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My national pride is at prime-beam. Did you when, judging from the sea of blue and yellow Personally, one of my favourite root-pride flags at the medal ceremonies, check out those Calgary '88 Olympics? Damn it seemed as tf highlights was a gesture by one Ukraine was the most outrageous, dontcha know. Damn proud to be a populous nation in the Ukrainian-root-activite. He handed a Soviet world? Not only was it Canadian time, dontcha know. this globe's largest athlete of unidentified nationality a bouquet of, nation, it also manufactured the But my personal Calgary all-time Olympic game world's most what else, blue and yellow flowers. While it may enormous flags. high goes beyond my all-Canadian national pride have been a predictable colour combination at the The only thing gloat. Did you check out those red-booted human that was obviously absent to Calgary Games, the response of the unidentified even the dancing machines hopaking there way across most uniformed observer was a Soviet athlete was not quite so predictable. And uniformed national McMahon Stadium in the opening ceremonies? team. Well, I guess you can't what does a Soviet athlete do with blue and have everything. Although, Get out the dirt. My roots are showing. truth be told we came yellow flowers? Why, throw them at the pretty damn close when the Swedish national Think about it. I mean this was really it. Our flag-bearers of course. Coincidence? A mistake? team was on the podium moment arrived in Calgary. Primary-coloured receiving a medal. Who knows? At this point, all those with a love There they were in all - sharavary and ribbons rippling in the breeze (as their glory the blonde a of subterfuge, subversion and and blue-eyed Swedes they only could in that oh-so-special western in their blue and yellow counter-revolutionary activities, heartily applaud sweats and breeze) teamed with sumptuous earthy-shaded in front of them the old blue and yourself. You done good. yellas catching a gust of the velvets and illustrious ethnic embroidery oh Calgary chinook. Hey, before I forget. Maybe we didn't beat the Coincidence? man, I break out into a sweat just savouring the Who knows? Maybe it has KLM line, but we sure had a hell of a banner just something to memories. do with some alliance an old above the Soviet penalty box. "Free Ukraine" in cossack had with a lusty Our day had come. Isn't this what we had all Swedish monarch. But I big, bold, black letters, centred ever-so-evenly swear it's true. I saw it been waiting for? More than a blurb in your local with mine own eyes, I on a plane of innocent white. Sigh. What can I swear I did. Right newspaper, more than a hea'dline in a national there on CTV, ABC and other say. It's true, I'll confess. Born and bred a assorted daily, more than a spread in a national global media. And I knew the blue and Canadian, I've a love of that good old-fashioned newsmagazine, more than three seconds on yellows were anchored in my roots. Yes sirree radical activist Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism. national news. ..it was super-coverage — global bob! They said so. Centred in the illustrious blue Noticeably absent from the hoopla and hoi television. Oh, heart be still. Prime time, look sky offset by a field of wheat, it read: UKRAINE! polloi of frantic Ukrainian global media seeking out, the Ukrainians have arrived. Heart be still. adventures were those who should have been in Were we satisfied with only the opening We really did have a presence in Calgary, the forefront of this rip-roaring Calgary party ~ ceremonies? (our segement just happened to be a you've got to admit it. Staid old Reuters, the SUSK! Too bad. SUSK's loss. special favourite of Jim McKay, world-renowned fact-reporting experts, even gave us honourable On behalf of those of us who participated,

ABC sports anchor) - NO! We went all out. mention on one of their wires. Not only did they watched and supported our Canadian athletes as (Please note the we has become collective and in mention our up-front, flag-waving, well as our Ukrainian heritage and antics, I've got no way indicates that we were them or that they globally-visible gesticulations, they even only one thing to say to those who didn't bother were us. Pardon me, but my bourgeois managed to cover a vigil held at St. Volodymyr's -- you not only missed your 15 minutes of global nationalism is showing.) Ukrainian Orthodox church. Worshippers prayed media glory., you also missed one hell of a And how did we go beyond prysidka-recognition. for Ukrainians to be given separate national party.

Ah c'mon. You were watching, I know you were. status in the games, just as Ukraine is granted the In conclusion, skip the dirt. Fill in my roots And didn't your eyes just swell up with tears status of independent state by the United with some of that good old-fashioned chornozem. W Nations. All of this on Reuters wire. We done Photo: Anatoly Parat good. MARCH - APRIL, 1988 VOL. 20 NO. 99 INSIDE

EDITORIAL PG.2 LETTERS PG.2 RAMBLING MIND PG.3 CUT & PARRY PG.4 YARMAROK PG.5 PG.5 PG.6 REVIEW? PG.7 PG.8 PRESSURE PG.8 PG.9 ESTATES PG.9 KGB PG.10 HOW - HERE? PG.ll BLOC NOTES PG.12 ROTTTEN PG.12

