States representative to the United humanity to man? Of how the ingenuity of man har­ Rights? Nations Commission on Human Rights, at the com­ nesses modern technology for the most bestial pur­ These illustrations of what is happening to human mission's session on March 13. The session poses? Of dumping prisoners from high-flying air­ beings at the very time when we are beginning to dealt with the agenda item on "Gross Violations of planes into the sea as a new and clever way of burial? make human rights a central concern of our times is Human Rights in Any Part of the World. " The Uni­ Or how electrical instruments are used to amuse sad­ profoundly saddening, paradoxical and intolerable. ted Nations Commission on Human Rights meets istic torturers? Of how the techniques of surveillance Mr. Chairman, the Universal Declaration of Hu­ once each year in Geneva for six weeks. and invasion of privacy have been perfected? man Rights first emphasized that "every individual and every organ of society, keeping this declaration The great promise of our time is that the human In this survey of the overall human rights situation constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and edu­ being has emerged at last from the shadows of great in the world, there is one area that should command cation to promote respect for these rights and free­ causes and has become a great cause in his own right. our particular attention. It is the right of everyone to doms." And the Helsinki Final Act confirmed "the We no longer accept that the individual is but an in­ freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Free­ right of the individual to know and act upon his significant instrument in the grand design of things. dom of religion is a freedom that is widely denied in rights and duties" in the field of human rights and We no longer believe that he is a mere tool of imper­ the world today. There are countries today where also confirmed "that governments, institutions, sonal forces, and we no longer view him as a means Muslims are denied the practice of their faith, where organizations and persons have a relevant and posi­ to an end. He no longer is an object of the kings' Jews are discriminated against, where Christians are tive role to play in contributing toward the achieve­ glory, the conquerors' spoil, or the coveted prize in a unable to worship freely. ment of these aims." Criticisms have been raised by class struggle. In a similar sense, the right to organize and freely our Congress, our press, private citizens and by other We cannot as yet congratulate ourselves for having associate is becoming an endangered right. It is parti­ governments against alleged human rights abuses transformed this promise of our time into a reality of cularly true with respect to trade unions. At the heart within the United States. Yes, Mr. Chairman, we everyday living. But we should take pride that we of any healthy society lies a healthy trade union have acknowledged incidents of police brutality, have begun. movement. History has demonstrated that when hu­ overcrowded jails and denials in practice of equal And begun we have. A third of a century ago we man rights are violated and tyrannies imposed, the opportunity because of race, age and sex. These criti­ pledged to banish the scourge of war and, with the first to resist and the first to suffer is the trade union cisms have not only been raised in public forums, but Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we began movement. Let me be specific. In Soutl Africa we many have also become the subject of government one of the most revolutionary and humane reapprai­ are witnessing a stirring toward the development of investigations. They have been the focus of reports of sals of political, social and moral principles of inter­ black trade unionism. Will this commission let them our National Civil Rights Commission and they have national affairs. down and permit apartheid and racism to choke this prompted enactment of a series of laws aimed at pro­ And what began as a declaration of intent 33 years nascent hope? Free trade unionism is also beginning tecting the civil rights of our people. Additionally, ago is slowly evolving into a global compact of, set to claim a right to existence in Poland, Rumania and a rules — covenants and conventions — that proscribe the Soviet Union. Will we support this right which is (Continued on page 11) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 No. 73 Petro Tarnawsky re-elected Connecticut man not satisfied chairman of Philadelphia District with pope's answer to letter PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Petro The number of new members orga­ SEYMOUR, Conn. - A local Courier on March 15 that he cried Tarnawsky, a long-time UNA activist, nized in the Philadelphia District con­ Ukrainian American is not satisfied when he heard the pope bless the was re-elected chairman of the UNA stituted about one-seventh of the total with the answer he received to his letter Ukrainian people in Ukrainian on his Philadelphia District Committee for number of persons who joined the from Pope John Paul II. coronation day. the fifth time on March 18. UNA in 1978. Frank Stuban, Connecticut Ukraini­ "I prayed the pope would be able to Mr. Tarnawsky opened the meeting, Mr. Tarnawsky specifically cited an community activist, told The Jour­ help our people, at least by the esta­ which was held in the District's head­ John Odezynsky for his organizing ef­ nal-Courier of New Haven that the blishment of a few churches in an area quarters. He asked the participants to forts. Mr. Odezynsky, a UNA Su­ thrill of receiving a reply from the pope where at one time 130,000 people pay tribute to some of the District's preme Advisor, organized 44 members was dimmed somewhat by the lack of prayed. The area, which has since been outstanding deceased members, among last year. an answer to his question about the completely overrun and the beautiful them Dr. Walter Gallan, the founder Mr. Tarnawsky also reported about fate of religion in the Lemko area of memory of our religion has almost dis­ and first chairman, and Thomas the Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine. appeared from that region," he said. Chromchak and Wasyl Panchyshyn. jubilee program, board meet.ngs and Mr. Stuban had sent a congratula­ Mr. Stuban said that he was The meeting was conducted by a pre­ community affairs. tory letter to the pope in October 1978, happy to hear from the Pope and that sidium which consisted of Stepan Also reporting were Vasyl Kolinko, in which he requested the pontiff to re­ he is "hopeful someday things will be Hawrysz, chairman, and Wasyl Kolin- secretary; Ivan Dankiwsky, treasurer, store Ukrainian churches to the faith­ changed." ko, secretary. Ivan Skoczylas, auditing committee. ful in the western-most territories of Mr. Hawrysz, who is the UNA se­ Addressing the branch representa­ Ukraine. nior field representative, introduced tives and convention delegates at the "In 1939 I entered the Ukrainian several prominent UNA'ers and com­ meeting on behalf of the Supreme Ex­ Diocesan Seminary in PeremyshI and munity leaders present, among them: ecutive Committee was the Rt. Rev. at that time over 130,000 Ukrainian College senior the Rt. Rev. Protopresbyter Stephan Bilak. Also speaking was Mr. Haw­ Catholics were registered with 120 pa­ Bilak, UNA Supreme Auditor; Wasyl rysz, who outlined some of the UNA's rishes, 128 priests and 198 churches in to survey Svoboda, Wasyliuk, secretary of UNA Branch plans for the near future. the Lemko region. After 35 years 375; Michael Kowalchyn, president of The Rt. Rev. Bilak and Messers. almost nothing exists in that area. I The Weekly readers the Society of Veterans of the Ukrain­ Hawrysz and Tarnawsky then pre­ wonder if Your Holiness could help to ian Insurgent Army (UPA); Dr. Ivan sented a gold star to Theodore Duda restore a few churches so those Ukrai­ Skalczuk, former UNA Supreme Audi­ for organizing his 26th member this year, nians can pray again in their own lan­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Darka tor; Y. Fylypovych, president of UNA and a certificate to Michael Chomyn guage," wrote Mr. Stuban. Bakalec, a senior at William Paterson Branch 239; and new secretaries, Pet- for serving as secretary of UNA Branch Replying on behalf of Pope John College of New Jersey in Wayne, is rusia Myr — Branch 479; Daria Tsia- 32 for 10 years. Paul, Monsignor L. Scaccia of the Sec­ conducting a survey of the readers of parnova — Branch 347, Vasyl Yevtu- Joining Mr. Tarnawsky on the new retariat of State wrote: "His Holiness Svoboda and The Weekly. shenko — Branch 422, and Wolody- District board are: Osyp Bakay, hono­ Pope John Paul II has received the The purpose of the survey is to deter­ myr Yatsev — Branch 32. rary chairman; S. Hawrysz, assistant kind message sent to him at the begin­ mine reader interest in the various In his report, Mr. Tarnawsky said chairman and District activity coordi­ ning of his Pontificate. In expressing types of news and features published that all 40 branches in the District con­ nator; the Very Rev. Michael Borysen- his gratitude for this devoted gesture, by the two newspapers. tributed to the organizing campaign ko, Ivan Skira and Fedir Petryk, assis­ the Holy Father sends his greeting of The survey is part of Miss Bakalec's last year. He said that 426 new mem­ tant chairmen; V. Kolinko, secretary; joy and peace. He also gives the assur­ senior research project in the field of bers were organized during the 1918 I. Dankivsky, treasurer; Ivan Knyh- ance of his prayers and imparts his journalism and mass communications. convention year for a total of apostolic blessing." Miss Bakalec is a resident of Passaic SI ,031,500 of insurance in force. (Continued on page 11) Mr. Stuban told The Journal- and a member of UNA Branch 42. л„ - 7979—Year of the Ukrainian Child—An analysis ш Saving the Ukrainian child's soul Ш by Roman A. Juzeniw ^ The Austrian government con­ year; long-range plans and actions sense of national pride in our Ukrai­ tributed 250,000 Austrian schillings must follow." nian children that we wouldn't Last Thursday, I was one of three (516,339) to the IYC budget. I told Dr. Aldaba-Lim that my ever have to worry about the Ukrai­ Ukrainians attending a dinner held ^ Nigeria had children's day acti­ own feeling on the child's problems nian culture and language dis­ і in the United Nations headquarters vities for a full week and televised a is that today's parents have appearing. building. The dinner was sponsored series on child health, social different valves than their predeces­ My thoughts reverted to what Dr. ш by the Non-Governmental Organi- development and the legal status of sors. Whereas, 50, 30 even 20 years Aldaba-Lim was saying: "I've visit­ zation/Internation Year of the children. ago the Protestant work ethic was ed many countries, and I see that the Child Committee, which works The committee has also printed prevalent (where parents worked socialist countries — I was in Bul­ under the aegis of UNICEF. up thousands of books and pam­ hard so that their children could garia just recently - have the best The other Ukrainians present phlets dealing with children. Many have a better life and better opport­ programs for children," I stopped were: Olena Prociuk (World Feder­ more thousands of posters were also unities), today we've gone in the writing and just listened. "They ation of Ukrainian Women's printed, and today they are up on opposite direction with self-con­ have after-school programs for chil­ Organizations) representative to the walls in most parts of the world, fo­ sciousness (the "me" generations), dren, where they take care of them International Year of the Child cusing attention on the Year of the and parents think first of their own and teach them ballet, music, etc. Committee at the U.N.) and Child. interests. With such programs aiding them, Ewstachia Hoydysh (chairman of so, there we were at this dinner, Dr. Aldaba-Lim agreed with this there's very little chance of them the New York Committee of the surrounded by representatives of assessment, saying that "Changing becoming hoodlums." Year of the Ukrainian Child). organizations whose annual budgets the attitudes of the parents is the I wanted to scream out: "But The dinner was held as part of the are in the tens of thousands of dol­ problem. More parents have to re­ what of Russification? Aren't they annual NGO/IYC conference. The lars, and whose main concerns are turn to being good parents." taking away their heritage? Their NGO/IYC Committee has been to feed, clothe and teach the child "The problem is more serious in right to a nationality? Aren't these working for several years already, and to liquidate child abuse. the Western, more affluent world," children brought up to be 'good laying the groundwork for this Mrs. Hoydysh remarked to me, continued Dr. Aldaba-Lim, "where little Communists?' " year's activities in commemoration "It seems as if we don't belong it is easy to provide the basic ser­ I was too disheartened to argue of the Year of the Child. here." vices for children. The growing the point. This committee also publishes a With Mrs. Prociuk's aid, we were numbers of abused children, the in­ We can't expect the world to help newsletter, which reports on the able to land a personal interview crease in teenage preganancies and us when it comes to the Ukrainian progress of the many national com­ with Dr. Estafania Aldaba-Lim, increased drug abuse are all very big child. Luckily, the Ukrainian family mittees and non-governmental who is the special representative of problems in Western society. The unit is still strong and we are mor­ organizations trhoughout the world. the IYC. (She "runs the whole worst thing is that the Third World, ally strong because of that. Some of the items printed in a recent show," so to speak.) in trying to emulate Western so­ Let the world talk of the child's issue of the newsletter were: "The intention of the IYC," said ciety, might be doing so at the sacri­ physical needs. Certainly the starv­ ^ Thirty-five films on the theme Dr. Aldaba-Lim, "is to arouse con­ fice of its own children.'' ing, illiterate and abused children of of The Child in Our Time were sciousness about the cares and needs While I was writing all this down, the world need help. screened at the Milan International of the child. So far we've been sing­ I was thinking of how much we In our plans and actions, we must Film Festival in 1978. ing the joy of the child and having could do for the Ukrainian child if talk of the Ukrainian child's soul - ^ The country of Sri Lanka many talks and seminars on the only we had some support from the of saving his Ukrainian heritage. opened 50 new children's libraries child, but the effects of the Year of world forum and some money to It seemed as if we didn't belong and 50 new playgrounds. the Child will be seen only after this work with. We could instill such a there. ш ШШШШШШЗШШШШШШШШШ .1 No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY^ SUNDAY, APRIL 1,1979 5 Museum holds annual meeting Irvington Ukrainian seeks NEW YORK, NY. -The Ukrainian the Ukrainian National Women's Museum held its annual membership League of America, reported that the seat on Board of Education meeting Sunday, March 8. Alexandra UNWLA's membership has supported Riznyk, president of the board of trus­ The Ukrainian Museum by individual IRVINGTON, N.J. - Alex Pastu- tees, greeted the assembled members memberships, branch memberships shenko of 118 Nesbitt Terrace is cam­ and asked the following to the presi­ and contributions totaling S27,000 in paigning for a seat on the Irvington dium: Dora Rak, chairman, Rosalie 1978. Board of Education. Polche and Olena Prociuk, secretaries. The following were elected to the Mr. Pastusehnko, 24, is the assistant Mrs. Riznyk reported that The board of trustees: Dr. Bohdan Cymba- treasurer of the Trident Savings and Ukrainian Museum, whose member­ listy, president; Dr, Rohozynsky, vice- Loan Association. ship is currently over 300, has pub­ president; Lubov Drashevska, vice- A graduate of St. John the Baptist lished its first museum bulletin, has a president; Mrs. Savchak, Ukrainian- Ukrainian Catholic School and Irving­ tax-exempt status and is gaining pop­ language secretary and publications; ton High School, Mr. Pastushenko re­ ularity and exposure in both the Ukrai­ Oksana Bajko, secretary; Nadia Popel, ceived his bachelor's degree from Rut­ nian and American communities be­ treasurer. gers University-Newark campus. He cause of its prime location — New Mrs. Rozankowsky of the UNWLA, majored in accounting and business York City, the center of cultural activi­ Mrs. Chytra-Rybak, Dr. Zofia management. Mr. Pastushenko also at­ ties. Sywak, Nadia Bihun, Natalia Dany- tended the professional school of busi­ The following reports were present­ lenko, Irena Petrenko-Fedyshyn, ness for real estate and is in the process ed: financial, Konstantine Leshchuk; Zenon Feszczak, Lydia Hajduchok, of becoming a licensed real estate sales­ programs, Lubow Wolynetz; press and Ewstachia Hoydysh, Olha Kachmar- man. publications, Maria Savchak; public sky, Motria Kushnir, Olha Kuzmo- The son of Taras and Tatiana Pas­ relations and development, Natalia wycz, Irene Russnak, Mrs. Stawnychy tushenko, Mr. Pastushenko is a mem­ Chytra-Rybak; fund-raising events, and Mrs. Wolynetz were elected to ber of Plast and the "Chornomorska Olya Stawnychy; museum activities, the executive board. SUch" Sports Association. In 1971- acquisitions and exhibits, Maria Shust, The auditing board is as follows: 1972 he received an athletic award Alex Pastushenko director; auditing board, Dr. Klemens Mrs. Riznyk, chairman; Olha Hnatey- from his high school for his soccer and Rohozynsky. ko, Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj, Myroslawa tennis playing. cation, life will be just a bit easier in Iwanna Rozankowsky, president of Sawchak and Vera Shumeyko. He served on the Health Department the future." Advisory Committee, Citizens Advi­ "I have hear about the problems sory Committee on Narcotics, Bill that have been encountered at the high Conway election campaign, Newark school. I would like to have these pro­ Ukrainian Sports Club, Ukrainian Na­ blems solved or minimized in a manner The Ukrainian Museum... tional Home and the Walter J. Jon- which is appropriate in each individual koski Civic Organization. situation. Teachers and students (Continued from page 1) also said that The Ukrainian Museum Mr. Pastushenko told the Irving cannot succeed in their educational would like to cooperate with other mu­ Herald that he is seeking a board seat goals by having to teach and learn in for exhibits of contemporary art, a hall seums such as those in Bound Brook for lectures, meetings, films and the because, "I would like to improve the fear. Everyone is entitled to an educa­ and Stamford and those of the Ukrai­ quality of education in the Irvington tion, and by having the educational like and facilities for the various work­ nian Academy of Arts and Sciences shops offered by the museum. school system by making the educa­ process interrupted, students cannot (UVAN) and the Shevchenko Scientific tional process more pleasant and infor­ benefit from what is offered and in­ Dr. Cymbalisty said he believes that Society. the expansion of The Ukrainian Mu­ mative. Students need more initiative structed," he said. Mrs. Rybak added that the con­ seum would be the most lasting contri­ and direction to succeed in today's so­ Elections in Irvington will be held tinued and increased support of the bution — second only to the creation ciety. By improving the quality of edu- Tuesday, April 3. Ukrainian community would help the of a Ukrainian studies and research center at Harvard University — that museum receive more funds from lo­ the present generations of Ukrainians cal, state and federal sources. in the United States could make. Dr. Cymbalisty summed up the Syracuse hromada offers Dr. Cymbalisty was accompanied by plans of The Ukrainian Museum, say­ several other members of the mu­ ing that the museum must be made at­ two фЮО scholarships seum's board of trustees: Dr. Klemens tractive so that not only will it be consi­ SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Ukraini­ Rohozynsky and Lubov Drashevsky, dered an honor to become a member, dent Organizations of America an Student Hromada at Syracuse Uni­ vice-presidents; Maria Savchak, Ukrai­ but persons will be willing to contri­ (SUSTA). Recently, the hromada- versity is sponsoring two S100 scholar­ nian-language secretary and publica­ bute their personal collections and arti­ sponsored mixed volleyball team con­ ships for Ukrainian students studying tions; and Natalia Chytra-Rybak, public facts to the museum. cluded its winter intramural season, at Syracuse University during the relations and development; and Dr. Zofia The Ukrainian Museum, 203 Second defeating every opponent. The hromada Sywak, English-language press. 1979-80 academic year. The scholar­ was represented at student conferences Ave., is currently holding an exhibit of ships will be awarded on the basis of Dr. Rohozynsky pointed out that at Soyuzivka and Harvard University. the Ukrainian Easter egg. The exhibit activity in the Ukrainian community personal contacts are extremely The student hromada encourages runs through May 13. and financial need. important in gaining new members for The museum will also present an ex­ Ukrainian high school students to at­ The hromada has 20 members who the museum as well as in receiving hibit of pysanky at the Citicorp build­ tend Syracuse University and apply for 1 study at the various schools and col­ donations of valuable and rare arti ing, Park Avenue between 52nd and the hromada-sponsored scholarships. leges of Syracuse University. The stu­ facts for the museum's collection. He 53rd streets, on April 9-15. For further information and applica­ dents assemble regularly for both seri­ tions write to the president of the hro­ ous meetings and social get-togethers. mada by April 15. The address is: This year the hromada held a very suc­ Andrij Serednycky, 4975 Surrey Lane, Ukrainian MDs to hold cessful student dance at the Ukrainian Liverpool, N.Y. 13088. National Home in Syracuse. During conference in Bermuda the Christmas season students from Syracuse University went caroling with NEW YORK, N.Y. - The annual new developments in surgery. Atten­ students from neighboring LeMoyne scientific conference of the Ukrainian dance at the conference guarantees 32 College. Proceeds from these activities The Very Rev. Izyk Medical Association of North Ameri­ first-category credits from the AM A. have been designated for the scholar­ can (UMANA) will be held at the This is the first time that the confer­ ships and other Ukrainian funds. elected president of Castle Harbor Hotel in Bermuda, May ence is being held outside the United For many years, Ukrainian language 5-12. States. Is it also the first time that non- courses have been offered each Ethnic Press Club The principal focus of this year's Ukrainian doctors have registered for semester at Syracuse University with­ conference will be the advanced cardio- the UMANA conference and the first out any special assistance from the lo­ WINNIPEG, Man. - The Very pulmonary resuscitation course. For time that the advanced cardio-pul- cal Ukrainian community. These Rev. Mitrat Semen Izyk was elected the past eight years this course has been monary resuscitation course is being courses are taught by Prof. Jackiw president of the Ethnic Press Club at required for all doctors by the Ameri­ given at the Castle Harbor Hotel. Hursky, chairman of the Slavic depart­ the annual elections meeting of the can Medical Association and various Some 60 doctors have registered for ment and faculty advisor to the Manitoba Press Club held here recent­ state health departments. the conference. Among the honored hromada. Elementary Ukrainian ly. The head of the course will be Dr. guests at the conference will be Ameri­ 101,201 and 102,202 are offered during The Very Rev. Izyk is the long-time M. Jablonsky on behalf of the Ameri­ can consul P. Ryan and his wife, June alternate semesters. In addition, Prof. editor of the Ukrainian Catholic week­ can Heart Association. Dr. Jablonsky Sagan-Ryan. Hursky is teaching a course in interme­ ly newspaper, "Postup" (Progress). is a noted cardiologist and head of the The New York-New Jersey metro­ diate Ukrainian which was organized Other Ukrainians elected to serve on department of internal medicine at politan branch of the UMANA will be due to popular demand from the stu­ the executive board are: the Very Rev. Hackensack Hospital. the host of this year's conference. dent hromada. Dr. S.W. Sawchuk, Mychajio Hika- The director of the course is Dr. For further information contact the Ukrainian students from the hro­ wyj, Stefania Bubniuk, Natalia Ba- Mark Olesnicky of Irvington, N. J. Ukrainian Medical Association of mada participate in various extracurri­ shuk. Ckher topics to be covered during the North America, 2 E. 79th St., New cular activities, as well as in conven­ Nine representatives of other ethnic conference will be heart disease and York, N.Y. tions of the Federation Ukrainian Stu­ newspapers were also elected. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 No. 73

