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Ukrainian Church issues overshadow | Oemonstrations inWashm^on Kiev Soviet Millennium celebrations mark Ukramian Christian Millennium Ukrainian Americans St. Volodymyr statue by Bohdan Nahaylo have recently stepped up their cam­ paign for the legalization of their hold Truth March is site of celebration As the Moscow Patriarchate be­ Church. Last week, a Ukrainian WASHINGTON - More than 500 LONDON -^ About 200 people gins its main celebrations of the Catholic bishop, two priests and two Ukrainian Americans gathered in Lafa­ gathered on Sunday, June 5, in Kiev Millennium of the Christianization lay believers were removed from a yette Park across from the White House around the statue of Grand Prince of Kievan Rus', the question of the train and prevented from traveling to on Sunday, June 5, to begin the Millen­ Volodymyr, who introduced Christia­ suppressed Ukrainian Catholic Moscow to meet with President nium Truth March to the Soviet Em­ nity in his realm in 988, to hold an Church has come to the fore and is Reagan. bassy. The National Committee to unofficial celebration of the Millen­ casting a shadow over the official In view of all this, it is hardly Commemorate the Millennium of nium of the baptism of Kievan Rus'. festivities. surprising that on the opening day of Christianity in Ukraine organized the News of the demonstration was Last week, President Ronald Rea­ the celebrations in the Soviet capital, rally to protest the Soviet government's reported by the London-based Ukrai­ policy of banning the Ukrainian Ortho- nian Press Agency. ^aigani anaiAdU academiciaci^vci.vtwAAiiwxca.xni /-і.ііиж\,/Andrei! wju.n.xtM.Sakha-- botu\JVlxh Thx liet Nel^tw Yor1 Ul kA. Time1 lllA^sa aiianUd thlliCe III r J -Q9 rov both urged in Moscow that Los Angeles Times published articles dox and Catholic Churches and to mark The Millennium demonstration was religious freedom be extended to the dealing with the case of the Ukrai­ the 1,000th anniversary of the baptism organized by the Ukrainian Culturolo­ Ukrainian Catholic Church. nian Catholic Church. of Kievan-Rus', the forerunner of the gical Club, an unofficial group formed On June 4 — the very eve of the With the approach of the Millen­ Ukrainian state. last year that has already held a number opening of the Russian Orthodox nium of the baptism of Kievan Rus', While Ukrainian Americans rallied in of demonstrations dealing with cultural Church's Millennium celebrations — the significance of the Ukrainian Washington, their brothers and sisters and ecological issues. The most recent Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev an­ Catholic question has increased. It in Ukraine were holding a siihilar such demonstration was on May 22 in nounced that the Moscow Patriar­ has become a test case of the Krem­ religious service in Kiev near the great Kiev, near the Taras Shevchenko mo­ chate would be holding talks with the lin's avowedly more tolerant attitude monument to St. Volodymyr. The nument. The event was an unofficial Vatican next month on this sensitive towards religion and a touchstone of Truth March also coincided with the protest calling for cultural autonomy issue. official policy towards religious beginning of Millennium commemora­ for Ukraine. The following day in Kiev, accord­ freedom. The issue of the Eastern tions held in Moscow by the officially Official Millennium celebrations ing to the Independent, some 200 Rite Ukrainian Catholic Church, sanctioned Russian Orthodox Church. organized by the Russian Orthodox people took part in a protest by the sometimes referred to as the Ukrai­ After a prayer service conducted by Church had begun in Moscow — not statue of St. Volodymyr. During this nian Uniate Church, is also one of the priests of the three local Ukrainian Kiev, the site of the introduction of unofficial celebration, which was main obstacles to better relations churches, and an address by Bohdan Christianity - on Sunday, June 5. organized by the "informal" Ukrai­ between the Moscow Patriarchate Futey of the national Millennium The UCC's celebration began with nian Culturological Club, calls were and the Vatican. committee, the protesters marched to recordings of church bells followed by made for the legalization of the Moreover, the fact that the Ukrai­ the Soviet Embassy. They carried icons, choir chants. Two young Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Church. nian Catholic Church, as well as the Ukrainian flags and 1,000 blue and girls dressed in national costume read This is not all. Pope John Paul II is Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox yellQw balloons, sang hymns and poetry by Taras Shevchenko, Pavlo conspicuous by his absence from the Church, have been banned in the chanted "Freedom for our believers; Tychyna and Hryhory Skovoroda, Millennium celebrations in Moscow. USSR since the Stalin era, is a sore Freedom for our Churches." while flowers were placed near the He has not been officially invited point with Ukrainian Christians. For the full text of Bohdan Futey's statue. largely because he in effect made the Matters have not been helped by the speech, see page i. Short speeches by Oles Shevchenko legalization of the Ukrainian Catho­ way in which the Moscow Patriar­ and Serhiy Naboka were read, which lic Church a precondition of his chate has excluded any specifically At the embassy, after singing the included excerpts from the pope's 1985 attendance. Furthermore, Ukrainian Ukrainian — as well as Byelorussian Ukrainian national anthemn, the pro­ appeal to bishops of the fourth synod of Catholics within the Soviet Union (Continued on page 14) testers presented a package of Ukrai- the Ukrainian Catholic Church regard­ (Continued on page 3) ing the millennium. Mr. Shevchenko also called for the legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Thimes for Freedom^' sound in northeastern Pennsylvania Church and quoted Pope John Paul II SCRANTON, Pa., - The bells of sands of Jews in Ukraine during the Some 18 Ukrainian Churches in about repression of the Ukrainian more than 95 houses of worship in Nazi Holocaust. northeastern Pennsylvania took part in Catholic Church. northeastern Pennsylvania joyously "We Ukrainians up here in the moun­ the Day of Prayer and Unity obser­ An official from the Ministry of rang out at noon on Sunday, May 29, to tains of Pennsylvania were indeed over­ vances with bell-ringing and special Religious Affairs protested when the mark the Millenniunl of Christianity in whelmed with the community's re­ services. demonstrators tried to light candies at Kievan Rus', forerunner of the modern sponse," Mr. Ewasko said. the St. Volodymyr statue, while listen­ Ukrainian state. The "Chimes for Freedom" sounded ing to a recording of a divine liturgy, The Millennium Committee of U- 1,000 times for each year that Chris­ claiming that this constituted an illegal krainians of Eastern Pennsylvania had tianity has existed on Ukrainian lands. service. The group shut off the tape invited all the churches in the region to Mr. Ewasko was quoted in The The Day of Prayer and Unity, offi­ recorders following the warning. The ring their bells in honor of the jubilee. Scranton Times as saying that the cially proclaimed by the U.S. National militia and KGB filmedth e demonstra­ According to Paul Ewasko, who heads official Moscow-based celebration of Committee to Commemorate the tion, but made no attempt to interfere. the committee, churches of various the Millennium is immoral. "It's im­ Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine Yevhen Sverstiuk gave a longer denominations — Catholic, Orthodox, moral because the Great Baptism took and, later, by the World Congress of speech which began with the words, Lutheran, Presbyterian, etc. — partici- place in Kiev, and facts are facts." Free Ukrainians, was marked by Ukrai­ "Dear Brothers and Sisters. We are He explained that the Soviet govern­ nian communities throughout the celebrating the Millennium on our holy A major Reform synagogue, Temple ment abolished the Ukrainian Ortho­ world. land by the River Dnipro, This is not Hessed, which has no bells, pledged to dox and Ukrainian Catholic Churches, Most communities participated by only a date, but a festive, universal and offer special prayers during Sabbath respectively, in the 1930s and 1940s, and having local churches ring their bells all-national day. We should bless this services on Friday and Saturday, May that on May 29, which has been dubbed 1,000 times at noon. Among them were occasion with all of Kiev's church bells." 27 and 28. Mr. Ewasko said that Rabbi a Day of Prayer and Unity, Ukrainians parishes in locations as diverse at St. Mr. Sverstiuk also mentioned the Milton Richmond asked to participate Worldwide prayed for the persecuted John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic destruction suffered by the outlawed because he knew that Metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Church in Newark, N.J,,and St. Mary's Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Andrey Sheptytsky of the Ukrainian Churches in the Soviet Union, and for Ukrainian Catholic Church in North Church in the context of Ukrainian Catholic Church had sheltered thou­ their official recognition. Port, Fla. - religious heritage and history. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY GLASNOST DIARY: Will a new order revitalize recording changes in the USSR In this space, the Weekly would like tion of Ukrainian history. Donbas coalfield in Ukraine? to introduce a new regular feature, The historian died in 1934; a 1946 by Dr. David Marples In an interview in Sovetsky Shakhter, Glasnost diary. The constantly chang­ resolution of the Central Committee of he acknowledged that the future in­ ing situation in the Soviet Union today the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of In June 1987, the Ministry of the Coal crease in coal output will be achieved whets one's appetite for more informa­ Ukraine, in particular, and later Soviet Industry and the Ministry of the Fer­ predominantly through opencast mines. tion. Thus, we will try to provide publications characterized him as a rous Metallurgy Industry in Ukraine In response to a question put to him "tidbits" that reflect the effects of "nationalist historian," "the ideologist were abolished as a prelude to the referring specifically to the Donbas, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's of the Ukrainian counter-revolutionary restructuring of two of the most impor­ however, he also stated that under­ policy of openness. bourgeoisie" and "the untamed enemy tant, yet problematic, sectors of the ground output would not only be of Soviet rule." republic's economy; stabilized at the current levels, but History revisited Hrushevsky contended that the The coal industry in Ukraine, parti­ would soon rise because of the construc­ The blank spots in the history of Ukrainian nation is distinct from that of cularly in the Donets Basin, has long tion of large new mines and as a result of Ukraine (at least until 1934) will be the Russian nation, both in origin and failed to live up to expectations. Gra­ re-equipping the mines with improved penetrated this year, as works by political, economic and cultural deve­ dually, both capital investments and technology. Ukrainian historian and former non- lopment. resources have been transferred east­ There are three main reasons for person Mykhailo Hrushevsky will be ward, notably to the Kuznetsk Basin of "saving" the Donets Basin according to made available in the Soviet Union. Signs of the times Siberia where, it is anticipated, output Shchadov. First, the coalfield accounts Radio Moscow recently reported that will double by the year 2000. In the for almost all of the valuable anthracite The skylines of various Soviet cities readers are now free to study the works (Continued on page 12) Donets Basin, or Donbas by contrast, produced in the Soviet Union. Second, of Hrushevsky, whom they des­ output fell below 200 million nietric it remains the main supplier of high cribe as a man of unusual political tons in the early 1980s. quality coking coal for the metallurgical biography. Gale: leukemia In 1987, the Ukrainian press reported enterprises in the European part of the It is astonishing that Hrushev- that the over-all coal output for the country. And, finally, there is a senti­ sky's works are now found on book­ cases will appear republic (including also the Lviv-Volyn mental attachment to the region with its shelves in Soviet Ukraine. The presi­ Basin) was a mere 192 million metric revolutionary and military traditions, dent of the Ukrainian National Rada tons. In short, the figures for the Donets and its history as the home of the (UNR), a principal organizer of Ukrai­ due to Chornobyl Basin were well below even the most Stakhanovite movement which began nian scholarship, a prominent civic and KIEV ^ Dr. Robert Gale, the pessimistic of Western forecasts. in the 1930s. political leader, writer and publicist, bone marrow transplant specialist Soviet coal journals have recently In Mr. Shchadov's view, clearly there Hrushevsky was persecuted by the from UCLA, told a three-day confe­ elaborated on the structural changes are major problems ahead, and they lie Soviet regime, which regarded him a rence held here in mid-May to exa­ made in the Ukrainian industry and partly with the failure to develop "nationalistic" scholar who did not mine data on the world's worst their purpose. In the summer of 1987, adequate machinery. Materials., he adopt the Soviet Marxist interptreta- nuclear disaster at the Chornobyl state production associations were stated, were being produced at a low power plant in Ukraine, that cases of created in Donetske and Voroshy- technical level. Scientists have not been leukemia caused by the radiation lovhrad oblasts to replace the former fulfilling their role in the process of Three dissidents freed released as a result of the accident Ministry of the Coal Industry. On transferring research products into could start to appear as early as next September 16, 1987, N.S. Surgai and industry. Of the scientific cadres in the year. V. I. Poltavets were chosen to be industry, he noted, only four out of 150 on eve of summit "I think one of the cancers that can directors of the new production associa­ with a doctor of sciences degree were JERSEY CITY, N.J. - News of the be predicted to occur is an increase in tions (the former to the Donetsk and the under 50 years of age, and most have releases of three Ukrainian political the incidence of leukemia," he was latter to Voroshylovhrad). exhibited a marked reluctance to carry prisoners reached the West in late April quoted by Reuters as saying. "If that, The selection of Mr. Surgai was out their work. Some institutes were and May, according to the External increase occurs, it is gbiiig to increase hardly a surprise; he had been appoint­ simply abolished for failing to carry out Representation of the Ukrainian Hel­ shortly, in the next one or two years," ed Ukrainian minister of the coal any assignments. sinki Group and the Center for Demo­ he said. industry only in October 1985, and had The minister is faced with the pro­ cracy. Dr. Gale said his projection on little time to turn things around. More­ blem, therefore, of carrying out recon­ Vitally Kalynychenko, a 51-year-old leukemia cases was partly based on over, between 1975 and 1982, he had struction that envisages more advanced engineer and member of the Ukrainian research on victims of the atomic held a similar position as general machinery while the research institutes Helsinki Monitoring Group, was freed bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. director of the (unreconstructed) Do­ entrusted with developing new techno­ in April from the special-regimen block "In the worst prediction there netske production association. logy are in a parlous state. of Perm labor camp No. 35, according might be as many as 100 or 200 cases Mr. Poltavets, is a 51-year-old mining Yuriy Baranov, a manager working to the UHG's External Representation, of leukemia," Dr. Gale stated. "If engineer and graduate of the Dnipro- at the Donets coal basin, was interview­ based in Newark, N.J. that were the case, it would be easily petrovske Mining Institute; he was ed earlier this year by the Kiev weekly Mr. Kalynychenko, who was serving detected among the evacuated popu­ appointed deputy minister of the Ukrai­ newspaper for Ukrainians abroad. a 15-year term for charges of "anti- lation." nian coal industry only in 1986. News from Ukraine. He expressed the Soviet agitation and propaganda'' The physician also said that an The meeting at which these decisions view that the rate of restructuring in the under Article 62 of the Ukrainian SSR additional 30,000 cancer deaths were made was addressed by B. V. coalfield was well behind the proposed Criminal Code, returned to Ukraine around the world during the next 50 Kachura, secretary of the Central levels. He noted that despite the new and has settled in the eastern Ukrainian years could occur as a result of the Committee of the Communist Party of Law on Labor Collectives, some legal city of Kharkiv. Chornobyl nuclear accident. Most of Ukraine with responsibility for energy problems had arisen: The dissident's term was reportedly the cancers would not appear for 30 and heavy industry. "The state of things here is far from shortened by one-third last year in years. The two new associations have been satisfactory. For instance, a collective (Cqntjnued^on page 12) transferred, as of January 1, to full self- decides to sack a worker due to his accounting and self-financing. They are violation of safety regulations. Labor subordinated directly to the USSR teams agree, mine organizations ap­ Ministry of the Coal Industry under prove the decision, but somebody in the FOUNDED 1933 Mikhail Shchadov. In other words, the higher echelons will cancel it just in Ukrainian WeeHi "middleman" in the form of the Ukrai­ case. The labor collective council has no nian ministry has been eliminated in legal rights." An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National favor of a two-tier system. Mr. Baranov said that because of the Association Inc.. a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. The change could be interpreted not poor supply system ingrained in the 07302. only as a logical process of restructuring process, shady deals and recourse to Second-class postage paid at Jersey City. N.J. 07302. but also as a form of chastisement of the the blackmarket were required in order (ISSN ^ 0273-9348) former Ukrainian ministry, which had to get the necessary equipment. Self- fought a virtual running battle with the financing now existed on paper, he Moscow ministry and with some of the stated, but in reality would not be Yearly subscription rate: 58; for UNA merлbers - S5. ideas regarding the future of the Ukrai­ introduced until January 1,1989. Thus, Also published by the UNA: Svoboda. a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. nian coalfields advanced by the USSR 1988 is to be the preparatory year and Academy of Sciences. not the pioneering year for self-fi­ The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: Mr. Shchadov was present at the nancing. (201) 4340237. 0807. -3036 (201)451-2200 inauguration of the two production Mr. Baranov also commented that, as Postmaster, send address Editor: Roma Haditwycz associations and has made no secret of a manager, he was now supposed to changes to: Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets his preference for the rapid expansion make independent decisions and "de­ The Ukrainian Weekly of an investment in open-cast coalmines nounce everything that is obsolete." He P.a Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak rather than the increasingly deep and was being hampered in his task, he Jersey City. N.J 07303 Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss dangerous mines of the Donbas. He stated, by the ever-increasing plan appears to be somewhat more optimis­ targets. He was compelled to fulfill the The Ukrainian Weekly, June 12,1988, No. 24, Vol. LVi tic about the future of the Donets Basin plan at any cost, even if it turned out to Copyright 1988 by The Ukrainian Weekly under the new conditions. (Continued m page IS) No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988