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In the last issue of STUDENT, we featured an interview has so little Gula bothered to read the Fortunately I did read the report in Why is it that STUDENT with Victor Malaick, the author of Haven's Gate and the Had Mr content? I am not only submitted by the Civil question. Although no direct "western" Globe & Mall critic of Canada's immigration policy. He brief referring here to articles. There has not to the reference was made to redress and described the confusion in the immigration department, a Liberties Commission been one advertisement yet this year in Standing Committee on compensation, the mailer was confusion caused by the elected government. This was STUDENT from Western Canada. Your later also day, the Multiculturalism (i.e. A Time For implied in the brief. graphically illustrated on March 24th. That What's the problem? Has Eastern National implies this same point. How can government decided to delay the deportation of forty Atonement: Canada's First Canada missed something? Has the the one say — I am not expecting redress, Turkish refugees who were described as bogus refugees. Internment Operations and West been blown away from the rest of he but if there is redress, it should be at This announcement came after a week of government Ukrainian Canadians 1914-1920) Canada or is it suffering a nuclear recommendation least $1.5 million, which does not insistence that it was committed to its new "get tough on would know that no holocaust, or what?! include ... (all the other costs rave about the bogus refugees" policy. The government claimed the was made, whatsoever, about either Go ahead . . . Rant and mentioned). This letter turns out to take over. This time Turkish people in question would be deported, even though the appropriateness or the amount East wanting to be not only hypocritical but also there are no excuses. they were all seeking sanctuary in a church in Montreal. which the federal government should erroneous. Had you, Mr Chubaka, Come on Western Canada. Take the I would like to have someone sit down and explain the offer to the Ukrainian Canadian the editorial challenge. Let's hear what you have to government's immigration policy to me. Will bogus community in compensation for the bothered to read the East! the West! carefully, you would have noted that say. Bash Bash refugees be deported unless they are holed up in a church? wrongs inflicted upon it during the Bash the North! Bash the South! Bash passed a resolution at the Does the church have to be in Montreal? Or docs the church First World War period. SUSK anything! Get your goddamn asses in Congress which does not seek have to be somewhere were the Prime Minister, who does The brief did note that if such redress 1986 gear! The challenge is yours and yours financial compensation, only an not enjoy embarrassing confrontations, is visiting? By were to be extended it would have to apology. backing down on the deportations the Canadian government be at least $1.5 million (and this has harmed an already much maligned immigration policy. amount does not include the value of Joe Krynyckyj The people of Canada do not trust the immigration policy. confiscated properties and other Ed. &. Mr Gula. An Eastern Contender

This mistrust is turning into a resentment of all immigrants valuables that were never returned). London, Ontario

and refugees. This resentment is directed towards all And it docs point out that the human immigrants and refugees, those who came to Canada by cost of these various repressive state

following the rules or those who broke the rules to get here. measures is incalculable.

The Canadian Government is at fault for creating this mess, In arguing that the Canadian resentment and hatred. The Canadian government does not government should meet with In the past few issues of STUDENT, a

feel that immigration is an issue which is of high priority. representatives of the Ukrainian pseudonymous renegade by the name of The government does not realize that immigration Is an Canadian Committee to negotiate on Chi Chi Modal has been peppering students with all manner of issue very much in the public's concern. It has been an issue this issue, the CLC was only Ukraining insults, ranging from "illiterates" to ever since two boat-loads of Tamils appeared off the coast furthering the legitimate interests of "ignorant fungi." of Newfoundland. The People of Canada are concerned our community in Canada. Mr I'd fee] insulted if it wasn't for the fact about the governments immigration policy. Gula's uninformed and convoluted that I recently ceased to be an The government itself is not the sole place where one can appraisal of the brief and the undergraduate, and if I didn't think the place the blame. The opposition parlies are equally at fault community's position is both a articles weren't hilarious and sad at the the government to reform the immigration disservice to his readers and to the for not pressuring same time. The saddest of all is that the policy. The government and the opposition parlies tend to community as a whole. Thankfully author or authors of the column arc

deal with the issues as they come up. Administering his views are those of a minority and getting away with their vitriol because it

immigration policy by reacting to problems, "policy by the not those of SUSK or the Ukrainian is in Ukrainian. Well, fok, look at me,

English, so I guess seat of the pants", is the reason the immigration system fails Canadian Committee's constituent I wrote this letter in I'm no better. If the shit sticks, wear it. to work. A new Immigration policy for Canada is overdue. organizations.

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STUDENT, MARCH - APRIL, 1988, PACE 2 Khrushchev's shoe Film review

So, Toronto student lovelies, where were you all during the week of visits by Drach and Illicnko to our homely gray town? Studying fiercely? Never heard of the Science Centre? Innis College? Don't read your bulletin boards? Considering this is the year of the Millennium, the year of hyper-hlasnist in Ukraine, the year in which they celebrate the eightieth anniversary of Soviet Ukraine, you all picked a good time to be complacent assimilated droids. Reviews of these films, written by the .01 percentile of the population that actually goes to see the fucking things are great, and they lend Ukrainian studentdom an appearance Much controversy has of consciousness, but arisen lately over the Some Ukrainians believe that the event should attendance would be cool too, now wouldn't it? proper term for the Millenium of Christianity be Ukrainian because the Christianization Those who looked like students were mostly alumni, which was initiated by St. Volodymyr. In this happened in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. They a reflection of a seemingly better time, when students knew what a issue there is an article where the Ukrainian believe that Ukrainians own the right to the dissident was. Oh yeah. When students fasted in Ottawa, rallied with Students' Club at University of Western Ontario event on the grounds of geographic claim. This Pliushch in Edmonton, had a good time in Chicago, Paris, New York, came under attack for calling this the is deluded. Geographic boundaries are Prague, Lviv. Oh yeah. just that, "Millenium of Christianity of Ukraine". boundaries. It is a method that allows humans to Also in the audience at these things, the only people under thirty, Alongside this article, a letter by prof. state: this is mine and that is yours. were those affectionately known in our circles as the Polacks and the The fact Pospielovsky, who is a professor of Russian that Polack lovers. To the former so called, "Polack" sounds real the boundaries of Ukraine encompass Kiev, history at UWO, who criticized the club endearing, and if you cared to call one of them that to their face, for this the center of (he Rus" system, should not give title particularly if you went to visit them in Poland, you would probably is included. His point is valid, but it is the Ukrainian nation the sole right to call the find yourself picking up teeth. overshadowed by a truly banal presentation of event the Millenium of Christianity in Ukraine. As for the^ latter, well the latter, Ukrainian, as we all know, are "effete snobs, as well as that whole area's, history. As stated before, most of what is now the with a sprinkling of bums and Jeremiahs", as Spiro Agnew used to say, The concept of nationhood was not around when western Soviet Union officially became and they probably love you natives like one of their own. So go Volodymyr Christened his domain. In fact the Christian in 988. One cannot and should not try ahead, bigots, ignorant cultureless and identityless assholes, put up concept of Rus* being a unified kingdom/empire to claim this event solely on geographical terms. your dukes, now that someone's taken a few good shots at your heads. is not wholly true. Kiev was the strongest As well, one should not claim this event at all. Billy the Great Goat of Rus' principality which ruled over various other The mere act of claiming something seems to be principalities. There was continuous strife unChristian. When one claims the that the Fornicator Immensus event between the various principalities: the major is ours, one denies the right for other people to

reason why Rus' crumbled after Prince Yaroslav celebrate this event. This is clearly against the o.ooop reign. principals of Christianity. One must give one of n Professor Pospielovsky 's for the emergence of his many shirts to someone who has no shirt. the name Ukraine, for the nation is wholly The celebration of the Millenium of Christianity

suspect. However, I am not here to discuss the in ... is a limitless shirt, and as such, should be

merits of prof. Pospielovsky 's arguments. I shall distributed widely.

