1NS1DE: ^ Ukraine's defense minister visits D.C. on eve of Kuchma visit - page 3. - 50th anniversary of the death of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky - page 7. - Still more reaction to CBS's "The Ugly Face of Freedom" - page 8. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-prof it association vol. LXII No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 75 cents 500 picket CBS in New York Ukrainian Parliament ratifies NPT but seeks more security guarantees by Marta Kolomayets lead to a situation where the world com– Kyyiv Press Bureau munity stops taking us seriously, because we do not know how to keep and execute KYYiv - Ukraine's Parliament our obligations," he added. approved the long-stalled Nuclear Non– President Kuchma, who ran Proliferation Treaty on Wednesday after- Pivdenmash, the largest rocket factory in noon, November 16, closing a chapter in the world, also told the Parliament that the the history of post-Cold War politics. cost of keeping nuclear weapons is prohib– However, the legislature set conditions itive. "Experts estimate it will cost S10 bil– designed to provide Ukraine with securi– lion to S30 billion a year to keep these ty assurances from the nuclear club of weapons, it means we have to sell all our nations. possessions to keep them," he added, The Parliament voted 301-8 with 20 "Obstacles halting accession to the abstentions on the eve of President Leonid Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty have Kuchma's official visit to the United been overcome," Foreign Minister States to accede to the NPT. The treaty Gennadiy Udovenko told the Parliament will not become effective, however, until on Wednesday afternoon. He added that the Ukrainian president and the leaders of satisfactory guarantees had been given to the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine by the United States, Russia and Demonstrators outside the CBS Broadcast Center protest the portrayal of Russia sign a document at the Conference Great Britain within the last few clays. Ukrainians as ''genetically anti-Semitic" in a report aired by "60 Minutes." on Security and Cooperation in Europe He said that after months of negotia– meeting in Budapest on December 5-6. tions, the countries had come through for by Khristina Lew length of a city avenue block, stopped (France also has agreed to give security Ukraine, offering assurances that would traffic. guarantees, but on a bilateral basis.) prevent an attack on Ukraine by both NEW YORK - Over 500 Ukrainian At CBS's other headquarters, the President Kuchma addressed the Americans aggravated Manhattan's rush nuclear and conventional weapons, as demonstrators overran the sidewalk oppo– Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, urg– well as substantial financial support from hour traffic on November 14, picketing site the building, waving their banners and ing the legislators to ratify the document. both CBS's production headquarters on the West. Ukrainian flags at the CBS employees "Ukraine has no choice today on whether "This is a triumph for Ukrainian West 57th Street and its corporate head- peering out of the building's windows. it should be nuclear or non-nuclear. That quarters 10 blocks away in reaction to the diplomacy and Ukrainian independence. Curious passers-by questioned the demon– choice has been made," he said, explain– if Ukraine does not join the NPT, it may network's apparent refusal to retract the strators, shaking their heads when told that ing that Ukraine had pledged disarmament inflammatory October 23 "60 Minutes" become isolated from the world econom– "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer and non-proliferation in 1990, when it pro- ic community," he underlined. segment on alleged anti-Semitism in had made claims that Ukrainians were claimed itself a non-nuclear state. western Ukraine, After speeches from Minister "genetically anti-Semitic." "The course of the world's nuclear dis– Udovenko and President Kuchma, the Carrying banners and placards that read That evening's CBS news carried a armament depends on your decision "CBS is racist" and "60 Minutes - Ugly legislators listened to advice from their brief report on the demonstration, quali– today," he told the deputies as he observed own deputies, including the chairmen of Face of Journalism" while chanting fying it with the terse statement that CBS the day's session. "Further delays in both the foreign relations and defense "Morley Safer s got to go," the Ukrainian stands by its story. reaching a decision, in my opinion, would committees, respectively, Borys Oliynyk demonstrators blocked the entrance to (a Communist) and volodymyr Mukhin CBS's production headquarters from 3 to (a Socialist).The Communist^ and 4:30 p.m. As CBS employees alighted Socialist factions had been in favor of from the building at the end of the work- Former prime minister accused Ukraine holding on to its nuclear day, the demonstrators booed them, forc– weapons, motivated by the fact that "the ing them to weave through a human barri– world respects only the strong." cade co the street. of embezzling S25 M in state funds "We have no choice," said Mr. At the height of the Ukrainian picketing, by Marta Kolomayets Datsiuk. Oliynyk, "Ukraine is tied to the treaty. 25 New York City police officers attempt– Kyyiv Press Bureau He pointed to three articles in Ukraine's We put ourselves in this situation, now ed to direct the rush-hour traffic that Criminal Code - Article 86.1, stealing let's try to get out of it with the smallest KYYiv — Former Prime Minister demonstrators blocked while handing out state property in massive amounts; Article possible losses," he said. flyers. Both CBS Radio and a CBS televi– Yukhym Zviahilsky was stripped of his 165.2, abusing an official position; and "1 never expected the vote to be so legal immunity by the Ukrainian Parliament sion crew interviewed demonstrators. Article 166.1 overstepping official authori– successful," mused Mr. Mukhin. on Tuesday, November 15, paving the way Organized by the Ukrainian Educational ty - which Mr. Zviahilsky appears to have But members of the Parliament's for prosecutors to charge him with embez– and Cultural Center in Philadelphia, the violated during his tenure as acting prime ultra-right, the UNA-UNSO party, did United Ukrainian American Organizations zling S25 million in government funds. minister from October 1993 through early not take the news well. Oleh Yitovych, of New York and the Ukrainian Congress The Parliament voted 274-2 against June of this year. leader of the ultra-nationalist party, and Committee of America New Jersey State Mr. Zviahilsky with 23 abstentions. The Mr. Zviahilsky allegedly sold high- two other deputies wore white headbands Council, the demonstration brought togeth– former prime minister, an elected deputy quality aviation fuel to a Greek company with a picture of an atom bomb during er young and old, professionals and the from Donetske, has been in israel for the for S15.45 million, but only S10 million the debate in Parliament. clergy from New York, New Jersey and past several weeks for medical treatment, of that money made it to the National "Today we actually signed a death Pennsylvania. reported Yladislav Datsiuk, Ukraine's Bank. Allegedly S3 million dollars went warrant to any prospects of Ukrainian Having sung the Ukrainian national prosecutor general. to Mr. Zviahilsky, while the remainder of statehood, thus dooming ourselves to the anthem and read a list of their demands, Mr. Datsiuk, speaking before the the money was split among associates. role of a banana republic with a cocoa which included a retraction of "The Ugly Parliament, charged Mr. Zviahilsky, 61, This scheme threatened Ukraine's securi– president," said Mr. vitovych. Face of Freedom" segment, the demon– with endangering national security and ty because the fuel was earmarked for the vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the strators lined up for the 10-block proces– embezzling government money. He also state's defense forces, said Mr. Datsiuk. Rukh faction in Parliament, said, "By sion to CBS corporate headquarters on charged that Mr. Zviahilsky "put S3 mil- The prosecutor general also said that this action we have proved our intention 52nd Street and the Avenue of the lion into his own pockets." Mr. Zviahilsky used his position as prime to proceed toward complete nuclear dis– Xmericas. Escorted by a police van, three "investigations reveal he carried out minister to engage in an operation of ille– armament." police cars and 12 police mopeds, the illegal dealings that inflicted substantial Ukrainian demonstration, stretching the economic damage to Ukraine," said Mr. (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47 Revolution Day marked in Kyyiv

by Marta Kolomayets However, leaders of the national-demo– Kyyiv Press Bureau cratic bloc, among them vyacheslav Chornovil, appeared on Ukraine's national U.S, Russia applaud NPT approval NPT by Ukraine allows for implementa– KYYiv — Residents of Kyyiv came air waves on both Saturday and Sunday, tion of the START 1 treaty, already out in droves on Monday morning, MOSCOW7WASH1NGTON -Both signed by the U.S. and Russia, to begin. November 5-6, telling viewers they had Russia and the United States applauded November 7 - some to celebrate the been given permission earlier and that (Reuters) October Revolution of 1917, others to Ukraine's November 16 decision to their march would go on in the morning as accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Ukraine rescinds Crimean laws mourn the victims of communism over previously scheduled. the past 75 years. Treaty (NPT). The Ukrainian Parliament The national democrats started their day voted by 301 votes to 8 to accede to the KYYiv - Ukraine's Parliament on The Communists and Socialists protest– November 17 rescinded a lengthy list of with a prayer service near the gates of the Lisbon Protocol, which Ukraine had pre– ed President Kuchma's economic reform laws that the Crimea has passed since its St. Sophia Cathedral at 10 a.m., and began viously committed to uphold, with a pro- program, carrying signs that read marching down to the Khreshchatyk at 11 attempts at asserting its own independence vision that the United States, Russia and "Kuchma's reforms are the death of the a.m., while the Communists gathered at began. The deputies, by 282 votes to 13, Great Britain provide security guaran– people," while the national democrats the Park of Glory, near the Tomb of the passed a resolution neutralizing an eight- tees. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister remembered the crimes committed against Unknown Soldier. Their scheduled route page-long list of the autonomous republic's Sergei Krylov in Moscow said, "This is the Ukrainian people by the totalitarian was down Hrushevsky Boulevard to the legislation, but did not touch the issue of an extremely positive step, so necessary state. Many of the demonstrators were old Khreshchatyk, down to Taras Shevchenko the validity of its Constitution. Kyyiv had now for strengthening security and sta– and weary, but while the national democ– Boulevard, where a statute of Lenin still set a November 1 deadline for the Crimea bility in Europe," reported interfax. in rats recalled the evils of Siberian labor stands. to bring its Constitution into line with Washington, the response was equally camps, and some even wore their uni– The groups could have locked horns on Ukraine's. Conflict between Kyyiv and positive. "This is another major step as forms, the Communists recalled the days Kyyiv's main thoroughfare, so hundreds Symferopil has existed since May, when a we move forward to strengthen global of the great Soviet empire, carrying flags of militia, including Kyyiv city police, as Constitution was passed by the Crimea strategic stability and nuclear security," of all the former republics of the USSR. well as Ukraine's special forces (OMON) calling for looser ties with Ukraine. said John Holum, director of the State As the Ukrainian government's price and cadets from the military academy (Reuters) Department's Arms Control and liberalization program begins to take lined the boulevards. Disarmament Agency. The accession to effect this month, and bread prices Police with truncheons clashed with (Continued on page 3) jumped this week from 3,000 karbovantsi nationalists when the demonstrators tried to to almost 15,000 kbv, the Communist disrupt a Communist rally. Mr. Chornovil and Socialist marchers mourned the days negotiated with Petro Symonenko, the of bread for 10 kopecks and protested leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Metropolitan loann killed in car accident planned reforms. near the base of the Lenin statue and decid– by Marta Kolomayets Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Close to 20,000 residents participated in ed to suspend the movement of the nation– Kyyiv Press Bureau Along with his family, he was exiled to this crisp autumn day's activities. alists' march for 30 minutes to allow the Kazakhstan and sentenced to 20 years' Approximately half of them marched Communists and Socialists to march down KYYiv - Metropolitan loann, 64, of hard labor for Ukrainian nationalism. under red Soviet banners, chanting nostal– the Khreshchatyk and lay wreaths at the Lutske and volyn died tragically in a car After the death of Stalin, he was able gic Communists slogans, displaying Lenin monument. accident in western Ukraine, on to return to his native land and began his posters of the revolution's leader viadimir The Communists then proceeded to Wednesday, November 9. university studies. He later switched to Lenin and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. hold a meeting near the Dnipro River, at Metropolitan loann, who played an the seminary in Leningrad, where he also The other 10,000 protesters were the Arch of Reunification, where they instrumental role in the rebirth of the completed the conservatory. members of Ukraine's national-democra– protested the Kuchma reform program, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox He was ordained a priest of the tic bloc. They waved the blue-and-yellow while the national democrats held a meet– Church in Ukraine, was buried with full Russian Orthodox Church in Truskavets, state flag of Ukraine and religious ban– ing to protest the crimes of the Communist ritual honors by the hierarchy of the Lviv Oblast, and in 1977 he was conse– ners, and chanted "Shame, Shame" as the regime in Ukraine. Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyyiv crated a bishop of Zhytomyr-Ovruch pro-Communist forces marched past Parliamentary Chairman Oleksander Patriarchate, in his native village of ivano– Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox them at the base of the Khreshchatyk and Moroz, the newly elected leader of the Puste, in Ternopil Oblast. He was laid to Church. Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. Socialist Party, did not participate in the rest next to his parents, as was his wish. After losing his right kidney, he asked Fearing a confrontation between these day's festivities; he was away in Brussels Six hierarchs and over 100 priests to be transferred. two polar forces on Saturday, November 5, on official business. presided over the funeral rites, held at Kyyiv's city administration asked the orga– Left-wing groups also demonstrated in Lutske's Orthodox cathedral on Friday, in October 1989, he renounced his nizers of the national-democrats' manifes– Odessa, Symferopil and other cities, while November 11. The funeral procession position as a member of the Russian tation to postpone their march of mourning in Lviv, a restaurant allegedly frequented began in Lutske, and proceeded through Orthodox Church and became a leader of until the afternoon of November 7. by leftists was vandalized. Dubno, Kremenets and to his final rest– the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which later came under the guid– т^і^і^^т^ш^чда^^ж^^^ :ЧХІЇІЇШ л^Ф^ж?