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RPATSKA Li №.50 . 50 YONKERS ,NEW YORK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 + EDITORIAL Poetry reading at "Vatra" = - OUR GOALS FOR 1990 Lemko News From people's festival,July 1988, The Press Fund of the Karpatska Rus Bortne,Poland. Karpathians Ч begins with the coming of the New Year

and the Christmas season. ~~ It must be said that the publication of our newspaper entails many expenses. The Я "salaries" of our workers are not the maximum cost involved here. The cost of printing the newspaper, the paper itself, as well as postage for the weekly mailing of the newspaper make up the greatest cost of its publication. Subscription renewals cover only one-half of these costs. We must all know that without contributions to our Press Fund it will be difficult for us to continue publication of our newspaper. Is this what we want? Our newspaper, Karpatska Rus, is the heart of the Lemko Association. It gives us news of Lemkos in the U.S. and Canada, as well as of our brothers and sisters in Гепфутпа. We must all think of how we personally can help to continue publication of our newspaper and how we can Help our organization. Let us all work together to FOLK FESTIVAL IN UBLI foretold that "the people who walked in make our Press Fund Campaign a darkness, will see a great light. To them successful one. A warm sunny day, over 2500 spectators, who lived in the region of the shadow of Dear readers of Karpatska Rus and entertainment provided by folkloric death, light is risen...For a Child is born to Lemko Association members, let us work collectives and groups, good atmostphere-- us, and a Son is given to us" (Isaiah 9:2,6). for our organization. Let us become $100 all of this is characteristic of a regional The saving mystery of God Appearile in donors to our newspaper and look for new festival of peace, culture and sport which is the flesh was accomplished, and unto the readers. Let us all strive to make the 1990 held annual at the beginning of July in the Press Fund Campaign a successful one and village of Ubli in the Gumenne region of world a great он shone, the true Light - meet the goal of $2500. the Russian Carpathians in eodore Rudawsky Czechoslovakia. Christ our God (John 1:4-5;8:12,9:5). General Sec’y. The Nativity of Christ, according to St. Many delegations from various regions of Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Czechoslovakia gathered together to communicated to the people NEW GENERAL SECRETARY participate in the festival. NAMED "understanding of God, and one’s self, and In the early par) of the day there were urpose of life" (Talk by St. Tikhon on soccer games held between teams from We are happy to announce that at the ecember 25, 190 } Ubli, Ulich and other areas of the After the birth of Jesus Christ, the world last meetin ihe Central Committee, Carpathians. The cultural program was Theodore Rudawsky was unanimously learned quickly of the Divine Infant’s enriched by the participation of the Lemko Incarnation: on that Christmas night, an elected General Secretary of the Lemko group Lemkivchanka from Zarechev and Association. Angel of the Lord announced to the the dancers and chorus of the Dukla folk Bethlehem shepherds the "great doy which John Adamiak, Honorary Lifetime ensemble from Pryashev. President and Honorary Lifetime Central shall be to all the people; for today in the Committee member, who was filling in as що of David the Savior has been born, acting General Secretary was relieved of о is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:10-11). CHRISTMAS MESSAGE of the Most The shepherds came to the cave his duties. Best wishes to Theodore Reverend Clement, Archbishop of indicated by the Angel, saw Mary, Joseph Rudawsky in his new position from all Serpukhov, Administrator of the members of the Central Committee. the Betrothed, and the Infant lying in the Patriarchal Parishes in the U.S. ші (Luke 2:16). "Though He was by image God," our i. /"Let heaven and earth today rejoice Lord Jesus Christ by His perfect love to His prophetically, arg and men spiritually creation - man, in order to grant eternal celebrate: For God had appeared in the life, "took the form of a slave, being made flesh..." (Sticheron at Nativity Litia)/ like unto men, and appearing in the form as man" (Phil. 2: 6-7). The Holy Orthodox Church today ‚ Beloved in the Lord fathers, brothers and lorifies the Nativity of our Lord God and sisters! During these especially blessed The Executive Board, Central Committee avior Jesus Christ, Who for the sake of days, I felicitate all of you from my whole and Editorial Board of the Karpatska Rus mankind, and for our "salvation came down heart with the great, saving and most send Christmas Greetings and a wish for a from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy ЕН Feast of Christ’s Nativity and the happy, healthy and peaceful 1990 New Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became ew Year. I hope that the sacred angelic man" (The Creed). hymn will always resound penetratingly The time determined by God was