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ZORYAN POPADYUK JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1987 VOL. 20 N0.92 E. DANYLO DZWONYK

Zoryan Popadyuk was born April being placed in "punishment 21, 1953. In March 1973, while cells". attending University in Lviv, he On October 30, 1978 Popadyuk was arrested for editing and returned to the Mordovian camps distributing the samvydav to finish his sentence. He was student magazine "Progress". sent into exile in June 1980 to INSIDE Popadyuk and his co-defendent the same place was pg.l Yaroslav Mykytko were tried and sent. Upon arrival, he was "" Popadyuk pgl sentenced in Lviv Oblast Court. Zoryan Editorial PS- 2 Popadyuk received 7 years strict P8-2 regime labour camp and 5 years Letters Mind Pg-3 internal exile. In conjunction Rambling Peace or Peace-Lovingness pg.4 with his sentence his mother was Fashion Fundamentals P8-5 dismissed from her position as a Afghanistan PS-6 university instructor. From From the Files - K.G.B Pg-? While incarcerated in Mordovian Record Review * 7 Zoryan Popadyuk Camp #19, Vienna Calling PS- 8 continued to agitate for human From Saskatchewan Pg- rights in the USSR taking part by Lisova Pisnia Pg-H in hunger strikes and writing Culturally Speaking Pg-12 letters of protest. Due to his Conditions in Camp 36-1 pg.13 refusal to desist, he was Pg-15 constantly punished and in con't October 1975 he was sent to Zoryan pg.12 Vladimir Prison. In prison he continued to protest even after .

All signed letters of reasonable length which comply with Canadian libel and slander laws will be printed unedited (save for purposes of clarity) in this column. We will not print anonymous letters, but if for personal reasons contributors wish to withhold their names or use a pseudonym, this can be arranged. In all cases, however, we require both a genuine signature and a return address. The American Vice-President, George Bush, was The following letter was sent to supposed to bring Brian Mulroney a token of support President of Americans for from the American Administration. This was supposed the Human Rights in Ukraine, as a to prop-up Brian's sagging image. The token was rep[y 10 his letter of concern for supposed to be an American concession on one of the trial for John Demjanjuk. many issues which are causing friction in Canadian- , a fair American relations. Among many issues involved are . — President, that of acid rain, U.S. protectionism, sovereignty in the To the 125 , Americans for Human Rights in Arctic and free trade. Acid rain is an issue which, until Ukraine, recently, the Reagan administration did not recognise as .? a problem, and now only gives token support to it even . I have received your letter of 18. though it pledged it's full support to Brian Mulroney ? John 1986 concerning last year. American protectionist measures hurt . September Canadian natural resource industries and "force" the . Demjanjuk. want at all to Mulroney government to sacrifice a part of our . At first, I did not sovereignty. The American government does not reply, because since the days of the Jewish recognize Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic and violates , Bogdan Chelmenitzky, score to settle our territory with its' nuclear submarines. Free trade is , people has a long Ukrainian people. an issue which makes front page news in Canada but is , with the not an issue in the United States. A little token , Now loo we can point to focuses of consession on any one of these issues would have made , . antisemitism in the USSR, most of Brian Mulroney happy, but he was dissapointed. George them being concentrated in the Bush did not want to "overpromise". However all was not . , Ukraine. lost, Brian Mulroney was seen publicly scolding George However on second thought, I an Bush this at least propped-up his image, if only for a ., reached the conclusion that while. Since Brian Mulroney's election victory, Canadian , , application such as yours, -American relations have been deteriorating - from a coming from an American citizen Canadian perspective. Before, we dealt with the United . (even though of Ukrainian origin) States as equals but now, in the era of "best freinds", as , must not remain without a unequal. When Brian Mulroney approaches the United '. , response. Nazi States it is always cap-in-hand. He humbles' himself and All along the years of the , occupation of the Ukraine, Canada in any relations he carries out with the United , - numbers of your States. The only way any state can deal with the United . uncounted the States, or any other state for that matter, is as equals. If compatriots collaborated with in a state senses weakness in another state it will try to use Nazi regime, especially the that weakness to improve its own condition. The annihilation of hundreds of American government will not do anything for Canada . thousands of Jews. out of kindness or goodwill just because we say we are , After the German defeat, part of collaborators fled to the its best freinds. Not that the United States is evil, but , these just that it is interested in improving its economic and West and also escaped to the political position in the world. To improve Canadian- , U.S.A. American relations, Canada must rise out of the , During more than four decades, humbling situation it finds itself in , not a single word was heard from and start asserting , its independance. your organization in favour of the : human rights of Ukrainians of ,.., , the Jewish faith who were shot, STUDENT COLLECTIVE burned, gassed by your fellow . countrymen. And it is only the "worry" whether the Israeli . press will by its publicity prejudice the objectivity of . Israeli justice, that keeps you awake at nights! GTMEUTi I can reassure you: Israeli justice STUDENT WETODIArYT will hold fair judgement! - JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 To you and your friends, I VOL. 20 N0.92 suggest that you go to church not all cone»pond»nc« to: * addr*»a only on Sunday but also every Student Staff this Issue: day of the week, and that you 620 Spadina Ave. Nestor Gula kneel there until bleeding at the Toronto Ontario Ksenia Kolcio knees in asking forgiveness for MSS 2114 Victor Korotky what your people has done to Student an open forum tor lad and opinion, reflecting • Interests of Ukrainian-Canadian ttudanta on sarious topics — social, cultural, Luba Dubyk ours. political and religious. Mystyslav Suziria Dov Ben-Meir, M.K.