leave that to those who are more knowledgeable To call the event the Millenium of Christianity

of Ukrainian history. My main argument is with of the Slav's is also inaccurate because not all

this endless bickering over who owns the rights the Slav's became Christian at that time. As

to the celebration of the Millenium of well calling it the Millenium of Christianity in

Christianity in ...whatever boondock (any states or nationalities name) is equally

Rus', the series of principalities controlled by inaccurate for the reasons stated above. Naming

the Kievan principality was Christanized, not something, or the process of categorization, is a

Ukraine, not Russia, not Byelorussia, nor was process which I have always found messy,

any state now in existence. No state or unpractical and inaccurate. The best solution is individual nationality has a true legitimate for everybody to go out celebrate this event,

claim to this event. The only people who have a everywhere - Kiev, Moscow, Riga, Rome,

claim to this event are Slavic Christians. In fact, London, Toronto, Edmonton, Vegerville,

the event should be celebrated by all Christians, Washington, etc. - without giving it a name. If

everyone who believes in Jesus Christ. The idea a name is necessary call it the the "Millenium of that the celebration should be limited to one St. Volodymyr's Christianization of the I ! 88 Or nationality is crap. Just that, crap. Everybody Principality of Kiev and other Rus' SUSKANNUALKfl has the right to celebrate this event. principalities." submit

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PAGE 3; STUDENT, MARCH - APRIL, 1988 CUT & PARRY Ivan M. Western News Gazette February 11, 1988 Methods of Defence and Attack February 16, 1988

It is nice thai the Ukrainian Club of The passage on the left was a February 11, 1988 letter make the administration aware of our legitimate I know this letter will be published

this university has decided to mark to the editor of the Western News, the faculty paper of concerns as to the quality of education. after the public talk of Valentyn

its annual week this year by a modest the University of Western Ontario, while the one on the This is where communication between our club and Moroz, but it was only on Feb.2 that

exhibition of Orthodox Church right was a February 16, 1988 letter to the editor of the other Ukrainian organizations were vital in gathering I rccieved the relevant blurb. The vestments and other objects in Gazette, the student newspaper of the UWO. information. information in this letter, however, commemoration of the Conversion of What the two letters have in common is a Sources included the University library and various remains just as relevant, whatever Rus' (original Slavonic name of the condescending and biased attitude, critical of events Ukrainian and English publications. STUDENT Moroz chooses to say in his talk at Hellenized term Rhosia and sponsored by the UWO Ukrainian Students' club during responded quickly by sending us copies of articles this time.

Latinized Russia) by St. Vladimir to this year's "Ukrainian Week". which Pospielovsky quoted (out of context). We The official subject of this talk is the the Eastern branch of Christianity in What the letters also have in common, is their author, consulted "KYK", as well as Ukrainian academics , and KGB, but he has already once 988. one Dimitry Pospielovsky, a professor of Russian we were very pleased at the overwhelming response and supposed to speak on that subject

It is unfortunate, however, that by History at UWO. support of our efforts. some eight years ago during his first designating the exhibition "One If you had no prior knowledge of what the Millenium As a student voicing concerns to the administration, it appearance at this university. Thousand Years of Christianity in was, or who Valentyn Moroz was, and is, what is so easy to come across as a "whiner" or a Instead, he launched into pseudo- Ukraine," they have narrowly impression would you have of the UWO Ukrainian "complainer" and to make allegations while pointing historical ravings about Russian localized the event and placed it Club if you read these letters? your finger here and there. Such an approach will get history, the thesis of which - if there outside its historical context for the As a Ukrainian student having overcome your initial you nowhere. A knowledge of how the system works is ever was one - was that the Russians following reasons: exasperation, what would you do? Indeed, really what a must, as is, who to approach and how. As a student, it were an inferior race, inferior to all 1. In 988, or thereabouts, the could you do? is essential to know your rights, and to realize that the other nationalities in the USSR. His

Great Prince of Kiev, Vladimir, In such a scenario, it is all too easy to fall prey to laws of the land are there for your benefit as well. "arguments " were worthy of baptized the population not of Kiev patriotic sentiments and become defensive. The matter was raised at a meeting with the Senate Goebbels or Rosenberg, Hitler's alone (the present capital of Soviet Consequently, any counter arguments would be typified Committee on Race Relations, and will be brought to ideologists.

Ukraine), but also of Novgorod near by rhetoric and unsupported allegations. This would the attention of all levels of the Faculty of Social No wonder he avoided the subject of the gulf of Finland and other major injure the credibility of any counterargument presented. Science, not only from the students club, but also from the Soviet labour camps and ignored cities of most of what today When a few members of our club sat down and agreed other Ukrainian organizations. his co-sufferers left behind in the constitutes the European part of the to take some sort of action, it was necessary to define What this exercise illustrates is the importance of camps, because they had just USSR (exclusive of the Baltic and some sort of framework and ground rules for communication, and of utilizing the existing captured him for "inciting national east of Volga regions). There may counterarguments. organizational framework to an advantage. All too enmity (particularly in regards to have been less resistance to Legally speaking, although the letter to the Gazette often, when students find themselves in a situation Russians and Jews),... for anti- Christianity in Kiev and other bordered on libel, a class action suit on behalf of similar to ours, cynicism is the immediate reaction. Semitism and with the help of his southern Russian areas than in the Valentyn Moroz was not possible, as this type of legal This may be due in part to setting unrealistic friend Ivan Gel beating up "his north and north-east, because the action is not available in Canada. If some sort of expectations, however, this cynicism manifests itself in compatriots M. Osadchy, D. former regions had a longer history litigation were to be pursued, the burden would be on passivity and apathy. In extreme cases, this cynicism Shumuk, V. Romaniuk, S. of relations with the Christian to his itself in factionalism. Moroz himself to initiate legal action, and prove manifests Karavansky ... and others". An Byzantium the and Balkans, being case against the author of the letter. The best we could If anything, this exercise illustrates that, in order to international unofficial committee of closer to the Christian them, and have done, was to put Pospielovsky on notice, and protect one's interests, one must do more than preach to political prisoners which included minority there was quite substantial demand a retraction. the converted. One must gain a knowledge of the the above named Ukrainians even before the official conversion As far as we were concerned, it would seem that the alternatives available, taking an active role in learning "demands that a boycott be imposed year. question raised in this episode was not only one of the system. on prisoners Moroz and Gel..." (The

