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Ul;rainian WeekI у Vol. LV No.7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 25 cent3 Demjanjuk trial 140 political prisoners freed in USSR resumes Monday At Ieast 6 Ukrainians JERSEY CITY, N.J. - With the trial of John Demjanjuk, the former known to be freed Cleveland autoworker accused of being JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - At least six a notorious guard at the Treblinka Ukrainians are among the 140 political death camp, set to resume on Monday, prisoners reportedy released in the February 16, defense attorney Mark Soviet Union within the last week and a O'Connor revealed that Israeli authori­ half. ties will not allov^ forensic experts to They are: Vasyl Barats, Mykola lhna- test the so-called Trawniki 1D card. tenko, Valeriy Ostrenko, Zorian Popa- "They are not going to allow us to test diuk, Vitaliy Shevchenko and Yosyp the ID card because, in the words of the Terelia. prosecution, we have to maintain the The dissidents were released under integrity of the card because it has to be pardons granted in accordance with two returned to the Soviet Union, "Mr. decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme O'Connor told The Ukrainian Weekly Soviet, the USSR's nominal legislature, in a telephone interview. dated February 2 and 9. The texts of the The ID card, which purports to be a decrees were not revealed, but it is service record of Mr. Demjanjuk, was known that the prisoners affected were provided by the Soviet Union after mainly those sentenced for "anti-Soviet Israeli authorities insisted that only the agitation and propaganda" (Article 70 original, not a copy, could be used in in the Russian SFSR Criminal Code). prosecuting Mr. Demjanjuk. The releases are not an amnesty. Two of the freed dissidents: Yosyp Terelia and Zorian Рорш1і|ік The Soviets came through in Decem­ Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman ber, forwarding the original card to Gennadi Gerasimov said on February step," while other observers were more Israeli Foreign Ministry officials 10 in Moscow that another 140 or so cautious, stating that hundreds, even Reaction in U.S. through an unidentified intermediary. cases are being reviewed, thus, more thousands more political prisoners Mr. O'Connor says the card is "totally releases are likely. remain in Soviet prisons, camps, inter­ fraudulent." He was dismayed that his Mr. Gerasimov said the pardons were nal exile and in special psychiatric to Soviet moves experts would not be able to test the issued as part of a review of the Cri­ hospitals. (See story on right.) JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The original card's paper, ink and glue, as minal Code that was being carried out Soviet Union's release of 140 politi­ well as the photo. "so that we may have fewer people Freed Ukrainians cal prisoners and the expected release In effect, Mr. O'Connor stated, "the behind bars and behind barbed wire.' " of another group as large has card has been given sovereign immunity The group release is the largest since The freed Ukrainians are: prompted the U.S. government to from the defense." 1953 when, after the death of Joseph * Vasyl Barats - born March 20, state that it welcomes the Kremlin's ^ "They're going to accept the card as Stalin, Nikita S. Khrushchev freed 1946; originally from western Ukraine, decision as "an important step" and is, just as the Battisti court [in the hundreds of thousands of political now a resident of Moscow; leader of the to urge that these releases continue as United States] did," he said. prisoners. Pentecostal group called The Right to a way to improve U.S.-Soviet rela­ The card remains in the custody of The U.S. State Department hailed Emigrate; communications engineer; tions. the Foreign Ministry. the Soviet action as ''an important (Continued on page 2) The U.S. tempered its response, When the card is offered as evidence however, by adding that improve­ at the Demjanjuk trial, Mr. O'Connor ments in human rights must also said he would immediately challenge its Shumuk compIetes exile term include "the right to emigrate." admissibility in view of the fact that White House spokesman Martin forensic tests have been ruled out. Applies for emigration to Canada Fitzwater said, "As we have consis­ Two forensic experts who examined a tently made clear to the Soviet copy of the card in the United States JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Danylo where he had been serving his exile government, we attach the greatest expressed serious doubts about its Shumuk, a 73-year-old veteran political term, and apply there for emigration importance to improvements in the authenticity. Patrick Buchanan, assis­ prisoner, comp1eted his five-year term field of human rights, including the tant to the president and White House papers from local Soviet authorities. of internal exile in Karatobe in the (Continued from page 3) right to emigrate." communications director, has labelled Kazakh SSR on January 12 and recent­ (Continued on page 16) At the State Department, spokes­ ly traveled to Moscow to apply once man Charles Redman noted that the again for emigration to Canada. Mr. 140 released prisoners represented Svoboda, Weekly Shumuk is originally from the Volhynia about 20 percent of the estimated 750 region in Ukraine. people known to be imprisoned on send correspondenf The Ukrainian Helsinki Group mem­ purely political grounds. ber, who spent over 40 years in Polish, JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Marta He went on to call on the Soviet Skorupsky, a New York-based free­ German and Soviet prisons and camps government to free "all other pri­ lance journalist, editor and transla­ for his political activities, was incorrect­ soners of conscience and to permit tor, will be the official news corres­ ly included among the group of 42 them to resume the legitimate activi­ pondent of Ukrainian National As­ Soviet political prisoners whose names ties for which they are unjustly sociation publications at the 1sraeli were published in several American incarcerated." trial of John Demjanjuk. newspapers as those released under a Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Soviet decree last week. Mr. Shumnk Ms. Skorupsky, who is a former U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman was freed earlier, on his scheduled editor of the journal Suchanist and is told reporters: "1n the last little while, a free-lance journalist for Radio release date. the Soviet government has recog­ Liberty, will be dispatching news Sources told The Ukrainian Weekly nized that their treatment of indivi­ stories to both the Svoboda Ukrai­ that Mr. Shumuk had taken care of all duals has had an effect on the over-all nian-language daily and The Ukrai­ emigration formalities at the Canadian relationship of the Soviet Union with nian Weekly. Embassy in Moscow. Soviet authori­ other countries. Ms. Skorupsky was to leave for ties, however, told Mr. Shumuk he had "They have been moving to dam­ no right to remain in Moscow and 1srael on Friday, February 13. (Continued on page 10) advised him to return to Kazakhstan, Danyio Shumuk THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Infants may show brain damage as a result of Chornobyl accident Memo to Kremlin watchers: NEW YORK - Infants born now Hiroshima and Nagasaki strongly links and in the past few months to women irradiation of the fetus with abnormal Shcherbytsky's staying power who lived near the Chornobyl nuclear brain development, said the physician, .reactor when it exploded last April may (Continued on page 11) by Roman Solchanyk spotted nothing less than a major policy show signs of mental deficiencies caused disagreement between Messrs. Gorba­ by radiation. T' - widespread rumors that circu- chev and Shcherbytsky. The venue was Doctors say fetuses Iess than 15 weeks Inna Meiman dies lateu in Moscow on the eve of the the session of the USSR Supreme into the normal nine-month gestation WASHINGTON - Inna Meiman, recently concluded plenum of the Cen­ Soviet at which the Ukrainian party period are most vulnerable to radiation, wife of Naum Meiman, a founding tral Committee of the Communist Party leader was said to have questioned the and the brain is the most susceptible results of the Reagan-Gorbachev sum­ organ, according to a story in Newsday, member of the Moscow Helsinki Moni­ of the Soviet Union (CPSU) about toring Group, died on Monday, Fe­ Volodymyr Shcherbytsky's imminent mit in Geneva. Conclusion: Mr. Shcher­ a New York metropolitan area news­ bytsky will go. The fact that others, paper. bruary 9. She was 53. ouster from the Politburo proved to be Three weeks earlier, she had been false. The Ukrainian party leader re­ including Mr. Gorbachev himself, also paper. Babies born now were in utero at urged caution in evaluating the results the time of the accident. allowed by the Soviets to travel to the mains a member of that powerful body, United States for cancer treatment. Her and Western observers of the Kremlin of Geneva was overlooked. "There is a critical time period — between eight and 15 weeks (of gesta­ husband was not allowed to accompany scene who are fascinated by the comings * In December 1985 and January her. 1986, party organizations in Ukraine tion) — when there is a correlation and goings of the individuals who make The U.S. State Department has urged held their periodic election and report between the dose of radiation and up the top party leadership will have to the Soviet government to allow Mr. conferences, which resulted in criticism mental retardation," said Dr. Robert wait for another opportunity to peer Meiman to emigrate - something he of local officials and, in some cases, Peter Gale, the American doctor who into their crystal balls. has sought for years - in order that he dismissals of minor functionaries. The worked with Soviet colleagues to save Admittedly, this latest scenario for can attend his wife's funeral and live central press in Moscow reported on the Chornobyrs victims after the accident. Kremlinological speculation about Mr. with his daughter in the United States. Shcherbytsky's fate had a near perfect meetings of several of the more impor­ Experience with radiation victims in