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NY Times correspondenfs stories LubachIvsky seeks reconciliation reflected Soviet line, says scholarwit h Russian Orthodox Church Dr. Mace revealed this findingi n a Calls for mutual forgiveness primate's call for reconciliation was first Document revealspape r he was to present on Friday, reported in the United States by the November 13, at a conference on JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Cardinal Associated Press. However, the AP's secret agreement "Recognition and Denial of Geno­ Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, leader of quotes from Cardinal Lubachivsky's cide and Mass Killing in the 20th the Ukrainian Catholic Church, has speech were not quite accurate. JERSEY CITY, N. J. - New York called for reconciliation with the Rus­ Moreover, the AP incorrectly quoted Times correspondent Walter Du- Century." An advance copy of the paper, along with a photocopy of the sian nation and the Moscow Patriar­ the cardinal as saying that he hoped to ranty's dispatches from the Soviet chate of the Russian Orthodox Church. return to Ukraine next year to celebrate Union always reflected "the official U.S. Embassy document, was re­ ceived by The Ukrainian Weekly. In a speech delivered Friday, Novem­ liturgy **in my cathedral in Kiev."There opinion of the Soviet regime and not ber 6, the cardinal said: is no Ukrainian Catholic cathedral in his own," according to a declassified Dr. Mace concludes: "Duranty's own words make it clear that he was "In keeping with Christ's spirit, we Kiev; furthermore Cardinal Lubachiv­ U.S. State Department document. extend our hand of forgiveness, recon­ sky is the archbishop of Lviv. Furthermore, this tendentiousness in fact as much of a Soviet spokes­ man as Vladimir Posner, whether or ciliation and love to the Russian nation According to the Rev. Dacko, who was the result, in Mr. Duranty's own and to the Moscow Patriarchate. We words, of an "agreement with The not one credits his stated reason for spoke with The Weekly on November it." repeat, as we said in our reconciliation 11 and 12, from his office in St. Catha­ New York Times and the Soviet with the Polish nation, the words of authorities." Contacted by The Weekly via tele­ rines, Ont., what the prelate actually phone, Carrie Singer, secretary to Christ: forgive us, as we forgive you' said was: Mr. Duranty was The New York (Matthew 6:12). We are all brothers in Times correspondent in Moscow at Max Frankel, executive editor of "The greatest gift on the occasion of The New York Times, said that Mr. Christ, let us respect one another, let us the l,(^th anniversary of the Christiani- the time of the artificially created 1earn to live together in the knowledge Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, during Frankel would not comment with­ zation of Kievan Rus' would be if I were out seeing the State Department do­ that we are united in the faith of our able to celebrate the divine liturgy in my which 7 million persons died. In 1932 Savior. Mary, the mother of God, is the correspondent received the Pulit­ cument. cathedral in Lviv." such a strong bond in our religious zer Prize "for dispassionate interpre­ In his news stories Mr. Duranty at tradition that she will help us overcome CI!ardinal Lubachivsky delivered his tive reporting of the news from first denied, then downplayed re­ address at a Vatican ceremony com­ Russia." all the obstacles on the road to unity for ports of food shortages and famine. the salvation of our nations." memorating the 40th anniversary of a Privately he admitted that millions The U.S, government document, a Cardinal Lubachivsky spoke in Ita­ Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in were dying as a result of a man-made memorandum written by A.W. Klie- lian. A Ukrainian translation of the Need. The Rev. Dacko, who was pre­ foth of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, famine, but his accounts in The New sent at that ceremony, is president of the York Times did not report this. above cited passage was provided to was uncovered by Dr. James E. The Ukrainian Weekly by the Rev. Aid to the Church in Need in Canada. Mace, staff director of the U.S. Dr. Mace notes in his paper that Wolodymyr Dacko, executive director He had returned from Rome earlier Commission on the Ukraine Famine. Mr. Duranty admitted the extent of of the St. Sophia Religious Association this week. the famine to several fellow journa­ In 1931, during one of his trips out­ of Ukrainian Catholics in Canada, lists and to Western diplomats. Several observers contacted by The side the Soviet Union, Mr,. Duranty based in St. Catharines, Ont. He quotes Malcolm Muggeridge, Weekly declined comment on the state­ had a conversation with Mr. Klie- The story of the Ukrainian CathoUc foth, on the basis of which the latter Moscow correspondent for the Man­ (Continued on page 13) prepared a June 4 memo, that was chester Guardian, who later said of sent on to the Secretary of State in the Times correspondent: Washington. "Duranty was the villain of the Terelia expresses opfimism The memorandum reported: whole thing... It is difficult for me to "...Duranty pointed out that, 'in see how it could have been otherwise on Kremlin/Church dialogue agreement with The New York Times that in some sense he was not in the and the Soviet authorities,,' his offi­ regime's power. He wrote things ROME " Recently freed Ukrainian clear that something has changed at the cial despatches always reflect the about the famine and the situation in Catholic activist Yosyp Terelia told a top of the Soviet government, [Mikhail] official opinion of 1he Soviet regime Ukraine which were laughably press conference here on November 10 Gorbachev's regime never pressured me and not his own.'' (Continued on page І6) that the Kremlin probably will soon to give up my religion." take steps toward legalizing the Ukrai­ тае Catholic lay activist noted ihat nian CaihoUc Church in the Soviet the Soviets have apparently already l]nvOIK decided to legalize the Ukrainian Ca-' News of the fortner Soviet dissident/s їГіОІіс Church out tbat the !Creroliri is !L^I remarks was rtpnrVc6 by ^everal We4- beeking greater conc^-bsio?is ЇЄГП news agencies. Be Ihen Wei1l on to give brief ac­ Speeiai iG Smb&da amd The Weekly stand Of1 Monday, Novembef 9. He Mr. Terelia spoke 'di a press confe­ counts oi 1wo meetings between Soviet from UNCMAIN observer testified that day on the signatures that rence following three days of discus­ officiais and Ukrainian Catholics. appear on the ID card purportedly sions with Vatican officials and an At a meeting in Kiev on September JERUSALEM - A wor1d renowned issued to Mr. Demjanjuk at a Nazi audience with Pope John Paul II on 12, attended by representatives of the documents expert, Julius Grant of training camp for guards. Saturday, November 7. Supreme Soviet and leading Ukrainian Great Britain, testified this week that He said that it is highly probable that Mr. Terelia reported that there had Catholics, including Bishop Pavlo the key piece of evidence against John the signature of Karl Streibel is his, been contacts to discuss the legaliza­ Vasylyk, the government side assumed Demjanjuk, the so-called Trawniki probable that the signature of Ernst tion of the clandestine Church between a harsh tone. Talks broke off, Mr. identification card, is a fake. Teufel is authentic, but unhkely that the Soviet officials and leading Ukrainian Terelia said, when the bishop rejected a Dr. Grant, who is famous for having signature alleged to be Mr. Demjanjuk's Catholic activists. He also said that proposal that the Ukrainian Catholic discovered that the 1983 Hitler diaries is his. Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Church could be allowed to exist but were a hoax, said he had determined Defense attorney Yoram Sheftel, leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church that it have no Unks to the Vatican. the card was not authentic after he saw who questioned Dr. Grant, got the is expected to appeal to the Kremlin for At a separate meeting held at about evidence that the photograph now on witness to state that, even though two the legal reinstatement of his Church the same time in Transcarpathia, Cen­ the card had not originally been there, signatures on the card may be authentic, within the USSR. tral Committee representatives told and after he concluded that it was un­ when other elements are falsiQed the "I am optimistic about the condition Catholic spokespersons, including the likely that the signature on the card is entire document is considered a fake. of our Church in the Soviet Union in the Rev. Ivan Margitich, that a legalized the defendant's. Dr. Grant said that in his examination future," Mr. Terelia said. "For those of Ukrainian Catholic Church could not The documents expert first took the (Continued on page 16) us familiar with the Soviet Union it is (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1987 No.46

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Kiev Radio broadcast attacks Terelia, Ukrainian Catholics Newspaper hints at attempts FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Kiev Kiev Radio broadcast sought to demon­ Radio broadcast a commentary in early strate that the signatures on the docu­ October attacking religious rights ment had been falsified, wrote Keston. to rehabilitate Khvyliovy advocate and former political prisoner It claimed that Bishop Ivan Semedi of Yosyp Terelia, now living in Canada, Uzhhorod, whom they labelled as a by Marta Dyczok the famous "Literary Discussion" which according to the Keston News Service "former priest of the Greek Catholic witnessed Khvyliovy's challenge to the published here. Church," had "angrily unmasked the party, are completely skimmed over. In The commentary, reportedly aired on slanders of the criminal and told that he In the continuing struggle between contrast, Mr. Zhulynsky devotes much October 4, characterized the 44-year­ has nothing in common with this Communist Party officials and intellec­ attention to Khvyliovy's suicide, old activist for the underground Ukrai­ pseudo-document." tuals in Ukraine over the issue of filling questioning the writer 's motives in view nian Catholic Church as a "criminal" According to the broadcast, Bishop in the gaps of history, Literaturna of his pending appointment to the who had documented the "invented Semedi had told a correspondent that Ukraina recently published a very posi­ Presidium of the All-Soviet and All­ persecution of believers" in the Soviet he had never been in the underground, tive article on Мук0Iа Khvyliovy, per­ Ukrainian Organizational Committee Union for monetary gain, wrote Keston but had always lived in Uzhhorod, in haps the most controversial Ukrainian of Writers. In that context, he mentions in its October 22 issue. The commen­ Transcarpathia, said Keston. the sensitive issues of the liquidation of literary figure of the 1920s. tary apparently reiterated the standard Bishop Semedi was one of two bis­ the Ukrainian intelligentsia on false Soviet line that there is no Ukrainian hops whose identities became known in pretexts starting with the arrest of Khvyliovy's name has long been Catholic or Uniate Church in the August when they emerged from the Mykhailo Yalovy, and the suicide of synonymous with "nationalist devia­ USSR, since it was "self-dissolved "and underground with the drafting of the Мук0Iа Skrypnyk, whom he glowingly tion" in Ukrainian literature. He gained incorporated into the Russian Ortho­ document demanding legalization. He describes as Lenin's compatriot and attention in the political arena in the dox Church in March 1946. is one of 10 Ukrainian Catholic bishops long-time party activist. mid-1920s by challenging the party's in­ The main thrust of the broadcast, in Ukraine. fringement of artistic freedom and its Much of the arlic1e is devoted to wrote Keston, was directed, however, at The Kiev Radio broadcast claimed curtailment of the Ukrainianization praise of Khvyliovy as a literary figure. a document signed by two bishops and a that another supposed signatory, "for­ policy during the s04:ailed "Literary His artistic goal is said to have been "to number of priests, religious and laity, mer priest" Myron Beskyd of Muka- Discussion" of the 1920s. convey the honest enthusiasm of the about 200 in all, of the Ukrainian chiv, was interviewed by a reporter and nation's masses, the working heroism of Catholic Church, demanding legaliza­ expressed "astonishment" at the docu­ Khvyliovy is perhaps best known for the daily building of socialism." Mr. tion and announcing that "a significant ment and his alleged role in it, wrote the slogan "Away from Moscov," Zhulynsky points out that it was portion" of the Church was leaving the Keston. which was intended to orient Ukrainian Khvyliovy's talent for critical realism as catacombs. portrayed through his controversial It also reported that a third "former literary and cultural development to­ The document, which"^was reportedly Greek Catholic priest," Velymir Ortu- wards European models. The slogan characters that caused him difficulties, as the distance between the author and hand-delivered by Mr. Terelia to the tay of Uzhhorod, had "indignantly" quickly assumed political connotations. Kremlin and sent to Pope John Paul II condemned Mr. Terelia's activity, re­ The "Literary Discussion" was cut short his characters was not always made explicit. at the Vatican, was apparently broad­ portedly saying that such a person is in­ in 1927 with Khvyliovy's removal from cast to the Soviet Union by Radio capable of having religious or any other the executive of the writers' group Liberty on August 14. convictions. Vaplite (Free Academy of Proleta­ The article concludes with an admis­ Without disclosing its contents, the (Continued on page 14) rian Literature — Vi1na Akademiya sion of Khvyliovy's honest "mistake" of Proletarskoyi Literatury). He com­ proposing theses and concepts that mitted suicide in 1933. evoked criticism from the authorities. According to Mr. Zhulynsky: European Parliament approves Previous attempts at reintroducing Khvyliovy into Ukrainian Soviet "Today, with the policy of glasnost' resolution on Baltic states literature have met with strong and the democratization of society, we opposition from the authorities. Even should objectively evaluate the artistic ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Joint tion which passed with 151 yeas, 0 nays the reserved appraisal of the writers of and literary works of Мук0Iа Baltic American National Committee and 15 abstentions called for: the 1920s in Yuriy Smolych's memoirs Khvyliovy from the position of concrete has learned that on October 12 the ^ The government of the Soviet published in the late 1960s was historiography, that is including the en­ European Parliament overwhelmingly Union on the 70th anniversary of the subsequently criticized for allegedly tire spectrum of complex ideological, approved a resolution which urges the Russian Revolution, to release all Baltic attempting to "rehabilitate" the Vaplite socio-economic and moral-psychologi­ Soviet government to improve the political and religious prisoners. group. cal problems of the 1920s and early situation in the Baltic states and to re­ * The Soviet government to respect 1930s." lease all political and religious priso­ the right of self-determination and The recent article on Khvyliovy by ners. human rights in the Baltic States. Мук0Iа Zhulynsky in the Kiev literary Mr. Zhulynsky's call for the re­ This resolution comes at Si time when * The ministers of foreign affairs of weekly's new column "Pages of a evaluation of Khvyliovy is reinforced by BaIts are taking advantage of "glasnost" the member-states of the European Forgotten Heritage" stresses the accompanying article, titled to openly express their dissatisfaction Community to do everything in their Khvyliovy's proletarian pedigree while "Vaplite і Ya" which represents excerpts with Soviet occupation and rule. The power to induce the countries taking glossing over his conflict with the from Mr. Smolych's previously demonstrations in Tallinn, Riga and part in the CSCE in Vienna to exert authorities. The newspaper also printed published memoirs. Vilnius that took place on August 23, on pressure on the Soviet Union to im­ a group photograph depicting the anniversary of the signing of the prove the situation in the Baltic states. Khvyliovy on the same page, thereby The appearance of Mr. Zhulynsky's Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of * The media in the European Com­ emphasizing this latest attempt to gain article provides another example of the 1939, were a major source of embarrass­ munity to report not only on the oppres­ acceptance for the Ukrainian writer Ukrainian intelligentsia attempting to ment to the Soviet government, noted sion in the Baltic States but also on the who continues to be regarded as a pressure the party leadership into the JBANC. history of that oppression lest the facts dangerous symbol of national assertive- implementin*y glasnost and perestroika The European Parliament's resolu­ become forgotten. ness. Using the ambiguous title "Zha- in Ukrain( Despite the clear anti- duyuchy і Rozdumuyuchy" (Remem­ Khvyliovy stances put forth by both the bering and Deliberating), Mr. Zhulyn­ director of the Institute of Party History sky, the deputy director of the Institute in Kiev, Vasyl L Yurchuk, and the FOUNDED 1933 of Literature, highlights Khvy­ Ukrainian ideological secretary, Yuriy ul:rainian WeeI:I) liovy's ro1e in the revolution both N. Yelchenko, Mr. Zhulynskyi argues during the war and in the 1920s and that an important literary figure like An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National early 1930s. He then goes on to under­ Khvyliovy should be included in the Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. line his importance as a literary leader history of Ukrainian Soviet literature. 07302. and argues that the policy of glasnost Examined in conjunction with the has made it possible to begin an objec­ adoption by the writers' union of a Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. tive examination of this complex period "counter-resolution" on the national (ISSN ^ 0273-9348) of Ukrainian Soviet literature and its question, the article on Khvyliovy major figures. would suggest a developing pattern. Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - S5. Faced with opposition from the repu­ Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. The biographical sketch of Khvyliovy blic's party leadership to the restruc­ The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: turing campaign in the cultural arena, begins with his removal from the execu­ (201) 434-0237, -0807, -30З6 (201)451-2200 tive of Vaplite in 1927. It then swings Ukrainian writers have not abandoned back to his humble origins, leading up their efforts. Postmaster, send address to his involvement in fighting the changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz **bourgeois nationalist" Hetmanate and Instead, they appear to be appealing Assistant Editor Chrystyna N. Lapychak The Ukrainian Weekly Canadian Correspondent: Michael B. Bociurkiw Petliurist forces during the war. Mr. to higher authority by citing Mikhail P.O. Box 346 Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss Zhulynsky points out that Khvyliovy Gorbachev's repeated statements on Jersey City, N.J. 07303 then joined the Communist Party in glasnost to ensure implementation of Kharkiv, where his first literary works promised reform. It remains to be seen The Ukrainian Weekly, November 15, 1987, No. 46, Vol. LV on proletarian topics Were published. how fatr this trend will be allowed to de­ Copyright 1987 by The Ukrainian Weekly The controversial 1920s, including velop. No.46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 198X

