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Vol. LVI No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988 25 cents New unofficial Lviv journals Meshko arrives in Australia JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Oksana invitation from her niece, Maya Hrudka focus on culture, religious rights Meshko, 83, a founding member and of Melbourne. Ms. Hrudka was assisted chairperson of the Ukrainian Helsinki in her i4-year-oid efforts to obtain a Group, arrived in Melbourne, Austra­ visa for Ms. Meshko by the Committee lia, on Thursday, February 25, on a in Defense of Human and National three-month visa for medical treatment. Rights in Ukraine, according to Dr. She is visiting Australia thanks to-an (Continued on page 3) A lifetime later, the freedom fight goes on

Editors of three new unofHclal journals being published in Lviv, Ukraine: (from left) їгупа Stasiv Kalynets, Mykhatlo Osadchy and ivaii Неї. JERSEY CITY, N.J. - News has phedra (Cathedral), the third unofficial terichi,^d the We?i o^ the урреагалсе n^ jouniul ii) appeal in Lviv, wa^ pub­ three new unofficial journals in Lviv. lished under the aegis of the Ukrainian bringing to four the total of such Association of Independent Creative publicaiions testing the limits of glas- Intelligentsia (L'ANTJ), according to nost m that western Ukrainian city, the Ukrainian Central information Ser­ according to var'-ous sources. vice in London. The three new publications, in addi­ Mykhailo Osadchy, a 51-year-old tion to the first such journal, The poet, literary critic and former political Ukrainian Herald, which reappeared in prisoner, serves as chief editor of the August after a 15-year interruption, new literary and cultural journal, attempt to cover the socio-political, created to publicize the works and cultural and religious aspects of move­ activities of members of UANTI who ments seeking to speed up the process of hail from all over the Ukrainian SSR, democratization, called for by General and focus on the arts in general, past Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. and present, all over the republic. The second journal, Yevshan-Ziilia, A permanent feature of this new commenced publication in the fall. unofficial journal will reportedly be a Iryna Stasiv Kalyneis, a poet, ethno­ section titled, ''Problems and Discus­ grapher and cultural rights advocate, sions." who was imprisoned for her activity in The first issue contains the following: the 1970s, ischief editor of the journal, "Franko," a philosophical poem by le Airport yesterday: freedom which focuses on current Ukrainian Ukrainian literary critic Yevhen Sver- cultural, literary and artistic life in Lviv, stiuk; "Autumne Magdalene," a poem Reproduction of a news story about Oksana Meshko's arrival in Australia which according to several sources. (Continued on page 13) appeared in the newspaper The Age. According to an account by Stefania Hulyk Hnatenko, a cultural rights activist from Lviv who recently immi­ Lev Lukianenko reported extremely ill grated to the United States, the 47-year- old Mrs. Kalynets has "surrounded NEW YORK - Lev Lukianenko, krainian Helsinki Group. herself with young people" concerned a lawyer and founding member of the Mrs. Lukianenko had visited her with cultural rights of Ukrainians, in Ukrainian Helsinki Group just re­ husband after he arrived on January order to fulfill her main purpose in cently transferred to the Tomsk 30 at his place of exile in the Tomsk starting up such a journal. The poet о blast where he is to serve a five-year oblast (636614 Tomskaya Oblast, hopes to reflect what is happening in all term of "internal" exile, is in extre­ Parabylskyi Raion, Pos. Berezov- aspects of the arts, which have been mely poor health. ska). revitalized due to the population's According to Oksana Meshko, At the time the inmates of the hopes in glasnost, in the western Ukrai­ current chairperson of the Ukrainian notorious camp 36-1 in Kuchino - nian city, she said. Helsinki Group who arrived in Aus­ where five inmates have died since tralia for medical treatment, Mr. The first issue reportedly contains 1980 - were being transferred to Lukianenko is forced to work al­ camp 35, also in the Perm region, poems by the late Vasyl Stus; an article though he is of retirement age. As a on the late Ukrainian Cubist sculptor Mr. Lukianenko began his long trip result he was taken from his place of to Tomsk. This was on December 8, Alexander Archipenko by Roman work directly to the hospital. Figol, an art critic; prose by Mrs. 1987, four days before he was due to Kalynets; a review and discussion of a Ms. Meshko's information about complete his term of imprisonment. recent exhibit of works by artist Lu- the status of her fellow Helsinki The arduous trip took nearly two bomyr Medvid by Bohdan Horyn, an monitor comes from Mr. Lukia- months, and Mr. Lukianenko arrived art historian and curator at the Lviv Art nenko's wife, Nadia. Ms. Meshko exhausted. Gallery; a humorous article about met with Mrs. Lukianenko before According to official documents, George Kulchytsky, a Ukrainian Kozak she left on her long journey to Mr. Lukianenko was assigned "se­ who introduced coffee to Vienna 200 Australia. The information was then vere-regimen exile." Such a designa­ years ago; and other entries. reported by the New York-based tion is unheard of, explained the External Representation of the U- Lev Lukianenko In January, the first issue of Ka- (Continued on page 3) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Activist widow of Lviv artist moves to U.S. witli family Ukrainian Culturological Club NEW YORK - Stefania Hulyk Hnatenko, a Ukrainian cultural rights breaks new ground for glasnost advocate from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, arrived in New York on by Bohdan Nahaylo turological Club differed from anything February 12 with her mother and son, that readers of Vechirnyi Kiev had been Nazar, following an 11-year-effort to PART I accustomed to. A certain Oleksandr win permission to emigrate from the Pasinchuk, for instance, described Mr. Soviet Union. The Ukrainian Culturological Club, Shvets' article as "repugnant, provo­ The 42-year-old art scholar is the an informal group, has generated con­ cative and chauvinistic." Anatoliy widow of the late Ukrainian artist siderable controversy on the pages of Savchuk called the denunciation "slan­ Valeriy Hnatenko, who died of cancer Kiev's evening newspaper. The result derous," while V. Kuznetsov asked why at the age of 40 last spring, only weeks has been a remarkably open and novel Mr. Shvets considered that only he had after the family had finally received a exchange of views on topics that until "the right to tell the truth, while every­ visa to emigrate. The family postponed recently were off limits. Meanwhile, one else had to listen." Calling on the its departure and left Lviv on February although this unofficial association of newspaper to break with "stereotypes," 7 of this year. They came to the United patriotically-minded Ukrainians has Mr. Kuznetsov went on to argue that States via Rome to be reunited with now been implicitly attacked by the "restructuring" had not happened just family members, including an aunt who Ukrainian Party leader himself, it not of its own accord and that dissidents lives in Texas, three weeks ago. only continues its beleaguered existence and former political prisoners, includ­ Mrs. Hnatenko has been active but is developing new forms of indepen­ ing leaders of the Ukrainian Culturo­ in the Ukrainian cultural and human dent cultural activity; . ^ logical Club, had helped pave the way rights movements since her student days Stefania Hulyk Hnatenko for it. in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Born Founded last summer A fourth respondent, who was one of in Terebovlia, a town in the Ternopil from Bessarabia, was suspended from several who preferred to remain region, Mrs. Hnatenko studied at the the same institute in 1973 because of his The informal Ukrainian Culturolo­ anonymous, pointed out how unfair Institute of Applied and Decorative association with members of the crea­ gical Club was founded at the beginning glasnost was in practice: those attacking Arts in Lviv. She was suspended in tive intelligentsia of Lviv who were of last summer by a group of patrioti­ the Ukrainian Culturological Club were 1971, however, for aiding the families of arrested in a mass round-up the pre­ cally-minded citizens of Kiev - some of armed with the official press, while the Ukrainian political prisoners and for vious year. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hna­ whom are former political prisoners — club's members were deprived on an her part in the formation that year of a tenko refused to testify against their intent on revitalizing Ukrainian cultural equal opportunity to present their case group in defense of the newly arrested dissident friends or cooperate at all with and public life. before society. Everyone who read Mr. Nina Strokata, the Ukrainian national authorities, despite continued harass­ After the appearance of a lengthy Shvets' article, the anonymous author rights activist from Odessa. ment and threats of arrest. denunciation of the unofficial group in claimed, agreed that "'democratization The late Mr. Hnatenko, who hailed (Continued on page 13) the October 19, 1987 issue of Kiev's has been stopped.' " Unless the news­ daily Vechirnyi Kiev, it seemed as if paper took Mr. Shvets to task in its official toleration of the club was about pages, he continued, it would be evident Ogonyok publishes letter abOUttaniinfe to end. This impression was streng­ "that everything associated with re­ LONDON - Another issue of clover powder with flour and we would thened when, a month later, the Ukrai­ structuring is a shameless lie." Ogonyok, the flagship of glasnost live off this. To my dying day I will nian workers' newspaper Rbbitnycha The thrust of the letters assailing the edited by Vitaliy Korotych, has pub­ never forget the eyes of those people, Hazeta joined in the attack and report­ Ukrainian Culturological Club was that lished a letter from a resident of the dying from hunger. ed that Vex^htrnyi Kiev-- a Шсаі its leaders were "nationalists" who were Ukrainian city of Sumy about the artifi­ "When I grew older I began to ask newspaper that is not normally available conducting "anti-Soviet activity" and cial famine of 1933 in Ukraine. myself: how was it possible that Lenin in the West - had published letters that society, especially youth, had to be Ogonyok last year published a letter was capable of feeding the country so , assailing the Ukrainian Culturological protected from their pernicious in­ by F. Raskolnikov, the former Soviet soon after the cwil \yaxj,t)|||a^^ щ^і^І^І Club's leaders. fluence. ambassador to Bulgaria, who defected 1 , .years .wie., wemitarvingtl!^'"^.. IZ.. Z'''. ^''/"'" Recently, however, some new mate­ For example, 11 members of another in 1939 after writing a letter to StaHn as "The writer M. Alekseev, in tlie novel rial from Vechirnyi Kiev has reached informal club — "an association of the "organizer of the famine." 'Drachynu,' wrote about the famine in the West that shows the entire affair reservist soldiers - internationalists" Below is the full text of the mp^t Saratov pblast. People did not even surrounding the Ukrainian Culturolo^ from Kiev's Darnytsia District - wrote , recerit letter to Ogonyok from a witriess have the strength to bury the dead. He gical Club has generated a remarkable in this vein, alluding to the fact that to the terror-famine (translation pro­ wrote what he himself witnessed but and novel kind of controversy in the "hippy^pacifists" had also participated vided by the London-based Ukrainian was unable to provide any convincing pages of this newspaper. What is more, in the Ukrainian Culturological Club's Press Agency). explanation. He openly stated that he the latest reports indicate that despite activities. was trying to understand the origins of pressure from the authorities, the club's Others who condemned the informal "The new generation ought to know the famine. I am also trying to under­ members are experimenting with new patriotic association included five what their parents and grandparents stand it. Was the famine a fatal inevita­ forms of independent cultural activity. librarians at the Central Library of the went through. Many aspects of our bility or was it man-made? Could it have Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences; history remain in the dark. An example been avoided? As far as I am aware Unprecedented public controversy Ihor Usenko, a candidate of juridical is the famine of 1933.1 cannot think of it nobody has even tried to provide an sciences; and H. Artemchuk, the pro- without shuddering. In the summer of answer to these questions. It is immoral If the initial attack on the Ukrainian rector of the Kiev Pedagogical Institute that year I was tending to some cows to keep silent about such things. During Culturological Club by Vechirnyi Kiev, of Foreign Languages. who were barely alive... I used to gather the 1933 famine more people died than which took the form of an article by clover, which I dried and then ground during Stalin's years of terror." Oleksandr Shvets, seemed standard More details emerge into a powder. My mother would mix the - M.E. Halushko, Sumy enough in the Soviet Ukrainian context even at a time of officially proclaimed Some of the letters that were pub­ glasnost and "democratization," what lished in Vechirnyi Kiev on November followed certainly was not. On Novem­ 14, 1987, confirm that during their ber 14, 1987 the newspaper announced meetings leading members of the Ukrai­ FOUNDED 1933 that Mr. Shvets' article had "a consi­ nian Culturological Club had candidly Ukrainian WeeKh derable resonance" in the Ukrainian discussed some of the most sensitive capital and that the newspaper had issues in Ukrainian history and na­ An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National already received 106 letters about it, 73 tional-cultural life. According to one of Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. of which supported the line taken by their critics - Y. Potapenko, a former 07302. Mr. Shvets and 33 of which opposed it. associate of the Ukrainian SSR Aca­ Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. demy of Sciences, during the club's (ISSN--0273-9348) The newspaper revealed that its meeting on October 18, 1987, devoted representatives had met with leaders of to "Blank Spots in the History of the Ukrainian Culturological Club and, Yearly subscription rate: 58; for UNA members - S5. Ukraine," some of the speakers had Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. even though they disapproved of the compared Stalin with Hitler, advocated association's views and actions, had the slogan "Away with Bilingualism," The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: agreed to inform readers of Vechirnyi and called for a discussion about the (201)434-0237.-0807,-3036 (201)451-2200 Kiev about the "positions" held by the leading Ukrainian historian Mykhailo unofficial cultural activists. What was Hrushevsky (whose works were pro­ Postmaster, send address even more remarkable was that on the changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz scribed in the 1930s and who has still Associate Editors: same day the newspaper published a The Ukrainian Weekly not been officially rehabilitated). Marta Kotomayets and Chrystyna Lapychak selection of readers' letters of which P.O. Box 346 They also proposed appealing to Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss four out of nine strongly criticized Mr. Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Shvets' article and expressed support UNESCO to commemorate the 50th for the Ukrainian Culturological Club. anniversary of the birth of Vasyl Stus, the Шгаігііап poet and dissident, who The Ukrainian Weekly, March 6,1988, No. 10, Vol. LVI The tone and eontpnt of the four Copyright 1988 by The Ukrainian Weekly letters defending the Ukrainian Cul­ (Continued on page 12) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988