2. The Word "Ukraine" as a name is power", likewise, Ukrainian rights, and of the chauvinistic distortion of As the saying goes "knowledge a "Mordovian Camps", A Chronical oj for a nation began to be applied only Ukrainian history, but one of the quality of education flame in a closed home has little chance of lasting very Current Events, No. 47. Samizdat: about a hundred years ago, if that. itself. More important, it raised the issue of where long. One must open the windows in order to feed the Amnesty International's translation Originally it meant frontier land or begins. flames. academic freedom ends and discrimination and~publication, London, 1987, p. the frontier; and in times St. of As students, we were concerned that the attitudes It is interesting that this is not the first time Prof. 108). Vladimir (but later than the exhibited the letters were typical of those exhibited Pospielovsky has attempted to discredit Ukrainian Since his arrival in America in 1979, conversion date) the term was in history courses taught by Pospielovsky. With this in nationalism or Valentyn Moroz and it probably will not Moroz has been on record for applied strictly to one area; the mind, we set out on two paths. One was to objectively be the last. Time will show that the next round of praising "Ayatollah Khomeini ... the lower Dnieper steppes bordering on discredit the claims in the letters, and another was to exchanges will be most interesting indeed. Somoza regime in Nicaragua; these lands of the nomadic hordes were followed by attacks on western migrating into the steppes just north V Jewish leaders ("The Valentyn of the Black Sea from Asia. associate their marking of the 1988, as far apart as West Germany "Ukraine") by Byzantine Orthodox Moroz Saga", Student, Canada's By the 15th— 17th centuries, the term Millenium of the Rus* Christianity Britain, the USA. All the colleagues Christianity. Newspaper for Ukrainian Students, "Ukraine" began to be applied to all with inviting Valentyn Moroz as in the field of Russian and Church Such are the incongruences resulting Vol. 12, No. 61, pp. 8-10. Edmonton southern and eastern frontier lands, their speaker, the man who has history I know will have had from the failure of the historical , Alta., 1980). bordering on something unstable, blamed Christianity for the similarly busy schedules. It seems memory to span a mere nine years; Before his arrest, Moroz taught such as Crimean Tartar hordes, the denationalizing the Ukrainians and everywhere, except Canada, and that at a university! history in a secondary school in tribes of Siberia, etc. Thus came called for the restoration the of pre- Soviet Ukraine. In America he had into being, besides the original Christian heathen deities (of whom, D. Pospielovsky D. Pospielovsky briefly held a position at the lower-Dnieper Ukraine, also the Oka by the way, more than half were Department of History, UWO Department of History, UWO Ukrainian Research Center of Ukraine, just south of Moscow, then either of Finnish or Lithuanian Harvard University, whence he was the Slobodskaia (or free) Ukraine origin) as the only way to restore soon expelled for academic between the the Dnieper and the Don Ukrainian national consciousness. incompetence and extremism. Yet in with such frontier towns as Kharkov, Of course, the Millenium of the the blurb announcing his lecture on Voronezh, Kursk, and even the Chirstianization of Rus' which gave 5th February at UWO, he is Siberian Ukraine with the conquests the eastern Slavs not only the light introduced as "Professor". Where? east SIPCO of the Urals in the late 16th- of Christianity and with it brought Moroz criticized both the Roman 17th centuries. them into the European Judeo- Sales & Leasing Catholic and the Orthodox Church, It is with the birth of Ukrainian Christian civilization, but also a claiming that the former had nationalism in the late 19th century common literary language, deserves Polonized the Ukrainians and the that the term "Ukraine" began to be to be marked more universally than ' Complete Automotive & Truck Leasing Services latter Hellenized and Russified them. applied by the nationalists as a by a mere private exhibition of an ' Corporate & Individual Plans - Tailored For Exacting Needs In order for the Ukrainians to regain ' Short or Long Terms - nationality designation. The term is ethnic 6 to 60 Months club. The Millenium is being their national identity, argued * Foreign & Domestic - We Lease All Makes and Models just as legitimate as any nationality observed by the academic ' Very Competitive Rates Moroz, Ukrainians ought to return to name. My only objection is that the of the world communities Western the faith of their pre-Christian event, which happened one thousand with scores of conferences, symposia, forefathers, i.e. to the heathen gods 83 Six Point years ago in a loose confederation of scries of lectures and other events ANDYSTASIW Road Toronto, Ontario of the primitive Slavs (a good half of eastern Slavs called Rus', should be taking place internationally Phone: 232-0557 M8Z 2X3 whose gods were of Finished origin, reduced to only one of the three areas everywhere, except Canada it seems. by the way). Yet his invitation to and that associated with a name I, for one, will have presented some this university coincides with the which is historically inapplicable to sixteen lectures and papers in Ukrainian Club's celebration of the It unfortunate that connection that event. is also with the event between Millenium, of the Conversion of the Ukrainian Club chose to the spring of 1987 and the autumn of Rus' (which they inaccurately call