а^^ ят^тш ing place in ivano-Puste. Along the route, hundreds of faithful came out to ance of Patriarch Mstyslav. pay their last respects to the hierarch. in 1990, he traveled to the United OB1TUARY: volodymyr lvashko, 62, in his native village, a liturgy was held States for medical treatment; he suffered at the Greek-Catholic Church there, with from diabetes. former head of Ukraine's Communists permission of the local faithful. in 1993, he beame the metropolitan of Metropolitan loann, who was born Lviv and Sokal of the Ukrainian by Marta Kolomayets that Ukraine's parliamentary opposition vasyl Bodnarchuk, studied music from a Orthodox Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate Kyyiv Press Bureau was ready to seize on his promotion to very early age under the guidance of his and later that year became the metropoli– support contentions that party officials put father, a well-known composer and con– tan of Lutske and volyn. KYYiv - volodymyr lvashko, one- career ambitions above the interests of the ductor who traveled to the West exten– His secretary, the Rev. Taras, was also time head of the Communist Party of nation and thus should not be entrusted sively with his choirs. in the car driven by Metropolitan loann Ukraine, died in Hamburg, Germany, at with the business of state. From the age of 17, loann served in when it spun out of control. The priest the age of 62 on Sunday, November 13, Mr. lvashko was born on October 28, the Church. He was a member of the sustained head injuries, but survived. after a long and difficult illness, reported 1932, in Poltava. He graduated from the Ukrainian state television. Kharkiv Mining institute, in 1956, he Mr. lvashko was elected chairman of the began lecturing at the Kharkiv institute Ukrainian Supreme Soviet in June 1990, and became a secretary of the Communist FOUNDED 1933 amid protests from the democratic bloc of THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Party there. deputies, who boycotted the proceedings. in 1986, he became secretary of Central An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., But, he resigned just five weeks later, when a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. Committee of the Communist Party of he was elected deputy general secretary of Yearly subscription rate: S30; for UNA members - S20. the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Ukraine, and in 1988 was promoted to sec– ond secretary of the CC CPU. The follow– Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. Soviet General Secretary Mikhail ing year, he became head of the (lSSN - 0273-9348) Gorbachev nominated Mr. lvashko for the Communist Party of Ukraine and a mem– post, saying that it is important for the two Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper (annual sub– ber of the Politburo of the Communist people at the top of the party leadership to scription fee: S55; S30 for UNA members), and veselka, a Ukrainian-language children's Party of the Soviet Union, in 1989, he was be "close in their views" and that the party magazine (annual subscription fee: S10; S8 for UNA members). elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. not be divided. The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: in 1990, Mr. lvashko was elected a Even before his formal nomination Mr. (201)434-0237,-0807,-3036 (201)451-2200 deputy of the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet lvashko sent word to Kyyiv that he was from Kyyiv. resigning from his post as chairman of the Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz The Parliament paid its last respects to Ukrainian Supreme Soviet, citing "the lack changes to: Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets (Kyyiv) Mr. lvashko with a moment of silence. of support in the Ukrainian Supreme The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew Leonid Kravchuk, now a deputy in Soviet for conducting the program of eco– P.O. Box 346 Staff writersXeditors: Roman Woronowycz Parliament, succeeded Mr. lvashko as riomic, social and cultural rebirth of Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Andrij Kudia Wynnyckyj chairman of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet in Ukraine, as 1 understand it." July 1990. The Ukrainian Weekly, November 20,1994, No. 47, vol. LXll However, political analysts noted that, Copyright (g) 1994 The Ukrainian Weekly in all likelihood, Mr. lvashko was aware (Continued on page 16) No. 47^„^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994^ з Clinton administration officials brief Defense Minister Shmarov Ukrainian Americans on Kuchma visit suggests redirecting U.S. aid

WASHINGTON (UNIS) - Leaders economic reforms. After Ukraine signed by Xenia Ponomarenko the 43rd Army is dismantled, 2,500 fami– of the Ukrainian American community the international Monetary Fund agree– lies will have no place to live. The were invited to the Old Executive Office ment it asked for financial assistance to WASH1NGTON - Ukraine's Defense defense minister said he believes funds Building on November 10 to discuss the help pay off its energy debt to Russia and Minister Уаіегіу Shmarov briefed can be redirected for this purpose. He upcoming state visit of President Leonid Turkmenistan. The United States reporters on November 16 regarding his added that S50 million designated for Kuchma. responded by providing SlOO"million - meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense housing in the Nunn-Lugar funds does Opening the meeting by stating that he available immediately and by urging the William Perry. The defense minister not seem like a great sum of money to is "very pleased that it's a state visit, Canadian government to advance the stressed Ukraine's cooperation and ensure the security of the U.S. only the fourth of the Clinton administra– Winnipeg conference to coincide with progress in fulfilling the terms of the Tripartite Agreement among Ukraine, Minister Shmarov announced that the Ліоп," Nick Burns of the National President Kuchma's visit to Canada. Furthermore, the U.S. sent letters to the Russia and the United States. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Security Council emphasized that, "This had been ratified by the Ukrainian countries of the G-7, urging them to He also provided reporters with an out- state visit is to show that after three years Parliament, which triggered questions on respond, and then followed up with line of Ukraine's space program, it is antic– of independence our relations are as good security assurances Ukraine has received cables to all the U.S. embassies in those ipated that during President Leonid as they've ever been." from the U.S. He told reporters that one countries, asking them to put pressure on Kuchma's upcoming state visit a formal During the meeting, White House offi– major catalyst for Ukraine's decision to these governments to respond to agreement will be signed between Ukraine cials informed the community leadership ratify NPT was continued U.S. support of Ukraine's request. and the U.S. on a space program. about President Kuchma's Washington Ukraine. As far as the defense minister Present at the meeting from the adminis– schedule, which includes two substantive in providing details on Ukraine's com– could tell, the security assurances tration were: Mr. Burns, special assistant to meetings rather than the one usually pliance with the Tripartite Agreement, Ukraine has received in the trilateral the president, senior director for Russia, allotted for a state visit. Mr. Kuchma will Defense Minister Shmarov stated that accord are not going to change. But when Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs, National have a meeting with President Bill Ukraine is deactivating its nuclear mis– questioned further, he admitted the secu– Security Council; Ross Gottemoeller, Clinton followed by one with vice– siles on schedule and, pursuant to the rity assurances themselves are "hazy." director of Ukraine affairs, National President Al Gore. agreement, 25 percent of Ukraine's entire Security Council; Steven Pifer, deputy to nuclear arsenal has been shipped out of The defense minister was asked also Other meetings slated for Mr. Kuchma the senior coordinator for the N1S, State Ukraine. about Ukraine's position on NATO entry include those with: secretaries of defense and the Partnership for Peace (PFP) pro- Department; Jay Footlik, deputy associate Despite Ukraine's cooperation, and treasury, Ruth Harkin from the gram. He replied that "we partake in the director, Office of Presidential Personnel; Minister Shmarov expressed dissatisfac– Overseas Private investment Corp., Dan (PFP) program as much as we can and Marilyn DiGiacobbe, White House tion with the "bureaucratic barriers" that Golden from NASA, members of afford," and that Ukraine plans to be Office of Public Liaison. prevent assistance from reaching Congress, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the more active in that program next year. Representing the Ukrainian American Ukrainian military men and their fami– Center for Strategic and international Minister Shmarov did not specify community were: Askold S. Lozynskyj, lies. The issue of ensuring a "social safe– Studies, business leaders and the press. Ukraine's position on Ukraine's entry president, Ukrainian Congress Committee ty net" for military families was raised Mr. Burns emphasized that this official into NATO but later said he believes that of America; Ulana Diachuk, president, during the meeting with Secretary Perry. state visit has been planned to "showcase entry by countries like Poland and Ukrainian American Coordinating Council Asked whether lack of sufficient funds Ukrainian–American relations." Hungary is a progressive signal. He and Ukrainian National Association; Dr. from the U.S. will disrupt Ukraine's com– added that he foresees an eventual devel– According to Mr. Burns, during the Bohdan Burachynsky, president, pliance with the trilateral accord, the opment of a new political-military mech– signing ceremony that will take place on Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine; defense minister replied that, out of the anism for European security. The November 22 in the White House, Julian Kulas, president, Ukrainian funds specified under the Nunn-Lugar Partnership for Peace is not an alterna– Presidents Clinton and Kuchma plan to Americans for ClintonAjfore; Orest denuclearization program, Ukraine has tive, just a temporary mechanism before sign several documents, including a Baranyk, vice-president, Ukrainian received only between S4 million and S5 NATO entry, he concluded. Bilateral Charter of Friendship and Congress Committee of America; Judge million. The rest of the Nunn-Lugar funds Cooperation; a joint statement to record Bohdan Futey, U.S. Court of Federal have gone directly into the hands of U.S. When asked whether he believes a the results of the summit, a Treaty on Civil Claims; Xenia Ponomarenko, assistant companies. As a result, the Ukrainian Republican Congress will have a negative Space Cooperation, a Treaty on director, Ukrainian National Association people have been funding the denu– impact on the amount of assistance Cooperation on Trade and investment, and Washington Office; Nadia McConnell, clearization process themselves, which Ukraine receives from the U.S., Minister a statement about crime and corruption. president, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation; and totals approximately 1 trillion karbo– Shmarov responded that he hopes the Mr. Burns informed the community Tamara Gallo, director, Ukrainian vantsi. Despite this, the defense minister press could educate him on the new leadership of the recent moves the United National information Service. explained that implementation of the tri– Congress. When asked about Ukraine's States has taken to support Ukraine's lateral accord will proceed on schedule. relations with Russia, he replied that rela– tions with Russia continue to be stable and ^^^Wi^;^i^^m^W! Defense Minister Shmarov suggested that U.S. assistance could be redirected that there is no feeling of a military threat for a more effective purpose. For exam- on either side. "We are close," said the Prime minister... pie, he stressed the value of supporting minister, especially since "the military and (Continued from page 1) military housing for the 43rd Army, if technology come from one source." gaily converting state currency. About S8 million was transferred to an unregistered m of the U.S. Dismantling of SS-19 rocket account at the Damiana Commercial Newsbriefs Bank in Switzerland; S5 million was con- motors and fuel tanks will begin next verted, and the rest of the money is not (Continued from page 2) October at a rate of three rockets per month. (Associated Press) accounted for. Kuchma decrees land privatization According to Mr. Datsiuk, more than Defense chief asks additional S50 M Si00 million was transferred to this same KYYiv - Ukraine's President Leonid account as profit from Ukrainian enter- Kuchma signed a decree on November 14 WASH1NGTON - Ukraine's Defense prises' currency operations. legalizing private ownership of land. Minister appealed to the Clinton At least two of Mr. Zviahilsky's Reuters said the decree urges local coun– Administration for an additional S50 mil- accomplices, citizens of Ukraine (Yuriy cils to speed up transfer of land to private lion in aid to provide 2,500 homes for Sydorenko and vyacheslav Kramnoy), hands. Landowners will now be able to retired Army personnel. Shmarov said the have already been arrested in Switzerland sell, lease or bequeath their land, provided homes would be part of the economic and will be brought to Ukraine to stand they do not change its primary purpose. "safety net" that President Leonid trial, said Mr. Datsiuk. First Deputy Prime Minister viktor Kuchma wants to establish for certain seg– State prosecutors said they intend to Pynzenyk said, "Private ownership of land ments of Ukraine's populace. "We need to is perhaps the most important step in car– have good allies in the military," said Mr. issue a warrant for Mr. Zviahilsky's arrest. Yukhym Zviahilsky After that they will decide whether rying out land reform." (Reuters) Shmarov. He was here preparing for President Kuchma's U.S arrival, slated for Ukraine will issue a formal extradition tion on Mr. Tkachenko, who is suspected Rocket dismantling plant breaks ground request to israel for Mr. Zviahilsky to of misusing U.S. credits. November 22. (Associated Press) WASH1NGTON - The Pentagon stand trial in Ukraine, if he is found Speaking to reporters after the vote, Russia cuts gas supplies, again guilty, he will face a minimum of 15 years Leonid Kravchuk, now a deputy from the announced on November 14 that construc– in prison, according to state authorities. Ternopil region, said it was he who gave the tion has begun on a Dnipropetrovske plant KYYiv — Russia again has cut gas interestingly, the former prime minis– orders to the Prosecutor General's Office to that will neutralize and destroy rockets held supplies to Ukraine, UN1AN reported on ter was given permission to go to israel start investigating the Zviahilsky affair back in Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. The United November 11. Gazprom informed the for medical treatment by Deputy in May, while he was still president. States is supplying Si85 million towards Ukrainian government that it would Parliamentary speaker Oleksander Mr. Kravchuk had named Mr. the effort, part of the Tripartite Agreement indefinitely cut supplies to 40 million Tkachenko on September 28, while Mr. Zviahilsky acting prime minister soon for de-nuclearizing Ukraine signed last cubic meters because Ukraine had again Zviahilsky was already under investiga– after Leonid Kuchma resigned from that January in Moscow. The Pivdenne Design failed to pay off its energy debt. tion. Mr. Tkachenko also is currently post in September 1993 under pressure Bureau, located in a former rocket plant, Ukrhazprom reported that talks between under investigation for his role in a "corn from miners in that region. Mr. will eliminate SS-19 intercontinental ballis– Ukraine and Russia over the country's seed" scandal. A committee headed by Zviahilsky was mayor of Donetske in tic missiles, each of which is capable of gas arrears had ended inconclusively. Deputy Les Taniuk is collecting informa– 1992-1993. delivering six nuclear weapons to any part (RFE7RL Daily Report) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47 CBC to air internment documentary UCC representative quits over by Christopher Guly Had a Price" would better fit Newsworld since it didn't have the style and presen– bickering about redress issue OTTAWA - At times, Yurij Luhovy tation required for broadcast on prime- by Christopher Guly Bardyn when he returns from Ukraine." must have felt as embattled by discrimina– time television. tion in Canada as the Ukrainian Canadian The last official UCC request, based Mr. Luhovy's film received an honorable OTTAWA - Bohdan Kordan, a internees of the World War 1 period who on a 1992 Price Waterhouse report, mention at the 42nd Columbus international Ukrainian Canadian Congress representa– are the subject of his now-controversial called for up to S50 million in a commu– Film