Olympic vigil focuses on human rights Senate committee may act soon CALGARY - Some 300 members of Free-lance journalist Arthur Kent, Calgary's community participated in a who covered the Afghanistan war from on resolution regarding iVIiliennium candlelight vigil to draw attention to the front lines, said that stories the religious repression in the Soviet Union, Soviets are withdrawing from Afgha­ WASHINGTON - The Senate has been introduced in the House of along with the opening of the XV nistan are simply untrue. They are, in Foreign Relations Committee may Representatives by Rep. William Lipin- Winter Olympics Sunday, February 14. fact, intensifying the struggle in the soon take action on recently introduced ski (D-Ill.). House Joint Resolution The organizers of the vigil, the countryside. legislation regarding the Soviet govern­ 429, the companion of S.J. Res. 235, has Ukrainian Canadian Committee and Western governments should put ment's active persecution of religious currently gained the support of 103 the Calgary Coalition for Human more pressure on the Soviets to with­ believers in Ukraine during the Millen­ members of congress. In order for the Rights in the Soviet Union, called upon draw, he added. nial year. bill to become law, both houses of the Soviet government to declare a Dean Nasery, president of the Afghan Senate Joint Resolution 235, intro­ Congress must act favorably on the unilateral cease-fire in the Afghanistan Cultural and Charitable Association of duced last December by Sen. Dennis legislation. Action in the House of war for the two-week duration of the Calgary, said he welcomed the Olympics DeConcini (D-Ariz.), discourages offi­ Representatives is expected to take games and to cease its persecution of in Calgary, but objected to the presence cial U.S. participation in the USSR's longer than in the Senate due to the Christian, Muslim, Jewish and other of Soviet athletes here. planned Millennium ceremonies "so significant number of House co-spon­ religious minorities. He asked: Why are they warmly long as individuals remain harassed and sors which are generally required to The vigil began with a moleben welcomed when Canada refused to send imprisoned for their religious beliefs," support such a resolution. (prayer service) at the Assumption of its athletes to Moscow following the and "the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrai­ If passed by the Congress, the joint the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian invasion of Afghanistan? The war nian Orthodox Churches remain out­ resolution will be sent to the president Catholic Church with Bishop Deme­ continues and the government has not lawed." for his approval. trius Greschuk, Edmonton eparch of changed, he added. The bill also cites the 1,000-year the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Steven Magas, president of the World Christian heritage of the Ukrainian Target list: members of the Senate Bishop O'Byrne of the Roman Catholic Federation of Hungarian Freedom people, beginning with the adoption of who have not yet co-sponsored: Brock diocese. The Rev. Paul Lysak, pastor of Fighters and chairman of the Hunga­ Christianity "by Prince Volodymyr in a Adams, Washington; William Arm­ Assumption Parish, and The Rev. rian Canadian Federation, called for ceremony on the banks of the Dnieper strong, Colorado; Lloyd Bentsen, William Hupalo of St. Stephen's parti­ the restoration of freedom of the press River." By specifying not only the key Texas; Alan Cranston, California; cipating. and free elections in his country. role played by Prince Volodymyr, but Robert Dole, Kansas; Daniel Evans, Carrying Olympic torches, partici­ Andrei Walny, former member of the also the exact location of the baptism, Washington; Wendell Ford, Kentucky; pants then proceeded to the Ukrainian Wroclaw chapter of Solidarity, said it is the resolution explicitly confirms that John Glenn, Ohio; Bob Graham, Flo­ Orthodox Church of St. Vladimir the moral duty of all people to support the anniversary of 1988 is first and rida; Phil Gramm, Texas; Mark Hat- where a prayer service was celebrated by those who fight for freedom. foremost an anniversary that belongs to field, Oregon; Gordon Humphrey, New the Rev. A. Lakusta followed by a news A letter by Peter Savaryn, president Ukrainians. Hampshire; Nancy Kassenbaum, Kan­ conference. of the World Congress of Free Ukrai­ If the Senate Foreign Relations sas; Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts; John During the procession members of nians, was read in which he called for an Committee responds favorably to the Kerry, Massachusetts; Carl Levin, the Ukrainian Youth Association end to colonialism in sport and urged legislation, S.J. Res. 235 will then be Michigan; Barbara Mikulski, Mary­ (SUM) marched in full uniform. the International Olympic Committee referred to the full floor of the Senate land; Sam Nunn, Georgia; Bob Pack- The guest speaker, Ukrainian Catho­ to demand the Soviet Union to allow for debate and a vote. wood, Oregon; Warren Rudman, New lic activist Yosyp Terelia, noted that not the formation of national committees The joint resolution, which has been Hamsphire; Paul Simon, Illinois; Alan only is the Soviet Union conducting for sports. receiving favorable bipartisan support, Simpson, Wyoming; Arlen Specter, wars against small countries, but to be a The conference was chaired by Mem­ has to date gained the endorsement of Pennsylvania; Ted Stevens, Alaska; believer in the Soviet Union, regardless ber of Parliament for Calgary East, 36 co-sponsoring senators. Steve Symms, Idaho; Strom Thur­ of what faith that may be, is to be Alex Kindy. However, prior to Foreign Relations mond, South Carolina; Paul Trible, considered a criminal. Sonia Skibo, president of the Calgary Committee action, the Department of Virginia; Malcolm Wallop, Wyoming. Mr. Terelia, a lay leader of the Branch of the Ukrainian Canadian State and other executive branch agen­ Target list: House members who have underground Ukrainian Catholic Committee, thanked everybody who cies may be asked to comment and not yet co-sponsored: Church, has spent 23 years in Soviet participated, especially the bishops, the provide recommendations regarding Florida: Charles Bennett, Michael labor camps and prisons was allowed to parish priests and the organizing com­ the pending legislation. Bilirakis, Bill Chappell, Dante Fascell, emigrate to Canada last year. mittee. An identical version of the Senate bill Sam Gibbons, Tom Lewis, Connie Mack, Dan Mica, Bill Nelson, Claude via telephone. telephone after she arrived in Australia, Pepper. Meshko... Dr. Lawriwsky said that Ms. Meshko the former political prisoner expressed New York: Sherwood Boehlert, Jo­ (Continued from page 1) is under the medical care of Dr. George interest in arranging a meeting with seph DioGuardi, Thomas Downey, Michael Lawriwsky, an economics Koniuszko, a Melbourne eye specialist. Mykola Rudenko, the first chairman of Hamilton Fish, Floyd Flake, Frank professor at La Trobe University and an She is to have surgery to remove the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, who Horton, Jack Kemp, John J. LaFalce, officer of the Australian Federation of cataracts from her eyes. recently emigrated to the United States Norman Lent, Matther McHugh, Davkl Ukrainian Organizations. Ms. Meshko arrived in Melbourne and is now living in New York. Martin, Guy Molinari, Stephen Solarz. Ms. Hrudka and the committee airport (Tullamarine) at 3:30 p.ni. on Ms. Svitlychna said that in her Pennsylvania: Robert Borski, Wil­ members had two days' notice about Thursday, February 25. Her plane was telephone conversations, Ms. Meshko liam Clinger, William Coyne, Joseph Ms. Meshko's arrival in Australia, Dr. delayed in Sydney for five hours due to sounded cheery and that she imme­ Gaydos, George Gekas, William Gray, Lawriwsky told The Ukrainian Weekly a baggage handlers' strike. Her trip from diately began to speak of recent deve­ Paul Kanjorski, Peter Kostmayer, Kiev lasted many days, as she had to lopments in Ukraine, including the Joseph McDade, Austin Murphy, John spend six days in Moscow waiting for a activity of the Ukrainian Culturological Murtha, Thomas Ridge, Doug Wal- Lev Lukianenko... flight. Club, as well as the case of Lev Lukia- gren. (Continued from page 1) She was greeted at the airport by her nenko, a member of the Ukrainian Indiana: Lee Hamilton, John Hiler, External Representation, since the niece. The last time Ms. Hrudka, 63, Helsinki Group who is now serving his Peter Viscloskey. regimen of exile is never formally had seen her aunt was in 1943, when the term of exile in the Tomsk oblast and is Maryland: Roy Dyson, C. Thomas specified. Germans took the former away to work in very poor health after serving 25 McMillen, Connie Morella. in Germany. In a letter to his family in Cher- years of imprisonment. (See story Illinois: Terry Bruce, Phil Crane, nihiv, Ukraine, Mr. Lukianenko Ms. Meshko was also greeted with below.) Richard Durbin, Robert Michel, Dan wrote that he is afraid he will not live flowers and children in Ukrainian Ms. Meshko is a former political Rostenkowski, Marty Russo. to see the end of his five-year term of costumes. She was welcomed by Mi­ prisoner dating back to the Stalin era. Ohio: John Kasich, Thomas Luken, exile under such difficult conditions. chael Moravski, president of the Aus­ She served her first term of imprison­ Buz Lukens, Bob McEwen, Ralph tralian Federation of Ukrainian Orga­ Mr. Lukianenko was born August ment, 1947-1955, for refusing to re­ Regula. nizations, and Myroslav Boluch, presi­ nounce her husband, a political pri­ Michigan: Bob Carr, John Conyers, 24, 1928. He served his first term of dent of the Committee for the Defense 15 years for "treason" and "anti- soner. John Dingell, William Ford, Sander of Human and National Rights in In 1972 Ms. Meshko began to speak Levin, Fred Upton, Guy Vander Jagt, Soviet agitation and propaganda" Ukraine. after he advocated secession of the out in defense of her son, Oleksander Dennis Hertel. According to the Australian news­ Serhiyenko, who was sentenced that Massachusetts: Edward Bowland, Ukrainian republic from the USSR paper The Age, Ms. Meshko told the — a right that is guaranteed each year to seven years' imprisonment and Brian Donnelly, Joseph Kennedy, Ed crowd gathered at the airport to wel­ three years' exile for "anti-Soviet Markey, Joe Moakley. republic in accordance with the come her that freedom is her "greatest Soviet Constitution. agitation and propaganda." Minnesota: Bill Frenzel, Bruce Vento. struggle," and that her spirit and strength Rhode Island: Fernand St. Germain. After joining the Ukrainian Hel­ have a lot to do with her birthplace, After the arrest of the first and second sinki Group, he was arrested on New Jersey: Jim Courter, James the Poltava region of Ukraine, that not chairmen of the Ukrainian Helsinki Florio, Dean Gallo, Frank Guarini, December 12, 1977, tried and sen­ even Russian Tsarina Catherine the Group, respectively, Mr. Rudenko and tenced for "anti-Soviet agit-prop" to Matthew Rinaldo, Peter Rodino, Great could conquer. Oles Berdnyk, Ms. Meshko took over Marge Roukema, Robert Roe, another 10 years' imprisonment and chairmanship of the Kiev-based moni­ five years' exile. The veteran political prisoner said Arizona: Jim Kolbe, Jon Kyi, Morris she has every intention of returning to toring group. She served in that capa­ Udall. As a result of the extremely harsh Kiev, Ukraine, to continue the fight for city until her own arrest on October 14, conditions of his many years of Connecticut: Barbara Kenoelly human rights. 1980, for "anti-Soviet agitation and Bruce Morrison, John Rowland. imprisonment, Mr. Lukianenko is propaganda." She spent six months in a known to suffer from gastritis, heart According to Nadia Svitlychnaof the Wisconsin: James Sensenbrenner, New York-based External Representa­ strict-regimen labor camp and five years Toby Roth, Les Aspin, Steve Gundei" disease, and kidney and liver ail­ in exile. She was released in 1986 and ments. tion of the Ukrainian Heismki Group, son, Robert Kostenmeir, David Obey, who spoke with Ms. Meshko on the since then has been living in Kiev. Virginia: Stan Parris. -'; THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