background. The plenum that did tant Ukrainian party organizations 1934; journalist; arrested in 1980 and finally convene on January 27 and 28 such as those in Kharkiv and Kiev, 140 political... sentenced to seven years' camp and four had been announced by General Secre­ telling its readers about the reprimands years' exile for authorship of article and sackings as well. Some Western tary Mikhail Gorbachev six months "Czechoslovak policy in the eyes of a newspapers, in turn, informed their (Continued from page 1) earlier in Khabarovsk during his tour of Ukrainian," circulating samvydav and the Soviet Far East and, according to readers that special sessions were con­ arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five vened in Ukraine at which important years of camp. (There are rumors that oral statements; wife and three children Western reports, had been postponed reside in Kiev. on several occasions. party leaders were ousted. Conclusion: his wife, Halyna, also a Pentecostal Mr. Shcherbytsky is "fighting for his activist, was released as well. Mrs. * Yosyp Terelia - born October 27, In an interview with the Bulgarian 1943; worker; leader of the Initiative weekly Pogled in mid-September 0fIast political survival," to quote one diplo­ Barats was arrested in 1983 and sen­ mat. tenced to six years' imprisonment and Group for the Defense of the Rights of year, the newly appointed chief editor of Believers and the Church, a Ukrainian Kommunist seemed sure that the ple­ Another expert cautioned agamst three years' exile.) hasty judgement, offering the unique ^ Мук0Iа Ihnatenko - Orthodox Catholic rights committee that des­ num would meet in October. The fact cribes itself as a Helsinki monitoring that it look considerably longer served view that Mr. Shcherbytsky may in fact activist from Kaniv, Ukraine, former be encouraging such criticism so as to monk of the Pochaiv Lavra; arrested in group; arrested February 1985 and to heighten interest and led Kremlin sentenced to 12 years of camp and exile; watchers to conclude that Mr. Gort|a- strengthen his position in the party. I981 and sentenced to six years of camp Unfortunately, the mechanics of this and five years of exile for religious has spent nearly 20 years in labor -ehcV had-beeR -tinable to muster the camps, jail and special psychiatric necessary support for the ebnclave/ clever riiaii^uvefrwer e never explained. activity, including writing a letter to the hospitals; wife and three children reside Moreover, because he had already The fact these party conferences are West in defense of religious rights and in Dovhe, Transcarpathian region of announced in Khabarovsk that the routine, indeed, that the party statutes the Church. Ukraine. main item on the plenum's agenda make them mandatory at given inter­ * Valeriy Ostrenko — radio engi­ would be cadres policy, that is, per­ vals, and that criticism and self-crit- neer; arrested in 1983 and sentenced for In addition, three residents of U- sonnel matters, this served only to fuel cism have been a feature of Soviet party circulating Ukrainian nationalist leaf­ kraine were also released. They are: speculation that the party elite was life for the past 70 years was all con­ lets; wife, daughter and son reside in * Viktor Yanenko - Kiev |*esident; divided about who should go and who veniently forgotten, Riga, Latvia. electrician; arrested in I983 for disse­ should stay. 9 On January 25, 1986, the Soviet * Zorian Popadiuk - born April 21, minating the information bulletin of For the past 18 months or so, the media announced that Vitaliy Fedor- 1953; resident of Lviv and student of SMOT, the independent trade union central figures in this guessing game chuk, the USSR minister of internal Lviv University; arrested in 1973 and rhovement, and sentenced to 12 years; were Mr. Shcherbytsky and the now affairs, former head of the all-union sentenced to seven years'camp and five sought to emigrate. deposed leader of the Kazakh party, KGB, and before then KGB chief in years' exile for publishing the samvydav * Borys Litvinov - Kiev resident,* Dinmukhamed Kunaev. Not long after Ukraine, had been "transferred to other student journal Postup (Progress) and journalist and author of a book critical Mr. Gorbachev's election as general work." Conclusion: According to "sea­ circulating samvydav publications; of the USSR; arrested in 1980; sought to secretary in March 1985, Kremlin0I0­ soned observers," Mr. Gorbachev was rearrested while serving his exile term emigrate. gists and other "experienced observers" preparing to move Mr, Fedorchuk to and sentenced to 15 years of camp and ^ Yevhen Antsupov - historian/fu­ began to disseminate the idee fixe that Kiev in place of Mr. Shcherbytsky. Soon exile; grandmother lives in Sambir, turist; released in Kharkiv, where Mr. Gorbachev's rise to power trans­ thereafter, the CPSU convened for its Lviv 0bIast. (Upon his release, Mr. he was transferred from Chistopol; lated directly into Mr. Shcherbytsky's 27th Congress, which dropped Mr. Popadiuk telephoned Larissa Bogoraz, sentenced in 1981 to 11 years of camp demise. Fedorchuk from membership in the wife of the recently deceased Anatoly and exile for his analysis of a future Without, too much elaboration, the Central Committee. Marchenko, to offer his condolences.) Wor1d War HI and its consequences. notion soon took hold that the Ukrai­ Clearly, no transfer to Kiev. But this * Vitaliy Shevchenko - born in (Continued on page 11) nian party leader was a "Brezhnevite,"a was obvious to anyone who had read "member of the old guard," a "leftover," the Kiev press on the same day that and the like. No specific content was Mr. Fedorchuk was released from his attached to these terms, but then this post, that is, January 25. There it was re­ was hardly deemed necessary, particu­ ported that a plenum of the Ukrainian ulrainianWeel:ly FOUNDED 1933 larly after December 1985 when Gri- Central Committee held the previous gory Romanov, Nikolai Tikhonov and day ended without discussing any An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Viktor Grishin had already said their "organizational questions." Unfortu­ Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. farewells to Politburo colleagues. After nately, "seasoned observers" are not in 07302. that it only seemed logical that the the habit of reading the republican newspapers. 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However, in order to Postmaster, send address place the most recent developments into to anyone to question what purpose EcSitor: Roma Hadzewycz would be served by sending the former changes to: the proper context, it is useful to recall The* Ukrainian Weekly Assistant Editors: Michael B. Bociurkiw (Canada) some of the prominent roadmarks Ukrainian KGB chief to the very place Natalia A. Feduschak where, in the 1970s, he directed a P.O. Box 346 along Mr. Shcherbytsky's seemingly Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Chrystyna N. Lapychak endless path to oblivion. thorough purge of the Ukrainian intelli­ ^ In November 1985, Western diplo­ gentsia, but this time as leader of the The Ukrainian Weekly, February 15,1987, No. 7. Vol. LV mats in Moscow, always on the alert for Ukrainian party. Copyright 1987 by The Ukrainian Weekly conflicts and fissures in the Politburo, (Continued on page 15) No.7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 15,1987 Human-rights protests planned Ukrainian Independence Day for ABA'S mid-year meeting marked on Capitol HiII NEW ORLEANS - The debate over right up at me top." Yet barely a month WASHINGTON - The 69th anni­ also made special mention of Yosyp the American Bar Association's ties to later, Mr. Falsgraf's pledge appeared to versary of the Fourth Universal, which Terelia, the Rev. Vasyl Kobryn, Lev the Soviets moves this week to New have been forgotten, when, at the ABA- proclaimed Ukrainian independence Lukianenko and Yuriy Shukhevych. Orleans, where critics plan to stage ASL Dartmouth Seminar, ABA leaders from Soviet-Russian rule in 1918, was In addition to the many representa­ human-rights protests and a public made lengthy speeches praising their commemorated on Capitol Hill in the tives from the White House, State forum during the normally placid ABA "Soviet colleagues," and the topic of Rayburn House Office Building on Department, departments of defense, Mid-Year Meeting. human rights was relegated to the final January 21. education, commerce and justice, Reps. At the center of the controversy is the hour of the final day. During that brief According to the Ukrainian National Bill Green (R-N.Y.), Robert Borski (0­ ABA'S Declaration of Cooperation exchange over human rights, the Soviet 1nformation Service, some 150 guests Pa.), John R. Miller (R-Wash.) and Ben with the Association of Soviet Lawyers delegates simply denied the existence of gathered for the annual reception Oilman (R-N.Y.) stopped by the recep­ (ASL). The ASL is reportedly a bogus human-rights problems in the USSR. sponsored by the Ukrainian Congress tion to meet with constituents. bar association established by Soviet Observers described the ABA delegates Committee of America along with authorities for the purpose of misrepre­ as "tentative" and '4oathe to risk honorary co-hosts, which included: senting the Soviet legal system and damaging the relationship" with the Sens. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), Alfonse President Reagan human-rights picture. Soviets. D'Amato (R-N.Y.), Dennis DeConcini Critics of the ABA-Soviet ties charge The account of the Dartmouth Semi­ (D-Ariz.), Robert Dole (R-Kansas), salutes Ukrainians that ABA leaders were pressured by the nar in the November issue of the ABA Jesse Helms (R-N.C), Gordon Hum­ Journal claimed observers at the Dart­ Soviets into signing an agreement with phrey (R-N.H.), Paul Sarbanes (D- WASHINGTON —President Ro­ the ASL without going through regular mouth Seminar were permitted to Md.), and Don R1egie (D-Mich.), along submit human-rights questions. How­ nald Reagan extended warm greet­ ABA channels. According to the critics, with Reps. Frank Annunzio (D-I11.), ings to Ukrainian Americans as they ABA spokesmen have become increa­ ever, the article failed to disclose the Richard Armey (R-Texas), William human-rights questions which were commemorated the 69th anniversary singly entangled in vain attempts to Broomfield (R-Mich.), Phil Crane (R­ of Ukrainian independence, which justify the agreement, which critics call a submitted were not raised with the ill.), Robert Dornan (R-Calif.), Edward Soviets. was proclaimed in the Ukrainian "serious blunder." Feighan (D-Ohio), Dennis Hertel (D­ National Republic's Fourth Univer­ 1n the course of debate over the ABA­ For example, critics point to the Mich), Henry Hyde (R-111.), Jack Kemp sal, issued on January 22, 1918, in Soviet agreement in New York last ABA'S claim that, during a meeting with (R-N.Y.), Dan Mica (D-Fla.), Robert Kiev. August, the ABA leadership conceded Soviet official Andrei Gromyko in Michael (R-lll.), Mary Rose Dakar (D- In his third such greetings com­ Moscow, ABA President Falsgraf and that the ASL is "similar to or maybe Ohio), John Porter (R-ni.), Peter worse than the Goebbels Propaganda memorating Ukrainian Indepen­ President-Elect Eugene Thomas spoke Visclosky (D-Ind.) and Gus Yatron (0­ dence Day, the president made refe­ *'frankly, specifically, and at great Ministry" of Hitler's Third Reich. Pa.). Nevertheless, the formal document rence to "those behind the Iron length ... about the concerns of .,. a11 The official program was led by Curtain who continue to be harassed Americans over such issues as emigra­ signed by the two associations, called UNIS Director Myron Wasylyk. Ad­ the DeclaratiOi1 of Cooperation, des­ and persecuted for their religious and tion from the USSR.'-In actuality^ an dresses were delivered by several con­ political convictions." The persecu­ internal ABA^memo of [the mee;ting cribes the ASL as pledged to "ad­ gressmen and senators, including Rep. vancing the rule of law in the wor1d." tion of Ukrainian Catholic and reveals that the issue of Jewish emigra­ Hertel, the new co-chairman of the Ad Orthodox believers was mentioned, Critics of the ABA-Soviet agreement tion was presented to Mr. Gromyko as a Hoc Committee on the Baltic States and as was the "imprisonment of Yosyp include Harvard Law School Prof. "minority concern" of "Jewish groups" Ukraine, Fred Grandy (R-Iowa), Curt Terelia, the Rev. Vasyl Kobryn and Alan Dershowitz, the Union of Coun­ in the U.S. and "Jewish members of the Weldon (R-Pa.), Don Ritter (R-Pa.), Lev Lukianenko, and the forced cils for Soviet Jews, the Anti-Defama­ American Bar Association" and that Rep. Visclosky, George Hochbruechner . internal exile of Yuriy Shukhevych." Mr. Gromyko dismissed the issue by tion League of B'nai B'rith, Natan (P-N.Y.), Ernie Konnyu (R-Calif.) and Sharansky (formerly Anatoly Shcha- The .president also contiaueid^to simply denying that there was a pro­ Sen. DeC6ncirii. highlight the Russification of U- blem. According to the internal memo, ransky). Dr. Yuri Orlov, former U.S. ІЛ addition to cppgressioлal,repre- Supreme Court Justice Arthur Gold­ kraine and stkted thdt Rilssifi(5^ti()rf Mr. Falsgraf assured Mr. Gromyko sentatives, Ed Derwinski, long-time along with the destruction of historic that, in his personal( view, the U.S.- berg, and other human-rights leaders friend of the Ukrainian American and organizations. and cultural institutions underscores Soviet relationship was "at its best level community and now undersecretary of "the Soviet regime's contemptible The Task Force on ABA-Soviet in his lifetime." state (designate), spoke briefly on the policy of neocolonialism" in U- Relations, a national organization need to intensify the American public's ABA leaders have repeatedly claimed kraine. which is spearheading opposition to the knowledge of Ukrainian related issues. that the purpose of the agreement is to ABA-Soviet ties, will hold a public The greetings were made public at advance th^ "ru[e of law'-atid provide a Representing the president, Linas the Capitol Hi11 reception comme­ forum on the ABA-Soviet agreement at Kojelis, special assistant to the presi­ vehicle for pfe^enting'huruWn-rig^ ftjTie Ne.w Qrleans Marriott (Fourth morating Ukrainian Independence concerns to S0V1et leader!s: WoWeveF, an ' dent in the Office of Public Liaison, Day sponsored by the Ukraitiian' ГРІоірг, 1Mardi Gras Ba|coBies 1 and J) read a greeting from the president which. internal ABA memo states that the real from no6n until2 p.m. on Tuesday, Congress Committee of America pupose of the Declaration of Coopera­ stated that "we continue to look to the along with eight senators and 15 February 17. Members of the ABA future with hope and trust that, with tion was simply to accommodate the leadership and House of Delegates, as members of Congress. The greetings Soviets' preference for a formal docu­ God's help, Ukraine will once again were read by Linas Kojelis, special well as the press and public, have been know the joy of freedom and indepen­ ment. Between l975and 1985, the ABA invited to attend. assistant to the president. had conducted exchanges and commu­ dence." 1n his greeting, the president The subject of the forum will be a I nications with the ASL without the critical analysis of the first 18 months of need for a written agreement. cooperation under the ABA-Soviet Futey named The ABA leadership's handling of the agreement. Among those scheduled to Baltic organizations Dartmouth Seminar with the ASL, held speak are Nina Strokata, founding federal judge last September at Dartmouth College, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki scfiedule conference has further disillusioned the human­ WASHINGTON - President Ro­ Group, and Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, R0CKV1LLE, Ma. - The Joint rights community. 1n August 1986, at member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. nald Reagan on January 30 announced the ABA's annual meeting, ABA Baltic American National Committee, his intention to nominate Bohdan A. The Task Force on ABA-Soviet (JBANC), will hold its annual summit President Falsgraf promised that future Relations is headed by Arizona attor­ Futey of Ohio to be a judge of the meetings with the ASL would see conference here on March 7, beginning United States Claims Court for the term neys Patience T. Hunt work and 0rest at 1 p.m. "human rights ... on every agenda ... A. Jejna. of 15 years. He would succeed Philip R. During the conference, the leadership Miller. of the Estonian American National Since 1984, Mr. Futey has served as secret police in December 1944 and Council (EANC), the American Lat­ the chairman of the Foreign Claims Shumuk... spent 10 years in prisons and camps. vian Association (ALA), and the Lithu­ Amnestied in 1956, Mr. Shumuk was anian American Council (LAC) will Settlement Commission, (Continued from page 1) sentenced a year later to another 10 review J BANG'S activities of the pre­ Prior to his appointment to the years in camp for writing memoirs Mr. Shumuk hopes to join his 66­ vious year and set a budget and agenda commission, he was a partner in the law about life in prison. He was released in year-old Canadian nephew, Ivan Shu­ for 1987. firm of Bazarko, Futey and Orysh- 1967. muk, in Vernon, B.C. kewych, I975-І984; executive assistant Mr. Shumuk was rearrested in Ja­ Issues which will come up for discus­ Born on January 30, 1914, Mr. to the mayor of Cleveland, 1974-1975­ nuary 1972 after the KGB found a sion at the March 7 meeting will in­ Shumuk was first arrested at age 18 by chief assistant police prosecutor for the second volume of his memoirs and was clude; a possible year-round limited the Polish administration controlling City of Cleveland, 1972-1974; and a sentenced to 10 years in a special­ internship program, a possible news­ western Ukraine. He served a five-year partner in the law firm of Futey and regimen labor camp and five years' letter, the Ad Hoc Committee on the" sentence for being a Communist, He Rakowsky, 1968-1972. ' was released in 1939 after the Soviets internal exile. In February 1979 he Baltic States and Ukraine, the 1988 took control of western Ukraine. When joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group Presidential Race, 1987 Bicentenial of the U.S. Constitution, nominations for He graduated from Western Reserve the Germans invaded the USSR he was while in a Mordovian prison camp. University (B. A., 1962,M.A., l964)and captured as a prisoner of war and spent The Canadian government has made the Baltic Freedom Awards, the 1990 Census (ancestry question) and more. Cleveland Marshall Law School (J.D., 18 months in a German POW camp several appeals to the Soviets to allow 1968). until he escaped. Mr. Shumuk to emigrate to Canada — Anyone with an interest in these Disillusioned with communism, he the most recent being in October of last topics or any other possible suggestions, Mr. Futey is married, has three joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army year when Soviet Foreign Minister is encouraged to contact Zinta Arums at children and resides in Washington. He (UPA). He was arrested by the Soviet Eduard Shevardnadze visited Canada. (3Oi):340-l954 by March 1. was born June 28, 1939, in Ukraine. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1987 No.7