The Hrushiv apparitions: ^^Who amongst us does not believe?''

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - A report plant the potatoes three times — they The author also claims that he has Virgin continued to appear to children, containing some new details surround­ trampled everything." When a rumor seen the apparition; he explains, how­ teaching them prayers and the tenets of ing the reported apparitions of the arose that the water from the Kizyns' ever, that it is an "effect based on optical the faith, and disappearing at the Virgin Mary at Hrushiv in western well had miraculous properties, the illusions." This, he stresses, must be approach of adults. At her last ap­ Ukraine appeared in the October 8 issue pilgrims began to help themselves to it. explained to the people "calmly, deli­ pearance she was surrounded by light of the Keston News Service published (It has been reported that the authori­ cately, respecting the feelings of be­ and held Jesus in her arms. As she here. ties took samples from the well and lievers." receded into the distance, her image A full reprint of the report in Keston announced on television that the water According to Kathpress, in the days became fixed upon the window of the News Service issue No. 285 follows: was harmful to health). Another ru­ after the initial apparition the image of church. When soldiers surrounded the mor arose that Maria Kizyn had been the Mother of God would reappear church with a chain, one of them was born mute and had only begun to speak shortly before sundown. Members of ordered to shoot at the window bearing after seeing the apparition. various Churches — Ukrainian Catho­ the image. As he was about to fire, he Both official and unofficial sources in The newspaper quotes Anna Span- lics, Russian Orthodox and Latin-rite fell dead. The window was covered up, the USSR have continued to report on chak, secretary of the village council, as Catholics from the Baltic States - but the image shown through the the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at saying that on some days, between would gather in the village. covering. People were kept away from Hrushiv in the Drohobych district, Lviv 40,000 and 45,000 people would gather The samizdat publication Chris­ the church. region, Ukrainian SSR. at Hrushiv. She and her associates tian Community Bulletin carries further A group of pilgrims recount that they The prestigious Literaturnaya Gazeta would then be obliged to take numerous reports on Hrushiv. All the homes in the came to Hrushiv in early June. They (August 19) points out that the date of embroidered cloths donated by the village are full, and many pilgrims must saw the barrier on the western side of the first apparition, April 26, was the pilgrims and turn them over to the spend the night in the open, even in the the church covered with embroidered anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe children's or old people's home. Ms. rain. Militia and KGB officers in plain cloths and flowers. They looked at the at Chornobyl (in the northern part of Spanchak also mentioned that the dona­ clothes circulate among the believers, belfry through binoculars. But try as the Ukrainian SSR). (It was also the tions left by the pilgrims in the church, but do not interfere in their activities. they might, they could not see the Virgin first Sunday after Easter, when Ortho­ which "by decision of a village meeting" The militia only control traffic, to — only some warped boards, which dox as well as Eastern-rite Catholics were turned over to the Soviet Peace preserve order. People drink from the only with a considerable effort of the traditionally visit the graves of depart­ Fund, came to 62,000 rubles. well, believing that it contains holy imagination could be construed as the ed relatives. It is noteworthy that in the The author admits that although the water. miraculous image. Leaving the village, vision, the Mother of God was dressed apparitions had attracted various fana­ The Bulletin contains several indivi­ they asked passers-by whether they in black.) tics, extremists, defrocked monks, self­ dual accounts. According to an over­ believed in the apparitions. One of them The author, K. Sergeyev, quotes the styled priests, and other immoral cha­ heard conversation, a girl walking by replied, "And who amongst us does not account of Yaroslavna Kizyn, a "rather racters, most of the people who have the church noticed a light in the win­ believe?" young but deeply religious woman," of come to the village are "ordinary dow. Peering inside, she saw a woman In a nearby house, a frightened how her daughter Maria first saw she believers." Although some of the pil­ in a white aura. She recognized the woman recounted that on the previous Mother of God. The girl, a fourth-form grims breached the peace, he continues, Virgin. The authorities, worried by this, day the authorities had forced four pupil, went out into the yard at eight the local authorities, too, broke the law built a fence around the belfry, installed pilgrims to turn back. As the narrators o'clock in the morning. "And suddenly by secretly photographing believers and a fence and dug a ditch. They also were waiting for the bus, two women she saw a figure on the little balcony of passing the photos to the chairmen of covered up the window, and blocked a and a man passed by on the way to the the belfry. She looked closer, and saw a the district's collective farms so that spring of water. But then the Virgin church, but returned after 10 minutes, woman in black. My daughter ran back they might undertake "educational" reappeared on the outside of the belfry. saying that the militiaman had chased into the house and told me about it. I work with them. Officials took down On Ascension Day ( May 28), conti­ them away. They had only managed to understood: it was a miracle; the Mother the license tag numbers of automobiles nues the account, an image of the Virgin gather some earth from the place. One of God had appeared! Is it our fault that approaching Hrushiv and demand­ and Child, shining and surrounded with of them, a nun, said, "Thank God that it all turned out that way?" ed that pilgrims present their docu­ light, arose over the church. Then it the militiaman was so good — he let us Mrs. Kizyn complains, however, that ments. And the militiaman posted began to ascend. By the first days of take earth from the place where the the masses of people coming to see the outside the closed belfry, comments June it was already high up in the sky. Mother of God had been. It doesn't apparition had damaged her fence and Mr. Sergeyev, hardly encourages mutual A priest recounts that the Virgin matter that we didn't see anything — the garden. "My husband and I had to re­ trust between believers and atheists. appeared from May 14 to 28 in a dark main thing is that we have been here, monastic habit, similar to the icon of the and the angel has written our names in Athos Mother of God. She first ap­ his book." Ottawa to be site of next year's peared to a Uttle girl on her way to Writing in the Moscow News on school, and asked her why she did not September 13, Vladimir Shevelyov three-day Millennium celebration pray. She then began to teach prayers blames "extremist atheists" for in­ to the girl, told her when she would meet which will be called '*A Prayer of flaming religious feelings in western by Michael Bociurkiw her again, and asked her not to tell Ukraine, where apparitions of the Thanksgiving." anyone about her appearance. The "The concert should be a moving (Continued on page 12) OTTAWA - The nation's capital experience, an evening of the classical will be the site of^a three-day celebra­ arts framed by the spirituality of our Witer appeals for Shukhevych tion next year to commemorate the faith," said Mr. Tarasiuk in the concert Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. proposal. OTTAWA - Member of Pariiament of Commons and Senate External Groups of performers, academics and On Thursday evening, an opening Andrew Witer on October 20 brought Affairs Committee, Mr. Witer ques­ Ukrainian clergy have been invited to reception will be held on Parliament to the attention of the House of Com­ tioned the Soviet delegation about the Ottawa for October 6-8, 1988, Thanks­ Hi11 with members of the Senate and mons the plight of Ukrainian dissident Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Millen­ giving weekend, to participate in the House of Commons. Madame Jeanne Yuriy Shukhevych. Mr. Witer pointed nium of Christianity in Ukraine and celebration. The national executive of Sauve, governor general of Canada, has out that Mr. Shukhevych has spent 33 emigration from the Soviet Union. the Ukrainian Canadian Committee has been invited to be the patron for the years in Soviet labor camps, prisons and In addition, several members of Par­ formed a 20-member committee to evening. exile for the "crime" of being the son of liament questioned the Soviet delega­ organize the event, expected to draw The following day will feature semi­ the commander-in-chief of the tion. David Kilgour asked about the more than 10,000 people. nars on the state of the Church in Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Ukrainian famine, the murder of Polish A concert at the National Arts Cen­ Ukraine. Bohdan Bociurkiw, a profes­ Mr. Witer noted that Mr. Shu­ officers at Katyn and the occupation of tre, tentatively scheduled for October 8, sor of political science at Carleton khevych's years of persecution have Afghanistan. will bring together Canada's best Ukrai­ University, and Bohdan Yereniuk of earned him the title of "eternal priso­ Bill Attwell asked about refuseniks nian cultural performers, organizers St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg have ner." and Jewish immigration, while others said. been selected as co-chairmen. He went on to state: concentrated primarily on disarmament The National Arts Centre is recog­ A moleben celebrated by the two "Shukhevych's plight is a warning to and the environment. nized as one of Canada's premier metropolitans in Canada will precede us all. As long as the Soviet government In response to a question on the for­ performing stages. It is located near the National Arts Centre concert on continues to violate the fundamental mation of a Soviet-Canadian parlia­ Parliament Hill. Saturday. human rights of its own citizens, the mentary association, Mr. Witer stated "This will not be just a religious The committee, which held its first Western nations must continue to view that the Canadian people rejected such celebration, but also a cultural celebra­ full meeting in early October, has begun the so-called policy of 'glasnost' with a proposal earlier this year. tion," said Lucy Hirniak, chairman of the task of organizing funding from suspicion. I call on the Secretary of the organizing committee. "The Millen­ private and public sources, said Mrs. State for External Affairs (Mr. Clark) Mr. Witer stated that Canada has nium is a fantastic opportunity to show Hirniak, who is also president of the and the Government of Canada to use many citizens of Ukrainian, the best we have from our culture." Ottawa branch of the UCC. all of the resources at their disposal to Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Byelo­ Several performing groups and indi­ A series of exhibits on the Millen­ effect the immediate release of Yuriy russian and Russian origin whose firm viduals are being invited to participate nium will be on display at museums and Shukhevych and to send a clear position is that until the Soviet Union in the 90-minute concert, including:' the universities in the Ottawa area during reminder to the Soviet government of gets out of Afghanistan, until it respects Koshetz Choir of Winnipeg, the Ukrai­ the celebration. Representatives across its obligations as a signatory of the human rights and complies with nian Shumka Dancers, the Orford Canada will be recruited to sell package Helsinki Accords." freedom of speech, political thought String Quartet, a chamber music group; deals for the event," said Mrs. Hirniak. Mr. Witer's statement was delivered and worship, and discontinues and Musicus Bortniansky. Besides being the home of about in the presence of a visiting delegation deliberate Russification of the captive Andrey Tarasiuk, artistic director of 5,000 Ukrainians, Ottawa is also the site of four members of the Supreme Soviet. nations, Canadian Parliamentarians do Chysta Productions of Toronto, has of the new Ukrainian Catholic National Later that day, during a meeting of not have a common ground for debate been appointed to direct the concert, Shrine. the Soviet delegation with a joint House with the Soviets. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1987 No.46 Teachers' conference on famine Hamtramck principal feted, to be held in Connecticut presented papal medal of honor