and video Festival in Ohio last month. tive who has been negotiating with documentary, "Freedom Had a Price." nity redress package to compensate for He has also garnered awards for his 1983 Canadian officials to resolve the Historic compensation has yet to fall economic losses suffered by some 5,000 film on the Stalin-led Ukrainian famine, Ukrainian internment redress issue, has their way. For the 45-year-old Montreal- Ukrainian Canadians interned during the "Harvest of Despair," and for editing work quit in disgust. based filmmaker - after months of stalling first world war. in the 1992 film on the Mohawk uprising at "1 don't want to be involved in some- and excuses - the Canadian Broadcasting in 1988, former Progressive Conserva– Oka, Quebec, four years ago titled, thing as serious as this when groups are Corp. will finally air the 55-minute pro- tive Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's gov– "Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance " struggling over who represents who, gram on both its main network and on its ernment gave the Japanese Canadian com– Responding to the number of letters, rather than trying to represent the issue," 24-hour News world cable channel. munity a S12 million community develop– signed petitions and phone calls received said Dr. Kordan, in a telephone interview Broadcast dates have yet to be con- ment fund, along with S21,000 to every sur– in support of televising "Freedom Had a from his home in Saskatoon. firmed. vivor of World War П internment camps. Price," Mr. Carlin told the Ukrainian On October 9, The Ukrainian Weekly As a public relations exercise, CBC's That's also when the Canadian government voice that the CBC doesn't "program published a brief jointly submitted by refusal to air "Freedom had a Price" has replaced the War Measures Act with what it according to what people say." Bohdan Kordan of the Ukrainian been disastrous. considered to be a more civil libertarian The CBC receives Sl.l billion in gov– Canadian Congress and Lubomyr Luciuk in a letter to Mr. Luhovy this spring, Emergencies Act. ernment funding annually. "One million of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties CBC Newsworld senior producer Jerry Last year, the Mulroney government Ukrainian Canadians pay taxes to sup- Association (UCCLA). it was submitted Mclntosh suggested that the S330,000 film offered an omnibus apology to the port the CBC which is also supposed to to Parks Canada and the Banff National wasn't contemporary enough for broadcast Ukrainian, italian, German, Jewish and reflect us," explained Mr. Luhovy. Park administration concerning a request on the documentary series, "Rough Cuts." Sikh communities for past government-led Mr. Mclntosh also suggested that the to erect a plaque to commemorate a first Yet in an story that appeared in the discrimination against them. The film received "funding by groups and World War 1 Ukrainian internment site at Winnipeg-based Ukrainian voice in Ukrainians, Chinese and italian communi– agencies with a specific point of view on Castle Mountain in Banff. early October, Mr. Mclntosh's colleague, ties rejected the offer, which would have That would be one of 26 such plaques Yince Carlin, suggested that "Freedom also seen the construction of a "Nation (Continued on page 12) to be struck at similar historical internment Builders Hall of Record" in Ottawa. sites across Canada, in addition, federal officials have agreed to build a memorial The Tories failed to progress in talks exhibit in Banff by next summer. before they were turfed out of office by However, despite this progress, anoth– the Liberals last fall. So far, despite an er turf war is developing within the assurance offered Mr. Bardyn that the Ukrainian Canadian community on who Liberals "would seek to ensure that the can speak for whom. Neither Dr. Kordan government honors its promise" when nor Dr. Luciuk seemed to receive the they were in opposition, Prime Minister UCC's blessing on negotiating with the Jean Chretien has not come any closer to federal government. a settlement over the Ukrainian intern– "As far as 1 know, ihor Bardyn is chair– ment issue. ing the UCC's redress committee and our According to a recent Winnipeg Free position remains what it always was," said Press editorial written by Dr. Luciuk, Lydia Hawryshkiw, executive director of who is the UCCLA's research director, the UCC. Mr. Bardyn was out of the coun– the Tories, who only have two seats in try and unavailable for comment. the House of Commons, have now ironi– On October 28, Ms. Hawryshkiw cally offered their support to the cause. added that she was unaware of current But, if there is any fracture in negotia– redress negotiations, despite having tions, it begins within the Ukrainian talked with Dr. Luciuk several times Canadian community itself, which has within two days. failed to come together on issues. But, Dr. Luciuk noted, "1 have faxed a Dr. Luciuk said that Dr. Kordan letter to her about the UCCLA's position received a "tongue-lashing" from the UCC Spirit Lake internment camp in Quebec, circa 1916. and am waiting to hear back from Mr. for joining with him in preparing the recent brief to Parks Canada, which doesn't seek financial compensation. Dr. Kordan subse– quently left the negotiations. FOR THE RECORD: Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Proposal The Luciuk-Kordan proposal requests federal government funding for communi– Following is the text of the Ukrainian Canadian 5) Locate and acquire any artifacts connected with ty awareness programs "based on the prop– Restitution Proposal to the government of Canada prepared Canada's first national internment operations and the erty confiscated" during the internment by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Ukrainian Canadian community in that time period and pro– process, as well as an amendment to the Copies of this document were submitted on November 11 to tect these, under museum conditions, in the Castle Mountain 1988 Emergencies Act and an acknowl– all members of Parliament and senators. center; edgment by Prime Minister Chretien in the House of Commons. The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association 6) Collect and prepare microfiche copies of all archival (UCCLA), on behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian community, records, photographs and other available materials pertaining "We aren't asking for money because respectfully requests that the Government of Canada: to the internment operations, develop trilingual there are only two identified survivors," (English7FrenchAJkrainian) finding aids to these documents said Dr. Luciuk. 1) Ensure all Canadians know about the unwarranted and and include these as part of the Castle Mountain center's However, Dr. Kordan, a political sci– unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as "enemy aliens" library and archives; entist at the University of Saskatchewan, during Canada's first national internment operations by a 7) Undertake archaeological surveys and retrieve any denies anyone either silenced him or statement in the House of Commons from the Prime Minister remaining historical artifacts still located at the internment asked him to leave. of Canada, with the participation of all of the parties now camps and temporary work sites where Ukrainian Canadians "Fm not interested in dissensions," he represented in the House of Commons and the Senate of and others were kept or worked during Canada's first nation– explains. "There is so much needless Canada and, al internment operations; fracturing going on, which seems so 2) Review and, if described, amend The Emergency Act 8) Place historical markers at all of the 26 internment endemic to Ukrainians. " (1988) to ensure that no other Canadian ethnic, religious or camp sites and at all temporary work sites where Ukrainian Dr. Kordan said he doubts the racial minority ever suffers as Ukrainian Canadians did dur– Canadian and other internees were incarcerated or forced to Canadian government will renew negoti– ing Canada's first national internment operations. work during the period from August 4, 1914, to June 20, ations to resolve the 10-year-old redress in restitution, we respectfully request the government of 1920, and properly maintain them thereafter, the texts of all request while the UCC and the UCCLA Canada to: plaques to be site-specific and consistent across Canada, remain at odds with one another. 3) Develop a major interpretive center, library, museum, developed in consultation with the UCCLA. No entrance fee "What we need is one unified group to conference facility and archival repository dealing with should ever be charged for anyone wishing to visit any of represent the issue, rather than having Canada's first national internment operations and Ukrainian these sites. groups fighting for who legitimately rep- Canadians, at or near the site of the Castle Mountain intern– Particular attention should be given to the following pro– resents the community," he said. ment camp in Banff National Park; jects at several, selected concentration camp sites: One thing is clear. Everyone involved 4) Establish a scholar-in-residence program connected The internees' cemetery at Spirit Lake (La Ferme), appears adamant about the Canadian with the Castle Mountain interpretive center, providing stu– Quebec, should be restored to its original condition, properly government returning some of the money dents of the Ukrainian Canadian experience, and in particular maintained thereafter and, should the family so request, the confiscated from Ukrainian Canadians. of the internment operations, with an opportunity to under– remains of Carolka (Nellie) Manko should be exhumed and "That's not their money that's sitting take undergraduate-level research and writing in a properly in the treasury," explained Dr. Kordan. equipped facility; (Continued on page 12) "That certainly has to be returned in some portion." No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Los Angeles community celebrates UNA centennial by Luba Poniatyszyn Keske world. From humble beginnings, it has grown into a mini-conglomerate. The LOS ANGELES - The greater Los Ukrainian National Association today is Angeles Ukrainian community cele– involved in selling life insurance in the brated the centennial of the founding of United States and Canada, which is its the Ukrainian National Association and bread-and-butter business." the 45th anniversary of Los Angeles "it also publishes Svoboda and The Branch 257 named in honor of John Ukrainian Weekly, a children's magazine Hodiak. Almost 300 people attended and a yearly almanac, it is also the pub– the jubilee banquet and concert at the lisher of many books on Ukrainian topics Ukrainian Cultural Center on Sunday, both in Ukrainian and English. The UNA October 30. owns a 15-story office building across The banquet commenced with the from the World Trade Center, it owns Kobzar Ukrainian National Choir, con- and operates a year-round resort in the ducted by Gregory Hallick, singing the Catskill Mountains of New York state, it American national anthem and "The has offices in Washington and a press Lord's Prayer." Msgr. Peter Leskiw, pas- bureau in Kyyiv, Ukraine," she contin– tor of the Nativity of the Blessed virgin ued. Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, The UNA secretary went on to point offered the invocation. out that "As illustrious as our past has Luba Poniatyszyn Keske, president of been, we must be concerned with the the Los Angeles branch, welcomed the future. Will the UNA be there for another guests and introduced the branch offi– hundred years? Suprisingly enough, young cers: Kalyna H. Snylyk, vice-president; American Ukrainians are all familiar with During the cake-cutting ceremony (from left) are: Luba Poniatyszyn Keske, Nicholas Medvid, secretary; Zoryana N. The Weekly and Soyuzivka; some even Katrina Hodiak, Martha Lysko, Kalyna H. Snylyk and Nicholas Medvid. Keske, assistant secretary; Theodore recognize Svoboda as the paper their par– Stelmach, treasurer; and Gregory ents and grandparents read. However, very ebrated late movie star John Hodiak, Ms. Hodiak and members of the banquet Makuch, sergeant-at-arms. few young Ukrainian Americans identify shared remembrances of her dad and her committee. The program was concluded The audience was treated to an artistic the UNA as their sponsor. Many do not grandparents, whom she called "tato і with the Ukrainian national anthem in an program headlined by the Kobzar Choir, realize that all of these undertakings are mama." arrangement by Mr. Hallick. which included four Ukrainian folk money-losing propositions and that the Lively strains of "Mnohaya Lita" sung The co-masters of ceremonies for the songs arranged specifically by Mr. UNA subsidizes them annually to the tune by Kobzar accompanied the presentation program were Mrs. Snylyk (Ukrainian) Hallick for this concert. The Ukrainian of S2 million. The money comes from one of the beautifully decorated cake com– and Mr. Medvid (English). Dancers of Los Angeles, under the direc– source only: the UNA makes money by memorating the two anniversaries. The Proceeds from the, event, which tion of Andrej Baczynskyj, executed selling life insurance." cake, bearing the two anniversary dates, included a raffle, are earmarked for char– three exciting dances and brought down Thus, she underlined, "in order to was ceremoniously cut by Mrs. Lysko, itable organizations in Ukraine. the house with a Hopak skillfully chore– continue our educational, charitable and ographed for this occasion by Mr. youth-oriented work, we must have a Baczynskyj. constant and growing source of income, Also on the bill was the very popular in the last two decades we have not been and lovely international singing star from able to reach the new generation of Las vegas, Joy Brittan, whose thrilling Ukrainian Americans. We need to mar– repertoire from her new album included ket our products in this group. We have the beautiful hymn "How Great Thou modernized our insurance products, and Art" with Ukrainian lyrics. they compete well with the commercial Martha Lysko, UNA secretary, was insurance industry." the keynote speaker. Mrs. Lysko "We want to serve the needs of these addressed the audience in both Ukrainian young people as we have done in the and English. Her speech incorporating a past for their great-grandparents," Mrs. brief history and reflections on the role Lysko said. "Unless we bridge this gen– of the UNA was especially interesting to eration gap, our community and the the many non-Ukrainians in attendance. UNA will not have a promise of another Mrs. Lysko noted: "A hundred years centenial, we will be unable to support ago in Shamokin, Pa., a few men of good all those causes that are near and dear to faith and a vision of the future laid the our hearts." cornerstone for this organization, the Katrina Hodiak, an actress and singer strongest Ukrainian organization in the in her own right, and daughter of the cel– Young UNfl'er The Kobzar Ukrainian National Choir, conducted by Gregory Hallick. activists. Marianka's parents are Stefko and Lesia Kuropas, who reside in Schaumburg, ill. Stefko, elected to the UNA General Assembly in 1994, is beginning his first year as a UNA advisor. Marianka's great-great-grandfather, victor Mehal, was a founding member and first secretary of UNA Branch 137 in Easton, Pa., in 1913. One of Marianka's great-grandfa– thers, Stephen Kuropas, was a long- time member of the UNA Supreme Assembly, first as a supreme auditor (25 years) and later as supreme vice-presi– dent (eight years). Her other great- grandfather, Michael Waskiw, was sec– retary of UNA Branch 88 in Kerhonkson, N.Y., for many years. Her grandfather, Myron B. Kuropas, was a UNA supreme advisor for 16 years and supreme vice-president for 12 years. Mariana Larysa Kuropas, born on July Her grandmother, Larissa Dijak, is record– 7 and immediately enrolled as a member ing secretary of UNA Branch 238 in of UNA Branch 423 in Chicago, is a fifth- Boston. Her great aunt, vera Gojewycz, is generation member of a family of UNA secretary of UNA Branch 423. The Ukrainian Dancers of Los Angeles perform the welcome dance, "Pry vit 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47 Appeal to members of the THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY and all Ukrainians of good will Servant of God Andrey On Sunday, October 23, the CBS television network aired a segment called "The Ugly Face of Freedom" on "60 Minutes." in that report, Lviv and western Ukraine were pre– This month, Ukrainian communities all around the world are taking