Philadelphia's community welcomes Mykola and Raisa Rudenko

by Olena Stercho Hendler with a greater determination to continue the struggle," she said. PHILADELPHIA - Mykola and Mrs. Rudenko then spoke of howTier Raisa Rudenko received a tumultuous husband, while in prison, wrote verse in welcome and heartfelt reception from dark corners, only to have it all confis­ Philadelphia's Ukrainian community cated by guards the following day. "The on Sunday, February 21, at the Ukrai­ guards took every page," she said. nian Cultural Center. The event, spon­ "Upon his protests," the authorities sored by the Ukrainian Human Rights promised to return these to him upon Committee of Philadelphia (UHRC) his release. When he was sent into exile, and attended by a standing-room-only not only were his writings not returned, crowd of over 400 persons, marked the but they took that which he was writing Rudenkos' first appearance in Philadel­ in exilQ.'' phia. "Mykola Rudenko wrote 10 declara­ Mr. Rudenko, first chairman of the tions to authorities demanding the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group return of his improperly seized works," and a Soviet political prisoner for more she continued. "But all of his efforts than 10 years, and his wife, Raisa, a were in vain. Then he sent a telegram to Soviet political prisoner for six years, the KGB, advising that on March 30, arrived in West Germany from the 1987, he was going on a hunger strike, Soviet Union on December 13, 1987 which he would maintain until he was and on American soil on January 20, returned all that was taken, all that he 1988. had written, while he was imprisoned UHRC member Irena Jurczak greet­ for 11 years." ed the Rudenkos at the entrance to the "As a result, the friends of Mykola hall with a gift of bread and salt, in Raisa and Mykola Rudenko are greeted at the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Rudenko, including academician An­ accordance with ancient Ukrainian Center in suburban Philadelphia by Irena Jurczak. drei Sakharov, held a press conference tradition. After the greetings, Mrs. which brought to bear the attention of Jurczak, who was dressed in a Ukrai­ feeling of peace in my heart...I welcome Madrid especially, in Vienna, in Ottawa the world community," Mrs. Rudenko nian national costume, escorted the them but I also thank them," he said, "I and during other meetings. The name of continued, "On the 21st day of his Rudenkos to the stage to a standing thank them for their courage, their Ukraine rang out more and more hunger strike, he was returned the bulk ovation of welcome from the audience. belief in the dignity of mankind and the frequently in connection with the activi­ of his archive, with the explanation that Taisa Skulsky and Lala Halloway, cause of freedom. I thank them for their ties of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group all that could be found was being young girls dressed also in national courage in showing that despite the and the persecution which befell its returned. As is evident, the administra­ costume, greeted the Rudenkos on stage power of the state, the willingness, the members." tion did not care much that part of his by reciting a short verse by Lesia strength, the belief of the human being Finally, Dr. Strokata observed how literature was lost..." Ukrainka and with a bouquet of red is so great that in the end, humanity will the plight of the Rudenkos had helped Mrs. Rudenko concluded her presen­ roses. The Rudenkos responded to the prevail over the terrorism of the raised American consciousness about tation by reading Mr. Rudenko's poem, sustained applause of the audience with Soviets." the plight of the Ukrainian nation in "Automatons." broad smiles and bows. In wishing the Rudenkos well in their general. "I had the great opportunity to Mr. Rudenko immediately followed The program was opened with a brief new homeland, Mr. Dougherty also observe...how true liberty and demo­ his wife's speech. "I want to thank you introduction by UHRC chairperson urged them to reach out beyond the cracy in this land of Washington works. from the bottom of my heart for the Ulana Baluch Mazurkevich. As part of Ukrainian community and to share with The names of Mykola and Raisa Ru­ good you do for the rights of those who her opening, Ms, Mazurkevich read a all of the people of the United States denko sounded not infrequently during have no liberty, for the Ukrainian letter of welcome from Pennsylvania "the true meaning of sacrifice and the the sessions at both houses of the nation which has suffered in the past, Congressman Lawrence Coughlin, who true story of what the Soviets are all American Congress." which suffers today, and ... which will has followed the Rudenkos' plight for about." Addressing the Rudenkos directly, suffer tommorrow. The struggle is over a decade and has been an active Dr. Strokata said, "If there were many complex; the struggle is difficult but it combatant in the fight for their release. Welcomed by Strokata difficulties and many travails in achiev­ cannot be called one without pros­ Ms. Mazurkevich then acknowledged ing your liberty, if you were forced to pects." He began, "Today, it is possible the presence of Sister Gloria Coleman, Congressman Dougherty's remarks lose your homeland and contact with to believe that this battle will have its head of Philadelphia's Inter-Religious were followed by a speech of welcome your dear ones, may it be some small Task Force on Soviet Jewry, who has and commentary by Dr. Nina Strokata , solace to you that often in the course of distinguished herself as an active parti­ Karavansky, a member of the Ukrai­ one hour the name of Ukraine sounded Community in diaspora cipant in the fight for human rights in nian Helsinki Monitoring Group and frequently in connection with your Ukraine by appearing frequently at former political prisoner. Dr. Strokata names in the halls of the American Noting that much had already been demonstrations and by raising the issue observed that the day was extraordi­ Congress. Thus, as a result of what you said about what he and his wife had at appropriate national and interna­ nary not only because it provided an did, we know that we have the right to endured, Mr. Rudenko then focused his tional forums. opportunity to welcome the Rudenkos, call ourselves Ukrainian patriots and attention on the Ukrainian community Sister Ann Gillian, international but because it, at long last, provided an that is why there is such a great joy in in the diaspora. "Permit me to speak director of the Inter-Religious Task answer to the long-standing debate our souls, that Ukraine has been about how we perceive you, because the Force on Soviet Jewry who had flown in within the Ukrainian community about brought back from the forgotten and is meeting with you, respected commu­ from Chicago, especially to greet the the merits of agitating for human rights mentioned in the greatest forums of the nity, was a large and unexpected plea­ Rudenkos, followed with short re­ in Ukraine and at the release of specific world." sant surprise for us," he said. marks. After commenting on the Task individuals. "While I was still in Munich, Danylo Force's long-standing involvement in "When the acts of persecution began Efforts not in vain Shumuk telephoned, and the first words the right for the Rudenkos' freedom, in Ukraine," Dr. Strokata said, "many he uttered were. The Western Ukrai­ Sister Gillian noted: said that agitation will bring worse to At the conclusion of Dr. Strokata's nian emigration has turned out to be "I think that it is important that this the persecuted. Others said that agita­ speech, Mrs. Rudenko rose to greet her significantly stronger, significantly hero and heroine who have come here tion will accomplish nothing... Today in a warm and emotional embrace and more sophisticated intellectually, spiri­ should know that Catholics, Protes­ we have an answer to these questions. thereafter made a brief speech. "Today, tually and culturally than I could have tants and Jews of the United States Those who agitated were needed." Dr. as on every occasion, when I have the imagined.' How true..." worked together to bring about their Strokata, speaking on behalf of politi­ opportunity to address the community, "I understand that all of these posi­ freedom...! was deeply touched by cal dissidents, then commended the I must thank all persons who fought for tive characteristics as well as human seeing the traditional greeting of the UHRC for its major, long-term involve­ our release. The actions of individual failings exist among you, as everywhere bread and salt, and the reverence for the ment in the fight for human rights in persons, community organizations, in the world," Mr. Rudenko СОП- bread and salt. I thought how much Ukraine and on behalf of political members of Amnesty International, finued. "We are human, and because we bread and salt meant in Ukrainian dissidents. writers, senators and congressmen, not are humans in a free world, we have a history and how much we have been Dr. Strokata then went on to discuss only did not hurt us, as emphasized by tendency toward democracy and plura­ enriched by learning from you. In seeing the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and its Mrs. Karavansky, but instead our lism. Therefore, naturally, certain the presence of the Rudenkos, I thought relation to recognition of Ukrainian presence here today is living proof that differences and difficulties exist, of of the time they ate the bread and salt of national issues in general. "The creation your efforts were not in vain," Mrs. which we are already aware. People will sorrow...in prison and in exile...and of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Rudenko began. be like that everywhere... I must say that how they truly are the bread and salt of Group, as it developed, created a huge Mrs. Rudenko then briefly and in general, I have a very favorable Ukraine/' issue and established a new forum, a movingly recounted trials and tribula­ impression of you." Pennsylvania's former congressman, different forum, functioning on a diffe­ tions at the hands of Soviet authorities. Exploring the theme of potential Charles Dougherty, who formed the rent level to present the question of "1 endured (my husband's! 10 years division in the community in a different Congressional Ad Hoc Committee on Ukraine and the rights of the person and without liberty because I smuggled vein, Mr. Rudenko said, "There is no the Baltic States and Ukraine and also the Ukrainian nation. The documents from camps, preserved, reprinted and split into two Ukrainian cultures — the lobbied actively, both within the United of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group were read to my colleagues the verse of my Western, and that in present-day U- States and with Soviet officials, on cited during the deliberations (of the husband and because I spoke out on his kraine. There is but one Ukrainian behalf of the Rudenkos, spoke next. Conference on Security and Coopera- behalf. My own period of imprisonment rjation. This nation is in the diaspora: "I tveicome the Rudenkos with a deep iionl of delegates in Belgrade, in did not cure me...I have been released (Continued on page 5) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988

Philadelphia's,., the USSR — and this is very far away published there. I must say that I have programs. Therefore, what you put on indeed and will come only after an changed very much. I started as a social the radio is unusually valuable informa­ (Continufed from page 4) inevitable, major catastrophe which we realist. But after the 20th Communist tion for all Soviet citizens. (Response this nation is in our homeland. It is one. will be forced to endure — only then, Party Congress in 1956, began the provided by Raisa Rudenko). There is one culture, one path of will there be true salvation and a true maturation process...this was very spiritual development despite attempts cultural and national flowering. I difficult, and, in general, not all of Exhibit and fund-raiser to cripple it, make it anemic, disrupt it, believe that the day will come when we which I wrote I accept today. Many of and Russify it... Indeed, our younger will be able to behold a free Ukrainian my writings are known; some have been At the back of the room in which the generation is rejecting these attempts, nation and a free Ukrainian state." hushed up... I was published until 1971. meeting with the Rudenkos took place, and is making a wholesale return to our Thereafter, my works were banned — in a large exhibit was placed, showing the ancient ways with God, with Church Variety of topics discussed other words, not accepted for publica­ work UHRC members had done on and with the Holy Spirit." tion. I was forced to work as a security behalf of the Rudenkos. The display Mr. Rudenko then cautioned, "There A lengthy question and answer period guard. included letters from congressmen and are forces which would like to drive a followed Rudenko's speech. Below is a ^ On internal awareness about the senators to U.S. and Soviet officials, sharp wedge between us, the Ukrainian summary of Mr. Rudenko's responses famine of 1932-33: Ukrainians, without newspaper articles, pamphlets, adver­ emigration, and other peoples — Poles, on various salient issues raised: question, know about the famine. I had tisements and various artifacts from Hungarians, Jews. This is very con­ ^ On the purpose of Russification in the opportunity to speak with many demonstrations, including posters and venient for the KGB...The Committee Ukraine: Under the guise of Marxism, people. I traveled much throughout photographs. for State Security has demonstrated the Communist Party carries on an Ukraine. I could tell you about endless As a result of the great generosity of that it is one of its tactics to divide, to imperialistic policy which is not neces­ encounters and the stories people told those in attendance, the Rudenkos tear apart, to disunite, and to cut sary to it (as a Marxist state) of seeing to me. For example, the village of Rasava, received the sum of S5,800, reflecting apart...Their purpose is to weaken the it that the Russian language prevails in which is north of Kiev, lost 800 people net proceeds from the admission charge Ukrainian emigration and we cannot Ukraine. Russification is being con­ to starvation just in that one village. In and individual contributions, to assist give in to these provocations,.. These ducted with the objective that if Ukraine general, the older generation tells the them in their re-location in the United (other peoples) cannot be our enemies is Russified, then it will not resist young and the people know about it. States. because the danger to Ukraine does not imperialistic demands. In other words, ^ On his perceptions of members of come from that direction. It comes, there is no objective other than im­ the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and without question, from Moscow." perialism. internal perceptions of UPA: Without Cough/in greets Rudenkos Shifting focus, Mr. Rudenko com­ ^ On the history of Russification in question, I came to truly know com­ mented, ''There are as many of us Ukraine: Brezhnev introduced Russifi­ batants of the UPA in the concentration Letter greeting the Rudenkos from Ukrainians in the West as there are cation in Ukraine with such an intensity camp. These were my closest friends, Pennsylvania Rep, Lawrence Cough' Norwegians, Swedes, Finns... It must be that until that time had not been seen people of great and good heart, of great lin. said that nations do not distinguish and was unheard of. The policy was enlightenment, and of great spiritual themselves by their numbers, but by actually executed by his right-hand purity. I came to love these people, and Dear Friends: their spiritual strength. I am pleased to man, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky. It they became an example to me of It is with great joy that we welcome see that this spiritual (and cultural) started when he began to conduct party spiritual wholeness, masculinity... Mykola Rudenko and Raisa Ru­ strength exists in the emigration. I read congresses in Russian. Delegates, kol- Many of them were in camp for 30 denko to the Ukrainian Cultural with pleasure the journals which are khoznyks and the like spoke not years. Center today. I only regret that a published here...I see that there exists a knowing the Russian language, but Not all of the Ukrainian people know previous commitment prevents me wide, varied, and professionally mature nonetheless, tossing it around. This that these men were our knights — and from joining all of you personally. literature." was, of course, very funny. But this was not fascist servants of Hitler. Soviet The Rudenkos' freedom is espe­ "I do not view the people from an elite necessary in order to bring out in the propaganda on this score casts a total cially gratifying for me. I have position," Mr. Rudenko continued, youth a sense of derision and denigra­ blanket — it constantly preaches, on a followed their plight for over a "but, yet, the cultural forces of a nation tion for the Ukrainian language — look daily basis, hour by hour against them. decade. In 1981, I telephoned the have always expressed its spiritual at what a funny, stupid language. Thus, The growing Ukrainian intelligentsia, Perm camp in the Mordovian labor strength, led the nation and given it step by step, the prestige of the Ukrai­ however, knows the truth. colony to talk to Mykola upon eternal life. For this reason, I call upon nian language was lowered in Ukraine. ^ On the reaction of the average learning of his December 1980 hun­ ger strike. After my call was refused, you — and hasten to reassure you — Starting with the Central Committee Soviet citizen to glasnost: To say that I contacted the Ministry of the that you are entirely right in supporting of the Communist Party, Ukraine, and the average person believes that a Interior in Moscow and the Soviet the spiritual elite of the emigration - down to the lowest party units, all restructuring will actually take place Embassy in Washington. writers, journalists, spiritual leaders, functions were switched to the Russian would not be true. The Soviet peoples political leaders, publishers. Your language. Now, this is the kind of have seen so much in the last 70 years, Many of my colleagues in the Con­ activity sows good seeds..." country in which all compare them­ that today's Soviet person does not gress joined me in sending letters to selves to the party. As the party appara­ believe anything. the Rudenkos. Last year, during my Economic crisis in USSR tus goes, so the civilian apparatus goes. ^ On the possibility of easing inter­ visit to Moscow, I handed General As go the village councils, so go the nal restrictions from within the party: If Secretary Gorbachev, a list of cases Turning to the economic state of the teachers, the village intelligentsia and so you refer to an improvement with of special concern, including the Soviet Union today, Mr. Rudenko said, forth. But this cannot be exaggerated: regard to national aspirations, I do not Rudenkos' case. "This country (the USSR) is on the There is a Ukrainian people. In the expect that any such directives will be Raisa and Mykola, the courage verge of such a crisis, that believe me, cities, you will hear the Ukrainian coming from on high in the party you have displayed throughout your the reforms will provide no solution. language spoken by village people. The apparatus. I think that the struggle of ordeal is thoroughly inspiring. Your This is a country on the verge of village has always spoken and continues the Ukrainian intelligentsia to save the years of separation, the denial of starvation...One can forget about eating to speak in Ukrainian. Ukrainian language and culture has your every basic right in the gulag, meat. One can forget about eating ^ On internal awareness of Russifi­ become a serious factor, which the party your refusal to renounce your beliefs delicacies. Kovbasa is so expensive that cation in Ukraine: This is a very com­ cannot keep secret or at bay. Once the when a simple statement might have an average worker must work two full plex question because the Ukrainian populace knows — even if there are not been so easy, all offer a resounding days to buy one kilogram of kov­ people, more so than others, are not loud demonstrations — it is out. testimonial to the great strength and basa... But other things are needed to entirely homogeneous. For example, in ^ On the national consciousness of high character of your personal live, as you well know - children need western Ukraine, national conscious­ villagers and the impact of Western convictions. You held fast to those to be clothed, they need schoolbooks, ness is considerably higher. Today, broadcasts: The Ukrainian villagers are convictions even in the face of death, the rent needs to be paid...The average however, there is also a developing and truly Ukrainian. They all speak Ukrai­ death which tragically consumed working person today in the USSR growing intelligentsia with national nian, they support Ukrainian schools, Vasyl Stus, Oleksa Tykhy, Valeriy cannot make ends meet." consciousness, which in a self-sacrific­ and they listen to Western broadcasts Marchenko and countless others "The reforms do not do much good in ing way is fighting Russification, fight­ all the time — Voice of America, Voice before them. these circumstances because they are ing for the rights of the person, and of Canada, the BBC, etc. These Western It is said that a new wind - the not enough, "Mr. Rudenko continued. fighting for the rights of the nation. You voices which are beamed into the USSR wind of giasnost — is blowing "They can only lead to unemployment, know many of them by name. This help people maintain their national throughout the Soviet Union. Per­ and that in the context of empty food intelligentsia is growing ever larger, as is consciousness. You know, from the age haps, Mykola and Raisa's presence stores. In agriculture, there is no talk of its national consciousness. of 5, people are "Sovietized." In the in Philadelphia supports that claim. reform... I belong to those who firmly 9 On what the emigration can do past, people were afraid to listen to the The fact remains, however, that any believe that the reforms will produce no about Russification: We should do "voices," because in Stalinist times, this change to date is a change only in good. They will only hasten the econo­ what we have always done - protest, was sufficient to be sent to a camp or degree and not in kind. Colossal mic collapse of the country, a collapse but perhaps more vigorously... I must shot. Today, people are not afraid of change is yet required to bring the which cannot be prevented." tell you ... that your voices in the this and particularly now, as a result of Soviets into compliance with their Mr. Rudenko concluded his address international arena sound very loudly easing of restrictions. In fact, only a few international commitments to hu­ with the following: "Once in the 13th and very clearly, and echo in all of the listen at any given time because it is late man rights. In Ukraine and else­ century, there lived in Scotland a wise USSR, especially in Ukraine and even at night, but what they hear of interest, where in the USSR, the struggle for monk. He understood God thus: God is in the Kremlin itself. We should speak they tell their neighbors, and soon the human and national rights must and absolute liberty. This God is trampled loudly and proceed with great vigor. "women's radio network" takes over will continue. upon in the Soviet Union and this God ^ On whether his works were pub­ and the whole village knows. Two voices -- not by any means manifests himself in this very country in lished in the Soviet Union: I have I must tell you that Ukrainian stu­ new to the cause — but even stronger which we are present today. We can see worked in literature for a long time. I dents and the intelligentsia have become in freedom., will be heard still more that God as absolute liberty is the became a member of the writer's union conscious Ukrainians thanks to these loudly in the future. Raisa and fountainhead of truth, the fountainhead in 1947. From 1947 to 1971, 20-odd of voices. Thanks to these voices, there are Mykola, you can count on all of us as of action,,and the fountainhead of my books and 30 other nublications of many more conscious UkrainiaB^^feven ou cc ' nue уощ quest for justi(?e creiUivity... mine appeared in Russia and the other ; rio^eM^xt^ere Russified, and sfff';len- ^ and iridividual dignity in the Soviet nly when absolute liberty reigns in republics. Many of my works wer- i\\ they became aware becan^e ^ these Union. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