John Demjanjuk's Israeli attorney State Department notes some improvement upbeat about Supreme Court appeal in human rights in USSR, cites flaws by Roma Hadzewycz gestive photo layouts, absence of an WASHINGTON - The Soviet family reunification and travel policies attorney, no written record of the Union has improved its human rights regarding visits by Soviet citizens to JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Israeli sessions, etc.), as well as the fact that performance during the last six months, other countries and visits by Soviet lawyer of John Demjanjuk expressed while several Treblinka survivors iden­ yet serious flaws remain, according to emigres to relatives still living within the optimism about the outcome of an tified Mr. Demjanjuk, "40 others did the latest semi-annual report by the USSR. appeal to the Supreme Court in this, the not." State Department to Congress. The State Department report covered second Nazi war crimes case tried in Also important, he said, are the The department's Bureau of Euro­ the six-month period beginning on Israel. contradictions between the two key sets pean and Canadian Affairs, which pre­ October 1, 1987. In a brief telephone interview with of evidence: the survivor testimony that pared the report, said Soviet authorities The Ukrainian Weekly, Yoram Sheftel put Mr. Demjanjuk at the Treblinka continued to release some political said, "I don't expect a repetition" in the death camp, and the Trawniki card and prisoners and that emigration figures Bordeaux denied Supreme Court of what happened on testimony by a Soviet citizen, Ihnat had risen, but cited continued detention the district court level in the Demjanjuk Danylchenko,that placed him at another of political prisoners and restrictions on visa for USSR case. death camp located in Sobibor. religion. Mr. Sheftel spoke with The Weekly He charged that the three-judge panel "Many political and religious pri­ LONDON --^ The Rev. Michael from Cleveland, shortly before catching hearing the case "twisted it (the con­ soners remained incarcerated or in Bordeaux, founder of Keston College, a flight back to Israel on June 6. He had tradictory testimony) the way they internal exile," the report stated. It went an organization that monitors religious been in the Cleveland area to consult wanted and misinterpreted very, very on to estimate that the number of such rights in Communist countries, was with Mr. Demjanjuk's family. obvious facts." prisoners is between 250 and 430. denied a visa by Soviet authorities. He noted, "I have very good facts to (Judge Dov Levin was asked a ques­ The USSR continued to persecute The Rev. Bordeaux, an expert on argue before the Supreme Court." And, tion regarding the contradictions be­ human rights defenders and occa­ religion in the USSR, was to lead a he said he had been "extremely pessi­ tween the two sets of evidence — the sionally applied policies on emigration group of 46 British Christians on a tour mistic" about the lower court's handling question was submitted in writing, as in an arbitrary and selective manner. of Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev on the of the case. occasion of the Millennium of Chris­ required, during the presiding judge's Soviet authorities adopted a harsh "I anticipated a guilty verdict right recent talk in South Orange, N. J. - but tianity. from the beginning," he told The attitude toward those demonstrations The New York City Tribune reported he declined to answer any questions seen as "anti-government"and "cracked Weekly, explaining that this was due to dealing with the Demjanjuk case.3 that it is thought the Soviet Union his "impression of the constant reac­ down on demonstrations, taking extra­ prevented the Rev. Bordeaux from tions of the court to the defense, its Mr. Sheftel pointed out that when the ordinary measures to prevent them to traveling there because of his connec­ arguments and its witnesses." He added Danylchenko testimony was intro­ stop them as soon as they started." Also, tions with religious dissidents. that he had strong reservations regard­ duced, the prosecution had in fact asked authorities sometimes disconnected the The Anglican priest told reporters on ing the court's treatment of the case and the court to stop proceedings so that it phones of opponents in order to disrupt June 4 that he was "shocked" that he did that these would be specified in the could further investigate this new their activities and prevent undesired not receive a visa. "In 30 years of appeal. evidence. The court, however, ignored conversations, according to the report. studying the Church in the Soviet Among those reservations, Mr. Shef­ this request by the prosecution, he said. The State Department noted a diffe­ Union, I have visited the country nine tel said, is that "the case was run in a Finally, Mr. Sheftel stated that the rence between Moscow and Leningrad, times and I spent one year of my life theater hall" and that the rtiai locus'^d public "should not look upon the where there was a "general absence" of there," he said. on 'facts not in dispute" in order to Supreme. Court appeal as something house searches and political arrests, and He added, "With the improved cli­ teach the public about the Holocaust. that won't help ana, aa^rejult, stop the Baltic states and Ukraine, where mate of glasnost I was 100 percent Mr. Sheftel would not elaborate on helping the family cover legarcosts.^' such t^^iics -^--^tinued. certain that I would get a visa. It has other reservations that would be spelled Without financial support, there cannot Progress was noted in ійе "lita of some as a great shock." out in the appeal. be an appeal, he said. emigration, "although it remained The ШікІІ F^i^i^ Qffee bas de­ When asked what would be the basis The appeal, to be heard in December, restricted almost exclusively Ь Arme­ livered a protest to the Soviet Embassy for Mr. Demjanjuk's appeal, Mr. Shef­ will probably take one month, and then nians, Germans and Jews,"as wefi^in and the Kremlin. tel pointed first of all to what he says the judges will probably announce their were violations of Israeli law regarding decision three or four months later, Mr. For the record photo identification procedures, (sug­ Sheftel added. Speech at Millennium Truth March Righfs amendmenf to INF treaty Text of remarks by Bohdan Л. to speak it. Truth is integral to what Futey, chairman. Organizational makes us human. It is the basis for played a significant role Committee of the National Commit' pride, for our self-respect and for our tee to Commemorate the Millennium respect for others. It is that which by Walter Bodnar Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)and Alfonse of Christianity in Ukraine, delivered allows us to live in trust in a free D'Amato (R-N.Y.). on June 5, at the Millennium Truth society. It is fundamental to why we WASHINGTON - While the focus Additional sponsors were: Sens. March in Washington. can even be free at all. of the INF (intermediate-range nuclear Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.), Malcolm The Soviet Union does not want forces) Treaty, signed by President Wallop (R-Wyo.), Orrin Hatch (R- One thousand years ago, in the the truth to be known about Ukrai­ Ronald Reagan and Secretary Mikhail Utah), William Armstrong (R-Colo.), beautiful city of Kiev, Prince Volo- nians. As the second largest republic Gorbachev on Wednesday, May 31, Alan J. Dixon (D-IIL), Arlen Specter dymyr brought Christianity to his in the Soviet Union, both in terms of centered on the reduction of medium- (R-Pa.), Howard Metzenbaum (D- people. Volodymyr was the ruler of geography and population, Ukraine range and shorter-range missiles, the Ohio), Pete Wilson (R-Calif.), Phil the medieval state known as Kievan- is vital to the maintenance of the human rights amendment attached to Gramm (R-Texas), Lowell Weicker (R- Rus'. Kiev, which is the capital of Soviets' economic and political in­ the treaty played a significant and Conn.), Bob Graham (D-Fla.), Barbara Ukraine, was his capital as well. It is frastructure. Ukrainians must be visible role. Mikulski (D-Md.), J. James Exon (D- through this city and to this legacy controlled at all costs, and for the 50 Senate Executive Amendment 1680, Neb.), Strom Thurmond (R-S.C), Kent that Ukrainians and their nation million Ukrainians still in the Soviet reintroduced as S. Amdt. 2122, was Conrad (D-N.D.) and Albert Gore Jr. trace their Christian heritage. It is Union, the costs are high. passed by a voice vote at 11 p.m. on (D-Tenn.). our Churches, the Ukrainian Ortho­ In an attempt to create "one great Thursday, May 26, in the U.S. Senate. Additional names added on the dox and the Ukrainian Catholic, that Soviet people," the Kremlin has It directed the president to communi­ Senate floor were: James McClure (R- are the direct descendants of Volo- instituted the Russian language and cate to the USSR that "respect for Idaho), Steve Symms (R-Idaho), and dymyr's baptism on the Dnipro Russian culture. Unique ethnic and human rights and fundamental free­ Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska). River. This is the legacy which the national identities are assimilated as doms is an essential factor to ensure the Prior to the floor vote in the Senate, Soviet Union wants to deny Ukrai­ Russian, or are suppressed, and even development of friendly relations and Sen. DeConcini stated: "I submit, Mr. nians. This is the legacy for which we eradicated. Ukrainian children are cooperation between the U.S. and the President (of the Senate), that this fight today. taught Russian, not Ukrainian. USSR." declaration reinforces the INF Treaty Last week, an article appeared in Ukrainian musician^, writers, artists The Senate amendment was a decla­ and is not, as some contend, irrelevant The New York Times which was are claimed as Russian. ration and an understanding "that the (Continued on page 4) headlined: "Soviet Pupils are Spared Ukraine's independence as a na­ president will require sustained and History Exams While History is tion 70 years ago is conveniently demonstrable progress by the Soviet Ukrainian Americans... Rewritten." This is a powerful state­ omitted during the instruction of Union" in its implementation of the (Continued from page 1) ment and a frightening concept. It history. There is no knowledge of the Final Act of the Helsinki Accords, the nian history books and information on draws attention to an insidious 7 million Ukrainians who died from Madrid Conference Concluding Docu­ the Millennium to the Soviet officials. process, a process in which truth is of starvation during the Great Famine ment, the U.N. Universal Declaration First Secretary and Consul Oleh Dia- little value. We call the purposeful of 1932-33, peasants who died Ья the of Human Rights and "other interna­ chenko and his aides accepted the manipulation and distortion of infor­ roadside as Soviet militia, under tional human rights agreements to package through locked gates. mation a lie. We hate lies, we abhor Stalin's orders, tore into every house which the Soviet Union is a signatory or Local Ukrainian Americans held them. We teach our children that no and every field and confiscated all party." daily vigils outside the Soviet Embassy matter how personally uncomfor­ available food. It is the Kremlin's Original sponsors of the amendment for the remainder of the week to protest table the truth may be, it is never­ goal to make us an invisiblenation. It were Sens. Dennis DeConcini (D- the Russian Orthodox Church's usur­ theless our responsibility to know it, (Continued on page 13) ArizI); Frank LauteitbefgtO-NvJ:), pation WUkilaiiie's religious legacy. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