time out sented as a hotbed of anti-Semitism and Nazism. This 15-minute segment, which was to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of a giant among men — the great based on inaccurate information and timeworn falsifications of the history of Ukraine, churchman and humanitarian Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. slandered not only western Ukrainians but Ukrainians in general. Our Ukrainian commu– in the preface to the book "Morality and Reality: The Life and Times of Andrei nity reacted quickly to this defamatory broadcast by phoning and writing protests to CBS. Sheptytskyi," Dr. Paul R. Magocsi states: "Sheptytsky's career reflected in a very Unfortunately, to this day, CBS has not reacted to these protests by issuing a retraction or profound sense a constant dilemma: how to defend universal religious principles an apology; it has merely aired excerpts from several viewers' letters. in an often inhospitable environment. To put it more simply: how to make This new incident of the defamation of Ukrainians is yet another in a long series of Christian morality the basis of everyday reality." indeed, this was the case, as the actions by the mass media that discredit the Ukrainian nation and destroy its good metropolitan spoke out for his flock and those of other faiths who found them– name. Now, however, this comes on the eve of the first state visit of President Leonid selves living under the Polish and Russian regimes, and the Nazi occupation. Kuchma to Washington. This time the defamation was widely disseminated through- Sheptytsky made two dangerous secret trips to Russia during his first 15 years out the United States and Canada, because it is known that this particular broadcast of as head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Austria-Hungary; with papal approval, "60 Minutes" was seen by nearly 20 million viewers. he ordained priests for the Russian Catholic Church and consecrated bishops for it was in 1985, in response to an increasing barrage of attacks in the mass media parts of Ukraine. When World War 1 broke out and Russian armies entered and various publications directed against Ukrainians that the Ukrainian National Austria-Hungary, Metropolitan Andrey stayed with his faithful. Suspected of polit– Association created the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund, its goal was to defend the ical intrigues against the Russian empire, he was arrested and confined in various good name of Ukrainians and to counter attempts at accusing the Ukrainian nation of locations in Russia. At the time of the Polish "Pacification" campaign in the 1930s, war crimes and collaboration with the Nazis. Metropolitan Andrey issued public protests to the Polish hierarchy against the per– Just as it did then, today the UNA believes that we must speak out against all unjust secution of Ukrainian and Belarusian Orthodox. After the Nazis invaded western Ukraine, Metropolitan Andrey publicly accusations in the name of fairness and in order to defend the good name of all denounced the extermination of the Jews in a pastoral letter titled "Thou Shalt Ukrainians, if we do not act decisively and quickly, this disinformation about the role Not Kill," and he sent notes to German officials of the occupation administra– of Ukrainians during the second world war will continue to be disseminated across the tion, and to Heinrich Himmler himself, to protest. Furthermore, he directed North American continent and to all segments of society. Ukrainian Catholic monasteries to give refuge to Jewish children. Some 300 to Significant amounts of money are needed to conduct significant counteractions. 400 children were thus rescued from death. That is why the Executive Committee of the UNA has renewed fund-raising for the Rabbi David Kahana told this story to Leo Heiman, writing for The Jewish Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund, it calls on all members of the UNA and all people Digest (January 1963): "The first rescue operation took place on the night of of good will to respond generously to this appeal. August 14, 1942, when 200 Jewish children... were smuggled out of the ghetto Donations will be applied only to the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund; donors' names to monasteries and convents where they were concealed in crypts and given will be announced in 2 UNA publications. Checks should be payable to "Ukrainian forged certificates of baptism and Ukrainian-sounding names. Then they were National AssociationTUHDF" (please note "60 Minutes" at the bottom of the check) and dispersed among convent schools and Catholic orphanages in and around Lviv. sent to: Ukrainian National Association, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. AH of them survived the Nazi occupation and the war because the priests, nuns Help defend truth and justice. Help defend the good name of Ukrainians. and monks risked torture and death as they played a deadly game of outwitting Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association Nazi spies, collaborators and stool pigeons." Kurt Lewin tells a similar story of how he was hidden and lived for two years disguised as a monk, thanks to Metropolitan Sheptytsky and his brother Clement, superior of the Studite Order, in 1959, Mr. Lewin appeared before a Church tri– Appeal to readers of The Weekly bunal in Rome as a witness supporting the canonization of this holy man. in his recently published book, "A Journey Through illusions" (1994) Mr. Lewin writes: "The man was loved and revered by all who came in contact with from Heritage Defense Committee him. His Church, thanks to spiritual renewal and his guidance, survived 45 years By now, all of us must be aware of the horrible bigotry and stereotyping displayed of persecution by the Soviet regime and emerged from the underground strong by CBS's "60 Minutes" program on October 23. Protests, letters, telefaxes and phone and vibrant. His ideas of bridging the two Christianities, a guiding motive of his calls immediately engulfed CBS from many of us throughout this country and pastoral activity, are reintroduced now in Eastern Europe to cope with the crisis of Canada. All of these have thus far fallen on deaf ears, because CBS has not retracted values and the collapse of Marxist-Leninist ideology. He was the only Church one iota of its patently false allegations. leader who had the courage to protest the horror of the Holocaust in his pastoral letter, Thou Shalt Not Kill'..." Like mushrooms, numerous ad hoc groups of dedicated individuals have sprung up throughout the United States and Canada, many duplicating what others are doing and none acting as a clearinghouse in order to inform all the others what is going on, sup- The process of canonization of this sainted man was begun in 1955 by the plying those who need it with materials, both historical and legal, and formulating a Catholic Church at the request of Ukrainian bishops in the free world. After the coherent, coordinated master plan for action that will make CBS "cry uncle." required investigation of the metropolitan's life and deeds, the first step toward his recognition as a saint came with conferral of the title Servant of God. Now, As the editorial in last week's Weekly quite cogently stated, CBS is merely waiting, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, Ukrainians around the hoping that, like a conflagration in a pile of straw, our protest will flash and soon die. world are reciting Metropolitan Andrey's prayers and seeking his intercession We must assume the attitude that we "have not yet begun to fight." in furtherance of the just cause of his canonization. At the Ukrainian National Association's Home office, a group of Ukrainian Americans has been meeting every week to coordinate a master plan that will have the desired effect. Among the organizations that send delegates to this ad hoc group, now called the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee, are: the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian veterans, Harvard Ukrainian Research institute, Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Ukrainian American Bar Association, Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine, Ukrainian Professionals and Business Persons Association, Children of Turning the pages back.. Chornobyl Relief Fund, UNCHA1N and the Ukrainian National Association. Also present are representatives of Ukraine's Mission to the United Nations. Many individuals come out of concern and dedication. There is no more urgent cause facing Ukrainians and those of Ukrainian descent. The Ukrainian Central Rada viewed with uneasiness the Each and every one of us has actually been touched by this program, since it is clear successful Bolshevik overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional that the 17 to 20 million viewers who regularly watch this program now have an Government in Petrograd on November 7, 1917. The Rada, image of Ukrainians as intended to be put forth by CBS. І will not repeat those slan– which included Social Democrats, Socialist Revolutionaries and liberal moderates, derous characterizations. However, it is clear that our reaction must be rational and numbered merely 10 Bolsheviks. On November 10, when fighting broke out in Kyyiv coherent - and that it must continue. between supporters of the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks, it threw its meager military force behind the Reds, resulting in their victory. To that end, the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee, together with the Ukrainian National Association, has revived the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund and herewith However, instead of merging the two political forces, the Central Rada on appeals to all readers to join their local committee in writing letters to CBS and to its November 22 proclaimed the Third Universal creating the Ukrainian National sponsors, in protest marches, in writing letters to the editors of your local newspapers, in Republic, with autonomy over the territory of Ukraine within a Russian Federation. attempting to obtain equal time from your local CBS affiliate or other ТУ stations, in Among its more salient points: abolishment of capital punishment as well as owner- short, we cannot lay this issue to rest. ship of land by those who did not work it; a declaration that all land belonged to the The Ukrainian American Bar Association is considering a lawsuit and is research– working masses; introduction of an eight-hour work day; affirmation of freedom of ing the question of whether CBS, or Morley Safer in particular, has committed a hate speech, press, assembly and religion, and the right to strike. crime as defined by any number of local or state statutes. The Ukrainian Heritage The Bolsheviks, who at first acknowledged falthough only grudgingly because Defense Committee is contemplating placement of full-page ads in various newspa– they themselves were then militarily weakj Ukrainian autonomy, soon changed their pers for purposes of combating this defamation. All of these actions require funds. policy. Recruiting heavily from a Ukrainian population disenchanted by the weakness and disorganization of the Central Rada, by mid-December the Bolsheviks had built For this reason, we appeal to all readers to contribute generously to the Ukrainian their military strength and had sent troops towards Kyyiv. By mid-January of 1918 National Association7UHDF, or UNA7UHDF, and to forward your checks to: Ukrainian the city was under full attack. National Association, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. (Please note "60 Minutes" on the bottom of checks.) Sources: ''Ukraine: A History," by Oresl Subtelny (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, second edition, 1994); " Universal's of the Central Rada," Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Уоі. 5 UNA! Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993). Nestor Olesnycky, Chairman No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 7 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky: the life of a humble servant of God by Alexander Kuzma For 45 years, the metropolitan of Lviv presided over a jects, the hundreds of examples of his good works, does Church whose faithfulness was tested as perhaps no not really capture the essence of this man. There was a To comment on the life of a saint, one has to begin other in the recent history of Christianity. Throughout transcendent quality about him that awed everyone who with a keen sense of one's own inadequacy and unwor– this period, the archbishop walked the earth as a power– came in contact with him - from children to foreign dig– thiness. There are many in the audience today whose ful reminder of God's mercy, a messenger of hope, a nitaries, from aristocrats to common folk, in one famous lives were touched by this remarkable human being - healer, a comforter and a prophet of peace. He was, in passage from his journal, a French diplomat described persons who are more deserving of the right to tell his finest sense of the word, a leader who instilled in his fol– his meeting with the metropolitan, saying, "in looking story. The life of the late metropolitan warrants years of lowers a willingness to endure and overcome unspeak– into his eyes, 1 had the impression that 1 was in the very study and reverent contemplation. No summary can do able hardships, an eagerness for self-sacrifice, a sense of presence of God Himself." him justice, and the best we can hope for today is to gain dignity and sacred duty that helped carry them through Never was Sheptytsky's commitment to non-violence just a few insights into the Glory that shone upon him. all their darkest hours. and his zealous defense of Christian values tested more He was born Roman Oleksander Maria Sheptytsky. The metropolitan always led by example. His acts of fiercely than in the last years of his life, at the height of His aristocratic Ukrainian family had nearly assimilated charity remain legendary to this day. in 1917, he donat– the Nazi occupation, it was the archbishop's finest hour, into the ranks of Polish society, and he was raised with ed S3 million crowns from his estate - an enormous sum it was also his most perilous and least understood. When the expectation that he would become prominent in the - to establish a fund for children orphaned by World the German armies arrived in 1941, they were at first East European elite. He received the finest education War 1. He established the Theological Academy of Lviv, welcomed as liberators. Yes, even Sheptytsky welcomed available at the universities of Krakow and Wroclaw, and a national museum, regional medical centers, a women's the Germans initially, for they had removed the Soviets was awarded the degree of juris doctor in 1887. it was health clinic, dozens of hospitals. who had waged a campaign of terror in the Ukrainian fashionable at that time for members of the gentried boyar A prolific writer, and a man of phenomenal energy, countryside following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. classes to pursue a military career. But after undergoing Sheptytsky routinely slept only four hours per day, Sheptytsky's attitude towards the Nazis changed radical– training briefly as an officer with the Austrian army, ly - and swiftly. His defiance and resistance to Nazi ter– Sheptytsky adopted the missionary name "Andrey" and ror was nothing short of awe-inspiring. entered a Basilian monastery at the age of 23. in 1942, Sheptytsky wrote a blistering letter to His life decision was extraordinary in many aspects, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, in which he openly and it caused no small amount of controversy in his expressed his outrage over the persecution of Jews. He family. The Sheptytsky clan had already produced two went much further, insisting that the monasteries and archbishops for the Ukrainian Church, and Roman had churches under his jurisdiction provide sanctuary for been a very devout Christian from a very young age. So Jewish refugees. According to several historians of the his decision to enter the priesthood did not come as a Holocaust, including Raul Hilberg and Nora Levin, great surprise. At this time, however, Ukraine was Sheptytsky's defense of Jews was outstanding, especial– undergoing a period of severe hardship, and ly when compared with other religious leaders of his Sheptytsky's commitment to serve this oppressed nation time. The metropolitan ordered that Jewish children was viewed as unworthy of his talents and prestige. under his protection be taught their own faith and tradi– Early