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STUDENT, JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1987, PAGE 2 AN OPEN LETTER TO DOV B. people has done to ours". This is As the controversy over the United well. The American hero is usually not a BEN-ME1R nothing other than crude and States' involvement in shipping arms to "Superman" type of good, clean, Depuiy Speaker ol the Knesset blatant racism and Ukrainopho- Iran to finance the Contra rebels in wholesome character but instead is Knesset bia. Let us imagine that a Nicaragua deepens, it seems that all usually on the seedy side. Americans Jerusalem, Israel Ukrainian were to write a similar these newly formed boards of inquiry, tend to idolise mavericks and outlaws; committees or commissions Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, letter slating that the Jewish are are looking Dear Sir: for just one simple thing - a scapegoat. Billy the Kid and even General Patton was responsible lor the crimes of Lazar It is with profound sadness and This scapegoat can be in the form of the not a "law-abiding" general. These gun- Kaganovich or Leon Trotsky and pain thai we read your letter to us President, the National Security Adviser toting, shoot from the hip and the lip their Jewish cadres in the GPU in or any heroes were replaced by actors who dated October 1 986, which we other individual or group. The Ukraine. Your indignation would played the roles of gun-toting shoot from received at the end ol November. American government needs to find this be justified. But Ukrainians have scapegoat in order to to cover-up the the hip and the lip heroes, and were It is simply astonishing that a not said this have and not accused failings of their foreign policy, the lack idolised by the American public. Only person who holds such a high the Jews, as a nation, of collective of leadership in the White House and the recently was this brand of hero replaced office as yourself — Deputy responsibility lor the contribution lack of coordinated covert operations by the sullen "hi-mom, I'm on coke" Speaker of the Knesset — of individual Jews to Bolshevism exercised by the American government. sports hero. Lt.-Col Oliver North is a subscribes to the odious or the famine in Ukraine in 1932- Currently the most likely scapegoat true example of an American "damn the intellectual position ol a belief in 33 — although, as you know, will be Lt.-Col. Oliver North, the man torpedoes, full steam ahead" type hero. collective guilt. And, the troubling there was a disproportionate who supposedly ran the whole show. He had a mission to complete and he tried question that naturally arises is, his hardest to accomplish it, and number ol Jews in high positions According to the information that is are the views expressed in your accomplish it he did. It was only in the Communist Party, the made available to the public, he letter merely your own or do they organised arm shipments to Iran and reavealed after the fact, through the NKVD and the GPU in Ukraine represent the views of a portion or used the profits to fund the Contra rebels usual White House leaks. at that time. of the entire Knesset? in Nicaragua. Both, the shipping of arms From a "realistic" point of veiw, how No nation is made up of only your letter you refer to to Iran and funding the Contra rebels serious were his breaches . of the In saints or only villiains. This World were at the time illegal. The fact that American law. Dealing with the first law Bohdan Khmelnytsky and applies equally to Ukrainians and these actions were illegal does not broken, the shippment of Arms to Iran, War II. It is beyond the scope of Jews: there were Ukrainian detract from the sheer brilliance of this the Reagan Administration has not any communication such as this to peasants who were members of scheme. The plot hatched by Lt.-Col. actively discouraged the shipment of specific historical treat your the jury in the famous Beihs case North was better than any James Bond arms to Iran by private American arms allegations in any detail, but at the accused- and that acquitted plot seen in the movies or anything else merchants. The war between Iran and least a bnel reply is in order. It is a there were U krainians in the comparable. With the organisation he Iraq involves two foes which are not very well established fact that Jews, German police; there were Jews in developed, Oliver North was able to solve appealing to the American government to Poles, and Ukrainian Uniaies the NKVD, and there were the many problems faced by the White House. the point where a member of the su lie red greatly during the helpless Jewish victims of the Nazi The arms to Iran would secure the release American State Department stated that Khmelnyisky uprising. But it is regret was that both sides Holocaust. of American citizens being held in his greatest also equally well established that Lebanon by pro-Iranian groups as well as could not lose the war. Strange as it may about the alleged You write opinion this sullenng was brought about reduce the hostility which Iran's seem the Soviet Union shares this "uncounted numbers of your both because, due to the tragic vagaries religious leaders feel and express and offers limited support to compatriots" who collaborated United States cannot of history, Jews held positions ol towards the United States. The profits regimes. The with the Nazi regime and who, anything legally to Iran since the leaseholders, tax collectors and from this deal (of course there will be supply you further allege, participated hostage incident so it relies on its the agents ol the Polish nobles and profits, these are Americans) would be "in the annihilation of hundreds middle-man Israel to supply a trickle of had become enmeshed in the deposited in a Swiss bank account for the superpowers do not of thousands of Jews." As a Contra rebels. (And, arms to Iran. Both system ol social, economic, exclusive use of the Iraq, nor Iran, to win the war. The strictly factual matter, it is later revealed, for Republicans want religious and national oppression as decisive victory by either side now here near being well Congressional elections.) result of a imposed upon Ukraine by the running in the will produce a large and powerful as well established thai persons of The middle-man of this deal would be Polish regime. The key issue here a volatile state in the already unstable Ukrainian national ity did Isreal which also benefits a great deal as each people to seek is the right of Middle East region. The view shared by anything like kill "hundreds ol here since the arms to Iran guaranty that liberty and freedom from most states in the world is that if both thousands of Jews" during World the Iran-Iraq war will continue oppression. 11 the glory of the regimes keep on fighting each other it indefinetly and thereby occupy two of War 11. It is certainly true that establishment ol Israel consists them and prevent either state avowed enemies as well as will occupy there were some Ukrainian Isreal's that, then how can you from launching any major exursions into precisely in increasing business to Isreal's booming individuals collaborated- The who other neighboring states. The second or any other Jew condemn the arms industry. Investigations Israeli War Crimes 'great' law which Lt.-Col. North allegedly Ukrainians ol Khmelnyisky*s era At first I was distressed when I heard Office estimated that they broke was the law forbidding the for striving to achieve the same'.' some ardent Reaganites calling Lt.-Col. numbered about 11,000, a figure American government to lend aid and In your letter you state that the North a hero. I found that hard to that needs to be compared to a assistance to the Contra rebels. This Jewish people have a longscore to comprehend. How can a man who million. As involves more legal aspects as total population of 36 defied laws which he was issue settle with the Ukrainian people. knowingly collaborators, they were opposed to moral. Does the profit money regards entrusted to respect be called a hero? I This is utter nonsence. you, Do from a covert operation which does not to be found in all of Europe, thought about this a bit and tried to really, hold the entire Ukrainian pass through the White House including France, the Netherlands understand the logic of this statement. I nation collectively responsible lor administration yet through another Poland and Russia. But of far realised that I was thinking unlike an the crimes of certain individual^'.' middle-man (again Israel?) constitute greater significance is your failure American. Lt.-Col. Oliver North is not a direct American aid? This question is If so, then you are merely all humans mention the fact that the hero who can be admired by to complex and mysterious of the repeating the old Hitlerite canard of individual the more number of Ukrainian collabora- in all nations but is a sort two. that was used against your people can only be described as a true tors is positively dwarfed by the who with such disastrous consequences. American hero. size -of Ukrainian's catastrophic In your letter you underscore this A true American hero is losses resulting from the German thesis by saying that: "you go to characterised by his fierce Mind con't pg. 14 church... and that you kneel there individualism and the brash and daring Lt.-Col. until bleeding at the knees in Letter con't pg. 14 way he conducts his affairs. description very asking forgiveness for what your Oliver North fits this