SPOTLIGHT ON THE UNA THE I CB0B0AA^SV0B0DA I I Ukroinion Weekly Income taxes and insurance It has often been stated that, in view of the present national high tax policy, the only way an individual can accumulate and leave a sizable estate is by carrying adequate life insurance. Life insurance proceeds received upon the death of the insured, under Repressions continue endowment contracts, term contracts and accident and health insurance contracts, are generally tax-free. The gain on the policy (the difference between what the insured paid in, less dividends, and the total proceeds received) can be quite When it comes to cracking down against persons deemed undesirable in substantial depending on how long premiums were being paid before death the Soviet Union, the Kremlin does not pull any punches. With blatant occurred. Inasmuch as this gain will go untaxed, the saving to the beneficiaries can highhandedness, the Soviet authorities would just as easily arrest a Helsinki be considerable. monitor, contribute to the death of a human rights activist, beat up a young Such lump-sum benefits payable on the death of an insured are tax-free even if Baptist, or reimprison a religious leader without a trial, as they would cign the beneficiary elects to receive installment payments spread over the life of the an international human rights treaty. beneficiary. Part of such monthly or yearly installments, attributable to the pro- rata return of the lump-sum benefit, is not reportable as income. In addition, if the In March we learned that Mykhailo Melnyk, a Ukrainian rights advocate, beneficiary is the spouse of the deceased, then the first SI,000 of the interest received died under mysterious circumstances after a KGB search of his premises; we annually as part of the monthly or annual installment is also tax-free. learned that the Soviet government was preparing a new case against Oles Another tax advantage of insurance is that dividends paid by an insurance company, whether received in cash or accumulated by the insurance company, are Berdnyk and that he was finally arrested; we learned that Georgi Vins was not taxable income. At most, such dividends are treated as a reduction of the cost reimprisoned without a court sentence; and that his 23-year-old son, Petro, basis of your policy. Insurance may also provide a tax-free accumulation of cash. was twice beaten up by KGB thugs in a manner reminiscent of organized During the time that you pay premiums, the value of your insurance policy crime. increases at compound interest rates. This increase is not subject to income taxes. The Ukrainian National Association has a line of policies conducive to building a All told, it wasn't a very good month for Ukrainian patriots behind the large estate. Our P-20 policy requires payment of premiums for 20 years and the Iron Curtain. Despite the Helsinki Accords, international treaties, protests amount of the policy is paid on death of the insured at any time after the first by U.S. government representatives and the face-lifting propaganda for the premium is paid. 1980 Olympics, the Kremlin does not intend to please anyone but itself and Our P-65 policy requires payment of premiums to age 65. The amount of the will surely continue on its hell-bent course of destroying Ukrainians and policy is paid on death of the insured before or after he reaches the age of 65 (after the first premium is received). other non-Russians. The most reasonable policy that the Ukrainian National Association has for the purpose of increasing your estate is our DP-65 policy. This policy calls for payment As members of the Ukrainian opposition both in the West and in Ukraine of premiums during the insured's entire life and the payment of the death benefit for say, the repressions will not stop the fight or impede its growth. That kind the entire amount of the policy if death occurs before age 65. If death occurs after of perseverance and dedication is a tribute to Ukrainians in Ukraine. Can age 65, then 50 percent of the insured amount is paid to the beneficiaries. the same be said about us in the West? Let us now compare the cost of these three different policies, assuming that you are 30 years old and that you are purchasing a S20,000 policy:

Annual cost of P-20 policy S571.40 Annual cost of P-65 policy 424.80 Guilty! Annual cost of DP-65 policy 294.80 We're all guilty. Guilty of not correcting misinformation in the American The DP-65 policy offers the most insurance for the least amount of money, es­ media about Ukraine and the Soviet Union. We always assume that some­ pecially during the insured's younger years when the insured is earning less but is one else will call or write to complain about the inaccurate information most in need of insurance protection for a growing family. supplied to billions of people by the press, television or radio. Look no further. The Ukrainian National Association offers the lowest premiums obtainable anywhere for comparable insurance policies. In addition to And we never learn. Each time we hear the Soviets referred to as Rus­ our large dividends paid annually, the above-listed insurance policies quickly sians, the Soviet Union described as one nation, or Ukrainian culture identi­ accumulate cash surrender reserves on which you can borrow at 4 percent or which fied as Russian (precisely what the Soviets would have the world believe, for you can cash in whenever you are in need of funds. according to the recently adopted Constitution of the USSR, "a new histo­ As a member of the Ukrainian National Association you will not just be a policy rical community of people has been formed — the Soviet people") we react holder, you will be part owner of the organization which is composed of 87,000 exactly the same way — by doing nothing about it. You see, we have grown members and has S43 million in assets. You can enjoy vacations in a Ukrainian lazy.''Someone else will do it," we reassure ourselves...again. atmosphere (at a discount) at our all-year-round resort, Soyuzivka, in Kerhonkson, N.Y. You will also receive our daily newspaper, Svoboda, which is printed in the It's time we faced reality and realized that no one will speak out for us. Ukrainian language, and The Ukrainian Weekly, which is printed in the English It's time we resolved not to let such inaccuracies slip by uncorrected. language. Keep in touch with Ukrainian affairs. Be proud with us of our 85 years of service and accomplishments on behalf of our Ukrainian communities. You, as a We need more responses to misinformation such as the letters of Algirdas member of the Ukrainian National Association, have an equal right to participate Landsbergis, a Lithuanian professor of history, to The New York Times. in branch meetings, to vote on all matters concerning branch activities and to Informed, rational and unemotional rebuttal is the key to success in correct­ represent your branch as a delegate at our conventions and to hold office in your ing media inaccuracies. branch and in the Supreme Assembly, our governing body composed of 26 elected If only we all would resolve not to keep silent — but to act. officials. These are privileges that are not available in commercial life insurance companies. Become one of us! Join the Ukrainian National Association now! Vital signs

So, some student organizations appear to have been revived. This is "Once more I stand../' remarkable — considering their previous comatose state of existence. In recent weeks The Ukrainian Weekly has been subjected to a virtual The following poem was written by Georgi Vins in Ukraine in May 1969. It appeared in the deluge of information about the activities of several student clubs in the No. 4, 1978, edition of The Right to Believe, a newsletter published by Keston College. United States. Within a three-week span, we received news from the Hryhory Skovoroda Student Hromada at Rutgers University in New Once more I stand at the familiar entrance, Brunswick about the election of its new executive board and a report on I breathe the fragrance of the fields of home, recent hromada accomplishments; learned that the Ukrainian student club at The hard road of the north lies in the distance, Temple University was sponsoring the Temple University Ukrainian Forum; were informed that the Ukrainian Student Organization of Michnowsky The convoy road to labor camps' bleak zones. (TUSM) — which has been reasonably active all along — was planning to My children who have grown up in my absence, intensify its campaign in defense of Yuriy Shukhevych; obtained information My darling wife, dear mother, I embrace; about the Ukrainian Day recently held at New York University by its My hair, turned grey in camp, bears a remembrance - Ukrainian Students' Association; and were pleased to hear that the Ukrainian The northern Russian snows have left their trace. Student Hromada of Syracuse University was offering two SI00 scholarships to Ukrainian students at their university. And He who is the nearest and the dearest, Dare we hope that we are witnessing a trend? Is there even a slim chance of The cornerstone on which our life is based, other clubs and SUSTA itself showing some vital signs? We hope to get a Who gives new strength when faith is tried in conflict, positive answer from them — soon! Looks down from heaven with a smiling face. No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 7 Russification of Ukraine through linguistic assimilation The origin of "April Fool" by Roman J. Lysniak The following is the text of a term paper written by Anna M. Wojtowyczfor an international relations course at the Illinois State University. 4'April! April! April! Send a fool wherever you will!'' is the (1) common saying in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the The Russian language is an extensively employed tool in the attempted integra­ Netherlands. tion and assimilation of non-Russian nations and their lands into an expandec In Sweden there is a custom of giving nicknames, the so- Russian state. Ukraine, with its 45 million inhabitants is a main target of linguistic called April names, on the first of April. In parts of England Russification. The reduction or total exclusion of the Ukrainian language from there is a custom of ''hunting the gowk," and in Denmark it literary, scientific, and other scholarly publications is one way in which this pro­ is "showing him into April." In the Flemish area of Belgium cess is implemented. It is furthered by making educational, social, and profes­ April jokes consist chiefly in sending people on ''fools' sional advancement contingent on fluency in Russian. In addition, as a conse­ errands," and therefore they call it "sending day." Sending quence of common historic origins and linguistic similarity to Russian, the Ukrai­ people on "fools' errands" is also part of April First custom nian languate (along with that of neighboring Byelorussia) is subject to a process in Ukraine. of "zblyzhania" or convergence with the Russian language. The London street boy who succeeds in inducing somebody to try to pick up a For a better understanding of present policy, one must look at the past rela­ hot penny, a hat with a brick under it, or some object with a string tied to it, calls tionship of Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine's geographic position, along with its out "April fool." abundant natural resources, has left it vulnerable to repeated invasion and devas­ In northern England, however, a custom there has given rise to the saying tation over the centuries. The plundering of the original Ukrainian state, Kievan quoted above, "hunt the gowk." Someone is induced to carry a letter to a certain Rus, by Asiatic hordes crossing over to Europe in the Middle Ages, coupled with address. There is nothing in the letter except, "On the first day of April hunt the inheritance disputes among Kievan princes led to instability and subsequent frag­ gowk another mile." The receiver of the letter then sends the bearer to another mentation of the Kievan kingdom.1 Kievan Ukraine, once a mighty empire, strug­ address, and this is kept up until at last "the gowk" discovers that he is being gled against growing threats from Muscovy (early Russia) to the north and Po­ made an April fool, or rather an April gowk, in this instance. land to the west. Even so, it did retain some political unity. According to Similar facetious errands are given to children in Belgium on April first. To Clarence A. Manning, associate professor of Slavic languages at Columbia Uni­ complete the joke the fool is marked by pasting a paper figure or a placard on his versity, "From the time of the organization and the Christianization of the Kie­ back before he starts out, or he is surreptitiously given a black daub on the face. van state at the end of the 10th century to the 18th century, Ukraine, whe­ Naturally April fool customs have been transported to the United States and ther independent, or subject to Poland-Lithuania, or to the Russian tsars, had re­ 52 continued by the descendants of people who had practiced them for generations mained as a political unit, even though divided.' in Europe. Universal as the custom is, hbwever, its origin is somewhat proble­ It was not until after the annihilation of the Zapaorzhian Sich (headquarters of matical. Some writers are inclined to think that the day is derived from the an­ the Ukrainian Kozaks) in 1775 by Catherine II, and the 1783 abolishment of all cient Roman Feast of Fools, which dame in the time of the Quirinalia. Others Ukrainian political institutions and privileges that Ukraine came under think that the unstableness of April weather, which makes the month one that the complete control of the tsars. It was at this time that Ukrainian lands were fools us all a good part of the time, is supposed to be reflected in the human jokes divided into "gubernias," the administrative divisions of-the Russian Empire. and tricks of the first day. And together with Russian rule, came the attempt to destroy all traces of Ukraini­ It is more probable, however, that this custom, which seems as ancient as it is an national and cultural integrity. Ukraine's name was even banned with the-term widespread, was brought from India by the Aryans in their westward migrations. 3 "Little Russia" replacing it. The culmination of the tsarist Russification policy, In India, since gray antiquity, the last days of the Holi festival, which correspond however, occurred during the reign of Tsar Alexander II with the Ems Ukase of to the end of March with us, are celebrated by tricks and jokes of all kinds, 1876 which proscribed the use of the "Little Russian dialect" (the Ukrainian lan­ whereupon the ones who are taken in are called "Holi fools." The Holi festival is 4 guage) in the press, schools, theaters, and public lectures. the great festival, or carnival of the Hindus, held annually in honor of Krishna. Despite many attempts to regain cultural, literary, and political autonomy Among other things, friends and strangers are then squirted with a yellow liquid, under the Tsar, it was not until the Revolution of 1905 that Russia's most oppres­ or pelted with red powder, similar to the Italians throwing confetti at the mid- sive laws concerning Ukraine were abated. Between 1905 and 1914, Ukrainian Lent carnivals. There is, too, at the Holi festival a good deal of singing and dan­ culture and language flourished. Although the imposition of new limitations per­ cing, most of which we would perhaps consider improper. vaded during World War I, the collapse of the Tsarist Empire marked the emer­ gence of Ukraine as a sovereign nation-state embodied in the Ukrainian National Republic.5 Ukrainian independence, however, was brief. Falling under both internal and A pair of eyes frosts external pressures, the fledgling Ukrainian state once again came under Russian control. Nevertheless, the existence of the Ukrainian nation could not be denied Who'll walk me down to church not given the respect it so richly de­ When I'm sixty years of age, serves. by the new Bolshevik regime. Reluctantly, the Bolsheviks accepted the formation When the ragged dog they gave me of a Communist "federal" union as a means of keeping the non-Russian nation­ Has been 10 years in the grave? What can be more hideous than alities (of the former Russian Empire) within the sphere of Russian influence. And senorita plays guitar hiding their ripened spirits behind Thus, rather than establishing an all-enconmpassing Russian Soviet state, the But plays it just for you, indifference and the pre-tombs so Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established in 1922, with the Ukrainian My rosary has broken dubiously labeled nursing homes?! Just And the beads have all run through. Soviet Socialist Republic as an integral member of the union.6 as the Ukrainian language is becoming The early years of Soviet rule marked an increased allowance of nonpolitical from "Sixty Years On" by "a hieroglyphic," as Roman A. Juzeniw national development in the non-Russian Soviet republics. A relaxation of lin­ Elton John and Bernie Taupin so correctly put it, so too, our Ukrainian guistic regulations of the new Communist government led to a massive increase in senior citizens are continuously being the use of Ukrainian and other non-Russian languages in education and publi­ by Orest P. Kopanycia turned into mere ornaments —purpose­ shing. Soviet authorities were not concerned with linguistic pluralism; they only less pieces of ceramic brought out every required that content be socialist in nature. According to Roman Szporluk, asso­ They tend to get up at ungodly hours. Mother's Day or Father's Day to ciate professor of history at the University of Michigan, "The liberal linguistic Usually around 5 a.m. They are the first uphold the image that someone still policies rested on the premise that the Party would serve as the leading and integ­ ones in church on Sunday, regardless of cares. rating political force, and that the class interests and solidarity of the proletariat how far away they live or how hard it is However, unlike many present-day would prevail over and counteract any centrefugal tendencies that might arise to get those creeky bones started. They Ukrainian causes, this one still has some from cultural differences among the peoples of the USSR."7 are the last ones to leave church, hope, as long as we, the children, the Joseph Stalin, however, became increasingly fearful of the growing national disregarding the mad rush for the back adolescents, and, yes, even all of you consciousness in various republics. In particular, an insistent movement for exits, instead, offering a faithfully middle-agers, devote all of our well- remembered prayer to some less-re­ conserved energies to easing the plight (Continued on page 10) membered saint. No one notices them of those without whom our cherished kneeling there, backs straining to be traditions, feelings and hopes could not 1 Tight Russian control of Ukraine and the Russification of information concerning the Ukrainian- straight, faces covered with penitent have existed. Russian relationship has left the majority of the world with only the official Moscow version of the hands. To look would mean to have a Perhaps some of us need to be re­ history of "Eastern Slavdom." According to Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko, a doctor of historical conscience. But consciences went out minded that from day one older people science: with prayer and with the days when the have had much to do with our lives. The existence of a separate Ukrainian people was largely ignored in it, the glorious history of Ukraine was appropriated in toto by Russia (earlier Muscovy) which used these borrowed plumes to older people of our Ukrainian commu­ Wherein our parents gave many of us justify its claim to the Kievan inheritance. Even the ancient name of Ukraine, Rus, was taken over by nities were, indeed, treated like people. our basic training, it was our grandpa­ Muscovy. In this version or conception of history of Eastern Europe, the history of Ukraine is allotted Why write about "old people" during rents who gave that training substance. a merely episodic place and provincial significance. the International Year of the Child?On And how can one forget those days, Quoted from the preface to "Two Conceptions of the History of Ukraine and Russia" (London: The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britin, Limited, 1968), p. 7. For the history of Ukraine, see the surface, the two are contradictory. eons ago, when "baba" sat you on her Michael Hrushevsky, "A History of Ukraine" (NQW Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1941.) One represents everything we deem knee and told you to memorize those 2 Clarence A. Manning, "Ukraine Under the Soviets" (New York: Bookman Associates, 1953), p. ancient, superannuated, no longer strange words, "Otche Nash...." Or how 17. 3 useful. The other refers to the future, the "dido" took you out to his garden Ibid. hope, the beneficial. Yet, in this writer's kingdom and cautioned you that the 4 Stephen C. Chorney, "From the Ems Ukase to the Twenty-Fifth Congress of the CPSU," "The Ukrainian Quarterly" 32 (Winter 1976): 349. opinion, the two are not only compa­ onions must be planted no sooner or 5 Stephan M. Horak, "From Internationalism to Nationalism, or the Soviet Version of Valuev- tible but, more importantly, symbiotic! later than March 19, the Feast of St. shchina," "The Ukrainian Quarterly 28 (Autumn 1972): 270. It is, therefore, surprising that the Joseph. And how many tinseled Christ- 6 Clarence A. Manning, "Twentiety-Century Ukraine" (New York: Bookman Associates, 1951), significance of our Ukrainian senior mases did we attend with our sugar­ p. 83. 7 citizens is frequently being undermined Roman Szporlux, "Nationalities and the Russian Problem in the U.S.S.R," "Journal of Interna­ plum relatives just to eat "baba's" 12 tional Affairs" 27 (1973): 29. and, in fact, ignored, laughed at, and (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 No. 73 Ukrainian women meet Sen. Yuzyk advocates self-government Prime Minister Trudeau for Canada's northern territories NEW YORK, NY. - A gala benefit Musicanada, had received an invitation concert at Carnegie Hall and an elegant from the consul general of Canada in OTTAWA, Ont. - In his speech, reception, celebrating the 15th anniver­ New York, Barry Steers. She also writes March 13, on the second reading of Bill sary of the Symphonicum Europae feature articles for Music Magazine in C-28, "An Act to Amend the North­ Foundation on March 3 was attended Canada and has interviewed such artists west Territories Act," Sen. Paul by Mrs. Christine Petrowska Bregent, as Ashkenazy, Barenboim and others. Yuzyk, Progressive Conservative of the noted pianist, and her guest, Mrs. The concert program consisted of Manitoba, supported an increase of the Mary Dushncyk, UNA Vice-President. symphonic selections by the Winnipeg elected council to make it more repre­ The aim of the unique Symphonicum Symphony Orchestra, under the direc­ sentative of the native peoples, Inuits Europae Foundation is to bring toget­ tion of Piero Gamba, and several (Eskimos) and Indians, who will now her hundreds of leadings musicians internationally known soloists as such form a majority. throughout the entire world to promote Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci, He stated, however, that this act international understanding and coop­ Jorge Bolet, Maureen Forrest , Ro­ does not go far enough and advocates eration and to sponsor performances in berta Peters, Jose Greco and others, more powers for the council. In his various countries. with Peter Ustinov as the master of opinion the territories should have two Mrs. Bregent, who is music corres­ ceremonies. The concert was nttended senators and two members of Parlia­ pondent at the Canadian Consulate for by. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre ment each. Trudeau and Secretary of Energy James Sen. Yuzyk supports self-govern­ Schlesinger, who represented President ment and eventually provincial status Carter. The President and Mrs, Carter for the Yukon and the Northwest Ter­ Plast Command head were scheduled to attend but the Presi­ ritories, which form 40 percent of the dent was in the Middle East for the land area of Canada and possess tre­ Sen. Paul Yuzyk visits LA. branch peace talks at the time. mendous resources of mineral depo­ LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The Plast At the champagne reception at the sits, oil and gas, which are now being and mines will greatly increase the pop­ branch here was visited by the head of Center for Inter-American Relations on exploited. ulation of these territories. These the National Plast Command, Ihor Park Avenue, limited to 400 invited The influx of whites from the south Canadians will undoubtedly demand Sochan, during the weekend of March (Continued on page 12) to construct and operate the pipelines self-government, he said. 24-25. Mr. Sochan reviewed the acti­ vity of the Los Angeles branch and at­ tended its annual elections meeting. Chicago debutante ball On Saturday, March 24, the Na­ tional Plast Command head met with the branch's executive board ("star- shyna") and council ("rada") to in­ spect and discuss the work of the branch. He attended a meeting with members of Plastpryiat, (the parents of young Plast members and supporters of the youth organization) and answered questions about Plast's educational methods. Mr. Sochan also visited the local School of Ukrainian Subjects and met with Plast counselors of the Los Angeles branch. The following day, he was present at the elections meeting of the branch, at which Daria. Chaikovsky was elected "stanychna" (head) of the branch, Anna Mykytyn - "koshova," Zenon Zachariasewycz — "koshovyi" and Natalie Berezowsky — head of the council. The annual debutante ball sponsored by the Chicago branches of engineers', doctors' and veterinarians' associations was held January 27. This year's bail was hosted by the engineers' society, and all proceeds were earmarked for "Smoloskyp" publishers. In the photo above are the 14 debutantes and their escorts:(left to right) Marta Marchuk and Andriy Kolomyiets, Bohdanna Bilynsky and Marko Mostovych, Daria Hirniak and Ihor Hrynevych, Kalyna Dudiak and Orest Korsunsky, New UNA'ers Daria Andrushko and Roman Kvit, Katia Kosyk and Yuriy Pavlyk, Adriana Kochman and Pavlo Hursky, Olia Slipkevych and Nestor Horodysky, Natalia Mytsyk and Lev Mursky, Irene Tkachuk and Marian Demus, Anhelyna Pleskanka and Oleksander Kuritsa, Irene Stadnyk and Marko Piletsky, Diana Popovych and Andriy Horodysky, Roma Hankevych and Andriy Seniuta. Ph/7/y Engineers' Boll

