www.ukrweekly.com ТНЕ І СВОБОДА4,SVOBODA I I 3: r oO Ukrainian Weekl o^14 PUBLISHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC, A FRATERNAL NON- PROHT ASSOCIATION V E f Vol. L No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 21,1982 2rcWlts Reagan proclaims Afghanistan Day, Soviets frame Plakhotniuk NEW YORK - Ukrainian human- Mr. Sokolov told Dr. Plakhotniuk that Bush recalls Ukraine's plight rights activist Mykola Plakhotniuk, he was in Cherkaske doing forced labor who was arrested in Kiev on September as punishment for a criminal offense. by Dr. Walter Dushnyck dance were delegations from Europe, 6 on then-unknown charges, was subse­ It was Mr. Sokolov who was to play a England, Germany, Austria, Panama, quently charged with "homosexuality" key role in the entrapment scheme WASHINGTON - President Thailand, Taiwan, Kenya and Japan. according to new information received which ultimately led to Dr. Plakhot- Ronald Reagan issued a Presidential Hugged by President Reagan at the by the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation niuk's arrest. Proclamation on March 10 dais was an Afghan teen-age student, Council (abroad). Soon after his meeting with Mr. designating March 21 as Nahid Mojadidi (a pseudonym), who Details about the case of the 46-year- Sokolov - who suggested they meet "Afghanistan Day" and appealing to related how the Soviet troops beat her old physician, who was released from a again to continue their conversation — the American people and the world at schoolmates and teachers and told of psychiatric hospital in 1980 after being Dr. Plakhotniuk noticed some rather large "not to forget the struggle of other barbarities. She presented Presi­ incarcerated eight years for "anti-Soviet peculiar goings-on in his dormitory. Afghan patriots" fighting Soviet troops dent Reagan with the national flag of agitation and propaganda," strongly On September 4, several unknown who have occupied Afghanistan for Afghanistan. indicate that he was framed by the persons, who called themselves builders, more than two years. In part, the presidential proclamation KGB. moved into a room directly across the It was the second time in three days read: The council's press service reported hall from Dr. Plakhotniuk. The next that the administration had raised the "The Soviet Union must understand that Soviet authorities continued to day, Dr. Plakhotniuk went to see his issue of Afghanistan, which in recent the world will not forget what it did to persecute Dr. Plakhotniuk after his fiancee, a Ms. V. Chornovil. months has taken .a back seat to the Afghanistan...The Afghan people de­ release. He was not allowed to live in Returning home late on September 6, imposition of martial law in Poland and fied the Soviet Union with a vigor that Kiev and was ordered by authorities to he was surprised to find Mr. Sokolov in the guerrilla war in El Salvador. has few parallels in modern history..and move to the Cherkaske oblast. his room. Because it was late, Mr. Deputy Secretary of State Walter have paid a terrible price in their fight In early September 1981, Dr. Plakhot­ Sokolov asked if he could spend the Stoessel, former U.S. ambassador to for freedom...Their villages and homes niuk, who was taking courses de­ night rather than travel home. Poland and the Soviet Union, testifying have been destroyed; they have been signed to upgrade medical skills and At 11 p.m., one of the builders across before the Senate Foreign Relations murdered by bullets, bombs and chemi­ was living in я dormitory on the,out­ the hall called the militia, while two Committee, charged that, according to cal weapons...One-fifth of the Afghan skirts of Cherkask, had a chance meet­ others broke down the door and burst "very reliable information," Soviet people has been driven into exile. And ing in the city library with a Mr. V. I. into Dr. Plakhotniuk`s quarters. their fight goes on." chemical warfare killed at least 3,042 Sokolov, whom he knew while impri­ By this time, Mr. Sokolov was lying persons in Afghanistan up to the sum­ " 'Afghanistan Day' will serve to soned in a psychiatric hospital in Smila. (Continued oo page 2) mer of 1981. recall...the principles involved when a In an official ceremony in the White people struggles for the freedom to House, attended by some ISO represen­ determine its own future, the fight to be tatives from American and ethnic free of foreign interference and the right Filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov arrested human-rights organizations as well as to practice religion according to the by foreign delegations, President Rea­ dictates of conscience..." NEW YORK - Sergei Paradjanov, culture described in Mr. Kotsiubynsky's gan called the fight of the Afghans whose film of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's story was released in the west in the mid- against the Soviet army "one