- FEBRUARY 1987 PAGE 3; STUDENT, JANUARY NORMAN DAVIES PEACE OR PEACE- LOVINGNESS

It is perfectly true, as one frequently Contemporary Soviet thought is dominated not realise it.) Peace-lovingness stands for hears, that the Soviet people long for peace. by two dominant elements - by traditional warfare by all other means other than direct They wouldn't be human if they didn't. If only "Great Russian Chauvinism", as Lenin called it; military action - which, I suppose, is slightly they had some influence on Soviet policy. and by Marxism-Leninism. On the question of better than the nuclear holocaust. In the West, where the fear of war, and war and peace, the two complement each other Americans must realise that their diologue

especially of nuclear war is growing, the idea perfectly. Ingrained Russian xenophobia, with the Soviets is akin to the debate with the

of a peace-loving superpower is very beguiling. which thrives on a mixture of fear, envy, and Jehovah's Witnesses or the Moral Majority. Many decent, compassionate, liberal inferiority, is matched by the ingrained One is expected to accept their vocabulary, westerners, who are less than happy with the dialectical thinking of the ideologues, whose their premise s% their .texts, their conservative, unimaginative, assertive bi-polar mental processes automatically divide interpretations. Do you not understand that governments of Mrs. Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, the world into ready-made opposites. you will burn in Hell if you scorn the instinctively feel sympathetic to Mr. Reagan's Everything has to be 'black or white', 'left or Scriptures and reject Jesus Christ as your ideological opponents. Soviet spokesmen do right', 'for or against', 'them or us', 'good or Lord? Do you not realise that we will freeze in everything to encourage that sympathy. We bad', 'capitalist or socialist', 'a peace-loving Nuclear Winter, if we scorn Peace and reject dislike Star- Wars, and they dislike Star- Wars, friend' or a 'war-mongering enemy'. According the Kremlin line? As the late Bernie Cornfeild

so surely we and the Soviets have much in to this mind set, it is simply incomprehensible used to ask his potential investors - apologies common on the essentials. that the noble Russian nation that has suffered to Strobe Talbot - do you sincerely want to be One might be tempted to make the so much from oppression should itself be an rich? distinction between governments and people - oppressor: quite illogical that the Soviet state, Churchill once said, "Russia is an enigma, as the Soviets themselves do. The Pentagon, the which opposes capatalist exploitation, should inside a riddle, wrapped in mystery" (on the CIA, the White House, "the forces of reaction" itself be an exploiter. If Reagan is for War, day in 1939 when the peace-loving Red Army as they say, may want war: but the American then we are for Peace: since we are for Peace joined the Nazis' attack on Poland). They people are on our side; they want peace. then Reagan must be for War. No-one considers cultivate that air of mystery (which many Similarly, we might like to believe, the the proposition that they - might both be for westerners find so romantic), whilst taking Kremlin's motives may be suspect; but the peace, or both be preparing for War. No-one elaborate pains to keep their own people in the Russian people sincerely wish for peace. realises that they might be rivals from two dark. That's why the Kremlin is so secretive,

Conversations with ordinary Russians in different sorts of right-wing conservative why it is so concerned to screen its citizens the street, or with the proverbial Moscow cab- positions. No-one imagines that if Marxism is from outside ideas, why a Soviet Freedom of

driver quickly disabuse western visitors on a conventional left-wing philosophy, Leninism Information Act is unthinkable. It leaves the that score. Many ordinary Russians are of a might be a political system based on extreme Soviet leaders free to tell us that they want to

like mind to their leaders in the Kremlin "if right-wing practices. ' As a recent be our freinds, whilst telling their children you attack us," one's neighbour in a Soviet correspondent to the LA Times argues, clearly that we are their "enemies". train will gratuitously announce, brandishing inspired by Muscovite logic, if we are to belive True peace cannot be built on such his fist, "we will smash you as we smashed the that Soviet attitudes are essentially foundations. Peace is a spiritual, forgiving,