on, Sheptytsky had a sense of vision for his tions, and that no undue influence be applied to win people, and a powerful vocation that could not be shak– their conversion to Christianity. en by his family's disapproval. He had a deep and abid– At the same time, Sheptytsky used the full authority ing love for Ukrainian culture, for the liturgical tradition of his office to dissuade his followers from collaborating of St. John Chrysostom, and a great respect for the in Nazi war crimes. By 1942 he was feeble and confined Church's rich and painful history. Tall and regal in his to a wheelchair, yet repeatedly he mustered his strength bearing, he was a powerful homilist, and his presence at and used his pulpit at St. George's Cathedral in Lviv to a celebration of the Eucharist was an exalted event, deliver scathing indictments of the Holocaust unfolding according to those who remember. on Ukrainian soil. He excommunicated war criminals He completed his studies in theology and began his and denied the sacraments to Germans and Ukrainians priestly career as the hegumen of the Monastery of St. who persecuted Jews. Onofrius in Lviv, where he became the editor of a jour– By 1944, the Gestapo was so furious with his outspo– nal titled The Missionary. Rising quickly through the kenness that it ordered his arrest, in a riveting moment ranks, at the age of 34 he was ordained bishop of later described by an eyewitness, heavily armed police Stanislaviv, and less than two years later he was elevat– units swarmed into Sheptytsky's residence, clubbed the ed to the powerful post of metropolitan of Halych, arch- priests who were guarding the archbishop, and burst into bishop of Lviv and bishop of Kamianets-Podilsky. his study. There they found the white-haired former Andrey Sheptytsky's early career was all the more monk sitting calmly, staring at them with accusing eyes. remarkable because, fundamentally, he was not a A hush settled over the room as the Gestapo, their guns careerist. Even after his appointment to the lofty post of drawn, seemed stunned by the composure of the old metropolitan, he shunned the pomp and the titles of his man. Finally, the officer in charge shook his head and peers, and this endeared him to his people. He followed Graphic of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky by L. uttered - "Nein, das ist Gott." For all the raw power at literally the teachings of Christ, who urged his disciples Loboda (1989). their disposal, the Nazis left the residence convinced to break the pattern of those who yearned for power and that they had just come face to face with a divine being. authority. Sheptytsky was ever mindful of the critical spending much of the night in prayer. passage in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 22, when Sheptytsky was evidently a man with the power to Servant Andrey had a special place in his heart for Jesus spoke these words on the eve of his crucifixion: chase out demons. Yet the demons that plagued Ukraine children and youth. He was a major patron of the arts, of "But you are not to be like the Kings of the Gentiles... at this time were legion, and Sheptytsky knew he had to youth camps, kindergartens, orphanages, scouting and confront the future with sober, unrelenting courage. instead, the greatest among you should be like the least, athletic programs. He saw the Church as a positive and and the one who rules like one who serves. For who is Shortly before his death in November of 1944, it progressive force in every facet of Ukrainian society. became clear to the metropolitan that with the defeat of greater - the one who sits at the table, or the one who Through a series of pastoral letters, he developed a serves? But 1 am among you as one who serves..." the Nazis, the Soviets would soon return, and that the strategic vision for his Church, and stimulated an Ukrainian Catholic Church would soon be driven under- And so Metropolitan Andrey renounced the trappings unprecedented dialogue that he hoped would build a ground. Working with his vicar, Josyf Slipyj, he intensi– of his nobility and assumed the simple title - Sluha national consensus and a humane code of conduct for fied the schedule of spiritual retreats and steeled his Bozhyi - "Servant of God." clergy and laity to follow. To help bolster the quality of clergy for the inevitable, brutal trials to come. He wrote Metropolitan Andrey knew in advance the terrible education and to expand community service programs, several letters to the vatican, asking the pope to bless cost of his discipleship - the heart-rending burden of he invited Studite monks and the Redemptorist Order him as he prepared for a martyr's death which never being a worthy shepherd for his flock, it was his pro- from Belgium to set up missions in Ukraine. He sched– came. He died quietly on November 1, 1944. found, almost stubborn humility that guided Andrey uled an intensive program of annual retreats by which he There are those who refuse to acknowledge through the devastating era that was to come: when carried out liturgical and monastic reforms. Sheptytsky as one of Righteous Among Nations. Too Ukraine bore the ravages of two world wars, the The archbishop also devoted a lot of his attention to Bolshevik Revolution, the Stalinist purges, the Nazi much has been made of the fact that he initially wel– Ukrainian immigrants in other parts of Europe and over- comed the Germans' entry into Ukraine. Yet contrary to occupation, the Holocaust, and many lesser torments seas, in 1910 and again in 1921, he visited the United that would have easily broken the spirit of a lesser man. the groundless insinuations, the historical record is very States and Canada, it was his support and leadership, in clear: Sheptytsky was never an apologist for evil. in his final years, the archbishop predicted the liquida– large measure, that helped to secure our Church on this tion of his Church, he anticipated its many years in the Gen. Omar Bradley once said that our century has continent, and protected it from needless assimilation been a time of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a underground, and he laid the groundwork for the revival into Roman Catholicism. of religious freedom that we have seen in Ukraine in our world of fallen angels and false heroes it is very hard to it was between these two visits to North America, in find a pure-hearted champion of the human family. Yet lifetime. 1914, that the Russian tsarist government arrested Andrey Sheptytsky personified the towering moral Metropolitan Sheptytsky and sent him into exile in authority of a man who had no armored divisions, no air Suzdal and Yaroslav, on the volga River. The metropol– Alex Kuzma, a native of Connecticut, is a graduate of superiority, no military might - just the unshakable itan's only crime: his refusal to renounce his faith and Yale University and Northeastern University Law School power of his convictions and the ability to move armies his staunch defense of religious freedom, it was during A former staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of of humble, seemingly powerless persons to acts of stun– this period of incarceration that Servant of God Andrey Hartford, Conn., he is currently employed as the director ning, sometimes breathtaking courage. Unlike many of contracted the illness that would plague him throughout of development for the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, his contemporaries, Sheptytsky's witness has withstood his life, eventually depriving him of his ability to walk. based in Short Hills, N.J. the test of time. The more closely we study his life, the Sheptytsky's devotion to the well-being of the The address above was delivered on November 6 at a more we bring into focus the historical context, the more program commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death Ukrainian people and his Church lies at the core of his of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky held in Union, NJ. spiritual quest. To simply catalogue his countless pro– (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47

CONT1NU1NG REACTlON TO "60 MINUTES" REPORT Statement from headquarters American Jewish Committee's of Ukrainian Canadian Congress letter to Moriey Safer of CBS

An open letter concerning the CBS state that 'the beautiful face of freedom' in Following is the text of a letter sent to this complexity was missing from the "60 Minutes" report "The Ugly Face of Ukraine is a lot more predominant than the Moriey Safer, the "60 Minutes" correspon– broadcast. From our own frequent contact Freedom" released by the Ukrainian ugly one. І feel that the CBS broadcast was dent who reported "The Ugly Face of wuth many Ukrainian Jews, including Canadian Congress on November 12. unbalanced since it focused on a very small Freedom," by David A. Harris, executive Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, who was quoted on minority, ignoring the majority and the director of the American Jewish Committee. the air, as well as our visits, most recently Dear Editor7Journalist7Concerned Citizen: positive achievements of Ukraine in its The letter is dated November 2 and is this summer, and our regular communica– three years of independence." reprinted with the author's permission. tion with a wide range of Ukrainian politi– The time is long overdue for people of Rabbi David A. Lincoln of Park Avenue cal, cultural, religious and media personal– all cultural backgrounds, racial origins and Synagogue in New York also wrote "60 Dear Mr. Safer: ities, we believe there to be important con– religious beliefs to let their voices be heard Minutes" ^October 251 and said that structive forces at work within Ukraine loudly and clearly when they have been vic– "Today when Russians send their children The American Jewish Committee was that seek to establish a society based on timized by others because of ignorance, stu– to Ukraine for safe keeping in times of dan– founded in 1906 because of anxiety openness and tolerance. Whether they ulti– pidity, political expediency, chauvinism or ger, no good can come from distortions about the fate of Jews in tsarist Russia mately succeed will, of course, depend on mean spiritedness. it is also time for people such as those portrayed in your program." and, more broadly, to help insure the many factors. Nonetheless, to simply allow to quit accepting as fact that which is pre– The tone of the "60 Minutes" program security and well-being of Jews both in the impression that Ukraine is little more sented for our consumption by the media. was startlingly vitriolic and some of its this country and abroad, it is against this than a hotbed of vicious anti-Semites and Too often, the public has been fed misinfor– rhetoric went far beyond the bounds of backdrop of deep interest both in actual nostalgic Nazi collaborators and that, as a mation or outright lies and accepted it as responsible journalistic comment. Toward manifestations of anti-Semitism and the consequence, all Ukrainian Jews must, at truth, believing the source to be credible. the end of the program, Moriey Safer said: potential for convulsive societal changes least by implication, live in mortal fear, is One need look no further than some of "The Church and government of Ukraine that could adversely affect a Jewish com– to yield, 1 fear, to simplistic and stereotypi– the letters that have appeared recently in have tried to ease people's fears, suggesting munity, that 1 write to share certain con– cal images unbefitting a program of the daily newspapers criticizing Canada's aid that things are not as serious as they might cerns about the October 23 segment on quality and sophistication of "60 Minutes." to Ukraine, because, as one Toronto writer appear; that Ukrainians, despite the allega– Ukraine broadcast on "60 Minutes." stated, "Ukraine is gearing up once again to There are many Ukrainian Jews who tions, are not genetically anti-Semitic." The The tragic legacy of vicious anti- massacre its Jewish population." The letter have chosen to stay, at least for the fore– function of such a disclaimer is to insinuate Semitism in that part of the world is all in question appeared in the Toronto Star, seeable future, in the country and seek to its opposite: Ukrainians, one is encouraged too well-known to any student of Jewish which also featured an editorial page car- build their lives there. Moreover, there to think, are indeed irrational, perhaps history, not to speak of those, like toon of a caricature of Adolf Hitler. What has been an exciting rebirth of Jewish life genetic anti-Semites. myself, whose families originate there. was the reliable source for the letter in many Ukrainian cities, replete with Such extravagant, even inflammatory (My paternal grandmother was from writer's damning allegation? The CBS pro- schools, synagogues and organizations. rhetoric is inadmissible in professional Lvov, then Lemberg.) Moreover, the gram "60 Minutes," which on October 23, Absent encouragement and support from journalism. The program's producers also deep political and geographic divisions broadcast a segment called "The Ugly Face key elements of broader Ukrainian soci– indulge in the tendentious manipulation of within present-day Ukraine, coupled with of Freedom." The producer was Jeffrey ety, this clearly would not be the case. images in order to present today's western genuine economic uncertainty, require Fager, the reporter was Moriey Safer. This side of contemporary Ukraine was Ukrainians in a negative light, and offer a organizations like our own to be espe– What was the essence of the "60 noticeably overlooked. highly distorted version of the historical cially careful in the monitoring of poten– Minutes" report? it depicted Ukrainians, To me, it is ironic that the last time І record to support their thesis of unremit– tially worrisome events and trends. with the focus on western Ukraine, as being wrote to "60 Minutes" was to voice con– ting Ukrainian hostility toward Jews. That said, it is our view that the current extreme anti-Semites who wish to eradicate cern about an episode depicting the lives During the Nazi occupation, more than situation in Ukraine is more complex than all Jews from Ukraine. The report alleges 2 million Ukrainians were taken to portrayed in your segment. Regrettably, (Continued on page 20) that this has come about since the collapse Germany as slave laborers, and a total of of the Soviet Union in a country with its fin– more than 5,265,000 civilians and pris– ger poised on the nuclear button, it also oners of war were killed by the Germans painted a scenario that Ukrainians were in Ukraine. Ukrainians, then, were willing collaborators and instruments of lsrael-Ukraine Association leaders among the foremost victims of Nazi Nazi efforts to exterminate Jews during occupation policies in Eastern Europe. World Warll. They were also among the Nazis' most letter to CBS News Division head The "60 Minutes" report will forever formidable military opponents. The stand as a testament to irresponsible, inac– Ukrainian insurgent Army (UPA) was Below is the text of a letter sent by independence peacefully without civil curate and incompetently researched formed in 1942 and fought the Germans Dmytro Pavlychko, chairman of the unrest or repression of its minorities. reporting. One of the individuals inter- until their retreat from Ukraine, then contin– lsrael-Ukraine Association, to Eric Ober, This is in marked contrast to the situa– viewed on the program was Rabbi Yaakov ued the struggle against the Soviet occupa– president of the CBS News Division. The tion existing in Russia, where home- Bleich of Kyyiv and Ukraine. Rabbi Bleich tion until the early 1950s, in addition, 4.5 letter was translated from Ukrainian by grown anti-Semitism has not only wrote fOctober 31J that "the broadcast did million Ukrainians fought the invading the Canadian Friends of Rukh, Toronto spawned the extremist organization not convey the true state of affairs in Nazis in the ranks of the Red Army. Thus, Branch, and forwarded to CBS. known as Pamiat, it has given a danger– Ukraine. І would also like to state unequiv– the anti-Nazi credentials of the Ukrainian ous nationalist like viadimir Zhirinovsky ocally that my words were quoted out of Dear Mr. Ober: the opportunity to promote his hate-mon– the context that they were said... І must (Continued on page 17) gering to a world audience. As the author of Ukraine's Law for the it is worth recalling that, at the United Protection of National Minorities, and hav– Nations, it was Ukraine that condemned ing recently visited North America, 1 am anti-Semitism as a dehumanizing