of the State Department briefing book "Shadows of Forgotten Ances­ 1960s. "Shadows" won no fewer than 16 epics of our time." He said: "We cannot tors" is considered a modern cinema international film awards. and will not turn our backs on their At 2:30 p.m. that day a foreign policy classic, was arrested on February 11 in However, after the ouster of Soviet struggle." conference at the State Department the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where he leader Nikita Khrushchev, Mr. Parad­ He said that March 21 was selected as was attended by some 200 persons. They had been living with a sister, according janov fell out of favor with authorities, "Afghanistan Day" because it is the first were welcomed by Ambassador Gerald to the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation partly because all six of his films were in day of spring and the start of the new Helman, who conducted the conference. Council (abroad). Ukrainian rather than Russian. year for Afghans. Mr. Reagan also Deputy Secretary of State Stoessel He was reportedly charged with When he balked, on artistic grounds, dedicated the third launching of the gave an overview of relations between associating with "undesirable persons," at dubbing a film into Russian, he was space shuttle "Columbia" on March 27 the United States and the Soviet Union, probably foreigners. accused of Ukrainian nationalism. Mr. to the Afghan people. stating that these relations are marred The filmmaker, now in his mid-50s, Paradjanov is a native Georgian of by Soviet policies in Poland and Afgha­ was hailed as the heir apparent to the Armenian descent, although he lived in Enslavement of Ukraine nistan, as well as Moscow's meddling in great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein Ukraine and sent his son to a Ukrainian Central American affairs, particularly when his haunting and lyrical film school. The official character of the cere­ in Cuba, Nicaragua and now in El about the mystical aspects of Hutsul However, no formal charges were mony was underscored by the fact that Salvador. brought against him until December 17, the program was conducted by former John D. Scanlan, deputy assistant 1973, when he was arrested and charged Secretary of State William P. Rogers secretary, Bureau of European Affairs, with currency speculation and homo­ and that Vice President George Bush discussed U.S. policy with respect to sexuality. He was sentenced to five spoke before President Reagan read his Poland and other satellite countries, years' imprisonment and, shortly there­ proclamation. There were a number of and the USSR. Peter Constable, acting after, another 10-year sentence was other U.S. government officials and assistant secretary for Near Eastern and tacked on. legislators present. South Asian affairs, spoke on relations Thanks largely to an international Vice President Bush denounced So­ with Pakistan and its apprehension of campaign on his behalf, Mr. Paradjanov viet terror in Afghanistan and empha­ further Soviet moves in that part of was released in 1977. A petition to free sized that the United States is not Asia. Finally, John H. Holdridge, him was signed by Europe's greatest forgetting the plight of the captive assistant secretary for East Asia and directors - Truffaut, Godard, Malle, nations in Eastern Europe, from the Pacific affairs, reported on the Soviet- Fellini, Visconti, Rosselini and An- Baltic States, to Ukraine to Uzbekistan. backed Vietnamese invasion of Kam­ tonioni. puchea (Cambodia) and the large-scale His last screeplay to be officially Foreign delegation murder of the civilian population. approved was "The Color of Pome­ After the conference a reception was granates," in 1969. The film dealt, with Addressing the gathering briefly and held at the State Department. It was the great massacre of Armenians by the stressing the solidarity of Western hosted by Deputy Secretary Stoessel. Turks and was instantly banned. Europe with America on the subject of Attending the White House cere­ Nevertheless, Mr. Paradjanov, desti­ the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was mony were Prof. Lev E. Dobriansky, tute and unable to find work, continued Egon Klepsch of West Germany, who Dr. John Basarab, Iwanna Rozankow- to churn out screenplays while living in headed a three-man delegation of the sky, Martha Fedoriw, Volodymyr Tbilisi. AH of them have been rejected European Parliament. Also in atten­ Demchuk and Stephen Postupack. Sergei Paradjanov by the authorities. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 21.1982 No. 12 Solidarity members establish office Raisa Symchych appeals for to represent union in West release of imprisoned husband PARIS - Members of the Polish restitution of trade-union freedoms and HELSINKI, Finland - Raisa Sym­ over a month in the hospital. independent trade union Solidarity, civil rights in Poland,