FOR THE RECORD: Pope's position on Soviet visit

During a recent meeting with event. Ukrainian WeeLI foreign journalists, Pope John Paul However, I said that the visit must Ї II responded to various questions. take place only in the truth, and this The English-language weekly edition aspect bears above all on the Catho­ of L'Osservatore Romano published lic Church that exists in the Soviet an account of what it called a "Con­ Union, in certain countries. In some versation with Journalists" in its countries the presense of Catholics is Timeless Shevchenko February 1 issue. Among the topics more well known, as, for example, in raised by the journalists was the Lithuanian and Latvia, where there question of whether the time had is even a hierarchical structure. But Next year marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of the genius of the come for the pope to begin preparing in other places this hierarchical Ukrainian language, the great bard of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko, yet his for a journey to the Soviet Union, structure is lacking and Latin Catho­ What follows is an excerpt from lics are present, in Byelorussia, for words ring out as true today as they did during his lifetime. Pope John Paul's response, to that example, and also in the area of The timelessness of his ideas are embodied in his poetry; his national question, as published in UOsserva- central Asia, in. Kazakhistan and spirit reigns immortal. Thus, it could not have been more fitting to mark the tore Romano, certainly in Ukraine, especially so- Millennium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine with the world premiere of called western Ukraine. Here we Shevchenko's "The Neophytes," set to music by Ukrainian composer The preparation exists above all in come to a more difficult problem. Marian S. Kouzan. The composer, who resides in Paris, was commissioned the press. I think that at this moment, For we find not only Latin rite by Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in this preparation, these articles, this Catholics there, but also those of the France to set the epic poem to music worthy of a commemoration of the moral pressure "sui generis," are Eastern, Byzantine rite. They are Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. bringing to the fore a question of found chiefly among the Ukrainian The Neophytes, ("The Newly-Converted," "The Newly Baptized") was great significance. This is unde­ people, and they belong to the Ukrai­ niable. I am convinced, deeply con­ written in 1857, when Shevchenko, still in exile, was awaiting further orders nian Catholic Church which has its vinced, that such a visit would be hierarchical structure in the West. In concerning his fate. He dedicated the work to his friend M.S. Shchepkin, important not only from the religious Rome there is the major archbishop, and expressed the hope that it would "a parable become for crucifiers of all point of view - this would be predo­ which in canon law corresponds to nations/tyrants yet to come." And so it became. minant — but also from the point of the patriarch. He is Cardinal Myro- The prophetic vision of Shevchenko is evident as he tells the story of the view of international co-existence. slav Ivan Lubachivsky. There are hero Alcides, a young Roman who upon hearing Apostle Peter preach But you asked me about preparation. also bishops, because many Eastern becomes a convert to Christianity and along with other neophytes is What does preparation mean? An act Ukrainian Catholics have emigrated imprisoned by Nero and set to hard labor. of this sort can take place only in the to various countries in Europe and His pagan mother prays to all the Roman gods, including the self- truth. It would have to be a true visit, especially in North and South Ame­ proclaimed deity, Nero, to save her son. But Nero has other plans for the a true visit in response to a true rica. invitation. As yet we have received For generations, for centuries, this early Christians and they are thrown to the wild beasts in the Coliseum. As no such invitation. her son's body is thrown into the Tiber, Alcides' mother sees the true light Church has manifested great and and prays to the one God. I have already spoken on another constant fidelity to the Holy See, to In a thoroughly biblical vein, Shevchenko believes in the prophecy of occasion of my position of my vision the bishop of Rome, to the pope. of this possibility and of this matter, This fidelity obliges us, it obliges me, Isaiah; the light of the mercy of God leads souls through mortal suffering in this case, to be equally faithful to and the sacrifice of life to the victory over evil, for it is the way he lived his because there is a great problem at its core. In that previous statement I them. They find themselves in a own life. said that within the Soviet Union situation which must at the very least Shevchenko's poetry, its meaning can be read on all different levels. He there is a part of the Catholic Church, be characterized as difficult. Practi­ not only tells the historical tale of the Roman hero, early Christian and this part of the Catholic Church cally speaking, their Church is clan­ Alcides, but also depicts the fate of Ukraine in describing the mother of the has a certain desire, quite proper, to destine, outlawed, not recognized. self-sacrificing neophyte, who has thrown aside pagan beliefs and accepted receive the pope's visit, as do the Indeed, for a time it was recognized Christ, suffering in his name. other Churches. And of course the as non-existent. So here we find On the most personal level, Shevchenko writes of his own trials, for the millennial anniversary of the baptism ourselves faced with a very serious poem, written late in his life, possesses the wisdom that comes from of the Rus', which will be celebrated problem. I must say that already we suffering for the truth. this year, is a great event in the have been planning to enter into this history of Christianity, of the Church matter, a matter of importance above The suffering of Ukraine goes on to this day, as it is still an oppressed all for the ecumenical dialogue nation where its people are persecuted for their beliefs. Shevchenko in the broad sense of the word: not only in the history of the Orthodox between the Catholic Church and the understood Ukrainians like no one ever has, or ever will... In his prophetic Church, but of the universal Church. Orthodox Church. Of course Eastern vision he believed that it would resurrect again one day. For some time we have been Catholic Churches exist in various making efforts and giving signs of countries in the East, especially in the our spiritual and moral participation Near East. These Churches became in this great event. The Catholic united with Rome over the centuries. Church is preparing to participate in The problem must be discussed in the this providential event. We recognize truth between the two parties in the significance of baptism in general ecumenical dialogue, between the as a sacrament, and the significance Catholic Church and the Panortho- of the baptism of a people, no, of dox — this has already been fore­ more than one people, because many seen. peoples have come forth from this I have sought, then, to explain the baptism of Kiev in the year 988. So true situation and to respond to your here there is great cause for joy, and question. In the answer I have tried we are doing all we can to express our both to respond to your precise spiritual participation, our Christian question and to underscore all the and ecumenical solidarity, with circumstances which must be known regard to the celebration of this and recognized. 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NEWS AND VIEWS Ukrainian Spectrum at u. of M. The bandura ІП ... Venezuela by Ksenia Kozak Krawchuk spoke about the Ukrainian by Mykola Czorny Over 40 years later, I had the oppor­ Catholic Church during World War II. tunity to meet one of the few remaining As the audience applauded the closing It was obvious that each of the speaker's Where hasn't the bandura been? Its individuals who had performed with play of the Avant-Garde Ukrainian lectures complemented each other. melodic voice was heard at Zaporizh- Mr. Misevych just prior to World War Theatre group's performance, my feel­ Each being aware of the others' topics zhia, the Ukrainian Kozak stronghold, II in western Ukraine. He visited me at ings were a mixture of accomplishment and areas of expertise, the speakers where it inspired the brave Ukrainian the Mineral Spa in Las Trincheras and relief. The performance marked the provided the conference with conti­ men to victory in battle. It was heard in (about 150 kilometers southeast of end of the second annual Ukrainian nuity. When Ihor Fedorowycz com­ the Crimea and even in Turkey, where Caracas), Venezuela, where he shared Spectrum, a symposium of Ukrainian pleted his lecture on religious persecu­ imprisoned Ukrainian Kozaks lived for with me personal accounts of his expe­ history and culture, sponsored by the tion in the Ukraine in violation of one dream: to once again hear the riences with Mr. Misevych, who re­ Ukrainian Students Association at the international law, it seemed as if all the sounds of their Ukraine, of their be­ mains one of the greatest modern University of Michigan. most important chapters in the history loved bandura. Ukrainian bandurists. He sang songs As the president of this group, I was of the Ukrainian Church in the 20th Indeed, every page of Ukrainian from the repertoire he had performed involved in every aspect of organizing century had been covered. It was as history bears the legacy of the bandura, with Mr. Misevych, and other bandura the conference and therefore 1 saw how though, over the two weeks, we had even modern Ukrainian history. For it masters, such as Zinovyi Shtokalko, much planning, hard work and hectic been told an entire story, from be­ was the bandura which, once again, Maliutsa, Hanishevskyi, Yurkevych running around it really involved. So ginning to end. raised the spirits of the Ukrainian and others. many people contributed to its success. In addition to the speakers, the Insurgent Army (UPA) which fought At times they performed as an en­ With this article I hope to acknowledge conference included three plays by the both the Nazis and the Soviets in World semble; other times as a trio. They all the efforts and thank everyone who Avant-Garde Ukrainian Theatre from War II. Wherever the insurgents went, toured many cities in western Ukraine helped us. Toronto. The talent of this young group their bandura, along with their indomi- and performed on the radio and even in Thinking back, I remember how we entertained the audience, and made nable Ukrainian spirit, was always with the Lviv Opera House. With great pride began planning this year's Ukrainian them think. Their performance added a them. and emotion. Prof. Fedir Yakymets' Spectrum in July, having learned from unique dimension to the conference. The Nazi occupiers of Ukraine, as told of his performances with Messrs. last year's conference that starting in Although not beyond the organiza­ their Bolshevik predecessors did, began Misevych and Shtokalko, Only history, September was not soon enough. We tional capabilities of the Ukrainian executing Ukrainian bandurists be­ perhaps, but their living musical heri­ first sent out letters inviting speakers Students Association, such a large cause they were the true guardians of tage lives on in the memory of Ukrai­ whose field of specialization was Ukrai­ program was certainly beyond our the Ukrainian national identity. nian national culture. nian Christianity in 20th century U" financial capacity. The various Univer­ The Germans made it clear that they As I listened to his recollections, I kraine. We were delighted by the many sity departments: the Center for Rus­ would not tolerate any resurrection of came to realize that in Venezuela, where positive responses and enthusiasm of sian and East European Studies, the the Ukrainian national spirit. In one there are relatively few Ukrainians, the speakers. I want to thank each of Slavic Department and the Ukrainian particular battle, when the Germans there is a talented bandurist who could these speakers. Each one of them Studies Committee as well as the Ukrai­ managed to capture an UPA unit, one easily popularize the Ukrainian ban­ provided such a wealth of information nian community and the U. of M. of its members happened to be Kost dura, and along with it, Ukrainian and enriched our conference with their Student Government responded enthu­ Misevych, a bandura virtuoso. Before culture. presence. siastically to our needs and provided the his execution he was ordered by the We seem to have forgotten about Jars Balan began the conference with financial support. I would like to say a Germans to give one last performance. Venezuela. Very few tours stop there two lectures: one on Ukrainian Chris­ very special thank you to all those who Afterwards, they smashed the instru­ and the country even seems to be tianity, the other on the very unique contributed so generously. We could ment and, as if that wasn't enough, the neglected by our community and topic of Ukrainian visual poetry. As the not have done it without you. Nazis located his native village and Church leaders. Even worse, there is not week continued Dr. John Paul Himka I would also like to thank all the destroyed that also. even one Ukrainian newspaper; pub­ discussed why Stalin outlawed the participants of, the conference who by The bandura is perhaps the one lished there. Ukrainian Catholic Church and Andrii their attendance made the conference instrument for which people have been At the Mineral Spa's hotel. Prof. an obvious success. This success has persecuted. Ultimately, however, U- Yakymets played the bandura for me. Ksenia Kozak is president of the encouragei js and given us the inspira­ kraine's oppressors were unable to At first his only audience was the five Ukrainian Students Association at the tion to continue our work at the Univer­ break the will of the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians in our group. Quickly, University of Michigan. sity of Michigan. however, many of the Spa's guests Mykola Czorny, administrator of the gathered around us, listening to Mr. New York School of Bandura, has been Yakymets' splendid performance which the prime mover behind efforts to blended beautifully with the lush, How about a video record of Millennium? popularize the bandura in South soothing environment of Las Trin­ by Peter Dudycz take place in different cities in comme­ America. cheras. moration of 1,000 years of Christianity We all pride ourselves as being the in Ukraine. sons and daughters of the Ukrainian My one question is: Will our children TUSM's reaction to Virsky troupe Kozaks, that unusual band of warriors and their children be able to see, hear who during their time in Ukrainian and reflect on the important events that by Kateryna Podoliak table as long as the Ukrainian nation history tried to gain independence for will occur in 1988? Will the American continues to be persecuted and Russi­ Ukraine from outside domination. public be able to see, hear and under­ On January 12, the Ukrainian State fied on its own territory by a foreign We all constantly hear from our civic, stand who Ukrainians are and why they Dance Ensemble, named after its artis­ government and people. religious and institutional leaders about did not celebrate 1,000 years of Chris­ tic mentor Pavel Virsky, began a two- tianity in their homeland? On opening night, and throughout how important it is to preserve our week nightly engagement at New York's the two-week period, TUSM members language, our heritage our faith and our In September of 1987 USA Today Mark Hellinger Theater on Broadway. could be found outside of the theater national identity. published an insert headlined "Ukrai­ Their bright costumes and high-flying handing out neatly printed leaflets ^^Many of us attend lectures on Ukrai­ nian Catholics celebrate 1,000 years as steps were guaranteed to draw large titled "Dancebill" with an official nian subjects by Ukrainian speakers. Christians, 988-1988." This article audiences, especially after several weeks photograph of the Virsky dancers We show up at different demonstra­ helped bring to light the plight of of pre-performance television advertis­ beneath. The text of the leaflet objec­ tions for the Ukrainian cause, as well as Ukrainians and their wish to practice ing. tively explained the audience the prob­ human rights in Ukraine and the Soviet their Christian faith without the domi­ Keeping this in mind, the Ukrainian lems of cultural exchange with a Union, nance of outside countries. It brought Student Association of Mykola Mich- system that persecutes its non-Russian But to what avail? What I mean is this to the attention of the: American nowsky (TUSM) formulated plans as to nationalities: Ukrainians, Baits, Jews, that many of the events that have taken public in a way that we all know was how to approach this instance of U.S.- etc. place and that will take place in the positive and enlightening. USSR "cultural exchange," Five thousand of these leaflets were future will do so without video docu­ The result of this public relations handed out and all but a few individuals mentation. program could be seen in remarks by TUSM, of course, does not support warmly received the "Dancebill." Many It's great to hear that the Millennium Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan of New York the program of cultural exchange with in the audience could be seen reading committee is working on several vo­ who, during the ABC-TV program the Soviets Union, especially when the TUSM leaflet during intermission. lumes of books to be published on "Capital to Capital," asked the Soviets Soviet Ukrainian performers and artists Very few of the "Dancebills" were Ukraine and its people. on live television — heard by milhons of are involved, because such programs discarded. Clearly, the "Dancebill" Soviets citizens — "Why doesn't the are geared entirely towards depicting approach was highly effective. It is also nice to know that many Soviet government let the Ukrainian the Soviet occupation of Ukraine in an Ukrainians will be going to either Rome Catholic Church exist and let its faith­ entirely positive manner. Logically, On January 21, TUSM members or the Holy Land to celebrate the ful practice their faith?" This question TUSM argues, this propagandistic were waiting at the stage door for the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine was asked by Sen. Moynihan several misuse of artistic expression is unaccep- Virsky dancers to emerge after their in 1988. times. performance. It was there that they were Across America many events will Kateryna Podoliak, a member of the given small bouquets of blue and yellow We need a commemorative film New York TUSM branch, is a student flowers, symbolic of Ukraine's national Peter Dudycz is an active member of about the celebration of Christianity in majoring in accounting at Pace Univer­ colors. The bouquets were readily Chicago's Ukrainian community and a Ukraine. Unfortunately no one has up sity. She is originally from Akron, accepted to many of the dancers, who videophile. (Continued on page 14) Ohio. (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