ideolo– writing to you in my capacity as chairman gy, and as such, it is inconceivable that І Jaciw's perspective f of the lsrael-Ukraine Association to con– Ukraine would ever endorse any form of vey how deeply troubled 1 was to view the racism. But those who would now fan the "60 Minutes" report on Ukraine televised flames of Ukrainophobia are engaging in by your network. as dangerous a form of racism as is anti- The producers of the "60 Minutes" Semitism. Worst of all, mutual defama– report ignored the historical reality and tion will only lead to deeper mistrust. instead sought to portray the Ukrainian Lest we forget, a common history of people as a nation of genetically predis– statelessness and exile unites Jews and posed anti-Semites. Having watched this Ukrainians. Historically, Ukrainians were distorted program, a member of the view– not the oppressors. The plight of the Jews ing public unfamiliar with the current situ– in Ukraine was never in the hands of ation in Ukraine might easily buy into the Ukrainians, so long as Ukrainians them– warped message delivered by this report. selves were a subjugated nation, it was As a poet, former member of Ukraine's the advent of democracy in an indepen– Parliament, and past chairman of Ukraine's dent Ukraine that became the best guar– Parliamentary Committee on Foreign antor of freedom for Jews and Ukrainians Relations, 1 feel compelled to state for the alike, in failing to recognize this reality, record that anti-Semitism has never been the producers of "60 Minutes" have sadly an inherent Ukrainian characteristic. There dealt a powerful blow to the monumental is no better proof of this than Ukraine's gains made by both peoples. recent past, it is to the credit of the Ukrainian people that, in the often chaotic Dmytro Pavlychko dying days of the Soviet Union, when anti- Chairman Semitism could easily have shown its ugly lsrael-Ukraine Association face, the citizens of Ukraine gained their Kyyiv, Ukraine No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 9 REviEW: Masterful documentary provides antidote to Ukrainian-Jewish mistrust "7 Bude Novyi Den" (And a New Day Will Come), A National Cinemateque of The documentrary never flinches from 20th century. Jabotinsky went on to form Ukraine release, 1994 the most difficult questions, in fact, in the first Jewish legions in israel, forming goes directly to the heart of each contro– the basis of the israeli armed forces. by Andrij Wynnyckyj classical music, grows somber, "it seems versy and does so provocatively, it Petliura was shot on the streets of Paris by that the prophecy has come to pass: the And as 1 looked, 1 saw a letter. And they alludes to the Kabbalist prophecy that the a man seeking to avenge the pogroms of time for parting has arrived, and we shall Messiah would come in the year 5408. 1918-1920. As the film points out, to his asked, "Do you see the letter?" І replied, "1 part, with a stone under our shirt, with do." They said, "You see the letter because "The year came," the narrator says, "but dying day Jabotinsky defended Petliura evil in our heart, having searched for the instead of the Messiah, came Bohdan and his fellow senior officials of the there is light. " And 1 asked, "Why don't І heart of darkness in the other." see the light?" They said, "That is because Khmelnytsky" with his murderous revolt, Ukrainian government against charges that As the film suggests, the abyss between a traumatic event whose memory Jews they incited pogroms. you are looking not at the white, but at the the Jews and Ukrainians became ever deep– black. " Then 1 looked at the white, and І have passed down through the ages. "1 know this type of Ukrainian intel– er over time, a divide that cast a shadow The narrator asks, rhetorically: Why lectual," Jabotinsky wrote, "1 grew up realized 1 was free. which "has many names in the history of — Ben Baruch did Khmelnytsky's Kozaks murder Jews? with them, fought together with them man: war, revolution, pogroms, genocide." "For the crucifixion of Christ? For the against anti-Semitism and Russifiers A blacked-out screen marks the begin– For members of the "Project Ukraine" total disrespect shown Ukrainians... (both Jewish and Ukrainian). That tthe ning of one of the most important docu– group, including this reviewer, the among whom they made their living? For Ukrainian government of 1917-19203 mentaries ever made in Ukraine, in the screening in Kyyiv had a particularly loyal service to Polish rulers (and other was a great chance — all of our subse– English dubbed version of director Roman strong resonance. We had just visited oppressors of UkraineJ?" quent history could have been different." Shyrman's "1 Bude Novyi Den" (And a many of the sites depicted and, on a more And yet, soon after, an equally Considerable attention is given to New Day Will Come), Prof. Taras personal level, had just met with some of provocative counter-argument is made by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Some, Hunczak of Rutgers' University intones the the people who either appear in the docu– Mr. Marynovych, who contends that particularly the Soviet regime, considered above epigraph, in the original, Ukraine's mentary, such as Taras vozniak and since Jews chose various strategies of him a "fascist in a cassock." Others, includ– leading actor, Bohdan Stupka, reads the Myroslav Marynovych, or who helped survival in the midst of ethnically hetero– ing David Kahane, rabbi of the israeli Air lines in Ukrainian, and a spiral of white make it, such as Leonid Finberg, who geneous societies, Ukrainians have no Force and a man Metropolitan Sheptytsky light gradually fills the screen. worked as a research consultant. right to demand of Jews to act against personally saved from the Nazis, contend Produced by Bohdan Diatsenko (exec– Mr. vozniak, a Lviv-born philosopher their self-interest, even if it means that that his name belongs on Yad vashem's utive producer, ihor Muntian) at the and former aide to Lviv Oblast Council they align themselves with their enemies. Aisle of the Righteous in israel. Kyyivnaukfilm studio of the National Chairman Mykola Horyn, is first to The Drohobych-based political scien– As the camera passes over portraits of Cinemateque of Ukraine, this two-part appear. Seen sitting in downtown Lviv, tist also contends that the Jewish and Sheptytsky, the narrator speaks: made-for-Tv documentary succeeds in in front of the lone remaining wall of the Ukrainian diasporas in North America "Ukrainians and Jews... we are servants in providing what the attack journalists of city's oldest synagogue (the Ben Rosa not only have an integral role to play in an Egyptian captivity of our own making." CBS who produced "The Ugly Face of synagogue, dynamited by the Nazis in the reconciliation between the two peo– But now, for the first time in history, Freedom" could only dream of: a com– 1941), Mr. vozniak tells the viewer that ples, but that they are lagging behind neither Jews nor Ukrainians are in captiv– prehensive and balanced survey of this wall reminds him of the other progress being made in Ukraine. As a ity. Both have their own independent Ukrainian-Jewish relations through histo– "remaining" wall, the Wailing Wall of result, they are actually impeding an states. Now, they can finally address the ry, warts and all. the Temple in Jerusalem. He uses it as a improvement in relations. history that has divided them and the Filmed by cameraman Dmytro point of departure to speak of the debt the "Although they both live in democra– future that can bring them together. Sannikov and Mr. Shyrman in Ukraine world and Ukrainian culture, and their cies, they have proved unable to shed old At its worst, this film shoves a lance and israel from May to September 1993, Christian faith, owe to the Jews. prejudices," claims Mr. Marynovych. directly into the heart of misconceptions, it was premiered before a Filmmakers' Mr. Marynovych, a Drohobych-born Jews, although they have helped build a forcing Ukrainian and Jewish viewers and Critics Union audience in April former dissident, currently heads the state in israel, still consider themselves alike, particularly those who have taken a 1994. Members of the American Jewish Ukrainian chapter1 of Amnesty (and by implication, Jews in Ukraine) as side in this contest between two peoples Committee's "Project Ukraine" were for– international, in the film, he is shown "foreign, superfluous to this world," and who have been subjugated through the tunate to attend a screening on July 29, walking through Jerusalem which, along thus under constant threat from a hostile ages, to cry out in pain. during their brief visit to Kyyiv. with Kyyiv, constitute the foundation of environment. Ukrainians, on the other At its best, it provides an antidote to Ukraine's former minister of culture, his faith. "When І came to Jerusalem, І hand, having left the iron Curtain, feel the poison of ignorance that has divided ivan Dzyuba, has already recommended wished to commit the defining acts of a they are still part of a pogromist nation as Ukrainians and Jews: knowledge. that it be given the country's Shevchenko Christian: to forgive and to be forgiven." far as the media is concerned. This is a time when the poison of Prize, the Ukrainian equivalent of the And yet, because of the ongoing ten– According to the Amnesty international ignorance settled down like a ghastly Pulitzer. sions between the two people, he found leader, "this greatly troubles the Jewish and mist over more than 17 million viewers The second shot in the documentary that he could not think of the two cities Ukrainian intelligentsia of Ukraine, since in North America, because of CBS's pans the historic Jewish cemetery in without pain. "Ukrainians should real– we have become hostages of the media "The Ugly Face of Freedom." And yet, Brody, formerly a trading town populated ize," Mr. Marynovych says, "that a machine which propagates both of these "A New Day Will Come" stands ready to largely by Jews on the border between Christian who doesn't know how to for– stereotypes." burn this mist away. the Austrian and Russian empire. The give and to ask for forgiveness ceases to The documentary offers a courageous CBS should be asked to broadcast it. if narration, translated and read by Prof. be a Christian." Jews, he says "should and passionate portrayal of Symon Petliura it doesn't, its competitors should, and Hunczak, continues: realize that ttheyl will only be true to the and viadimir Jabotinsky, their friendship thereby benefit from all the gratitude at "They were consumed by the ground high calling of the Moshiach if ttheyj and collaboration as leaders of the first the Ukrainian and Jewish communities' like rainwater, they were scattered about reflect his image." independent Ukrainian government in the command. and washed away. But from generation to generation, they told their children: 'Next year in Jerusalem.' " Then comes a shot of a typically bucol– ic Ukrainian scene: houses nestled on a hill like mushrooms on a bumpy carpet of moss, "it was prophesied that God would gather them from the four corners of the world and settle in peaceful villages," con– tinues the narration, "For the Ukrainians, this land is the center of the universe; for the Jews, the end of the world." And so the documentary rolls on, with aphorisms and quotations of poetry that resonate from the depths of Jewish and Ukrainian consciousness, virtually every word in the film, scripted by Zinaida Fourmanova, could be quoted as an epi– graph. As images ranging from medieval ruins in Ukraine and depictions of Jewish rural shtetls to family photographs, Ukrainian Kozaks, peasantry and sights in Kyyiv swing by, the narrator tells us, "there fol– lowed hundreds of years of peace, a year of butchery, then more years of living, without particular sympathy, without excessive respect, barely knowing each other — even worse — not even knowing themselves." The scenes shift suddenly to a modern city, and the film score, which passes throughout from a nostalgic folUklezmer The western wall of the Ben Rosa synagogue in Lviv, the city's oldest, which appears in the documentary "And a New Day melody to passages of modern pop and Will Come." it was dynamited by Nazi troops in 1941. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47 LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON UKRAINIANS' by Yaro Bihun and Jane Kunka Ukrainian Embassy in Washington. had its own independent economy, and "our in his keynote address to the conferer Addressing the conference luncheon, neighbors" have spared no effort to ensure Mr. Collins stressed independent Ukrair WASH1NGTON - Ukraine's first minister Gen. Morozov stressed that Ukraine did not that it will never have its own economy. importance to future regional stability, bi of defense, Gen. Kostiantyn Morozov, says gain its independence without a drop of Gen. Morozov said he expects the situa– eral trade, favorable relations with its nei the United States and other Western nations blood being shed, as some maintain. That tion in the Crimea to get worse and called bors, as well as to the many Americans v should back their pronouncements about myth is repeated by those "who would on Ukraine's Parliament to correct its past trace their ancestry to Ukraine. wanting "a strong and independent Ukraine" rather not recognize the historic struggle, mistakes by gradually making that peninsu– (Mr. Collins spoke "off the record" at as a guarantor of stability in Europe with con– the armed struggle by all generations of la an oblast again. conference, but later cleared this Washing crete assistance. Ukrainians," the sacrifice of Ukraine's finest There has been and remains a need for the Group synopsis of his presentation.) Addressing The Washington Group's sons and daughters," he said. "Not recog– parties of the democratic bloc to unite, but the He said that an independent Ukrai annual Leadership Conference on October nizing the struggle serves to deny that personal ambitions of individuals leaders con– through its government and leaders, x 15, the now-retired general also called on the Ukraine was enslaved." tinue to stand in the way of this unity, he said. best serve the interests of the Ukrain democratic bloc parties in Ukraine to put Gen. Morozov blamed the re-emergence As for the West, Gen. Morozov said, it people. And in order to serve the peo) aside petty personal ambitions and unite, and of anti-national elements in Ukraine on the still doesn't take seriously the Russian Mr. Collins said, the government must OJ on the Ukrainian diaspora to be careful and mistaken decision not to condemn - even threat to Ukrainian independence. up many opportunities that never exis not aggravate tensions between western and politically or socially - the Communists for "We hear a lot of talk, especially in dis– before in that part of the world. He offe eastern Ukraine. their past crimes against the people. This cussions on nuclear disarmament, about the some options that would enhance b Gen. Morozov was the featured luncheon allowed them to form political parties and West's interest in having a strong and inde– Ukraine's economy and national security speaker at the three-day conference, which consolidate their forces both within the pendent Ukraine," he said. "But why, then, Even though Ukraine's leadership in marked the sponsoring organization's 10th country and with like-minded forces outside do we not see appropriate assistance for this past has found it difficult to make hard e anniversary. The Washington Group (TWG) the country. to happen?" nomic decisions, such decisions are ess is the largest Ukrainian American profession– The principle "the worse, the better" As for the role of the Ukrainian diaspora, tial for a market-based economic systen al association in the United States. works in the Communists' favor, he said, one cannot overestimate its contribution develop in Ukraine. This may be a leng The conference, held at the Georgetown and they have effectively put the blame for during Ukraine's formative years, he said. process, demanding flexibility and patier University Conference Center on October the country's ills on the democrats, even But in addition to its great positive role, it but it is necessary, he said, adding that 14-16, also heard a State Department offi– though the democrats have never been in a has also had a negative effect that must be United States encourages and supports cial describe the developing U.S. relation- position of power. recognized and corrected. process. ship with Ukraine and three panels of Externally, he said, Russia remains the Historically, eastern and