Obituanes Lev Rejnarovycz, opera s0I0isI NEW YORK - Lev Rejnarovycz. also director of the Holy Ghost Ukrai- МІГ0 Czapowskyj, supreme secretary renowned soloist-baritone, died here niaa Catholic Church Ghoir in Brook­ Saturday,, January 2L at Cabrini Hos­ lyn. N.Y. and performed leading bari­ pital. He was 73. tone arias in "Tosca/' "'Cabaleria raiernai ASS Born in KniazhpiL Ukraine, on Rusticana," '''Madame Butterfly.'' "Pa- SCRA\TON. Pa - Dr. Mno C?a~ Uni\ersity in Nlunich. GermanV, in janiiary 14, 1914, he studied at the gliacci" and in Ukrainian operas '*Ka- powskyj. suoreme secretary of the I949. He obtained a master oi science Catholic Theological Seminary in Pe- leryna," "Zaporozhets Za Dunayem./' Ukrainian F!aternal Association, died degree m I0rest17 irom the Vm\ ersity 0I remyshl and graduated from the Lviv operettas, "Natalka Poltavka.^^ and suddenly January 29, in his office. He Maine in 1958 and a Ph.D, in soils from Conservatory of Music in 1941, He was "Gypsy Baron.'' was 64. Rutgers University in 1962. a soloist with the Lviv Opera House Mr. Rejnarovycz was also a soloist with the Dumka Ukrainian Chorus in Following are excerpts of the obi­ His experiments with soil led to the from 1940 to 1944„ tuary printed m the UFA's Fraternal New York and the Kobzar Ukrainian Northeastern states crown vetch pro­ In 1946 he became a member of the Chorus in Philadelphia. He was very Voice. gram, wherein crown vetch was planted Ukrainian Opera Ensemble under the Dr. Czapowskyj was born in Vatsevy- active in the Ukrainian community in and grown along all major highways in directorship of Bohdan Piurko in New York. chi, Drohobych. Ukraine, on February the 14 states. He was first to discover Germany and in the United States was Panakhyda services were held Fe­ 23, 1922, and came to the United States that vegetation could be grown in strip the organizer and director of the Му­ bruary 3 and 4. The funeral liturgy was in 195I. He settled with his wife in mine areas and wrote a book titled к0Iа Lysenko Opera Company. offered on February 5 at Holy Ghost Mountaintop, Fa. ^'Survival and Early Growth of Planted He also performed with the Italian Church in Brooklyn and burial follow­ He was elected to the office of supeme Forest Trees On Strip Mine Spoils in Opera Ensemble in New Haven, Conn., ed at the Holy "Ghost Cemetery in secretary of the Ukrainian Fraternal the Anthracite Region." during the 1950s. Mr. Rejnarovycz was Hamptonburgh, N.Y. Association at the 21st Convention held Dr. Czapowskyj was a member of St. in 1986 in Glen Spey, N.Y. MichaeFs Ukrainian Orthodox Church Prior to thai he served as a Supreme of Scranton and was active in a number Walter Shostak, V0A announcer Council member and assistant supreme of professional associations. secretary. He wa^ active in the North­ WASH1NGTON - Walter Shostak, the opera, were his real loves. eastern sect ion of Pennsylvania in Surviving are his wife, the former long-time announcer at the Voice of Having settled in New York, Mr. organizing new members for the UFA Albina Derevianko; sons, Andrew, an America, died here at Georgetown Shostak first worked at Pergamon and served as president of the 01zhy- officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, sta­ University Hospital on February 8after Press and in time became vice-presi­ chivka Resort in Northampton. tioned in Long Beach, Calif., George, spending seven and a half months dent of the company. In 1977 he started He was a member of the Ukrainian who just returned from Germany; a in a hospital paralyzed due to a working at V0A where he worked as an Citizens Club m Scranton, and the grandson, Yuri; and a brother and two hemorrhage in the brain. announcer and frequently, with great Shevchenko Scientific Society. He sisters in Ukraine. Mr. Shostak was born on February enthusiasm, wrote and taped programs served as president of the 01zych Funeral services were held February 22, 1931, in Krasnodar on the Kuban to on musical and theatrical themes. He Research Foundation and was vice­ 2 from the Graham McCune Funeral the family of a Red Army officer, who also wrote articles on the arts for president of Organization for the Re­ Home in Mountaintop with liturgical was shot by the NKVD in 1937 for Svoboda. birth of Ukraine. services at St. Andrew's Ukrainian speaking out against the Soviet regime. He participated in community life, Prior to becoming an officer in the Orthodox Cathedral in South Bound During the war, he and his mother, an especially in projects dealing with the Ukrainian Fraternal Association, Dr. Brook, N.J. The Very Rev. Nestor opera singer, found their way West, arts, most notably the concert com­ Czapowskyj was employed by the Kowal of St. MichaeTs Church in traveling through Germany, Brazil and memorating Ukraine's Great Famine of Northeast Forest Experiment Station Scranton and the Rev. Bohdan Levy~ finally arriving in the United States in 1932-33, which was held at the Kennedy headquartered in Upper Darby, Pa. The tsky of St. Mary's in McAdoo conduct­ 1958. Center in 1983. station covers 14 Northeastern states. ed parastas services at the funeral home, Although Mr. Shostak studied eco­ On June 22, 1986, he suffered a He was an experimental soil scientist, and the Very Rev. Kowal and and the nomics, theatre and music, especially massive hemorrhage of the brain. and author of many papers and books Rev. Eugene Natusevych of Herkimer, on soil conservation. N.Y., conducted funeral services at St. Memorial tribute He received his diplomaforstwirt Andrew's Memorial Church and ceme­ degree from Ludwig-Maximillians tery in South Bound Brook. Alvin Kapusta Following is the text of a tribute, its proper global and historical Oksana Pawliw, Cohoes/Houston activist prepared by the board and members perspective. A1 pushed for the crea­ of The Washington Group, to the by Anna Gogosha tion of an office to study Soviet late Alvin Kapusta, who died on nationalities at the State Depart­ January 25 at the age of 57. COfilOES, N.Y. - On the morning of ment. He eventually collected a vast amount of files and documents, and December 22, 1986, a painful announce­ The news of his death was a shock. ment shook the Ukrainian community wrote a nationalities newsletter. The We expect and are better able to Slavs are a singificant group com­ of Cohoes. N.Y., and of the entire accept the death of an elderly, ill Capital District Area. This was the news posed of many cultures. The Rus­ person who has lived a full life and sians are but one of these groups. of the death of Oksana Bohdanna awaits death calmly. Pawliw, daughter of members of the Each deserves to be recognized and The death of A1 Kapusta was have its place in the sun. This was Ukrainian community, 01ha and Му­ unexpected and difficult to accept. к0Iа Pawliw. A1's message to U.S. foreign-policy He hadn4 comp1eted his life's work makers. Miss Pawliw died at age 36, after a yet. He had just gotten his second A1 immersed himself in the activi­ long and serious illness, at a time that wind and like an eagle perched high her professional development and ties of the Ukrainian community up on a tree, he was getting ready to nationwide. Although he had all the involvement with the community were soar again. rapidly increasing. right ingredients to be a true Ukrai­ ALs roots were in the black soil of nian, he had them in different pro­ She was born October 6, I95I, in North Dakota, planted there by his Cohoes and attended the Ukrainian portions. He stood out. He could ancestors from Kiev. These were rationally approach problems, dis­ Catholic parochial school of Ss. Peter Ukrainian roots that were planted, and Paul. She was a very good student cuss issues, propose solutions. He strong, robust, able to withstand the was a moderator, mediator, negotia­ and participated in all school programs. bitter cold, the prairie winds, the 1n addition she attended Saturday tor, elder statesman, chief warrior, blazing sun. Instead of settling down father, godfather - all in one. He classes at the School of Ukrainian to a comfortable life as a teacher in studies. While a student of Keveny Oksana Pawliw counse1led us, He was a follower, he North Dakota, A1 opted for adven­ was a leader. Memorial Academy, she continued to ture. He joined the U.S. Army, went Despite serious surgery, he under­ increase her knowledge of the Ukrai­ to graduate school in California, and Correction nian language and culture, and became took a new challenge: to become a finally, joined the Foreign Service. librarian. He amassed a bibliography In Marianna Liss's story (January 25) more active in the local Ukrainian­ He wanted to see the worId, and that of Slavic publications hoping to about ChicagoV comniemoration of the American community. he did. create a documentation center for Day of Solidarity with Ukrainian She was an avid member of PIast, the His assignments took him to the Soviet nationalities here in Washing­ Pdlitical Prisoners, it was mistakenly Ukrainian youth organization, both in remote corners of the wor1d, like ton. The Library of Congress has stated that the.program held after the high school and during her college Afghanistan and Burma. But the thousands of papers, books, beauti­ moleben service was a P1ast program. 1n years. She participated in P1ast summer spirit of his ancestors remained ful original manuscripts on Slavic fact, the participants were members of camps at many sites, including a jambo­ strong. He became interested in history and culture. A1 would tackle a11 youth organizations, SUM-A, ree in the Canadian Rockies. As a geneology, cDmpiled his own family them all. He would show the wor1d ODUM, PIast and church youth groups member of that organization, she com­ tree and went on the road to talk what a splendid breed the Slavs are. of both the Catholic and Orthodox p1eted various training programs and about his Ukrainian heritage with 1t seems unreal to have this monu­ Churches. Also, the petition and post held various positions of responsibility. pride. To know who you are, you mental task short-circuited and card drive at the conclusion of the 1n I969, Miss Pawliw e;ntered the must know where you came from, he stopped. program was organized by the Chicago College of St. Rose in Albany, N.Y., would say. We will miss A1 Kapusta, but we chapter of Americans for Human where she majored in French and Identifying his heritage was not will follow his sou1. An eagle awing Rights in Ukraine, not the Ukrainian Spanish. There she took part in theater enough. It was important to put it in cannot be stopped. American Justice Committee. (Continued on page 13) No.7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 5

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