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - The conference on "Religious Freedom in Cohnecticut-Western Massachusetts. the Soviet Bloc: The Soviet Constitu­ Center for Human Relations of the Na­ tion, Helsinki and Reality" brought tional Conference on Christians and together a coalition of representatives Jews recently announced that it will of the region's Estonian, Lithuanian, sponsor a region-wide teachers' confe­ Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish commu­ rence, "The Ukrainian Terror-Famine: nities. A Case Study in Stalinist Communism" Dr. Daniel Nussbaum, executive on December 10 at the University of director of the NCCJ Connecticut­ Hartford. Co-sponsors of the all-day Western Massachusetts Center for conference include the Hartford Branch Human Relations, and principal orga­ of Americans for Human Rights in nizer of the conference, noted that De­ Ukraine, the Connecticut Council for cember 10 also marks the 60th anniver­ the Social Studies and the Connecticut sary of the founding of the National State Department of Education. Conference of Christians and Jews. The conference is designed to intro­ "The Conference on the Ukrainian duce a five- to 10-day unit on the famine Famine on our 60th anniversary," ob­ employing a cooperative teaching/1earn­ served Dr. Nussbaum, "renews NCCJ's ing process designed by the National commitment to ensuring that all of Conference for Social Studies and America's commurities have ample English classes at the middle and high opportunity to voice and share their school levels. The NCCJ curriculum concerns. It re-affirms NCCJ's convic­ unit is authored by Eve Soumerai, a tion that the real potential and strength teacher at Conard High School in West of America lies in the creative dialogue Hartford and the principal author of among the diverse racial, religious and Connecticut's new resource guide ethnic groups who share her destiny." "Human Rights: The Struggle for Free­ dom, Dignity and Equality." Dr. Joan "The cooperation of Dr. Kerelejza, a Kerelejza, director of staff and curricu­ Ukrainian American educator, and Eve lum development at the West Hartford Soumerai, a Jewish survivor of the Public Schools, provided editorial Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis, provides a refreshing model of the assistance to the project. Msgr. Stephen Knapp presents the Papal Medal of Honor to Peter Stasiw. Joseph H. Harper Jr., state senator possibilities of dialogue carried on with from Connecticut's 6th District, will sensitivity, without violation of the by Myrosia Stefaniuk Ukrainian heritage. welcome participants to the conference. integrity and uniqueness of any group's Among the ranks of the many who Dr. James Mace, executive director of historical experience, and without HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - A thou­ have subsequen1tly taken on leadership the United States Commission on the deterioration into 'suffering one-up­ sand of his former students have known roles in the Ukrainian community are Ukraine Famine, will be the keynote manship,'" he said. him as the good-natured teacher, coun­ Mr. Stasiw's own children, ,three of speaker at the first morning session. He Dr. Nussbauni also noted that the selor and principal who frequently whom have sefvedii fabtiitif iiibinl!Ners will be fpllowed by Robert Douglas, curriculum is designed as a suppleme,nt opened his 7:30 a.m. East European at the school. r :%-І? produce1: of public affairs for.QPTV, to other, qurricula on the famine, and histo)ry class with jokes and laughter in The pteseritation of the papal medal Channel 24, who will introduce the that its particular design slibuld facili­ order to prod them into wakefulness was made by Msgr. Stephen V. Kttapp, documentary "Harvest of Despair." tate its inclusion in the next scheduled and interest. Hundreds of undergra­ senior priest in the Chicago diocese, Curriculum specialists Daniel W. revision of Connecticut's human rights duates feared his authority as they who was the "foundihg ]^tfe" Ш ІЩ Gregg, social studies consultant for the resource guide. chuckled at his witticisms in the hall­ high school. Msgr. Knapp unexpectedly Connecticut State Department of Edu­ Some 2,000 invitations have been ways of Immaculate Conception Ukrai­ but very ably filled the spot of keynote cation, and Lorraine Waido, English distributed to educators, clergy and nian Catholic High School here. speaker at the banquet. Joseph Sobran, department supervisor, Windsor School comniunity leaders throughout the A much smaller group composed of noted syndicated journalist, who was District, will join Ms. Soumerai and Dr. region. The cost for registration, ma­ faculty, parents, fellow parisifipners, forced to cancel his appearance in the Kerelejza in involving conference parti­ terials and luncheon is S13. The Uni­ alumni and friends, have had the oppor­ last minute due to illness, sent recorded cipants in "hands-on" application of the versity of Hartford will award half a tunity to observe "the man behind the greetings in which he voiced his pride at curriculum. continuing education credit for the scenes." Those who worked closely with his Ukrainian ancestry and spoke conference. him recognized his dedication and total about the upcoming Millennium of The conference marks the second Ukrainian Christianity: consecutive year in which the Connecti­ commitment to the education of our Reservations may be made by calling Ukrainian youth and held him in high "Such a record of human endurance cut-Western Massachusetts office of the (203) 243-4031. Checks should be made National Conference of Christians and esteem. How do you acknowledge and and fidelity is awesome and, without the payable to the National Conference of reward that kind of quality service? grace of God, impossible. This anni­ Jews has highlighted issues of concern Christians and Jews and sent to 200 to East European communities on At this year's annual benefit banquet versary comes at a timely moment to Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, Conn. remind the wor1d of the plight of tiuman Rights Day. Last December its 06117. for the Immaculate Conception schools, Peter Stasiw was presented with the Ukrainian Christians under Communist highest distinction that the Catholic enslavement...In ages to come, their Church can bestow on a civilian: The sufferings and heroic witness will stand Ukrainian studies fellowsliips awarde(l Papal Medal of Honor ("Pro Ecclesia out in the annals of Ukrainian Chris­ et Pontifice"). tianity. *A dark moment will be remem­ TORONTO - A Chinese scholar Yun Shen's primary concern is to The Very Rev. Bernard Panczuk bered as a proud one. In fact, fortitude specializing in Ukrainian studies and a make available basic materials for the OSBM, pastor and master of ceremonies is one of the things that we rejoice for Soviet-born philologist have been study of Ukraine to Chinese scholars. at the banquet, explained that Pope today." awarded fellowships by the Chair of She has already translated into Chinese John Paul II had bestowed this honor Fortitude was the theme of the Ukrainian Studies Foundation at the the recently published "Ukraine: A on Mr. Stasiw for his years of loyal evening. In his address to the capacity University of Toronto. The awards were Historical Atlas" by Dr. Paul R. Ma- service to teaching, counseling and crowd, Msgr. Knapp emphasized that announced by Ihor W. Bardyn, presi­ gocsi, and is now working on an anno­ administering the IC High School, tasks the education of young people in dent of the foundation. tated bibliography in Ukrainian studies which he performed with a rare and their cultural and religious traditions, Yun Shen, SS, is a Russian-language based on Dr. Magocsi's soon-to-be- selfless zeal. although not always easy, is of prime professor at Heilongjiang University in published history of Ukraine. Dr. Bishop Innocent Lotocky, who was importance. "It is like a spiritual Hart)in, China. She is the firstrecipien t Magocsi is professor of the Chair of unable to attend the ceremonies ex­ transfusion for our nation." of the S5,00O I1lia and Paulina Shkilnyk Ukrainian Studies at the University of pressed his praise in a letter: "You have He reminded the listeners about the Graduate Fellowship. The one-year Toronto. earned this distinction through your extreme sacrifices made for the Church fellowship will begin with the 1987-88 Feliowshipis from the I1lia and Pau­ unceasing work and sacrifice for over a and nation by individuals like Josyp academic year. lina Shkilnyk Educational Fund are quarter of a century." Terelia and other dissidents, who suffer Yun Shen was firstinvite d to Canada awarded to outstanding Ph.D, candi­ During his 30 years at the school, Mr. years of imprisonment and hardships, in 1986 by McMaster University Prof. dates working at the advanced stage of a Stasiw was personally responsible for sacrificing their lives, health and fu­ Peter J. Potichnyj under the visiting doctorar thesis on some aspect of affecting countless numbers in their tures, The only sacrifice we're asked to foreign scholars program sponsored by Ukrainian studies. The fund was esta­ decision to pursue and exceIl in pro­ make is one of support, financial and the Cha1r of Ukrainian Studies. blished ill 1985 with the initials25,000 fessional careers. More importantly, moral, so that others can do the job of Awards from the Shkilnyk Educa­ endowment by the late I1lia Shkilnyk. under his tutelage, learning at the high raising and nurturing our youth, he said. tional Fund are made to outstanding The Shkilnyks were both teachers in school involved more than academics. Surprised and deeply touched by the doctoral candidates doing research that western Ukraine prior to Wor1d War In addition to the prescribed college presentation, Mr. Stasiw thanked the will result in published work on some IL After leaving his homeland, Mr. preparatory program, IC students supporters and school benefactors, and aspect of Ukrainian history, language, Shkilnyk became a director of Ukrai­ received training in Christian formation expressed his wish to share the papal literature, art, political science, econo­ nian schools in the displaced persons within the Ukrainian rite, and an medal and honor with others — particu- mics, or sociology. " (Continued on page 12) understanding and appreciation of their (Continued on page 13) No.46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1987