Nazis." Or, as the tearful babushka asked of an conservative, right-wing, or aggressive, then we loving condition of the mind. It is incompatible American TV crew during the 1985 summit, would also be obliged to belive that Ronald with pre-emptive censorship, with internal "Why is it that your President wants war?" Reagan is a communist. passports, with radio jamming, with jail People who live in a closed society, who are To be precise, the Soviets are peace- sentences for "anti-Soviet" activities, and the

discouraged at every turn from thinking for preferring, but they are not pacifists, and they bully-boy logic of "peace-lovingness". It is themselves, who have never met westerners, do not respect non-violence. If Mahatma inseparable from Human Rights, from a world who constantly hear the worst about the West Ghandi had been confronting the peace-loving of open frontiers and free discussion. And the from the official media, who never heard the KGB, instead of the war-mongering British, one Soviet people, since they are denied such western veiwpoint, who have no hope of visiting can imagine how well he would have prospered. things, long for them even more than we do. Poland let alone America are easily swayed by "Peace-lovingness", that quintessential Soviet the traditional fear of foreigners. The only concept, is the partner, not the antithesis, of

foreigners that the mass of Russians have ever conflict, antagonism, and strife. It has little to really met have been invaders, whether they're do with our own bourgeois notions of "Peace on

led by Hitler, Napoleon, or Genghis Khan. Earth, and Goodwill to All Men," and it is Ordinary Russians are convinced that all rich directed against the "class enemies" of the powerful foreigners have one thing in mind: USSR - that is against you and me. (We are not that they all want to attack Russia. And Reagan allowed to >deny being their "class enemies" is see as the present leader of the rich and "intent on War" becausee 'objectively' powerful foreigners. that's what we are, even if 'subjectively' we do r

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appearance. Imagination is never to fanciful, only too Fashion Fundamentals moderate." Vyacheslav Zaitsev

48 years old - Soviet Unions' top fashion designer.

This man is the vangaurd force of fasion design in the Soviet Union. He heads the much heralded and auspicious Moscow Fasion House, on the oh so trendy Peace Avenue, where he combines the traditional Russian babushka look with the most modern and bizzare fasion concepts coming out of the decadent West. Although seemingly trendy to the untrained eye of the hard- line politbureau member Vyacheslav designs his clothes with the common worker and kolhospnik in mind. As well as designing for everyone (remembering

that the Soviet Union is a classless society) Vyacheslav designs "super-trendy things" for the party socialites and special fasion for the security forces. Vyacheslav's philosophy

of setting new trends is, to say the least, earth shattering; "It seems to me that the main incentive for the appearance of a new trend

is the fact that one gets sick

and tired of the old one. . . . everyone would like to be trendy, but none likes the idea of looking exactly like someone else. A woman

would feel pretty bad if her colleague wears exactly the

same dress. ... I hate it

when all people dress alike." What the well dressed KGB agent wears Fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev inspects his latest creation.

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- 1987 PAGE 5; STUDENT, JANUARY FEBRUARY VICTOR KOROTKY FROM AFGHANISTAN rd On December 3 , 1986 five former Soviet Ihor Kovalchuk, 26, worked in an aviation The history of the Soviet intervention dates soldiers were welcomed in Toronto at press a factory for two and-a-half years before he was back to as early as 1885, when the Russians conference sponsored in part by the drafted into the Soviet Army and sent to invaded and occupied the northwest province of Ukrainian-Canadian Immigrant Aid Society. Afghanistan in the winter of 1980. He served Panjdeh. Further advancement was stopped by The five were amongst many soldiers who laid in Kunduz assigned to RDM, a small armored British pressure on the Russians to recognize down their arms and refused to fight in a war personnel carrier used for reconnaissance. He Afghanistan as a buffer slate between Russia in which they did not believe in. The war in was caught trying to escape and subsequently and Britain's colony India (now Pakistan). In Afghanistan, which has been compared to was severely beaten and tortured, only to the sixties, the communist party was formed American's Vietnam war, has gone on since the escape again with Nikolai Golovin. They made and headed by KGB agents. This led to an Soviet invasion in December of 1979. The five their way to the Afghan guerillas where they attempt made by the neocommunist factions soldiers, Nikolai Golovin, Ihor Kovalchuk, a waited for five years before being brought to and Afghan Marxists, most of them members of native of Kharkiv, Sergei Busov, Vladislav Canada. Nikolay Golovin, 24, bom in Ulyanosk, the urban educated elite, to overthrow the Naumov, and Vadim Plotnikov are just a few of worked as an electrician and chaffeur before government. Frustrated by the lack of many soldiers who were taken in by the being drafted into the Red Army and sent to opportunity and government nepotism, they mujahadeen. They applied for immigrant Afghanistan in the spring of 1981 to work in a joined forces with some of the Soviet trained status to Canada 2 years ago and were finally bakery. Sergei Busov, 22, born in Perm, worked leaders of the Afghan military. In April of accepted after intense pressure from concerned at a factory as an electrician-welder and was 1978, a sudden coup was initiated, and the groups. drafted into the Soviet army in 1983. Stationed Afghan republic was overthrown. The Afghan at Bagram, he drove a food delivery truck to flag was changed from Islamic green to a units at the front. Vladislav Naumov, 24, born revolutionary red, and Marxist reforms were in Volgograd, graduated from the Astrakhan introduced, accepted by some of the farmers, Marine College, after which he worked as a but rejected by the majority. Reforms which merchant seaman before being drafted in 1983. affected the very heart of the Afghan society, He served most of his lime near Jalalabad as a including farm collectivization, were modeled guard and tank mechanic. Vadim Plotnikov, 21, along Soviet lines and organized by Soviet born in Moscow, the youngest of the five, experts in order to create a large scaled worked at an aerospace factory before he was mechanized state. A long term plan to educate drafted into the army. He was trained as a the population, with a program of ideological demolitions expert for five months in organization, forced primarily on the young, Turkmenistan, and was sent to serve in a small and a Marxist curriculum, which included the guard unit at the Jalalabad airport. After only Russian language, were introduced in one week he managed to escape and find his government schools. All these reforms were way to the mujahadeen. All five are living in aimed at the restructuring of the Afghan Toronto with the assistance of the society, Ukrainian and were perceived by the Afghans as Canadian Immigrant Aid Society policies and Russian originating from the Soviet Union, a Orthodox Chuch. foreign and not an Islamic country. The regime arrested and killed about 100,000 university professors, students, teachers and other intellectuals in its first year, similiar to the conditions seen in Ukraine during the 1932-33 artificial famine. An armed movement gradually spread across the country, threatening to overthrow the Marxist government. This led to the invasion on F December 24, 1979, in which over 100,000 soldiers were sent in, thus closing Afghanistan from the outside world, and forcing all journalists and media people out of the country. Local farmers and shephards who followed tribal laws and opposed government interference, formed a resistance known as the mujahadeen, or freedom fighters, who continue to fight the Soviet soldiers. For the past six years, the United Nations has constantly told the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan. Despite Mikhail Gorbachev's indications that a Soviet withdrawl is possible within the next six months, western diplomats indicate there has been an increased presence of Soviet Nikolay Golovin (left) soldiers in Kabul. Sergei Busov (right)

