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The Ukrainian Weekly 1983, No.21 www.ukrweekly.com /ГЛ^ ) 4. Nii'^' " Д Д Published by the Ukrainian Nationaпаlї Association Inc.Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! a' о - o` > n і 01 O P--OJ O-c О ao ramiaann Week! OOO ї HKI Vol. LI No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22.1983 25ЙгіЬ; 13,000 attend Great Famine memorial service by Roma Sochan Hadzewycz SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - Nearly 13,000 persons, according to police estimates, gathered here at the Ukrainian Orthodox Center of St. Andrew the P`irst-Called Apostle on May 15, St. Thomas Sunday according to the Julian calendar, to pay their respects and mourn the 7 million men, women and children, who died 50 years ago in the Great Famine of 1932-33 - Stalin's planned genocide of the Ukrai­ nian nation. St. Thomas Sunday, known as "Pro- vidna Nedilia" (Seeing-Off Sunday) to Ukrainians, is traditionally set aside as a day to honor the dead. The memorial services at the Ukrai­ nian Orthodox Center, which this year were specially dedicated to the famine victims, began with a 9 a.m. arch- pastoral divine liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Mstyslav of the Ukrai­ nian Orthodox Church with the as­ sistance of Archbishop Mark of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Bishop Iziaslav of the Byelorussian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The responses at the liturgy, as well as at the subsequent requiem service, were sung by the Memorial Church Choir directed by Taras Pavlovsky. Immediately following the liturgy, thousands congregated before the steps of St. Andrew's Memorial Church for the outdoor ecumenical requiem service that was conducted by clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant faiths. The concelebrants were Metropolitan Mstyslav, Metropo­ litan Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Archbishop Mark. Bishop Iziaslav and Pastor Wladimir Borowsky, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Evangelical Alliance of North America. Ukrainian veterans and uniformed members of the Plast and ODUM Ukrainian youth organizations, with the organizations' banners, formed an honor guard around the steps of the church. Metropolitan Mstyslav, who spoke in (Continued on page 12) INSIDE: Ш Coverage of the memorial concert at the Ukrainian Orthodox Center's Home of Ukrainian Cul­ ture — page 4. Ш More photos of the South Bound Brook commemorations of the Great Famine - centerfold. Ш Address by Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk at the requiem service on the steps of St. An­ drew's Memorial Ukrainian Or­ Hierorchs conduct the requiem service for the 7 million victims of the Great Famine of 1932-33 in front of St. thodox Church - page 7. Andrew's Memorial Ukrainian Orthodox Church. ``iil THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 22,1983 No. 21 Dissident profile. Priest who helped Slipyj is given 10-year sentence Vasyl Barladianu: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A Lithuanian than two years later he was re-arrested Catholic priest who helped Patriarch and sentenced to six years' imprison­ arrested while imprisoned Josyf Slipvj,when both were imprisoned ment. In 1978 he was one of five priests in a Sovtetlabor camp in the 1950s, was who held a news conference in Moscow JERSEY CITY, N.J. - In 1976, sentenced on May 6 to seven years in announcing the formation of the un­ one year before his first arrest, prison and three years' internal exile for official defense committee. The same Odessa art historian Vasyl Barladianu his religious activities. year, he was the subject of a slanderous wrote an appeal to Christians around According to the Lithuanian Infor­ attack in the republic newspaper, Tiesa. the world charging that he was being mation Center based here, the Rev. News of his latest trial was officially harassed by Soviet authorities for Alfonsas Svarinskas, a 58-year-old announced by the Soviet news agency allegedly being a "Ukrainian, Byelo­ | pastor from Vidulke, was charged with TASS, a marked departure from stan­ russian and ancient-Bulgarian na­ "anti-state and anti-constitutional" dard Soviet practice involving Lithua­ tionalist." activities. He is a member of the un­ nian dissidents. ` , Later that year, in September, he official Catholic Committee for the TASS accused the priest of "drawing sent another appeal, this time to Defense of Believers' Rights, which he up slanderous materials and of sending Keston College in England, which joined in 1978 shortly after its forma­ them abroad through illegal channels." studies religion under Communist tion. It also reported that the Rev. Svarinskas regimes. The Rev. Svarinskas, who was or­ "incited believers' enmity and division, In it, he identified himself as a dained in 1950 while in a labor camp, called them to struggle against the member of the Eastern Rite Catholic has already served 16 years in Soviet existing system and existing law, to Church, and added that the govern­ penal institutions. In the early 1950s, he disobey the authorities." ment had charged that his "hostility ; was imprisoned in the same labor camp Lithuanian sources fear that the Rev. to the regime" was aggravated by his as then-Metropolitan Slipyj, who was Svarinskas will not be able to withstand membership in the Catholic Church. jailed in 1946, the same year the Soviets prison conditions, which are more On March 2,1977, Mr. Barladianu outlawed the Ukrainian Catholic severe than those in a labor camp. was arrested and charged with Church. The Lithuanian priest tended TASS also reported that criminal allegedly disseminating materials for to the ailing metropolitan, who had proceedings have been instituted against the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, form­ been barred from the camp hospital. another Lithuanian Catholic priest, the ed in Kiev in 1976 to monitor Soviet Metropolitan Josyf was released in Rev. Sigitas Tamkevicius, 44, a co- compliance with the human-rights 1963 and allowed to emigrate to Rome, founder of the defense committee and a provisions of the 197S Helsinki Final where he was made cardinal in 1965 by friend of the Rev. Svarinskas. Act. Vasyl Barladianu Pope Paul VI. і The agency said the priest, a pastor in His July trial was held concurrent­ As a result of the strict routine at In response to the Rev. Svarinskas's Kybartai, was "trying to destroy the ly with the trial of Mykola Rudenko the camp and maltreatment by arrest three months ago, Patriarch Soviet state and system by passing anti- and Oleksiy Tykhy, co-founders of authorities, Mr. Barladianu's health Josyf, now 91 years old, issued a Soviet information to Western corre­ the Helsinki group. Both trials were began to fail. He reportedly suffered statement from Rome which said: "This spondents and inciting young people to held behind closed doors and were at least one heart attack, and was dedicated priest, loyal to the Church of defy Authorities." not attended by the public. plagued by chronic hypertension and Christ and the gospel of Christ, has Last summer, the Rev. Tamkevicius Mr. Barladianu, who declared a edema. committed no crime, neither against the signed a statement along with 467 other protest hunger strike shortly after his Although authorities allowed him state nor against the law. The only Lithuanian Catholic priests rejecting arrest, was sentenced to three years in to keep some medicine sent to him in offense which can be ascribed to him by new, highly restrictive regulations for an ordinary-regimen labor camp. private, an uncommon practice in the people of ill will is love of God and religious associations. ;.. i; The former head of the Odessa Soviet penal institutions, his health people, service of neighbor and the Labeled an "extremist" by Soviet University art department and a continued to deteriorate. carrying out of Christ's command to authorities, he was fined last January lecturer on art and ethics at the Scheduled to be released in 1980, preach the gospel throughout the for "organizing ceremonies in the Odessa Institute of Naval Engineer­ Mr. Barladianu was accused by world..." church yards without permission." The ing served his term in Camp No. labor-camp authorities of continuing The Rev. Svarinskas was released ceremonies involved the distribution of 318/76 in the Rivne region of Ukraine. his so-called "anti-Soviet" activities from the labor camp in 1956, but less gifts to children at Christmas. Dissident sources reported in 1978, in the camp by holding informal that the barracks housing Mr. Bar­ lectures for fellow prisoners. He was ladianu and Ukrainian Helsinki accused of defaming the state. monitor Petro Vins, now in the West, Shortly before he was due to be Religious activist's wife jailed was infested with lice. released, he was formally charged In addition, inmates of the camp with "slandering the Soviet state" LONDON - The wife of a Ukrai­ Vasily Barats, a career military were put to work cutting and loading under Article 187 of the Ukrainian nian religious activist sentenced two officer until he joined a dissident stone in a quarry. The floor of the Criminal Code. He was placed in months ago to five years in a strict- Pentecostal group in the early 1970s, quarry was covered with water, solitary confinement pending the regimen'camp was arrested two weeks reportedly heads a self-styled Commit­ which was never pumped out, and outcome of a fuller investigation by before the trial and charged with "anti- tee for Emigration, which supports prisoners were forced to wear the camp officials. Soviet agitation and propaganda," Pentecostals seeking to leave the Soviet only pair of canvas shoes issued each The officials claimed that, prior to reported Keston College here. Union. year. No facilities were provided for his release date, he had led a cultural Galina Barats, whose husband Vasily His wife had visited the Rostov1 drying clothing or shoes at the end of seminar and penned a diatribe against was arrested last August in Rivne, prison where he was held on several the working day, and many prisoners the realities of Soviet life which western Ukraine, before being moved to occasions, but was never allowed to see were frequently ill.
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