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. - So, how in force - S38,719,987,977. The does the Ukrainian National Asso­ entire fraternal benefit system has ciation compare with other fraternal S119,763,333,912 of life insurance in benefit societies in North America? force. According to The Fraternal Moni­ But only seven societies have S1 Let's examine our consciences tor, the official publication of the Na­ billion or more of life insurance in tional Fraternal Congress of Ame­ force. And the so-called "Big Six" The year is coming to a close, but participate in or support a drive to raise rica, the UNA ranks 38th in terms of societies produced 90.6 percent of the there is still time to get back on track funds, or articles for the needy or a life insurance in force as of December life insurance written by the fraternal fraternally, if we take a moment to charity? 31, 1986 (Previously it was 39th.) benefit societies in 1986. reflect upon what we did right or wrong. 9. Did you organize a committee in The UNA has S99,367,166 of life The Fraternal Monitor's report Whether we are secretaries, officers or your branch to visit sick, old or disabled insurance in force. was based on the latest edition of members of a branch, we all could profit members or members of their families, In comparison, the largest frater­ Statistics of Fraternal Benefit Socie­ by taking the following "examination of or did you participate in such nal society, the AAL, has over S38 ties, which includes information on our fraternal conscience." committee's activities. billion (yes, billion) of life insurance 115 fraternal organizations. 1. Did you as a secretary hold, or as a 10. Did you personally attend, or did member attend, branch meetings at you have members of your branch least once a month? attend, the funeral or a wake of a mem­ 2. Did you hold special informative ber who passed away during this year? Msgr. Wroblewsky celebrates 89th birthday or educational meetings, or did you 11. Are you as a secretary, or as a JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The Rev. 1950. attend such, regarding new develop- member of your branch, actively Mitred Hilary Wroblewsky, pastor of As a young priest, Msgr. Wroblew­ ments4n the UNA? keeping in touch with all the members Ss. Peter and Paul Eastern Greek sky spent several years in a concentra­ 3. Did you hold or attend, or help to of your UNA branch? Catholic Church in Freeland, Pa., and a tion camp. During the war, he endured organize a social event for your UNA 12. Did you, during this year, secretary of UNA Branch 429, cele­ serious wounds. members and their families, or did you personally or as a member of your brated his 89th birthday on November Msgr. Wroblewsky is known as an cooperate with other UNA branches to branch, raise, contribute or assist in 7. ardent supporter of the UNA in Free­ hold such an event during this year? raising funds for a community or a land. He has been a member of the 4. Did you or your branch organize or religious cause? This year, Msgr. Wroblewsky cele­ branch for several years. Delegates to a support Ukrainian cultural, language How do you rate? Grade yourself brated his 55th anniversary of ordina­ recent UNA insurance seminar in Le- courses, a folk dance group, or a choir? according to the following scale. tion to the priesthood. He has served as highton. Pa,, sang 4'Happy Birthday*' 5. Did you organize or participate in pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul's since for the monsignor. fund-raising for Ukrainian cultural, A — *'Yes" to 10 or more questions language courses, a folk dance group or should nominate you for "Fratemalist a choir? of the Year.'' j6^jpi(| you or your branch organize, В - '*Yes** to eight or nine questions niatal/a Feduschak leaves The Weekly support or contribute to sports will make you a "true fraternalist." activities for the youth in your C - *'Yes'V to six or seven questions JERSEY CITY, N. J. - Natalia A. studies from the W. Averell Harri- man 1nstitute for Advanced Study of community? means you can call yourself an average Feduschak, an assistant editor at The the Soviet Union at Columbia. 7. Did you or your branch participate fraternalist. Ukrainian Weekly, has left the news­ ij^ x)пе or щрге sports events primarily F - **Yes" to five or fewer questions paper effective October 30. She had A I984 graduate of George Wash­ iox our members and their members this is unacceptable, but there is still hope. been on staff since November 1985. ington University in Washington, Ms. Feduschak plans to continue her year? You still have time to turn things Ms. Feduschak, 25, is now em­ career in journalism upon fmishing 8, Did you, or your branch organize, around by December 31. ployed by the benefits office at Columbia University, where she is a graduate school. part-time student pursuing a master's A multiple UNA scholarship win­ degree in international affairs. ner, including the 1986-87 Anthony A Christmas card idea The New York City resident hopes Dragan Memorial Scholarship for I received a terrific idea by reading from home, I would be eternally grate­ to comp1ete the master's program Journalism, Ms. Feduschak is a literature from other fraternal organiza- ful to the sender of such greetings. and receive a certificate in Soviet member of UNA Branch 88. tions. This idea has-already been adapted by the UNA, in case you Therefore, I would like to ask all our haven't noticed the ads in The Ukrai­ readers to respond to our invitation and nian Weekly. send in the names and addresses of any This particular fraternal organization Ukrainian you may know, who is has mailed 2,000 Christmas cards to serving in the armed forces. U.S. servicemen and servicewoman The UNA will make a commitment to abroad to our embassies, U.S. Army, mail our Ukrainian Christmas and New Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard Year greetings by December 5 or there­ installations, including U.S. naval abouts. vessels around the wor1d. P1ease send in the rank, nanie and I am certain that a percentage of men address to: and women in the armed services are of ^ Christmas Cards to Ukrainians in the Ukrainian descent, and, no doubt, Service, Attention: Fraternal Activities would appreciate receiving a Ukrainian Coordinator, Ukrainian National Asso­ Christmas greeting. 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EFFECTIVE MEDIA RELATIONS иI:гаіліапV/ееУ V Scranton shows the way by Andrij Bilyk Millennium Committee — in separate but coordinated actions - delivered the Kudos for our supporters When it's done right, a successful Ukrainian message by burning the im­ media campaign creates its own snow­ morality of the Russian position into ball effect. This column concludes with the consciousness of the Scranton in Congress a list of the good things occuring in media. What's the result? Here is a Scranton since the September 20 and 25 partial list. On October 22, a hearing took place in Washington of the Millennium candlelight vigils. These * 1. The local Scranton Ukrainian vigils received tremendous media co­ Millennium Committee has tripled in Congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. verage. Some might say the media size to nearly 30 members, nearly evenly Ten Helsinki Commission members, under the able chairmanship of coverage was very pro-Ukrainian. divided between Catholics and Ortho­ Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), turned out to hear the gripping To those of us who worked the Scran­ dox. (Is Scranton the only city in North testimonies of four witnesses: Ukrainian dissidents Danylo Shumuk ton story, the coverage was honest and America where Catholics and Ortho­ and Yosyp Terelia, and Georgian activists Tenghiz and Eduard fair. If the news stories reflected our dox have united to form one commit­ Gudava. thinking it's only because we were and tee?) Not since the dramatic testimony of Jewish activist Natan continue to be morally correct and his­ * 2. The expanded committee Sharansky (formerly Anatoly Shcharansky) last year has a CSCE torically accurate. The fact that the benefits not just from numbers, but hearing brought out such a large number of commissioners and other stories occurred every day for a week is from new blood. Members include interested members of Congress. because we worked very hard to make it individuals who before were hesitant to happen that way. enter organized Ukrainian life. They The significance of the hearing and the large turnout of its Your city and your organization can include young people. One of these is commissioners and other legislators concerned with the human rights plan and successfully execute the Bill Roditski, a school teacher who is situation in the Soviet Union was the attention it shed upon issues Millennium media strategy we used in Orthodox. He agreed to become the brought up by the witnesses concerning the rights of national and Scranton. For better or worse, all of our committee's vice-chairman. religious groups in this period of "glasnost" and "perestroika'* in the future Millennium actions will be * 3. Paul Ewasko, who handled the USSR. measured by Scranton's success. local public relations effort, was un­ "These hearings today will help educate us about the 50 percent of Scranton represents unity of purpose; animously elected to head the the Soviet population that is not Russian," said commission co­ and unity of message. It represents co­ committee. This is a just reward and an chairman Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) during the proceedings. operation between a strong, united local indication that the people of Scranton It was the struggle against a policy of Russification that the Millennium committee and the Na­ are pleased with his work (and that they expect more of the same). Ukrainian and Georgian peoples have grappled with 1or decades, as well tional Millennium Committee. It shows how good, positive pro­ * 4. Committee members are as repression of their national Churches, that were the major themes of Ukrainian Millennium stories can be meeting twice a month to plan a series of the testimony of all four men, who spent years in Soviet labor camps, obtained on a shoestring budget and Millennium events (with an eye on prisons and psychiatric institutions for opposing these policies, with less than a month to p1an and appropriate media coverage) for the Although improvements have been made in individual human rights execute a media strategy. next 12 months, including a grand fmale cases mostly due to Western pressure, the dissidents said, Scranton also represents a daring in October 1988 after the Oetober 7-10 repression of various groups, both national and religious, continues in approach — picketing a Russian national observance in the nation's the Soviet Union despite official promises of democratization. Orthodox Church. It's just the kind of capital. This is the question that commission members and congresspersons approach that can attract media ^ 5. Because of the publicity, Mr. emphasized as well in their statements and questions during the attention. Ewasko says, many Scrantonians have hearing. Whether we live in the United discovered they have Ukrainian roots. States, Canada or elsewhere; whether One such individual just happens to be Changes have occurred with the highly publicized individual rights we are Catholic, Orthodox or Baptist; the curator of a large local museum. Is it cases, said commissioner Rep. Donald Ritter (R-Pa.), but the "broad­ whether we are on national or local a coincidence that particular museum is scale issues" have seen either no change or regression. Millennium committees; or involved in now planning a 1988 Ukrainian Millen­ "Questions of nationality," however, "are very much linked to individual entrepreneurial efforts (e.g. nium exhibit of several months dura­ questions of human rights," said Rep. Ritter. Mazepa Foundation concerts) — all of tion? "The broad-scale issues of Russification of Georgia and Ukraine by us need to heed the Scranton message * 6. Overtures are being made for imposition of language as well as issues of national Churches should be and the reasons for its success. joint Ukrainian Millennium made much more a focus here in Congress and in the U.S. in general," Here is the Scranton message. celebrations to the Roman Catholic he said. "Ukrainians are united. They are Diocese of Scranton and to other In his opening remarks, Rep. Hoyer said that while the Soviets have celebrating their legitimate right to the religious denominations. These overtures are being well-received. claimed that the situation with regard to human rights is changing in Christian Millennium of Kievan-Rus'. Russian Americans who go along with That's because in Scranton now, there is their country, "the wor1d waits to see whether their actions will accord Moscow's idea of a "Russian" or "Eas­ less confusion about whose Millennium with their words and promises." tern Slav" Millennium are espousing this really is. "We await real progress in Soviet Helsinki compliance," he said. an immoral position. We Ukrainians * 7. Finally, to date, the only com­ "We wait to see how these changes will affect Soviet society. And we will hold them publicly accountable. ments heard from individuals of the wait to see the impact on the citizens with the least amount of influence As Scranton proved, the immorality Russian Orthodox Church picketed by in Moscow — the half of the Soviet population that is non-Russian." of the Russian position is easy to de­ the National Millennium Commitee can We believe kudos are in order for Chairman Hoyer, who conducted monstrate. It can be summarized in the be summarized by this phrase: "Thank the hearing amid unavoidable interruptions of congressional duty, as following two statements. God there wasn't any trouble." well as other difficulties, with great professionaHsm and compassion. * 1. How can a Soviet Russian (or No trouble? We caused the Russians We also thank Sen. DeConcini and Rep. Ritter, and all commissioners any Russian American) celebrate a a lot of trouble. Only we didn't throw "Russian" Millennium when he knows bricks as perhaps they expected. We and members of Congress in attendance, including Sens. Frank that the Soviet government destroyed marched and we stood in two separate Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), Harry Reid (0­ the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox but coordinated candlelight vigils, НеV,) and John Heinz (R-Pa.), and Reps. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), Churches. Instead of praying for the united in our belief that history and John Porter (R-I11.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Louise Slaughter (D- resurrection of Ukrainian Churches, morality are on our side. And we won. N.Y.) and David Bonior (D-Mich.), who took time out to bring Russians are using the Millennium to We won because we dared to unite; and attention to the issues of national and religious rights in the USSR. steal a major portion of Ukrainian because we knew how to confront. These issues are so often overlooked by the American press and history. But more confrontations lie ahead. media and, as a result, the American public finds itself ignorant of the * 2. We are celebrating the Millen­ For better or worse, in the United States ro1e of national and religious groups in a Soviet society that is both nium of Kievan-Rus. Kiev is the capital and Canada, a11 of our efforts are complex and misunderstood. of Ukraine. So why are the major streaming towards the ultimate con­ Millennium celebrations in the Soviet frontation in front of Soviet Embassies Union being held in Moscow and in both North Anierican capitals: throughout Russia. Shouldn't they be in Ottawa and Washington. Kiev and throughout Ukraine? By a happy coincidence these con­ These are powerful messages. Each frontations are scheduled for the same Attention, students! one of our Millennium activities, no October 7-10,1988 weekend: Columbus matter how small or how grandiose, Day in the States and Thanksgiving in Throughout the year, Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold activities. The should include a plan to deliver one or Canada. What an oppo)rtunity for a uni­ Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Ukrainian community know about both of these messages to the general fied, international ^public relations upcoming events. non-Ukrainian public. In fact, I would effort. Working together, we can The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be glad to print go as far as to suggest that we re-think magnify the successes of Scranton a timely news stories about events that have already taken place. Black and white photos our support of any activity that cannot million-fold. (or color with good, contrast) will also be accepted. ^ ^ deliver our message. The bottom line is this. The lessons of Two moBihs have passed since the Scranton are out there for us to learn people of Scranton and the National (Continued on page 11) No.46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1987

WASHINGTON UPDATE NEWS AND VIEWS Glasnost is in the eye of the beholder, We desecrafe their deeds by Andrew Fylypovych but find no support from much of our entrenched establishment. therefore, we must look carefully What if tomorrow the Soviets opened What has happened to all of our by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg style democracy? Not by a long shot. the floodgates and let out every single national and international service The citizens of the occupied Baltic Ukrainian who wanted to emigrate to organizations, our local parishes, and There's an anecdote I heard about countries continue to suffer under the U.S. or Canada? Would our respec­ our "leaders"? Why are none of them glasnost during my trip to Moscow. A Soviet domination and a forced tive communities lend a helping hand to providing a concerted coordinated Soviet man goes to the doctor and says, campaign of "Russification." Many any of them in such a time of need? Pity effort to assist these former prisoners "Doctor, I have a problem, but I need Ukrainians and Ba1ts are unable to on all the refugees if they will have to of conscience? Why has no one chosen two specialists, one for the ears, nose practice their religion freely, and Baltic put up with any of the callousness which to assist the several already overworked and throat, and one for the eyes." Both and Ukrainian human rights activists has sometimes faced Danylo Shumuk and understaffed groups who are pre­ specialists are brought in. The man says, continue to languish in the Gulag. after his arrival to the West. sently helping Mr. Shumuk? "Gentlemen, I hope you'll be able to Poland's regime is one of the more Although it may be that exceptions Demands that the Soviets release all help me. It's a very confusing state I'm receptive Eastern European countries are the rule in this case, it seems that the political prisoners are hollow when they in. I don't see what I hear." for Gorbachev's glasnost. But Poland dean of Ukrainian political prisoners are not supported with commitments That's how I felt on my recent trip to still has a long way to go to be free. has, in fact, been relegated to the status for follow-up. It is simply not eriough to the Soviet Union, Poland and Ruma­ Archbishop McCarrick and I met with of unwanted house guest in the West. welcome every exile with flowers at the nia. I did not see much evidence of the Lech Walesa, other Solidarity members Although he is bold of spirit, alert airport. There has to be medical and changes I had heard about as a result of and churchmen who continue the fight and quick-witted, one must also re­ social assistance, housing, and other Mikhail Gorbachev's "glasnost" — the for freedom and national reconcilia­ member that he remains a 73-year old transitional services designed to brace new policy of openness. In fact, I was tion at great personal risk to themselves. frail and worn man who speaks no them for the culture shock which surely told in private repeatedly that glasnost Solidarity activists are fined, lose English. In Canada and in the U.S., he strikes a11 of them to varying degrees. was a political mirage for the West more their jobs and their property. The grave has travelled long distances alone To a great extent, the cost and scope than a human rights miracle for the of slain activist priest Jerzy Popieluszko without the assistance of a bilingual of such services is beyond the means of Soviet citizen. where Archbishop McCarrick and I laid escort. even those, who, like Mr. Shumuk, have Although Mr. Gorbachev's glasnost a wreath, continues to be a somber yet In Toronto, 30 households curtly relatives in the West. And certainly, no has undeniably had an impact on inspiring national monument to refused to provide him with lodging for group of relatives can be expected to culture, the economy and emigration, activism in the Polish Catholic Church, even one night. In Washington, he spent fund and organize public engagements. during my visit, we saw little progress in and its costs. Despite those costs, Poles several nights in unfamiliar institutional Our communities must make a firm the area most important to America — still fight for greater freedom, and con­ surroundings, without the benefit of commitment to every person who needs basic human rights. tinue to hope and pray for continued that warm family hospitality we always such support. Why can't all former As Andrei Sakharov, the noted American support for their struggle. pride ourselves in. political prisoners be treated with Soviet dissident toId me, despite the As far as Poland still must come to At one of his appearances in Wash­ dignity and respect as people rather new glasnost policy, about 400 achieve the promise of "glasnost," ington, while standing alone,* he was than as ideas they may or may not prisoners remain in Soviet camps for Rumania has yet to begin the voyage. accosted by a hostile participant who represent. political and religious reasons. The Churches are razed in the name of was intent on verbally abusing him. All I have wondered why, for example, Soviets still use psychiatric institutions urban renewal, and bibles cannot be of these episodes, undoubtedly, take the Wor1d Congress of Free Ukrainians for political punishment. published. Even the most basic right to their to11 on this quiet, humble man. was not more supportive of Mr. Shu­ The refuseniks with whom I met eat is jeopardized in Rumania where And although he always publicly ex­ muk and his resettlement efforts. That could not deny that 5,428 Jews have left President Ceaucescu is stripping his pressed great thanks for warm recep­ organization seems to be hamstrung in the Soviet Union this year. But this own land of agricultural commodities tions, one cannot help but wonder how this case by certain member-factions could not overshadow their own for the hard cash of the export market. he would react if he knew that much of who refuse to support Mr. Shumuk desperate fight to leave. It could not The deprivation is striking. In one our community is making no efforts on because he will not recant passages from erase the 12,000 who have repeatedly farm community, I walked over to a his behalf. his previously published memoirs. They been refused permission to emigrate. Or long store line to ask what rare When questioned about some of argue that these were written under the 380,000 more who want to leave. commodity they would wait hours for. these shortcomings, one promoter KGB pressure. But rather than challeng­ Sergei Grigoryants, the editor of an In the heart of dairyland, a person said: replied in a contemptuous tone, "I've ing him in a proper forum, if indeed he is unofficial Soviet journal, Glasnost, did "butter." been with him up and down the East wrong, they continue their traditional not deny that without glasnost, his Although I saw many of the depriva­ Coast, so let someone else worry about campaign of stealth and boycotts. journal would not exist. Each copy is tions Rumanians must suffer, I was such details." Another added sardoni­ We as a nation in diaspora cannot painstakingly typed by a small corps of most disturbed by the plight of those we cally: '*If he survived Siberia, he'll afford the despotic tendencies of those supporters and distributed by hand. A were not permitted to see — the ethnic survive traveling alone in this country." who have not done anything construc­ growing number of Soviet citizens are Hungarians in Transylvania. Re­ I do not for a moment believe that tive for our people in the last 40 years. still finding ways to read these slivers of peatedly during official meetings, I those words were intended to sound as Every single exile released from a Soviet truth. raised the issue of the oppressed Hun­ selfish, thoughtless and callously indiffe­ labor camp is the son of the same But we learned lipon our return that garian minority and the concerns rent as they did when they first hit this mother. To ignore any one of them is to editors of Glasnost had been detained, brought to me at a meeting in New writer's ears. Nor is everyone in our desecrate their deeds, vilify our past proceedings started against the journal, Brunswick before the trip. communities really as cold as these and cloud our future. Perhaps we have and copies of Glasnost confiscated. The The response? From Ceaucescu on episodes suggest. fogotten that but for a stroke of fate, Soviet Union with all its military down, they swore there was no problem. Rather, I am firmly convinced that any one of us could have been any one strength, continues to fear the power of So scared were the Rumanians of our these are all symptoms of a much larger of them. the typewritten word, if it is the truth. interest in the Hungarian minority in problem. They reflect the deep frustra­ Glasnost is also felt outside of Transylvania that they refused to let us tions and human imperfections of those The transition from isolated indivi­ Moscow. Public demonstrations visit that region or speak with ethnic few who have heeded the call to action, dual efforts to wholesale community against the Soviet occupation were Hungarians, shunting us off to a ski support for persons like Mr. Shumuk permitted in Soviet-occupied resort instead. To us, that said almost Andrew Fylypovych resides and must be made today, because, what if Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. But the more than what we might have learned practices law in the Philadelphia area. tomorrow...? protest organizers experienced vio­ in Transylvania. lence, retribution and even expulsion One's impression of the changes from the Soviet Union as a result. glasnost has brought varies depending It is glasnost that the demonstrations upon whether one is a Polish priest, a Notice regarding mail delivery occurred? Undeniably. But Western Lithuanian activist, or a Soviet government official. But if you are a Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ,X U.S. senator from New Jersey, a visit to of The Weekly recently returned from an 11'day the Eastern bloc can lead to only one I fact-finding trip to Poland, Rumania conclusion. Glasnost has a long way to ! It has come to our attention that The Ukrainian Weekly is often and the Soviet Union to probe abuses in go to make the human rights practices delivered late, or irregularly, or that our subscribers sometimes receive human and religious rights in those of the Soviet Union and the Eastern several issues at once. countries. He was accompanied on the bloc compatible with American ideals. trip by Roman Catholic Archbishop If glasnost is in the eye of the beholder, We feel it is necessary to notify our subscribers that The Weekly is Theodore Mc Car rick of the Newark then let's not put on rose-colored glasses mailed out Friday mornings (before the Sunday date of issue) via Archdiocese. when we look at the Soviet Union. second-class mail.