Vladislav Naumov The press conference at the Royal York Hotel. Introducing the five young men

STUDENT, JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1987, PAGE 6 Ivan Poslushnyj

introduces the talents of three girls: Beata Wujcik, Liliana Holowata and Alexandra Kozak, three Ukrainian girls who sang together in Poland and MEQ- have just recently emigrated to Canada. One of the girls, Beata, is my freind. This I know because she occasionaly smiles when she talks to me. She also sings solo Drug in Rol5-45l3 synthesized several years ago by the the latest production of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann - La Roche, is Avant-Garde **!*' Ukrainian said to have an adverse effect on the brain; modifying Theatre, but that is behavior when UKRAINIAN a impared by alcohol, but not affecting the SONGS different story. The first metabolism or the blood-alcohol levels. Recently, at a song has ended and the pharmaceutical warehouse, SUSK representatives Zirka stylus is somewhere in the Kudla and Mirko Dzulinsky, were reported to have been I open a beer and slowly middle of the album. I slocking can up for various SUSK executive meetings and to pour it into the glass so easily find what track is supply the Western Conference in Calgary. that the sediment which playing by following the rests on the bottom of the singing on the handy lyric bottle is not carried into sheet which is printed on The shadowy figure of Bohdan Kozy, an alleged war the beer mug. This is a the record dust sleeve. criminal, is being pursued all over the world. There have good beer. For I know. I The lyrics are written in been reports of him changing his hideout from one in made it myself. It is dark legible printing Central America to the U of T USC office. Under the and full of the wonderful superimposed on a light pretext of a lecture tour, Sol Littman investigated the experiences of taste which picture of the three girls. situation but was met with loud obnoxious cackling. are sadly missing in beers The lyrics permit the available comercially. The listener to sing along with speakers erupt into life LILEYA and notice how Is there a connection between the consistent airing of the with an upbeat melody horrible one's voice sounds Super Bowl on the Sunday during which Ukrainians sung by the ensemble - compared to the traditionally celebrate their day of Solidarity with the Lileya and a male soloist. ensemble's. The idea of a showing of Beatles movies on Good Friday in the Soviet This album, which is lyric sheet for this album Union? Highly respected Ukrainian intellecuals believe decidedly purple. Lileya con't pg.14 that this is definitely an anti-Ukrainian conspiracy played out by both superpowers. Both superpowers try to •30- corrupt innocent Ukrainian youth through the means of electronic media. OVER A QUARTER CeUTVKY QUARTER CEUTURY oe slaves GHOLKHn Of SERVICE

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Vienna. It is expected to last up to two years. The United States, Canada, the Soviet Union, and 32 European nations participate in the CSCE process, which was initiated in Helsinki in 1975 by the signing of the Helsinki Accords by heads of state. The Accords, a 40,000 word document, represents a framework for the 35 participating countries to resolve issues that divide

Europe. Among its most important provisions are those that formally recognize the existing political boundaries of Europe. The Accords also provide for increased economic Display from the Ukrainian and and cultural relations as well as Lithuanian Helsinki Groups security-building measures in press conference. regard to military exercises. held During the creation of the been between these main- meetings, Helsinki Accords (correctly known review dealings with specialised topics as the Final Act), many such as military negotiations and trade-offs were security or cultural exchanges. made. The major concession made Canada hosted one such Human Rights Experts meeting by Moscow in exchange for in Ottawa domination of eastern Europe, and in 1985. increased cultural and economic The head of the Canadian delegation at the ties with the West, was the so- CSCE review called Basket Three. This section meeting in Vienna is Canadian TOO LATE! Display in Messeplatz. of the Helsinki Final Act affirmed ambassador Baur. At a press The first three days in Vienna for member country's citizens the breifing held November 4, he stated witnessed speeches by the foreign most fundamental human rights: that Canada would be pushing for ministers of each country. liberty of thought, conscience and Warsaw Pact compliance in human rights issues. He felt that American Secretary of State Shultz faith ; the exercise of civil and stated in his speech: "within Congress of Free Ukrainians political rights; the rights of humanitarian concerns such as the Soviet Union, 41 stated, minorities. family visits and family members of a (WCFU) "Canada's reunification citizens group established to committment to the CSCE process The Helsinki Final Act is not have the most hope of monitor implementation of the has included minimal citizen and legally binding but only a political success. Bauer explained there Helsinki Final Act - among group participation." statement of intent. It is only must be improvement from the East them Anatoly This morally binding. on human rights issues before Marchenko and Anatoly is in contrast to the USA, Koryagin - languish in which has set up a public The 1975 Final Act calls for Canada will talk about economic or detention. There are many more such commission which allows for periodic conferences to review how cultural cooperation. He said that Soviet citizens 'public members' the Helsinki provisions are being peace and human rights go hand in incarcerated for trying to attached to the exercize delegation implemented. Two such follow-up hand. "You cannot have one or the their basic human rights. in Vienna. As WCFU put meetings have been held other," said Bauer. These include Russians, it, "In Canada even informal or ad Ukrainians, hoc (Belgrade,! 977; Madrid, 1980-83) Baits, Jews and men attempts by voluntary groups and of other and individuals to partially and the third is being held in women nationalities. fill the Vienna. Subordinate meetings have Joe Clark, according to many vacum have met with a cool observers, gave a strongly- worded reception from officials of various speech. He discussed the plight of departments, apparently unwilling the long-time Ukrainian political to assign to the CSCE process a prisoner and Helsinki Group meaningful priority." member . For Clark, The American public Shumuk's case has become commission holds public hearings, somewhat of a personal crusade. informs the public, and Despite its participation in the investigates all allegations of CSCE forum, Canada's role has not human rights violations in the

been without criticism. The World „ Eastern Bloc.