Nineteen girls made their debut this year at the Philadelphia Engineers' Ball held February 17 at the Sheraton Hotel. The debutantes and their escorts in the photo above are; (left to right) Sophia Janusz and Alexander Hraur, Marta Kachay and Taras Kozak, Natalia Hlyniansky and Stepan Tur, Mira Harmatiy and Petro Kopanycia, Maria Stefurak and Myron File- vych, Halyna Horayetsky and Hryhoriy Mayik, Olga Odosiyand Roman Iwasiwka, Lidia Pyrih and Ihor Stelmach, Lidia Halushka and Zenon Svitenko, Christine Baduliak and Yuriy Krywolap; Teresa Kopanycia and Taras Mykytyn, Mariana Mykhayliuk and Marko Klos, Mary Reitarowski and Andriy Sobchak, Halya Petryk and Taras Trypupenko, Christine Holovchak and Andriy Boyko, Nina Todoriw and Anton Meshel, Leah Petryk and Orest Luchanko, Irene Boychuk and John and Katherine Moroz Smith are Roman Brodyn, Aleksandra Hanas and Roman Yarymovych. Standing in the center are: Roxolana Czorpita and Roman the newest members of UNA Branch Knihnicky, masters of ceremonies; Christine Czorpita, committee member; Stepan Czorpita, president of the Philadelphia 172 in Whippany, N.J. Certificates branch of the Ukrainian Engineers' Society; Christine Senyk, debut coordinator; Lev Yatskevych, toastmaster; Vera were purchased for them by their pa­ Andreychyk, committee member. This year's ball marked the 30th anniversary of the Philadelphia branch of the Ukrainian rents, George and Maria Irena Smith. Engineers'Society. No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1,1979 9 Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple by Helen Perozak Smindak

Sculpture Music Bartered Bride," "Ariadne auf Naxos," "Rigoletto" and "Werther." As in previous years, Mr. Dobriansky will be ь Three works of Alexander Archi- ^ New York's music critics agree that in the Met's national company during penko which are new to most viewers in no one can sing the role of Onegin in its annual swing around the country in the United States are now on display at Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" easier April and May, then back to New York the Guggenheim Museum in the exhibi­ or with greater style than the Ukrainian to work on staging portions of two tion "The Planar Dimension: Europe, baritone Yuri Mazurok. But they also Ukrainian operas at the Garden State 1912-1932," which concentrates on point out that Mr. Mazurok plays the Arts. Center's Ukrainian Festival on open-form constuction — sculpture part coolly (so coolly that he seemed June 2. on planes in open space rather than on almost out of the drama, according to mass or volume. Donated to a Tel Aviv New York Post critic Speight Jenkins). ^ Pianist Juliana Osinchuk, whom I museum by a German collector, the The Daily News's Bill Zakariasen com­ ran into at a recent Ukrainian gathering, pieces include "Head of a Woman" pared the Bolshoi Opera singer to told me she has just returned from a (painted wood, sheet metal and found deadpan actor. Clint Eastwood. In cruise on the M.S. World Renaissance, objects creating a sculpture which the person, Mr. Mazurok is every bit as which took a special charter group to Guggenheim says "evokes the primitive handsome and elegant as he is on stage. St. Thomas, Barbados, Jamaica, force of pre-Christian idols Archipenko Accosted by me at the Met stage en­ Mexico and Caracas. Although there admired during his childhood in Kiev"), trance Saturday, March 25, following were many exciting things to see, such "Woman with a Fan" (painted wood, the afternoon performance of "One- as the Mayan ruins, Miss Osinchuk was canvas, with funnel and glass), and gin," Mr. Mazurok appeared shocked on board primarily to concertize. She "Kneeling Woman" (painted wood and to hear himself addressed in Ukrainian. performed in chamber recitals with Jan found objects). Among the several He paused only long enough to dash off Peerce and Eric Freedman. Questioned Archipenko works in the display from an illegible signature on my program about last year's activities, she described the Guggenheim's permanent collection Robert Hrynkiw and give a negative response to my successful concert tours last spring in is his "Medrano II," a 50-inch-high request for an interview, then resumed Brussels, Amsterdam, Athens and Yu­ many one-man and group shows. Now his brisk exit in the company of a goslavia. Reviewer Rene Declerck of figure pointed out by a museum spokes­ residing in Colebrook, Conn., he began man as probably the only remaining dapper American (his manager, per­ Brussels was particularly appreciative his current series of paintings while haps?) to a waiting limousine. Such a of Miss Osinchuk's artistry and wrote of example of Archipenko's mixed media teaching advanced color theory at the construction of 1913. In his review in contrast to the ebullient baritone Paul "her brilliant virtuosity, her confident New York School of Interior Design Plishka (Prince Gremin on stage), who technique, her sense of color and The New York Times, Hilton Kramer from 1970 to 1972. In the evening, he noted that "The Plannar Dimension" is had emerged from the backstage area equilibrium." Miss Osinchuk is pre­ will sit back to enjoy a performance by somewhat earlier and stopped to chat sently doing research for her doctoral not an easy exhibition because it makes his brother, pianist Thomas Hrynkiw of few concessions to popular taste and with me for a few minutes, or the degree at the Juilliard School of Music. New York, who is giving a solo recital at Estonian conductor Naami Yarvi, who rather large demands on a viewer's the museum for the benefit of the ^ Soprano Denise Marusevich Mag­ understanding. Art lovers and Archi­ took time to sign autographs and speak yar is scheduled to perform in a concert Northeastern Pennsylvania Philhar­ individually to a long line of delighted penko fans will undoubtedly enjoy it. monic Society. of works by Bach celebrating the com­ Estonian Americans. poser's 294th birthday, on Sunday, Through May 6 at the Guggenheim, ^ The Olha Sonevytsky Art Gallery Fifth Avenue and 89th Street. Tuesday, ^ Paul Plishka has been winning April 1, at 3 p.m., at the Ukrainian at 98 Second Ave. has announced that it Institute. With her will be her husband, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Wednesdays-Sundays has acquired new works by Halyna high praise from the critics for the inter­ and holidays, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Closed pretation as Oroveso in Bellini's opera pianist Christopher Magyar, as well as Mazepa of Venezuela, A. Solohuba of Robert J. Alcala, Andrew De Masi and Mondays. Paris, M. Gamula of Canada and over "Norma." Reviewing the premiere of "Norma," the Times's Raymond Colette Harris, performing works for 30 other Ukrainian artists. Gallery soprano, baroque oboe, viola gamba, Art hours: Friday, 5-7 p.m.; other days, 10 Ericson wrote on March 14:"...for a 'bel canto' opera, the only really'beautiful' harpsichord and clavichord. The so­ a.m. - 3 p.m. (closed Sundays and prano, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ь An exhibit of 57 works by 21 singing came from Paul Plishka as Mondays). Stephen Marusevich of Long Island, Carpatho-Ukrainian artists was un­ Oroveso. The bass's voice is about as ^ Landscapes and flowers figured and her husband presented a similar ho­ veiled Sunday, March 25, at the Ukrain­ richly handsome as any around, and his prominently in a retrospective exhibit mage last January 7 at Carnegie Recital ian Institute of America, as part of the singing was wonderfully sonorous and of 50 years' work by Ukrainian-born Hall, on that occasion in honor of celebration marking the 40th anniver­ smooth." Earlier this season, Donal William Panchak, the oldest Ukrainian Francis Poulenc and with different sary of the independence of Carpatho- Henahan of the Times noted that artist in the United States, from March performers. While Mrs. Magyar is Ukraine. The afternoon program, Plishka filled the bill admirably as 18 to 25 at the Ukrainian Artists' devoting herself to developing her which included the showing of the 1939 Count Walter in Verdi's "Luisa Miller," Association gallery. Mr. Panchak came singing career, her husband is preparing documentary film "Tragedy of. Car- which he termed "one of those Verdian to the United States in 1911 as a for the American National Chopin patho-Ukraine," was arranged by the rumblers" that call for low-voiced males teenager and has been active in the art Piano Competitions early next year. Carpathian Research Center in coope­ world since then. He studied at the of real quality. During the 1978-79 ration with the Heritage Institute of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the season, Mr. Plishka has also sung roles Passaic Ruthenian Diocese of the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in "Aida," "Don Carlo" and "Parsifal." The academic whirl Byzantine Rite, the. Carpathian Sich and the National Academy of Design in ^ Missed at the Met stage entrance, ^ The Eisner and Lubin auditorium Brotherhood and the Tysa Society. New York. Participating in American possibly because he left early after Stepan Rosokha of Toronto, editor of and European shows, he has won performing in Act II of "Onegin" was of New York University's Loeb Student "Vilne Slovo," introduced the film and numerous prizes, awards and favorable baritone Andrij Dobriansky. He has Center resounded with Ukrainian music Julian Revay, former prime minister of critiques. His last European show was been performing this season in "The (Continued on page 13) Carpatho-Ukraine and head of the held in the autumn of 1978 at the Carpathian center, was on hand to Academie Internationale de Lutece in answer viewers' questions. The film will Paris. Now 82, Mr. Panchak is an active be shown again this weekend, on Satur­ member of the Ukrainian Artists' Asso­ day, March 31, at 4 p.m. Among the ciation and a frequent visitor at Uk­ artists represented in the paintings and rainian art exhibits in New York during works in wood and metal, all from the fall and winter months. He spends private collections, are Joseph Boksay, his summers in the mountains — Adalbert Borecky, Ivan Shutiv, Gabriel painting. Gluck, Ernest Kondratovich, Zoltan ^ Tying in with the Easter season, the Sholtes, Fedir Manaylo, Vincent Ovsak Odessa Restaurant at 21 E. Seventh St. and Michael Tulek. The exhibit con­ is spotlighting three paintings of py- tinues through April 17. Tuesday- sanky by Taras Shumylowych of New Friday, 2-6 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday York in its main dining room. The foot- by appointment (BU 8-8660). high Easter eggs, together with some ^ Robert Hrynkiw, who specializes graphics and other oil paintings by Mr. in abstract expressionist art, opens a Shumylowych, were put on display at one-man show this weekend (Saturday, the beginning of March and will remain March 31) at the Everhart Museum in until Easter Sunday (April 22). And Scranton, Pa. An alumnus of Columbia drawing upon a design of another kind, University and the Art Students League the owners of Odessa have invited of New York, Mr. Hrynkiw received his fashion consultant Donna Kopcyo to masters with honors in painting from present a showing of spring fashions in Members of the NYU Ukrainian Students' Association, (left to right) Lesia Southern Connecticut State College in the restaurant on April 1, from 2 to 4 Machko, Irene Wolowodiuk and Maria Fedorciw, man an exhibit table during 1973 and has exhibited his work in p.m. (S3 minimum for food). Ukrainian Day at the university. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 No. 73 Andreenko exhibit held at Chicago's Ukrainian Institute of Art