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FOR THE RECORD: Testimony of Gudava brothers before CSCE

Following is the joint statement Boston musicians were deported from of the communist regime. Many people danger to ecology, demography and submitted in writing to the Commission the Soviet Union after joining in concert in Georgia think that because of the historical monuments in the on Security and Cooperation in Europe with the "Phantom Orchestra." general inefficiency of socialist econo­ construction zone. Petitions have been for an October 22 hearing by Georgian In the spring of 1985, we joined the mics, their natural national resources submitted to the government which rights activists Eduard and Tenghiz Georgian Helsinki group and renewed are being used inefficiently, and that, if were signed by thousands of Gudava, its activity. While we carried on our Georgia were an independent state, it representatives on the intelligentsia, * Tenghiz Gudava, 34, was active in human rights activity, the KGB perse­ would flourish economically. The students, and workers. Recently, the the unofficial ^*Phantom ** musical cuted us constantly and we were subject society is being eaten away by social authorities started a campaign against group made up of Georgian Catholics to cross-examinations, threats, spying, sores: corruption and machination the signatories: they are summoned to and Jewish refuseniks in Tbilisi, Geor^ searches and arrest. Our ; apartments which are connected with the party and the KGB, the Central Committee of the gia, as well as in the Georgian Helsinki were searched and bugged, our corres­ form a united "mafia." Communist Party, where they are Monitoring Group, These activities led pondence was inspected and blocked. The spiritual values of the Georgian threatened and told to withdraw their to his arrest and incarceration in 1985 We were deprived of any possibility of people, such as their language, history, signatures. Searches are conducted with for "anti-Soviet agitation and propa' working in our specialty and, as a result, culture, and religion, are being confiscation of the lists of signatories. ganda," and was sentenced to seven we lived in poverty. persecuted and this arouses the anxiety There is a danger that unrest among the years' strict-regimen labor camp and In May 1985, we and our mother were of the intelligentsia. Owing only to the students will become widespread. three years' exile, He was transferred accused of *'slander against the Soviet demonstrations of the intellectuals and It should be noted that Gorbachev's from labor camp to a KGB prison in state and social system" and later we students in 197*, did the Georgian perestroika has resolved none of the na­ Tbilisi earlier this year and was freed were arrested and condemned. I (Ten­ language at last receive a constitutional tional problems of the Georgian people. from there on April 27. He emigrated ghiz) was convicted of "anti-Soviet status and become established and Moreover, there is an opposite ten­ with his family, including his dissident agitation and propaganda" and sen­ approved as the state language. dency. For example, after the Secretary brother, Eduard, to the United States tended to seven years in labor camp and However, this status is everywhere of the Central Committee of the CPSU, on September 8, three years in e ale. Eduard was con­ broken. The Georgian language is being Yegor Ligachev, visited Georgia in June * Eduard Gudava, 32, also was victed of "hcoAiganism" on a trumped­ excluded from scientific, administrative 1987, the Georgian language divisions active in the unofficial '*Phantom" up charge dnd sentenced to four years in and management activity. in all departments of Tbilisi State Uni­ musical group and the Georgian Hel­ lab amps (he had hung out the The teaching of Georgian history is versity were drastically reduced and a sinki Group, He was arrested in Novem­ foil g placard: "KGB, stop perse- curtailed. Many monuments of campaign to intimidate student activi­ ber I985 after protesting against the cuti. antiquity are being destroyed. To ties was begun. arrest of his older brother am, was It 2markable that I was accused of weaken the unity of the Georgian Recently, the national problem in the sentenced to a four-year labor camp not V 1у having taken part in the people, the further fragmentation of the USSR has become more acute. There term. He was released on April 30 by 'Georg.an Helsinki group, the organiza­ Georgian national majority is are indications that the authorities want decree of the Presidium of the Supreme tion o: the "Phantom Orchestra," reli­ encouraged. In addition, there is evi­ to compensate for limited progress in Soviet and came to the United States gious and samizdat activity, but Ї was dence of discrimination against Geor­ individual rights by instituting retro­ with his brother on September 8, also guiity of a speech made by Ameri­ gians residing in other republics, gressive national policies, which result can Senators and Congressmen on the The issue of Meshs, or Georgian in the increasing resistance of the popu­ My brother, Eduard, and I are mem­ occasion of the breech of human rights Moslems, is left unresolved. Meshs are lation (for example, the events in bers of a movement, whose aim is the in Georgia. For the first months of the Georgian Moslems who were deported Kazakhstan and Latvia). The situation humanitarian fight against totalita­ investigation, the KGB threatened to by Stalin and deprived of any possibility in Georgia is also becoming more dra­ rianism and tyranny, and which sup­ incriminate me on grounds of "high of returning to their Motherland. matic. In view of this, the political im­ ports the ideals of liberty, democracy treason" according to the paragraph, The authorities prevent the opening portance of the human rights move­ and human rights. We joined the move­ "rendering assistance to a foreign state of new parishes which are greatly ment increases substantially, ment as youths because we were critical in conducting hostile propaganda with needed. The mass actions of the Three major aspects can be identified of the Soviet system and were searching respect to the Soviet Union." During believers toward this end are brutally with the human rights movement in for the truth. our imprisonment we did not stop suppressed. The official church Georgia: While we were medical students fighting for our rights. We went on long hierarchy is under the control of the * 1. The struggle for national in­ during the 1970's, we openly expressed hunger strikes. As a result of this, we state, and is infiltrated with KGB terests. our disagreement with many realities of were subject to additional floggings. agents. With a view to undermining ^ 2. Religious activity. Soviet life: the non-existence of free­ At the end of April 1987, we were church authority, amoral and criminal ^ 3. The defense of fundamental dom of speech or democracy and the discharged from prison in the course of elements are installed in the priestly en­ human rights. issue of self-determination for the Geor­ Gorbachev's campaign for discharging vironment. The clergy and lay people Understanding the fundamental gian people, etc. For all this, we were political prisoners. But the powerful who are against this, are subject to per­ unity of these three aspects is growing subject to authoritarian force. Our pressure of the KGB preceded our dis­ secution. among Georgian human rights activists, parents were dismissed from their jobs charge from prison. The purpose of the The authorities subjugate the people even though Georgian nationalism re­ for supporting our activity. pressure was to incline us to public for expressing patriotic and national-re­ mains the most important issue for the In 1978, we were convicted of specu­ "repentence" as a precondition for our ligious views. People are put on trial as masses. This is to be expected because lation on trumped-up charges. I (Ten­ discharge, although the authorities' state criminals or as criminals in fabri­ Georgia, like the Baltic States and ghiz) was sentenced to four years in labor actions ended in failure. We were cated cases. At this time, we are aware western Ukraine, were forcibly an­ camps; Eduard to three years. After our discharged on the condition that we of three names of Georgian patriots nexed into the USSR. conviction, in 1982 we handed in an would emigrate from the Soviet Union. who have been suffering in prison for National consciousness, which is application to Amnesty International On September 8, 1987, we arrived in many years: Guram Gogbaidze, Valen- extremely strong among the where we accused the Soviet govern­ Boston. tina Pailodze, and Boris Kukobava. intelligentsia and the students, covers a ment of tyranny and asked for legal Georgian people are an ancient Currently the issue of building a wide ideological spectrum, from the help. At that time, we wrote an autobio­ family which was organized as a state Trans-Caucasus Mountain Pass defense of national interests to graphic book which was distributed as from time immemorial. In the fourth Railway is extremely controversial. supporting the idea of national samizdat (underground literature). century, Georgia adopted Christianity There is wide public opposition to this liberation. In March 1982, we found our way and fc many centuries it was an project and against the Soviet For Georgian human-rights activists, into the British Embassy in Moscow advance0 outpost of the Christian faith. government because of the inherent where we told about ourselves and, In the 18th century, Georgia fell under (Continued on page 14) under the threat of annihilation by the Russian influence and it was turned into KGB, we asked representatives of the a province of the Russian Empire. Embassy to be witnesses to our fate. After the Bolshevik Revolution in At the end of 1982, we were politically 1917, Georgia found independence. In motivated to renounce our Soviet 1921 it was occupied by the Red Army citizenship. and became part of the Soviet Union. In 1983, we converted to Catholicism After that, national liberation actions of and began to take an active part in the the masses did take place, but they were life of the Catholic parish in Tblisi. We brutally suppressed. Now, Georgia is organized a choir, obtained and distri­ one of 15 Soviet republics. buted Bibles and church literature, All branches of industry are deve­ issued religious samizdat, and arranged loped in Georgia. The most important is Catholic youth circles. agriculture. Georgia is the main In searching for new forms of acti­ supplier of tea, citrus fruits and wine. vity, at the end of 1984, we organized a The nature of Georgia is varied and '*Phantom Orchestra." It consisted of favorable to tourism. refuseniks and dissidents, both Chris­ Georgian culture is rich and original. tians and Jews. The purpose of the Shota Gustaveli, a poet and intellectual, orchestra was to draw the wor1d's atten­ was born and worked creatively in tion to the breech of human rights in the Georgia in the 18th century. At present, Soviet Union. Orchestra members were Georgian theatre and cinematography subjected to various repressions such as are known all over the world. searches, cross-examinations, and as­ However, the human rjghts commu­ a Hadzewycz sault and battery. Even foreigners were nity feels that the creative forces of the The Gudavas testify before the Helsinki Commission. On the left is Eduard, on the subject to repression. In May 1985, four Georgian r=eople are gripped by the vise right is Tenghiz. Seated in the center is their interpreter. No.46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1987 A triumph of the human spirit: D.C. hearings on human rights