3) Such a statement seems ghoulish may be considered "political enemies" communities to ex4st in the future. Our Response No. 1 in its implied competition of who had by, say, working toward a "free U- generation finds itself in the grasp 0fan the worse genocide. Each was quite bad kraine" (or for other political reasons) evolving community. The older genera- to Epstein's reply enough, though each was different from in an effort to return these same indivi­ tion is retiring, leaving numerous Dear Editor: the other. Each tragedy should actually duals to the Soviet Union for punish­ organizations without workers. At this I would like to add one further serve as a bond promoting greater ment and/or certain death. point, 1 feel, that our communities are in response in the ongoing debate with understanding and mutual sympathy Now I have no way of knowing if this a seeking mode. Alexander Epstein. Mr. Epstein writes between two great peoples who have is the case for John Demjanjuk or other This seeking mode is causing a certain (February 1, 1987) that he cannot known the horrors of collective victimi­ accussed "Nazi criminals" who have degree of turmoil and stress, The understand why "so many Ukrainians zation in this century. been (and will continue to be) "ex­ communities do not, as yet, have a prio­ have rallied to the defense of each and While I have no wish to impune Mr. posed" by Soviet evidence, but the ritized agenda. We continue to bicker every one of their countrymen who has Kovaliv's character or motives, 1 think possibility may exist and should be over Wor1d War 11 issues. At the same been charged with war crimes." his statement is not only inaccurate but considered by the open-minded person. time we have historical revisionists There are two obvious reasons. First, irresponsible. Without commenting on I pray to God that the truth will be attempting to change Ukrainian history in a free society everyone is entitled to a Mr. Epstein's specific points or those revealed and that justice will be done in and brand us as a nation of nationalis­ defense. And second, there are serious made by others, it would seem that his the end. tic killers. We have the YUPpies (Young doubts about the OSI process. Since the letter was an honest attempt to promote Ukrainian Professionals) who do a lot OSFs methods seem unfair and even understanding between the Jewish and Ihor Bilyk of talking, but prefer to hide their heads suspect, since the OSI is the subject of Ukrainian communities, and both Cincinnati in the sand and compare car stereos. continuing serious allegations and grow­ communities need to develop sympathy Don4 get me wrong, not all YUPpies ing national debate, since 1he OS1 and understanding for each other. To Pritsak's opinion fall into this category. works so closely with the Soviet Union, state that our tragedy is bigger than The Ukrainian communities do have there are valid reasons for ethnics your tragedy is not only untrue; it can on Miliennium a core of young people wno are not only fee1ing that the OSI may not be inte­ lead only to mutual antipathy and dedicated to making money, but also rested in ascertaining Ihe guilt or misunderstanding. Dear Editor: have the will to aci. The Ukrainian innocence of the accused individuals. Having read the February I issue of American Justice Coinmittee (UAJC) Instead, this bureaucracy seems more James Mace The Ukrainian Weekly. I would like to in Chicago with Father Peter Galadza interested in deporting as many Ameri­ staff director give a reply to a letter, In the letters to as president has accomplished, quite a cans of East European heritage as U.S. Commission on thQ editor column as submiited by Ihor bit in the short time of its existence. The possible to the Soviet Union and other the Ukraine Famine Hryhorowycz. Washington Group in the D,C. area has Comm:unist countries. As long as this Washington He asks: '^What is Prof. Pritsak^s galvanized the Washington area youn­ perception exists, there will be a chorus view?" ger generation into actiDn on a variety of criticism directed not at OSI's Last year when a book review ap­ of issues. A vibrant group of young existence, but at its methods. Response No. 2 peared in The New York Tim1es, regard­ Ukrainians is active in Texas. Eugene Mr. Epstein would do well in joining ing the book "Vladimir, The Russian Kuchta of Houston publishes the Texas the calls for investigation and reform of to Epstein's reply Viking" as written by Vladimir Volkoff, Trident. I am sure there are other OS1. It is clear that the present situation which tells about Volodymyr, the groups which also are active. The ques­ Dear Editor: tion does remain, are we doing enough? helps no one but the Soviets. I am writing in response to Mr. Prince of Ukraine, 1 wrote to Prof. The potential in Chicago, for ex­ Alexander Epstein's letter which ap­ Pritsak, seeking information as to what ample, is enormous. During the Medvid Anthony B. Mazeika peared in the February 1 issue of The we Ukrainians can do to prove Mr. crisis, Ukrainians were coming out of President Ukrainian Weekly. 1t is unfortunate Volkoff does not tell the truth about the woodwork. Unfortunately, they Coalition for that Mr. Epstein (as well as some other Prince Volodymyr. returned to the woodwork just as fast. Constitutional Justice and Security letter writers) gives no reference to the Attached is Prof. Pritsak's letter to Why? The issues of OS1 and Soviet Mission Viejo, Calif. source of his information. For example, me. evidence used in our court systems in what was really the true practice that the the prosecution of American citizens "SS" used to enro1l Soviet prisoners of Wasyll Gina are lethal issues which must be dealt Each tragedy war? Making statements without refe­ New Haven, Conn. with. Procrastination or giving lame rence to published evidence or eyewit­ excuses are no longer accepted. History must be honored ness accounts is "hearsay." Dear Editor: will judge us by what we do now. 1 am Mr. Epstein himself admits that the convinced that some day law schools I was disturbed by the following American (and Canadian) judicial Dear Mr. Gina: inaccurate statement in Stepan Kova- Thank you very much for your letter will study the OS1 and its travesty of system, although honorable, "may have justice. Shall we be remembered as liv's letter ("Response No. 8to Epstein," some flaws." It is a well-known fact that of 10 June. January 25): ''Although Ukrainians 1 would like to stress that the main Americans that took no action because a substantial number of innocent people we were spoiled by the good life? 1ts have never denied the loss of Jewish have been sent to jail based on false concern of our institute is to bring into population during Hitler's diabolical realization the so-called Harvard Mil­ time for the so-called younger genera­ evidence (eg. the famous Illinois "false tion to quit complaining and being regime in Wor1d War II, and though we rape" case of 1985). What if Mr. Dem­ lennium Project. 1f we succeed, we will deeply sympathize with the Jewish win the contest with the Russians. If passive, and start getting to work. janjuk becomes unfortunate enough to Join Americans for Human Rights in community around the wor1d, we U- meet with one of these "faults" in the not, nothing will help even if [there are] krainians have to contend with our own 2 million letters to every newspaper Ukraine. This is probably the only judicial system? As long as a human national Ukrainian organization that forgotten holocaust' which was four to being, and not God, is on the judicial trying to convince the public that this is five times greater than the Jewish one." not just a Russian occasion. has an agenda of combatting disinfor­ system and is making the decisions, the mation regarding Ukrainians. 1f one As a historian who has spent some system will remain fallible; and thus, time researching the man-made Great Sincerely yours, does not exist in your city, start a group. one should always work hard to ensure 1f you do not have any Ukrainians in Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine and as that the whole truth is exposed (what­ Omeljan Pritsak staff director of that organ of the United your city, start a one-person action ever it may be), and not just sit back and group. Write to the local papers, TV States government which is mandated "have faith in the system." by law to research that tragedy, I must Get Involved in stations. The Coalition for Constitu­ make several points: Another question asked by Mr. tional Justice and Security headed by 1) In terms of the number of people Epstein was that if "valid" captured community life Tony Mazeika is an umbrella organiza­ Nazi documents already exist, then why tion which is very active regarding the who died in |both the Jewish Holocaust Dear Editor: and the Ukrainian famine, we are would the Soviets have to forge docu­ OS1 issues. I can tell that some of you ments? However, do "valid" captured 1 used to get The Weekly, and it feel that, well I don4 have any materials dealing with roughly equal numbers, 5 would be put on the bottom pf the "to to 7 million Ukrainians and 6 million Nazi documents really exist? That is the to use. Well, if you are reading thii subject of one of the arguments in the read" pile of magazinesr and journals, letter, than utilize The Weekly. The Jews. However, the total Jewish popu­ Now, The Weekly is the first to be read. lation of Europe on the eve of the press (three-part series in Cincinnati Weekly provides up-to-date informa­ Enquirer, June 8-І0, 1986, plus other Why? The Weekly has become relevant tion which x:an be easily inc6rporated Holocaust was but a fraction of jthe and has adjusted to the needs of the Ukrainian population of the Soviet previous articles in The Ukrainian into any type of strategy" Weekly), and the answer is not clear, 1n community. The current articles by Union on the eve of the famine. Thus, a Messrs. Kuropas and Iwanciw on direc­ much larger proportion of European addition, investigators repprtedly are Romm G. Golieh not allowed to freely question pertinent tion in our community has stimulated a Palatine, 11!. Jewry was killed by Hitler than the response. The need for discussing proportion of Ukrainians in the USSR witnesses, who are presently residing in Soviet-bloc countries. Is that what "full current issues facing our communities is The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes which Stalin murdered by his policy of vital. Through The Weekly and other forced starvation. cooperation" with the Soviets in the letters to the editor. Letters should be investigation of Nazi war crimes is means, perhaps the community can typed (double-spaced) and signed; they 2) Hitler's goal was to make Europe . forge a new agenda and finally prioritize Judenrein by killing every single Jew, supposed to mean? must be originals, not photocopies. T1ie what is important and what is irrele­ daytime phone number and address of while Stalin seems to have sought to kill Finally, Mr. Epstein should ask his vant. only enough Ukrainians, which turned Ukrainian friends to explain the ob­ the letter-writer must be given for out to be about 20 percent of the total, vious reasons why the Soviet authorities 1 essentially agree with both Messrs. verification purposes. Anonymous to neutralize the Ukrainian nation as a would be personally motivated to carry Kuropas and Iwanciw. They agree on letters or letters signed by fictitioas political factor and sociological or­ out disinformation and forge docu­ many of the issues, Mr. 1wanciw being a persons will not be published. Please ganism. ments against certain Ukrainians, who bit more defensive. We all want our keep letters concise and to the 'юіпI. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