Ukrainian Canadian Committee's Radio Canada begins broadcasts Ottawa bureau: an inside loolc in Ukrainian in Soviet Asia OTTAWA - The establishment ed by an updated response to the Act MONTREAL - Radio Canada year and signed in Tokyo on March 25, in October 1987 of the Ukrainian that afternoon); International (RCI), the overseas short­ by CBC President Pierre Juneau, NHK Canadian Committee Information ^ developing contacts with the wave service of the Canadian Broad­ President Masato Kawahara, RCI Bureau has given the Ukrainian legislative committee on Bill C-77, casting Corp., has begun broadcasting Director Betty Zimmerman and Canadian Committee the ability to culminating with the appearance Russian and Ukrainian programs, Fumihiko Inatsugu, director-general of interact with the Canadian federal before the committee of the Civil which were previously broadcast only NHK's Overseas Broadcasting Depart­ government and bureaucracy on Liberties Commission-Ukrainian to Central and Eastern Europe, to ment. major issues affecting the Ukrainian Canadian Committee on March 15; listeners in Soviet Asia. The broadcasts Since RCI's Sackville transmitters Canadian Committee. ^ participating in several impor­ began on April 4. are unable to send a clear and reliable The sessions of the 33rd Parlia­ tant conferences including the Capi­ In addition, English, French and signal to Asia and the Pacific region, ment precipitated a flurry of activity tals of the World Conference in Japanese programs are now being programming to that area was limited and legislation including Bill C-71 — Ottawa, the International Human broadcast throughout the Asia-Pacific until now to two weekly newsmagazines the "War Crimes Bill," the Meech Rights conference titled "Nurenberg region. delivered by satellite for broadcast in Lake Constitutional Accord, the 40 Years Later: The Struggle Against The new service has been made Hong Kong and Japan. Multiculturalism Act, and the New Injustice In Our Times" in Montreal, possible by an agreement with Radio The new daily service is expected to Emergency Powers Bill to replace the and the Canadian Ethnocultural Japan, the shortwave service of NHK, increase RCI's audience substantially. War Measures Act. Council Conference on the Meech Japan's public broadcasting network. Recent research indicates that more During the seven months of its Lake Accord, multiculturalism and The agreement takes the form of a direct than 16 million people around the world existence, the Ukrainian Informa­ the refugee policy; exchange of transmitter time — Radio already listen to RCI programming at tion Bureau has become the conduit ^ taking part in the CBC's Corres­ Japan using RCI's facilities at Sackville, least once a week. All told, RCI of information between the Ukrai­ pondents Forum at the Conference N.B., to reach audiences in the United broadcasts in 12 languages to Central nian Canadian Committee, and the Centre in Ottawa, bringing up the States, while RCI will relay its and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the government in the national capital issues of the John Demjanjuk trial in programs to Asia and the Pacific region Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, district. The primary directive for Jerusalem and the lack in coverage of via Radio Japan's Yamata facilities. Western Europe and the United States, establishing such a structure was to Ukrainian-related issues by the CBC; The agreement was negotiated last as well as Asia and the Pacific region. assist in sharpening the Ukrainian ^ making formal interventions Canadian Committee's perspective with the Department of External on major policies, and help facilitate Affairs on behalf of Soviet defector Rights amendment... Center, the Union of Councils for the development of informed posi­ Olexander Babij in New Delhi, India, Soviet Jews, the Americans for Human tions on these key issues on behalf of and the Ukrainian Folkloric Group, (Continued from page 3) Rights in Ukraine, the Lithuanian Ukrainians in Canada. Barvinok, from Curitiba, Brazil. to the treaty and arms control. We are American Community of the U.S.A., As part of this mandate, the direc­ ^ organizing media coverage of simply reaffirming a policy already the Joint Baltic American National tor of the Ukrainian Information Ukrainian Millennium inauguration established by both the Soviet leader­ Committee, the Lithuanian Catholic Bureau in Ottawa, Andrij Hlucho- on Parliament Hill on January 22; ship and the United States in 1975, and Religious Aid, the Estonian American wecky, along with the bureau's exe­ ^ issuing press releases dealing which both countries have strengthened NMienai Council Inc. and the World cutive secretary, Oksana Kowal- with several pertinent Ukrainian in subsequent CSCE (Сопіетті^ щ Congress of Free Ukrainians... This chuk, have been working in concert issues (e.g., Ukrainian Canadian Security ^-1^ Cooperation in Europe bipartisan ащ(Вїі4ш^|п|^^^ with the Ukrainian Canadian Com­ reaction to War Crimea,Memсгс^гж^ review meetings in Madrid and curreiit- toric opportunity І(У^ШіріШІ(І||р^^^^^ mittee headquarters in Winnipeg, duiA^^be vUt oi th Bandura en­ ly in Vienna. This policy speaks to the Soviets the importance the Ameriban helpin^^^ ef­ semble of Ukraine to Ottawa, the importance of balance between human people attach to human rights It forts. Ukrainian Millennium celebrations rights and security in the search for declares that respect for human rights Some of the important activities of on the hill, the arrests of Ukrainian lasting peace." is... critical to the achievementoCJ^ihg the Ukrainian Information Bureau nghts activists, the new ethnic origin The senator was addressing those peace." iiu,.^ included: census statistics); who argued for a "clean" passage of the "Real security depends as much on ^ maintainih^ cibse contact with ^ attending the majority of legisla­ INF Treaty — without any amend­ freedom of speech, press and religion as the Department of Justice regarding tive committee hearings on Parlia­ ments for the sake of expediency. Sen. it does on freedom from Pershing and the war criminals issue (two formal ment Hill (Human Rights, Multicul­ DeConcini added: "If we are afraid of cruise missiles," he added. meetings have been held between the turalism, External Affairs, Meech this debate then it is time to ask our­ Sen. Grassley, chairman of the Inter­ bureau and Ray Hnatyshyn's office Lake, etc., as well as submitting the selves whether in our desire to advance national Parliamentary Group for (Janury 5 and March 8); "Village Voice" article titled "In arms control, we are not falling victim Human Rights in the Soviet Union, ^ monitoring the progress of the Search of a Soviet Holocaust: Fraud, to an expedient mind-set which risks the pointed out that '4his amendment Canadian Multiculturalism Act (the the Ukrainian Famine and Right- danger of brushing aside fundamental comes at a key time. While we're seeing Ukrainian Information Bureau Wing Revisionism," to the director principles for the sake of procedure." some progress on human rights from issued an initial press release imme­ of the Prohibited Importations Unit In response to a letter that was sent to the Soviets, there are other disturbing diately following the announcement of Revenue Canada for ruling with the entire Senate on March 29 by signs... Religious freedom is not yet of the Act on December 1, 1987, by regards to the new guidelines against Americans for Human Rights in U- recognized — churches are still de­ the Minister David Crombie, follow­ hate propaganda). kraine (AHRU), Senate Foreign Rela­ stroyed and Jews and Christians are still tions chairman Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) persecuted for their beliefs." stated his policy: "I believe that the Sen. D'Amato noted: "By voting for promotion of human rights must be a this amendment, we will tell the whole central goal in our relationship with the world that we recognize that arms Soviet Union... However, I do not reduction cannot, by itself, bring peace believe that it should be included in the to the world. We must reduce tensions resolution of ratification. In my view, by achieving real respect for the funda­ which I believe is shared by the Senate mental values shares by all civilized leadership, it is essential to avoid the nations." adoption of any conditions which link Additional floor statements were the ratification of the treaty to areas given by Sens. Simon, McClure, Gra­ outside of the treaty's purview. To do ham, Nunn, Wilson and Dole. Sen. Pell otherwise risks opening the floodgates summed up the feeling of the Senate to amendments, reservations and condi­ when he stated, "I think the passage of tions which, however meritorious, this amendment would send a strong could over-burden and delay a vital message to the Soviet Union about the treaty." need for continued programs in the This view was prevalent in the Senate, human rights area as speedily as we reported AHRU lobbyists, who found can... I believe this is a good amend­ the task of getting additional sponsors ment and I recommend it to my collea­ for the amendment more difficult than gues." The amendment was adopted usual due to leadership and party unanimously. pressures, especially on those up for re­ To those who toiled long and hard for election. To his credit. Sen. DeConcini this executive amendment, namely, the stood fast to his principles and refused staffs from the main sponsors of the to water down the human rights amend­ legislation, Orest Deychakiwsky of the ment or turn it into a Senate resolution U.S. Helsinki Commission, lobbyists apart from the INF Treaty. Supporting from Americans for Human Rights in organizations agreed with him on his Ukraine and others, satisfaction was stand. derived wher. Гпе president and other In his floor statement Sen. Lauten' members of the U.S. government ex- Afidrtw Hiuc^ioweckv anJ Oksana Kowalchuk of the Ottawa-base:^ berg noted that 'tai^ anieridrnan; '5 P'-u:Kit.a on the nnu'iLcy ч)( numa^ Ь "ішзпіп Information Bureau. supported by the Naacnai d Гегеп.„t. r^^iilb v'Hues ii' c^ are. tic u 'ith tiiC on Soviet JQ'yAfX л.''ч.' J? AC^' ic JiQi summit r Moscow. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 5

THE UKRAINE imiONALAS^^^^ Trio Verkhovyna to sing Supreme Assembly's annual meeting at Father's Day program opens at Soyuzivka on June 8 JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Execu­ the U.S. and Canada. KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The U- and supreme auditors, as well as reports tive Committee of the Ukrainian Na­ The trio has been a frequent guest krainian National Association's Su­ by the Svoboda editor-in-chief, Zenon tional Association will again honor all performer at Soyuzivka and, coinciden- preme Assembly, the fraternal society's Snylyk; The Ukrainian Weekly editor, UNA members who are fathers at the tally, is as old as Soyuzivka itself. highest decision-making body between Roma Hadzewycz; and Soyuzivka co- annual Father's Day Festival at Soyu­ The annual Father's Day Festival will quadrennial conventions, began its managers Lida Kucher and John A. zivka. take place on the weekend of June 18 annual meeting here at the Soyuzivka Flis. The widely known Trio Verkhovyna and 19 at Soyuzivka. The program will estate on Wednesday, June 8. Special reports will also cover the has been invited to entertain the guests begin on Saturday evening with a The assembly's Scholarship Commit­ operations of the fraternal activities with its potpourri of songs, including concert by the Dumka Choir from New tee, which annually allocates scholar­ office and the professional sales depart­ religious songs, since the theme of this York followed by a dance. ship grants to deserving students across ment. year's Father's Day is the Millennium of The main event of the celebration will the United States and Canada, met on The Supreme Assembly will also Christianity in Ukraine. be on Sunday afternoon. It will consist the eve of the Supreme Assembly focus on matters pertaining to the The group consists of the following of an ecumenical moleben, celebrated meeting, on Tuesday, June 7. UNA'S (Canadian board of directors, the members: Olena Hlibowych, director; jointly by Ukrainian Catholic and The Supreme Assembly's agenda budget for the coming year, as well as Nadia Kochanska, first soprano; Anna Ukrainian Orthodox clergy, followed includes reports by UNA supreme the site of the 1990 UNA convention. Yaschyshyn, second soprano; Boh- by a program of music and dance, executive officers, supreme advisors The meeting concludes on June 10. danna Ihnatowych, alto; and Michael featuring the Dunai Dance Ensemble Bubna, pianist. and Trio Verkhovyna from Toronto. The Verkhovyna Vocal Trio, as it is In addition, there will be an exhibit of also known, is familiar to Ukrainians on photographs of Ukrainian churches The Fraternal Corner three continents. from the Lemko area, taken by Odarka by Andre J. Worobec The trio recently returned from two Figlus and recently exhibited at The Fraternal Activities Coordinator Ukrainian Museum in New York, and successful tours in England and Austra­ SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! lia, has released a record and a cassette, photographs of Ukrainian churches in and, on the occasion of the Ukrainian the U.S. and Canada taken by Bohdan Millennium, has recorded popular Polanskyj. The exhibit will be open on Father's Day and other reminders both days, Saturday and Sunday. religious songs on a cassette. First, I would like to express my easily incorporate sporting events, It has been invited to sing at frequent Call Soyuzivka, (914) 626-5641, for thanks to those secretaries and UNA concerts, exhibits, as well as fund-raising Millennium celebrations throughout room reservations. branch leaders who cooperated in filling events for charitable or other good out the forms to report on their causes. Summertime is also a good time branches' fraternal activities. I am dis­ to travel. Branches from one city could appointed that many branches did not organize excursions to visit UNA return their forms at all. Even if you were branches in other cities, or Soyuzivka, late in forwarding it, your efforts are the UNA'S resort in the Catskills of New appreciated. York state. I would like to emphasize that send­ Once again, I would like to encourage ing a report of your branch's fraternal all UNA members to make arrange­ activities once a year is not too much to ments to come and bring their families ask and it is very important for the to Soyuzivka on Father's Day Week­ organization and this office. It gives us a end, June 18-19. Let us honor all UNA better picture of activity among the members who are fathers, as well Batko branches and it will help us in next (Father) Soyuz. This year it is a special year's plans. occasion, as Father's Day will be Furthermore, there is a possibility celebrated in the spirit of the Ukrainian that financial aid to a branch during one Millennium. year will greatly depend on its fraternal activity in the prior year.

May I again remind all UNA mem­ bers, and branch and district officers to Following are some suggestions for send in nominations for the UNA fraternal events during this time of the Fraternalist of the Year 1988. Send your year. nominations and a description of your Trio Verkhovyna of Toronto. Tlie months of June through Septem­ candidate's achievements to: Ukrainian ber are^ perfect months for holding National Association, Fraternal Activi­ social events such as picnics, festivals or ties Coordinator, Box 17a, 30 Montgo­ UNA NATIONAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP other gatherings. These events can mery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07303. July 15, 16, 1988. Detroit Ml. Golf course: Rochester Golf Club, Rochester, Ml. Obituary BANQUET 8i PARTY: Ukrainian Cultural Center, Warren, Ml. Hotel: Red Roof Inn, Warren, Ml. (313) 573-4300 (Mention UNA Golf) Mary Oleksyk, member of Branch 102 For registration ^ further info: Roman Fedorowycz, 1451 Maple, CLEVELAND -- Mary T. Oleksyk time to the needs of St. Josaphat Birmingham, Ml. 48008. (313) 540-4122, (313) 737-4460 of Parma, Ohio, an active member of Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral and its the local Ukrainian community, whom parish school. She was also a sponsor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer described as several families of displaced persons "a proud Ukrainian," died here on May following the war. 19. She was 92. Mrs. Oleksyk died of She was a life benefactor of the congestive heart failure at Parma Ge­ Ukrainian Orphanage in Philadelphia, neral Community Hospital. and was a former president of the Cleveland Chapter of Gold Star She was a member of Ukrainian Mothers and the Gold Cross Mothers, a National Association Branch 102, and church-sponsored hospital volunteer her entire family belonged to the fra­ group. ternal society, being enrolled in branches 102 and 22. A funeral liturgy was offered at St. Josaphat Cathedral on May 21; burial Mrs. Oleksyk, nee Teriesky, was born was at Ss. Peter and Paul Cemetery. in Ukraine and arrived at Ellis Island in Surviving are Mrs. Oleksyk's sons New York harbor in 1912 at the age of Michael, Steven and Daniel, seven 16. grandchildren and two great-grandchil­ She married Stephen Oleksyk in dren. Her husband, Stephen, and sons 1915; the couple had five sons. Two of John and Nicholas, are deceased. the sons served in the U.S. Army Air In an obituary in the Cleveland Plain Corps during World War II, and one of Dealer it was noted that Mrs. Oleksyk them, John, bombardier ona B-29,died had imbued each of her fiveson s "with a Ukrainian National Association: 94 years of service in a crash. certain pride in their Ukrainian heritage Mrs. Oleksyk devoted much of her as well as the land of their birth." THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