foy Bozlieiis 01shaniiwsky Baltimore. Some came from Canada. more liberalization and democratiza­ aad Walter 3odniar Six members of the House of Represen­ The rest of the audience was comprised tion before he is convinced of progress. tatives attended and spoke at the recep­ of the local Washingtonians, Virginians The senator had traveled to the On Thursday, October 22, an over- tion. Many staff persons, representing and Marylanders. Soviet Union in August of this year, their congressmen and senators, were 1low crowd in the chambers of the United This celebration continued into the personally met human rights activists States Senate in Washington was pri­ also in attendance mingling with consti~ afternoon and the evening. A reception and presented requests to the Soviets tuents and guests. vileged to witness a triumph of the sur­ hosted by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D- from U.S. citizens. Although he had vival of the human spirit. Danylo Rep. William Broomfield (R-Mich.), N.J.) and sponsored by Americans for planned to visit Lithuania and Ukraine, ranking minority leader on the House Shumuk, Yosyp Terelia, and Eduard Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU), a he was denied the opportunity by the and Tenghiz Gudava testified before the Foreign Affairs Committee and a New Jersey based human-rights organi­ Soviet government. Prior to his commissioner on the Congressional Commission on Security and Coopera­ zation, featured Messrs. Shumuk and departure on this trip, he had met with tion Europe (CSCE). Ukraine Famine Commission, spoke Terelia, U.S. legislators and representa­ representatives of East European com­ warmly and eloquently. On December 4 Personifying the living testimony to tives of prominent organizations as munities in New Jersey to be briefed and he will be honored by the Michigan this victory and transcending the mun­ AHRU branch with a human rights dane, two of the most prominent, un­ award for his outstanding contributions wavering and undaunted fighters for the to the defense of universal human rights rights of man attested to their survival and for his support of congressional and perseverance by their very presence. actions in defense of Ukrainian issues They shared with members of both and Ukrainian political prisoners. houses of the U.S. Congress Marie Zarycky, chairman of the recollections of their personal fight Michigan AHRU branch, will host this waged in the Dantean inferno of the presentation and reception in Soviet gulag against the mighty tyrant. Michigan. Their experience enriched all who came to hear and share their triumph — Reps. Don Ritter (R-Pa.), Dan L. both government representatives and Burton (R-Ind.), Louise Slaughter (D-* N.Y.) and Rod Chandler tR-Wash.) constituents. It reaffirmed our resolve f61lowed, expressing their joy at this and recharged us with a surge of new auspicious occasion by welcoming the energy to continue our fight for the recently released men and promising to ideals of freedom and the rights of man. uphold the ideals of human rights. The day belonged to Danylo Shumuk Steven Austin, director of Soviet and Yosyp Terelia. cases for Amnesty International (AI), a Their testimony so impressed the 13 worldwide human rights organization senators and congressmen who listened which adopted Mr. Shumuk as a senior attentively, asking questions and prisoner and did extensive work participating in the discussion that in his behalf, spoke next. He attended ensued, that members who had to rush the reception with Cort O'Connor who out and vote on the floor,, returned to also represented AL participate in the hearings. The Mr. Shumuk recalled receiving letters hearings, held by the Congressional of encouragement and support from Helsinki Commission (CSCE) and members of AI from all parts of the chaired by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), wor1d. He still carries a replica of a lasted for almost four hours. (See The small candle made out of stained glass Ukrainian Weekly dated November 1 with barbed wire around it - the and November 8 for excerpts of the tes­ symbol of Amnesty International - in timonies). his pocket. When asked what the most In addition to Messrs. Shumuk and important thing was that kept him Terelia, the Gudava brothers from going in prisons, he took the glass Georgia, recently released from Soviet candle out of his pocket and held it up prisons, also testified about their plight. and said: '*The f1ame of this candle Also in attendance during the entire never goes out." hearings was Ambassador Sam Wise from the State Department. He is one of Christina Isajiw, director of the the chief U.S. negotiators discussing Human Rights Commission of the human rights issues with the Soviets at Wor1d Congress of Free Ukrainians the Vienna Conference to review the (WCFU) based in Toronto, greeted the Helsinki Accords. honored guests and the audience on Chairman Hoyer asked the witnesses behalf of the WCFU. To a large extent, to tell him and the commissioners of the it had been her efforts with the Cana­ Helsinki Commission what they should dian government and her unceasing do in explicit terms to effectively help personal intervention of Messrs. political prisoners and prisoners of Shumuk and Terelia that resulted in conscience, and defend the rights of their being in Canada today. An expert man in the Soviet Union. It was on matters of human rights, she works apparent that the witnesses were not very closely with other human rights prepared for such a direct approach — organizations and is a Ukrainian especially coming from a government representative to many international representative. Being used to an oppres­ human rights forums. sive and punitive type of government in Both Messrs. Shumuk and Terelia the Soviet Union, it was unsettling for spoke through interpreters during the hearings and at the reception. Jurij them to reconcile themselves to an open Danylo Shumuk meets Amnesty International representative Steven Austin. In the dialogue with the U.S. legislators who background is Bozhena Olshaniwsky. Dobczansky and the Rev. Myroslaw were actually asking them for their Tataryn, respectively, served in that ro1e guest speakers. The Gudava brothers, to listen to their requests. Members of and performed a creditable job. Nadia suggestions. although arriving late, were also ho­ the AHRU executive board and repre- At the hearing, the audience which Svitlychna and Dr. Nina Strokata nored guests at the AHRU reception. senatives of Baltic organizations met Karavansky welcomed both men to the numbered well over 150,overflowed into The reception featured a cocktail Sen. Lautenberg in Newark. Andrew the corridor. (The only other Helsinki free wor1d and encouraged them to party with a hot and cold buffet that Sorokowski, a Ukrainian scholar from continue striving for their ideals. Commission hearing that attracted started at 4 p.m. and lasted well past the Keston College and an expert on геИ- more legislators and a larger audience scheduled closing time. After the guests gious persecution in Ukraine, was The last of the congressmen to speak was the testimony presented by Natan had a chance to nibble and mingle, invited by AHRU specifically for this was Rep. Hoyer, who so aptly and Sharansky [Anatoly Shcharansky] Bozhena Olshaniwsky, president of occasion from England. gracefully had chaired the hearings soon after his release from the Soviet AHRU, opened the program and The reception afforded an opportu­ earlier in the day, epitomizing the dedi­ gulag.) greeted everyone. William Bahrey, nity for the guests of honor to speak and cated legislator devoted to betterment The audience was comprised of chairman of the AHRU board of also gave the members of Congress an of his country. Having seen and heard people from various areas. Over 50 trustees, rendered the invocation. opportunity to greet the citizenry in a Chairman Hoyer many times in Wash­ people came from New Jersey; others Sen. Lautenberg, the keynote warm and relaxed atmosphere of convi­ ington and at international conferences arrived from Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, speaker, greeted all and pledged his vial conversation over food and drink. and noticing his growth as a humanist Rochester, New York, Philadelphia and continuous support for human rights. The formal program was led by Ted and lawmaker, it was both fitting and He voiced his disappointment with the Romankow, AHRU's attorney and proper that he closed the day's festivities Bozhena Olshaniwsky and Walter much-publicized perestroika and mayor of Berkeley Heights, N. J. As the with eloquence and candor. When Bodnar are president and executive se­ glasnost in the Soviet Union and stated legislators arrived, they were invited to complimented earlier in the day during cretary, respectively, of Americans for that such deception would not do. The greet the recently freed Messrs. Shumuk the CSCE hearings by Rep. Bill Human Rights in Ukraine. Soviet Union will have to show much and Terelia and make their statements. (Continued on page 15) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1987 No.46

ART REVIEW

Mr. Kolisnyk's language is of of kinetic movement. Mr. Kolisnyk Peter Kolisnyk at Chicago's UIMA extreme aestheticism. His art is not to b1urrs the distinction between painting be glimpsed at but studied, examined and sculpture. This work, constructi- by Wasyl Kacurovsky work, though aesthetic by nature, has a slowly, and contemplated and woven vist in nature, could be called a wall An exhibition of paintings by Cana­ cool, removed quality not of expression into one's own visual, intellectual, and sculpture. dian Peter Kolisnyk was held at the but of representation. "A brick is a emotional experience. The spiritual is Mr. Kolisnyk, with his silent Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art here brick," said Carl Andre. always the main characteristic of inner­ meditations, is a very unusual artist in between September 18 and October 25. Mr. Kolisnyk's work is not of a most beauty of Mr. Kolisnyk's canvases. today's art scene. He could be related to cerebral nature. It always points to On entering the spacious gallery of It steers ones sou1 into greater aware­ Robert Irving, who is concerned with something beyond visual boundaries, to ness. His vision can become ours for the the dematerialization of material. But the institute, there was no drumming of something more than we see at first. All loud paint. It was all whiteness. There reason that he has discovered in his Mr. Kohsnyk is more of an individual, his work is imbued with poetics. It is inner thoughts something that attunes independent of spirit so that his work were no heroics of "abstract expres­ mystical in essence. He is not so much sionism," there was no visceral scream­ itself with our thoughts. does not invite such comparison. It an intellectual as he is a poet. Rejecting When we step into the environment takes a mature mind and a great deal of ing and sou1 searching for "new all reference to the visible wor1d expressionism." There were no histrionic of Mr. Kolisnyk's art we are enveloped living to nurture in oneself one's own surrounding us, his work comes from in pure whiteness. The silence is Hke an vision, to be able to embody it in an theatrics, there was almost a sacrosanct introspection, his feelings, his state of silence of whiteness. Mr. Kolisnyk uses empty chapel. Our feelings, our aesthetic form and to persevere and not mind, his personal warmth and emotions and our mood condescend to waver through all the fads and changes just one white paint on the simple, intimacy, and his responsibility as a uncorruptible forms of a square in all of this calm. Momentarily, when we step in the art wor1d. serious artist. His painting is his medita­ closer to his canvases we notice that In a catalogue for an earlier Kolisnyk the paintings on display. tion. In some of his earlier paintings he did they are not just plain white. There are exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Carrying painting to a point of variations of whiteness in them. Modern Art (Chicago, 1972), Maria not use color at all, emphasizing the extreme reduction, stripping it to delicate structure and beauty of raw Although Mr. Kolisnyk uses the same Ochrymovych wrote this about his nakedness, Mr. Kolisnyk doesn't white, he applies it in different layers on work: canvas on which he made simple change easily. He mocks today's art different parts of the canvas. He creates "The paintings evoke a half-hypnotic horizontal lines with gel, which when wor1d of so-called pluralism, that jumps gradations of shade that enliven the state of immovable calmness of almost dried was barely visible. The straight from one style to another in its hopeless­ surface and make it sensuously richer. senseless emptiness — art charged with line is a favorite compositional element ness and despair, vulgarizing and But it is never just the delicate beauty of mysticism and illuminated by spiritual of Mr. Kolisnyk's expression and ca:i cannibalizing traditions of the past in the surfaces that we see and feel on these relaxation. Art which distinguishes have several meanings, depending o^ its many ways — most of it being just tran­ canvases. There is always some itself by such absolute objectivism and specific use. Usually it is horizont/^1 or sitional fashion, in search of true mean­ omnipresent mysteriousness stirring the negation of individualistic self-expres­ vertical, but never diagonal. ing. sou1 into a greater awareness, guiding sion, reflects the philosophy of Western After years of study and Mr. Kolisnyk is not a popular, easily experimentation Mr. Kolisnyk came to our personal vision of the wor1d, and medieval thinkers and monks of Asia." palatable artist. He doesn't yield his our place in it. This is unlike the work of the conclusion that simplicity of form convictions, his wor1d and vision easily. Mr. Kolisnyk's works evoke thoughts and spareness of expression are better, Frank Stella who said; "My painting is and emotions. His purified art has It is difficult to come close to his based on the fact that only what can be nobler, more moral than the elaborate innermost soul as an artist. His art religious connotations. Art and religion and ornate. So Mr. Kolisnyk is simple seen there, is there. It really is an have the same origin. The act of paint­ might mean different things to different object." Yes, lately, they are usually ela­ and white. As Malevich said at the people, or not mean anything at all to ing is a rituahstic process for Mr. beginning of the century: "I have borately made cold objects of Stella. Kolisnyk. He is a solitary monk and his some people. It is easy to be 1he same play of shifting light on broken the blue shade of colour misundersood as an artist. Art shows prayers are white. boundaries and come out into white." white is used by Mr. Kolisnyk in the When he prepared for his one-made rather than explains. It points out pencil, ink and watercolor drawings in­ All early Abstractionists who were rather than argues and proves. If the exhibition at the UIMA Mr. Kolisnyk engaged in a search for metaphysical cluded in the exhibition. All are delicate made a detailed plan indicating how his artist fails to communicate, the failure in means and form of expression. The and ultimate meaning used this simple may be in us. We have to give up the works should be grouped, hung and in­ form of expression. watefcolors are divided in half, leaving stalled in relation to the available space. notion that good art can be everything creases markedly visible. Although extreme reduction, to everybody, as everybody responds to Conscious consideration was given to geometric purity of form, non- art differently. Every creative effort and There is a work consisting of 28 sepa­ free space in relation to occupied space, referention and non-imitative every end-product, like each individual rate parts spread on a wall 34 feet long. including the height from the floor and autonomy link Mr. Kolisnyk's work to person is unique. These are 12-inch-square white-on- ceiling. Moving wall partitions with Minimalism, it would be insufficient to white canvases of four each in various canvases were arranged in a specific "It is unusual to discover work so call him a minimalist, as his work is compositional combinations in a order. It was an excellent example of in­ reduced, refined and disciplined in Ca­ saturated with the expression of feeling horizontal Hne. Here Mr. Kohsnyk is stallation utilizing the available space. nada," wrote Ronald Nasgaar, chief that minimalists formally abjure. His playing not only with shifting the light curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, in It was good timing for the UIMA to work doesn't have a formal rigor and on the surface, but with spatial rela­ the catalogue for an exhibition of Mr. have Mr. KoUsnyk's exhibit, as not so rationality exemplified in the work of tionships of compositional parts, Kolisnyk's work in that gallery in 1980. long ago the city hosted an exhibition such artists as So1 Lewitt or Donald including space itself as an actual part of And this statement could be true not from Los Angeles called "The Spiritual Judd, with their cubes and boxes. Their the work. The vibrating horizontal and only in Canada, but everywhere else. in Art - Abstract Painting, 1890­ vertical lines give this work the feeling 1985." It was a huge encyclopedic Wasyl Kacurovsky is curator emeri- This depends on our willingness and preparation to look into the artist's exhibition manifesting that transcen­ tus of the Ukrainian Institute of Mo­ dental meaning in art continues to dern Art in Chicago. work. UKRAINIAN assert itself. As Archipenko said: "The Gothic and modern styles seem to be POL0 SHIRTS analogues in their striving to detach DR. GEORGE E. BORZEMSKY AVAILABLE WITH from matter in search of the spirit." GENERAL FAMILY DENTISTRY ,JPM3YB'' HUCULKA 1877 Springfield Avenue, Maplewood, N.J. 07040 EMBLEM OVER LEFT icon & Souvenir's Distribution Те[.: (201) 762-1890 PORTION OF CHEST AREA Sewn yellow on blue or blue on yellow 28б0 Buhre Ave. #2R Office hours: Mon.-Fri. 10-6 Bronx, NY 10461 Available sizes: S, M, L, XL Emergencies call: 836-2219 Tel (212) 931-1579 after 6 p.m. 100% cotton - Made in the U.S.A. Ш Representative and *rho)esaler of embroidered bIouses for adults and children