The review below appeared in the the end of Ukrainian independence in touch with the widespread Russian mo­ confident work came when he moved March issue of The New Art Examiner. 1921, after only three years of exis­ dern art movement, since his bio­ away from Cubism, as in the 1950s. In It was written by Joshua Kind. tence, and after centuries of previous graphy mentions "Cubist" works in that decade, he produced a large and occupation by Poland and Russia, 1915-16, and Constructivist theater sets consistent body of post-Impressionist- Art, like human brotherhood and there has been a gnawing sense along in Odessa and Prague. like landscapes; in their brusque paint ethnic tradition, is a precious entity; all with the loss of political integrity, of Andreenko's prime idiom, with surface and abrupt drawing, and even three have about them, with every the continued dimunition of the tradi­ which he begins and to which he re­ prevailing darkness, they resemble the justification, a sense of the highest hu­ tion of native culture: the present-day turns throughout his career, is a syn­ paintings of Utrillo. It was not man expectations — especially in our Soviet government suppresses both the thetic Cubist-like, flat-patterned Andreenko's first removal from time when we fear more than ever our relgion and the language itself, and abstraction. Only momentarily, in the Cubism. No doubt like many artists dehumanization, by whatever means. obviously also the larger cultural tradi­ early 1920s, is there any hint of either during the 1930s he had painted mild But they should not be confused. Just tion. Futurism or Constructivist dynamic Surrealist and table-top arrangements as art cannot be willed into an ethnic But following from their historical and dematerialization. Throughout his with some little hint of fantasy. This tradition, ethnicity, simply by its hu­ disorder, it must be understood ;hat if long career, his abstract works appear figurative work apparently gave him manity, ultimate and poignant, should Ukrainians suffer from the burdens of marked by dour color, an overriding greater access to a sense of emotional not of necessity be expected to produce pervasive Slavic melancholy, there is feeling of the awkward, and surfaces commitment and release; and so in art meaningful beyond its particular also a great frustration of pride. often ravaged and collaged — a la them, unlike his abstract images, there ethnic closure. To do so — to assert Opposed to most Westerners' histori­ Schwitters and not Braque; and to my is not that imposition of an ungainly that the power of the ethnic affirma­ cal sense, the generality "Russia" did eye, even a Paul Klee-like calligraphic and even self-deprecating vigor. tion is itself enough to produce an art not exist first; rather Ukraine, centered marking at times. If Andreenko's work of vital meaning to others outside that in the south around Kiev, the first an­ may be said to exhibit a "gaucherie," Cubism at first, for the Slavic artist, tradition, is, of course, to force the is­ cient Slavic capital, was the source it is assignable either to ill control of may have appeared close to their ongo­ sue of the preciousness of any one tra­ from which culture and language ex­ pictorial means, or his ill-at-ease at his ing feeling for a personally expressive, dition over another: that one tradition panded northward. Moscow was own ongoing attraction to an imme­ and even primitive image; and during^ which is ours by the chance of fate, is founded centuries after Kiev. In other diacy of expression, emotional and its first decade, 1910-20, and on into the ours. We should both enjoy it and words, succinctly put, "Mother Rus­ even content-oriented, that had been next, Cubism was still a meaningful wonder at it, but also realize, with hu­ sia" is an untruth: the origins of Slavic subsumed by his Francophilic for­ creative force. Like the well-known mility, the smallness and absurdity of culture, ethnicity, in the area most malism. and even "ethnic emblem" Archi­ that singular human focus. Americans think of as Russia, is really The pervasive aura that I impute to penko (the Ukrainian Institute was at Ukraine. Andreenko's career, can also be felt in one time to be called by his name), The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Now all of this can be considered re­ the quite similar career paths of the Andreenko both realized the strength Art, on Chicago's Near-West Side, was levant since the Ukrainian Institute it­ well-known artists who were also born of abstract art, yet also the way in founded eight years ago primarily as a self, and then every exhibition present­ in Eastern Europe. As Slavs, primi- which it cut them off from more poten­ showcase for artists of that ethnic ed there, despite whatever efforts tivism seemingly had a powerful appeal tially meaningful ethnic sources of in­ background who are working in ''con­ would be made to offset the even for all of them. (The most self-con­ spiration. But unlike Archipenko, temporary' ' idioms. As the problem unconscious motivation, can be felt as sciously naive but aggressively crude Andreenko seems to have rebelled, via appeared to its founders, a medical a nationalist and ethnic act. But the work in European modernism — his rough handling of the paint surface doctor, Achille Chreptowsky, and an Ukrainian Institute — or any other reminiscent of Dubuffet's early post- and form, against his School of Paris, economist, Wasyl Kacurovsky, ethnic ethnic-founded and ethnic-supported World War II drawing — was pro­ his Francophilic decorative involve­ organizations abounded which were organization — simply by the presenta­ duced before World War I by, ment — and given the evidence on view dedicated to ethnic causes, but their tion of Ukrainian artists, should not be among others, Larionov and Gon- at the institute, not that happily. (Is it level of visual-artistic sympathy did not accused of the confusion of the ethnic chorova, to say nothing of the early only among the Slavic artists who extend to the point where non-representa­ with art. However the issues and quali­ Chagall.) This penchant was built into totally cut themselves off from overt tional and abstracting works could be dis­ ties underlying the "art" of the ethnic the temperament — it was a "Weltan­ expression of naive, primitivising, played with regularity, if at all. Since artist should be clearly and reasonably schauung." spiritual statement, to work with the institute's move into enlarged and stated, and openly discussed — espe­ Yet through the guise of Cubism, as impersonal, non-representational form elegant facilities last year at 2320 cially so for the ethnic audience. Other­ a French visual art phenomenon — and alone, that a consistent and productive Chicago Ave., an exhibition policy has wise it is only human - all too human as well through the more confused and creative career was possible — the been proposed that would expand the — that we impose all those most haunt­ extended "Futurism" — they were all Suprematists, Constructivists Tatlin, schedule to include the presentation of ing attractions of blood and lineage introduced to a formal modernist Pevsner, Malevich and also Kandin- work by non-Ukrainians; and in fact, upon human creativity and wish to orientation which enthralled them: sky?) even years ago, this question of quality make them synonymous. Archipenko, Tatlin, Malevich, Zad- Incidentally, the exhibition should and/or rather ethnicity arose, both as kine, Lipchitz, and of course many be considered an adequate retrospec­ general principle, and as the task of The institute is currently exhibiting others. Perhaps it was the purism and tive in spite of the extraordinary fact obtaining work by Ukrainian artists the work of the 85-year-old Mykhajlo spirituality inherent in "abstract art" that all of the work comes from the pri­ that would satisfy the exhibition stan­ Andreenko. Before settling permanently that was meaningful, and as well its vate Chicago collection of Drs. Alex­ dards of all the members of the board in Paris in 1923, the artist, who was sense of liberation, especially so to the andra and Andrew Ilkiw who pur­ of directors, became more difficult. born into the Ukrainian upper class, Slavic mind, from the oppressive and chased them in Paris directly from the There was also another problem, had been in law school in St. Peters­ autocratic past. In any case, as with artist. This is indicated not only by the unfortunately indigenous to many eth­ burg, and had as well begun to attend Andreenko, it is as if their native (and number of works on display and their nic groups — and of course the most an art school there. Andreenko may then let me say "ethnic") predilection inclusive time span, but also by the evi­ compelling aspect of an art amalga­ have seen some of the many exhibitions for content and primitivising expression dence of the two Andreenko catalogs mated with ethnicity. Ukrainians iden­ of modern European art which were was overwhelmed, but not forgotten. available at the institute, both from tify themselves wimxthe tragic and presented throughout Russia up to the For Andreenko, oddly and signifi­ Europe and both clearly made under oppressed history of that land. Since time of World War I, and even been in cantly enough, his most relaxed and the artist's guidance. Russification of Ukraine... on a policy of linguistic and cultural assimilation. The new program of the Com­ (Continued from page 7) munist Party of the Soviet Union, adopted on October 31, 1961, stated that "an "de-Russification" was developing in Ukraine. Furthermore, Ukrainian Com­ international culture common to all the Soviet nations is developing" as the foun­ munists were demanding the appointment of Ukrainians to top party and govern­ dation of "the formation of the future single world-wide culture of Communist ment positions in their republic, positions which were held almost exclusively by society," with the Russian language as "the common medium of interronrsp '"^ Russians. The calling for cultural orientation towards Europe and away from As a result of this program, on the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Moscow by the Communist Ukrainian intelligentsia was interpreted as a grave Soviet Union, Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, the Secretary General of the Communist threat to the integrity of the USSR.8 Party was moved to state that the nationalities question in the Soviet Union "has 14 Stalin, on his accession to full political power, aborted the national rennais- been resolved completely, resolved definitely, and irrevocably." In reality, the ances that were under way in the republics and substituted a policy of Sovietiza- nationalities question is far from being resolved. This is evident from the contin­ tion. Sovietization, transformation of non-Russians into one homogenous com­ uing policy of assimilation and/or eradication of the non-Russian languages in munity of Soviets, became clearly identified with Russian political and cultural the Soviet Union. heritage.9 Sovietization (i.e. Russification) encountered strong opposition within (To be continued) Ukraine and the other republics. Their resistance was suppressed by mass killings, 8 10 Ibid. artificial famines, and deportation. In fact, Stalin entirely deported eight of 9 Ibid. the smaller nationalities to Kazakhstan, Siberia, and Central Asia on unfounded 10 A conservative estimate of Ukrainian losses in the famine of 1932-33 is lO^/o of the population, charges of "treason to the Soviet Fatherland."11 In Nikita Khrushchev's own or well over 3,000,000 according to William Henry Chamberlin in "The Ukraine: A Submerged Na­ tion" The MacMil The MacMillan Company, 1944), p. 61. words, "The Ukrainians avoided meeting this fate only because there were too 11 many of them and there was no place to which to deport them. Otherwise, he, Sta­ Bohdan R. Baciurkiw, "Soviet Nationalities Policy and Dissent in the Ukraine," "The World 12 Today" 30 (May 1974): 217, citing "The Crimes of the Stalin Era." Special Report to the 20th lin, would have deported them also." Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by Nikita S. Khrushchev. Annotated by Boris I. Nikolaevsky (New York: The New Leader, 1956) pp. 544-545 Stalin's policy of Russification was continued under Khrushchev's administra­ 12 tion, although somewhat less severely. Soviet authorities have, in practice, aban­ Ibid. 13 Peter G. Stercho, "Soviet Concept of National Self-Determination: Theory and Reality," "The doned the use of ideology or class solidarity as means of achieving their goal of Ukrainian Quarterly" 29 (Summer 1973): 162. integration ot the peoples ot the USSR into one unified nation, and instead carry 14 Bociurkiw, "Soviet Nationalities Policy and Disseni in the Ukraine," p. 214. No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1,1979 11