within our hearts, glorifying the Divine Year to all members and friends of the fulfilled, in order to prepare people for the Lemko Association. Infant Christ, the kingdom of peace on coming into the world of the Lord Jesus earth and good will in peoples: "Glory to Greetings to our family, friends, Lemko Christ, to redeem the race of man, and to God in the highest, and on earth peace Association members and readers of the reconcile man with God. among men of good will." Karpatska Rus for a Merry Christmas and The wondrous and sacred Divine "The grace of God has appeared, offering a Happy and healthy New Year. Incarnation event was accomplished in salvation to all men, instructing us to et Alexander Herenchak and family order to renew and sanctify the nature of godless ways and worldly desires, to live mankind, the bond lost with God in its temperately, justly and piously in this age, original created well-being. awaiting blessed hope and the glorious We wish all Lemko Association members [he great seer of Gods Will, Prophet coming of our great God and Savior Jesus and friends a Joyous Holiday Season and Isaiah, contemplating the coming into the Christ” (Titus 2:11-13). much good health and happiness for 1990. world of the Son of God, Christ the Savior, < : Nancy and John Porada for many centuries before His birth, (Continued on pg.2)

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CHRISTMAS MESSAGE tain, the side facing it drop ping almost horizontally. It seems formed by dozens of springs jutting noisily out "Clothe yourselves...beloved, as God’s of the snow white chalk bed. chosen ones, with mercy, kindness, Ringing streams are running humility, meekness, patience...love, bear one another, forgive one another..." (Collos down into the lake from the ad 3:12-14). : jacent hills. In summer and "In celebrating this joyous event, bring winter alike, the temperature into our life the ‘Light of Knowledge of the water does not rise appearing as a star, guiding us to Christ," higher or lower than 4° C. The St. Tikhon teaches us (Talk by St. Tikhon, water tastes nice and the lake Patriarch of Moscow, December 25, 1905). proves immune even to the sever The passing year brought many joys here est ОГ frosts: and for the faithful of our Church in the How old is this mysterious Soviet Union. Daily we hear new joyous lake--a hundred, five hundred, communications about those favorable or maybe a thousand years? No developments, which society is going one knows, through over there, and the revitalization is for neither histori reflected in church life. Thousands of Orthodox temples and tens of monasteries cal documents nor even folk nar were opened in 1989, new seminaries and rations have reached our time spiritual institutions accepted within their to answer this question. It walls hundreds of young people to prepare is known, hosever, that the near them for service in the Church. In society, by hills secrete deposits of once again the holy places acquire spiritual chalk under layers of earth and significance, where not so long ago there teft from prehistoric. = ltiis was desolation. In October of this passing just possible that, somewhere, year, during celebrations in Moscow under a gigantic chalk stratum, commemorating the 400th Anniversary of there is a sea or perhaps some the Establishment of the Patriarchate in ~ CHRIST IS BORN! | inexhaustible source of arte- our Church, St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Bishop Adam,Bishop of sian water feeding this magic Moscow, was added to the choir of saints, a Lemkovina lake. name dear to us, for he was a luminary of This "chalk well" is one of this continent, and was an organizer of the Orthodox Church here. During the period НСО to all branch members іп the the most unique and scenic of his pontificate as Patriarch, he strove to irst District, to the readers of the spots in Ukrainian Polissya. ево Church unity, the unity which we Karpatska Rus and to all our Lemko Presently, it has been placed ave with our Mother Church to this day. brothers and sisters. under State protection as a Theodore Rudawsky,First District rare hydrologic site. All of this brings us great spiritual joy. Organizer In the festive enthusiasm of the soul we will pray the Born Lord to bestow upon us The KARPATY CHORUS sends best KOROLEVO: STMPLE "SECRETS OF and our entire Church in the New Year His -wishes for Christmas and a Happy, Healthy many new mercies, spiritual fortitude, and РКО5РЕКІТУ bodily strength. and Peaceful 1990 to all our friends. Committee May our Lord Jesus Christ, born in Those people who on more Bethlehem this day, bless all. of us with His IN MEMORY OF ANNA AND JOHN than one occasion have been heavenly benediction. DULYNA to the Transcarpathian settle "May grace and peace be giver you in ment of Korolevo cannot help abundance in the knowledge of God and of but feel each time that they Christ Jesus, our Гога" (2 Peter 1:2). came to see their old friend. Amen. ‚ Га memory of my mother and father, Anna Dulyna and John Dulyna please It seems as if the flow of years accept this donation of $100 