www.ukrweekly.com ^v^^^^v^^c^^t^t^^v^ac^ 1 Remember Ukraine 5 Ч?^^^^^^^^^^^^и^^^с^^^? The Ukrainian Weekly Edition СВОБОДА SVOBODA УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК UKRAINIAN DА ІLV VOL. LXXXIV No. 140 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1977 25 CENTS Helsinki Groups in USSR Kiev Group Tells Helsinki Signers Report Widespread violations That Trust is Key for Peace WASHINGTON, D.C.–A new set of to an appeal to the then head of state, reports from Soviet Helsinki-wa– Nikolai Podgorny, to appoint a public Pledge to Continue Activity in Face of Repression tchers details practices in the USSR, commission to investigate illegal activi– which violate Helsinki guarantees of ties by the KGB. NEW YORK, N.Y.-The Kiev Pub- The signatures reveal that the Group civil and religious liberty and of the in between are detailed descriptions lie Group to Promote the lmplementa– acquired two additional members, 1. rights of ethnic minorities. The reports of the abuse of national security con– tion of the Helsinki Accords reminded vins, the son of the incarcerated Bap– are contained in an 80-page English- siderations to block would-be emi– the 35 governments which signed the tist leader Georgi vins, and O. Huyko. language compilation of recent docu– grants, breaches of official regulations Helsinki Accords, as well as the Ukrai– Since the establishment of the Hel– ments published Friday, June 3, by the on forcible psychiatric confinement, nian SSR, that trust is a key ingredient sinki monitoring group in the Ukrai– Commission on Security and Cooper– persecution of religious high school to world peace, according to informa– nian capital, four members have been ation in Europe. students in Lithuania, and the efforts tion received by the press service of the incarcerated and many harassed by the The reports were released at a Commis– of thousands of members of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council KGB. Those arrested are Mykola Ru– sion hearing in Washington on the Meskhetian minority to return to the (abroad). denko, head, Oleksa Tykhy, Mykola work of the dissident Helsinki Accords land in Georgia from which Stalin had in the Group's so-called letter no. 2, Matusevych and Myroslav Maryno– monitors, the Public Group to Pro- them deported in 1944. the eight remaining members wrote vych. mote the implementation of the Hel– Aside from the seven Helsinki that peace "is not merely a question The Ukrainian Helsinki monitors sinki Agreements in the USSR. The Group members in prison - Alek– for government leaders, but also for pledged that despite persistent official hearing heard testimony from two sandr Ginzburg, Professor Yuri Orlov average people." repressions against them, they will con– Group activists, Ludmyla Alekseyeva and Anatoly Shcharansky from Mos– "That is why it (peace) should not tinue their activity. and Lida voronina - recent exiles cow; Mykola Rudenko and Oleksiy only be decided on governmental The letter details the most recent from the Soviet Union - as well as Tykhy from Ukraine; and Zviad Gam– levels, not only through disarmament, KGB searches, surveillances and other from, attorney Edward Bennett Wil– sakhurdia and Merab Kostava from but also by the elimination of distrust harassments against the Group mem– liams, representing imprisoned Group Georgia - several other members of between citizens of different coun– bers and relatives. member Aleksandr Ginzburg, on the r the 13-month-old organization have tries," they wrote. They reported that on April 14th this activities and repression of the human been obliged to emigrate from the The Kiev Group members also called year, Lidia Sverstiuk was denied per– rights movement in the Soviet Union. USSR in recent months. for increased individual contacts be– mission to visit her incarcerated hus– The second volume of Commission Nevertheless, two new members tween all peoples. band, Yevhen Sverstiuk. On May 15th, translations of Public Group reports have joined the original Group in Mos– The most recent document, which valentyn Moroz, who was not allowed (the first was published February 24, cow. One member has been added to came on the eve of the Helsinki review to see his wife, began a hunger strike in 1977) includes material from Decem– the Ukrainian Group. Helsinki watch conference which began in Belgrade, the Mordovian camps to protest the de– ber, 1976, through early April, 1977. panels have been formed in Armenia Yugoslavia, last week, was signed by: nial. it ranges from reports on the and Georgia. Oles Berdnyk, Nina Strokata, Oksana The Ukrainian dissidents also said searches and arrests of Group activists, A special subgroup was created to Meshko, ivan Kandyba, Lev Luki– that ivan Неї began a hunger strike in seven of whom are still in Soviet prisons investigate the use of psychiatry as a re– anenko, Petro Hryhorenko, 1. vins prison to protest the harsh conditions awaiting trial on unspecified charges, (Continued on page 2) and Olha Huyko. (Continued on page 10) Alekseyeva Describes National Movement in Ukraine JERSEY C1TY, N.J.