Insight on dominant force in USSR Ukrainian WeeKiу The roots of Russian communism by Yaroslaw Onyschuk collective property was very deeply rooted in tlie whole mir philosophy of Summing up the summit Many in the Western world incor­ the Russian people. In 1875, in the rectly believe that Russian communism Russian-language magazine Nabat, "The United States views human rights as fundamental, absolutely has evolved from the international ideas printed in Geneva, Switzerland, be fundamental to our relationship with the Soviet Union and all nations."This of Karl Marx. They believe that the idea encouraged the Russians to risdf up in was the message powerfully and repeatedly expressed by President Ronald of communism originally was alien to defense of the endangered mir. Reagan, through his words and his deeds, while he was in Moscow on May 28 the Russians and that it was forced Western intellectuals very carefully through June 1, for the U.S.-Soviet summit meeting. upon them in 1917 against their will. registered the unexpected happenings in While in the Soviet capital — the first U.S. president to journey there in 14 But Nicholas A. Berdyaev, a leading Russia. Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, a years — President Reagan caused quite a bit of discomfiture for his host. Russian philosopher of this century, French historian, wrote at the end of the General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. But other sectors of Soviet society who was compelled to leave Russia in last century: "Through the communal were pleased with the president's mission and what some Soviet commenta­ 1922, wrote that the Russians were system, Russia was innoculated with tors derisively referred to as his "preaching."One well-known former political communistically inclined from the communism... Thanks to mir, it circu­ prisoner, journalist Vyacheslav Chornovil, summed up the reaction of most beginning of their history because of lates unbeknown to herself in her veins human rights activists when he said, "This is welcome moral support." their communal mir. In accordance and in her blood. Will this virus, from President Reagan had pledged, on the eve of his arrival in the Soviet Union, with Berdyaev, the Russian revolution this dose... lead someday to unexpected to make human rights the priority on his agenda. He kept his word. in 1917 was only a characteristic expres­ disorders and serious disturbances in On May 29, according to press reports, he and Mr. Gorbachev had a heated sion of the Russian mentality, and the social organism? Time will tell." discussion about human rights, including freedom of religion and the right to Russian communism is in reality a The communistic institution of mir emigrate, and the general secretary reportedly became irritated at Mr. continuation of their national agrarian existed in tsarist Russia on the national Reagan's insistence on discussing these issues — issues the Soviet leader institution known as mir. territory of the Russians, but not on the would prefer to avoid. The president also presented a list of 14 cases the U.S. Berdyaev wrote that Russian com­ national territories of the Ukrainians, wanted to see resolved; the cases represented the broad spectrum of the munists were "not some brigands who Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Esto­ dissident movement, including Ukrainian national rights defenders such as have fallen on Russia in the highway of nians, Byelorussians and others. These Lev Lukianenko and Baltic activists like Balys Gajauskas and the Revs. her history and have bound her hand nationalities lived a better life than the Sigitas Tamkevicius and Alfonsas Svarinskas, as well as family reunification and foot." He pointed out that Fyodor Russians in the communes. and refuseniks' cases. Many more cases, according to informed sources, were Dostoyevsky, a Russian writer who The agrarian commune, or mir, re­ raised in sessions of the working group on huihan rights. intimately understood the Russian tarded the economic development of The next day, the president hosted a tea for 96 dissidents and their families. mind, predicted this revolution and it the country. But the Russian govern­ Here again, the issue of human rights was front and center. While applauding took its course in the way he said it ment could not persuade Russian pea­ the recent changes in the USSR and the "hopeful signs," such as the releases of would. Russian communism — said sants to become owners of the land and more than 300 political and religious prisoners. President Reagan stressed: Berdyaev — is a "terrible and frighten­ live private economic lives. The Russian "...yet the basic standards the Soviet Union agreed to almost 13 years ago in ing" phenomenon, but it is "inherent in peasant was firmly opposed to that, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, still need to be met." the Russian people." because, as Sergey Kravchinsky (1851- At the Danilov Monastery, a visit that some feared would bolster the In accordance with Russian histo­ 1895), a Russian intellectual known in the Western Europe as S. Stepniak, USSR's propaganda about religious freedom and the so-called "Millennium rians, and especially Vasily Klyuchev- sky (1841-1911), in the 11th and 12th wrote in his book "The Russian Peasan­ of the Russian Orthodox Church," the president again proved equal to the try," "it was the new economic system, task. He said, referring to the recent reopening of the monastery, "We share centuries some Eastern Slavs established contacts - at the rivers Upper Volga and quite opposed to the traditions and the hope that this monastery is not an end in itself, but the symbol of a new ideals of the Russian peasantry, which policy of religious tolerance that will extend to all peoples of all faiths. ...that Oka, today's Russian central national territory — with Finno-Ugrian tribes, has been forced upon them bythe Act of soon all the many Soviet religious communities that are now prevented from -Emancipation."-^"-''"-^----^"- ^^"^'^^'"-' registering or are banned altogether, including the Ukrainian Catholic and the Tchud, Muroma, Meria and Ves. Ukrainian Orthodox Churches, will be able to practice their religion freely They subjugated these tribes in a peace­ Therefore, the government had to and openly..." ful way, and from their racial mixture act. Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin On May 31, the president succeeded in eloquently explaining to Soviet the nucleus of the future Muscovite proclaimed by decree in November intellectuals and students Americans' understanding of the concepts of state began to emerge in the 12th 1906 the dissolution of the communes. century. Alter the founding of the Mos­ But, according to Gregor Alexinsky, ex- freedom and democracy. Here, too, he noted the positive changes in the cow in 1147, this state called itself Mus­ deputy of the Russian parliament, USSR, but noted that these had not yet been institutionalized. covy. before World War I about 80 percent of The nadir of the president's Soviet sojourn came in response to a question the peasants' land in Russia proper still posed by a student. President Reagan cited bureaucracy, not the Soviet These Muscovities inherited a parti­ cular way of life that the conquered belonged to mir. These lands were taken system, as a cause of repression in the USSR. He then repeated this assertion over by the Communist regime and in a press conference. Later, in an effort to explain the widely critized remark, tribes in the agrarian communes called mir. This mir was very dear not only to transferred to the Soviet collective administration officials said that the president had made a poor choice of system without any problems connected words in an effort to refrain from blaming his host personally for human the Muscovite peasants, and later the Russian peasants (in the 18th century with collectivization, as the communis­ rights abuses. Peter the Great renamed Muscovy tic-minded Russian peasant had, in In the end, though, when one sums up the summit's plusses and substracts "Rossiya," or in English "Russia"), it accordance with Stepniak, "a perfect the minuses (the president's faltering performance during extemporaneous was dear to all Russians. abhorrence of the idea of property in remarks), what one saw at the summit, was a forceful President Reagan Mir was considered a national insti­ land." continuously challenging General Secretary Gorbachev to put into effect the tution. Therefore, after the emancipa­ The Western idea of property was standards that he claims are part and parcel of glasnost, perestroika and tion act that brought an end to serfdom completely alien to the Russian people, demokratizatsia. And that is why, seen in terms of human rights, the summit in 1861, the Russian press began a wrote Berdyaev. The Russian always can only be considered a triumph and is sure to be praised, not only by the campaign for preservation of mir as a saw something wrong in owning pro­ 12.5 percent of the American public (as President Reagan noted) that communal way of life. perty. Even the Russian landowner had traces its roots to lands now incorporated into the USSR, but also by those see Nikolay G. Chernyshevsky, a leading doubts about whether he owned his the importance of human freedom and understand that without freedom political thinker, wrote that the Rus­ land by right. there can never be true trust among nations or genuine world peace. sians would give their lives to uphold Prince Wassilchikof, in his study of this institution of mir. Konstantin S. the history of Russian agrarian legisla­ Aksakov, a Russian thinker, maintain­ tion, wrote, as quoted by Stepniak: TO THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS: ed that mir was a "national institution "There is no country in which the idea of We greatly appreciate the materials - feature articles, news stories, that permeates through the whole property in land was so vague and press clippings, letters to the editor, and the like - we receive from our history of Russia"and that it was ideal unsteady as it was until very recently readers. for other nations also. Georgi V. Ple- with us, not only in the minds of the In order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask khanov, a Russian philosopher, called peasants, but also in the minds of the that the guidelines listed below be followed for preservation of the mir as a thres­ representatives and heads of the state... ^ News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the hold to the higher communistic form of The very word 'property,' as applied to occurrence of a given event. life. And Peter N. Tkachov, a Russian land, hardly existed in ancient Russia. ^ Information about upcoming events must be received by noon of dissident of that time, wrote that the No equivalent to this neologism is to be the Monday before the date of The Weekly edition in which the infor­ Russians were instinctively and tradi­ found in old archives, charters or mation is to be published. tionally communists, as the idea of patents ...In the living language of ^ All materials must be typed and double-spaced. peasants of modern times there is no ^ Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the Yaroslaw Onyschuk, a lawyer by term which expresses the idea of pro­ perty with respect to the land in the name of the publication and the date of the edition. training, became a journalist in Ukraine with the daily newspaper Ukrainski usual sense of the word." ^ Photographs submitted for publication must be black and white Visti and was affiliated with that LviV' It should be evident, then, that the (or color with good contrast). They will be returned only when so based newspaper until the outbreak of roots of Russian communism go far requested and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. World War 11. Since then, he has been a back to the beginnings of Russian 9 Full names and their correct English spellings must be provided. free-lance writer, and his articles have history, and that this communism - a e Persons who submit any materials must provide a phone number been published in magaziries and news­ purely Russian national idea - was not where they may be reached during the work day if any addrtlona! papers in Canada, Great. Britain, Ger­ forced uppn the Russians via the ideas informatlofi'is required: many, Spairi and the Uhiied States, of КагГМаГгх! ' No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ness resulted in repentance on the part mercy, whereas the New Testament of to reprimand the Russian Orthodox Thank you, , of the Moscow Patriarch? the Christians demands mercy. I re­ Church. Refusal to discipline one's 2) Has the Moscow Patriarch asked spectfully suggest that Dr. Kuropas has brother is analagous to turning a blind Myron Kuropas the Soviet regime to legalize the Ukrai­ strayed out of his field when he engages eye to a drunk who is about to sit behind Dear Editor: nian Catholic and Orthodox Churches? in the field of theological polemics. the wheel of a car. To an extent, are we 1 would like to thank Myron Kuropas 3) Has the repression against Ukrai­ not our brother's keeper? nian Catholics, Orthodox and Evangeli­ If we are Christians, we must realize for the article "I mourn for Israel" (May that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the 8). It must have taken a lot of courage to cals ceased? We should not try to justify the unjus­ 4) Has the Russian Orthodox Church total fulfillment of the law, and as such tifiable. Unfortunately, it appears that write about his feelings regarding the He taught nothing contrary to the Demjanjuk trial and the impact it has acknowledged the Soviet Union's past certain members of the Ukrainian or present persecutions of believers at Hebrew Scriptures (Mt. 5:17,18). Fur­ community believe that their external had on his friendship with David Roth. thermore, God does not contradict However, we all must take a stand when conventions of the World Council of salvation is contingent upon defending Churches? Himself, for "God is not a God of every move of their spiritual leaders. it is important to us. disorder but of peace" (I Cor. 14:33) and Countries, in order to have credibi­ 5) Has the Russian Orthodox Church Our leaders must realize that, as Christ, acknowledged the exclusive claim of His word is true (Rom. 3:4). The Old they must serve rather than be served. It lity, must also take stands. Unfortuna­ Testament spoke of forgiveness and tely, our country, has decided to take Ukraine's Christian Millennium in is the community's duty to see to it that 1988? mercy towards one's enemies (Exod. our leaders never forget this. the easy way out on the issue of war 23:4). criminals. The OSI exists to make a 6) Has the prestige of the Ukrainian "political point," not necessarily to seek Catholic Church been uplifted by the Unfortunately, Dr. Kuropas must George MychkoYsky truth and justice. cardinal's actions? not know of the immutability of God's Westerville, Ohio If we, as a nation, want to seek out 7) Does the Russian Orthodox word, for it is written, "Jesus Christ is war criminals (Nazi and Communists), Church preach Christ's lifegiving and the same yesterday, today and forever" then the trials should take place in the liberating gospel, or does it serve as a (Heb. 13:8). "God is not a man that he Impressed by U.S. The erosion of our national resolve faithful puppet of the Kremlin, espous­ should lie, nor a son of man that he is very troubling, but I believe that this ing the fatal and enslaving ideology of should change his mind" (Num. 23:19). Mykola Rudenko will some day change. Marxism-Leninism? God's word is not a reed in the wind, I thank Myron Kuropas for speaking Cardinal Lubachivsky's offer of rather it is a mighty fortress (Psalm Dear Editor: up for the rest of us and taking a stand. forgiveness was not brilliant, it was 18:2). The concordance and inerrancy Never did I expect in my wildest scandalous. It was done without consul­ of the Holy Bible is the a priori position dreams, as I sporadically and un­ Roman G. Golash tation with the leadership of the Ukrai­ of orthodox Christianity and the Holy successfully tried to read the profound Houston nian Orthodox and Evangelical com­ Scriptures are the standard by which all poetry of Mykola Rudenko with my munities. Ironically, this move violated doctrines are judged (Acts 17:11). Canadian Prosvita Ukrainian educa­ tion, to see and hear this poet in person. principles of ecumenism which the Is the Christian always obligated to Another view Ukrainian Catholic Church claims to be Yes, it did happen in Detroit on the forgive? Jesus Christ said, "If you evening of May 7.1 was overwhelmed fostering. It appears that Cardinal forgive anyone his sins, they are for­ on Lubachivsky Lubachivsky has taken it upon himself by his presence. given; if you do not forgive them, they His comments on Ukrainian life in to speak for all Ukrainian Christians. are not forgiven" (John 20:23). Clearly, Dear Editor: Tragically, Cardinal Lubachivsky has the diaspora were interesting. His It has been several months since the binding of sins is an appropriate remarks about fellow Ukrainian exiles, tried to appease the enemies of Ukrai­ action where the transgressor shows no Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky ex­ nian Christianity while at the same time and Baltic and Jewish dissidents were tended his offer of forgiveness to the remorse. It is crucial to realize that the touching. needlessly dividing the very community binding of sins is an act of tough love, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox which he claims to serve. Mr. Rudenko's answers to pertinent Church. Numerous letters have been for it is a discipline to be used to show questions, as well as to the irrelevant written, with the Catholic and Ortho­ If Cardinal Lubachivsky's offer of the offender that he severely strayed off ones were straightforward and honest. dox viewpoints having been presented. forgiveness was scandalous, then the course. It is the action a Christian must Why do some people expect a Ukrai­ After having reviewed the spectrum of various arguments presented in his take when dealing with a backsliding nian author to be a historian, a political opinions, I would like to present my defense were even worse. Dr. Myron and wayward brother. analyst and a prophet at the same time? position from the viewpoint of a patrio­ Kuropas claimed that the Christian Hopefully, the transgressor will, out Of course, the highlight of the even­ tic Ukrainian Evangelical. faith required this offer of forgiveness. I of shame, come to his senses and repent ing was the reading of three of his It is now appropriate to evaluate the do not wish to ridicule Dr. Kuropas, for of his sins. If the transgressor does not poems. The melodious baritone voice consequences of this action, in retros­ his contributions to the Ukrainian repent, he is thereby identified as a false was enchanting. The poems were jewels pect, for as the Lord Jesus Christ said, community are well-documented and brother (Mt. 18:15-17). In the final of imagery and language, as well as "Wisdom is proved right by her actions" he has proven himself to be an in­ analysis, there is nothing loving about depth. (Mt. 11:19). I will pose several critical valuable asset. Nevertheless, Dr. Kuro­ failure to reprimand an offender. For I pray that the Muse will not desert and hard-hitting questions which should pas has exhibited a very shallow and unless an offender is reprimanded, he Mykola Rudenko in his new home. allow all but the morally blind to reach a distorted understanding of the Scrip­ will continue to pile up his sins for just conclusion. tures when he implies that the Old whichi he will be held accountable. M. Gaboda 1) Has the cardinal's offer of forgive­ Testament of the Jews did not require Therefore, it is irresponsible for us not Detroit FOR YOUR INFORMATION: A letter about politicization of ihe Millennium Reprinted below is the text of a rights arid, in particular, religious the least attractive aspects of this 1921, Russian bishops adamantly letter written on behalf of the Ukrai­ freedom in the USSR. legacy has been religious intolerance: opposed the movement to restore the nian Studies Fund at Harvard Uni­ As you know, this will be no easy a tendency which the Soviets have Ukrainian Orthodox Church. versity by Andrew Sorokowski to the task. For historical reasons, there are cultivated to monstrous proportions Regrettably, even in the West executive director of the Congress of many misunderstandings and out­ but which was hardly of their inven­ today many Russian churchmen Russian Americans, Eugenia Ordyn- right conflicts between Russians and tion. deny the right of Ukrainians to sky. We publish it because of its Ukrainians. While these conflicts are Thus, for example, the forcible establish their own Churches, and cogent analysis of the politicization mostly political, they are inseparable liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek- tacitly approve of Soviet versions to of the Millennium of the Christiani- from religious and particularly Catholic Church in Soviet-occupied imperial Russian policies. It is unfor­ zation ofKievan Rus 'and in an effort Church affairs. They must be re­ Galicia in 1945-1946 followed a tunate that they do not follow the to elucidate the issues involved, solved before there can be any lasting tradition of tsarist suppression of the example of dissident Russian Ortho­ dox believers from the USSR like ...I agree that politicization of the cooperation. In outlining some of Uniates at Polotsk m the 1830s, in these problems, let me reaffirm my Volhynia in the 1870s and in Rus­ Anatoli Levitin-Krasnov or Yelena Millennium of the Baptism ofKievan Sannikova, who have spoken out Rus' is unfortunate. In my view, the belief that our common Christian sian-occupied Galicia in 1914-1915. values and commitment to religious publicly for religious liberty in U- Soviet regime is exploiting the Soviet intolerance of any move­ kraine. Millennium for political purposes by liberty and historical truth should ment towards Ukrainian Orthodox distorting East Slavic (Byelorussian, help us resolve our differences. autocephaly not only echoes, but This year's Millennium comme­ Russian and Ukrainian) church The first step in this process is to feeds on, the traditional intolerance morates the acceptance of Christia­ history. I would therefore gladly join confront some unpleasant historical of the Russian Orthodox hierarchy nity as the state religion of Kievan you in supporting a historically facts. For my part, I would like to towards Ukrainian "separatism" in Rus'. But the Baptism of Rus' also accurate version of the Millennium broach a subject that concerns U- either the ecclesiastical or the politi­ involved the formation of a new in a Congressional or any other krainians deeply, but which it is cal domains. In the 17th century, the culture and political life in Kiev. context. And I certainly agree with difficult to discuss without causing tsarist government pressured the Imperial Russian ideologists have you that all Christians of all ethnic offense to some Russians. This con­ Kievan Metropolitan See to break its long sought to connect St. Vladimir's groups should cooperate in exposing cerns certain aspects of the imperial links with Constantinople, after Rus' with the formation of the Rus­ the Soviet abuse of the Millennium, legacy: a legacy which is under­ which it persistently stamped out sian (Muscovite) nation and the demonstrating the Christian values standably treasured by many Rus­ every manifestation of Ukrainian Russian state. Ukrainians have tradi­ that are our common heritage, and sians but which has its negative as Orthodoxy - even the publication tionally seen the Rus' of 98^8 as working for the realization of human well as its positive features. One of of Ukrainian church books. In 1917- (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