Recently imprisoned.., Deadline approaches for

(Continued from page 2) On September 5, 1977, the surveil­ UNA bowling tourney lance was extended for another six school officials for permission to work months on the grounds that Ovsienko as a teacher of Ukrainian language and ROCHESTER, N.Y. - May 5 is the a social hospitality night for Saturday maintained contact with anti-Soviet literature. His request was denied on deadline for entries in the 14th annual evening at the Ukrainian Civic Center, elements while in prison, maintained the grounds that there were no open­ UNA Bowling Tournament to be held 831 Joseph Ave., Rochester. Festivities contact with Matusevych and Maryno­ ings. On April 8, 1977, he sought inter­ here Memorial Day weekend, May will commence about 7:30 after the vych, and convinced his niece, Liu- 26-27, the tournament committee re­ day's bowling has been completed. vention from the Ministry of Educa­ dmyla Riabukha, to deliberately give tion of the Ukrainian SSR. ported. There will be plenty of food, an open false testimony. The singles and doubles competition bar and live music. Attendance is In his letter to the Ministry of Edu­ On September 23, 1977, Ovsienko will be held on Saturday, May 26, and limited to all tournament bowlers and cation, Ovsienko said that he was aeain wrote to the prosecutor of the the team events on Sunday, May 27, at their spouses or guests, and a charge of warned by the KGB that he would not Ukrainian SSR about the unwillingness Bowl-A-Roll Lanes, 1560 Jefferson S2 per person is required. be able to find employment along his of local officials to allow him to teach Road, Rochester. profession unless he changes his be­ For further information, contact in schools. The lanes are located approximately liefs. Frank Kubarich, 72 Mayville Drive, Ovsienko was also questioned about five miles from the Sheraton-Gate­ Rochester, N.Y. 14617, or UNA He requested the authorities to allow Heli Snehiriov, the Ukrainian political house Inn, 4831 W. Henrietta Road, branch secretaries. him to work as a teacher in the Rado- prisoner who recently died in prison, where out-of-town guests and partici­ myshl region where he is confined and Lev Lukianenko. pants will be lodged. The motel is lo­ under the regulations of the mandatory On October 22, 1977, Ovsienko was cated just north of Exit 46 of the New surveillance. If not, he then asked that warned that he will be arrested and York State Thruway. Petro Tarnawsky... the surveillance be cancelled and that brought to trial if he continues his anti- For those participants arriving by he be allowed to search for employ­ Soviet activity. At that time, Ovsienko plane into Rochester, free transporta­ (Continued from page 4) ment elsewhere. Otherwise, wrote decided to apply for an exit visa but his tion will be furnished to and from the пуску, organizing chairman; George Ovsienko, he will regard this as dis­ application was repeatedly turned airport by the Sheraton-Gatehouse Trypupenko and Andrew Kusnir, pro­ crimination against him on the grounds down. Inn. Upon arrival the number to call gram chairmen; the Rt. Rev. Bilak, Su­ of personal belief. for transportation is 334-9300. preme Auditor Dr. Bohdan Hnatiuk Ovsienko also requested the prosecu­ The tournament awards banquet will and Mr. Odezynskyj, Supreme As­ tor general of the Ukrainian SSR to be held in the banquet room at the sembly representatives; and Dmytro cancel the surveillance, but his petition Sheraton-Gatehouse Inn on Sunday Fedoriychuk, V. Yevtushenko, Theo­ was turned down by the Zhytomyr pro­ Hnizdovsky's works evening. Festivities will include a cock­ dore Sushchyk, Ivan Vasiurka, Marian secutor's office. tail hour, dinner, presentation of Kozheniowsky, Ivan Babiak, Mykola On August 2, 1977, Ovsienko was displayed in Virginia awards, music for dancing and open Lialiuk, Mykola Holinko, Yosyf Kho- questioned in connection with the cases bar for the rest of the evening. This ma and Yaroslav Lebed, members. of Mykola Matusevych and Myroslav SWEET BRIAR, Va. - An exhibit year there will be a special memorial The auditing board consists of Mr. Marynovych, two members of the of 60 limited edition woodcut prints by trophy and prize for the male bowler Skoczylas, chairman; and Petro Shcher- Ukrainian Helsinki monitoring eronn Jacques Hnizdovsky will be held here who rolls the highest three-game handi­ ba, Michael Martynenko, Michael Glo- He was questioned then by three at the Virginia Center for the Creative cap total during the team event com­ va and Yakym Kozil, members. agents of the secret police who Arts during the first week of April. petition. The trophy will be awarded in The participants of the meeting gave warned him that he would be held in The opening of the exhibit, at which memory of William Hussar, a pro­ Mr. Hawrysz 30 new applications for contempt of court on the grounds that the public may meet the artist, is sche­ minent leader in the UNA and the local membership at the close of the meeting. he deliberately gave false testimony, duled for 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, April Ukrainian community who passed The Rt. Rev. Bilak, who opened the urged witnesses to give false testimony, 1. The gallery will also be open from 1 away on June 27, 1978. Tickets to the meeting with a special prayer, also and revealed results of the pre-trial in­ to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April banquet are S16 per person. closed the session with a specially com­ vestigation. 7-8. The host committee has also planned posed benediction. Let's not escape into silence

(Continued from page 3) renko, Anatoly Marchenko, Yuri Orlov, Anatoly cular duty to defend their activities and protest their they will be the focal point of a major study by the Shcharansky, Vladimir Slepak, Aleksandr Pod- treatment, because they spoke out as a result of pro­ Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe rabinek. mises to which we have all pledged ourselves. To do — a legislative-executive commission to monitor From Ukraine: Levko Lukianenko, Myroslav otherwise makes a mockery of those words. implementation of the Helsinki Accords. The study, Marynovych, Mykola Matusevych, Mykola Ruden- The existence of this very commission is a living a summary of U.S. compliance with the accords, will ko, Oleksiy Tykhy and Petro Vins. proof of how far we have come and a constant re­ be a frank assessment of what the United States has These citizens, together with dozens more, formed minder of how much we have yet to accomplish. This and has not been doing to implement the accords. public groups in Moscow, Ukraine, Lithuania, commission should no longer be considered as only a The commission has already been able to encourage Georgia and Armenia in order to call the attention of side-show off the big stage of global diplomacy. Let the U.S. government to do better in areas where it public opinion, their own government and other it not be scorned then as a comedy of good inten­ felt implementation was lacking. Final Act signatories to document violations of hu­ tions. Nor should our failures to take action, our What recourse is available, however, to citizens in man rights. They compiled and issued open, omissions and our slow pace be used as a convenient countries where national institutions are not designed thorough reports on official practices toward reli­ excuse to dismiss what we have already accomp­ to respond to citizens' complaints? When 11 Soviet gious believers, persons seeking to rejoin relatives lished, serve as a trap of despair over how little we citizens first met in Moscow to form the initial Soviet abroad, persons confined in mental hospitals because are accomplishing, or be a gift to our detractors to Helsinki monitoring group, they did so because they of their political beliefs, persons confined in prisons, predict that nothing will ever be accomplished. believed the promises their government had made in prison camps or internal exile because of their efforts It is incumbent upon us to fulfill our mandate and, Helsinki and Geneva. to express such beliefs or disseminate their views and therefore, we must do more than what we are doing. As a result of their activities to promote observ­ information, and minority groups seeking cultural We are not here to denigrate each other, but to ance of human rights, the Soviet government de­ and political rights in the Soviet Union. improve the human condition all over the world. tained seven of the monitors for over a year without a There is no time to mention, Mr. Chairman, all Therefore, we must clearly set our goals. trial or defense counsel and sentenced 22 group mem­ those, in many other countries, who have been perse­ In this Year of the Child we must concentrate our bers to internal and external exile, labor camps and cuted and imprisoned because of their stand for the energies toward the elimination of abuses of chil­ prisons — many for as long as 15 years. human rights of their fellow citizens. Let me just dren. The imprisonment of pregnant women, the If we take seriously the words we have spent so mention a few more names: separation of families and the use of relatives as tools many hours composing, then we must speak out for In South Africa: Winnie Mandela, Byers Naude. of political vengeance. I call upon this commission to those individuals who have treated those words so In Czecho-Slovakia: Jiri Lederer. hold open hearings on the reunification of families. I seriously. We must speak openly of the 20 Soviet As Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov eloquently re­ again make this plea as I did last year for open hear­ Helsinki monitors who have been arrested and con­ marked: "On the moral plane, there is a particular ings. victed, and the two who have been exiled because gravity in the persecution of persons who have We should also investigate the fate of disappeared they believed that international commitments should defended other victims of unjust treatment, who family members. be respected. We cannot forget the names of the 22 have worked to publish and, in particular, to distri­ And it is not enough to lament, to express revul­ Soviet citizens who are now languishing in labor bute information regarding both the persecution and sion, to declare or to solemnly pledge. Through the camps, prisons or forced exile because they dared to trials of persons with deviant opinions and the condi­ policies of our governments we must also give this act in accordance with internationally promised basic tions in places of imprisonment.'' commission the wherewithal to transform moral rights. On both the moral and legal plane, there is parti­ statements into moral acts. From Soviet Armenia: Shagen Arutyunan, cular gravity in the fact that these persoi s are being If we pride ourselves to be the conscience of hu­ Ambartsum Khlgatyan, Robert Nazaryan. punished rather than protected in their pursuit of the man rights, let us say what is on our mind and in our From Georgia: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Grigory rights of freedom of expression promised in the Uni­ heart. If we are a forum of global debate on human Goldshtein, Merab Kostava, Viktor Rtshiladze. versal Declaration of Human Rights, the Interna­ rights, let us not escape into silence. And if we are the From the Lithuanian group: Viktoras Petkus and tional Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the hope of the persecuted, the imprisoned and the tor­ Tomas Venclova. Helsinki Final Act. tured, let us not let them down. From Moscow: Aleksandr Ginzburg, Pyotr Grigo- The Commission on Human Rights has a parti­ (To be continued) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1,1979 No. 73