PRESS REVIEW' uLrainianWeel;l Buchanan answers Ryan У WASH1NGTON - Patrick Bucha­ "For a man with an open-and-shut nan, assistant to the president and case against John Demjanjuk, the great White House director of communica- Nazi hunter seems nervous. And rightly The Demjanjuk trial tirinc^ has replied to a commentary he should be. For Ryan's reputation With the trial of John Demjanjuk scheduled to resume tomorrow, written by Allan A. Ryan, Jr., former hangs on a five-year old accusation that it is appropriate to recall several salient facts about the case. director of the U.S. Justice Depart­ becomes less and less credible, the closer First and foremost, the real issue in the case is not the horror of the ment's Office of Special Investigations one studies it." Holocaust and the enormity of the "Final Solution" devised by Hitler. (OSI) in relation to the case of accused Mr. Buchanan reminds his readers That is not a subject of dispute in the Demjanjuk case. The key issue is Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. that Mr. Demjanjuk was deported from the United States, not because of identity: 1s John Demjanjuk the brutal camp guard who became The two men have carried on a battle known as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka? Nazi war crimes, but because he had lied in print over the identity and innocence on his visa application, something he There are serious doubts, however, that John Demjanjuk is the of Mr. Demjanjuk, who is accused of admitted in court in 1981. notorious "Ivan." There are survivors' accounts that state "Ivan" was being the brutal Treblinka death camp "This falsification was a 'lie,' a killed in a prisoners' revolt at Treblinka; therearesurvivors whosay Mr. guard "1van the Terrible" and whose 'perjury' that was father to many Demjanjuk is not "1van," as well as those who say he is; and there are trial is to resume in Israel tomorrow. Mr. others, writes Ryan. Why — if he were still others who have contradicted themselves on this matter. Five Buchanan, who for four years followed innocent of war crimes — would Dem­ survivors reportedly have picked a photograph of Mr. Demjanjuk out Mr. Demjanjuk's case, carefully asserts janjuk falsify his wartime experiences of a photo spread, while 12 did not. that, based on his research, the man is on his visa application? innocent. Mr. Ryan, who wrote "Quiet And then there is the matter of the critical piece of evidence, the so­ Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Cri­ "The answer is obvious. A conscript called Trawniki 1D card supplied by the Soviet Union. Some experts minals in America" in which he devoted in the Red Army in 1943 Demjanjuk have stated that it bears evidence of alterations; others say it is a fraud, a chapter to Mr. Demjanjuk, asserts was wounded in the Crimea, captured Still others, including Patrick Buchanan, who became interested in the that he is guilty. by the Germans, interned as a POW at Demjanjuk case as a newspaper columnist before he joined the Reagan Mr. Buchanan first came to Mr.. Chelm (Kholm), Poland, and, in 1944, administration, say it is a KGB forgery conveniently whipped up when Demjanjuk's defense in an editorial recruited for Gen. Vlasov's 'Army of the the need arose. published in The Washington Post Damned' to fight the Red Army. He Setting aside all the questions about the 1D card that a forensic September 28, 1986, titled "Nazi Butcher wore the blood-group tattoo of the Eastern European Waffen SS. Had he examination could attempt to answer, consider also the fact that the or Mistaken Identity." He ascertained told the Americans, to whom he surren­ card bears no record of service by "1wan Demjanjuk" at Treblinka — that if Mr. Demjanjuk is not guilty of dered in Bavaria in I945, of his service only at Sobibor. his crimes, "then — in this writer's alongside the Wermacht, he could have Also, a Soviet Ukrainian newspaper that recently reproduced a part judgment — John Demjanjuk may be been 'repatriated' to Stalin under the of the 1D card showed it with a photograph different from the one that the victim of an American Dreyfus ,allies' Operation Keelhaul, and shot at has by now become familiar to us in the West. There were other case." the railhead on his return to the U- differences, too, such as missing notations, on the Mo1od Ukrainy On October 26, Mr. Ryan countered kraine. Having concocted a story that Mr. Buchanan's column in "Pat Bucha­ version. And, the man in the Mo1od Ukrainy photo bears no he was a farmer in Poland during the nan Is Wrong: 'Ivan the Terrible' resemblance to the man on the 1D card heretofore seen. war, Demjanjuk stuck with it on his visa Wasn't Railroaded, Says his Prosecu­ application." Yet another interesting point arises thanks to the Soviet Ukrainian tor" in which he, again, stated that Mr. newspaper article headlined "The Vampire Lived in Cleveland," which Demjanjuk is the death camp guard. Mr. Buchanan also discussed the allegedly reviews the "c^re^" о (Ivan) Demjanjuk. There is Now, in his response to Mr. Ryan, Soviet-supplied Trawniki training absolutely,no mention of Treblinka, the stomping grounds of "Ivan Mr. Buchanan sets the stage for his camp 1 D. card, which is the major piece the Terrible." The only camps mentioned are the Trawniki training rebuttal, that the former OS1 director of evidence in the Demjanjuk trial. camp, Sobibor, Flossenburg and Regensburg. "charged me with attacking the *motives "Well, now," Mr. Buchanan con­ 1n addition, there are the Trawniki camp roster and the transfer list and integrity of the Justice Depart­ tinued, "perhaps we shall know the to Treblinka. Mr. Buchanan has noted that John Demjanjuk's name ment,' with misstatements and distor­ truth. For the Soviets have, at long last, appears on neither. tions, with embarrassing the Reagan yielded the original up for the 1srael The defense has encountered several insurmountable obstacles in administration, with delivering an trial. And the new question has arisen. insult to 4he federal judiciary and to the Why is Demjanjuk's name nowhere to preparing its case, and these, too, cause us to question the quality of American people.' "justice" for John Demjanjuk. (Continued on page 11) The Polish government has consistently denied a visa to Attorney Mark O'Connor, who hoped to interview witnesses living in that country. And, even more incredible was the revelation in a Los Kuropas on Demjanjuk case Angeles Times story by Robert Gillette that U.S. officials, after CH1CAGO - "With the Israeli trial fact: Neither Demjanjuk nor others who granting visas to two Polish witnesses who were to testify for the of John Demjanjuk [accused of being lost U.S. citizenship for concealing a defense at the 1984 deportation hearings, cancelled them after the the infamous Treblinka concentration Nazi past...were politically active.' Office of Special 1nvestigations intervened. camp guard '1van the Terrible'] due to "Political activity is irrelevant to the Now, add to above a fact learned just this past week: 1sraeli resume in early January, opinion pieces KGB," Dr. Kuropas continued. "The authorities will not permit forensic examination of the Trawniki 1D are beginning to surface in the Ameri­ less visible a particular person is, the less card because it is inviolable Soviet property. can press which tend to either misrepre­ obvious the KGB conspiracy. What sent or distort the facts surrounding this Surely, the foregoing amounts to a serious obstruction of justice. matters to the KGB is that with the help increasingly controversial international of present and past OSI officials, as well 1srael's minister of education was recently quoted by the Los event." as certain American newspaper pundits Angeles Times as saying, "there seem to be doubts" about whether With this beginning, Myron B. Kuro­ and correspondents, serious doubts John Demjanjuk is "1van the Terrible" of Treblinka. "1t would be a pas, supreme vice-president of the have been raised among Americans tragedy if it's not him. 1 hope that it is him and there will be some point Ukrainian National Association replied regarding all displaced persons who fled to this trial," he stated. to an article which appeared in The Soviet tyranny. We disagree. The real tragedy would be if an innocent man were ChicagoTribune recently regarding the "Ukrainians believe that it is more sentenced to death in order to make a point. trial of Mr. Demjanjuk. In his opinion than a mere coincidence that at a time piece, printed December 30, I986, Dr. when Sta1in's 1932-33 forced famine in Kuropas stated that the article, written Ukraine is being brought to the wor1d's by Carles Chi Halevi, while bringing up attention by Ukrainians outside of the important issues which will be discussed USSR, those same Ukrainians are being Notice regarding mail delivery in the trial, namely assertions that Mr. defamed by initiatives from Moscow. Demjanjuk may be found innocent in "What Halevi and other OSI suppor­ light of claims that the real "Ivan the ters need to consider is this: Demjan­ of The Weekly Terrible" died in a Treblinka uprising juk's name first came to the attention of and questions about the authenticity of It has come to our attention that The Ukrainian Weekly is often OS1 through a KGB-published periodi­ a Soviet-supplied identity card bearing cal titled News From Ukraine. It also delivered late, or irregularly, orthat our subscribers sometimes receive the accused's name, misses the primary several issues at once. was the KGB which supplied the phony importance of the trial. ID card, the most damaging 'evidence' We feel it is necessary to notify our subscribers that The Weekly is Dr. Kuropas wrote: during Demjanjuk's deportation hear­ mailed out Friday mornings (before the Sunday date of issue) via "What is most distressing about ing. Given the Soviet Union's abysmal second-class mail. Halevi's article is his cavalier dismissal perception and treatment of Jews, can If you are not receiving regular delivery of The Weekly, we urge you of Ukrainian American claims that their anyone really believe that Soviet co­ to file a complaint at your local post office. This may be done by community is being defamed by the operation with the OSI is based solely obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Service Card and filling Soviets for their anti-Soviet posture. on motives related to achieving justice out the appropriate sections. This 'convenient conspiracy theory,' for Jews? Ukrainians and an increasing writes Halevi, 'ignores a paramount number of Americans think not." No.7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987