SPOTLIGHT ON: Avant-Garde Ukrainian Theater's performance by Myrosia Stefaniuk humanity and encourages him to break Stech and Roman Waschuk, this play through the widow's controlled exterior was directed by Marko Stech with the "Theatre is undergoing a crisis — not to obtain a true portrait of the man. ongoing drama enhanced by Adrian because there are no dramas to perform She scorns and condemns the superfi­ Ivakhiv's music. — but because no one knows how to ciality and falsehood of those in power Mr. Mrozek has an acute mastery of stage them. But the theatre will sur­ (in this case, editors, but the concept is drama used to evoke man's anguish in a vive... Every thing has already been obviously expanded to anyone who contemporary society where the artist tried: naturalism, symbolism, futurism, clutches absolute power). Kytska's and individual are subjugated to ideo­ expressionism, dadism, intellectualism, description of the hero she loved is that logical censorship. One of the principal romanticism, and the like. It has even of a man "who yearned for ideals which Polish avant-garde dramatists in the survived — totalitarianism," could spring from dissimilarities in late 1950s, like his contemporaries, Mr. These lines,spoken by Marko Stech at mankind...for the individual that would Mrozek used absurd images and allego­ the opening of "It Happened in the be free, independent and mature enough rical construction to communicate Course of 8 Minutes" by Ihor Kostetsky, to cooperate with the Creator of the views on man and the totalitarian state were taken directly from the Prologue universe." While everyone around him without arousing the wrath of the of one of Mr. Kostetsky's plays. Not espoused "oneness and unity," our censor. only theatre, but how humanity sur­ national hero sought uniqueness not The leading motifs in "Out of Sea" vives totalitarianism is the underlying only in individuals, but in nations. are illusion, power and their victims. theme of all three plays staged by When Kostych humbly describes Starting from absurd premises in which Toronto's Avant-Garde Ukrainian himself as a typical, ordinary person, three men, BIG, MEDIUM and Theatre in Detroit last January. Kytska argues convincingly that it is not SMALL (Roman Waschuk, Ihor Stech According to the program notes, "8 so — "...an average person is notable to and Zenon Waschuk) find themselves Minutes," directed by Roman Hurko, say 'I am ordinary.' You have some­ shipwrecked on a raft in the middle of Andrij Pereklita and Mr. Stech, repre­ thing unique...in your heart, you are an ocean somewhere, this one-act play sents the first part of a traditional courageous and extraordinary. You develops a single action to its logical Mystery play, namely the Birth (the need only to develop that..." conclusion. other two parts being the Passion and Nykodyma, the widow (significant Hungry and doomed, the men decide Resurrection). What is depicted here, choice of name) was portrayed by that two of them must eat the third. however, is not Christ's birth, but that Oksana Maryniak with just the right Given their respective sizes and status in of a man who uncovers the vision of a amount of cool control over an under­ society, it is immediately clear who the life in which he can attain total freedom lying feminine sensuality. In an intimi­ victim will be. They "wish to make the and his own unique countenance. dating encounter with her, Kostych choice as civilized men" and hold Mr. Kostetsky's drama touches on a discusses the attributes of a "true political rallies, conduct an election wide amplitude of themes and varia­ newsman" or, in fact, any man "who is a campaign and invent slogans. But no tions, ranging from patriotic pathos to neutral backdrop, like black velvet. matter what is said, SMALL's small- universal humanism. "The playwright No, better yet, grey velvet on which the ness condemns him. suggests," continued Mr. Stech," that contour of life is sculptured." During Eat or be eaten: saving one's own skin the course of their conversation, Ny- Marko Stech gives fmui directions for this play be performed with what is left means devouring someone else. En- Kostetsky's ",..8 Minutes." when all 'isms' are cast aside. That is, by kodyma^recognizes Kostych's intrinsic (Continued on page 15) means of pure theatre: put up the stage worth, and asks him to wait. She will curtain, cover the face with make-up, return, in 8 minutes at the most. and perform." Kostych and the audience wait, as the And perform they did. In this drama­ clock strikes out 8 minutes, one by one. tic slice of life, Mr. Kostetsky unmasks a Although it is not perfectly clear in the crossection of our society: action, here Kostetsky uses the interim The head honcho editor, played by as a very effective theatrical device which Ihor Stech with appropriate egotistical he explains only in his director's com­ pomposity, belongs to that breed which ments: "At first, this signifies the loss of spouts about democratic ideals but, self-control, then a variation of despair even in his own editorial domain, and simultaneously, an attitude of establishes an absolute regime. 'somehow it will all turn out..." Andrij Wynnyckyj was brilliantly When she returns, Nykodyma is cast in the role of the timid, irresolute transformed. She is free, uninhibited, Kostych, a reporter on the lowest rung her hair loose and flowing, as she invites of the bureaucratic pecking order, who Kostych to "come, dance with me." In is assigned an interview with the widow her transformation, she is not alone. of a dead national hero and must write Taking the lead, Kostych, too, reveals "an intimate portrait" of this public his inner strength and a new poise and idol, within the confines dictated by his confidence. editor. Moving on from this telephoto focus Motria Onysczuk made an impres­ on the individual to a wider-angle lens sionable debut with AUT in the role of which provides an image of a micro- the fiery Kytska, sister-in-law of the society, is Slawomir Mrozek's "Out at Directors Roman Hurko and Andrij Pereklita follow the action carefully. dead hero, who recognizes Kostych's Sea." Translated from Polish by Ihor

MEDIUxM and SMALL hold political rally in "Out at Sea/' Marko Stech and Zenon Waschuk in ""Out at Sea/' No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6. 1988

Artist creates contemporary images for Shevchenko's verse

Artist Opanas Ivanovych Zalyvakha, whose Regional Party Committee (for the ''decadent author. Isn 't such trumped-up evidence a sufficient­ illustrations to Tar as Shevchenko 's poetry are mood" of his paintings). ly clear expression of the long ears and ugly face of featured on this page, currently resides in the IvanO' According to ''The Chornovil Papers," Mr. that great power, chauvinism? Over the centuries, Frankivske oblast in western Ukraine, where he Zalyvakha did not exhibit his works very often. In the oppressors tried in vain to destroy the Ukrai­ continues to create art works in various media, most instances his works were rejected on "non- nian culture and language; but the people with­ Mr. Zalyvakha's biography is not typical of most artistic grounds. He was one of the creators of the stood the onslaught and they cannot be frightened Ukrainian human, national and cultural rights Shevchenko stained-glass panel at the Kiev now by any repressions, nor by the burning of activists, for, although he was born in Ukraine in the University (1964) which was destroyed on the order libraries, nor by the destruction of the monuments Kharkiv region, in 1925, his family moved to the Far of Boychenko, secretary of the Kiev Regional of Ukrainian culture. East while he was still a child. Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. "The KGB agents wrote in my indictment... 'a Little is known about his childhood and teenage He was arrested at the end of August 1965 in morally unstable person, having fallen under the years: it has been reported that he worked as an Ivano Frankivske, and was sentenced in March influence... etc. etc. But being a Ukrainian con­ ovenmaker and in other similar occupations. He 1966 at a closed court session to five years of severe- scious of his national dignity is not a harmful later studied at the Secondary Art School of the regimen labor camps on charges of "anti-Soviet influence, but the duty of an honest man. To Leningrad Repin State Institute of Painting, agitation and propaganda.'' renounce one's own nationality is humiliating and Sculpture and Architecture of the Academy of the In a declaration Mr. Zalyvakha wrote on his own immoral, the KGB agents who try to compel a man USSR, from which he graduated in I960. behalf while serving time in Yavas, Mordovia, the to renounce his identity are guilty of abusing their It was not until Mr. Zalyvakha was 32 (in 1957) artist stated: power and deserve to be put in the dock." that he actually spent time working in Ukraine. He "Article 11 of the Universal Declaration of moved to Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivske obldst, and here Human Rights reads: 'Everyone charged with a The graphics below, recently received from for the first time he became acquainted with penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent Ukraine, were created to illustrate the Shevchenko Ukraine, its language, ethnography and spiritual until proven guilty according to law in a public trial excerpts which appear with them. life. All this made a radical impact on the artist's at which he has all the guarantees necessary for his Mr. Zalyvakha identifies with Shevchenko, not perception of the world. After he returned to defense.' only as a countryman who suffered persecution, not Leningrad, he read Ukrainian books and learned "I cannot and do not recognize the court verdict only as a man with a deep love for his oppressed the language. to be just if the legal proceedings were conducted people but also as an artist who was able to express By late 1961, Mr. Zalyvakha was back in Ukraine illegally. The fabrication of the accusation is his nation's plight through the beauty of his work, and a member of the Regional Association of demonstrated by the conclusion of the 'scientific' through his depictions of Ukraine's historic spirit. Artists in Ivano'Frankivske; he exhibited his works commission of experts in Lviv that TH Shev­ Today, Mr. Zalyvakha's works can be found in in Ivano'Frankivske in April 1962, but the show chenko 's poem 'Dolya, 'found at my home, was the various collections in the West, as well as in many was closed after several days by order of the anti-Soviet nationalistic work of an unknown dissident homes in Ukraine. THREE PATHWAYS OCII, ГЛАВА XIV HERETIC Воскресни, мамо!' I вернися В світлицю-хату: опочий! Бо ти аж надто вже втомилась, Гріхи синовні несучи. Спочивши, скорбная, скажи, Проріди своїм лукавим чадам, Що пропадуть вони лихі. Що їх безчестіє, ї зрада, І криводушіє - огнем, Кривавим, пламенним мечем Нарізані на людських душах; Що крикне кара невсипуща. Що не спасе їх добрий цар, їх кроткий, п'яний господар. Не дасть їм пить, не дасть їм їсти. Не дасть коня вам охляп сісти Та утікать... Не втечете І не сховаєтеся!

Once three pathways, broad and wide, To Shafaryk Met upon the plain; Into foreign parts, three brothers Evil neighbors burned the dwelling. Set out from Ukraine. It was new and modern, And they left an aged mother, Of a neighbor. Then well warmed. And one left a wife. They lay down in slumber. One a sister, and the youngest But they quite forgot the ashes Left his chosen bride. By the wind were scattered; The old mother planted three On the crossroads lay the ashes. Ash-trees in the meadow, Under them there smoldered And her son's wife planted there A lone spark of that great fire. A poplar tall and slender. Smoldered, did not perish. And the sister planted three Waited kindling, as th' avenger Maples by the valley, Waits for the right season, And a guelder-rose was planted For the hour. So it smoldered. By the young fiancee. Smoldered and it waited But the ash-tree did not root, There upon the traversed crossroads, And the poplar withered, And began to perish. The three maples withered up,' The guelder-rose has wilted. (Translated by Clarence A. Manning) (Translated by Vera Rich) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

Gala reception celebrates success of concert at Lincoln Center NEW YORK - Nearly 400 people - the event in words and pictures. uplifted by the stirring "Religious Several days later, the newspaper Music of Ukraine" concert held at featured an article and four photo­ Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall to graphs from the gala reception. In the commemorate the Millennium of Chris­ article, written by Anne Corcoran, Dr. tianity in Rus'-Ukraine — attended a Zenon Matkiwsky spoke of religious black-tie reception after the program. persecution in Ukraine. The sold-out concert on February 14 Ms. Corcoran wrote: was sponsored by the Mazepa Founda­ "The practice of the Christian faith in tion, a Shorts Hill, NJ.-based non­ Ukraine, where the Ukrainian Ortho­ profit corporation established to pre­ dox Church was forcibly merged into serve and foster Ukrainian arts. It was the Russian Orthodox Church and presented in association with the Na­ where the Catholic Church has been tional Millennium Committee and the outlawed, in some instances takes place Ukrainian National Association. underground, with liturgies and services ' During the S250-per-ticket reception, being held in catacombs, a situation Composer Marian S. Kouzan (left), whose oratorio "The Neophytes" premiered at concert-goers had an opportunity to reminiscent of Christianity under the the "Religious Music of Ukraine" concert at Avery Fisher Hall is seen with Dr. mingle with the performers, while Roman Empire." Zenon Matkiwsky, chairman of the Mazepa Foundation, and his wife, Nadia. sipping Millennium champagne and Dr. Matkiwsky also told the reporter sampling hors d'oeuvres. ' that religious works have been banned The news media was there, too. A by various foreign powers, including the reporter and photographer from The USSR, that have dominated Ukraine Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest news­ throughout its history and that some are paper were on hand to document just now surfacing.