STUDENT, MARCH - APRIL, 1988, PAGE 4 Nestor Gula Yarmarok Unleashed

March 30 marked the official The book's name, Yarmarok, comes The editors had to sift through about the translations. All that " Toronto release of Yarmarok: from the Ukrainian word meaning thousands of different works, in needed to be done was to write an Ukrainian Writing in Canada Since marketplace" or "fair". The name English and Ukrainian, to put this introduction and to write short the Second World War. The book, then is analogous to this compendium together. Yarmarok biographies about the authors." As published by the Canadian Institute marketplace, meaning the book, is a does not include or mention every Jars Balan sifted through the stacks of Ukrainian Studies at the place where anything and everything Ukrainian Canadian (either Canadian of paper which weTe given to him, he University of Alberta, costs $24.95 can be found. The name also echoes bom or immigrant) author. Instead it realized that there was a great deal of for the cloth version and is not a journal published in Ukraine in provides one or more pieces of work work left to be done; the translations available at the present in paperback. 1920s & 30s, Literaturny Yarmarok. by each of the writers. 49 In keeping were either not done or their quality Lydia Palij hosted the evening and with the analogous meaning of the left a lot to be desired. Mr. Balan Maria Holod, the current head of word the "yarmarok", pieces of work stated that there was a great deal of Slovo, the Ukrainian Writers Union, represent many styles, from work to be done and that along the introduced the book. Four of the constructivist poetry to more way he was involved in many Canadian-born contributors to traditional poetry, to excerpts of adventures regarding Yarmarok Yarmarok who live in the Toronto plays, to prose, to short stories. This (although he decided to "spare us" area read from their work: Michael wide range of styles is also reflected, the details). In his closing remarks Nimchuk, Larry Zacharko, Candace although not congruously, by the . Mr. Balan mentioned that it was Cacl Carman and Brian Dedora. The authors' different backgrounds. unfortunate that the co-editor Yuri book had similar launchings in Yarmarok, according to Jars Balan, Stefanyk (Klynovy) was not able to

Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria and was a project which spanned seven be present at the ceremony.

Winnipeg. This book is edited by years. He was approached by the late

Jars Balan and Yuri Klynovy. As the Yuri Stefanyk (who is better known subtitle suggests, the book is a under the pen names of Yuri compendium of Ukrainian writing in Klynovy and Yuri Hamorak). Canada. The main purpose of this Originally Mr. Balan was under the book is to provide English speaking impression that there was not much

Canadians with an insight into the work involved to complete the book; writings of Ukrainian Canadians. "the authors were going to worry - , , . "", ,. , . , , . , . "" — — .,. , . . — , . ,— . , , ., , ,"" , . ., ,., , "",. , ""! . , . Photo by Lou Tasky ., New Perspectives PAGE 5; STUDENT, MARCH - APRIL, 1988 "" () --. . — ., ""-., , , ,, ,, ."", "", . punk, ', , . ( ) performance art. ,( ,,, ). ', ,, :.( , ,). "",. * . ,, "". ,, "", ' , ."",, — 1986, — 1987, 1954 ,— 1988. . ,,. ,, , IS* , ""."" , . - 5 (') : .,., , - Terminus Magazine 61 Lynd A ve. Toronto, Ontario M6R ITS CANADA

1986 "Strate- gies for Survival" (,), . 1 986 , - . (), , «/ ///». , -- '«,,» Artculture Resource Centre (ARC). - , . . « ». ,- ,,, .- ,. ., , - "" Try Piesy (Three Plays): Can This Be a Theatre Review? Dila Vldbuvaietsa za Vlsim Khvylyn, by Dior Kostelsky; Posered Moria, by Slawomir Mrozek; Katastropha, by It was AUT. it And the Samuel Beckett. They did again. They once again it was gremlins Odarka Shkiraniuk insisted on doing more performances. that interfered with the lighting of Avantegarde They want lo be written about again. Samuel Beckett's "Katastropha" Ukrainian Theatre (AUT) Detroit, How much further can one go, after during the Toronto performance. 30th Jan. reviews like: The Rebirth of Despite this small flaw, photography by N. Mykyiyn Chicago, 27th Feb. Ukrainian Theater! Wonderful performances achieved the essential Toronto, 5th and 6th March. Young Actors Breaching New effect - a chilling cold atmosphere, Ground! At Last Something in the midst of which, the ACTORS: Duvalko, Interesting and Non-Syrupy on the Protagonist conveys a wrenching Eugene Luba Gavur, Nestor Gula, Adrian Ivakhiv, Oksana Ukrainian Stagel or: We have lived pathos. And performances achieved Maryniak, Ivan Naberezhny, Motria| Onyshchuk, Andriy Pereklita, Adrianna to see Ukrainian Theater Catch Up (dare we be irreverent?) a healthy Stech, Ihor Stech, Marko Stech, with the Twentieth Century. ..etc. dose of Beckettian-initial- Roman Waschuk, Zenon Waschuk, Andriy Wynnyckyj. etc. Incomprehension. DIRECTION: Roman Hurko, Andriy Pereklita,- Yet the reaction's understandable. Perhaps more detail would help: the Marko Stech. MUSIC: DAdrian Ivakhiv. Reeling after first contact, audiences creation of Art in a totalitarian MAKE-UP: Adrianna Stech, Tarda Choma. have been heard to remark: "And it society is exposed to its skeletal WARDROBE: Natalka Latyshko. was in Ukrainian and it was even elements. LIGHTS DIRECTOR: interesting, oh my God, and there The three components: the Director TECHNICAL Andriy Pereklita. STAGE DIRECTORS: weren't even any vyshy vany (Marko Stech), who sadistically Roman Hurko, Ivan Naberezhny. sorochky.." manipulates the Protagonist, de- Such first impressions can be humanising him, creating a distracting. Distracting from programmed image, demanding a assessing AUT's performance on performance which an unseen more stringent criteria than one'd audience mechanically applauds; apply to(amateur) mainstream- the Assistant (Oksana Maryniak), Canadian theater. To To the who can not disobey, but can only detriment of Ukrainian theater, execute the Director's barked people's expectations for it don't commands; and the Protagonist seem to be as high. (Andriy Wynnyckyj), whose sole Not having seen the work of AUT voluntary movement is to raise his

since their premier of Marko Slech's head, then slowly turn it, and then "Duel" in 1985, the main impression drop. The pained gaze sweeps the is that the performances have become , probing the audience. That slicker, scripts more selectively final moment shakes the audience chosen, improved casting - "more with the consequences of the professional" seems to be the calch- antecedent.