Patrick Buchanan: the worId has forgotten the Hitler'Stalin alliance Following is the text of remarks delivered on of Trawnicki has dismissed it as a "laughable forgery." assume the guilt of this man in the dock in Jerusalem. January 25 by Patrick Buchanan, special assistant to The half dozen survivor witnesses against Demjan­ We know, for example, that Frank Walus of the president and White House communications juk, all of whom identified him from a 30-year-old Chicago was accused by almost a dozen "eyewitnesses'" director, at the Ukrainian Independence Day banquet photograph, over the years, contradicted themselves of perpetrating Nazi atrocities in occupied Poland. All in Chicago, where he was honored with the Man of the and contradicted one another — under oath. 12 eyewitnesses were proved wrong. We know that Year Award. The defense now has the camp roster from Traw­ 1van Stebelsky of Denver, a Ukrainian American nicki and the transfer list to Treblinka. The name 1van leader, was accused by Simon Wiesenthal of being a I consider this a great honor; and I thank you Demjanjuk is on neither one. Nazi war criminal. And Wiesenthal was dead wrong profoundly for it. And even though the 1sraeli indictment against - a second time. We know that Tscherim Soobzokov, The hour is getting late; and the Super Bow1 is just Demjanjuk contends that he was universally known in a Circassian living in New Jersey, was also falsely ahead. And even though the Washington Redskins the death camp as "1van the Terrible" - 12 of the 17 accused of being a Nazi war criminal. The charge was eliminated the Chicago Bears, and neither team made Jewish survivors of Treblinka who were questioned by disproved by a courageous journalist,my friend John it to Pasadena, 1 am sure you don4 want to miss it. So, OS1 either could not identify Demjanjuk or had never Caster; but that did not save Soobzokov from I will be brief in my remarks. even heard of an "1van the Terrible." assassination outside his home in 1985. The first subject I wish to discuss, briefly, is the case 1n the fall of this past past year, 1 read and re-read Great atrocities ought not be unpunished; there of John Demjanjuk, the denaturalized American citizen of Ukrainian birth, who came to the United \f is both Orwellian and Kafkaesque that Amencans of East European States in 1952 to raise his family in Cleveland, Ohio, descent should be deported to the Soviet Union to stand trial for and who, this coming month, goes on trial for his life in Jerusalem - accused of the most odious of Nazi collaborating in \л/аг crimes with Adolph Hitler, when Adolph Hitler's atrocities during the second wor1d war. My views on this case are, of course, personal; they principal collaborator in the great war crimes that launched WorId are my own; not those of the American government, War II was the self-same government of the Soviet Union. nor of the administration which I serve. But I have studied and written on this case for four the contemporaneous accounts of Treblinka of half a should be no statute of limitations on Treblinka and years. And the deeper one reads into the matter of dozen Jewish survivors. Not one mentions an "1van Auschwitz. But what the decent and patriotic John Demjanjuk, and that bloody killing ground the Terrible." The one who describes a camp guard Americans of the Eastern European communities in called Treblinka, the more implausible it becomes that named 1van also describes the manner of his death in the United States ask of the American government it this 22-year-old Red Army conscript, wounded and the August uprising of 1943. seems to me, is not unreasonable. captured in the Crimea in early 1942, could con­ For months now, Polish villagers who still live in We are Americans, they say, and we believe in ceivably have become within months the sadistic the vicinity of the destroyed camp called Treblinka American justice for Amer1ican citizens, not Soviet camp guard before whose barbarities even the veteran have been prepared to testify that the 1van the camp justice — which is a contradiction in terms. There is hard Nazis of the SS blanched in horror. guard they remember was both an older and a much evidence that the KGB has fabricated charges and 1t is my deep personal belief that John Demjanjuk is larger man than 1van Demjanjuk. Yet, the Polish forged documents against American citizens in the an innocent man, that he is a tragic victim of American government had denied defense counsel access to these past - and any Soviet-supplied evidence should be gullibility and Soviet malice, that history will one day witnesses. Why - if this is an open and shut case? viewed with massive skepticism. And any witnesses record that few greater errors were ever made in the As 1 have repeatedly stated, my views about this case produced by the agents of the KGB against citizens of history of American jurisprudence. are my own - not those of the United States the United States should be made subject to cross­ The only piece of documentary evidence that exists government or the Reagan administration. But 1 examination by American defense attorneys in against John Demjanjuk is a Soviet-supplied I.D. card would urge this community - and all your friends - American courts. supposedly from the Trawnicki training center for do not turn your back on John Demjanjuk and his 1t is both Orwellian and Kafkaesque that Americans guards. We believe that card was produced by the family. And 1 would urge my former coUeagues in the of East European descent .should be 4eported to the KGB; I believe that; and at least one German veteran press, who believe in justice, not to automatically (Contiriued'bh page Ї4)' ^^'

The Demjanjuk case: now4 the time to tell our story to the public by Daria Antonyshyn extensive, one-sided coverage of the public, to answer those inevitable unexpected bonus to the case and to the "war criminals" issue since it first made "Ukrainian questions." Ukrainian community has been Mr. 1t has been written that of all "base headlines. What will be even more A vast amount of money is spent on O'Connor's media and public relations passions, fear is the most accurs'd." offensive is the media blitz aimed at the image-making and on buying the minds savvy. It has contributed to Pat Bucha­ Fear seems to breed inertia, and the Ukrainian communities worldwide and votes of people. The gross income, nan's courageous public defense of Mr. East European communities of North from an extensively publicized war for instance, of American advertising Demjanjuk, a decision not without its America are in the grip of both over the crimes trial. agencies was S8.17 billion in 1985 with risks to a brilliant career. What Ukrai­ war criminals issue. Nazi-period books, documentaries, billings reaching S55.8 billion for 500 nian and non-Ukrainian men and wo­ 1n no instance is this more obvious films, mini-series and news stories take leading U.S. agencies. Companies, men are doing out of conviction regard­ than in the case of John Demjanjuk. advantage of the reading and viewing countries and individuals are spending ing the case of John Demjanjuk has no This is a case that will not conveniently habits of millions of people. This means those kinds of megadollars to sell their price tag. disappear and let us get on with our that a public that has known nothing or message or to promote their image. A Other matters do. Transportation, lives. 1t is of such a nature that, even if next to nothing about Ukraine and politician will readily spend, for ex­ accommodations, meals, salaries and we chose to ignore it, it will not ignore Ukrainians will be exposed to a heinous, ample, S250,00O to get a flattering 30­ professional fees of the 15 eyewitnesses us. When the trial of John Demjanjuk distorted image of who we are. second commercial produced about who must be flown to 1srael from all opens in 1srael on February 16, we will During the course of a six-month himself, while we raise a similar sum over the wor1d are very high. Fees for no longer be able to cling to our trial, the image of the "brutal" Ukrai­ over years for what has been billed as forensic document examiners, are S50O illusions. nian will become dominant. 