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The Ukrainian booth at the Resistence International All photos E. Danylo Dzwonyk display in Messeplatz. (L) L. PLYUSHCH (C) M. MOROS (R) E. D. DZWONYK

STUDENT, JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1987, PAGE 8 CALLING Radio Moscow was quick to attack the meeting of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Helsinki Monitors in Vienna who had come together for a press conference. According to Radio Moscow they represented SS and Gestapo collaborators and were engaged in "imperialist and Zionist propaganda." The free members of the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Helsinki monitoring groups met to mark the tenth anniversary of their founding. Speaking at this press During a news conference held '^aWS-NOVEMBERa conference were , Leonid » Plyushch, November 4, 1986, Clark was asked: Nadia Svitlychna and "Considering the importance that Lithuanian Helsinki Group founder, HUMAN RIG the Canadian government has . They all attached to the CSCE process, and presented statements on the official considering the success and utility harrassment and persecution of the American CSCE committee - of monitors in the has the USSR. The walls of the meeting Conservative government Protesters in front of the Hofburg. room were considered setting up a permanent covered with photographs of parliamen tary committee to inform imprisoned members of the the public and monitor the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Helsinki Helsinki Accords; especially since Group members. this process is long term and The press conference was ongoing." Clark's answer was that opened by US Congressman Steny there is already a committee (it is Hoyer, who is co-chairman only a standing committee) and that of the US Commission on Security and this is adequate and there is no Cooperation in Europe. proposal to move any further. In his remarks he noted that, all Clarke stated that the standing of the Helsinki groups, the Ukrainian committee has enough . input and group has suffered most from the would be involved, later, in the repressive of CSCE meetings. measures the Soviet authorities. Due to the continued trampling of human rights in the USSR, the To the uninitiated observer, the West - especially and primarily firstweek at the CSCE review the USA - continues to press the meeting in Vienna might have USSR for compliance on human seemed hectic and confusing. rights issues. The TORONTO STAR There were well-armed police to be wrote on May 8, 1985, "Mikhail seen everywhere. Thirty-five Gorbachev should understand that governments gave speeches and the West's honest yearnings for held press conferences. In better relations is chilled when the addition to this activity can be Bible regularly turns up among the added the multitude of non- subversive publications seized in governmental organizations which KGB raids." were present. Hare Krishnas in Vienna protesting Soviet Persecution of their religion.

Each of these groups had their own pressing issues to publicize.

Whether it was imprisoned Soviet Hare Krishnas, Ukrainian Helsinki monitors, Jewish refuseniks, Lithuanian Catholics or displaced The Soviet Crimean Tatars - every issue had a Monument in feeling of urgency and clamoured to Vienna: be heard. A reminder to Austrians of how close they came to being a part of the Eastern Block.

Most protests were directed at the USSR which has a poor track record when it comes to responding to complaints. These complaints, however, do seem to bother the Soviet authorities. Some delegations stated that the Soviet delegation was bothered by seeing demonstrators in the courtyard of the Hapsburg Palace (Hofburg), Buddhist protestors in where the conference is taking front of the Hofburg. place.

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A tenured music professor of English descent from the University of Saskatchewan recently accomplished

what for many Ukrainians is all but impossible: a visit to Ukraine. While many people have made such a trip, Dr. Isabelle Mills' visit was very unique. The purpose of her trip was to lecture on Canadian music, and in return, have a priviledged opportunity to attend various musical functions. These If you're like me, you've the first scholar to record the Group, which was created functions included an inside look at the dreamed of performing on a big Ukrainian Folk Choreographic specially for the Kaleidoscope music programs at various levels of ' the stage, before a large audience. Art, therby becoming a source Showcase. The second group was Soviet school system, as well as public for the Yet for most of us , such dreams development of Ukrainian the Vesna Ukrainian Youth concerts and entertainment in private are often out of reach. A large dance. Avramenko founded Choral and Bandurist Ensemble. homes. Dr. Mills even attended the ritual number of Ukrainian dancers in schools of Ukrainian dance in The 45 member chorus May First Solidarity parade in Moscow as Saskatoon recently found a way Canada and the United States, for performed a number of folk a V.I.P. around that obstacle. Thirteen which he is considered the songs, some of which were In the schools, music programs exist .amateur Ukrainian dance groups Father of Ukrainian Dance in accompanied by the bandurists. for children from kindergarden through joined forces in order to perform North America. Humeniuk, a Their repertoir also includes to teacher's College. For the children ion the most prestigious stage in music scholar and ethnographer, classical and religious music. known to have talents, whether to sing or the province. This line of has edited and published books The director of the Vesna Choir, to play an instrument, the programs thinking led to the Kaleidoscope on Ukrainian music and dance, Marusia Kobrynsky, enjoyed the range from four hours a day to six days a Showcase held at Saskatoon's including "The Ukrainan Folk opportunity to be a part of week. To become a professional in the Centenial Auditorium on Choreographic Art", an overview Kaleidoscope and admired the performing November arts, the program is five 28, 1986. of Ukrainian Folk Dance, concept of the show, adding that years in Ienth, after The troup high school. of 274 dancers of detailing its main it "beats having a dance The professor was allowed all ages made the concert into to record an characteristics, origins, and competition. No one is out to segments of overview of the concerts she attended. When development of development. The music to prove anything to anyone ... no Ukrainian she visited the schools, the children put Dance. 13 groups which the dancers performed was rivalries." This was a rare on special from different performances for her. These communities in all pre-recorded. Some of this opportunity for amatures to Saskatchewan recordings were played to augment her each performed music was instrumental, others perform in front of a large crowd lecture, one traditional folk entitled "A Ukrainian dance and included vocal selections. One and on a big important stage. one original SoundScape", at the University of dance. The folk interesting addition was the use Kaleidoscope was organised Saskatchewan dances selected for the on October 9,1986. concert in some of the dances music of under the auspices of the Among the recordings Dr. were originally recorded by bandura ensembles. Ukrainian Canadian Committee Mills Vasyl Verkhovynets, Vasyl obtained of professional entertainers, Two guest artist groups and produced by Bohdan Avraraenko, and Andrij were opera singers, a song and dance joined the dancers: the first was Zerebecky and Marcella Cenaiko. Humeniuk. Verkhovynets group from Volyn, and the Bukovyna was the Kaleidoscope Performing In 1988, UCC will sponsor the Festival Chorus and next Kaleidoscope. Orchestra. Moldavian and Siberian groups were also recorded. The Looking for occasion for Dr. Mills' trip was quality? the International Year of Canadian Music. The existing exchange network between the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Chernivtsi also made her trip possible.