cry. It is an ambitious work to attempt. The three plays began with the first Ambitious for the actors as well as act of Ihor Kostetsky's "Diia the audience, which has to work on Vidbuvaietsia za Visim Khvylyn..." extrapolating abstractions. The humblest, most inept reporter, The most successful play was Koslych, on the staff of a newspaper Slawomir Mrozek's "Posered is sent to interview Nykodyma, the Moria". Three men - Big (Roman widow of the National Hero. Before Waschuk/ Stech), Medium she arrives, he encounters the Hero's (Ihor Stech), and Little (Zenon sister-in-law, who expounds at Waschuk), are adrift on a raft in the length on the Hero's Ideals. During middle of the ocean, their food the course of the conversation, the supplies are exhausted. What to do? sister-in-law, Kytska, encourages They decide they must eat Kostych to actualise himself, to somebody. For Big and Medium, the fulfill his potential, and to write obvious choice is Little. No matter about the Hero, the real man, not the what arguments he proposes, there is caricature painted by sweeping no way that he can escape his fate. A newspaper phraseology... wonderful allegory - the little The main actors were undeniably person, for whom the system was well-cast. Audiences readily created, for whom the ideology empathised with Andriy supposedly emanated, is now himself Wynnyckyj's bumbling Koslych; devoured by it. Nykodyma, played by Oksana The play is a typical example of Maryniak, was formal and reserved; Mrozek's wordsmilhing, everything and Motria Onyshchuk portrayed a develops in a logical sequence from spirited Kytska. the initial "la holodnyi!" (I am Audiences were also quick to hungry!) to its macabre conclusion. respond to the humorous vignettes of The ideas that seem straightforward newspaper editors, who were seated and perfectly normal at first, twist on platforms in a hierarchical and convolute with a life almost formation across the stage. their own. develop to conclusions It was these moments, played for that are so absurd, they are funny. comic value, and strong Yet the humor is shocking; shocking performances from the leading actors that such absurd implausible logic that overrode some of the intrinsic can mirror the reality of socialist and "eat" difficulties of the piece. other political systems that people. It is so perfectly logical, To name one difficulty - there is a distinct feeling that some perfectly human, and simultaneously monologues could have been more per fee Uy- inhuman. in closely edited, it is hard to see the This play has been AUT's reason for so much wordiness. One repertoire for quite a while, and the expects many ambiguities and three main actors feel comfortable well uncompleted ideas to be resolved in with their roles, their timing is a second or third act. For example, developed and the three in a well- is it Koslych that becomes characteristics combine transformed, or is he a reincarnation balanced whole. evident in the of ihe Hero, as it is a flashback? Is The result of this were the fact that the play is unfinished a rapt attention of the audience, no reasonable excuse? matter on what level they understood Another problem is that some the play. It satisfied the imagination speeches, especially those of Kytska of those that were listening for ideas on the theme of the Ideals of the and drew those that recognized the Hero, were written in a rather exchanges as basic dynamics of moralising tone, and thus have an human negotiation and power alienating effect. A contemporary struggle as well. And that is audience docs not expect to be something all playwrights aim for. preached at, and so those lines would be particularly difficult for an actor to deliver convincingly. Although the set design was creative (I bet you didn't know what happens to left-over STUDENT'S. They are used to make backdrops.) theater space was also used well - that is, when the action focussed more closely on the persona of Kostych, the actors moved smoothly into theater-in-the-round - but the lighting in the Toronto performances was besieged by gremlins. Markian Hawryluk The Pressure Is On

, , , In recent years there has been tension between Ukrainian Jews undoubtedly died alongside the who at the , the Ukrainian and Jewish communities in Canada millions of Ukrainians perished hands . government of Joseph Stalin. , of the communist . , . and the rest of the world. At worst, the tension — , has escalated to abuse, threats, and other seeming In the concentration camps of Adolf Hitler during . . acts of hatred. Perhaps, the tension stemmed from the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of , . , historical differences or perhaps from the more Ukrainians were exterminated along with their , recent deliberation over the Deschenes Jewish counterparts. Both communities have been , Criminals. persecuted the communist government for over — . , . Commission of Inquiry on War by Regardless of the source of the catalyst, the gauge sixty years, and even under the alleged "glasnost" . , . on this intercultural pressure-cooker is steadily occuring under the leadership of Mikhail , , increasing and reaching a critical and dangerous Gorbachev. Both communities are battling the , level. Soviet government to release prisoners of their . ' — In the past few years, I have witnessed, read own nationalities and to allow people to emigrate. - about, and heard rumours of outright cases of With so much in common, why arc these two , anti-Semitism and ami- Ukrainianism. The two communities battling each other instead of — like children, pulling becoming valuable allies in the . . ' communities have fought fight for justice each other's hair and biting viciously like two and non- discrimination? , politicians slinging mud at each other in a In Ottawa schools, a course entitled "Man's . desparale attempt for media coverage and the Inhumanity to Man" will deal with both the ,, , accomplishment of their goals at any cost. Ukrainian Famine and the Jewish Holocaust. This , Ukrainians blame Jews. Jews blame Ukrainians. course could just as well deal with relations — Is this the behaviour of civilized people? Is between the Jewish and people. , ' Ukrainian Their . — anti-Semitism and anti- Ukrainianism any different combined actions could be labelled as nothing . from apartheid or nazism? The prejudice that more than inhumanity towards each other and . - exists between these two communities is the same themselves. These warring factions should work , . prejudice battled by Gandhi and Martin Lulhcr together on common projects to achieve common Is the persecution among our cultural goals. , — King. not These projects would serve as a valve that , , , groups the same sort still being experienced in releases the pressure of the pressure cooker in . , communist countries? which both communities are sitting. Let's get the , , . Is this the behaviour religious people? Judaism Jewish and Ukrainian people out of there and put , , , advocates love for one's neighbour and the pressure on the Soviet government instead. . . compassion for fellow men. The Old Testament prophet Moses battled such discrimination with . , . - the power of God when leading the Israelites out of , . , Egypt. Where is this sense of justice now? . Christianity advocates not only love for one's — . , . neighbour, but even for one's enemy. Why do , Spaghetti Western, Ukrainians not follow the example of , Metropolitan Sheptytskyj who aided many Jews - . and in particular many children to escape the . , , terrors of Nazism? , , The Jewish and Ukrainian communities have much . , , in common. Both were denied for some lime free existence in their homeland. Both have had their holocausts, which in fact, they shared. During the artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, many

