The Ukrainian Weekly 1984, No.16

www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! ramian ї Vol. Lll No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1984 25 cents Chornovil draws "compulsory labor' Hryhory Kytasty dead at 77; Soviet agitation and propaganda." He renowned bandurist-conductor was charged' with attempted rape, a' charge he said was fabricated by autho rities. On June 6, 1980, he was sentenced to five years in a labor camp and four months' exile. Shortly after his trial, Mr. Chornovil declared a hunger strike to protest the ruling. He abandoned the fast on August 1.8, In November of that year, he was placed in a camp hospital to keep him from a scheduled visit with his wife, Atena. He went on a five-day hunger strike to protest the action of camp authorities. In April 1982, Mr. Chornovil was moved to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, where he was placed in isolation for what was termed "re-education." He was visited by his wife on April 24. Four months later, in August, he was return Vyacheslav Chornovil ed to the labor camp in Yakutsk. Mr. Chornovil first rose to pro MUNICH -– Ukrainian journalist minence in 1966. when he was impri and human-rights activist Vyacheslav soned for three months for refusing to' Chornovil is reportedly working at testify at the closed trial of four Ukrai "compulsory labor" in a factory in the nian dissidents. In 1967, he was arrested Yakutsk ASSR in eastern Siberia, and sentenced to three years' imprison according.to USSR News Brief publish ment for "slandering the Soviet state" ed here. after he had compiled documents that Mr. Chornovil, 46, was not due to catalogued the many violations of complete a five-year labor-camp term Soviet judicial procedures that had until .April 1985, which was to be occurred during the dissident trials. The followed by four months'exile from a book was released in the West in 1968 as previous term. It now appears that he "The Chornovil Papers." has been given a conditional release In 1975, while in a labor camp, Mr. with compulsory recruitment for labor. Chornovil renounced his Soviet citizen USSR News Brief also reported that ship and applied to emigrate. The same Mr. Chornovil was in Kjev in October year, he received the prestigious To– 1983, but said \he circumstances were naalin Journalism Prize from The Times unclear. of London for "The Chornovil Papers." Mr. Chornovil was last arrested on April 9, 1980, while in the second year of In 1979, Mr. Chornovil joined the a three-year exile term in Yakutsk, Ukrainian Helsinki Group, set up in where he was sent after completing a 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with six-year labor-camp term that began in the Helsinki Accords, which were 1972 after he was found guilty of "anti- signed by 35 countries the year before. Hryhory Kytasty in a historic photo. Ukrainian nationalist group asks SAN DIEGO - Hryhory Kytasty, of bandura playing, often attending conductor of the Taras Shevchenko concerts directed by the renowned Hnat for decolonization of Soviet empire Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus for over 40 Khotkevych. Soon afterward, Mr. years, died here of cancer in the early Kytasty entered the Lysenko Music NEW YORK - Mykola Plawiuk, which not only continues the imperia morning hours of April 6. He was 77. Institute in Kiev and graduated with a president of the Supreme Council of the list policy of the tsarist, regime with Mr. Kytasty was also a talented degree in choir and orchestra conduct Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists respect to the enslaved non-Russian teacher, composer and arranger who ing. (OUN), submitted to U.N. Secretary- nations in the USSR, but goes further in did more to popularize the melodic While still in school, Mr. Kytasty General Javfer Perer de Cuellar an endeavoring to destroy them as separate combination of Ukrainian choral music became a member of the Kiev Bandurist "Appeal to the Peoples of the World" national entities," said the release, and bandura-playing than any one Ensemble, and in 1935 he joined the issued by the 10th Assembly of the which was dated April 3. person in the 20th century. newly formed state chorus of the Soviet Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists It cited the writings of Yuriy Lytvyn, As the conductor of the Taras Shev Union, the "Ukrainian National Exem last November, in which the assembly a prominent Ukrainian dissident now in chenko Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, plary Bandurists Chorus." sought support for the Ukrainian people a Soviet jail, who wrote: he delighted audiences of all ages and During the 1930s, the group held in their struggle for freedom and in "Ukraine still remains a colony of the nationalities throughout the United numerous concerts throughout the