Levy Society stages hahilky in effort to revitalize cultural heritage I LVIV -- Thousands of Lviv residents jjgathered at an outdoor ethnographic museum over three consecutive Sun- idays in April to behold a sight not /visible in the western Ukrainian city in some 40 years, according to numerous eyewitnesses interviewed here in May. Members of the less than year-old Levy Society performed hahilky for the first time since the 1940s, beginning on Easter Sunday, April 10 at Shevchen- kivskyi Hai, in the southeast section of the city. The hahilky were repeated on April 17 and 24 because of what was described by one eyewitness, as the "extremely favorable" public response. The Levy Society is apparently in the forefront of a current revitalization of Ukrainian cultural life in Lviv, a city of nearly 800,000 inhabitants. This revita­ lization has evidently arisen from the new Soviet policy of glasnost, which has created an atmosphere of "openness" in this most Ukrainian of cities in the republic. The society's revival of this ritual of spring, dating back to pagan times and now connected with Easter celebra­ tions, is part of their effort to preserve and promote the Ukrainian cultural heritage. Local eyewitnesses estimated the attendance at the hahilky, also called Huddled in coats and jackets, members of Levy Society perform hahilky on a cold hayivky and vesnianky, in the thou­ Easter Sunday in Lviv. sands, even on Easter when snow fell Members have also attempted to during the program. The Levy sold influence the decision-making process pysanky, brochures containing the concerning plans by Lviv authorities to ancient hahilky lyrics, and other souve­ erect a monument to Taras Shevchenko nirs during the performance to raise by March 1989. ;noney for other projects. The ethnographic section of Levy, The Levy Society, which now boasts which organized the hahilky, also sfome 100 members, is an officially- coordinated four large groups of Christ­ recognized group of students, young mas-New Year's caroUers, called ver- artists apd professionals that functions tepy^ which went carolling all over the in affiliation with Komsomol at Lviv's city during this past Christmas season. Ivan Franko State University. Because The society has also recently taken an of its official status, the society receives interest in reviving Ukrainian folk art, some financial and material assistance specifically ceramics from the Havare- from the Ukrainian Cultural Fund for its chchyna village and area in the Lviv projects, but the aid is limited and the region. group finds it necessary to raise funds in Only a few of Ukraine's 20 well- a variety of ways. known pottery-making centers have The society was initially founded last survived to the present day. The Levy year by activists concerned with the have found the unique collection of preservation and much-needed renova­ black ceramics in Havarechchyna and tion of memorial gravestones at Lviv's initiated a renaissance of this folk art. Lychakiv cemetery. They recently sponsored a show of the Since that time the group has been Havarechchyna craftsmen's work and responsible for the renovation of some sold the pottery by auction. 200 Lychakiv memorials and have The society plans to set up a center of extended into other areas, according to pottery in Havarechchyna with the Iryna Stasiv Kalynets, a supporter of money collected in order to ensure that the group and a well-known Ukrainian the black ceramics do not become an cultural rights activist. extinct folk art form. The Levy have divided into several The ecological section of the society is Members of the Levy Society's ethnographic section revive ancient spring ritualb i sections concerned with specific areas, planning an ecological expedition this Lviv's Shevdienkivskyi Hai as they enchant their audience with hayivky, singing: including preservation of architectural month to the Dnister river, hoping to "Bless us mother, in welcoming spring, in wel­ and historic monuments, ethnography, instigate a cleanup of the polluted coming spring, in seeing off winter.'' ecology, the a^ts, and others. waterway and protect the environment.

Souvenir graphics from April's hahilky in Lviv, as portrayed by local artists. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988

Kiev's Monastery of the Caves: Soviet government's gift to ttie Russian Orthodox Church

In its heyday, the Kievan Monastery days, first attacked by the Cumans in of the Caves (Kievo-Pecherska Lavra) 1096 and then in 1169 by Audrey flourished as a vibrant center of spiri­ Bogoliubskiy of Vladimir-Suzdal. In tual, cultural and academic life in 16th 1203 Prince Riuryk Rostyslavych and century Ukraine. the Chernihiv princes attacked the But that was hundreds of years ago monastery and in 1240 it was destroyed and for most of this century, the Mo­ by the Mongol Batu Khan during the nastery of the Caves has either been siege of Kiev. closed or has functioned as a state Each time the monastery complex museum featuring anti-religious propa­ was rebuilt and expanded; newchurdies ganda exhibits, or artisan workshops. were erected, the underground tunnels This week, as the Moscow Patriar­ of the caves and catacombs were in­ chate celebrates the Millennium of the creased. Baptism of Kievan Rus', the Monastery But in 1482 the Tatars burned down of the Caves (or at least most of its the complex; it was again rebuilt and holdings) was returned to the Church, thrived as it was recognized by the albeit the Russian Orthodox Church. Patriarch of Constantinople in the late During a recent news conference in 16th century. Kiev, Metropolitan Filaret Denysenko of Kiev expressed his delight at this It was during this time that the development, which reverses a 27-year- monastery reigned as an educational old decision enacted by the Soviet center, featuring the Kievan Mohyla government. According to reports from Academy, which included a Western Moscow, most of the complex's build­ curriculum, introduced by Petro ings will be returned to the Church; this Mohyla. The center included a printing includes the area closest to the Dnipro press and became an important publish­ River. A car repair shop for official cars ing house in the centuries to follow. of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture It is here that such historic works as and a music school will remain on the St. Theodosius's Teachings, Nestor the grounds. Chronicler's Story of Borys and Hlib" and "Tale of Bygone Years" (Povist Founded by St. Anthony of the vremenykh lit) were written in the early Caves, in the mid-llth century, the centuries of the complex's existence. Monastery of the Caves, built by ex­ Later the monastery also became a den cavating caves and building churches where foreign works were translated above them, was established during the and magnificent icons, frescoes and reign of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. mosaics by the masters Alimpiy and Throughout its resplendent, yet turbu­ Hryhoriy were created. lent history, the monastery has been plagued by tragedy. The Lavra was Soon after the 1596 Church Union of sacked several times during its early Berestia, the Uniate Catholics fought

The western facade of the Main Gates.

the Ukrainian Orthodox for control of preserve, containing mostly anti-reli­ the monastery, by the Orthodox ma­ gious propaganda, officially changing naged to retain their power. In 1688, the its name to "Ukrainian Museum Town." Kievan Monastery of the Caves became By 1934, even the museum quarter subordinate to the Moscow Patriarch. was abolished and many of its collec­ In the eariy 18th century, the Mo­ tions were transferred to new museums nastery was destroyed by fire, which in Kiev. In 1941 as the Soviet forces damaged the main Dormition Church retreated from the German advance in and the printing house and ravaged the Kiev, they placed mines under the main library and archives. church of the Monastery of the Caves, the Church of the Dormition, which Under the Russian government the once housed the legendary miracle- Monastery of the Caves was secularized working icon of the Dormition. The and made a dependent of the State; mines exploded in November of that Russification of the monastery began in year, destroying the entire church the late 18th century. structure, save for the 18th century bell- Perhaps the harshest persecution that tower. That area of the Monastery of the Kievan Monastery of the Caves has the Caves remains under renovation to suffered has been under the Soviet this day. regime. From the time after the second As early as 1922, the brutal govern­ world war to 1961, the monastery had ment began destroying the centuries-old been allowed to function in its original, monastery. On March 8 of that year, the yet limited capacity, housing approxi­ All-Ukrainian Central Executive Com­ mately 100 Russian Orthodox monks. mittee published a decree titled "On the But in 1963, the complex was once again Transfer of Valuables to the Fund in Aid reinstated as a state museum. of the Hungry." This decree became a Throughout the years, various con­ pretext for the plundering of churches cerned citizens have inquired about the and monasteries. Members of the plight of the monastery. As recently as Peoples' Commissar of Internal Affairs January, 1988, Ukrainian Archbishop of the USSR, robbed the monastery of Feodosiy of Astrakhan (hierarch of the its treasures and then accused hegu- Russian Orthodox Church) wrote an mens, monks and priests in Ukraine of open letter to General Secretary Mikhail these criminal acts. Gorbachev, asking for the opening of Many of the monastery's collections the Monastery on the occasion of the became part of the Lavra Museum of Millennium of Kievan-Rusl Religious Cults and Way of Life. In 1926. He said, "the Kiev Monastery of the Soviet Ukraioia.n government closed Caves has done much for us, for our Marts Koiomayets down the monastery completely and people and for its history and national The Great Bel! Tower (1731-44) of the monastery. turned its grounds into a state museum- self-consciousness..." 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

New Jersey committee announces plans UKRAINIANV NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - The a concert of ecclesiastical music will Who, what, when, New Jersey State Committee to Com­ take place in the Vorhees Chapel on the memorate the Millennium of Christia­ Douglass Campus, which is located on nity in Ukraine is finalizing prepara­ George Street, close to the exit of Route tions for a scholarly conference, concert 18 North. The program of songs and where and why... and a banquet to conclude the Millen­ music will be presented by the Pro­ nium jubilee year. metheus Choir and the Nova Chamber A daylong scholarly conference will Ensemble. take place on Saturday, October 15, on On Sunday, October 16, at 3 p.m., a the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers jubilee banquet will take place at the Conversion of Ukraine on video — The State University. The conference Aspen Manor, 808 State Highway 46 in is co-sponsored by Rutgers University Parsippany, N.J. Among invited distin- JENKINTOWN, Pa. -Videoand Avenue, Jenkintown, Pa. 19046. and the New Jersey Committee for the guishgd guests will be Gov. Thomas H. audio tapes of the symposium "Conver­ Included on the tapes are the three Humanities which awarded a grant for Kean, senators, congressmen, religious sion of Ukraine; The Continuing Story" presentations delivered at the sympo­ the conference. Papers, which will be and civic leaders. held recently here at Manor Junior sium: Dr. Ihor Mirchuk, "The Con­ presented by renowned scholars, will College to mark the Millennium of version of Ukraine:" Historical Back­ discuss various aspects of Christianity Speakers list offered Ukrainian Christianity are now avai­ ground"; the Rev. Chirovsky: "The in Ukraine from historical, cultural and lable, announced Joseph Stoutzen- Tradition of Ukrainian Spirituality"; geopolitical perspectives. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ^ berger, director of Campus Ministry and the Rev. George Appleyard, The conference will take place in the During this Millennium year, member- and Sister Anthony Ann Laszok, "Where Do We Go from Here? Per­ auditorium of the Zimmerli Museum, clubs of the Federation of Ukrainian OSBM, religious instructor. sonal and Social Implications for corner of George and Hamilton streets. Student Organizations of America The costs of the tapes are: videotape Today." Free parking is available at the university (SUSTA) have sponsored speakers and (VHS), S20; audio cassette, S10. (Cost The symposium provided an intro­ parking lot adjacent to the Graduate presentations dealing with the status of includes postage and handling.) duction to Ukrainian Christianity and School of Education, in the vicinity of religion in Ukraine. In an effort to Tapes may be ordered by mail by an opportunity for educators, church- the Zimmerli Museum. Admission to increase the number of those presenta­ sending check or money order payable workers and the general public to the conference will be free of charge and tions, SUSTA has compiled a Millen­ to Manor Junior College, Campus deepen their understanding of its role in the public is invited. nium speakers list and bibliography for Ministry, Fox Chase Road and Forrest their lives. Following the conference, at 8:30 p.m. the use of the Ukrainian community. In addition, a brief bibliography will be included, which lists selected English- language publications dealing with the Orthodox choirs perform Millennium concert history and status of Ukrainian Chris­ SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - N.J.; and Dmytro Bortniansky Choir of president of the Ukrainian Orthodox tianity. The Ukrainian Cultural Center here on Holy Trinity Church, Irvington, N.J. League, who extended the greetings of For a copy of this list, please send an the grounds of the national head­ The program opened with '^O Hea­ the league most eloquently in Ukrai­ addressed and stamped envelope to: quarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox venly King," a Kievan melody directed nian. SUSTA Millennium Speakers List, Church of the U.S.A. was the site by Sophia Beryk-Shultz. Stefania S. Highlights of the second portion of P.O. Box 3351, University Station, recently of the New York-New Jersey Dutkevitch greeted the capacity crowd the concert included soloists the Rev. Chariottesville, Va. 22903. Region of the Ukrainian Orthodox on behalf of the New York-New Jersey Protodeacon Wolodymyr Polischuk League's Millennium Great Lent Con­ Region and asked Metropolitan Msty- and Rafael Wenke in Mykola Leon- cert. slav for his archpastoral greetings. The tovych's "Hymn to the Mother of God," Concert album released This year's concert was the eighth metropolitan and the honored clergy and Mrs. Dido w's moving solo in "Lord annual program of liturgical music of and guests had entered the auditorium of Heaven and Earth" from the Opera the Ukrainian Orthodox Church sung to "Espoleh Despoda" sung by the "Zaporozhets Za Dunayem,"composed by a combined choir of ISO voices. The combined choir and concert-goers. by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky. program series originated with the idea Metropolitan Mstyslav congratu­ Following the stirring performance to prepare for the holy Millennium lated the region's efforts in providing of "Prayer for Ukraine"by Lysenko and jubilee year by having an annual concert this annual event and was lavish in his "(God Grant Them) Many Years" by that would bring together the parish praise of the Ukrainian Orthodox Bortniansky, both conducted by Mr. choirs of the New York-New Jersey League for its efforts in preserving Pavlovsky, Ms. Dutkevitch greeted Region. Ukrainian culture and history. He Metropolitan Mstyslav on the occasion The founders of the concert concept spoke with affection on the good works of his 90th birthday and presented him were the Very Rev. Taras Chubenko, of the concert program and congratu­ with a bouquet of roses. A four-tiered pastor of St. Demetrius Cathedral of lated the region and the participating birthday cake was rolled into the Carteret, N.J., and the Rev. John choirs on their efforts in this holy jubilee auditorium as "Mnohaya Lita" was Nakonachny, formerly of Holy Ascen­ year. sung with genuine love and affection by sion Parish of Maplewood, N.J., and The concert continued with Ms. all present. present pastor of St. Volodymyr's Beryk-Shultz of Trenton, Leonid Char- A special commemorative program MONTREAL -- The Millennium Cathedral of Parma, Ohio. zenko of Maplewood, Dmytro Olijnyk was compiled for this combined cele­ Great Lent Concert dedicated to the In the past, all participating choirs of Irvington and Taras Pavlovsky of bration of the Millennium and the 90th 90th birthday of Metropolitan Msty­ performed individually and joined South Bound Brook directing the birthday of Metropolitan Mstyslav in slav of the Ukrainian Orthodox together for a combined finale. This combined choir. Serhiy Kowalchuk of both English and Ukrainian. Church in the U.S.A. is now available year's special Millennium year program Wilmington, Del., had been scheduled This special event was videotaped for on LP records and tapes. was sung totally by a combined choir of to conduct, but became seriously ill just cable television presentation by Olha This Millennium concert re­ the nine participating parishes. The 12- the day prior to the concert and was Oleschuk-Klymenko and her students cording marks the eighth program of piece program saw the Women's En­ gravely missed for his talented direc­ from Rutgers University and William liturgical music sponsored annually semble of Holy Trinity Church of tion. Paterson College. by the New York-New Jersey Trenton, N.J., joined by Holy During the intermission, honored The Millennium concert was also Region of the Ukrainian Orthodox Ascension Church Choir of Maple- guests were hosted by the Sisterhood of professionally recorded by Yevshan League of the U.S.A. wood, N.J.; St. Demetrius Cathedral St. Andrew's Memorial Church of Records of Montreal and has been The Millennium Great Lent Con­ Choir of Carteret, N.J.; Mykola Ly- South Bound Brook, headed by Ale­ released in records and cassettes as a cert was recorded at the Ukrainian senko Choir of Holy Ascension Church, xandra Belimenko, president. project of the concert committee under Cultural Center located at the head­ Clifton, N.J.; Mykola Lysenko Choir of Raissa Didow of Maplewood opened the auspices of the New York-New quarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox St. George's Church, Yardville, N.J.; St. the second half of the concert, directing Jersey Region. Church in South Bound Brook, N. J., Andrew's Memorial Church Choir of the region's children's choir in three Proceeds from the concert were with over 150 voices from eight Sound Bound Brook, N.J.; Dnipro selections. This was the second year the shared by the Kuzbyt-Sawchuk Scho­ choirs. Choir of Ss. Peter and Paul Church, children's choir performed. Ms. Dutke­ larship Fund, the All Saints Camp This Millennium concert is dedi­ Wilmington, Del.; Stetsenko Choir of vitch took this opportunity to introduce Fund and the Ukrainian Cultural Cen­ cated to Metropolitan Mstyslav Vith Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Clifton, Lesia Samp of Warren, Mich., national ter of South Bound Brook, N.J. love for his untiring leadership of our Holy Mother Church throughout the diaspora." Moreover, this year marks the 46th anniversary of his episco­ pacy in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. "Millennium Great Lent Concert" is available in record and cassette format at all Ukrainian gift shops, participating choirs in the New York/New Jersey region, or by sending S10 (includes postage) to Yevshan Corp., Box 125, Station St. Ukrainian Ortimdox combined choir duriiig the Millennium Great Lent Concert. Michel, Montreal, Quebec H2A 3L9. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988