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CONCERT REVIEW Juliana Osinchuk at Alice JuIly Hall

by 01es Kuzyszyn poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," requires subtle shadings of Pianist Juliana Osinchuk made her color, extreme dynamic contrasts, a New York recital debut at Alice TuUy precision of attack, and an innate Hall in March of 1986. Despite an im­ rhythmic sensitivity on the part of the pressive performance, she, unfortuna­ performer. Miss Osinchuk, attentive to tely, was ignored by the New York every detail, offered a convincing read­ press. Several weeks ago, on October ing of this example of avant-garde "pro­ 24, Miss Osinchuk returned to Alice gramme music." Tully Hall in a grand manner, and this Effortlessly making yet another time the New York critics could not help stylistic transition, the pianist closed the but notice. first half of the program with Chopin's Miss Osinchuk's musical achieve­ Four Preludes from Op. 28 (Nos. 1,3,4 ments have been documented in the and 16) and the F minor Ballade, Op. past. Most recently, she was selected as 52. Here Miss Osinchuk dispelled any a 1987 "Young Artist to Watch" by doubt which may have lingered from Musical America. Her performance at last year's recital concerning her ability AHce Tully thoroughly substantiated to make the piano keyboard sing. The this distinction — she played with flair compelling, but not excessively drama­ and confidence, her brilliant technique tic mood swings from one prelude to the serving as a powerful too1 for conveying next, as well as the combination of some solid aesthetic convictions. warmth and brilliance in the Ballade, This year's program demanded not rounded out an already impressive only superior pianistic skills, but the pallete of skills. ability to leap back and forth between Three preludes of Valentin Bibik, a some radically different stylistic periods native of Kharkiv, Ukraine, opened the — a challenge that some of the wor1d's second half. These are excerpts from 34 leading pianists are hesitant to Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16 (1975), a undertake. Miss Osinchuk's cycle dedicated to the composer's adventurous programming included father, As in the Baley "Nocturnal," the contemporary composers Virko Baley e0I0ristic quality of these preludes is of and Valentin Bibik alongside primary importance, but here, in Beethoven, Chopin, Faure and Liszt; combination with a broader sense of and this proved to be yet another line, at times encased in a polyphonic feather in her cap. texture. In her performance Miss The prograni opener, Beethoven's 32 Osinchuk was mindful of both aspects Variations on an Original Theme, in C of this music, and evoked a surprisingly minor, WoO 80, allowed the pianist enthusiastic response from an audience ample opportunity to shape the path of which was, for the most part, hearing a continually developing musical this composer's work for the first time. Juliana Osinchuk theme, which she carried through the The Faure Impromptu No. 2, Op. 31 and Nocturne No. 13, Op. 119 initiated Miss Osinchuk obliged with works by a performing artist. Equally er. c^u~ tightly structured compositional Rachmaninoff, Moszkowski and Ko- raging is New York Times .it!C template at an elevated level of emo­ a return to a more romantic aesthetic, marked by cascading passagework and senko. Bernard Holland's assessment of ber tional intensity. It is worth noting that in contrast to performance, summarized in a hric:, but The Beethoven was followed by evocative, yet clearly articulated flou­ rishes. her. recital of last year, the packed very positive review (Monday, October Nocturnal No. 4 (197I; 1987) by 49­ house included many non-Ukrainians, 26). All evidence seems to indicate that year-old Ukrainian composer Virko And finally, as if stamina were the only thing left to prove, Miss Osinchuk as this was a subscription concert, The we will have the opportunity to hear Baley, currently music director and con­ enthusiasm of the non-partisan Juliana Osinchuk at LincolD Center ductor of the Las Vegas Symphony Or­ offered a rousing, bravura rendition of Liszt's Va1se de 1'opera "Faust," de audience is an extremely encouraging many more times in future years. To this chestra. The work, in part an instru­ indication of Miss Osinchuk's impact as end, we wish her well. mental realization of Wallace Stevens' Gounod; a typically extravagant, almost demonic adaptation by this legendary composer/pianist of a theme The Ukrainian Music Institute of America, New York Branch Scranton.., from Gounod's "Faust." As could be ex­ cordially invites you to attend a pected, the exuberant exploded with ap­ (Continued from page 6) plause, and demanded three encores. CONCERT of ALUMNI, STUDENTS, and adapt. If we fail to do so, upon whose shoulders will we lay the blame and FRIENDS of UMI when future generations ask us — what UKRAINIAN NATIONAL on Saturday, November 21. 1987 at 7:00 p.m. did you do to prevent the Russians from ASSOCIATION in Asher Levy Auditorium, First Avenue and East iith Street, New V .^rk, N.Y. stealing the essence of Ukraine's history seeks to hire in a PROGRAM FEATURING CLASSICAL and POPULAR Й ORKS — her legitimate right to the legacy of by Ukrainian and Classical Composers Kiev? FULL-TIME CAREER SALES Performing are: Scranton showed us the way. 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the recipient of the Nikander Bukowsky The HrushIV.., na (where one of the apparitions was Ukrainian studies... Felloship, Dr. Mikolkina will be com­ reported), which has been converted to p1eting a monograph on the great (Continued from page 3) a state farm depot: (Continued from page 4) Virgin Mary have been reported in Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko. "The doors are smashed, the walls are to Toronto in 1950, where Mr. Shkilnyk several localities in recent months. crumbling, and fragments of stone, camp in Bavaria. The Shkilnyks came The Bukowsky Educational Fund In addition to the Hrushiv appari­ rubbish and dirt lie everywhere. Such became active members of the Ukrai­ was established in 1986 from a S50,00O tions the article mentions that a few deserted, uncared-for monuments of nian community. Mr. Shkilnyk was a endowment by Nikander Bukowsky, days after the first Hrushiv apparition the past (there are quite a few of them in founding member of the Association of an 82-year-old retired businessman (April 26) the Virgin Mary was "seen" in Galicia) [a traditionally Catholic pro­ Ukrainian Pedagogues. from Saskatoon and a long-time activist the western Ukrainian towns of Tem0­ vince of western Ukraine] do not spread in the Ukrainian Canadian community. piI, Ozerna, Berezhany and Ka- A S10,00O one-year post-doctoral atheism but, on the contrary, spark off Born in the Volyn region of Ukraine, menka-Buhska - *'in the window of fellowship was also awarded to Dr. religious feelings." Mr. Bukowsky immigrated to Canada a cathedral, on a church roof, on the Anna V. Makolkina from the Nikander in 1929. Some of the abuses mentioned had Bukowsky Educational Fund. Dr. wall of a hospital, shop or school." He was a founder and active member According to Mr. Shevelyov, the been directed against pilgrims coming Makolkina is a philologist, translator of the Ukrainian National Federation to see apparitions of the Virgin Mary. and instructor of Russian and Ukrai­ principal cause of the phenomenon is of Canada, the Saskatoon branch of the the mood of the people, who in the face, One overzealous atheist, reports Mr. nian languages at the University of Ukrainian Self-Reliance League, the Shevelyov, smashed the window where Toronto. of various social as well as private Ukrainian National Association, and problems — Chornobyl, the war in believers had reportedly seen the image She was born in Kalinin, USSR, the New Community Savings and Cre­ of the Mother of God. Others photo­ comp1eted her undergraduate studies at Afghanistan, crude bureaucrats, etc. — dit Union Limited. desire supernatural intervention. But graphed pilgrims and turned the photos the Mechnikov State University in over to the militia. Still others fined Odessa. In 1987, she was awarded a Mr. Bukowsky is also a major bene­ another cause is abuses by local authori­ ties, whose reactions to religious pheno­ those believers who repeatedly claimed Ph.D, in comparative literature from factor of the Ukrainian Canadian to have seen the apparition. the'University of Toronto. Foundation of Taras Shevchenko and a mena have been excessive. Mr. Shevel- yov's examples confirm reports of . According to the article, last year І20 She immigrated to the United States donor to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine complaints concerning refusal to open in 1972 and then to Canada in1977. As project, persecution in the unofficial (Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Ukraine and churches were received by the authori­ other samizdat publications: refusal to ties in the Tem0piI region alone. Pre­ register religious associations and open sumably, these concerned refusal to churches, despite repeated requests by register religious associations. The groups of believers; burning of the article does not indicate whether the With profound sorrow we inform our friend!!^, relatives and the Ukrainian Community sacramental objects of a church by local associations would have registered as that after prrionged illness atheists in the Tem0piI region and the Orthodox or Ukrainian Catholic com­ munities. IWAN CZORNYJ delapidation of the cathedral of Ozer­ bom in Buchach, Ukraine. AVNA insurance policy is Funeral Services were held Novemt)er 7, 1987 at 9:30 a.m. at Funeral Home in an investment in ti1e Ukrainian community. Kerhonkson, N.Y. Laid to eternal rest at local Cemetery in Kerhonkson, N. Y. 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Group had two short periods of activity, striving for good. It is enough to curring in the USSR, the camouflaging Testimony... both of which resulted in severe mention that we were already arrested of the real Soviet attitude towards (Continued from page 8) repercussions against the participants. and sentenced during Gorbachev's rule, human rights. the idea of national liberation is directly First, the group announced its creation and we experienced the entire depth of This real attitude has not changed. associated with the following in January 1977, with six members. In Shevardnadze's "humanism" during his Together with a smoke screen of Soviet fundamental legal principles: the right four months it was attacked by the tenure as the head of the Georgian propaganda and the attempt by Soviet of a nation to self-determination, the authorities and four members were Communist Party. ideologues to substitute the universal right of individuals to free expression of arrested and its activity stopped. In the Changes occuring now in the USSR interpretation of human rights with their views, the right of patriotic spring of 1985, the group reappeared are necessitated by pressure from three their own, they pose a danger of not associations and the right to use with new members, also numbering six. directions: only the reinstitution of past suppres­ democratic procedures in resolving the At that time, my brother and I became 1.) Socio-economic. There is fear of sion of individual rights in the USSR, issue of Georgian separation from the involved. Once again, after three another Poland, where the decline in the but also of its expansion worldwide. Soviet Union. The majority of Georgian months, the KGB destroyed the group: standard of living, together with the Where are the guarantees that this political prisoners were imprisoned for three members were imprisoned and flourishing of corruption and protec­ practice of suppression is not going to supporting the last principle, even two emigrated to the West. tionism, resulted in an explosion of be reintroduced? though that right is stated in the Soviet In our activities we emphasized the indignation not only aimong individual Who will be accountable for the constitution. Thus, in Georgia, the necessity to observe universal human dissidents, but involving the entire death and suffering of hundreds of struggle for national independence is a rights norms. The group published working class. people whose only "crime" was in struggle for democratization and vice several documents about the conditions 2.) Military-economic. Here there is a defending their own legitimate rights, versa. In this, Georgian nationalists of Georgian political prisoners, about fear of SDI as a project capable of dignity and freedom? differ from, say the Basques or Irish, unlawful deeds by the authorities, as making technological superiority of the Still intact is the whole apparatus of who are in possession of all the well as appeals to the West regarding West real and irrefutable. the KGB and those articles in the crimi­ democratic means for fulfillment of the tenth anniversary of the Helsinki 3.) Ideological. There is fear of nal code which leave the possibility for their programs. Final Act and a demand for freedom for continuously increasing political and further terror against dissidents. "Re- These days, when the Soviet Union Andrei Sakharov. moral isolation of the Soviet regime, pentence" in this system goes no further publicizes worldwide the "democratiza­ which is deservedly considered to be an than artistic allegories. tion" of its regime, we hear nothing Presently, the Georgian Helsinki Mo­ "evil empire." It is our belief that only an open and democratic trial of the instigators and about changes in the attitude of nitoring Group consists of two mem­ Accordingly, the Soviet Union was Moscow towards the right of the Geor­ bers: Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Merab executioners of repression against forced to undertake these changes in human rights would be a real indicator gian people for a democratic procedure Kostava. They are helped by many order to stop dangerous tendencies and to resolve the most fundamental ques­ supporters whose names should not yet of glasnost and democratization in the to preserve and strengthen its totalita­ USSR. Only such a trial could act as a tion: that of the sovereignty or r УП- become public because of dangers of rian and misanthropic nature. sovereignty of Georgia. repercussions. watershed between the 70 year bloody Second, positive changes in the history of the Soviet regime and Gor­ All of the national problems of Soviet system have been long awaited Georgia are the consequences of the Our assessment of Gorbachev's pe- bachev's rule. restroika and glasnost coincides with by human rights activists, both in the above issue, and the prevalence of USSR and abroad. Our slogan for today: KGB, stand nationalistic ideas creates a specific the opinions of many human rights and be accountable! Totalitarianism, activists we know in the USSR. Briefly Glasnost and democratization were character for the entire human rights and are essential goals of the human stand and be accountable! movement. Together with a relatively our conclusions are as follows: We strongly believe that the Soviet Changes are occuring in the USSR, rights movement in the Soviet Union underdeveloped open organization of and they were formulated long before communist system brings a continuous­ human rights structures, there is a and their importance should neither be ly increasing threat to the world at large. under- nor over-estimated. Gorbachev. Many activists have sacri­ widespread small, temporarily ' na­ ficed their lives in the struggle for these At the foundation of this system there tional, patriotic and religious groups, Of course, these changes are positive; ideas. The present exclusion of the is a denial of the spiritual nature of man, which exist in an atmosphere of very a number of political prisoners have human rights movement from the of freedom of choice. active student masses with the been released, some families have been process of glasnost makes it a mockery The history of this system is aliistory productive support of the scientific in­ permitted to emigrate, previously of real glasnost. of monstrous crimes against human telligentsia, especially in the humanities. banned writers and their books have rights, against humanity and the rule of At the same time, the attitude of law, in conjunction with the devilish Human rights events tend to concen­ been "pardoned." Still, this campaign Soviet authorities toward human rights trate around several renowned activists has its other side which not everyone ability to conceal its atrocities and activists and the human rights move­ escape responsibility, and theseevents include the distribution wants or can see. ment have not changed. of proclamations and petitions, often First, about motivations for all their Freed political prisoners were not The global danger of the present during demonstrations. changes. It is extremely naive to assume rehabilitated, but rather *'pardoned" policy of glasnost in the USSR comes The Georgian Helsinki Monitoring that present Soviet leaders are liberals under various fabricated excuses. The from the preservation and strengthen­ process of their release was not covered ing of the criminal nature of the Soviet in the Soviet press, except for a coup1e system. The stabilization of the system THE UNA: MORE THAN of very short and absolutely deceitful at a new level will give it even more paragraphs in the newspapers. power. The jamming of some Western radio Unfortunately, we have to admit that AN INSURANCE COMPANY stations is continuing, as well as the ban there is a lack of understanding of this of publication of the best masterworks situation in the West. At the same time, of free literature. we are certain that understanding the No place like Soyuzivka Fundamental human rights — of Soviet system is necessary both to save on Thanksgiving Day! speech, of obtaining information, of Western democracy and to preserve freedom of religion and association, of peace on this earth. emigration and return, of due process We hope to contribute as much as we THANKSGIVING DINNER with defense, etc. — are not guaranteed can towards this great cause. We could now any more than they were under propose a great many projects in this Gorbachev's predecessors. direction. We are counting on the at SOYUZIVKA Changes in legislation (both already understanding and help of the Ameri­ introduced and expected) are designed can authorities for the implementation Thursday, November 26, 1987, at 1 p.m. to legitimize the deficient Soviet inter­ of these projects. TRAOmONAL pretation of human rights which is drastically different from what is uni­ Kiev Radio... TURKEY versally accepted. Real modification of DINNER the Soviet legal system should have (Continued from page 2) Special order: begun with a modification of the foun­ "He's a crook," he allegedly said. dation — the totalitarian and anti­ "There is no truth in a single word of Whoie turkey human rights Soviet constitution. his." for the family The hounding of human rights acti­ The Keston News Service also re­ Dinners vists continues in the USSR finding, ported that another signatory of the do­ however, new forms. cument, the Rev. Mykhaylo Havryliv, by advance Gorbachev's entire policy in the was summoned to report for military orders only human rights area is based on a primi­ conscription on September 29 at the age of 38, according to a source in Ukraine. Saturday, November 28, 1987 tive use of the Western media: the exploitation of propaganda from the re­ In 1979, the Rev. Havryliv openly DANCE to the tunes of lease or emigration of each dissident of joined the underground Ukrainian Bohdan Himiak Orchestra refusenik separately and the extensive Catholic Church. He has lived in the Sponsored by the 89th Branch of the "marketing" of sensationally democra­ village of Rudniki, near Lviv in western Ukrainian Women's League tic announcements and hints. Gorba­ Ukraine, and has worked at various chev is playing on the desire of the West menial jobs, wrote Keston. Special rate from Thursday thru Sunday: S100.0O per person, inc!udes meals and room. to discover a human face in the image of Rate for 1 day S40.0O. The Rev. Havryliv's biography ap­ the Soviet beast. He is creating a mirage peared last spring in issue No. 16 of the For reservations, for dinner please contact: in the desert, visible to everybody to the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Order: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ESTATE extent of his or her impressionability. Ukraine. He has reportedly been fined Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 or phone (914) 626-5641 Third, human rights activists see as a and harassed a number of times, said major danger of the process now oc­ Keston. No.46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1987 15