to the Press lid not affect Korolevo. Time Fund of the Karpatska Rus. appears to add to its appearance Joanne Pintabone a specific touch of wisdom. The same as ever, the majestic Tisza carries its waters nearby; and the same as ever the still ruins HISTORY IS A COMMON HERITAGE of an ancient castle overlook a cluster of modern cottages. The There is a very unusual muse weather-beaten walls of this old um of wooden architecture and Slavic point of habitation looks art in the ancient Sub-Carpa- even more picturesque and inimi thian: township of Rohatyn. . Its table. The local dwellers are building is a. unique cult struc hospitable and industrious peo ture dating back to the 16th ple. They work at the state century. Apart from the magni farm plant named after Taras Branch 21 of the Lemo Association of ficent, icenestasis, which: is Shevchenko, the railroad round Toronto sends Christmas and New Year's mentioned in the history of na house, the quarry, the stone- wishes to all our friends in Canada, the стопа) and “foreign art, the mu breaking works and the chemi United States, the Ukraine and Poland. seum's exposition allotted a са! plant. We wish the members of the Lemko place: ої honor То the most ty This settlement located on Association and the readers of the pical samples of art, sculpture the bank of the Tisza is like Karpatska Rus good health and happiness and artistic wood-carving of the a good host that can show him for 1990. May the entire world live in T6th-19th centuries. posing peace. self before the guests Branch 21, Toronto and self-as MYSTERIOUS LAKE UNDER solidly, unhurriedly Best wishes to all our friends and neighbors PROTECTION suredly. for the Christmas holiday and for a Happy, While in Korolevo, the guests Healthy and Peaceful 1990. feel themselves at home, as if they were local dwellers. In- Best wishes to all our readers and members There is a peculiar chalk "drinking well" at the out deed, the settlement enchants of the Lemko Association. comes here. Koro skirts of Shalyhyne, a village everybody who We wish everyone a lati and healthy its in Hlukhiv District, Sumy Re levo wins the hearts with 1990. May the New Year bring peace and streets and the ancient friendship to all. gion. people, Actually, it is a body of ruins of the castle which at- Editorial Board of ar turbulent water measuring almost tract tourists and teams It also enchants The First District of the Lemko 40 sq.m. This crystal-clear chaeologists. Association sends Christmas and New Year lake is at the foot of a moun (Continued on pg.3)

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TRADE OFFICIALS TO MEET КОРОСЕУО: ЗІМРЕЕ 5ЕСКЕТ5 OF PROSPERITY Top commercial officials of the United (From pg.2) States and the Soviet Union met in Washington to begin work on a new trade act. з Normal treatment is high in the list of Soviet demands mainly because it would with the greenery of numerous end the country’s status as an economis vineyards which from time imme pariah. Current two-way trade between the two countries is about $3 billion a year, most of morial yielded generously and which represents American agricultural to all tastes. Everything in exports. Without agriculture, the flows are Korolevo looks spic and span. ще equivalent to American trade with Situated in the remote part of aiti. the Transcarpathian region,the Georgian Corn Bread settlement is in no way inferior PACT ON SOVIET MARATHON to settlements inthe vicinity Tchadi, is a solid, satisfying peasant corn of Uzhgorod. Although outbid by Japanese rivals, a bread. In Georgia, it is stuffed with either The visitor to Korolevo, Boston sports entrepreneur has won a. feta cheese or smoked bacon and served as lucky enough to be accompanied major international business competition to one of several appetizers composing a first by Ivan Klyuss, Chairman of serve as marketing agent for the Moscow course. Tchadi is quickly made and only the Executive Committee of the Marathon because he had the foresight to eaten hot; once cooled, it is no longer Settlement Soviet, during a enlist the support of a New York good. sightseeing tour of the settle institution. -ment's center and suburbs 15 Ed Whittemore, a sports lawyer whose Servings: 6-8 inevitably tempted to ask a clients include the 1984 Olympic women’s question about an impressive marathon champion, signed a contract with 3 cups fine cornmeal number of newly built struc- the Moscow Sports Committee that makes 3 cups water his company, Events Internationale Inc., 1 tsp salt the exclusive marketing agent for the 1990 1 =n bacon grease marathon and a new Kremlin Mile. Both 6 Tb feta cheese, cut in small bits events are to be held next August in Set oven to 450. Sift cornmeal and beat connection with a trade seminar designed with water and salt until it is the to give corporate sponsors a pipeline to consistency of lightly whipped cream. Rub conducting business in the Soviet Union. a large square baking pan with bacon In announcing the contract, Boris rease. Divide cornmeal dough in half. AS Fadeyev, vice chairman of the Moscow ith wet hands pat a thin, even