LA. to host UOOOth anniversary party

LOS ANGELES - Sen. Pete Wilson the lute-like "bandura" folk instrument. (R-Calif.) will be the featured speaker at Hearty Ukrainian foods will be avai­ Who, what, when, a "thousandth anniversary party" on lable for sale. June 19, culminating the local Ukrai­ The June 19 "Festive Celebration" nian American community's celebra­ will be at the outdoor UCLA Sunset tion of the Millennium of the introduc­ Recreation Center, at De Neve Drive where and why... tion of Christianity in Ukraine. near Sunset Boulevard in Westwood. The event will be at the University of General admission, available at the 988-t988 California at Los Angeles (UCLA) gate, will be S5; S3 for seniors; and free campus from noon until dusk. Sen. for those with student identification. Wilson will speak at opening ceremo­ The "Festive Celebration" is co- nies at 1 p.m. sponsored by UCLA's Slavic student 500 gather at St. Leo Abbey The general public is invited to this association, "Druzba," and by the ST. LEO, Fla. - A festive occasion Abbey were in attendance. event and to a concert of folk dance and Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine occurred on April 23 at St. Leo Abbey The choir from Epiphany Ukrainian song to be held Friday, June 17, starting Jubilee Committee of Los Angeles. in celebration of the Millennium of Catholic Church sang the responses to at 7:30 p.m., at the University of The June 17 "Evening of Dance and Ukrainian Christianity. Ukrainians and the liturgy under the direction of Southern California (USC) campus. Song," will be held at the Bovard non-Ukrainians from all over Florida Myroslawa Galan. The divine liturgy The June 19 celebration will include Auditorium, Administration Building, — some 500 persons — gathered at St. was in English and Ukrainian. Ukrainian folk dancing, world-re­ 3551 Trousdale Parkway at the USC Leo's to celebrate this event. campus. Tickets are Sll and S13J Following the liturgy, there was a nowned for its grace, energy and athle­ The day started at 11 a.m. with banquet and concert at the William P. tics, performed by several dozen dan­ The evening will include extensive Bishop Robert M. Moskal celebrating McDonald Student Center. The ban­ cers in two troupes — the Hromovytsia selections of Ukrainian folk dance by the divine liturgy in the Abbey Church quet concert began with the singing of Dance Ensemble of Chicago and the the Hromovytsia and Los Angeles in honor of the Millennium of Chris­ the national anthem by Christine Pan- Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Los dance ensembles; bandura ballads by tianity in Ukraine. Concelebrating with chuk. The concert consisted of beauti­ Angeles. Estonian, Latvian and Lithua­ minstrels Andrij Kytasty and Roman him were clergy of the Ukrainian- ful religious Ukrainian musical arrange­ nian folk dance ensembles also will Ritachka (both of San Diego); and Byzantine Rite and clergy of the Roman ments, both traditional and modern, by perform. chormal music by the Los Angeles Rite. the Epiphany Choir. Joy Brittan, a Ukrainian American Ukrainian Millennium Choir, a group Among the concelebrants were the singer and Las Vegas performer, will composed of local Orthodox, Catholic Rt. Rev. Patrick Shelton OSB, abbot of During the banquet. Abbot Shelton also be featured. A pageant of Ukrai­ and lay choirs. Ukrainian American St. Leo Abbey; the Rt. Rev. Fidelis gave the invocation. The main speakers nian historical costumes and folk art violinist Adrian Bryttan will also per­ Dunlap OSB, homilist and retired at the banquet were Bishop Moskal and exhibits will be displayed. The program form. abbot; the Rt. Rev. Marion Bowman Msgr. Mouch. The Bishop Thomas will also include songs by the Ukrainian Ticket information is available from OSB, retired abbot; and Msgr. Frank Larkin of the Diocese of St. Petersburg Millennium Choir of Los Angeles and the Ukrainian Art Center, Inc., (213) Mouch, president of St. Leo College. was represented by Monsignor John by Roman Ritachka, a minstrel playing 668-0172. All the Benedictine monks from the McNulty. Ukrainian Montrealers mark jubilee by participating in parade

A banner leads the Ukrainian contingent in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Montreal. St. Olha and St. Volodymyr on the Millennium float. by Nina Romas organizers embarked upon an ambi­ preparing for a special Millennium tour Ukrainian flags and braving the chilly tious project. Realizing that the Ukrai­ of the capitals of Europe this summer. weather. Behind them was a second huge MONTREAL - This city's annual nian theme float would have to reflect With the incentive of Myroslav Kocur, float with the full orchestra, Trembita, St. Patrick's Day Parade was honored the religious source of the Ukrainian and under the conducting hand of playing lively Ukrainian music to the this year by the presence of Ss. Olha and Millennium festivities, it was agreed Andriy Harasymowycz (substituting enthusiastic applause of the spectators. Volodymyr, appropriately wearing "a that nothing would be more appro­ for Rostyslaw Kulish) they were eager As the Ukrainian floats neared the touch of the green." Before crowds priate than a scale model of a Ukrai­ to try out their repertoire. What better end of the parade route, members of the estimated at up to 400,000, the Ukrai­ nian church. The finalresul t was magni­ occasion than a parade? reviewing stand approached to offer nian community participated for the ficent: a church consisting of three Despite the chilly temperatures, their compliments and congratulations. first time in the city's largest parade separate octagons, each measuring five March 20 was a bright, sunny day in This huge effort was rewarded with ever. feet in diameter, with the highest central Montreal. The Ukrainian entourage in the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Earlier in the year, the United Irish cupola rising to an imposing 12 feet — the St. Patrick's Parade was led by a (CBC) trophy for the ''most original Societies of Montreal had sent their 16 feet when finally mounted on the banner announcing the Millennium of artistic endeavor." greetings and extended a warm invita­ float for the actual parade. Christianity in Ukraine. Immediately At the annual meeting of the United tion to the Committee for the Millen­ The plans for the church were con­ following was the float bearing the Irish Societies on April 17, the presi­ nium of Christianity in Ukraine to join ceived by Markian Pavliv and Gregory church. The dazzling effect of the bright dent of the Millennium Committee, the annual Irish festivities on the joyous Shwec. The actual construction was sunlight on the three exquisite golden Prof. Markiza, and the organizer of the occasion of the Ukrainian Millennium. carried out by shifts of both students cupolas could be seen blocks away, and Ukrainian participation in the parade, The committee, headed by Prof. and adults — anyone who could hold a the sound of pealing church bells, Nina Romas, accepted the impressive Yarosiaw Markiza of Concordia Uni­ hammer or use a paint brush. They were transmitted through huge speakers, soapstone trophy on behalf of their versity, recognized this as an appro­ racing against time, a mere matter of proclaimed their arrival. community. priate opportunity for the children and weeks from conception to completion. St. Olha and St. Volodymyr, attired In his acceptance speech. Prof. Mar­ youth of local Ukrainian schools and The Ukrainian Youth Association of in beautiful period costumes, waved kiza emphasized the importance of such organizations to actively show their Quebec (SUM) immediately announced regally from the float to the admiring cultural crossovers, and the members of participation in the Millennium cele­ that its orchestra, Trembita, would crowds, which in places stood 15 deep. the Irish committee expressed their brations. actively participate. The 50-member- The theme float was followeiiby aWg^ interest in the upcoming Milieimium The response was overwhelming, and strong youth orchestra i^ currently contijigent; of .scbooL childrejCTr, waving. celebrations,. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