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temperance drive is succeeding? No. For photography purposes the ever wise citizens of Ukraine, and the rest of the Soviet Union, place the incriminating bottles below the

table. The botdes reappear while the flash bulb is still cooling off.

The Soviet Union is apparently learning to implement capitalism very quickly. Kiev

Dynamo, everybodies favorite soccer team, is sponsored by Commodore, a corporation which amongst other things makes the Amiga computer on which this is being written FOR STUDENT TWENTIETH (solidarity with the motherland, you see). This is rather ironic since Soviet citizens are not able to, purchase, actually not even see (unless they are able to leave), any ANNIVERSARY Commodore products. ISSUE

Names and addresses of all ex-editors of STUDENT

in the last twenty years, since '68 that is. Now for petty gossip: Radio station CKBY (the World Congress of Free Ukrainians) charges radio station (C)KYK (Ukrainian Canadian Committee), a network directly Anyone who matches this description (i.e. not affiliated to it, 20 cents a copy for stuff done on its big bad XEROX. Meanwhile, matching the enclosed CIUS and Vlad's charge any Uke off the street only 10 cents. Well, global-scale org, photograph) should contact global scale prices. the given address. As well, anyone knowing the whereabouts of such people is encouraged to forward the party in question's address. Information concerning rock star, Billy Idol, and his infamous tattoo have recently

appeared in the midst of the KGB files. It seems Billy was so enraptured by a Send addresses to: mythical Soviet heroin that he had her image carved onto his flesh. This heroin is STUDENT non other than Oktobriana. Her name is a play on the October revolution and she was "Project 20" created by a group of students in Kiev. They called themselves Progressive Political Pornography. Oktobriana was a character in their cartoon strip who combined the 620 Spadina Ave. features and personality of Brigitte Bardot, Amazons, Mongoloid and other hero Toronto, Ontario types. She travelled the world vanquishing foes of the spirit of the October M5S 2H4 Revolution. She did not side with any one side but worked for all states to fight, like ' typical superheroes, injustice. Most of the members of the PPP ended up in Soviet THE BAR BUSINESS IS FUN! psychiatric hospitals except for one member, a Czech, who managed to escape to London, bringing with him the Oktobriana legend and many examples of the groups BUT IT'S, STILL A BUSINESS. cartoons. He published a book dealing with the subject: Petr Sadecky, Octobriana MAKE SURE YOU DO IT RIGHT. and the Russian Underground. London: Harper & Row, 1971

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For Mr. Mykyiiuk and the Canadian to get on the plane and them fly to group generates the majority of Family reunification is another big Ukrainian Immigration Aid Service Canada." Mr. Mykytiuk suggests immigrant applications passing headache for Mr. Mykytiuk. The (CUIAS - an organization he helped that all that is really necessary, through his office. Recently Ukrainian community apparently found), one meeting with many problems exist in besides Canadian however he has noticed an increase does not understand how the system helping Ukrainians come from officials, are travel and entry in the number of people immigrating works. The person or family that Ukraine, or Poland or wherever else, documents and an escort who would from Ukraine. He finds that wants to bring their family to and settle in Canada. The problems board the plane with the defectors. encouraging immigration of Canada from an Eastern Bloc are presented both the Canadian He notes that these by Red Army Ukrainians is the only way to keep country must apply every year to government and the general apathy defectors were all just normal foot the Ukrainian community strong. It keep their file open. At the present of the Ukrainian community. soldiers and pose no risk to Canadian is here that his conflicts with the time, the Ukrainian community does Most of the problems stem from or any other state's security. Ukrainian community begin. Mr. not have lists of Ukrainians seeking policies of the the federal There are close to two hundred other Mykytiuk says that "there is a to reunite their families who are in government. One of the projects defectors, about forty of them misplaced priority in the Ukrainian Eastern Bloc countries. which occupies a great deal of time Ukrainian, presently in Afghanistan community. It (the Ukrainian To encourage the community, Mr. for Mr. Mykytiuk and CUIAS is wailing to go to some safe western community) is spending millions of Mykytiuk has decided to launch a their out" ongoing efforts to "pull state. Mr. Mykytiuk is trying to set dollars by milking the celebration of CUIAS information drive and place Red Army defectors from up a deal with the Canadian External the Millennium." This money, he ads in all newspapers and radio Afghanistan and settle in them Affairs department to have the argues, could be better spent by shows. The purpose of this drive is Canada. In this the Canadian government (they have American helping immigrants settle in Canada, to help CUIAS compile a list of the Government is not at all cooperative. people in these border areas, and setting up scholarship funds, family reunification cases and In December of the CUIAS 1986 Canada does not) the CIA or another financing ordination of priests, etc. present this list to Brian Mulroney were successful in arrsanging the agency, extract the defectors from The government does not sponsor when he goes on his planned visit to release five one of of these people, of Afghanistan, process them. At that Ukrainian immigrants, so the onus Moscow in the fall. whom was Ihor Kowalchuk, a point, the CUIAS or any other falls on the Ukrainian community; Mr. Mykytiuk, through CUIAS, Ukrainian. The government made Canadian organization interested in CUIAS to be exact- takes care of most of the immigration the process much more complicated the defectors will bring them into To sponsor a new immigrant to needs for the Ukrainian community, than was necessary. "They flew a Canada. Canada, the government stipulates mostly in Toronto, but also in other plane in there and a million made part of "s and that the organization provide the Another large CUIAS cities through! Canada. Although dollar effort out of it. They had big work are his person with a place to live and Mr. Mykytiuk's most new immigrants coming to committee meetings. All you needed dealings with Ukrainian financial support for one year. The immigrants Canada settle in Toronto he does not was five exit documents allowing from Ukraine and Poland. costs to financially support a family, The latter see this as a problem. "In Toronto or individual, for a year are great and there are large numbers of new a big burden to CUIAS 's budget, so immigrants and they can all support CUIAS tries to settle the people as OVER OVER each other. They form their own soon as possible. This is both organizations or revitalize other 30 30 beneficial for the immigrant, because dying organizations, like the Lemko YEARS OF YEARS OF he starts his life in Canada and organization, revitalized by the SERVICE SERVICE integrates quickly, and for CUIAS young Ukrainians which came from because they are not drained of their Poland." This last example shows • precious funds. R CHOLKAN^cSIlwIuTED REALTC how important it is to support Ukrainian immigration to keep our , culture alive and vibrant. R.CHOLKAN & CO. LIMITED, REALTOR REAL ESTATE -- APPRAISALS CHOLKAN EXECUTIVE OFFICE —