Paul Plishka (third from right) is seen with Christina and Yara Snylyk, Rep. Don Ritter of Pennsylvania, Martha Fedoriw, and Slawka and Roman Osadchuk.

William Noll, conductor of the Choral Guild of Atlanta, with Alex Trebek, host of the TV game show "Jeopardy!," who opened the concert.

Gala committee members: (from left) Lida Bilous, Yara Snylyk, Diana Hynansky, Martha Andriuk, Iwanka Matkiwsky, Nadia Matkiwsky and Martha Fedoriw.

to Vyacheslav Polozov (second from left) and Marian S. Kouzan (right) chat with Nadia Matkiwsky, Roman Osadchuk, Hugette Kouzan, Slawka Osadchuk, Dr. Mary V. Beck Martha Andriuk, Stefanie Hnizdovsky and John Hynansky. on her 80th birthday THE PERFECT GIFT FROM AMERICANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE (AHRU) its Executive Board and the Board of Trustees GOLD TRIDENT 43 Midland Place, Newark, NJ 07106 JEWELRY a WATCHES For her long-standing service to the Ukrainian and American community, AHRU expresses its from appreciation. For her generous gift of S5,000 towards the establishment of a permanent І AHRU office, AHRU offers its thanks. Dr. Beck's gift will be the start of THE AHRU FUND in the ^ EMBLEMS OF THE WORLD name of Ihor Olshaniwsky, late president and founder of AHRU. ^ P.O. Box 2224 Ventnor, NJ. 08406 HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND MANY MORE YEARS! Send for free brochure Cart Toll Free 1800-872-3600. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988

munity maintains contact with her, she and subjects that are restricted, he spends a lot of on-air time discussing added. Ukrainian issues. Airing on the second Monday of each Chicago notes The Rev. Andriy Chirovsky, a Ukrai­ month, the Kiev program identifies and nian CathoUc priest in Chicago, was by Marianna Liss interviews many key and secondary able to bring up, once again, the Ukrai­ players in that city. On every second nian Catholic issue. He talked about Wednesday the host also links up with their large numbers in Ukraine, their Moscow leaders and journalists. And media presentation. underground status and the refusal of there are times when Ms. Gair scoops the AHRU activities A brief synopsis of his accomplish­ authorities to recognize their existence. major press with news from the Soviet ments was read by Alex Konowal, Bozhena Olshaniwsky, president of This increasing Ukrainian conscious­ Union. discussing Bahriany's major novels, ness on Ms. Gair's show seems to have The next program will air March 14, Americans for Human Rights in U- "Tiger Hunters" and "Golden Boome­ kraine (AHRU), met with the Chicago effected Soviet PR, too. Even Sergei from Kiev. rang," his artistic and poetic talents, his Ivanko, a regular on the program (at Ukrainian community at three small satirical pieces and his work as a gatherings, on February 13 and 14, to least once a month) and the first vice- Chornobyl aftermath journalist, founder of ODUM and of chairman of the Soviet Novosti press discuss her recent trip to the unofficial the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democra­ human rights seminar in Moscow spon­ agency in Moscow, now admits he is Other broadcasts have dealt with tic Party (URDP). An accompanying Ukrainian. He also gave credit to the Ukrainian concerns, as well. A CBS sored by Press Club Glasnost, and her slide show, produced by Natalia Kono­ side trip to Kiev. Communist Party Committee in Kiev, affiliate, WBBM-TV, had a special wal, showed a photo collage of the on the February 17 program, of suggest­ She brought greetings from Ukrai­ three-day report on conditions in the author's friends, travels and family. ing to Moscow party leaders that area surrounding the Chornobyl nu­ nians in Kiev to Chicago, and requested elections in the USSR have secret that the community support their Bahriany also wrote for children. His clear power plant. Though rehashing most popular works in that genre, ballots and that office holders only have old news, and Soviet claims that only 3 і countrymen through personal contacts limited terms in power. and with Western literature. Mrs. "Telephone" and "About Storks and people died during the nuclear disaster Olshaniwsky quoted Soviet Ukrainians Pavlyk," were dramatized by ODUM "Midday" is continuing its Kiev- in Ukraine, the news team did interview that she met saying that they do not how youths. Chicago radio bridge. Currently, it is Ihor Gerashchenko, a former Kiev long the Soviet thaw is going to last, and In addition to his work as pamph­ dealing with the INF treaty. Neverthe­ resident who estimates that as many as that they were looking to the Ukrainian leteer, journalist and children's author, less, Dr. James Craycraft, a frequent 15,000 died during a five-month community in the West to assist them. the program portrayed Bahriany as an guest on. the show and a Russian history period. In the interview Mr. Gerash­ accomplished writer with international professor at University of Illinois in chenko, an engineer, told of KGB The local AHRU chapter sponsored recognition. Chicago, often mentions Ukrainians on agents taking the bodies of the radia an informal reception for Mrs. Olsha­ the program and makes sure no one tion-affected victims during the night to niwsky on February 13, at the home of Dmytro and Halyna Hrushetsky dis­ confuses Russians with Ukrainians. be buried in a special location. The Vera Eliashevsky, the chapter presi­ cussed the breadth of the author's Lately, the Soviet journalists from program aired on the local evening news dent, where about 35 people greeted the creativity by analyzing the poem "Even­ Kiev are becoming more sure of them­ on February 4-6. human rights activist. ing" and a short story, "Tempestuous selves and comment on subjects that a On another front, Mrs. Olshaniwsky Wind." few years ago would have landed them also mentioned the need for funds for In a final program offering, Motria in the gulag. the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine and Paul Poszewanyk, an ODUM On the February 8 broadcast, Alexei Famine. And, along with Dr. Myron bandurist duo played two pieces in Gubenko, the Kiev co-host confessed Kuropas, supreme vice-president of the homage to the author. that the Soviet Union has "kept our Ukrainian National Association and a people on a one-sided diet" regarding public member of the commission, she U. of Illinois students things American. appealed to the Ukrainian community Alex Samchuk, an Americanologist in Chicago to help pay the commission's Reviving the Ukrainian Student in the USSR, speaking on the same pro- expense. Much of the extra cost, said Association at the University of Illinois grarn, admitted that Soviet schools and Dr. Kuropas, is due to the expense of at Chicago, students met February 9 society did not always depict Americans translating Ukrainian testimony into and 10 to elect new officers and to plan in an even-handed fashion, but "times English. association activities for the remaining are changing." Still, there are some topics Dr. Kuropas cited recent disinforma­ academic year. Twenty-five students, tion campaigns which are trying to mostly undergraduates, decided to refute the existence of the famine as work on two projects — the commemo­ THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ration of the Millennium of Ukrainian reason to get the commission's work ANNOUNCES completed and not to let it die for lack of Christianity and organizing an ethnic money. day on campus. After Mrs. Olshaniwsky's brief ap­ Lubomyr Domashevsky was elected peal to the Ukrainian Orthodox com­ president, with Bohdan Kukuruza as SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS munity at St. Volodymyr Cathedral, a vice-president and Borys Bodnaruk as temporary committee was formed to or­ FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1988-89 the secretary. Dr. Bohdan Rubchak The scholarships are available to students at an accredited college or university, ganize a fund-raising campaign in Chi­ functions as the faculty advisor. cago for the famine commission. In­ WHO HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR AT tending the push to be an all-commu­ Asked why there was a resurgence of LEAST TWO YEARS.^ Applicants are judged on the basis of financial need, scholastic nity effort, with representatives from all interest in the club, Mr. Kukuruza a record and involvement in Ukrainian community and student life. segments of Ukrainian life in the city, graduate teaching assistant at the Applications are to be submitted no later than APRIL 1, 1988. the committee was to meet at St. Slavic/Baltic Department at U. of I. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Ca­ attributed it to various causes — the For application form write to: thedral on Wednesday, February 24, to Millennium, the Virsky dance troupe Ukrainian National Association, inc. plan the fund drive. Dr. Vasyl Truchlyj, from Ukraine, and the students' in­ 30 Montgomery Street " Jersey City, NJ. 07302 Alex Poszewanyk and Halyna Hrushet- terest. sky made up the initiating group. Mostly, though, he credited the recent spate of disinformation, intend­ Bahriany anniversary ed or unconscious, as goading the ^ students into action. He specifically ODUM (Organization of Democra­ mentioned the program guide to the tic Ukrainian Youth), a Ukrainian Virsky troupe concert, where itSNauthor youth organization, commemorated the made it sound as if Ukraine and Russia GET YOUR INSURANCE 80th anniversary year of the birth of its were synonymous. founder, the late author Ivan Bahriany. "Our goal is to inform the public LICENSE NOW! Opening the program at St. Volo­ about Ukrainian issues," he said. "The dymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Church association wants university students Begin today on your career as a hall on February 14, was a small and faculty members to be aware of UNA Professional Insurance Consultant Ukrainian culture and history." women's ensemble singing the "ODUM Licensing classes will begin on March 15, 1988 March" whose lyrics were written by Meetings will be held once every two and continue every Tuesday to April 19, 1988, Bahriany. weeks. For further information stu­ In a short prologue to the main dents may call Prof. Rubchak at (312) at 7:00 p.m. program, Alex Poszewanyk, the head of 996-4412. at the the central committee of ODUM, talked UNA HOME OFFICE about Bahriany's work as the editor of the Ukrainian News, a newspaper now Ukraine on radio 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. published out of Detroit. Currently In Chicago media there is more and Part-time and full-time agents needed, ACT NOW seeking to acquire a personal computer more mention of Eastern Europe, the Call: (201) 4512200 to facilitate the paper's publishing, Mr. Soviet Union and Ukraine, but "Mid­ Poszewanyk requested contributions day" at noon on WBEZ-FM radio has ask for Nicholas T. Boyko, FIC-CLU for the computer fund. something almost every week about (course approved or suggested for: WJ., Pa,, Dei, Md,) In the rest of the program, ODUM Ukraine. Because Sondra Gair, its host, members analyzed the importance of visited the Soviet Union and Ukraine, .' Вйгіапу^ life and'work^m^^a; 'itiulti-'^" and since the Chicago Ukrainian com­ ^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