architect and chief city designer for sian Churches would do best to Glasnost diary... Moscow, reported that the Soviets are A letter... openly dissociate themselves from trying to introduce a more "business­ (Continued from page 2) (Continued from page 7) those aspects of the Russian imperial like" climate to their cities. Although primarily associated with Kiev and legacy that only work to further are changing, as the new Soviet motto the cities are not acting on any official with Ukrainian culture, arguing that Soviet aims. Specifically, I would seems to be "Down with Slogans." policy, the ostentatious signs began Russian culture and religious life urge that they forthrightly and According to Bill Keller of The New disappearing more than a year ago, and were formed somewhat later, in the publicly condemn the Soviet sup­ York Times, urban areas have begun their removal continues to this day. In northeastern borderlands of Rus'. pression of the Ukrainian Catholic dismantling the huge political slogans place of these slogans Soviet officials These are complex problems which Church and the Ukrainian Auto- displayed on buildings and lots — a hope to put up commercial advertise­ historians must eventually sort out. cephalous Orthodox Church. I would long-time eyesore for tourists and ments to reflect General Secretary However, in commemorating the suggest that they come out against citizens alike. Mikhail Gorbachev's attitude toward the Russification of Ukrainian cul­ private and foreign business ventures. Millennium we must not shut our A recent poll which asked people eyes to them. ture and call for Ukrainian religious to repeat the slogans that they Mr. Krasilnikov also stated that and political independence. Finally, I encounter in their neighborhood, re­ although Moscow and other Soviet cities The Millennium observances in would ask that they recognize the vealed that most citizens could not even display some commercial billboards the USSR will ignore the Ukrainian primacy of the Ukrainian claim to remember one of the propaganda pla­ already, they usually promote the and Byelorussian Churches and their the heritage of Kievan Rus'. cards. As a matter of fact, officials services of government monopolies. histories, emphasizing only the Rus­ stated that people have long ago stopped Mr. Krasilnikov, wrote The New York sian Orthodox Church, of course, Of course, such acts would require paying attention to the 'Visual agita­ Times, would prefer to promote choice but as a cynical exploitation of its great vision and humility from the tion," as the placards have been labeled and competition. "These signs, 'Fly hierarchy's traditional inclination to Russian-American community. But by some officials. Aeroflot,'are so stupid," he said. "What support the Russian state and its they would make the Millennium not Vladilen D. Krasilnikov, a Soviet other airline can people here fly?" discriminatory policies towards the just a passing event, but the be­ subject peoples. ginning of a process of healing and her case was reviewed and she was reconciliation between two great Three dissidents... transferred to the ordinary psychiatric Consequently, I feel that there is a nations. The late Father Alexander danger that the Russian American (Continued from page 2) hospital in the Black Sea port city. Schemann, who took the first steps in Halyna Maksymova, a 56-year-old community, by cultivating some of such a process, understood that accordance with a six-month-long Ukrainian artist from Uzhhorod, was the more unfortunate imperial Rus­ before the Ukrainian community amnesty marking the 70th anniversary freed from an ordinary-regimen labor sian traditions, may inadvertently could begin to forgive, the Russian of the October Bolshevik Revolution in camp in May, two years before her term adopt the line of the Moscow Pa­ community would have to recognize the Soviet Union. for "anti-Soviet slander" was due to triarchate and thus play into the the transgression. But as long as the Mr. Kalynychenko, who in 1966- expire. hands of the Soviet regime. Specifi­ Soviet authorities are able to mani­ 1976 served a 10-year term on charges of Rep. Steny H.Hoyer(D-Md.), chair­ cally, by espousing a chauvinistic pulate and provoke Russian nationa­ treason, participated in a demontration man of the congressional Commission view of East Slavic history and lism, both Russians and Ukrainians for cultural rights on May 22 near the on Security and Cooperation in Europe, neglecting or distorting the Ukrai­ will be the losers. Conversely, Rus­ Shevchenko monument in Kiev. which monitors human rights, reacted nian and Byelorussian Church and sians should welcome the opportu­ The dissident was arrested on No­ to news of the release of several Ukrai­ cultural heritage, it may unwittingly nity to finally come to terms with vember 29, 1979, and sentenced to 10 nian political prisoners with a statement be furthering Soviet anti-religious Ukraine and the Ukrainians. For the years' special-regimen labor camp and before a session of the House of Repre­ policy. For one technique of this benefits of a Russian-Ukrainian five years' exile for participation in the sentatives on May 26. policy is to deny these Churches' reconciliation to both nations and Ukrainian Helsinki Group and inten­ "While we welcome the release of right to exist by obliterating their their Churches would be incalcul­ tion to emigrate. these three individuals," said Rep. history. able. Evidently, his release came on the Hoyer, referring specifically to Mr. There is also a danger of further­ condition, as underlined in a written Kalynychenko, Ms. Mykhailenko and ing a related aspect of Soviet anti- In pursuing this 4щь th^ Ді^^іщ statement, that he refrain from "anti- Petro Ruban, "on whose behalf the religious policy: the Russification of American community woultf liolf Soviet" political activity, which he Helsinki Commission and many of my the Byelorussian and Ukrainian only gain a pommitted ally in its agreed to with his signature. colleagues have repeatedly spoken out Orthodox. This policy, contrary to struggle for religious liberty and Hanna Mykhailenko, a S9-year-old over the years, we cannot forget other appearances, will be of no benefit to human rights in the USSR, By stand­ English teacher and Ukrainian cultural prisoners of conscience who continue to the Russian people or the Church. ing squarely arid consistently^^ rights advocate, was released on May 20 languish in Soviet psychiatrics and For as dissident Russian patriots in principles of tolerance, liberty and from an ordinary psychiatric hospital in labor camps, including 11 imprisoned the Soviet Union have remarked, the equality for all faiths and nations, it her hometown of Odessa, reported the Helsinki monitors. Soviet cultural "melting-pot" tends would also present a far more con­ Center for Democracy in New York. "In this regard, the 18 congressional to dilute Russian culture. Russifica- vincing case to the world. Ms, Mykhailenko's release from the members of the Helsinki Commission tion is only a step towards the Forgive me if these suggestions mental institution is widely viewed as recently sent a letter to President creation of a "Soviet people" which, seem impertinent. Russian-Ukrai­ the result of Western pressure, evidently Reagan calling the president's attention while Russian in language, will have nian relations are plagued with so on the highest diplomatic levels before to the 350 remaining known political no truly national culture, but rather much bitterness and misunderstand­ the Moscow summit. prisoners. In this letter, the members of an artificial - and, of course, atheis­ ing that only a radical candor can The former educator was arrested on the commission state the belief that the tic — "Soviet culture." Thus, the restore them to health. Only on the February 22, 1980, and charged with release of these individuals is essential Soviet regime will maneuver Russian basis of historical truth, however "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" to the improvement of relations be­ Church nationalism into preparing painful, and historical justice, how­ for human rights activities and vocal tween our countries. We hope that these its own destruction. ever painstaking, can we build a criticism of the catastrophic Ukrainian releases signal the beginning of a I hope you will not take it amiss if I lasting cooperation in Christian love. language situation in the republic's concerted effort by the Soviet govern­ suggest some steps to help settle I would therefore welcome a con­ schools and institutions. She was tried ment to release all of the remaining controversies and heal wounds here tinuing dialogue between our com­ in December 1980 and was determined prisoners of conscience. This,. Mr. in the West. I feel that the Russian munities. Please let me know your to be "insane." Speaker, would send astrong signal that American community and the Rus­ thoughts. Consequently, Ms. Mykhailenko was the Soviets are intent on taking serious­ incarcerated in special psychiatric ly their commitments under the Hel­ hospitals, including the notorious sinki Final Act and other international UKRAINIAN BIBLES FOR MILLENNIUM Kazan SPH, until January 1988, when agreements." YEAR IN UKRAINE The Ukrainian Weekly: For the first time in the 70-year history of the Soviet Union, USSR's government allows to read it and share it import 100,000 Ukrainian Bibles. The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking you for a gift of 525.- or more, if Ukrainian National Association possible, to help print and deliver Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine by the United Bible Societies of SEEKS TO HIRE PART TIME AND FULL TIME West Germany. We must respond with unity to this God-given chance. Thank you and God Bless You All. 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place in Moscow. It is ironic that an Soviet Russian domination. Speech at... atheistic government recognizes an There is always hope. The under­ Heritage Commission (Continued from page 3) anniversary of Christian faith at all; ground Ukrainian Catholic Church, is this unconscionable goal that we, it is blasphemous that the occasion of the "Church of the Catacombs" as it expanded in Pennsy gathered here, fight today. a Christian holiday would be used to is known, is estimated to be 4 million No greater burden of persecution perpetuate religious oppression and strong. These are faithful who shun HARRISBURG, Pa.-Gov. Robert has been borne than the one suffered anti-Semitic violence. assimilation into the Russian Ortho­ P. Casey announced on May 5 that he has by our Churches. Stalin liquidated One report, received from Ukrai­ dox Church, and clandestinely meet signed an executive order strengthening the Ukrainian Orthodox and the nian activist Oles Shevchenko, states in forests, in private homes, in cellars the ability of the Pennsylvania Heri­ Ukrainian Catholic Churches in the that a major provocation may be in to practice their Ukrainian Catholic tage Affairs Commission to more ac­ 1930s and 40s. He murdered our the works to interfere with an un­ faith. tively promote the state's diverse ethnic clergy and banished them into exile. official Millennium commemoration President Reagan, as part of his cultures. In a cynical contradiction, he set up planned by the Ukrainian Culturolo- emphasis on religious and human Gov. Casey called on Lt. Gov. Mark the Russian Orthodox Church as the gical Club. The special commemora­ rights at the Moscow summit, made S. Singel to chair the reorganized official Church of his atheistic state. tion, to be held in Kiev on June 5, will special mention of the banned Ukrai­ commission. Our Churches remain banned to this be attended by Evhen Sverstiuk, nian Churches in his speech at the "I asked Mark Singel to lead this day, and those courageous enough to Pavlo Skochok, Ivan Неї, Petro Danilov Monastery. Speaking be­ commission because I want our execu­ identify themselves as Christian Ruban, Vasyl Romaniuk, Shev­ fore Western and Soviet press, Rea­ tive offices to be more directly involved believers, regardless of their nationa­ chenko and others. gan said "Our people feel it keenly in preserving Pennsylvania's rich cul­ lity, are forcibly assimilated into the Shevchenko states that warnings when religious freedom is denied to tural diversity," Gov. Casey said. state4:ontrolled Russian Orthodox to Ukrainian Jews to stay inside anyone, anywhere, and hope with "Mark brings to the commission his Church. during millennial celebrations, be­ you that soon all the many Soviet strong and varied involvement with It is with this same cynical intent cause of possible violence, may be an religious communities that are now ethnic and cultural groups statewide." that the Soviet Union has presented effort to discredit the club. The prevented from registering or are banned altogether, including the The strengthened commission has the this Millennium of Christian faith as members of the External Represen­ over-all responsibility to increase ap­ simply a "Russian" celebration. tation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Churches, will soon be able to prac­ preciation of ethnic cultures statewide Thus, 45 million Ukrainians in U- Monitoring Group fear that this through more events, programs, fund- kraine are denied the right to cele­ event could be used as an excuse to tice their religion freely and openly and instruct their children in and raising and coordination with related brate this historic anniversary of re-arrest the Ukrainian dissidents state and local agencies. their faith. The fact that this Millen­ planning to participate. outside the home in the fundamen­ nium is first and foremost an anni­ In a statement issued May 24, tals of their faith." The commission has an established versary that belongs to Ukrainians, Shevchenko, a spokesman for the The next evening President Rea­ membership of 27 ethnic community that the origins of Slavic Christianity club, strongly condemned those who gan had dinner with dissidents and leaders. were in what is now Ukraine, that the are instigating the "enmity between their families. Among the guests were The executive order also adds a 13- primary and direct descendant Ukrainians and Jews, between U- Ivan Неї, Vyacheslav Chomovil and member executive committee. Churches of this millennial baptism krainians and Crimean Tatars, be­ Atena Pashko Chornovil, Mykola "To streamline the commission's are the Ukrainian Churches, that the tween Armenians and Azerbaid^ Horyn and Olha Horyn, and Petro structure to make it operate more Russian Orthodox Church did not zhanis and others." He states that the Ruban with his daugther Natalka. In efficiently, the order allows for the even come into existence until the by-laws of the club are based on ah interview for Soviet television, appointment of nine ''at-large" com­ 13th century, all these facts are mutual respect of all nationality President Reagan acknowledged missioners with multi-ethnic interests conveniently ignored so that the groups and a commitment to fight all that millions of Americans, one in and four legislative members, all of Soviet Union can continue to appro- manifestations of chauvinism, ra­ eight, trace their heritage to countries whom will oversee ongoing programs |ifiat(6t6f itself the history and cism and intolerance. He concludes in Eastern Europe. He pointed out under the commission's executive direc­ culture of nations that are different by asserting that the Ukrainian that these American citizens can and tor, Shalom David Staub," said the from Russia, and thereby deny the Culturological Club disassociates do rise up in protest if they feel that governor. existence of many unique, and poten­ itself from any anti-Semitic provoca­ the "country of their ancestry" is tially mbellious, nationalities. tion. allowed to suffer. HUCULKA This morning we received reports It is unclear who is instigating this, And this must be noted: Ukrainian Icon 8L Souvenir's Distribution that a part of the Monastery of the provocation. Some reports claim Americans, aware of the suffering of 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R Caves, the Pecherska Lavra, is in the that these are the efforts of conserva­ their Churches in Ukraine, are rising Bronx, NY 10461 REPRESEmATn/EandWHOLESALERafEhBRCXXREDBLOUSES process of being "returned" for use tive Soviet officials trying to em­ in protest. for ADULTS and CHILDREN by the Russian Orthodox Church. barrass Gorbachev and his new Throughout much of her history, Tel. (212) 93M579 Let us make one thing clear: the policies. Some claim that it is the Ukraine has suffered foreign occupa­ direct and rightful heirs of this work of the Russian nationalist tion, her people the object of politi­ Millennium are the Ukrainian organization Pamiat. Still others cal, cultural and religious persecu­ Churches. Therefore any "return" of suspect this is to be a KGB ploy to tion. In spite of this adversity, Chris­ the monastery should be to them, not discredit Christians, which will then tianity has endured for a Millennium to the foreign Russian Orthodox be used to further oppress believers. in Ukraine. We are obligated to make wZu "^ Church. No reason can be accepted. certain that this anniversary is re­ ANNCAIAZZOREALTYJNC. membered for what it is — a comme­ 775 Route ^U Old Post Road Daily, in the Soviet Union, the We call upon all those who put Edison. New Jersey 08817 plague of religious persecution con­ their faith in God to condemn this moration of special significance for Business (201) 572-0100 tinues. Recently, reports have hateful campaign of persecution Ukrainians — a history of our faith, a j^m^ MR. PETRO /Ш reached the West that Soviet militia being carried out in the name of the certificate of our baptism, the certifi­ \Шш Broi(erZSales Associate/Notary Щт Millennium. 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ground in order to press for legaliza­ maged the international prestige of today's "new thinking.' Ukrainian Church... tion in the open. Ukrainian Catholics the USSR. He declared that ""it was Why is the Ukrainian Catholic (Continued from page 1) have submitted numerous petitions high time" for the Russian Orthodox Church — and for that matter, the - aspects from the Millennium to the Soviet authorities asking them Church to show initiative in securing Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox celebrations but has played up the to act in the spirit of glasnost and legalization for the outlawed deno­ Church, too - such a sensitive issue Russian angle. perestroika and lift the ban on their mination, ""which would correspond for the Kremlin and the Moscow Although the Ukrainians, Byelo­ Church. to statements on the equality of all Patriarchate? For one, the Ukrainian russians and Russians all trace their Since then, the Ukrainian Catho­ religious which it [the Moscow Pa- Catholic Church has served as a religious and cultural heritage from lics have received growing support triarchate3 has made." bulwark against Russification and a the ancient and protonational state from both within and outside the Meanwhile, the attitude of the bridge to the West. Furthermore, for of Kievan Rus', Patriarch Pimen has Soviet Union. Dissenting Russian Soviet authorities and the Moscow the Russian Orthodox Church, apart stressed that the Millennium anni­ Orthodox activists such as Alexan­ Patriarchate towards the Ukrainian from its traditional antipathy to­ versary is being commemorated as a der Ogorodnikov, Father Georgii Catholic Church has shown little sign wards the Ukrainian Uniates, any celebration of 1,000 years of Russian Edelshtein and Vladimir Poresh of changing. The appeals of the legalization of the Ukrainian Catho­ history, culture and statehood. have spoken out in defense of the Ukrainian Uniates have been falling lic Church threatens to undermine its After a recent interview given by Ukrainian Uniates. on deaf ears in Moscow, and the position. the Russian Orthodox primate to In mid-February, during a visit to Soviet press periodically repeats the As it is, according to data provided Izvestia, a Ukrainian reader sardoni­ Kiev, British Foreign Secretary Sir standard denunciations of their in Sotsiologicheskie Issledovanniya cally asked the editors of the Ukrai­ Geoffrey Howe said he looked for­ Church of which the vitriolic attack last summer, the largest single Rus­ nian literary weekly Literaturna ward to the day when ""Ukrainian published in Izvestia on December 23 sian Orthodox eparchy is Lviv- Ukraina to clarify where the baptism Christians" would be ""enabled to last year is a good example. When Ternopil which has over 1,000 work­ of Kievan Rus' actually took place - practice their religion with freedom asked to explain why the pope was ing churches. This, in fact, is the in Kiev or in Moscow -^ as it was not and with pride." not being invited to attend the heart of traditionally Catholic U- evident from the patriarch's answers. That same month, in connection Millennium celebrations, representa­ kraine. In all, Soviet sources recent­ What is also telling is that Ukrai­ with the Millennium of the baptism tives of the Russian Orthodox ly revealed, "there are normally over nian writers and historians have of Kievan Rus', the pope addressed a Church have made it clear that '"the 4,000 Orthodox churches function­ recently begun revealing that after special letter to the Ukrainian Catho- question of the Uniates" was a major ing in Ukraine." In other words, the political and cultural purges in more than half of the close to 7,000 Ukraine in 1972-1973, the entire Clearly, the campaign of the Ukrainian Catho­ working Russian Orthodox churches period of Kievan Rus' was until very appear to be situated in Ukraine. recently virtually placed off limits for lics for legalization and the resonance it is find­ Clearly, the campaign of the U- Ukrainian authors. ing at such a sensitive time both inside and out­ krainian Catholics for legalization The pope has also played a role in and the resonance it is finding at such the controversy over the claims to the side the USSR, is a source of considerable em­ a sensitive time both inside and Kievan Rus' inheritance. He has outside the USSR, is a source of gone out of his way to recognize the barrassment and irritation for both the Moscow considerable embarrassment and Ukrainian and Byelorussian aspects Patriarchate and the Kremlin. irritation for both the Moscow Pa­ of the Millennium as well as the triarchate and the Kremlin. Russian one. Here, it is not simply a lie Church in which he praised the obstacle. The fact that, as Metropolitan question of a Polish pope meddling courageous way in which it has This does not mean that there has Filaret announced last Saturday, the in an Eastern Orthodox affair, as the remained loyal to its faith. been no movement whatsoever. Until Russian Orthodox Church has now Soviet media have often implied. The On May 30 President Reagan, in a quite recently, both Russian Ortho­ agreed to hold talks next month with Vatican has a legitimate historical brief speech delivered at the Danilov dox and Soviet spokesmen categori­ the Vatican on the question of the interest in the Millennium of the Monastery in Moscow, expressed the cally denied the survival of any Ukrainian Catholic Church, suggests baptism of Kievan Rus' because the hope that ""soon all the many Soviet Ukrainian Catholic Church in U- the authorities in Moscow feel them­ official Christianization of this state religious communities that are now kraine. The new line is that, yes, there selves under pressure to be seen as took place 66 years before the split in prevented from registering or are are some Ukrainian Uniates left, but acting on this issue. The very way in the universal Church in 1054. banned altogether, including the not very many, a few thousand at which the metropolitan went on to Furthermore, under Pope John Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox most. qualify his statement by stressing Paul П, the Vatican has renewed its Churches, will soon be able to prac­ The other slight improvement is that what was envisioned at the commitment to the ""catacomb" tice their religion freely and openly that the Soviet press has guardedly meeting was only a clarification of Ukrainian Catholic Church, whose 4 and instruct their children in and begun to allude to the strength of respective positions, not negotia­ million or so members were forcibly outside the home in the fundamentals religiosity in western Ukraine — the tions, and his warning to the Vatican incorporated into the Russian Or- of their faith." traditional stronghold of the Ukrai­ not to become "aggressive" over the ipodox Church in 1946. Inspired by And on June 3, during a remark­ nian Catholic Church - and to the matter, indicates, however, that the his support, Ukrainian Catholic able officially sponsored press confe­ problem facing Ukrainian believers Moscow Patriarchate, at any rate, is activists have in recent years stepped rence. Dr. Sakharov condemned the in this region. For example, on May still reluctant to see freedom of reli­ op their campaign for the restoration ""archaic" ban on the Ukrainian 18, Literaturnaya Gazeta criticized gion being extended during this of their rights, and last summer two Catholic Church, adding that it not the unforthcoming attitude of some special jubilee year to the USSR's clandestine bishops and a number of only violated the rights of many religious officials in this region who largest banned denomination - the clergy emerged from the under­ Ukrainian believers, but also da- do not seem to have adopted any of Ukrainian Catholics.