—Ludmyla Mykola Rudenko, Oleksa Tykhy and Alekseyeva, a member of the Moscow Yuri Orlov. based Helsinki monitoring group who Speaking candidly, with knowledge last February was allowed to leave the and conviction, Mrs. Alekseyeva Soviet Union, said that there is a juxtaposed what she said was a rather 4'deeply rooted national movement of small group of Russian dissidents con- resistance in Ukraine" and that at this fined primarily to Moscow with the na– time the "only salvation for the Ukrai– tional movement existing in Ukraine. nian people and their culture" is seces– She said the movement embraces peo– sion from the USSR. And she feels that ple of all walks of life and is deeply Ukraine has the right to be free. .rooted in the masses. Mrs. Alekseyeva, said that Ukrai– Mrs. Alekseyeva made these and nians constitute more than half of all other statements on the current dissi– political prisoners in the USSR and dent movement in the USSR, and that Ukrainian dissidents are particu– Ludmyla Alekseyeva, third right, meets with UNA executives at the Soyuz head- particularly in Ukraine, during a visit larly harshly persecuted. at the UNA Headquarters here Wed– quarters. Seated, left to right, are Stefan Hawrysz, Supreme Organizer; Joseph "The main reason for that is that So– Lesawyer, Supreme President; Walter Sochan, Supreme Secretary; Mrs. Alekse– nesday, June 8. She was accompanied viet authorities are afraid that Ukraine by Roman Kupchinsky, Adrian Karat– yeva; Mrs. Ulana Diachuk, Supreme Treasurer; and Walter Lewenetz, Svoboda will break away from the USSR," said associate editor. nycky and Melasia Chaykiwsky, mem– Mrs. Alekseyeva, noting that Ukrai– bers of the Committee for the Defense nian dissidents place equal emphasis on we ever heard," Mykola Rudenko, a tals and others. She said she knew of of Soviet Political Prisoners. She was human as well as national rights. "deep thinker and an activist," Sviato– specific instances where Ukrainian hosted by the Association's supreme "They are all concerned with Ukraine slav Karavansky and others, including worshippers asked their former Cath– executive officers and Svoboda editors. first." their "courageous wives" and women olic priest to assume Orthodoxy for The meeting was held immediately She cited such men as ivan Svit– political prisoners. fear that otherwise they would be com– after a press conference in New York, lychny, a "highly intelligent and eru– She said that in some cases the Soviet pletely deprived of clergy. "They wor– at which Mrs. Alekseyeva had joined dite person, the likes of which we do Ukrainian authorities are more intransi– ship, with all the rites and rituals, as in Lida voronina, another Russian emigre, not have in Russia," vyacheslav Chor– gent than those in Moscow with regard the olden days," said Mrs. Alekseyeva. and Atty. Ramsey Clark. Mr. Clark, novil, who "enlightened us on one occa– to Ukrainian dissidents. Calling herself a "Christian", she who later that day departed for Lon– sion on the creative spirit of the Ukrainian She confirmed that despite con– said she does not believe in "socialism don, England, had announced that he people and recited from memory some stant persecution, Ukrainian Catholics with a human face", noting that one will try to secure permission to defend of the most beautiful Ukrainian poetry continue to worship, as do Pentecos– (Continued on page 3) г'Л THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1977 No. 140 Despite 16- Year Ordeal, Ukrainian Believes in Freedom for His Country Fifteen years of incarceration in concentration Communist spirit. His father helped establish the intellectuals, Terelia was up against charges before camps, prisons and psychiatric asylums have not first collective farm in 1949 in their village and his the camp court. broken the hopes of at least one Ukrainian patriot mother completed the Ukrainian Communist On January 5, 1972, Terelia and Zynoviy Kra– in the eventual resurgence of a free Ukraine. Party's ideological school. sivsky were charged with writing poems distasteful in a highly critical letter to Yuri Andropov, "Therefore, as you see, 1 could not have been to the KGB - Krasivksy's "A Slave's Cry" and head of the KGB and member of the Soviet Polit– born a 'bourgeois nationalist'. І was taught from "The Triumph of Satan" and Terelia's "Sor– buro, Yosyp Terelia, 34-year-old Ukrainian, childhood to love and respect the native village, rows". wrote on December 21,1976 that despite all he has home...," he wrote. He said that since the trial of Sviatoslav Kara– suffered and expects to suffer, he believes that vansky "the Ukrainian word has been put on trial Terelia's troubles with the authorities began in Ukraine will one day become free. in the camps". 1961. He wrote that after he finished a construc– Terelia and Krasivsky were told that they were "Despite all that 1 have suffered and expect to tion trade school, he was required to report twice a suffer in the future, 1 say: No! To be a citizen of diagnosed as mentally sick by the Serbsky institute week to the Ministry of internal Affairs office.