dependence and for the decolonization Russian Soviet empire, and its minimal States, Canada, Europe and Australia, Soviet Union, always being monitored of the Soviet Russian empire known as effort to escape the colonial status is with electrifying performances of such by the Soviet government. With the the USSR. deemed by the Bolshevik government to songs as the rousing "Song of Yuriy outbreak of World War II, the chorus be a 'counterrevolutionary nationalist Tiutiunnyk." was disbanded and its members were For full text of appeal see page 7. activity,' which is subjected to the He was born on January 17, 1907, in drafted into the armed services. Mr. crudest repressions..." Kobeliaky, a village in the Poltava Kytasty was captured by the Germans. "The present government of the It also cited another Ukrainian dissi– region of Ukraine. As early as 1927, Mr. Escaping in 1941, he made his way back USSR is thedirect heir of tsarist Russia, (Continued on page 3) Kytasty showed a keen interest in the art (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1984 No. 16 Rudenko arrives in exile JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ukrainian Soviet POWs in Switzerland Helsinki Group founder Mykola Ru denko has arrived in exile in Gorno– face difficult decisions Altayskaya Autonomous Oblast, a remote and mountainous region on the ZURICH. Switzerland - Several Mongolian border, according to dissi Soviet soldiers once held by Afghan dent sources. insurgents and now interned in Mr. Rudenko. a 63-year-old poet, Switzerland now face the difficult ' completed a seven-year labor-camp decision of returning home to an sentence on February 5, and must now uncertain fate or asking for asylum in serve five years in exile. He had been the West, according to a recent issue imprisoned in labor camp No. 36, part of The Christian Science Monitor. 'of the huge penal complex near Perm in Nine Red Army soldiers, most in the Urals. their 20s, are living on the scenic, In 1977, Mr. Rudenko was tried 3,000-foot-high Zuger Berg in the along with Oleksiy Tykhy for his role in heart of Switzerland. All survived a forming the Ukrainian Helsinki Group grueling imprisonment by Afghan in Kiev in 1976. The group was set up to freedom fighters and, according to at monitor Soviet compliance with the least one Soviet dissident, may face human-rights provisions of the Helsinki an equally grueling ordeal if they Accords, which were signed a year return to the Soviet Union. before by 35 countries, including the Former Soviet political prisoner Soviet Union. Vladimir Bukovsky, now in the Mr. Rudenko's wife, Raisa, is cur West, has said that it would be rently serving a five-year term in a "naive" to think the Soviejts will treat Freedom House Mordovian labor camp for women. She these prisoners any better than they Soviet POW Alexander Voronov in was sentenced in 1981, and must also did prisoners of war returning from a 1983 photo taken in Afghanistan. serve a five-year exile term beginning in Germany after World War II, many, He's now in the United States as a 1986. of whom were court martialed, im refugee, bat what of other Soviet Mr. Rudenko, a decorated war hero prisoned or exiled. The young vete soldiers captured hi Afghanistan? who was seriously wounded, is classi rans of Afghanistan, according to fied an invalid. He suffers from prostate Mr. Bukovsky, would almost cer watch the prisoners, and the press is problems, atrophy of the optic nerve in tainly face similar treatment. not allowed to visit the internment his left eye and hypertension, in addi According to the Monitor, three of farm. Every effort is made to keep the tion to the spinal wound. He is due to the prisoners are due to return to the internees from becoming propa Mykola Rudenko complete his exile term in 1989. Soviet Union on May 28 after two ganda tools of any organization years of internment. The Swiss promoting the East or the West, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed that Monitor said. Bakhmin barred from Moscow two may ask for asylum in the West. The Zuger Berg internees have If they do, Switzerland may be been told that they can apply for MUNICH - Soviet dissident Vya– custody, having been sentenced in 1981 accused of influencing them, the asylum, but it has also been made cheslav Bakhmin, who was released to four years in a labor camp and five paper said. clear that they must reach the deci from a labor camp in February after years' internal exile. A 10th Soviet internee escaped sion alone. The Swiss fear that any serving a one-year term, was barred from Zuger Berg nine months ago perception by the Soviets that the from returning to his family in Moscow and is seeking asylum in West Ger prisoners arc being encouraged to and is now living in Kalinin, according many.

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