www.ukrweekly.com I I Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. c. a fraternal non-profit association| ^/- rainian Ш V Vol. LVl No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1988 25 cents Great Britain's Ulcrainians unveil monument to St. Volodymyr known among Ukrainians for his Shev- Millennium events chenko monument in Washington. The statue was unveiled by the mayor include concert at of the royal borough and blessed by Cardinal Lubachivsky and Metropoli­ Royal Albert Hall tan Mstyslav, who used the opportu­ Special to The Ukrainian Weekly nity to deliver an emotional address on the symbolic nature of the ceremony. LONDON - The events which took He stressed its significance for increas­ place on Sunday, May 29, in London to ing understanding and sense of unity celebrate the Millennium of Christianity between the Ukrainian Churches. The in Ukraine represented the culmination two hierarchs also released a joint of over four years of careful planning statement on the Millennium. (For full and tireless work by the Ukrainian text, see page 3.) Millennium Committee in Great Bri­ The president of the World Congress tain. of Free Ukrainians, Peter Savaryn, and The one-day program was a feat of W, Oleskiw from the Millennium Com­ organization which included the partici­ mittee delivered words of greeting. The pation of several eminent Ukrainian reception for guests after the ceremony, and British religious leaders, distin­ held on the premises of St. Clement's guished British guests and up to 6,000 Ukrainian Catholic University, was Ukrainians from Great Britain and as attended by many notable and distin­ far afield as Australia and the United guished guests irtcjiiidirig їііі'. and Mrs. States. Malcolm Muggeridge. The day began with services at the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Mr. Muggeridge was a correspondent Cathedral and the Ukrainian Catholic in the USSR at the time of the Great Cathedral, conducted, respectively, by Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, and Metropolitan Mstyslav Skrypnyk and he has spoken out forcefully about this Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky. brutal act perpetrated by the Stalin The church services were followed by regime. the unveiling and dedication of a statue The next item on the day's program of St. Volodymyr on the corner of was a concert of Ukrainian choral Holland Park Avenue in the Royal church music at the Royal Albert Hall. Borough of Chelsea and Kensington. A choir of some 500 people was made The search for a suitable proposal for up of choirs from Great Britain and a monument to commemorate the overseas: three choirs from Manchester, Millennium was begun some time ago, two from Nottingham, one from Leeds, and many sculptors — both Ukrainian two from Coventry, the Dumka Chorus and non-Ukrainian — had submitted from New York, the Vesnivka Choir designs. The one finally chosen was the from Toronto and the Utrecht Byzan­ work of the distinguished sculptor Leo tine Choir. Мої (Leonid Molodozhanyn), best (Continued on page 3) Non-Russian national rights activists form Committee of Patriotic Movements London's newly unveiled monument to St. Volodymyr. by Bohdan Nahaylo ship inaugurated the policy of glasnost and began freeing poUtical prisoners, Reagan signs famine commission bill Representatives of six non-Russian Ukrainian and Armenian dissidents WASHINGTON - President Ro­ adding an amendment providing for the national movements met in the western formed their own committees in defense nald Reagan signed the Commission on commission to select members to the Ukrainian city of Lviv on June 11 and of political prisoners. In September the Ukraine Famine Extension Act (S. body as the need arises so that the 12 and founded a Coordinating Com­ 1987, it was announced that the two 2304) on Friday, June 17, before he left commission would maintain a member­ mittee of Patriotic Movements of the groups had decided to join forces and for Canada for the seven-nation econo­ ship of 15 persons. The Senate then Peoples of the USSR. According to found a joint Ukrainian-Armenian mic summit meeting. passed the amended bill on June 7. documents issued by the participants in Committee for the Defense of Political The extension bill prolongs the life of Until the extension bill was passed, the meeting that have just become Prisoners. The initial press statement the commission for another two years, the commission was to have expired on available in Munich, the new committee issued by this body was signed by through June 22, 1990, but does not June 22 and its final report was due to is supported by national rights cam­ Vyacheslav Chornovil for the Ukrai­ provide any additional government be released by then. paigners from Ukraine, Lithuania, nians, and Paruir Airikyan for the funding for the body. It does, however, In that report, advance copies of Estonia, Latvia, Georgia and Armenia. Armenians. state