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diagnosed as having tuberculosis (which he caught in Vladimir Prison) and had two segments of his right lung removed. CULTURALLY On September 2, 1982, while in Popadyuk was rearrested. exile, , SPEAKING! This is a practice which Soviet authorities have been escalating since 1983. Almost a year later he was tried and sentenced to 10 For those of you who may not know what years labour camp and 5 years SUSK is doing, culturally speaking, here is internal exile. your chance to become not only informed but Popadyuk is in poor health due to also to become involved! This is truly an TB and a heart condition. His opportunity of a lifetime, one which will allow mother has passed away and the you to have a hand in making SUSK history. A only remainiang relative is his chance to represent your region on a elderly grandmother. Multiculturalism culture committee. What I There is great concern for Zoryan

would like to do is set a committee that would Popadyuk because of his ill have representation from all areas; east and health, long sentence, and the west of the centre of the Universe—Winnipeg. fact that the Soviet authorities (Us Winnipegers tend to feel slightly proud of may be holding him in the nothing personal you our fair city , infamous Perm Camp 36-1 . This understand). is the same camp where four Due to the fact that many of the projects other noted Ukrainian prisoners which fall under the mandate of my portfolio of conscience have died within require a fair bit of contact with the other the last few years: Vasyl Stus,

provinces, and I am not always sure who the Yuriy Lytvyn, Oleksy Tykhy, and best people to contact are, ..it seems only Valeriy Marchcnko. Zoryan logical to have enthusiastic individuals to help Popadyuk's only crime is his

me out. Since I live in Winnipeg, one province concern for fundamental human

is eliminated from my list of places that need a rights in Ukraine.

rep. I only need nine more. I really don't want With the unfortunate death to beg, but I do beseech you to get involved; if of Marchenko. will you have a little spare time on your hands. If Anatoly SUSK you perhaps have a project which you would focus its human rights activities Zoryan like SUSK to consider sponsoring which may for the realease of fall under the mandate of my portfolio, please Popadyuk. drop me a line or something.

The following is a list of projects which

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1 . The compilation of a directory of Ukrainian Canadian Arts groups, copies of which will be distributed to all member clubs and to any one else who may want to purchase one.

2. The development of a Millenium

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3. A project to commemorate the late Senator Paul Yuzyk.

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STUDENT, JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1987, PAGE 12 CONDITIONS IN E. DANYLO DZWONYK CAMP 36-1 A samizdat document has reached the complicity in publishing the West and released by Nadia was just underground journal Ukrainskyi Visnyk Svitlychna, member of the External (Ukrainian Herald). He was sentenced to Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki 7 years of imprisonment in a special Group. This document is addressed to the regime camp and 5 years exile, and had participants of the Vienna Conference on at first served his term in Camp 35 of the Security in Europe. It and Cooperation Perm complex. The prominent Russian describes conditions in Camp VS-389/36 human rights activist Anatoly with an appeal for immediate help to save Marchenko, who was also imprisoned in the lives political prisoners of those who this camp at that time, mentioned Khmara are currently serving sentences in that in his statement to the USSR Procurator labour camp. General, as a man subjected to Camp 36-1 is divided into two zones of particularly repressive measures by confinement of political prisoners - the camp authorities. Marchenko protested larger, a -strict regime zone, and the that Khmara, a man with a heart smaller, zone. Situated a special regime condition, was being forced to perform near the town of Kuchino, the zone, which strenuous tasks and then punished for is known for its cruel conditions and not reaching quotas. This treatment has high mortality rate, has been called the been continued by the administration of

"Death International. the Perm 36 camp. The samizdat Camp" by Amnesty Camp 36, and does not mention the This has been confirmed by the document also lists those active in division into zones. Authors of the samizdat document received. A section persecuting political prisoners: the KGB samizdat material attest to the fact that: of it reads as follows: operatives Afanasov, Bortnikov, Bakulyshyn, Lakashev; the MVS members "In the last 30 months, 10 men have died Dolmatov, Sniadovsky, Maksin, Gatin, "Prisoners in this facility live under there: V. Stus, V. Marchenko, Mamchan, Rak, Khorkov, Grushienko (a doctor), and constant threat of physical Mirtchian, Sagdev, Yu. Sytvyn, O. Tykhy, Kondrotev. extermination. Since the meeting Furasov, Kurka, and Kruglov. Those From another samizdat document, we between Gorbachev and Reagan, subjected to special persecution include: have learned that Vasyl Kurylo, now a conditions have increased in severity, S. Khmara, R. Yevdokymov, A. political prisoner in the special regime and continue to worsen. The political Svarinskas, L. Tymofeev, B. Chernykh, G. zone, was a member of the Ukrainian prisoners are being terrorized. The Gogbaidze, A. Smirnov, M. Kukobaka, Helsinki Monitoring Group before his . (punitive isolators) and PKT's SHIZO and K. Semeniuk . In July of this year, arrest. Until recently, it was known that (special cells) are never empty. The Furasov died through lack of medical Kurylo, a doctor from the Lviv province, sick and elderly are subjected to them. attention. On July 22, Khmara and born in 1920, had been arrested in 1980 For all intents and purposes, there is no Tarelkin refused to go to work detail, for having written "nationalistic" poems, medical supervision." demanding a visit from the prosecutor. and sentenced to 10 years of special On July 26, 15 men joined their action." regime and 5 yrs of exile. This news of

