STUDENTMiwEfUDIANTi 50 cents .CANADA'S NEWSPAPER FOR UKRAINIAN 99 . — , ..'" " — . -,, -- ,',,- ,..,- , . , . ,. " , ". .'.' ? - , , — , , , ., . , ,, , , ., ,, ', ,"" —,' , " .. ., . — ., . , * • Vp , . «< v ., . * , * '. , . — . * $ " " — , , , ' . ""9- 11- . 18- . 7- 8- . 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 Vasyl Stus 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. The opinions and thoughts espresaed In Individual signed articles Deputy Speaker of the Knesset are the responsibility of their authors, and nol necessarily those of the Student staff. Student's role Is to serve as a medium through which discussion can be conducted on given issues from any point of view. Letters to the editor are welcome. We reserve Use right to edit materials for publication. January 25, 1987 A.D. 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.