western Ukraine Mr. Collins, who earlier served on experts speak to the general topic of major threat; while, on the one hand, this have been subject to different political and staffs of the secretary of state and of "Building a Global Ukrainian Community," threat can be overstated, it should not be social influences, and this situation persists National Security Council, emphasized and saw The Ukrainian Weekly receive the understated or ignored. today, Gen. Morozov said. the United States has steadfastly worked TWG Journalism Award for 1994. it is true that Ukraine has not instituted "Russia is trying to keep Ukraine in its developing its relationship with Ukrain Conference participants also attended a meaningful economic reforms, he acknowl– sphere of influence, to put it mildly, by more so now than ever before in the j classical chamber music recital at the edged, but added that the country has never exercising its influence on eastern Ukraine. two and one-half years. The Ukrainian diaspora, naturally, exercises He said that as Ukraine looks for altei more influence on western Ukraine. The tives in meeting its security needs, more active the influence of these two United States supports the territorial inte sides, the more divergent become the politi– ty and independence of Ukraine. A cen cal positions of the people of these two piece of the security relationship is regions," he explained. Tripartite Agreement signed by the pr The diaspora is an important counter dents of Ukraine, Russia and the Uni against the return of the former "older States, which provides Ukraine seen brother" who historically has stoked the fire assurances. The United Slates is also bu of antagonism in relations between the ing constructive miiitary-lo-military regions, he said. with a broad program of contacts betw "But the diaspora should not aggravate the American and Ukrain і an armed lor these differences with constant attention to he said. favored regions. Halychyna does not com– The American objective in Ukraine і prise the entirety of Ukraine," he said, have it secure and fully integrated into adding that "it is heartening that many peo– world community as a non-nuclear st ple now understand this point." Mr. Collins said, noting that the Ukrair Official U.S. policy toward Ukraine can leadership has taken unprecedented also have either a positive or negative effect on courageous steps in this direction. how the eastern-western Ukrainian issue plays Global activities itself out, Gen. Morozov said. "Today, invest– ment in the political stability of Ukraine is the The first conference session on Satin best and most promising investment in the sta– morning, following introductory remark: bility of Europe as a whole." TWG President Mykola Babiak and keynote address by Mr. Collins, dealt A Ukraine and stability "Global Ukrainian Professional Activitk James F. Collins, senior coordinator for The panel, chaired by TWG vice-Presv the newly independent states at the U.S. Andrew Bihun, featured World Counci The Washington Group's first president, Natalie Sluzar, and current president, Department of State, also spoke about Ukrainian Cooperatives Treasurer Boh Mykola Babiak, cut the organization's 10th anniversary cake. Ukraine and regional stability. Watral, who described the strength of

The ^untcrcn^e's two main speakers, Gen. Kostiantyn Morozov and James F. Collins of the U.S. State Department. Max Pyziur demonstrates how the internet is used. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 11 ^L ACTIVITIES iiaspora credit union movement and what it is ioing to help establish similar organizations n Ukraine; U.S. Court of Federal Claims fudge Bohdan Futey, who reported on the люгк a number of Western legal groups are ioing to help Ukraine organize its legal sys– em and write a new constitution; and ntelNews Publisher Christine Demkowych, who recalled the difficulties in establishing an English-language news service in Ukraine md in working with and training Ukrainian oumalists. The second panel, which followed the uncheon address by Gen. Morozov, dealt with "Joining the Electronic Highway" and was moderated by George Masiuk, a senior engineer with AR1NC Research and the :onference co-chairman. The panel included Jurij Klufas, executive producer of "Kontakt," who spoke about Jkrainian cable programming; Orysia Tracz, 1 Canadian researcher and writer, who gave in introduction to the use of internet; Max ^yziur, a computer and finance expert from St. Louis, who took the internet subject a step iirther for the sophisticated user; and Bohdan Cantor of the Library of Congress, who ;poke about multi-media and other advanced electronic services. At the end of the session, Michael Kostiuk iescribed the computer "Listserver" he oper– ites at McMaster University for Ukrainian Students from the Lviv institute of Management who attended the 1994 Leadership Conference. Canadian professionals. work for his or her successors and promot– Later in the afternoon, conference partic– ed the newspaper's development and pants broke into smaller sessions for dis– improvement over the years." ;ussions with visiting students of the Lviv She added, "Thus, as The Weekly con- nstitute of Management. eludes its 60th anniversary year, it is fitting in the last session, on Sunday afternoon, that the current editors pay tribute to our hree panelists discussed effective organiza– predecessors. The award presented here ional management: Halya Duda, director of tonight is theirs as much as it is ours." executive management with KMPG Peat The conference began Friday evening vlarwick; Lubomyr Kwasnycia, president with a reception at the Embassy of Ukraine )f Romyr and Associates; and Yuri celebrating TWG's 10th anniversary. There, Blanarovich, president of Computeradio. in the absence of an ambassador (Oleh Bilorus had left, and Yuriy Scherbak had TWG Journalism Award not yet arrived), Charge d'Affaires valeriy During the Saturday evening banquet, Kuchinsky welcomed the participants. he 1994 Washington Group Journalism The three-day conference also concluded ^ward was presented to The Ukrainian at the Embassy, with a recital by Ukrainian Weekly "for outstanding reporting, keeping pianist volodymyr vynnytsky and he Ukrainian and American communities Armenian cellist vagram Saradjian, win– nformed about developments in Ukraine." ners of the 1994 Distinguished Artists Presenting the award to Weekly Editor– Award from Artists international. n-Chief Roma Hadzewycz, TWG President The recital, before a standing-room-only ЗаЬіак said she and The Weekly staff "cre– audience, included works by such noted ited a newspaper that has become the paper Ukrainian composers as Bortniansky, )f record on Ukrainian matters for official Lysenko, Revutsky and Skoryk, as well as Washington, as well as for our diverse com– by Chopin, Schumann, Shostakovich and nunities." Babadjanian. From left are: Bohdan Watral, Andrew Bihun (moderator), Christine Demkowych and in her acceptance speech, Ms. The event was organized by the TWG Judge Bohdan Futey, who spoke on the global activities of Ukrainian professionals. -ladzewycz underlined that "The Ukrainian Cultural Fund, an entity founded this year Weekly is what it is today due to decades of by Laryssa Lapychak Chopivsky to bring iedication and tireless efforts by all its edi– the best of Ukrainian performing arts ors and contributors. Each laid the ground- before American audiences.

Pianist volodymyr vynnytsky (left) and cellist vagram Saradjian (center) with TWG President Mykola Babiak presents the Journalism Award to The Ukrainian Charge d'Affaires valeriy Kuchinsky at the Embassy of Ukraine. Weekly Editor-in-Chief Roma Hadzewycz. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47

CBC to air... network's main channel would give it WELCOME between S40,000 and S70,000. (Continued from page 4) On November 1, Jan Brown, a Reform Party member of the parliamentary the issue." Among those funders was the 1995 Heritage Committee, chastised CBC National Film Board of Canada and the Celebrate federal Department of Heritage. The president Anthony Manera for showing a CBC refused to chip in when last asked two-hour Polish-made documentary, THE MEW YEAR five years ago. Without the required complete with nudity, that looked at the broadcast license, Mr. Luhovy couldn't moral decline of post-Soviet Russia. at request funding from Telefilm Canada or in May, Ukrainian Canadian Congress its Quebec equivalent, Sogic, which sup- President Oleh Romaniw expressed regrets 1 ІОЧГИШ^КА ports film, video and ТУ productions. that few Canadians are aware of the "All films have a point of view, but it Ukrainian internment operations in Canada Saturday, December 31st was 1 who initiated the project and was 80 years ago. "One can only assume that by Featuring the "FATA MORGANA" Orchestra - Formal Black-Tie Affair responsible for making the film," Mr. the position taken, the CBC wishes it to By advanced reservations ONLY!!! Saturday Night New Year's Eve includes: Luhovy said from his home in Montreal, remain thus," he told the Edmonton Journal. Cocktails 6-7:30 PM "it is CBC's attempt at minimizing the However that may apply only to Dinner and Dance internment story." 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Price" for Si,200 - later raising the offer Meanwhile, the S2.7 million film But why not stay 'til Monday, January 2nd??? to S3,000. However, showing it on the "Hakujin" will air on CBC-TY next season. Friday, December 30th — Monday, January 2nd FOR ONLY S35.00 MORE PER PERSON SUPER DELUXE PACKAGE -STANDARD ROOMS ONLY S210 PER PERSON rights of all Canadians in times of peace DELUXE ROOMS S235 PER PERSON Ukrainian Canadian... and in times of war. includes 3 nights' lodging, ail meals, New Year's Eve celebration, (Continued from page 4) 12) Endow generous scholarships at the Friday night festivities and Sunday evening party7dance re-interred beside her parents, in Toronto. graduate level for students in the social sci– The Kapuskasing internees' cemetery ences and humanities, and in faculties of should be restored to its original condi– law, who are preparing M.A., Ph.D., or Please contact Soyuzivka for further information and reservations at: tion and properly maintained hereafter. post-doctoral studies on Ukrainians in Phone: (914) 626-5641 Ukrainian National Association Estate A historical marker, in English, Canada, in particular, on the Ukrainian Fax:(914)626-4638 Box 529, Foordmore Road Ukrainian, French, Japanese and German Canadian internment experience, such Kerhonkson, NY 12446 should be placed on the shoreline of Lake scholarships to be set up at the following Minnewaka, in Banff National Park, near universities: University of British the location of a temporary work site for Columbia, University of Alberta, University internees and a second, identical plaque of Saskatoon, University of Manitoba, should be placed underwater at or near University of Toronto, Queen's University the location where the internees worked. and McGill University. These scholarship funds will be independently administered The Cave and Basin Tea House in by the universities themselves, according to Banff National Park should be used to guidelines developed by the UCCLA. house a permanent exhibit concerning the tfjaUUNE-Plfc Ukrainian Canadians interned on that site 13) Ensure that Canada Post issues a during the first world war. bloc of stamps commemorating Canada's O" (201) 831-1499 ^W The shopping market located on the first national internment operations and ^ PACKAGE and FOOD Parcel Service " site of the Brandon internment camp the Ukrainian Canadians, the appearance should be purchased and removed from of the stamps to be determined after a 2AKARPATSKA, ivANO-FRANKlYSKA that location, and a commemorative park national design competition and the developed on that location; a similar stamps to be issued on June 20, 2000, the LVIVSKA and CHERNIVTSI OBLAST effort will have to be undertaken at the 80th anniversary of the end of Canada's MlLLER Baby Furniture RAHWAY Travel Steven MUSEY EL lNCA l.P.S. 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MEN'S (EM-101M) - WOMEN'S (EM-101W) 11) Place a historical marker in the 16) instruct the Ukrainian Museum of Dynasty Gold Dial with Black Trident lmprintfBrown Leather Band House of Commons to permanently Civilization to develop a permanent MEN'S (EM-102M) - WOMEN'S (EM-102W) remind members of Parliament and the exhibit about Canada's first national IDEAL FOR HOLIDAY G1FTS! public about the injustices done to Only S59.95 each plus S4.00 for Postage, Handling u insurance internment operations and the Ukrainian Two for only $109.90 plus S5.00 for postage, Handling A insurance Ukrainian Canadians as a result of the Canadians and to prepare a traveling New Jersey residents add 6^ Sales Tax. passage of the War Measures Act (1914) exhibit concerning this same theme to be Send Check or Money Order and indicate Model Number fc Quantity to: and the War Time Elections Act (1917) displayed across Canada. THE WESTWOOD GROUP and as a caveat to future legislators, The requests represent the considered 167 Main Street, Metuchen, NJ 08840 USA reminding them of their sacred trust to opinion of the Ukrainian Canadian com– defend the civil liberties and human munity. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 13

At the same time, we must remember Metropolitan Andrey... that none of us can lay claim to (Continued from page 7) Sheptytsky's legacy if we indulge in the evils he abhorred. Given that there is no we are astounded by his feats of valor. such thing as collective guilt, there is no This begs the question: Why does the collective absolution. Sheptytsky called world know so little of this man? The on each of us to take responsibility for world reveres the memory of Mahatma our actions, to take control of our lives, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and to treat each and every human being as a rightly so. But wasn't Sheptytsky's gal– precious child of God. in his most lantry even greater? The Nazis who famous pastoral letter, "Thou Shalt Not occupied Lviv in 1941 were infinitely Kill," he implored us to resist injustice - more savage than the British colonial not only the injustices against our own police whom Gandhi resisted in india. nation or family or tribe, but against any The Mississippi lynch mobs and the injustice, against any person who seeks police who attacked the Civil Rights our protection. He urged us to cultivate workers in Alabama were certainly fear- the finest traits that lie within us, and he some, but they were nowhere near as urged us never to harbor the malice monolithic or overwhelming as Hitler's which fueled the Holocaust and the hor– stormtroopers. These were the powers rors of this genocidal century. and the principalities that Sheptytsky in words that were later echoed by fearlessly challenged. Cardinal Bernard Law, Sheptytsky At a time when the Ukrainian nation reminded us that "there is no room for faced the prospect of mass extermination, hatred in the Christian heart. There is no of genocide - when the issue was, collec– room for prejudice or bigotry or igno– tively, "To Be or Not To Be?" - rance." We have a sacred duty to live by Sheptytsky challenged his people to this principle. remain true to Christian doctrine, to love Even as he lay dying, the Servant of their neighbors, to maintain their human God embodied the triumph of life over decency even as civilization collapsed all death. Like Lesia Ukrayinka, or the blind– around them. Without ever taking up ed kobzari whose ballads preserved our arms, he defended the honor and dignity nation's historical identity during of his people and his Church. He con– Ukraine's glorious Middle Ages, or vasyl quered the forces of death with every Stus in our own time, Sheptytsky left us a child he saved, with every soul he timeless legacy despite his physical infir– inspired, with every truth he uttered. mities. He personifies the holy paradox of if the Church can recognize the saint- which St. Paul spoke in his First Letter to hood of Paul, who began his career by the Corinthians, when he admitted that the persecuting Christians...if the world can Crucifixion and the Cross were a "scandal, honor Yassir Arafat as a Man of Peace, the height of folly... Yet the foolishness of and award him the Nobel Peace Prize, God is wiser than the wisdom of men, and then surely the time has come to honor a the weakness of God is stronger than the disciple of non-violence whose past is greatest strength of men." According to virtually unblemished. our faith, it was at the moment of His Need a back issue? 