layer into Sports Committee, said in Manhattan that shape in the pan. Sprinkle the top with bits several Japanese companies had made of feta cheese, and press remaining WP more lucrative offers but that the American cornmeal into a second layer over it. ~~ company had been selected "for one (Although the dough crumbles and could reason: because Fred Lebow lives in the never be rolled out or cut, it is easy to mold United States." Lebow, the director of the into shape.) New York City Marathon, is a member of Bake in top part of 450 degree oven 25- Whittemore’s board. : | 30 minutes, or until it has a firm, lightly Ing. C. Olivetti of Italy, which shipped Under the agreement, which is designed browned crust. Serve at once. high-technology machine tools to the to make the Moscow Marathon into a Soviet Union said that the sale had been premier event with a worldwide television approved by Italian authorities. audience, at least $400,000 in prizes will be four teams. Each group plays in a different The machine tools and computer offered to attract top runners. Italian city for the opening round games of software made by Olivetti, one of Euope’s the month-long tournament. leading makers of computers and office FIELD SET FOR FINALS OF SOCCER For Italia "90, 14 berths were allotted to equipment are believed to have been used СОР Europe (including Italy as the host nation); to make parts for the Yak-41. four to South America (including The Bush Administration has told the After а two-year qualifying program, 24 — Argentina as the defending champion); two nation’s allies that it will consider nations have made it to the 1990 World to Asia; two to Africa and two to the streamlining the export control list, but Cup soccer finals in Italy in June. Alon СОМСАЕ region (North and Central only with commitments to strengthen with the traditional favorites are severa America). security to prevent the shipment of high underdogs: South Korea, the United Arab Other European teams that wil technology. Emirates, Costa Rica, Egypt, Cameroon RAIL pel are Spain, Belgium, Yugoslavia, The embargo list has become outdated and, for the first time since 1950, the cotland, Sweden, Rumania, Austria, with regard to modern machine tools. United States. : Ireland, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, On December 9, a draw was held in sae the Netherlands, and the Soviet Rome to divide the teams into six groups of nion. U.S. AND SOVIET SISTERS MEET Separated for decades, daughters of an American tap dancer who found fame in the Soviet Union met in San Diego in November. It was the first time Margie Scott, a 55- year-old eset who grew up in oscow, had been united with her American half sisters. Ms. Scott said that until she was reached by a friend of her sisters last spring she did not even know she had such close relatives in the United States. The five American sisters, three of whom came to San Diego to meet Ms. Scott, said that ever since their infancy they had hears stories of their father’s Soviet daughter. Margie Scott came to California with four other black Soviet artists for a Soviet cultural festival. : Miss Scott, who had studied at the Moscow Ballet School, danced with the Bolshoi from 1951 to 1975 and is now a СТРО шк, апа a folkloric dance expert. Her husband, Yuri Papko, was also a Bolshoi dancer. Miss Scott, who is fluent in English, has toured extensively in Africa and Asia and iipedted in cultural activities The New York Times/Robert Burroug| 15 connected with the winter Olympics in Margie Scott, left, a former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, at a reunion in San Diego with three of Calgary in 1988. her American half sisters. From the left were Kirra Philpott, Scott Brown and Nina Robinson.

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Name A Dance, illustration to short A large proportion of the Cossacks, Address story by N. Gogol,"The Enchan anxious to escape feudal dependence, ted Place,194 9, by М. Deregus moved further south, peopling more of City, State, the steppe beyond the Dnieper cata- 2 5 - Zip Code racts, which subsequently derived its name from it — Zaporozhie (from “ла Press Fund Donation parohy” — beyond the cataracts). At first, they engaged in hunting and fishing. But as time went on, the better-off Cossacks began to build per- УВАГА ЕЛИЗАБЕТ - ЛИНДЕН manent winter hamlets with com- НДЖ. І ОКОЛИЦА й pounds for live-stock and premises for keeping bee-hives, boats and similar Старанием оддилов чис. 35 и things in winter. The hamlets were Лемко Союза усгроюет ся inhabited by armed Cossack labourers who guarded their masters’ property РУСКЫЙ НОВЫЙ РІК, якы: from plunder by nomads. одбудеся в The products they made (meat, fish, furs, honey) were shipped up the Dnieper to many cities of the СУБОТУ, 13-го ЯНВАРЯ 1990 в PA] Ukraine, including Kiev. To supply YOUTH CENTER, 400 Maple Ave. their own demand, the Cossack hun- Linden,New Jersey ters and fishermen bought grain, clo- thes, axes, knives, fishing nets and Запрашаме нашых близкых I other commodities in Kiev. дальшых к раянтв на встричу Русск or The lower