The authors of the samizdat document Kurylo's membership in the Ukrainian

issued an appeal that these conditions be The above mentioned Stephan Khmara is a Helsinki Monitoring Group attests to the

widely publicized and that efforts to doctor-stomatologist from Chervonokrad, fact that the Helsinki movement in save those who have been condemned to Lviv region. He was arrested in March of Ukraine has not been destroyed, despite

serve in this camp be intensified. The 1980, along with Oleksander and Vitalii the particularly severe repressive Kiev, for document gives a general description of Shevchenko, both from measures taken against it. SUBMIT TO STUDENT Articles, poetry, cartoons, A note regarding technical requirements: GANY/V photographs — we need you to All articles should either be typed or neatly written, double-spaced between lines and submit your contributions to Stu- FASHION SHOPPE with ample margins for convenience dent, to help us cover what's going on 2378 BLOOR ST. W. editing. Please stipulate any conditions you TORONTO, ONT. M6S 1P4 in the Ukrainian community in might have regarding the editing of content Canada and around the world. with articles of a sensitive political nature. Anything sent in by students, about Photos should preferably be black and ite, have detai Is on the back describ- student life, or of interest to the wh and ing what/who they depict. Artwork and student community, will be con- cartoons should be done in black ink on 1 1 ' 366-706 575 QUEEN STREET WEST 4 6 sidered for publication. Although we TORONTO. ONT. CANADA clean white paper, with the artist's signature M5V 2B6 cannot guarantee your work will get incorporated in the design. into print, we will give each contribu- tion our careful consideration. Ukrainian-language submissions N.B.: Do not send in negatives of photos, and keep a copy of your articles. If you want to have your BOOK STORE 6c GIFT are, of course, most welcome. So UKRAINIAN material returned to you, please enclose a stamped help us tell it like it reaily is, by self-addressed envelope with your submission. submitting today to Student.

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If Lt.-Col. Oliver North fits the is a sound one because description of a true American hero why most of these songs and is he not idolised by the people and invasion: over 7 millions Ukrainians themselves. Some of it arrangements are never media? It seems that for the American Ukrainians were killed in the war may be, but how can you ignore heard in North America. public it will take a while to get used to against fascism. Why, then, do the fact that anti-Semitism is an The addition of the lyric this new hero, after all they have not had you attempt to portray official policy of the Soviet sheet will, hopefully, this type of "real" hero since World War Ukrainians chiefly as victimizers government directed from preserve and expand a Two, having to settle for Hollywood when in fact they were principally Are you not, forj Moscow. portion of the Ukrainian American public heroes instead. The victims? And not only during aware of books such as example, folk culture. does not like the Iran regime, a regime World Warll. In 1932-33 we lost 6 "Zionism Counts on Terror" that Enough about the lyric which held hostage 55 of its sons for 144 to 7 millions in the genocidal man- was published in Moscow in 1984 sheet and on to the music. days. It distrusts the Iranian regime and made famine created by Stalin. by Novosti Press? Is this to be The first side is finished its violent anti- American rhetoric which Is there anti-Semitism in blamed upon Ukrainians as well? and my beer along with it. is backed up by its sponsorship of Ukraine today? Yes, there is, as The point we are trying to impress Time for a flip and fill. international terrorism. The American that I there is in the United States, or upon you is that since Ukrainians But along with would public can not immediately accept the itisa France, or Russia. However, do not govern their own land, and like to mention a song resumption of relations with Iran, same to uncritically equate which deeply effected me, serious error since it is they dictate with the hard-line leaders in Iran. not who anti-Semitism in Ukraine with back on side on. Its called, However the American public can policy in Moscow, it is unfair to Ukrainian anti-Semitism. To cite in the translated text, eventually believe that the Iranian arms ascribe the sole or principal "Sleep child". a historical example: Was the A sort of deal was important to secure the realease responsibility to them for what is lullaby with a cello murderous cry of the Black of Americans being held captive in official Soviet policy. accompaniment - it is Hundreds "Kill the Jews and Save Lebanon and to foster good-will to the In conclusion, we find that your enough to make one tear heard during United States by moderate leaders in Russia," which was letter degrades your office, and, one's own heart out and czarisi times in Ukraine, insofar as Iran. Supplying the Contra rebels with no doubt, is also offensive to the offer it to the gods. The aid is a lot more difficult for the is where the Jews had been that Jewish people whom you harmonies which the American public to swallow. Twenty because of Pale of forced to live represent, whose ancestors have ensemble are capable of years ago marked an increasing restriction, an Settlement suffered for centuries because of are haunt ingly beautiful. involvement by United States' armed of Ukrainian anti- example thinking similar to yours. By They reflect the beauty of painful forces in Vietnam. This is a Semitism? course not, for Of reviving the buried myth of the land which they sing period period in American history, a the Black although Hundreds collective responsibility, you have about and also the tragedy most Americans would like to which Ukraine, they were which forced Ukrainians operated in placed yourself on that side of the to forget and are determined not to reapeat. Russians and leave this land. The album composed of barricade of ideas that has Until all the facts from this episode are supported by the Russian czarisi is fresh because the reavealed than the American public will decisively been rejected by ail melodies and arrangements regime. civilized people. be wary of proclaiming a new hero. One found You imply thai contemporary there are seldom thing is for certain that in a few short Bozhena Olshaniwsky heard in North America anti-Semiiism in Ukraine is years time we will be treated to a barrage President and because the trio is of bestsellers describing these events somehow the fault of the to perform them with and hope above hope - an autobiography such magnificent splendor. and accompanying movie or T.V. mini- The album is available on series. YEVSHAN records. One can be critical of all the negative speculation being heaped upon the

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