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Few diligently, this too will come, in the nationalities can boast of a moral giant of Kingdom of Heaven, it does not really Sneptytsky's caliber. matter whether the metropolitan is hon– The Ukrainian American Bar Association We should all take pride in the fact ored as a saint on earth or whether his that the newly independent nation of tree is ever planted in the Aisle of the Ukraine has had an exemplary record on Righteous in Jerusalem. He has already cordially invites you to attend the human rights, that it has actively promot– received his reward, and the judgment of ed the revival, not only of Christian, but God is infinitely more important than any also Jewish and islamic culture. This too honor bestowed even by a papal commis– UABA FALL MEET1NG must be attributed in some measure to sion or by the wisest group of scholars. the vision and lasting contribution made The life of the Servant of God Andrey by Metropolitan Sheptytsky. Sheptytsky speaks for itself. 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tions on the former Soviet republic, Ukrainian Parliament... which inherited nuclear weapons after (Continued from page 1) the demise of the USSR and thus became the world's third largest nuclear power. Ф SOYUZIVKA The NPT vote showed that Mr. союзівкА Russia, for example, had stopped fuel Kuchma once again has been able to win deliveries to Ukraine's nuclear power Ukrainian National Association Estate the support and respect of the majority of plants earlier this week, stating that it Kerhonkson, New York 12446 the polarized Parliament. Previously he Foordmore Road would resume them only when Ukraine 914-626-5641 FAX 914-626-4638 succeeded in getting support for his eco– ratified the NPT. nomic program. One Western observer said President Accession to the NPT will clear the Kuchma's Washington trip was bumped way for Western aid and assistance in a ON THANKSGIVING DAY THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE SOYUZIVKAI up to the level of an official state visit in variety of fields, including economics an attempt to get Mr. Kuchma to influ– and energy, as well as cooperation in JOIN US FOR A FAMILY ence the Parliament to ratify the NPT high-tech industries. this year, "it was a carrot," he added. THANKSGIVING DINNER President Kuchma has staked a great U.S. Ambassador William Miller deal on the NPT debate, convincing world AT SOYUZIVKA described the Ukrainian Parliament's deci– leaders that he was confident the Ukrainian Thursday, November 24,1994 at 1 p.m. sion as "a major step in the post Cold-War Parliament would join the treaty. This Traditional order that is being constructed by the new pledge nudged the West to make promises nations, it clears the way for normal, Turkey of financial aid and security assurances. strengthened relations between the United Dinner Ultimately, it was the president's draft - States and Ukraine." one of four presented in Parliament - that Special Order: "This decision also shows that the got the majority of votes. However, condi– Ukrainian president has the support of Whole Turkey tions were added by Serhiy Holovaty of his country," he added. for the family the Reform faction. British Ambassador Simon Hemans The conditions stipulate that nuclear said his country intends to increase its ir materials remain the property of Ukraine Extensive salad bar financial and technical aid to Ukraine. and that they will be used only for peace– ' Turkey dinner with trimmings Sergey Krylov, Russia's deputy minister A ful purposes. 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Hitler," was formed in 1943, following the three of the scores of candidates whom it ignation Lvov - did not manage to find the Statement from... German defeat at Stalingrad. Ukrainian fielded in the 1994 elections. The city's monument to the Jewish victims of (Continued from page 8) leaders in Galicia supported the division's Ukrainian government's prominent com– the Nazi occupation, dedicated in 1992. it formation, realizing that Ukrainians would people were firmly established during memoration in 1991 of the Nazi atrocities failed to take note of the Jewish cultural need an organized military force to resist World War И and have been detailed in 50 years previously at Babyn Yar, and its associations and synagogues that have the Soviet reoccupation of western many scholarly sources, including the explicit condemnation of Ukrainian collab– begun to function in buildings assigned by Ukraine as the Third Reich collapsed. recently completed Encyclopedia of orators, are both ignored in the program, the Lviv city government since the end of Since the end of the war there have been Ukraine published by the University of whose producers prefer to say that Ukraine Communist rule, in August 1994, the city repeated allegations that the division took Toronto Press. Only willful ignorance, inex– "barely acknowledges its part in Hitler's government adopted legislation establishing part in German atrocities, but no credible cusable in journalistic research, can explain Final Solution." a Jewish day school in the city. Lviv has a evidence has ever been produced to sup- the omission of these facts. "60 Minutes" also did not offer any Jewish theater; a Jewish newspaper, Shofar, port such charges. Canada's federal and a street renamed Staroyevreiska (Old "60 Minutes," in a litany that has become assessment of current Ukrainian govern– Commission of inquiry on War Criminals, Jewish Street). Recently, Lviv's mayor all too familiar from decades of Soviet pro– ment policy toward the Jews and other eth– formed in 1985 in response to charges that struck a committee to build a monument to paganda, slandered past prominent nic minorities in Ukraine, in November unprosecuted East European war criminals the Jews killed at the Yaniv concentration Ukrainian political and military leaders as 1991, the Ukrainian Parliament unanimous– were residing in the country, investigated ly adopted a declaration guaranteeing all camp. anti-Semites. Thus, according to Morley the division's record thoroughly and dis– citizens equal political, economic, social Contemporary and historical Ukrainian- Safer, Symon Petliura is known to Jews "as missed the allegations in its final report. and cultural rights, in June 1992, it enacted Jewish relations, as well as the crimes of the man who slaughtered 60,000 Jews in The program also suggests that the a law "On National Minorities in Ukraine" Ukrainian collaborators with the Nazis, are 1919." Although such hysterical claims Ukrainian Catholic Church was a pro- that granted coequal status with Ukrainian legitimate objects of journalistic investiga– used to be made, it would be difficult to find Nazi institution. Any objective assess– to the languages of ethnic groups residing tion. "The Ugly Face of Freedom" is by no any Jewish scholar who would support ment would have to include the informa– compactly on particular territories. means a professional journalistic examina– them today. For a scholarly view of tion that the Church's wartime head, tion of these topics, relying as it does on Petliura, the producers could have turned to Andrey Sheptytsky, sent a letter to Leonid Kravchuk, who visited israel hyperbolic rhetorical devices, tendentious such readily available sources as the Heinrich Himmler in early 1942 protest– while he was president of Ukraine and editing and incompetent historical research. Encyclopedia Judaica. Roman Shukhevych, ing Nazi persecution of the Jews. hosted senior israeli officials in Kyyiv, commander of the UPA until his death in Metropolitan Sheptytsky personally pro– repeatedly denounced all forms of xeno– The public deserves to know whether combat with Soviet troops in 1950, is also vided refuge to Jews hiding from the phobia and ethnic chauvinism, including the "60 Minutes" program was purposely characterized as an anti-Semite, even Nazis and instructed his monasteries and anti-Semitism, in Ukraine, in April 1993, broadcast on the same night as the presi– though he has never been seriously accused convents to do the same. he issued a decree creating a Ministry of dent of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, arrived of anti-Jewish activity. Nor do the "60 in characterizing contemporary Jewish- Nationality Affairs and Migration, in in Canada to begin a state visit which cul– Minutes" producers seem to be aware that Ukrainian relations, the program is at pains October 1992, when Ukraine had been minated five days later with the G-7 Stepan Bandera, whom they also call a mur– to suggest that the social climate is one of independent less than a year, ilia Levitas, Conference in Winnipeg on Partnership for derous anti-Semite, was imprisoned in extreme hostility. The stabbing of an elder– chairman of the Jewish Cultural Society of Economic Transformation in Ukraine. The German prisons and concentration camps ly Jewish couple in Transcarpathia is touted Ukraine , was able to announce at the first program certainly harmed Ukraine's image for having proclaimed an independent as evidence of general anti-Semitism. The Jewish Congress of Ukraine in Kyyiv that at a time when it sought Western assistance Ukrainian state in Lviv at the end of June Ukrainian word "Zhyd' (Jew), long estab– a Jewish7Hebrew department had been to help reform its economy. 1941. Bandera's two brothers died in lished in western Ukrainian usage as a neu– established at the Kyyiv Pedagogical CBS and "60 Minutes" must apologize Auschwitz, a fact that also escaped the tral term analogous to the standard Polish University, and that a number of Jewish to the Ukrainian people, retract their attention of CBS journalists. "Zyd" and Czech "Zid," is invariably trans– schools, lyceums, theaters and other insti– story and provide equal time to produce a The Waffen-SS Division Galizien, lated in the CBS interviews as "kike." The tutions had opened. thoroughly researched and balanced which the CBS film repeatedly and simple- ultra-nationalist UNAAJNSO is depicted as The CBS camera crew in Lviv - account which is not defamatory or mindedly characterizes as "fighting for a party on the rise, although it elected only although the program used the Russian des– racist.

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This may be done by obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Card and filling out the appropriate Product7service of interest: sections. r4 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1994 No. 47 Ukraine study tour PREVIEW OF EVENTS announced by Rutgers Sunday, November 20 benefit the building fund of St. Stephen HAMPTONBURGH, N.Y.: The annual Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1344 White Christmas bazaar, hosted by the Ladies NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.– The NEW YORK: A pontifical liturgy will be Oak Bottom Road, will be held 10 a.m.-4 Guild at St. Andrew the Apostle Ukrainian Office of Continuing Education at the celebrated at St. George Ukrainian Catholic p.m. There will be Ukrainian crafts and Catholic Church, 698 Sarah Wells Trail, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers Church, Seventh Street (between Third and Christmas decorations, attic treasures as will be held at 10 a.m.-3 p.m. There will be Second avenues), at 10 a.m. on the occasion University, has announced a three-week well as baked goods and eat-in or take- homemade baked goods, Christmas decora– of the 50th anniversary of the death of summer study tour to Ukraine, designed home ethnic foods. For additional informa– tions, Ukrainian food, handmade items, a specifically for educators, to be held Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. White Elephant table and more. For addi– tion call vera Glow, (908) 341-9034. June28-July 16, 1995. Monday, November 28 tional information contact Marta Alboschy, Saturday, December 3 (914)496-6498. The tour is the result of a cooperative NEW YORK: "The Poetry Project" of the CH1CAGO: Dr. Michal F. Hamm, profes– effort between the Rutgers Graduate School Yara Arts Group will feature virlana Sunday, December 4 sor of history at Centre College, Danville, of Education, Kyyiv State University and Tkacz, who will read her own poetry, and Ky., and author of the highly rated book NEW YORK: A commemorative concert the University of Kyyiv-Mohyla Academy. actors Jeffrey Ricketts and Stefka "Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917," published program, held on the occasion of the 50th The tour will be under the supervision of Nazarkewycz, who will perform bilingual by Princeton University Press, will give a anniversary of the death of Metropolitan versions of new poetry by Ukrainian Dr. ivan Holowinsky, professor of special lecture titled "Kyyiv Through the Ages," to Andrey Sheptytsky, will take place at the women, translated by Ms. Tkacz and education and associate dean of Rutgers' be held at the Ukrainian institute of Modern Fashion institute of Technology, Haft Wanda Phipps. Mitch Highfill will also Graduate School of Education, and Dr. Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 7 p.m. Dr. Auditorium, 27th Steet and Seventh Avenue read his work. The readings will be held at Olga Hryzak, adjunct professor. Hamm will discuss the evolution of Kyyiv at 2 p.m. Taking part in the program will St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, Second as one of the principal cities of Eastern be the Rev. Patrick Paschak, pastor, St. The study tour presents an opportunity Avenue and 10th Street at 8 p.m. For addi– Europe and the contributions of the city's George Ukrainian Catholic Church; the for teachers, administrators, learning tional information call (212) 475-6474. major ethnic groups — Ukrainians, Dumka Chorus of New York, vasyl consultants and other school personnel to Friday-Saturday, December 2-3 Russians, Poles and Jews — to its history Hrechynsky, conductor; the Prometheus study the reconstruction of the education and culture. The program is sponsored by Male Choir of Philadelphia, Adrian Bryttan, system in Ukraine since independence SAN D1EGO: The House of Ukraine, a the Ukrainian Business and Professional conductor; as well as soloists Andriy was achieved in August 1991. it will member of The House of Pacific Relations, Group of Chicago. Admission: S10, mem– Dobriansky, Oksana Krovytska and Bohdan provide participants with a first-hand international Cottages, Balboa Park, will bers; Si5, non-members. A festive Chaplynsky; Mr. Bryttan, violin; and, participate in the annual ''Christmas on the look at Ukrainian educational institu– Christmas champagne reception will follow Lydia Krushelnytska, recitation. Tickets, tions; it includes visits to social agencies, Prado" celebration. There will be the presentation. Copies of Dr. Hamm's at 315 and S10, are available, until attendance at lectures and seminars, and Christmas caroling and Ukrainian displays; book will be available for purchase. For December 2, at Arka, 26 First Ave.; Surma, ethnic food, representing the 31 member- further information call Anna Mostovych, 1 1 E. Seventh St.; and. Self Reliance. 98 visits to sites of historical and cultural nations, will be on sale at 4-9 p.m. All (708) 359-3676. Second Ave. significance in the cities of Kyyiv, Lviv, Balboa Park museums will be open, free of lvano-Frankivske and Uzhhorod as weil charge, to the thousands of expected atten– as in rural areas. The tour concludes with dees. For Further information, call Michael PLEASE NOTE: Preview items must be received one week before desired a weekend in Budapest. Pomiak, (619)487-9276. date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Preview The tour itinerary is the following: Saturday, December 3 items will be published only once (please indicate desired date of pub!ica– Kyyiv — June 27-July 2: Lviv — July 2-6; tion). AH items are published at the discretion of the editorial staff and in lvano-Frankivske — July 6-Ю; Uzhhorod NEWARK: St. 'ohn the Baptist Ukrainian accordance with available space, Catholic Scho, 1 will be hosting a St. -July 10-12; Budapest -July 12-14. Nicholas Program at Si. John's School gym, The tour is open io anyone holding a 762 Sanciibrd Ave., at 3 p.m. St. Nicholas" PREviEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to bachelor's degree from an accredited insti– office will be open 1 1 a.m.-noon, and 2.- the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to tution. Students who would like io earn Tp.m.– Only one package per recipient will the Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send three graduate credits at Rutgers should be accepted. 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