Dnieper was crossed by Нового Року. Нашь газдыни я! nine rocky cataracts which the Cos- всегда так и тепер пригот овлят sacks had to negotiate in their boats смачну вечерю. at the peril of their life. South of the Почагок о 7:30 вечером. cataracts, there were quite a few sto- Комитет. ny islands where the Cossacks put up small fortified townships, sichi (that RUSSIAN NEW YEAR CELEBRATION is, made of hewn logs) to defend themselves against enemy attacks. They settled along the Dnieper tribu- Lemko Association Br. 35-7 of Elizabetl taries as well. New Jersey is sponsoring a "Russian №: However, the hewn-log townships Year Party” on scattered over vast tracts of land, with few Cossacks to man their garrisons, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1990, could not hold out against the Turkish and Tatar feudal onslaught from the at the PAL YOUTH CENTER, 400 Mapl south and that of Lithuanian and Po- sented by the council with a mase Ауе., Linden, New Jersey. lish troops from the north. So the (symbol of authority). Army symbols Cossacks joined their forces in the were the bunchuk (a copper or gilt Time: 7:30 P.M. ; 1530s and 1540s to put up a strong- sphere on a wooden handle with a For information and reservations call 7 bunch of horse's tail hair attached to hold which came to be known as Za- Rudawsky, 486-0096; М. Zawoysky, 486 it) and horugvi (flags of all colours porozhian Sich (Ukrainian-Zaporizh- 6408; or В. Stefura, 925-1852. with pictures of saints, crosses and ska Sich), that is a set of small hewn- arms). There were special seals to log defence townships. Martin Belski All our friends are invited to celebrate Nex certify the validity of the documents Year 1990. gave the first-ever account in his of the Zaporozhian Military Camp. “World Chronicle” of a Cossack kosh The Sich community consisted of Committee. (military camp) beyond the Dnieper elders and a mass of poor rank-and- GR ктото Е Бад cataracts and a fortress on the Toma- Ca Fe file Cossacks. The better-off Cossacks, kovka Island. In 1593, Tomakovka some of whom, as a rule, were elected ANNUAL MEETING BR. 10 was invaded and its fortifications de- stroyed by a large armed detachment elders, had not only the power to The Annual Meeting of Branch 10 of the of the Crimean Khan. Later in the wield but also the wealth to give them Lemko Association will be held on same year, the Zaporozhian Cossacks an ample opportunity to exploit the rank-and-file Cossacks. Most of the built a more solid stronghold on the SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1990 Bazavluk (Chertomlyk) Island not Zaporozhian Cossacks were Ukraini- ans, but there were also some Rus- far from Tomakovka. They piled up AT 1 P.M. in the PARISH HALL, St. high earthen ramparts, dug ditches sians, Byelorussians, Poles, Lithua- and put up a log fence with towers nians, Moldavians, Armenians, Tatars Nicholas Cathedral, 15 East 97 Street, New and loopholes. and other nationalities. York City. All members are asked to Zaporizhska Sich had a distinctive The existence of a self-governed attend. military and administrative structure community, independent of Rzeczpos- D. Demianowich which inherited the ancient congres- polita, the participation of Cossacks in sional traditions of Rus’. It had a spa- army councils and in the election of cious square, the venue of Cossack elders, and their right to own lands and to engage in commercial fishing The close relationship and аШапсё be- army radas (councils), surrounded by tween the Zaporozhians and the Rus- a semi-circle of willow or log huts for and hunting prompted Karl Marx to call Zaporizhska Sich a “Christian sian Cossacks of the Don valley made Cossacks, houses of elders, an army for stiffer resistance to foreign aggres- chancellory, a cannon yard and a Cossack Republic”. The Ukrainian Cossacks were adepts at head-on fight- sion, intensified anti-feudal and libe- church. The Sich community of seve- ration struggles in the Ukraine ral thousand armed Cossacks was di- ing in the field and at sea, laying siege to fortresses and defending their against the sway of Rzeczpospolita and vided into military units — kurens led promoted the idea of the Ukraine's by chieftains (atamans). Army coun- camps. They were armed with rifles, pistols, sabres, lances, bows, cannons. reunion with Russia. cils (radas), considered to be the sup- The incessant numerical growth reme authority of the Sich, elected and other weapons. Zaporizhska Sich became a power- of the Ukrainian Cossack community the elders — camp commander, record as a social force opposing the feudal clerk (the man in charge of the chan- ful force capable of resisting the ag- gression by Turkish and Tatar feudal oppression of the masses worried the cellory), esauls — those responsible governments of Lithuanian and Po- for the military training and arming lords. It played a progressive role as a centre of the Ukrainian people's land which, however, turned out to of the Cossacks, artillery commander. be powerless to arrest that process. and the judge. The chieftain was pre- ‚ anti-feudal and liberation struggle.