Tax tips A pair of eyes frosts (Continued from page 7) World War I?" "What was it like This column of questions and answerson Federal tax matters is provided by the courses and to see "dido's" heavily without cars, television and stereos?" New Jersey District Office of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and is published calloused hands bring the "didukh" into Did you ever go out with anyone other as a public service to taxpayers. The column answers questions most frequently asked the house, his raspy voice and timeworn than 'baba? " "What were your grand­ by taxpayers. eyes again announcing "Khrystos Ro- parents like?" You might be surprised zhdaietsia!" by the answers you get and how closely Q. I incurred large medical bills in 1978, which I paid, but for which I will not Moreover, how many of us could they relate to our own lives. recieve reimbursement from my health insurance policy until sometime in 1979. have survived not one but two world The coldness of being lonely is Should I claim the deduction on my 1978 federal tax return or wait until 1979, wars, several revolutions, exile to a dreaded by everyone. Solitude tends to after I get my reimbursement. foreign land and culture, name-calling fog normally clear souls. Do we dare A. You should go ahead and claim the deduction on your 1978 return based on from Americans, and, now, mental and allow ourselves to watch another pair of the actual expenses you incurred during 1978. Note that in computing the deduc­ physical abandonment? I feel sure that eyes frost? Do we dare let another misty tion you will be limited to the amount by which the expenses exceed 3 percent of there are not many. Yet, with the same soul go unheard? your adjusted gross income. Then, if and when you receive insurance reimburse­ insouciant complacency that we are ment in 1979, you will include that as income on your 1979 tax return. now allowing our Ukrainianism to slip If your 1979 reimbursement is less than the 1978 deduction, you will report in through our fingers, our leisure-suited, income the full amount of reimbursement. neon characters now make it justifiable If the reimbursement is greater than the deduction, you include in income only to have our parents put away, declared Read an amount equal to the deduction. The only exception to this is where your senile; to have words spoken and be employer pays part of the cost of the coverage. In that case (where the reimburse­ unheard, to have funerals unattended. ment is greater than the deduction), you would also have to include in income the Our symbiosis with the elderly is the portion of the excess which is attributable to the employer's share of the pre­ only viable solution. What our senior The Ukrainian miums. For example, if your employer pays half the cost of the coverage, then citizens need right now is an open heart half of the excess reimbursement would be included in income along with the and a willing ear. Every gray hair and amount equal to the deduction claimed the prior year. wrinkle has a story behind it. All of us Weekly must make an effort to spend some time Q. I am filing a joint return this year and itemizing my deductions Why do I with those we know have no one to care. have to reduce my total itemized deductions by S3,200 on my federal tax return? Ukrainian schools should devote a day All my deductions equal only S4,345, so if I substract S3,200 from this amount to visiting "old-age homes" and assist­ that leaves me with only SI, 145 in deductions. Is there a printing error on the ing the nurses in their tasks. Everyone 1 Schedule A? should make a point of asking our T A. There is no printing error, and you must subtract the S3,200 because the tax senior citizens questions. They love TYPEWRITERS tables you will then use to compute your tax already have a S3,200 deduction built questions! "What was it like during in. So, in effect, you are getting the full S4,345. The reason the tables have this S3,200 deduction built in is for those who do not itemize. If you do not subtract UKRAINIAN, ENGLISH ft OTHER LANGUAGES. X the S3,200 you will, in effect, be claiming S7,545 in deductions, an obvious error J. SACHS which the IRS will correct, and for which you will be sent in additional tax bill. Ukrainian women... 119 W. 23rd St., New York City 5 (212) 243-8086 - Open Sat. till 5:30 p.m. X (Continued from page 8) guests, Mrs. Dushnyck and Mrs. Bre- Social security notes gent had an opportunity to chat with Mr. Trudeau. Q. Is my doctor's certification all that is needed for Medicare to pay for my HELP WANTED He is acquainted with the Bregent care? I need an operation and want to be sure Medicare will pay for it. family in Canada and remembered A. Certain conditions must be met before Medicare can pay for care in a them in his conversation with Mrs. hospital or skilled nursing facility or from a home health agency. A doctor's certi­ EXPERIENCED Bregent. Mrs. Dushnyck spoke with the fication that you need the care is only one of the conditions which must be met. UKRAINIAN COOK Prime Minister about the Ukrainian All of the conditions are listed in "Your Medicare Handbook," which is avail­ wanted immediately in Ford Lauderdale community in the United States and able at any social security office. -for Eastern European and American Canada and about Ukrainians in the cooking. Call Q. I know the medical insurance part of Medicare helps pay for doctor's ser­ Canadian government such as Sen. Nicholas. (305) 564-4901 vices. What other kinds of medical care does it cover? Paul Yuzyk and others. Mrs. Bregent LL A. 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Grigorenko said that this lie can easily be corrected nals." by the numerous Jews from the Soviet Union who are wit­ 4'It is high time for Jewish organizations to turn their at­ nesses to the cooperation between Ukrainians and Jews. He tention to exposing the crimes committed against the Jewish said that they remain silent probably because they feel that people in the USSR and to removing the mask of 'defender the problem does not exist. FOR BEAUTIFUL HOUSES of the Jews' from the KGB," said Gen. Grigorenko. He said that Mykhailo Khayfets, am imprisoned Jewish IN PRESTIGIOUS AREAS OF He also denounced the allegations of the existence of dissident, wrote in the camps a poem about his Ukrainian friends. ESSEX, MORRIS or UNION Ukrainian anti-Semitism. He said that such statements are COUNTIES CALL: offensive and libelious. 'There is no fight against this lie and the KGB continues MR. J. 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asxxasxssssjsjesesejaesejejessssssjKsoeEso^^ NOTICE! NOTICE! THE CANADIAN OFFICE OF THE Ukrainian National Association is presently located at 18 Leland Avenue ш Toronto, Ont., Canada M8Z 2X5 day month (416)231-4685 Пг^к^^^^^^^^-л^я^Я^з^^ж^^^к-і asssssgsssssjsxsacxsasssx^^ No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 13 Miami Ukrainians hold exhibit, Mike Korcmicki to fight join St. Patrick's Day observance Jerry Cooney at Felt Forum by W.M. Danko contender of a few years ago. Mr. MIAMI, Fla. - Ukrainian Ameri­ "Let's hear it for Ukraine!", Koranicki has a record of 21 wins, 4 cans of Miami not only held their third "Dance!", and "I can't believe it - NEW YORK, N.Y. - Two up and losses and 2 draws in his 27 pro bouts. annual Ukrainian Folk Art Exhibit everyone of them is smiling!" were coming young heavyweight boxers will Mr. Koranicki had three years of Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18, heard in addition to continuous meet next week for a chance to move accounting studies at Youngstown but helped the Irish celebrate St. Pat­ applause along the route. up the ladder for an eventual shot at State University and was on the school rick's Day as well. the "pot of gold" that awaits any con­ golf team before turning his attention Pysanky, woodcuts, embroidered tender for the heavyweight boxing to boxing. He started in the Golden pillows, an inlaid wooden coffee-table, Panorama... championship. Gloves in the greater Pittsburgh area as icons and paintings were included in (Continued from page 9) Mike Koranicki, 6-foot-4, 218 a middleweight and continued to the the fine display of Ukrainian art spon­ pounds, Ukrainian American heavy­ light heavyweight and then heavy­ sored by the Ukrainian American and songs a few weeks ago as the school's Ukrainian Students' Asso­ weight contender from Youngstown, weight as he grew, and then decided to Organizations of Miami, at the Ukrai­ Ohio will meet undefeated (17-0) Irish try for the "brass ring" among the nian American Club hall. ciation presented a one-day Ukrainian festival aimed to show off the Ukrain­ American Jerry Cooney, 6-foot-6, 230 pros. Dancers and singers, a duet of violin ian heritage. The festival included folk pounds from Huntington, N.Y. in the Tickets for the fight which includes six and recorder, and two pianists per­ dances by students of St. George High 10-round main event at the Felt Forum other bouts starting at 7:30 p.m. on formed onstage throughout both days. School, bandura music by members of on Friday April 6. April 6, sell for S15 ringside, S10 and When the visitors - a large number of the Ukrainian Bandura Ensemble of Mr. Koranicki is managed by former S8, and can be obtained at the Madison nationalities other :han Ukrainian — New York, a showing of historical champ Joe Frazier and works out daily Square Garden advance ticket booth at were tired of browsing among the items costumes, foods, crafts, and special at his Cloverlay Gym on North Broad 33rd Street between Seventh and for sale, there was plenty of good tables set up to display Easter, Christ­ Street in Philadelphia, Pa., under the Eighth avenues, or at the Felt Forum at Ukrainian food to be had from the kit­ mas and wedding customs, all resplen­ expert tutelage of renowned trainer 33rd Street and Eight Avenue on the chen. dent with the requisite korovai, babka, George Benton, a former middleweight night of the bout. The Miami Herald carried a photo kolach, wheat and kutia. The event was of Ukrainian dancers and a story on planned and arranged by Maria Fedor- Advertising Rates for The Ukrainian Weekly the exhibit. ciw, president of the association, and The Ukrainian Dancers of Miami her executive officers, Yurko Goy, participated in the first annual St. Pat­ Marta Maczay and Marta Biskup, General advertising: 1 inch, single column S7.00 rick's Day Parade in downtown Miami assisted by Lesia Machko and emcee Fraternal and community advertising: 1 inch, single column S5.00 on Saturday, March 17. There were Orest Kyzyk. Backstage credits should over 150 units in the huge parade, and go to Mrs. Daria Genza, dance teacher; an estimated 50,000 spectators lined Nick. Czorny, administrator of the Full page(58 inches) S406.00 the way. Ukrainian School of Bandura; Mrs. Half page (29 inches) S203.00 Miamians who frequent the parades Maria Danysh and Mrs. Luba Arty- Quarter page (141/2 inches) S101.50 now recognize the dancers. This time myshyn of Soyuz Ukrayinok's Branch Eighth page (7 VA inches) S50.75 the Ukrainian costumes complemented 64; K. Szonk-Rusych, Slava Geiulak the abundance of green. Shouts of and the Surma Book Co. Photo reproduction: singlecolumn S6.75 usxxxxxxxssxxxsssxxa^^ doublecolumn S8.50 triple column S 10.00 HOLY LAND ALL ADVERTISEMENTS Ml ST BE RECEIVED BY NOON OF THE PILGRIMAGE MONDAY BEFORE THE DATE OF THE NEXT WEEKLY EDITION. Sponsored by: S.S. Peter S Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church All advertisements are subject to approval. Jersey City, N. J. Please make checks payable to: Svoboda Mail to: 30 Montgomery St. I 1,450 Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Spiritual Director J Father THEODORE J. DANUSIAR :K 30 Bentley Av., Jersey City, N. J. 07304 8 PITTSBURGH and WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 3 (201) 432-3122 8 District Committee of UNA Branches x і of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Travel Co-ordinator announces that its IRENE 7AHYLKIEWICZ Menlo Park Travel, Edison, N.J. 08817 8 і ANNUAL MEETING (201) 549-6100 iv/7/ be held

JUNE 29th, 1979 to JULY 10th, 1979 g Sunday, April 8, 1979 DEPARTURE: at UNA Branch 161 Hall J. F. Kennedy Airport, 600 Glenwood Avenue, AMBRIDGE, Pa. Flight No. 178 at 3 p.m. British Air Lines 747 All members of the district Committee, Convention Delegates, RELIVE CHRIST'S PASSION, DEATH AND RESURRECTION Branch Delegates and Officers of the following Branches are requested to attend without fail: X 24, 41, 53, 56, 63, 91, 96, 109, 113, 120, 126, 132, 161, 1. Kneel at Christ's Manger in Bethlehem 264,276,296,338,481 2. Eat in Jesus' Home Town of Nazareth PROGRAM: 3. See the waters of Jordan and bathe in the Sea of Galilee I 4. Walk in the steps of Christ in the Way of the Cross leading 1. Opening. from Pilate's Palace to Calvary 2. Minutes of preceding meeting. 3. Election of presidium for annual meeting. S 100.00 deposit required by April 10th, 1979. Balance due before May 18th. All must 4. Reports of District Committee Officers. have pasports. 5. Discussion on reports. 6. Vote of confidence. 7. Election of District Committee Officers. Enclosed is a check or Money Order in the amount of S 100.00 per 8. Adoption of District Program for 1979. person made out to Menlo Park Travel, Menlo Park Mall, Edison, New 9. Address. Jersey 08817, as a down payment. Please send brochures and other 10. Discussion and Resolutions. pertinent literature to: її. Adjournment. Signature: 12. Film on blessing of Lesia Ukrainka Monument at Soyuzivka. Street Address: : Meeting will be attended by: City, State u Zip Code: A. JULA, UNA Supreme Advisor Home Phone: S. HAWRYSZ, Senior Field Organizer (indicate time when you Dmytro Holowatyj Andrew Jula, can be reached) - Secretary President ДОК ЗОС iKZZZZZMKZZZZDiKZZZZZ J 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 No. 73

Grand Prince Sviatoslav, a brave knight

by Leonid Bachynsky r- Illustration by B. Peyny HOW TO READ AND WRITE IN UKRAINIAN By I. KORYTSKY