ing, consisting of senior personnel from devoted a further page to the Ukrai­ Culturological Club in their letters Ukrainian Culturological... the Ukrainian SSR Institutes of Litera­ nian Cuhurological Club and the con­ were: V. M. Kucher, who described (Continued from page 2) ture, State and Law, History and troversy surrounding it. The newspaper himself as an associate of the Ukrai­ died in a Soviet labor camp in Septem­ Philosophy; the Institute of Party announced that by December 1 it had nian SSR Academy of Sciences; O. ber 1985. Other themes that had evi­ History attached to the Central Com­ received 172 letters on the subject, of Shyroka, an archeologist; and Stanislav dently been raised were: the man-made mittee of the Ukrainian Communist which 107 were critical of the club's Telniuk, a member of the Ukrainian famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, the Stalin Party; and the Ukrainian Komsomol. activities and 65 in favor of them. This Writers' Union. It was the latter who terror and its consequences for Ukraine, According to the newspaper's ac­ time, the editors published a long received the most attention from the the fire in suspicious circumstances at count, the four representatives of the article, taking up over half a page, in newspaper's editors. the library of the Ukrainian SSR Ukrainian Culturological Club — which they discussed the Ukrainian What they took exception to was Mr. Academy Sciences in 1964, and the Serhiy Naboka, Leonid Milyavsky, Culturological Club and the contents of Telniuk's insistence that he saw nothing Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Oles Shevchenko, and V. Halynovsky some of the letters they had received. In "illegal or anti-Soviet" in some of the The editors of Vechirnyi Kiev also — were not prepared to participate in a addition, they published four letters and supposed "sins" allegedly committed by reported that, since the appearance of discussion. After making their demand extracts from two others. Three of these members of the Ukrainian Culturologi­ Mr. ShvetsV article, they had held an that Vechirnyi Kiev publish their reply defended the Ukrainian Culturological cal Club. Mr. Telniuk had argued that "unsuccessful" meeting with represen­ to Shvets' article, they "got up and Club. What was even more remarkable there was nothing reprehensible about tatives of the Ukrainian Culturological demonstratively walked out." was the fact that one of the authors was attempting to analyze the "tragedy of Club. In order to ensure that the the former political prisoner and 1933," for "this tragedy had indeed discussion would be "constructive," the Controversy gets another airing founding member of the Ukrainian taken place." newspaper's editors had invited a high- Helsinki Monitoring Group — Oksana He had pointed out that there was no powered group of "experts" to the meet­ On December 2,1987, Vechirnyi Kiev Meshko. shortage of those who today were angered by the appearance of bold articles Letter from Oksana Meshko ADMINISTRATIVE/ACTIVITIES MANAGER and novels dealing with the Stalin era St. Volodymyr's Cultural Centre Inc. is looking for an Ms. Meshko, a valiant octogenarian and by "discussion of 1933, 1937, 1947 or 1949." It was such people, he stressed, ADMINISTRATIVE/ACTIVITIES MANAGER who spent the first half of the 1980s for the newly constructed Cultural Centre located near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. serving a five year-term of "internal" who longed for the old ways and who, Applicant must be bilingual, English and Ukrainian, and must have at least a diplo­ exile in the remote Soviet Far East for instance, saw something anti-Soviet ma in business administration. Additionally, several years' experience in banquet facili­ because of her human-rights and na­ about wanting to discuss Hrushevsky. ties management and co-ordination of cultural/community activities would be ad­ The editors countered by saying that vantageous. tional-rights activities, wrote that she found Mr. Shvets' article "offensive." there was indeed nothing wrong with This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys dealing with people. Salary people attempting to discuss "the commensurate with academic background and experience. She accused him of deliberately distort­ Please rush resumes to: ing the aims of the club and seeking to famine of 1933" or what had gone on SELECTION COMMITTEE, ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACTIVITIES MANAGER portray the unofficial association as during "the period of the cult of perso­ P.O. Box 104, Station "U", Toronto, Ontario, Canada M8Z 5M4 "virtually an illegal organization." nality," for these themes "have already Ms. Meshko claimed that in fact the appeared in our [i.e., Sovietj publica­ club had been registered with the tions." Rather, the question was: "How and EASTER GREETINGS authorities in the Podol District, but the newspaper's editors challenged this, in what context and with what aim all this was being raised, and from which in SVOBODA and THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY adding parenthetically that the registra­ tion had not actually been completed. sources information for sudi discus­ The Administration of Svoboda is pleased to announce that it is now accepting The veteran activist concluded by sions was being obtained." Шґе, the declaring that the "cause" to which the newspaper stuck to its initial line. It club had dedicated itself was "beneficial repeated the charge that the leaders of EASTER GREETINGS for 1988 and necessary" and that familiarity with the Ukrainian Culturological Club were deliberately focusing only on all the What better way to reach your family and friends than by placing an EASTER GREETING in one the club's program would bear this out. "negative" moments in Soviet Ukrai­ or both of our newspapers. Prices are as follows: Among the dozen or so people who nian history and basing their views 1 inch by 1 column ) 7.00 ' were named by Vechirnyi Kiev as largely on "hostile" Western radio 1 Inch by 2 columns 10.00 having taken the side of the Ukrainian broadcasts. 2 inches by 2 columns 20.00 3 inches by 2 columns 30.00 HVCVLKA Icon A Souvenir's Distribution Of course, there was a famine 4 inches by 2 columns 40.00 2860 Buhre Ave. ^2R 5 inches by 2 columns 50.00 i Bronx. NY. 10461 To substantiate this accusation, this '^'^^ and so on ^"^^ Tet: (212) 931-1579 after 6 p.m. newspaper came out with a comment Ш Rtpresentative and wftolffsaier of embroidered Greetings are being accepted through: that only a few months earlier would blouses for adults and children have been unthinkable: MARCH 18, 1988 (for Easter issue according to the new calendar) "No one denies or has a right to deny UKRAINIAN SINGLES such obvious historical facts as the MARCH 25, 1988 (for Easter issue according to the old calendar) NEWSLETTER famine in Ukraine in the 1930s." To place your EASTER GREETING, simply send the text along with a check or money order Serving Ukrainian singles of all ages By way of an implicit explanation of (US dollars) in the appropriate amount to: throughout the United States and Canada. why this subject had in effect been taboo For information send a self-addressed until recently, the newspaper added: SVOBODA stamped envelope to: "No one will also deny the low level of 30 Montgomery Street m Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Single Ukrainians scholarly research into such 'blank P.O. Box 24733, Phila., Pa. 19111 spots' in history because of the period of stagnation Ci.e., the now discredited Brezhnev yearsj." NEW RELEASE! JUST The point that the newspaper sought to make was that when members of the The long-awaited second volume of Ukrainian Culturological Club discuss­ ed the famine, they only repeated "conclusions known to us from broad­ casts by hostile radio voices: if there was ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UKRAINE a famine, it was necessarily'man-made'; if its consequences were tragic, it was G-K genocide for certain." IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE HURYN MEMORIALS Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ Managing editor Danylo Husar-Struk TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA of New York Including Holy Spirit in This is the second of a five-volume work of Ukrainian scholarship in the diaspora; Himptonburgh, NY., St. Andrew's in South Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in the last three volumes are scheduled to be released by 1992. Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery Prjice: S125, includes shipping and handling. in Glen Spey, New York. We offer personal service S, guidance in your University of Toronto Press, ТогбШо, Buffalo, London, 1988, published for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the home. For a bilingual representatives sail: Shevchenko Scientific Society (Sarcelles, France) and Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian Studies, pp. 737. IWAN HURYN P.O. Box 121 Edition is richly illustrated with many color plates, black- and white pictures, and maps. Hamptonburgh, NY. 10916 SVOBODA BOOK STORE Tel.: (914) 427 2684 BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ. 07302 . . ..Ji^JEastJSh Street New Jersey residents add б^ь sales tax ' New York. NY: 10003 " Tel.: (212) 477-6523 No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988

New unofficial... nian and Donbas press on the situation 1980s. From 1971 to 1976, Mr. Hna­ of the Ukrainian language in these Activist widow... tenko was one of several artists who (Continued from page 1) regions, according to the London-based (Continued from page 2) worked on the restoration of the As­ information service. sumption Church in Lviv. His life's by Ihor Kalynets; a selection of poetry Another section of Kaphedra, "Lite­ In 1972 Mrs. Hnatenko's name was work approaches 300 canvases, in­ by Stepan Sapeliak from Kharkiv; Mr. rary Apocrypha," acquaints the reader mentioned numerous times in the So­ cluding oils, watercolors, chalk and Osadchy's "Intermezzo" and "Aureola"; with "Chukhrayintsi," a satirical work viet Ukrainian press in connection with Vasyl Barladianu's story "Mykola's pencil drawings, monotypes, pastels by Ostap Vyshnia, a Ukrainian humo­ the arrest of Dobosh, a tourist of and other media. Son"; as well as an excerpt from Ukrainian background from Belgium, rist and writer, written some 60t years Mrs. Hnatenko worked for years in Mykhailo Horyn's reminiscences about ago. for contacts he made with Ukrainian the late Yuriy Lytvyn, the Ukrainian dissidents during a visit to Ukraine. His the Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art as a Kaphedra is illustrated with photo­ junior art scholar, while helping her Helsinki Group founding member who graphs of paintings and drawings of testimony was later used in the trials of dkd in Perm Camp 36-1 in 1984. several Ukrainian activists. husband catalogue his works. Opanas Zalyvakha, featuring a con­ The scholar has apparently been The issue also features an article densed review of the artist's works, as Although neither completed their offered employment at The Ukrainian titled, ''The Mind," by Vyacheslav well as photos and autographs of the studies nor received a degree, both the Museum in New York and therefore Chornovil about genuine commentary contributing authors. The photographs late Mr. Hnatenko and his spouse plans to settle with her son, Nazar, and and commentary written to the taste of were reportedly taken by Zinoviy Kra- successfully pursued their creative and mother in the New York metropolitan the authorities from his book, "Lite­ sivsky, a poet and former political scholarly work during the 1970s and агеа„ rary Study Behind Barbed Wire," prisoner. written in Yakutsk in 1983. A fourth unofficial journal, the PERTH AWIBOY, NEW JERSEY-DISTRICT COMMITTEE The. journal also contains selected Christian Voice, has recently appeared works of several authors who joined in Lviv, according to the New York- UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION UANTI after it was founded. Atena based External Representation of the announces that Pashko's "Cranberry Rubies," a collec­ Ukrainian Helsinki Group. tion of lyrical poetry; Bohdan Horyn's Edited by Ivan Неї, head of the reminiscences about his meeting with the Committee for the Defense of the ANNUAL DISTRICT late Vasyl Symonenko, Ukrainian poet Rights of Believers and the Church in of the early 1960s; Valentyn Stetsiuk's Ukraine, the journal will reportedly COMMITTEE MEETING impressions of the new almanac Yev- focus on the movement for religious shan-Zillia; and the short stories of rights in Ukraine. Vasyl Rozlutsky, a new literary figure in Mr. Неї has reportedly replaced on Sunday, March 13, 1988 at 2:00 p.m. Ukraine; all appear in the first issue of Yosyp Terelia, who emigrated to Ca­ at the Church Hall, Aita Vista Place, Perth Amboy, N J. Kaphedra. nada last year, as a lay leader in the Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Under a separate heading, "Ukraine outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church, Convention Delegates and two (2) delegates from the following Branches: in defense of the exaltation of its ancient currently seeking legalization in time 26, 104, 155, 168, 209, Й94, 312, 332, 342, 349, 353, 372 national language," the reader will also for celebrations of the Millennium of find a review of the local central Ukrai- Christianity in Kievan-Rus\ All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. AGENDA: 1. Opening 2. Election of presidium СОЮЗіеКА ш SOYUZIVKA 3. Minutes of preceding meeting 4. Reports of District Committee Officers /Л І ear Kound l^ejort 5. Discussion on reports and acceptance 6. Election of District Committee Officers SOYUZIVKA TAKES A VACATION! 7. Address of UNA Supreme President, JOHN 0. FLIS 8. Adoption of District Program for the current year DUE TO EMPLOyEES HOLIDAYS, 9. Questions and answers THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ESTATE 10. Adjournment WILL BE CLOSED Meeting will be attended by: FROM MARCH 1 - APRIL 1, 1988 John 0. Flls, Supreme President SEE YOU IN APRIL Michael Zacharko, pres. - Sofia Lonyshyn, seer. - John Babyn, treas.

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or can bear the expense. It will be a cities that later can be put together in a TUSM's reaction... How obouf... short-lived experience for the rest of us. composite film. Expenses (which would I (Continued from page 7) It's also unfortunate that the various be minimal) would be incurred by the (Continued from page 7) to now come up with an idea or with the civic, religious as well as fraternal various sponsors (civic, religious etc.) often would respond with a wink of the willingness to make such a movie. This organizations have not up to now made who could set up a fund for such a eye or a soft "diakuyu" (thank you). movie would let the American public as provisions for such a movie. Also, it movie. Some dancers did not accept the known who Ukrainians are and why should be noted there has been no We need to act now. It is vital that the flowers. they are celebrating the Millennium of mention in any newspaper publications events of the celebration of Christianity On January 22, Ukrainian Indepen­ Christianity of their homeland. This about any such movie by the Millen­ in Ukraine that will take place in the dence Day, many members of New would also preserve for generations the nium committee. U.S., Canada and the world will not go York's Ukrainian community attended pride that we all possess in our heritage What is needed is to have all the undocumented. the performance. All in the audience as Ukrainian Americans, as Christians. media (Ukrainian) provide contacts Anyone interested in helping to join heartily responded to the dance num­ It's great to participate in events in with people in all the cities in the U.S., in such a venture can contact me: Peter bers with loud applause and cheers. Rome or the Holy Land this уеаг,ТГт Canada and the world. Those of us with Dudycz, 5543 S. Washtenaw, Chicago However, one number, a Russian dance, this is for the very few who are able to go video cameras can record events in our 111. 60629. was met with loud jeers. There was a definite decrease in the amount of applause heard in the theater. Many of the dancers' faces registered the au­ dience's vocal disapproval. KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. There may be those who disagree 157 Second Avenue, New York, N, Y. 10003 with such a response, but after all, why should we, as Ukrainians in the dias­ (212)254-8779 pora, well aware of the persecution of Eitabliiked 1920 Vtra Kowbssniuk-Shumeyko. Fresldent our homeland by the Soviet Russian government and people, readily support manifestations of the Russian culture? 1988 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS To do so only lends symbolic approval to their continued policy of the Russifi- cation of Ukrainian culture and na­ May 2 S1599.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Budapest tional life. BERIZKA Lufthansa Single Suppl. S175.00 Mutual cultural and national respect 11 Days can only be initiated by the Russian nation, since they are the occupiers of May 10 S2298.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Kiev/Kaniv - Lufthansa Ternopil - Budapest Ukraine. Until that time, if it ever does RUTAI 17 Days Single Suppl. J350.00 come about, Ukrainians must be ada­ mant that they will not accept any May 31 S1955.00 intrusions upon their national culture. Swissair Budapest - Lviv - Ternopil - Budapest Anyway, weren't these Ukrainian dan­ MARICHKA I 15 Days Single SuppL S275.00 cers? Throughout the second half of the S2025.00 program, a large Ukrainian national June 9 Lufthansa Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Ternopil Budapest Single Suppl. S280.00 flag was hung from the edge of the TREMBiTA I 15 Days balcony by TUSM members. Even in the presence of the bright stage lights, June 9 S2075.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Chernivtsi - Budapest the dancers could not miss seeing the Lufthansa Single Suppl. S280.00 flag. Highly appropriately, at the end of TREMBITA il 15 Days the program, with the dancers still on stage, the audience began singing the S2550.00 Prague - Uzhorod - Lviv Yalta - Kiev June 23 Lufthansa Single Suppl. S375.00 Ukrainian national anthem, while our YAVIR 18 Days national flag was held in the air. Once again, many of the dancers'expressions told of their true feelings; this time, July 6 S2300.00 Budapest - Lviv - Kiev/Kaniv -- Ternopil - Budapest Lufthansa Single Suppl. (350.(Ю however, many of them appeared extre­ RUTA II 17 Days mely proud to hear us singing the national anthem while they looked approvingly at our - and their - July 17 S2719.00 Budapest - Uzhorod - Lviv - Odessa - Zaporizhia - Poltava - Kiev Lufthansa Single SuppL S425.00 national flag. HOPAK 22 Days Outside of the theater, by the stage door, a large group gathered to greet the July 26 S2999.00 Moscow - Lviv - Kiev - Erevan - Sochi - Samarkand - dancers as they left the theater. With the Lufthansa Tashkent - Moscow national flag raised high, we sang CARAVAN 20 Days Single SuppL S345.00 patriotic songs such as "Ne Pora" (Tis Not the Time) and Christmas carols. S2775.00 Moscow - LVIV - Yalta - Kiev/Kaniv - Leningrad/Petrodvorets The dancers and their KGB escorts were August 2 Finnair Single SuppL S450.00 ZIRKA 20 Days met with song and cries of "Volia Ukraini" (Freedom for Ukraine) and ''Slava Ukraini" and (Glory to U- August 16 S1999.00 Budapest - Lviv - Ternopil - Budapest kraine). Once again, many dancers Swissair Single Suppl. S272.00 MARICHKA II 15 Days winked at us (with their heads turned away from their guards, of course); the KGB officers did not appear to be very September 19 51725.00 Lufthansa Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Uzhorod - Budapest happy with our performance. Single Suppl. S240.00 MINI-TOUR 13 Days All in all, TUSM's approach to the Virsky performances was highly suc­ cessful. Perhaps the most important October 6 Si 999.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Kiev - Budapest Lufthansa Single Suppl. S200.00 thing to keep in mind is that the dancers, ZHURAVEL 15 Days especially upon their arrival in the "unknown" West, are highly impres­ NnvAtnhor 9 S1450.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv/or Ternopil - Budapest sionable. It is up to all of us to recognize Muvcmuer ^ Lufthansa Ternopil - additional 550.00 this and help them to better understand OSIN 11 Days Single Suppl. S125.00 our position in the diaspora. Through the use of the Ukrainian language and patriotism, we can only ITINERARIES AND PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE prove to them that we haven't forgotten about the plight of Ukraine in the Soviet Union. We should conduct ourselves To: KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. Enclosed is a S250.00 per person humanely, but proudly. It is up to us to 157 Second Avenue LAND PORTION DEPOSIT for 1988 Tour remember that even if only one of the New York, N.Y. 10003 dancers returns to Ukraine and readily tells of his or her positive impressions of Departing USA on Tour Name . the Ukrainians here in the West, that "nashi tam buly" (our people were NAME/s '. there), our efforts will be completely ADDRESS: successful. After the large manifesta­ Street City State tions during the Virsky New York Zip Code , Area Code ( ) Tel. No engagement, we remain confident that we have already been successful. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988