Democracy, Gidion Aronoff of the A triumph... Boston Action for Soviet Jewry, YEVSHAN RECORDS (Continued from page 9) Andrew Ceelen of the Christian Care NEW RELEASES FALL '88 Richardson (D-N.M.) for elevating the East/West in the Netherlands, Ulana issue of human rights to a higher plane, Mazurkewicz of the Ukrainian Human he modest1y deferred the success of his Rights Committee, Ronya Lozynsky of commission to his assistants. TUSM, Myron Wasylyk of the 20th CENTURY To a great extent, he was correct. Ukrainian National Information Ser­ UKRAINIAN VI0UN MUSIC AHRU's experience in working with vice, Daria Stec of The Washington Cassette CYFP 2032 0rest Deychakiwsky, a staffer on the Group, Dr. George Starosolsky of the Featuring Eugene Gratovich, violin CSCE commission, has been gratifying Virk0 Baley, piano National Ukrainian Millennium LYATOSHINSKY Bertram Turetzky, contrabass and fruitful on human rights issues, Committee, and Roma Hadzewyczand Selections: BORIS LYATOSHINSKY: Sonata for violin follow-up matters and reference data. It Chrystyna Lapychak of The Ukrainian KOSENKO and piano, 0p. 19 (1926)/Allegro 1mpetu0s0 — Tempo was Mr. Deychakiwsky who, coordi­ precedente/ Sostenuto e tranquiIl0, Lento - Allegro Weekly. moIt0 risoluto. VICTOR KOSENKO: Two pieces. 0P. 4 nated the highly successful October 22 In addition to the numerous members HRABOVSKY (1919) - Dreams (lento cantabile), Impromtu hearings. In addition to Mr.Deychakiw- and supporters of AHRU, distant (Allegro assai). LE0NID. HRABOVSKY: Trio for v1oI1n, sky, the staff of the CSCE commission STANKOVYCH Contrabass and p1an0 (1964, rev. 1975). YEVMEN AHRU branches were represented by: STANKOVYCH: Tripych "In the Highlands" (1972) was represented at the reception by Marie Zarycky, chairman of the Michi­ Lullaby (Andante con moto) - V\/edding (Allegro Michael Lee, John Dettling and Lindsay gan AHRU branch, Zena Bihun of the assai) - improvisation. Demydovich. Illinois AHRU branch, Valentyna Cassette tapes S8.50^+ S1.5O shipping. The senators and congressmen who Makohon, chairman of the Rochester Total Si6.00. were unable to attend the reception AHRU branch, Oksana Palijczuk, personally sent their assistants instead. chairman of the Maryland AHRU NOW AVAILABLE AT ALL UKRAINIAN BOOK STORES & GIFT SHOPS! Congressmen who sent their assistants branch, Anisa Sawycky-Mycak, chair­ . YEVSHAN SAMPLER CASSETTE Vol. 2 were: David Bonior (D-Mich.), Dennis man of the New York City AHRU =A ONLY S2.99 WITH EACH ORDER! LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER Hertel (D-Mich.), James Howard (D- branch, Zenon Bodnarskyj, chairman ,v** Features 12 compIete Ukrainian selections from new releases! Available only by Mail. N.J.), Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), Bruce of the Buffalo AHRU branch, Dona Total with sampler: Sampler $2.99 + S10.00. Total S12.99 U.S. Morrison (D-Conn.), Henry Nowak Kapij of the Hartford AHRU branch and (D-N.Y.), Clay Shaw (R-Fla.), Daria Kuzyk of the Trenton AHRU MAIL ORDERS TO: YEVSHAN CORPORATION Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), Guy branch. Box 125 Station St. Michel, Montreal. Quebec H2A 3L9, Canada No. 6j Vander Jagt (R-Mich.). On the Senate After the Rev. Joseph Denischuk led side, present were representatives of: the people assembled in the singing of Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Christopher the hymn "Bozhe Velyky," Bozhena Dodd (D-Conn.), Gordon Humphrey 01shaniwsky thanked a11 the guests for ARTHUR N. HRYH0R0WYCH, MD (R-N.H.), Car1 Levin (D-Mich.), Paul coming. The reception ended at 7 p.m. IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE Sarbanes (D-Md.) and Timothy Wirth (D­ C0I0.), Bob Patterson represented the THE RELOCATION OF HIS MEDICAL PRACTICE U.S. Department of State. POCONO'S of Other luminaries and notables б% financing available for qualified buyers. PHYSICAL, REHABILITATION, AND attending the reception were: Ukrainian . Lots have central water & sewer, 24 hours clergy from several states, Judge security, 160 acres of lake, indoor swimm­ GENERAL MEDICINE Bohdan A. Futey, James Mace and ing pool, ski slopes and many, many more. to a more spacious and better equipped facility 01ga Samilenko Tsvetkov of the For information caIt: at Ukraine Famine Commission, Nadia (718) 89б5857 44 St. Mark's Place, New York, N.Y. 10003 Diuk of the National Endowment for (Between 1st & 2nd Ave's) I will retain my existing telephone numbers: (212) 529-5966, (212) 529-6899 ARETA D. PODHORODECKI, MD Office hours by appointmens only. IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF MEDICAL OFFICE FOR THE PRACTICE of C 'іA chilling account of Sta1in's PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE at regime cold bloodedly 44 St. Mark's Place, New York, N.Y. 10003 killing 20 million of its own (Between 1st & 2nd Ave's) Telephone: (212) 529-5966 subjects/' Office hours by appointments only. -Washington Post Book WorId

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Mr. Shaked tried to show that the British documents... signature on the ID card differed from (Continued from page 1) other samples of the defendant's writing PREVIEW OF EVENTS of the Trawniki ID he had found two because Mr. Demjanjuk could have' November 17 Ave. The Ukrainian pysanka will be parallel lines under the signature of signed the document hurriedly as he held supplies just issued him by the the subject of this series, which Streibel and that he believes that is from Nazis. Dr. Grant responded by saying, PHOENIX, Aril.: An autumn ball includes subsequent lectures on a paper clip. He added that he does not "It (the signature) could never have will be held at 6 p.m. at the Fountain November 29 and December 19 and know if paperclips were in use in the Suites Hotel. Tickets prices start at early 1940s. been written so neatly on the line... this 20. There is a S2O fee for each class. is a particularly neat signature." S2O. The event is sponsored by the U- To register call (213) 668-0172. The prosecution later asserted that, krainian American Credit Union and according to an American expert,s Cross-examination and re-direct Branch 3 of the Ukrainian National NEW YORK: An academic lecture paperclips were used at the time. The questioning concluded on Wednesday, Women's League of America. Pro­ on *'Which Church Language did next day, upon reading Ronald Morris^ November 11. ceeds will go to a scholarship fund. Kievan-Rus' Ukraine Accept 1,000 paper on this topic, Dr. Grant told the On the final day of the week's court For information call Nadya Wirlo, Years Ago" will be held at 5 p.m. at court that his findings referred only to sessions, Thursday, November 12, the (602) 830-8258. the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the use of paperclips in the United defense called Goetz Polzein, a West 63 Fourth Ave. The speaker will be States, not in other countries. German lawyer, who testified about November 21 Dr. Bohdan Struminsky of Harvard 1)r. Grant also testified that the German legal procedures. Mr. Polzein University. Trawniki ID and the three other cards was involved in the Frank Walus case, SAN FRANCISCO: A comedy night obtained through the good offices of having been engaged by the defense. with be held at 7 p.m. at the Ukrai­ PHILADELPHIA: An autumn ball American industrialist Armand Ham­ During a brief two-hour session, the nian Catholic Church, 215 Silliman sponsored by the Voloshky Ukrai­ mer from the Soviet Union, were made defense established that Streibel, who St. Performers include Chicago nian Dance Ensemble will be held at of the same paper. This, however, has had stated in 1983 that the signature on I comedian Zenovij Marynetz and U- 9 p.m. at the Ukrainian Educational no meaning in and of itself, Dr. Grant the Trawniki ID card is not his, had no krainian folk dancing and singing. and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar said, as such paper can be manufac­ reason to lie. The prosecution had con­ The event is sponsored by Branch Road. The Vodohray Orchestra will tured even today. tended that Streibel lied because he was 107 of the Ukrainian National Wo­ provide the music, '^ickets are S12 for On Tuesday, November 1D, Dr. afraid to admit it was indeed his signa­ men's League of America. Admis­ adults, S7 for students. For reserva­ Grant testified that the Trawniki ID is a ture. sion is S1O. For information call tions ca^! '4arta Amaro, (215) 235­ fake because the photo on it came from Mr. Polzein, however, testified that Halene Marenin, (408) 268-9184. 1216. another document; the signature alleged Streibel had no reason to be fearful to be Demjanjuk's appears to be ^orged; because he had already been found IRV!NGX0N, N J.: A general meet Novcmbi*^ 2 and the same ink that was used by the innocent at his trial, and the German ing of Americans for Human Rights translator who made notations on the criminal code has a provision which in Ukraine will be held at 11 a.m. in PARMA, Ohio: St. Vladimir's U- card is evident in the holes on the photo prevents "double jeopardy." That is, the Ukrainian Community Center, krainian Orthodox Cathedral will now attached to the card. once a person has been exonerated he 140 Prospect Ave. The keynote hold an annual Thanksgiving dinner "The indications are it (the card) did can be brought back to trial only if he speaker at the 1p.m. luncheon will be following the 10 a.m. divine liturgy. not belong to the accused," Dr. Grant voluntarily admits guilt on all charges Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Fyly- Tickets are available at the parish said. "It has been suggested that the for which he was previously tried, povych. He will speak on Myroslav office, or phone (216) 885-1509, 886­ photos have been replaced over time. I explained Mr. Polzein. Medvid. 1528. believe that to be a likelihood." This witness's testimony was brief During cross-examination, Dr. Grant also because presiding Judge Dov Levin NEW YORK: A concert of alumni, November 23 held fast to his opinion that the card is ruled that the Walus case has no rele­ students and friends of the Ukrainian phoney. vance to the Demjanjuk case and that Music Institute of America will be WINNIPEG: A workshop on Ukrai­ Prosecutor Michael Shaked tried the witness could testify only on the held at 7 p.m. at Ascher Levy nian Christmas foods and traditions during five hours of questioning on 1983 statement by Streibel. Auditorium, First Avenue and East begins at the Ukrainian Cultural and Tuesday, to have the witness amend his The prosecution did not cross-exa­ 11th Street. The program will feature Educational Centre. The workshop conclusions. mine the witness. classical and popular works. continues through December 3. For details call (204) 942-0218. determination to establish and main­ EAST HANOVER, N J.: *'Doo- IVY Times... tain good relations with the USSR, wap, do-wap," the annual dinner and November 26. (Continued from page 1) the U.S government participated, dance of Branch 75 of the Ukrainian wrong. There is no doubt whatever albeit indirectly, in what is perhaps National Women's League of Ame­ WINNIPEG: A lecture on the Ukrai­ that the authorities could manipulate the single most successful denial of rica, will be held at 8:30 p.m. at the nian identity in the Russian Ortho­ him..." genocide in history," Ramada Inn on Route 10. Tickets dox Church will be held at 7 p.m. at Also in his paper Dr. Mace states: The conference at which Dr. Mace I are S15. For reservations call Renia, the Ukrainian Cultural and Educa­ "The U.S. government knew a great was to reveal his findings in a paper (201) 288-5506. tional Centre. The guest speaker will deal about the man-made famine of titled "Collaboration in the Suppres­ be the Rev. Evan Lovig of the Ortho­ 1932-33 in Ukraine and chose not to sion of the Ukrainian Famine," was SCRANTON: St. Vladimir's Ukrai­ dox Church of America. acknowledge what it knew or to sponsored by the Institute for the nian Catholic Church will hold an respond in any meaningful way." Study of Genocide affiliated with annual pre-Thanksgiving dinner at 6 November 29 He notes: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. p.m. at the parish center. Music will "There can also be no doubt that Speakers appearing at the conference be provided by the Bill Roditski Or­ PHOENIX: The Assumption of the both the State Department and the were to include: Dr. Richard Hova- chestra. Admission is S7. Further Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Ca­ White House had access to plentiful nissian of UCLA, "The Armenian details are available by calling (717) tholic Church will be celebrating its and timely intelligence concerning Genocide: Remembrance and De­ 342-7023. 25th anniversary with a divine liturgy the famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine and nial"; and Dr. Helen Fein, executive at 10 a.m. at the church, 4319 W. made a conscious decision not only director of the Institute for the Study LOS ANGELES: The first in a series Clarendon. A banquet will be held at to do nothing about it, but to never of Genocide, "Western Recognition of holiday workshops will be held 1 p.m. at the 'fountain Suites Hotel. acknowledge it publicly. For politi­ and Responses to The Final Solu­ from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ukrai­ Tickets are %^5, For information call cal reasons largely related to FDR's tion of the Jewish Question.' " nian Art Center Inc., 43I5 Melrose Nayda Wirlo, (602) 830-8258.

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