^^ JW -a^- Розмова дерев Хвалився дуб: — Я найкращий у всьому лісі. Гілля в мене міцне та широке. Листя густе, що й дощу не пропустить. А стовбур який здоровенний! Двоє людей його ЛІР руками не обхоплять. Мене люди ша­ нують найбільше. — Неправда, дубе, — каже сосна. — Я найкраща в лісі. Твоє листя восе­ ни осипається. А я завжди зелена. Ме­ Kiev's Grand Prince Sviatoslav was affairs remained with Sviatoslav не люди шанують найбільше. the son of Grand Prince Ihor and throughout his life. Whe he became the — Ні-ні-ні! — шелестить береза. — Grand Princess Olha. Since his child­ grand prince, he made sure that his Подивіться, яка я струнка та біленька. hood, he enjoyed listening to stories army had the best officers. He raised a about the campaigns of the Ukrainian large army and carefully trained each Хто побачить, той скаже: — Гляньте, armies and later he would imagine soldier. яка гарна берізка! himself to be with them. Together with Sviatoslav lived very humbly, in no — Не сваріться, не сваріться, — за­ the children in the royal court he would way did he resemble a grand prince. He шумів їм вітер. — Усі вас шанують. conduct "military campaigns'' against did not wear expensive clothes, he Усі ви гарні: дуб, і сосна, і береза. imaginary enemies - the Khazars or wasn't fickle — he led a strict and dis­ the Pechenihs. This love of military ciplined life of a soldier. During cam­ paigns he would sleep on the ground and he would eat meat cooked over hot носить, кожного сам припрошує; а тому цареві coals. His courage, bravery and ГОРДИЙ ЦАР нещасному удвоє проти інших накладає та на­ strength were known to all neighbors Українська народна казка ливає. and enemies of Ukraine — the Peche­ Усіх нагодували й напоїли, а далі цар-янгол nihs, the Bulgars and the Greeks - Ілюстрації М. Левицького почав розпитувати людей, чи нема кому якої крив­ and for that he was both respected and (4) ди та образи. А як стали вже люди розходитися, feared. вийшов на браму з мішком грошей і всім дав по The ancient Greek chronicler, Lev А янгол, зробившись царем, поїхав з мисли­ гривні, а тому цареві нещасному — аж три. Diakon, described the Ukrainian grand вими додому. Приїхав. Ніхто нічого й не догаду­ За гри роки знову впорядив цар-янгол обід і ється, що то не цар, а янгол. знову скликав усіх людей. От нагодував, напоїв, prince thusly: Коли ввечері приходить до нього пан-отець та розпитався, подарував усім по гривні, а тому ца­ "Sviatoslav sailed to our shores in a й каже: реві нещасному знову дав аж три гривні. normal, large boat. He oared together — Воля твоя, царю, голову мою стяти: не За три роки ще раз впорядив цар-янгол обід with his men. He was of average height, пристану я на те, щоб викинути й слово з Святого для всіх: і багатих і вбогих, і панів і мужиків. had thick eyebrows, blue eyes, a strong Письма! Посходились люди, понаїдались, понапивались, nose and was clean shaven. His head А цар йому: подякували, стали розходитись. Той цар нещасний was also shaven except for a hairlock — Ну й слава Богу! Тепер я знаю, що в моїм і собі хотів іти, так цар-янгол його зупинив. По­ which meant he was of royal stock. His царстві є такий священик, що міцно стоїть за сло­ вів до себе в палати та й каже: во Боже. Роблю тебе найстаршим архиєреєм. chest was wide and his body was — Це тобі Бог присудив, щоб ти дев'ять літ strong. He had an earing with two Пан-отець подякував, уклонився до землі та покутував свою гордість, а мене послав, щоб я й пішов собі, дивуючись: що це таке, що з гордого pearls and one agate in an ear. His навчив тебе, як повинен цар людей жалувати. Ну, clothes were white and in no way did царя та зробився такий тихий та справедливий? тепер ти, бідуючи та тиняючись по світі, набрався they differ from the others' clothes, ex­ От і всі, всі дивуються, що таке з царем стало­ трохи розуму, — то гляди, щоб добре народом ся: такий зробився тихий та поважний, на полю-. правив! Бо з цього часу ти будеш знову царем, а cept in cleanliness. His appearance was вання не їздить, а все ходить, розпитується: де я полечу до Бога на небо. stern and frightening." яка неправда, чи яка кому кривда, чи що; на все Та де кажучи, звелів йому вмитися й поголи­ The soldiers were very loyal to Svia­ сам увагу звертає. Скрізь суд справедливий су­ тися, — бо борода у нього виросла, наче в пасіч­ toslav and followed him on many cam­ дить, суддів справедливих призначає. Як перше ника, — дав йому царську одежу, а далі й каже: paigns which brought glory to народ сумував, так тепер радіє. І податки невеликі — Іди тепер — там у покоях сидить царська Ukraine. і суд справедливий. чесна рада. Іди, там тебе ніхто не пізнає, що ти Grand Prince Sviatoslav waged А цар той — так бідує, так бідує! той самий, що старцем тинявся. Нехай тобі Бог many wars against the Asiatic hordes Коли за три роки приходить царський наказ, поможе у всім добрім! щоб на такий то й такий день усі сходилися до which invaded Ukraine. In the course Та як сказав це, то й не стало його, тільки царя обідати: і багаті і вбогі, і пани й мужики. of five years his armies dealt them such одежа лишилася. І посходились усі, прийшов і той цар нещасливий. a severe blow that the mere mention of А на царськім дворі такого, такого столів понак­ От цар насамперед помолився щиро Богу, а his name brought terror to the hearts ривано, що Господи! тоді й пішов на раду. Від тої пори правив він на­ of his enemies. During that time От сідають усі за столи, п'ють, їдять, а сам цар- родом так, як його янгол навчив. Ukraine experienced peace. янгол з міністрами усякі напитки та наїдки роз­ (Кінець! (Continued on page 15) No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1979 15

Our tenant We were all very happy when a fir and scampered around our yard. squirrel decided to make her home in During autumn there was a big the hollow of the old mulberry tree in storm — a bolt of lightning split the our backyard. mulberry tree down the middle and the In the yard next to ours there was a strong wind blew it to the ground. The hickory tree with plenty of hickory squirrel's home was destroyed and we nuts for the squirrel to eat and a large didn't know where she was. WORD JUMBLE fir tree with many cones. The squirrel Then, in a week or so, we saw the Ukrainian lakes would go next door to get the food she squirrel on our roof. She looked at us, stored for the winter - some of it in scampered up the roof and jumped The jumbled words below represent the names of Ukrainian lakes. They are spelled as they appear in Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia. Letters underlined with a double the hollow of the mulberry tree and into the chimney. Every day we line form the mystery word. some of it in the ground. watched her climb the roof with bits of We loved to watch the little acrobat grass and leaves and even pieces of as she jumped from the hickory to the (Continued on page 16) ZLUBIHI r s

Grand Prince... KYSSA - (Continued from page 14) against the Greek armies. Being a The Greek King Nykyfor Foka de­ knight, Sviatoslav never attacked ZVIATYS ^ - clared war against the Bulgars and re­ anyone without warning. This time, too, he sent an envoy to the Greek king and quested assistance from Sviatoslav. SOLIANEKV ^ - The Ukrainian grand prince consented warned him that the Ukrainian army and sent an envoy to Pereiaslavets, the was approaching. Sviatoslav's army capital of Bulgaria, to prepare for war defeated the Greeks and captured their URT - - - , because the Ukrainian army will be cities. The Greeks learned their lesson and approaching. In 968 the Ukrainian ELBI armies destroyed the Bulgarian army at the new king, John, met Sviatoslav and Pereiaslavets. Sviatoslav forced them signed a peace treaty with him, though to pay for the war and then decided to in his heart burned a desire for re­ KROIVEHO ^ make Pereiaslavets the second capital venge. Sviatoslav realized that his soldiers of Ukraine. OLPMU - When Sviatoslav was occupied with were weak and tired and he decided to fighting the Bulgars, the Pechenihs return home to Kiev. As he and his took advantage of the situation and at­ army were sailing up the Dnipro River, VLADNUZO ^ - his officer advised him to avoid the ra­ tacked Ukraine. Sviatoslav quickly re­ pids because they heard that the Peche­ turned to Kiev and soon repelled the KNIVYSHEOV nihs were preparing an ambush there. Pechenihs. Sviatoslav did not heed the advice and After three years the Greek king con­ ordered the boats to go through the ra­ This Jake may reach a length of 60 miles when water is abundant: vinced the Bulgars to declare war pids. Just as the officers had predicted, against Sviatoslav. In 971 Sviatoslav a large Pechenih army ambushed the again captured Pereiaslavets and de­ weakened Ukrainian army. feated the Bulgars. He then set out This ambush was prepared by the Answers to last week's word camouflage: Kiev, Kharkiv, Donetske, Odessa, Greeks who alerted the Pechenihs that Dnipropetrovske, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih, Makiivka, Krasnodar, Horlivka, Sviatoslav was sailing home with many Zhdanov, Luhanske, Mykolaiv, Tahanrih, Dniprodzerzhynske, Symferopol, r чоічіотіцькл treasures and also with a small and Kadiivka, Kherson, Sevastopol, Chernivtsi, Poltava, Stavropol, Kirovohrad, Vin- nytsia. ЖУРАВЛИК weakened army. Grand Prince Sviato­ (І.! ос раціл Г.. і;о;:;слісі,:;ого) slav was killed in this uneven battle in HAVE AN INTERESTING JUMBLE? SEND IT IN. the 28th year of his reign.

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"That's not my brother. My brother was bn "Don't fear," S.-Jid Bohuta as Marusia gave A moment later the child was transformed Це журавлик-журналіст, That's a small bov." the child a drink of Baba's potion. into a \oung man. довга шия, куций хвіст. "My brother," they both said and embraced. Крипа й ноги сильні має, то позсюди він буває. — Це не мій брат! Мій був ве- — Стривай! — каже Богута, і Одна хвилина — з маляти зро­ Все він чув, ликий, а це якесь маля... ./.; Маруся дала дитині напитясь, ба^ бився дорослий печеніг. і все він знає. биного старозілля. — Брате мій! -- обнялися. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 1,1979 No. 73 UCCA Washington news Our tenant Policy," the UCCA president released t On February 13, the UCCA presi­ (Continued from page 15) would sit down to rest near the box and dent participated in another working through the agency of the American would snack on the nuts. She shelled session of the U.S. Conference of Council for World Freedom a state­ paper in her mouth. She was building a the nuts, held them in her paws and Bishops dealing with the subject of ment on the administration's present new home for herself on our roof — munched on them. Marxism and Christianity. The meet­ course with Red China. UCCA is a right above our heads! ing was held at the International Inn in member of the ACWF, and the UCCA Soon the squirrel became accus­ There was a fire escape leading from Washington, D.C. Critical analyses of president is also its head. The release tomed to eating her breakfast or lunch the roof to our window. Before Christ­ the issue were presented individually, on February 16 stated among other on the fire escape outside our window. mas we decided to put a small box con­ and the UCCA president advanced his things, "After all, the Chinese vice- If we forgot to put some nuts out for on the evils of communism as shown in premier who has bent over backward taining various types of nuts on the fire the USSR and elsewhere. The session during his recent visit to win American escape outside our window. her she would sit in front of the win­ dow and wait, as if saying: ''Please, was a most productive one, and friendship, is the same man who, at We watched for two days — no sign serve me some food." But on cold and another step was taken toward a strong least in two known instances in 1974 of the squirrel. Then, on the third day, windy days she would stay inside her statement on the issue. and 1977, accused the U.S. of 'aggres­ we spotted the squirrel near the box. sion, invasion and economic e ploita- warm home near the chimney. m She began carrying the nuts — wal­ The next day, February 14, the tion' of third world countries..." The UCCA president attended a reception Republic of China on Taiwan was nuts, peanuts and hazelnuts — up to Once spring arrived the squirrel de­ given in the Eisenhower Room of the supported in the statement. 7 he free her home on the roof. As soon as she cided to build herself a new home on Capitol Hill Club off the grounds of Chinese, more than any other people, carried one load up to her home, she the hickory tree. It was obvious to us the Capitol. The reception was tend­ have consistently provided an in terna- would return for another and another. that she was to be our permanent ered by Fred L. Dixon, one of the tional forum for the cause of a free When she became tired, the squirrel neighbor. founders of the club. On the occasion Ukraine. the UCCA president met with numer­ 1 ous friends and talked with John Kip- " On February 17, the UCCA presi­ linger of the Washington periodical, dent participated in a day-long session 1 would like to subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly for. .year(s). Rep. Edward J. Derwinski and many of the Charles Edison Memorial Youth Subscription rates: S6.00 for non-UNA members; S2.50 for UNA members. prominent Washington Republicans. Fund at the Mayflower Hotel. The ф fund supports the Institute on Com­ 1 am a member of UNA Branch On February 16, the UCCA presi­ parative Political and Economic dent attended a reception at the Lithu­ Systems conducted by the UCCA presi­ П New subscription D Renewal anian Legation on the occasion of dent at Georgetown University. Scho­ П Check or money order for S .is enclosed. Lithuania's national holiday. 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