Avanf'Garde,.. presence by shifting arms, exposing legs, and tilting the head, sadistically UKRAINIAN SKI CLUB KLK (Continued from page 8) delighting in systematically dehumaniz­ NEW YORK trapped in a preposterous situation that ing his victim. is at once comic and macabre, both the Invites its members and their guests to their victim and the victimizers desperately In the final phase, as a shaft of light attempt to justify ideologically a hope­ focuses on the martyr's face, this ra­ ANNUAL SKI RACES less situation from which they cannot vaged skeleton of a man raises his head escape. Mr. Mrozek's characters do not and with a gaze fixed on every member to be held at ' create the predicament, but accept and in the audience, utters a haunting plea with his eyes. Hunter Mountain on March 19, 1988 develop it into a philosophy of existence BANQUET and AWARDS CEREMONY at the LEXINGTON HOTEL which ultimately takes away their AUT dedicated this performance to (To reserve rooms call Lexington Hotel (518) 989-9797 - Mention KLK Ski Club dignity with uncompromising matter- all those who were destroyed by totali­ by March 10 of-factness. tarian regimes and in particular, to the More information will follow. To register write to Stripping away dignity is the stark memory of Les Kurbas and other George Popel, 68 Meadow Ave., Franklin Park, N.J. 08823 treatise of "Catastrophe." Written by representatives of Ukraine's "Rozstri- or call (201) 2970786 before 10 p.m. the great master of "less is more," liane Vidrodzhennia" imprisoned, Samuel Beckett, this brief work was exiled or executed in the 1930s. dedicated to Vaclav Havel and first performed in France as a part of a Detroit's audience applauded not festival of works honoring the dissident only AUT's superb performances, but NEW! NEW! Czechoslovak playwright. Translated their courage and determination to by Taras Gula, Mr. Pereklita and Mr. discard the sloppy sentimentality of BANDURA STAND Wynnyckyj, "Catastrophe" was direct­ traditional melodrama, and move on to a Ukrainian theatre which is alive, ed by Mr. Pereklita. There is no mis­ Stand your bandura in your living room, family^room and at rehearsals. taking its message: testimony in resolute evolving with the times, and dealing with the multi-faceted complexity of the Now you can do all this with the new, sturdy, bandura stand. opposition to tyranny. human soul. Marko Stech is the ruthless bureau­ MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO: crat preparing for a staged public event: In addition to the actors and directors KALYNA ENTERPRISES the unveiling and exhibition of a already mentioned, other members of martyr, the play's "protagonist" por­ AUT who played parts either on stage P.O. Box 240, Station Jean Talon trayed by Mr. Wynnyckyj. or behind the scenes in the Detroit IVIontreal, Que., HIS 2Z2, Canada With the assistance of his submissive performances were: Adrianna Stech, S19.98 + S4.00 shipping charges. technician (Ms. Maryniak), he mani­ Luba Gawur, Ivan Naberezhnyj, Tania Name: ....: ...... ;...... pulates the protagonist's hollow-eyed Chorna and Natalka Latyshko. Address:.; ; City: Ukrainian National Association SEEKS TO HIRE PART TIME AND FULL TIME Experienced INSURANCE AGENTS or GENERAL AGENTS F/rsf f/me - fluent in Ukrainian and English: .^s^ //7 Car7ada діп^ U.S.A. Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg and other areas Leads'supplied - salary'not draw - plus override - all benefits. Write or telephone: Mr. JOHN HEWRYK Supreme Director for Canada 327 Mc Adam Ave. Winnipeg, 4, Man. Canada R2W 0B3 BARVINOK Tel.: (204) 582-8895

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LETS WELCOME OUR THIRD- AND FOURTH-GENERATION YOUNG UKRAINIANS FROM BRAZIL. ATTEND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCES DURING MARCH 1988:

CHICAGO, Illinois - SATURDAY, MARCH 12 at 6:00 P.M. Chopin School Auditorium, Rice St. S Western

DETROIT, Michigan - SUNDAY, MARCH 13 at 4:00 P.M. Fitzgerald Public School, 23200 Ryan Rd., WARREN

CLEVELAND, Ohio - TUESDAY, MARCH 15 at 7:30 P.M. St. Josaphat's Astrodome, 5720 State Rd., Parma, Ohio

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - THURSDAY, MARCH 17 at 8:00 P.M. Soldiers and Sailors lyiemorial Hall 5th Ave. a Bigelow Blvd., Oakland-Pittsburgh, Pa.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - FRIDAY, MARCH 18 at 7:30 P.M. Archbishop Carol H.S., 4300 Harewood Rd., N.E.

PHILADELPHIA, Penna. - SATURDAY, MARCH 19 at 6:00 P.M. Northeast H.S. Auditorium, Cottman S Algon Sts. -

NEW YORK, N.Y. - SUNDAY, MARCH 20 at 6:00 P.M. Julia Richman H.S., 317 East 67th St. (2nd Ave.)

KERHONKSON, N.Y. - TUESDAY, MARCH 22 at 7:30 P.M. ^ Soyuzivka - UNA Estate - Foordmore Road

UNION, New Jersey - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 at 7:30 P.M. _ Kean College, Wilkins Theater, Morris 8( Conan't Ave. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1988 No. 10

>^(.^^^.^^t,^>v.^'ь^^^'it^^^f.^^^.^^^.^^ t-^^c^^t^^c^->c^^t,^^t^^t-^t<^t,^^c<^t^^c^^t^^c^r>c<5^V.^^t.^x,^'ч.^^ March 11-13 premiere of Ukrainian composer Lev PREVIEW OF EVENTS Revutsky's Symphony No. 2 Also featured will be concert pianist ST. PETERSBURG, F!a.: The U- St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic March 19 krainian American Association will Church of North Port will be cele-, Juliana Osinchuk, who will perform Liszt's First Piano Concerto in E be participating in the annual SPIFF brating the Millennium of Christia­ MACON, Ga.: The Ukrainian com­ Flat. The concerts will be held at 8 (St. Petersburg International Folk nity with a divine liturgy at 11 a.m. at munity of Macon will present the p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at Fair) Festival at the Bayfront Center, the Epiphany Catholic Cathedral, Chaika Ukrainian Dance Ensemble 3 p.m. on Sunday, in Community located at 4200 First St. S. The theme 350 Tampa Ave. in Venice, Fla., with of Yonkers, N.Y., during the sixth Centre Theatre, L and 12th streets. of the Ukrainian booth will be the Bishop Robert Moskal of St. Josa- annual Cherry Blossom Festival. The For information call Ted Wroblicky, Millennium of Ukrainian Christia­ phat Eparchy in Parma, Ohio, as program will begin at 8 p.m. at the (916)971-3032. nity and the booth will feature celebrant, and the Burlaka Choir of Macon Little Theatre on Forsyth Ukrainian foods and folk art. On Toronto responding. A jubilee ban­ Road. An admission donation of S5 Sunday, March 13, at 2:30 p.m. the quet will be held at 3 p.m. at San is requested. For ticket information Ukraina Choir and the youth dance Pedro Catholic Church hall, 319 call (912) 744-7418 or 741-9232. March 26-27 group will present a program. Some Mayberry Ave., North Port. On 50 nationalities are annually in­ Thursday, March 17, a concert will MACON, Ga.: The Macon Cherry volved in this festival. For further be presented at 7 p.m. at San Pedro March 20 Blossom Festival will once again information call John Gawaluch, Catholic Church hall in North Port. feature Ukrainian food and music in (813)791-4040. On Friday, March 18, a concert will MACON, Ga.: The Chaika Ukrai­ the international Food Fair from 10 be presented at 7:30 p.m. at the Holy nian Dance Ensemble will appear in a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, and noon Name of Jesus School hall, 5800 15th Macon's Cherry Blossom Parade in March 12 to 6 p.m. on Sunday. The Ukrainian Ave. S., in Gulf Port. For further downtown Macon. The parade participation will once again be information contact John Gawaluch, begins at 3 p.m. on Cherry Street. PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian organized by Pastor and Mrs. Ste­ (813)791-4040. Educational and Cultural Center will phen Krysalka with assistance from hold its eighth anniversary benefit March 25-27 the Ukrainian Association of Geor­ banquet, the proceeds of which will gia, the Ukrainian National Wo­ go toward the nearly completed March 17 SACRAMENTO, CaL: As part of its men's League of America, Atlanta construction of the center's new Branch and the Chervona Ruta wing. Special guests of the evening Millennium celebration, the Ukrai­ NEW YORK: The Young Profes­ nian Christianity Millennium Com­ Bandura Ensemble. For the fifth will be Mykola and Raisa Rudenko. year, the Ukrainian booth will be Mr. Rudenko will be the recipient of sionals of the Ukrainian Institute of mittee of California is sponsoring a America will present a financial series of concerts this weekend, located under the big tent on Mul­ the ''Ukrainian of the Year" award. featuring the Sacramento Symphony berry Street. Admission is free. For The banquet program will feature seminar: "Protecting Your Life­ style," at 7 p.m. at the UIA, 2 E. 79th Orchestra, with Carter Nice conduct­ information call Juanita Krvsalka, concert pianist Roman. Rudnytsky ing, who will perform the American (912)477-9316. and tenor Bohdan Chaplynsky. The St. Luba Kos, financial consultant evening's festivities are slated to for New York Life, will discuss PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a weekly listing of Ukrainian community events begin With cocktails at 6 p.m., to be options available for you and your open to the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Weekly to the ^f followed by supper at 7 p.m. All family if there is a financial loss Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send У tickets are tax-deductible. For more resulting from inability to work or information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.), along у information call (215) 663-1166. upon retirement. 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The Statue of Liberty-- Museum slates pysanka workshops' Eliis Island Foundation, Inc. NEW YORK - Registration is now students over 16, S8 for museum mem­ open to the public for workshops in the 52 Vanderbiit Л.епие ELLIS ISLAND bers and free for children 12-16. Ne^^ York NY і(Ю17-3808 -1892-1992 - making of pysanky — Ukrainian Easter On March 12 and Apri) 2 experienced : і 2-8^^^1-1-^)86 eggs, which will be held Saturdays, artisans will demonstrate this beautiful. March 19 and 26, from 9:30 a.m. to craft. The award-winning film, ''Py­ 12:30 p.m, and/or 1:30-4:30 p.m., or on sanka" by Siavko Nowytsky will be RI^CИoTiR.VГi()^: Ї^ІЖУІ Sundays, March 20 and 27, at the same screened continuously during the tv/o hours of The Ukrainian Museum. days at 1-5 p.m. An admission fee of Each workshop is suited for the S2.50 per person, S2 for museum mem­ beginner and for the experienced, and bers, seniors and students, free for all necessary supplies are included in the children under 12, is requested. workshop fee. Each participant will also For information and reservations call receive a booklet of basic traditional the museum, (212) 228-0110. The U- pysanky designs. The fee per session is krainian Museum is located at 203 SIO per person, S8.50 for seniors and Second Ave. Thank you for inviting me to register my ancestor's name on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor. I want to restore Ellis Island as a living museum telling the inspiring story of the immigrants and their heroic role in American history. Like the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island will become a monument to the South Jersey plans National Gallery greatest American traditions of freedom, hope and opportunity. I am enclosing a check in the amount below to help you complete the restoration of Ellis Island. second ethnic test features ''Pysanka'' TRENTON, N.J. - The second WASHINGTON - The National state-sponsored Southern New Jersey Gallery of Art is featuring Siavko П sioo П S250 П S- Ethnic Festival will take place on Nowytski's award-winning film "Py­ Saturday, April 9, at the Student sanka: The Ukrainian Easter Egg" Center, Glassboro State College in during the month of March as part of its Please make check payable , Glassboro. "Signs of Spring" program. The festival, sponsored by the New The film will be shown as part of the жжжжж:жжжж:жжжжжжжжжшжж:жжж': Jersey Department of State, Office of gallery's Saturday morning family tours Oil'1FICL-\L REGISTER OF Ethnic Affairs and the New Jersey designed especially for children age 6 to Ethnic Advisory Council, in coopera­ 12. The tours takes place in the gallery's THE A^IERICAN IMMIGR^INT tion with Glassboro State College, is a west wing each Saturday at 10-11:30 m^\LL OF HONOR multi-ethnic celebration featuring eth­ a.m. and include the film screening plus A permanent exhibit at Ellis Island in tribute to о ІГ ancestors who nic performers, crafts, food and educa­ a look at art works dealing with spring risked so much to come to America and to whom we o^ e a debt of gratitude. tional and cultural displays. themes. You can honor the first member of your family to come to America by placing his or her name on The organizers are seeking ethnic For reservations, call the National The American Immigrant Wall of Honor. If you are unsure of his of her name, you may enter your own name or your family name so that your family's heritage will be represented. performers and crafts exhibitors to Gallery of Art at (202) 842-6249. If your contribution is SlOO or more, the name below will be displayed on The American display their talents and traditions. Immigrant Wall of Honor as part of the Ellis Island exhibits. Tables are provided free of charge of Щ tV^ J9.^ t^.4 ty^4 9^41V^ р^Щ tV^ t?t 9^,9 РУ'Ч t5f ^ ^55^ ^ You will also receive a handsome Certificate honoring your a: exhibitors and performing groups will JOIN THE UNA - be partially compensated for travel INSURE YOURSELF Name of individual or family honored:- expenses. Application deadline is AND BE SAFE' March 15. ^^^ ^^^ ^lai^ ^Ш' ^iii^ ^iai' ^ifii' ^l^' ^Ш' ^isi' ^l2l' ^isi' ^ifii' ^'^^ ^isi^ ^li^' ^isi' ^йі' ^йі^ ^ii' ^йі' ^'^^ ^ій' ^^^ ^ial^ ^йі^ For application forms and informa­ tion contact: Juhan Simonson, director. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis ! Office of Ethnic Affairs, New Jersey Department of State, State House CN 300, Trenton, N.J. 08625; (609) 984- 7145.