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a new order... Hartford branch of SUM-A hosts volleyball tourney (Continued from page 2) be unprofitable. The entire interview HARTFORD, Conn. - The Ukrai­ second place, Boston SUMA. Passaic SUMA jn the boys' division. manifested bitterness at any prospect of nian American Youth Association Most valuable player awards were The presentations were made at the reform in the Donets coal basin. (SUMA), Hartford Branch, held an presented to John Fesz from Yonkers Ukrainian National Home during the On the face of it, Mr. Shchadov seems invitational volleyball tournament on SUMA in the men's division, Christine tournament dance. The Ukrainian to have little reason for optimism. The Saturday, April 16, at Wethersfield Kosz from Passaic SUMA in the wo­ Selfreliance Hartford Federal Credit proposed restructuring of the industry High School with 10 teams from men's division and Roman Kosz from Union donated trophies for the event. appears to exist on paper rather than in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey fact. The coal industry in the eastern and Massachusetts participating. part of the country is enjoying a revival In the finalsi the following teams ATTENTION: of fortunes in marked contrast with coal placed in each category. ALL UKRAINIAN ARTISTS AND CRAFTPEOPLE Men's: first place, Brewskies from mining in the European part of the The Baltimore, Maryland Ukrainian Festival country. It is symptomatic of misplaced New York; second place, Yonkers optimism that the Soviet mining jour­ SUMA; third-place. New York SUMA. will be held nal sees fit to announce that the miners Women's: first place, Yonkers on August 13th and 14th, 1988 SUMA; second place, Passaic SUMA, now have shower facilities at a depth of All Ukrainian artists are welcome to come and exhibit their artwork with us. 1,000 meters, at a time when they still third place. New York SUMA. Boys': first place, Passaic SUMA; There is no exhibition fee and only 15Уо on all sales. lack the necessary equipment to extract For more information and registration please write to: coal from thin and sloping seams. OREST POLISCZUK UKRAINIAN SINGLES In effect, thus far the reorganization 5531 High Tor Hill, Columbia, MD 21045 ш (301) 730 1541 of the Ukrainian coal industry has NEWSLETTER achieved only one thing: the return to Serving Ukrainian singles of all ages Moscow of the jurisdiction it formerly throughout the United States and Canada. held during the period of the Russian For information send a self-addressed empire. For the next year, at least, the stamped envelope to: UKRAINIAN troubled industry will have no local Single Ukrainians representation, and has yet to begin the P.O. Box 24733, Phila., Pa. 19111 self-financing laid out by the Law on FESTIVAL State Enterprise that came into force on Rjverdale, N.Y.C. For sale January 1 of this year. ENGLISH TUDOR DANCE Brk + Stn - serrii-att. 3 bdr., 2 bath, SUPERINTENDENT finished basement, 2 car garage, Mature couple wanted. Three small Saturday, June 18th 1988, 9 P.M. buildings. Knowledge of boiler operation, garden, mint cond. By owner - plumbing and minor repairs essential. 1350,000.00. to the music of Telephone (212) 481-5740 (212) 5486260 or 601-3897 "Solovey" and "Charivni Ochi" at the UKRAINIAN SITCH SPORTS SCHOOL East Hanover Ramada Hotel 130 Route 10 West, East Hanover. N.J. 07936

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СОЮЗІЄКА UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP m 8. WORKSHOP 1988 SOYUZIVKA Roma Pry ma Bohachevsky, Director at Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, N.Y. 1988 CAMPS 8i WORKSHOPS DANCE WORKSHOP - For advanced dancers (ages 16 and up) June 26 - July 16 DANCE CAMP -(ages8 16), July 31 - August 13 at SOYUZIVKA Guest teacher: Valentlna Pereaslavets, Lubov Volynec, Jerry Klun Applications accepted till JUNE 15 Write or call TENNIS CAMP - June 19 - June 29 ROMA PRYMA BOHACHEVSKY Boys.and Girls ages 12-18. Food and lodging 5200.00 (UNA members) 523 East 14th Street, Apt. 3B, New York, N.Y. 10009. Tel.: (212) 677-7187 5230.00 (non-members). Tennis fee: 560.00 George Sawchak, Zenon Snylyk - instructors

JOHN DEMJANJUK SPEAKS: BOYS' CAMP - July 9 - July 23 Recreation camp for boys ages 7-12, featuring hiking, swimming, games. Ukrainian songs and folklore. "YOU HAVE JUDGED...A PERSON WHO IS NOT GUILTY UNA members: 5120.00 per week; non-members: 5140.00 per week. OF ANYTHING, AN INNOCENT HUMAN BEING." GIRLS' CAMP - July 9 - July 23 "I AM NOT 'IVAN THE TERRIBLE' AND THE MOST JUST WITNESS IS GOD HIMSELF WHO KNOWS THAT I AM Similar program to boys' camp; same fee. INNOCENT." UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP - August 13 - August 27 "IDONOTDESERVE THIS. I AM INNOCENT, INNOCENT, Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate and advanced dancers. INNOCENT. AND GOD IS MY WITNESS." Instructor: Roma Prima-Bohachewsky Limit 60 students PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE APPEAL OF AN INNOCENT Food and lodging: 5220.00 (UNA members), 5250.00 (non-members). Instructor's fee: 5120.00 MAN. Advance reservations are necessary for parents wishing to stay over June 18th. Prayers and financial support desparately needed. For more information, please contact the management of "Soyuzivka". Please send donations to: The Ukrainian National Association does not discriminate against anyone t)ased on age, race, creed, sex or color. THE JOHN DEMJANJUK DEFENSE FUND P.O. BOX 92819 CLEVELAND, OHIO 44192 1 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 12,1988 No. 24

PREVIEW OF EVENTS JmelS Admission is SI. The arena is located dance and music. The featured per­ NOTRE DAME, Ind.: A free public at 14900 Ford Road. For more HOLMDEL, NJ.: An exhibit to formers will include: the Dunai concert of Ukrainian religious and information call (313) 581-8436. commemorate the Millennium of Ukrainian folk dance ensemble from folk music will be presented by the Christianity in Ukraine, arranged at St. Catharines, Ont., directed by St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox c^x^x^^x^x^^ the John Cotton Dana Library of Orest Samitz: and the Trio Verk- Church Choir of Bloomingdale, 111., Rutgers University in Newark, NJ., hovyna from Toronto, directed by with Dr. Vasil Truchly conducting. will be displayed at the Garden State Olena Hlibovych and accompanied The concert, sponsored by the Ukrai­ ONGOING Arts Center here during the Ukrai­ by Michael Bubna. An exhibition of nian Catholic parishes of Mishawaka nian festival. photographs of Ukrainian churches and Fort Wayne, Ind., and Grand UNION, N J.: The Millennium exhi­ in the Lemko region, taken by Rapids, Mich., will take place at bit, sponsored by Branch 32 of the June 18-19 Odarka Figlus, and Ukrainian Notre Dame University's Washing­ Ukrainian National Women's League churches in North America, taken by ton Hall at 7 p.m. For more infor­ of America, will be on display KERHONKSON, N.Y.: The Ukrai­ Bohdan Polanskyj, will be on display mation, please call the Rev. Peter through July 5 at the Union Public nian National Association's Su­ in the Main House Library on Satur­ Galadza, (219) 259-7173. Library, located behind the Union preme Executive Committee pre­ day, 3-5:30 p.m., and on Sunday, 10 Municipal Building on Morris Ave- sents Father's Day Weekend at a.m. to 5 p.m. For reservations call June 25-26 Soyuzivka, the UNA's Catskill Soyuzivka, (914) 626-5641. Mountain Resort. Saturday's pro­ DEARBORN, Mich.: St. Michael's NEWARK, N.J.: An exhibit to gram will include an 8:30 p.m. con­ June 25 Ukrainian Church is sponsoring commemorate the Millennium of cert, featuring the Dumka choir of Ukrainian Summerfest '88 at Adray Ukrainian Christianity, arranged at New York, followed by a dance to the NEW YORK: The Young Profes­ Arena here. A live band, ethnic food, the John Cotton Dana Library of music of the Bohdan Hirniak or­ sionals of the Ukrainian Institute of ethnic entertainment and cultural Rutgers University, Newark campus, chestra. This year's activities, in­ America are holding their annual displays will be featured. The festival will continue through June 15. The cluding a 2 p.m. ecumenical moleben scenic cruise around Manhattan, will take place on Saturday, noon to address is: 185 University Ave. here. on Sunday, will be held in comme­ leaving from Brooklyn's south shore. 1 a.m. and on Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. For information call (201) 648-5222. moration of the Millennium of U- On board will be a buffet, refresh­ krainian Christianity. Earlier on ments and music. Tickets are by PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to Sunday morning, divine liturgies at reservation only. The boat's capacity tiie public, is a service provided free of charge by Tbe Ukrainian Weekly to the the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic is 120 people and there is free park­ Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send Church and at the Ukrainian Ortho­ ing at the dock. Donation is S50. For information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.)) - dox Chapel at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., reservations and information, please typed and in the English language - along with the phone number of a person respectively. At 3 p.m. Laryssa call by June 20, Jerry Nestor, (212) who may be reached during daytime hours for additional uiformation, to: Lysniak will serve as mistress of 272-2099 (days), or Lada Sochynsky, Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, ceremonies at an artistic program of (212) 689-1383 (evenings). N.J. 07302. \' Ukrainian Festival U.S.A. Philadelphia plans demonstration by Olena Stercho Hendler Organizers say that a demonstration dedicated to l\^illennium articulating these issues is particularly HOLMDEL, N.J. - The rich pano­ Ukrainian talent on the North Ameri­ PHILADELPHIA - The Ukrainian needed as a counterpoint to the eupho­ rama of the Ukrainian culture will once can scene. The first half of the concert is Human Rights Committee (UHRC) of ria following the recent Reagan-Gorba^ again unfold on the spacious grounds of dedicated to the Millennium, while the Philadelphia is planning a manifesta­ ehev summit. tion in support of the legalization of the the Garden State Arts Center on Satur­ second portion will feature a lighter, The manifestation will include a day, June 18, during the 14th annual more traditional program of song and Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine, which will coincide with the upcoming shorty religious service for the freedom Ukrainian Festival U.S.A. dance. of the Church, which area clergy are Held this year in celebration of the Slated to appear are: the Kashtan negotiations between the Vatican and Moscow on the subject. The rally will be being invited to concelebrate. In addi­ Millennium of Christianity, the festival Dancers of Cleveland, the Yevshan tion to several guest speakers who are is expected to draw an attendance of Zillia Female Ensemble of Minnea­ held on Sunday, June 26, at 6 p.m. in front of Independence Hall in Phila­ now under consideration, a small choir over 15,000 persons. polis, the Nova Chamber Ensemble, a composed of members of various Phila­ Daylong activities will include: 200-voice choir consisting of members delphia. Not only is the rally intended to press delphia-area choruses will perform a volleyball and soccer tournaments of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church few selections of religious music. commencing at 8:30 a.m., cultural Choir, the Metropolitan Choir of the for legalization of the Church, but its exhibits and the sale of Ukrainian food Philadelphia Archdiocese of the Ukrai­ other purposes include publicly high­ All members of the Ukrainian com­ and delicacies from noon to 7 p.m. nian Catholic Church, the Prometheus lighting the persecuted past of the munity, and in particular, church This year a special grand door prize Male Chorus of Philadelphia and the Church, the oppression of its believers groups are urged to join in the manifes­ will await festival-goers in the cultural Trembita Choir, with featured soloists: and the hypocrisy of Moscow in its tation. For further information please tent. Provided by American Airlines, bass Stefan Szkafarowsky, tenor Boh­ Millennium celebrations and glasnost contact Ulana Mazurkevich, UHRC the prize consists of round-trip air dan Chaplynsky and soprano Olena policies. head, at (215) 782-1019. transportation for two to Paris, Frank­ Heimur. furt or Zurich. Registration forms will Sponsored by th? Garden State Arts be available on Saturday until 3:30 p.m. Center, the Ukrainian Festival U.S.A. is Bandura courses offered in Edmonton A program on the plaza will take one in a series of events organized to EDMONTON - The Ukrainian dual sessions can also be arranged at a place at 11 a.m. Performing artists in­ raise funds for New Jersey's school­ Resource and Development Centre cost of SIO per lecture. clude: bandurist duo Olia Chodoba and children, senior citizens, disabled vete­ (URDC) at Grant MacEwan Commu­ The Advanced Bandura Workshop Шгка Leshchuk, the Evangelical trio rans and the blind. nity College in Edmonton will hold two includes four two-and-a-half-hour of Paul Chadniewicz, George Dawi- For festival-goers who have not bandura courses in July. The courses evening sessions (7:30 - 9 p.m.) on July 4 diuk and Tony Veras, the Zaporozhe purchased concert tickets in advance, will be conducted in cooperation with through July 7. Bandura enthusiasts Dance Ensemble from Perth Amboy, the Garden State Arts Center will assess Performing and Visual Arts Outreach, who have at least three years of expe­ the Skomorochy Dancers and the a charge of S2 for all persons over the GMCC, St. Basil's Choir Society and rience will improve their technique, youngsters of the Irvington School of age of 8 attenting the plaza activities. St. John's Institute. repertoire and ensemble skills under the Dance under the direction of prima Festival-goers are urged to purchase URDC's Bandura Instructors Course direction of bandura virtuoso Julian ballerina Roma Pryma Bohachevsky. concert tickets ahead of time. is an intensive, one-week session pro­ Kytasty. At 1:30 p.m. a historic moleben For concert tickets, contact either gram course which will run daily from 9 Tuition for the complete workshop is service will be celebrated by Archbishop ticket chairman Jaroslaw Iwachiw at a.m. to 5 p.m., July 4 through July 8. S35. Participants can also select one or Metropolitan Mstyslav of the Ukrai­ (201) 369-5164 between 10a.m.and8:30 The course is designed for experienced more of the workshop sessions for SIO nian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A., p.m. weekdays, your local representa- and aspiring bandura instructors, 18 or per lecture. Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen tive,or the Garden State Arts Center at older, who would like to improve their The Bandura Instructors Course and Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catholic (201) 888-5006 between 9 a.m. and 4 teaching repertoire and skills. Advanced Bandura Workshop will take Piurch, and representatives of the p.m. weekdays. A team of experts including Julian place at the Jasper Place Campus of Ukrainian Evangelical Assemblies of A festival dance will follow at the Kytasty, Elizabeth Anderson, Gloria Grant MacEwan Community College, God. Ramada Hotel in East Hanover, N.J., Zaharia, Valentyn Moroz Jr. and Boh­ 10045-156 St. Edmonton, Alta. All this will lead up to a climactic on Route 10 West at 9 p.m. to the music dan Zajcew will provide instruction in Accommodations in Edmonton may stage concert at 4 p.m. in the amphi­ of Solovey from Toronto and Charivny bandura technique, history, repairs and be arranged at St. John's Institute by theater, boasting some of the finest Ochi from Connecticut. repertoire, pedagogy, basic conducting, calling Boris Melnyk, (403) 439-2320. voice training, Ukrainian folk instru­ To register or for future information, ments, and more. Participating will also please call or write to: Marie Lesoway, BUY U.5. SAVINGS BONDS have the opportunity to apply their new Ukrainian Resource and Development For the current rate call... I -SOO-US-BONDS teaching skills in a practicum situation. Centre, Grant MacEwan Community Tuition for the entire 32-hour course College, Box 1796, Edmonton, Alta. package is SI00. Registration for indivi­ T5J 2P2; (403) 483-4422.