the funds may be collected from which were made available to the press, Following a recently formed in­ Not long afterwards, representatives private sources to support the work of the commission revealed 19 findings ter-nationality group to defend politi­ of a new Georgian Committee for the the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine about the famine, among them that the cal prisoners, the new body represents Defense of Political Prisoners joined Famine. famine was a genocide and was man- the most ambitious attempt in the post- the Ukrainians and Armenians, and the Thus far, the Ukrainian community made, and that the U.S. government Stalin period by non-Russian dissidents name of their organization was changed has contributed more than SI70,000 to and international news media knew that to form a common front against Mos- to the Inter-National Committee in the commission, and it is such support a famine was raging in the Ukrainian cows rule. Defense of Political Prisoners. on which the commission's work will countryside. The former granted diplo­ In December the authorities showed now depend. matic recognition to the USSR despite Inter-national defense committee their unease about the new unofficial The Senate had passed the bill on April the famine, while the latter assisted the activity that was focusing attention on 21. On May 24 the House of Represen­ Soviets in covering up the atrocities Shortly after the Gorbachev leader­ (Continued on page 11) tatives acted favorably on the measure. being committed, the report states. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1988 No. 26 External Representation statement GLASNOST DIARY: on Ruban release, remaining prisoners recording changes in the USSR NEW YORK -- The External and camp aidministration was in­ Representation of the Ukrainian creased. Time out: nationolism in sports Helsinki Group released a statement Eight political prisoners remain in on May 28 on the release of Petro the special-regimen camp: Mikhail At a recent soccer (futbol) match paper, the Dynamo supporters hurled Ruban and the situation of political Alekseyev, Mykola Horbal, Ivan between the workl-famous Kiev Dynamo rocks at trains leaving platforms 10 and prisoners in the USSR in which it Kandyba, Mart Niklus, Vasyl Ov- and Moscow Spartak in Kiev, fans showed 11 - heading for the Russian republic. called for greater Western public sienko, Hryhoriy Prykhodko, Ivan their true nationalistic colors, shouting Most of the protesters were students in pressure on the Soviet government to Sokulsky, Enn Tarto. In addition to such slogans as ''Why сапЧ Ukraine be middle school. More than 150 people free all political prisoners. that, in order to increase psychologi­ called Ukraine internationally, and not were arrested; besides the militia, the The May 28 statement and appeal cal pressure, a criminal/murderer, the USSR?" authorities also called out Komsomol describes the significance of Mr. Borys Romashov, who attempted to volunteers, the KGB and units of the Ruban's release from the special^ kill Balys Gajauskas, physically According to the Kiev Sports news­ Ministry of Interior. regimen block of Perm Camp No. 35 assaulted (the late) Vasyl Stus, etc., is on May 25, and details the situation imprisoned along with these pri­ of the political prisoners who remain soners of conscience. A4oscow says: this Bud's for you in that notorious camp, as well as in All the political prisoners who When Mikhail Gorbachev first came reviewed, for it has spawned illegal other camps and exile. remain in camp VS-389/35 (village into power, he instigated an anti- bootlegging, which in turn had led to The complete text of the statement of Tsentralnyi, Chusovskyi raion, alcohol campaign, which, in turn, was rationing of sugar. follows. Perm region) are completely ex­ going to improve production in the hausted and ill. The situation of three workplace. But he learned that if you So, if you can't beat them, join them. prisoners — those who, like Petro withhold liquor from the Soviet man, The New York Times recently reported Ruban, were kept in solitary confine­ you'll find that the quantity of "samo- that the Moscow City Council has On May 28, 1988, longtime politi­ ment and remain there for asserting honka'' increases, and that home- decided to open 133 new beer bars and cal prisoner Petro Ruban was re­ their status as political prisoners — is brewing becomes big business. automatic beer dispensers to soften their leased early from camp VS-389/35 especially grave. At the time of P. Recently Soviet officials stated that once much-publicized anti-drinking on the basis of a decree of the Ruban's release they had already the tough anti-alcohol policy is being campaign. Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of completed: M. Alekseyev - 80 days, the USSR pardoning him. The re­ I. Kandyba - 60 days, I. Sokulsky lease of Petro Ruban is significant in — nearly 50 days.