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PAGE 11; STUDENT, MARCH - APRIL, 1988 Rumours are flying lhat Ivan Drach and Dmytro The following text is a telegram sent by Mykola Movchan Pavlycbko, two prominent members of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Defector in on behalf of the Red Army defectors now living in the West Writer's Union (the former is also a formerly brilliant poet to Mr. Robert A. Peck, Deputy Assistant, Secretary of State, Afghanistan Circulates U.S. Mission to Geneva, of the 60s movement (Shestydesiatnyky) in Ukraine have Permanent Mission of the U.S. : been sacked from their positions because of their honesty Leaflet and forthrighlness during their visit to the Outside World, We, former Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, who no longer wanted to take part in the war, welcome your efforts to end this senseless bloodshed. After waging an exhausting battle LONDON, U.K. (UPA) - A Ukrainian defector from a for nine years, the Afghan people have earned the On a similar note: according to Valerian Revutsky, the Soviet army in Afghanistan, Taras Derevlyany, right to confirmed Boss and live quietly and to be free. But behind all of these drama critic living in Vancouver, and by has written a powerful leaflet opposing the war truly of momenteous decisions which now face you, there Captain Krawchenko of CIUS, the Molodizhny Teatr which he has entitled "To Soviet Soldiers and is one for its efforts at being cultured, problem, which bears on us directly, and has gone by Kylv has been shut down Officers ". He calls upon soldiers and officers to, for being unnoticed: the fate of Soviet prisoners of war and Red as opposed to propagandistic. Or perhaps "refuse to take part in this senseless and shameful Army defectors in Afghanistan, which Ukrainian rather than Russian. Or perhaps for being human war, stop fighting and annihilating the Afghan of there are several hundred. Remembering the in the face of an authoritarian edifice called the Soviet state. people". tragedy that took place after World War , when countless Soviet citizens were forcibly returned Or perhaps we should buy the line lhat it suffered from As a former Soviet soldier who, "has gone over to the Soviet Union, we fear for thse young men. believe lhat "internal difficulties." to the side of the AFghan resistance" he calls upon We each of them should have the choice of returning to the all Soviet personnel serving in Afghanistan to, Soviet Union or going lo some free country. "refuse to take part in this madness" and to, "let Levko Lukianenko is a lawyer out of chambers (so to their land be free". United Movchan, speak), who has been sent (or rather kept) out on a vacation Derevlyany does not believe in Mikhail States:Mykola Aleksei Peresleni, Yuri Shapovalenko, (expenses unpaid) in the far-Eastern reaches of the Soviet Gorbachev's peace posturing: "the Soviet Union Sergei Zhigalin Canada: Sergei Busov, Ihor Kovalchuk, Vladislav holiday Gulag. Rumour has it that conditions there are not speaks out against the arms race and against war, Naumov, assholes of his profession Vadim Plotnikov, Mikolay Golovin as convivial as those enjoyed by and says lhat it supports peace, but then it itself Switzerland: Yuri Povamitsyn who vacation in Crimea, Lake Baikal, Florida, the Bahamas, violates these very same concepts". Switzerland, and other nifty resorts. Now that we've resorted The leaflet was supported by all those who have to guilt trips, hear the following: When pressed recently on defected from the Soviet army and are now living the issue of whether Ukrainian lawyers (or some Ukrainian in the West: lawyer) should take up Lukianenko's case, h d a n Switzerland : Yury Povamitsyn Onyshchuk said that the Ukrainian community has been USA: Mykola Movchan, Aleksei Peresleni, Yury riding the same old legal horses for too long. "Sure, ask Shapovalenko, Sergei Zhigalin Chumak, Sopinka, Botiuk, Gregorovich, Onyshchuk... Well, Canada: Sergei Busov, Ihor Kovalchuk, Vladislav Comment what about all the other young Ukrainian lawyers out there? Naumov, Vadim Plotkin, Nikolai Golovin I'm booked up to my eyes until 1992." Mr. Onyschuk have to attend to various seemed to infer that he doesn't time Why doesn't anyone wish to epidermal irritations, but he does seem to have Issued a contribute to STUDENT ? Let me challenge. It is directed at those Ukrainians who either rephrase that question. Why is it always have return tickets from the places of warmth and skiiage, or the same handful of individuals that have at those who have had the sense to stick around and look for any time for STUDENT ? (The word opportunities such as this one to make a good name for "handful," in all honesty, is a generous themselves. Any takers? term.). WHY?! WHY?!q WHY?! Let's take a closer look at matters.

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