1n the quest the "trial of the century." Powerful per day (minimum), plus expenses. Pernicious publicity of the "Ukrai­ for higher ratings - which means more lobbies spend millions, via political Highly regarded experts in the field of nian Nazi butcher'' variety will affect all advertising revenue for news operations action committees to influence the votes eyewitness testimony and memory are Ukrainians, from the valiant members - and in the competitive spirit which of Senate and Congress members. charging rates of S300 an hour, plus of Ukrainian nationalist groups to exists between networks, reporters will Whether or not we acknowledge it, expenses. Some of the expert parties third-generation Ukrainians who carry be vying with each other to cater to the the trial of John Demjanjuk will mean insist on flying first class only. Other Ukrainian names. The distance between public's appetite for sensation. Sensa­ that Ukraine, its ro1e during World War experts demand fees of from S50O to those Ukrainians whose grandparents tion sells. Only when all else fails, goes 11, Ukrainian-Jewish relations and S80O per day to appear on the witness came to North America, those who are the popular saying, do you tell the truth. Soviet policies toward Ukraine will stand. Archival research both in Ame­ the successful offspring of post-war When the truth is finally known, John assume a high public profile. Our rica and in various countries through­ emigres, and those who are indifferent Demjanjuk will be vindicated. detachment from the case and our out the wor1d is costly. The complex to the Ukrainian question - the dis­ But the saddest casualty of this trial cautious financial support of the de­ process of obtaining foreign depositions tance between these and the 66-year-old may be the truth about the ro1e of fense will not, in the end, serve us well. is expensive and fraught with danger. Mr. Demjanjuk, who sits in a cell in Ukrainians during Wor1d War 11. That The disturbing impasse can still be There are the attendant travel and 1srael, has recently been bridged. they were victims, not perpetrators of broken. Our funds can ensure that the telephone bills which, for an interna­ tional case, can run into thousands of 1n a letter on the Demjanjuk case, crimes will get lost in the ensuing shuffle legal and "public relations" battle is not of "news." lost through financial default. 1t is dollars per week. Telephone contacts DoV Ben-Meir, deputy speaker of the with the international press - a must Knesset, writes a sentence that has by By then it will be too late to register illusory to think that a case of this any significant protests. magnitude and complexity can be when Attorney O'Connor was in 1srael now been committed to memory: for months conveying vital information "...since the days of Bogdan Chel- The Hall of Government, the largest handled for under a million dollars. amphitheatre in 1srael with a seating Because much of the case thus far has - cost well over S1,00О in a week. There menitzky [sic], the Jewish people has a are over 30,000 documents that need to long score to settle with the Ukrainian capacity of 600, has already been rented been conducted on a minimum budget, for the occasion. At least 200 members Attorney Mark O'Connor has had to be translated from nine different lan­ people." guages. At a cost of SI per line for What is even more offensive than the of the international print and electronic invest lavishly of his own time, and on media are expected to attend. The occasion, money. Thousands of hours certified translations, it can be seen how above missive is the public battering our quickly expenses mount. There is cur­ image has undergone as a result of the ethnic origin of the prisoner in the dock have been devoted to this case. The fee will be as much an issue as his alleged at the nominal rate of S15O per hour rently an outstanding travel bill of S26,00O payable to a travel agency Daria Antonyshyn is a free-lance crimes. This could be a rare opportunity would have exhausted the family coffers (Continued on page 12) writer from Toronto. for Ukrainians, via a captive media and long before this critical juncture. One THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

ulrainian independence Day - January 22,1987 Florida Arizona

John Kohut at the podium with George Firestone, Florida's secretary of state, Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham with Ukrainian delegation. reading the proclamation of Ukrainian Independence Day. PHOEN1X, Ariz. - On Wednesday, American Credit Union, Ukrainian January 2l,a delegation from the School, Organization for the Defense of by Helen 01ek Scott almost 100 years in the United States Ukrainian American community of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Commit­ and every year on January 22, Ukrai­ greater Phoenix met with Arizona Gov. tee for the Ukrainian Patriarchate, as TALLAHASSEE, F1a. - Early nian Independence Day, Ukrainians in Evan Mecham at his officeioxaLpubljc welLasJocal churches. Thursday morning, January 22, a America renew their resolve to perpe­ signing of a proclamation designating On Friday, January 23, a proclama­ busload of Ukrainians left from the tuate their heritage. At the same time January 22, 1987, as Ukrainian Inde­ tion designating Ukrainian 1ndepen­ Ukrainians have absorbed all the epiphany of Our Lord Ukrainian Ca­ pendence Day. dence Day in Phoenix was issued by tholic Church of St. Petersburg for beauty and joy of life in a society Mayor Terry Goddard. Tallahassee, the state capital, 250 miles devoted to freedom and cultural plura­ Newly inaugurated Gov. Mecham, The proclamations from the gover­ away, to post the Ukrainian flag in the lism. Having known tyranny and op­ took time from his busy schedule to nor of Arizona and mayor of Phoenix Rotunda of the Capitol. The group pression in their homeland, Ukrainians meet with area Ukrainian-American were presented and read to over 150 represented St. Petersburg, North Port will never forget the liberty America has leaders. members of community on Sunday, and Port Richey. given them." Among the organizations represent­ January 25, at a banquet observing At the Capitol a short program At this time, Mr. Firestone read ed were the Arizona Branch of the Ukrainian Independence Day. The started with a prayer by Very Rev. M. Florida's declaration of Ukrainian Ukrainian Congress Committee of banquet was sponsored by the UCCA, PetUk, and the American national Independence Day after which the choir America, Ukrainian American Youth Arizona Branch and was held at the anthem was sung by the Ukraina Chpir sa1Ig'some folk songs. The Rev. Petlak Association, Ukrainian National Wo­ Ukrainian-American Youth Associa­ directed by Stella Petlak. An introduc­ closed the program with a prayer and men's League of America, Ukrainian tion hall. tion by John Kohut on the meaning of the choir sang the Ukrainian National Ukrainian Independence Day, was anthem. followed by remarks of George Fire­ On Sunday, January 25, after liturgy Mercer County, N.J. stone, secretary of state, who comment­ in the church hall of the Epiphany of ed: Our Lord Church, a program was "Ukrainians have always been, loyal presented at which Clementine Zmur- and patriotic Americans, sensitive to kewych was the main speaker, followed the needs of their adopted country and by a poem read by Mrs. W. Kopynec. have always played an important ro1e in The Ukraina Choir sang three songs. the American way of life making contri­ Mr. Kohut introduced the guests butions in many different areas. ... present, including Alfred Kulitis, repre­ 'if there is a motto that has guided senting Latvians; Herman Rebana most Ukrainian immigrants and their representing Estonians; and Mrs. N. children it is the one left by Taras Rebana, president of SPIFFS, an Shevchenko, the greatest Ukrainian organization that represents 42 nations, poet, "Absorb all cultures, but forget who talked about the Ukrainian partici­ not your own." pation in this fine big organization. "As one of the best organized ethnic Present also were the Very Rev. J. groups in America today, they have not Fedyk, the Very Rev. M. Petlak and the forgotten their own background after Rev. G. Karmazin. Andrew Czuczuk appears with the Troyanda Choir at St. George's Ukrainian Elizabeth, N.J. Orthodox Church Hall during the January 22nd commemoration in Hamilton, N.J. by George A. Miziuk number of Ukrainian patriotic songs under the direction of Sophia Beryk- HAM1LTON, N.J. - Ukrainian Schultz. residents of several communities in The poem "СЬогпоЬуГ' was recited Mercer County, including Trenton, by Marta Haleta, while "The Anniver­ Hamilton Township, Ewing Township sary of the Declaration of Ukrainian and Lawrence Township, gathered for Independence" was executed by 01ha their annual celebration of Ukrainian Faraoniw. Independence Day at St. George's The program climaxed with a perfor­ Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall here mance by Andrew Czuczuk, a student on January 25. of the School for Ukrainian Studies at The program opened with declara­ the Ukrainian-American Cultural Cen­ tions commemorating the 69th anniver­ ter of Trenton. Mr. Czuczuk recited the sary of Ukrainian 1ndependence, signed poem "January 22" in Ukrainian. The by N.J. Gov. Thomas E. Kean, Mayor Troyanda choir concluded the program Arthur J. Holland of Trenton and by singing the "Prayer for Ukraine" by Mayor John K. Rafferty of Hamilton, Мук0Iа Lysenko. which were read by members of P1ast, About 175 persons attended this ODUMandSUM-A. concert, Ukrainian-Americans coming from as far away as Bordentown, The rest of the program was intro­ Hopewell and Hightstown, N.J., as well duced and led by 1van Kaftkowycz, and as Yardley, Morrisville and Levitt own, a memorial dissertation was read by Dr. Pa. Larissa Onyshkevych. Mayor Tom Dunn of Elizabeth, N.J., listens as students of St. Volodymyr This event was sponsored by the Ukrainian School read the proclamation of Ukrainian Independence Day The program continued with the Ukrainian Hromada Committee of that he signed just moments earlier. Troyanda wbmen's choir singing a Trenton. No.7 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987

Ukrainian Independence Day - January 22, 1987 Ansonia, Conn. Watervliet, N.Y. by Michael Sawkiw Jr. t1on of Yaroslav Kushnir, sang two songs. WATERVLIET, N.Y. - In obser­ Following the choir, the main speech vance of Ukrainian 1ndependence Day, was delivered by Daria Jakubowycz, a commemmorative program was held who spoke of Ukraine's proud history here on January 18. The commemora­ and the many battles in which the tive program was organized by the Ukrainian people sought to gain their Ukrainian Congress Committee of independence. America, United Branches of the Са^ As the program continued, the Ukrai­ pita1 District (Albany). nian Youth Association (SUM) had a The program began with opening group recitation followed by a poem remarks by Eugene Nabolotny, Presi­ recited by older SUM-A youths, Walter dent of the Capital District UCCA. Mr. Yedynak and Diana Shyrpuk. The Nabolotny stressed the importance of SUM presentation was prepared with January 22, 19I8, and noted that we the help of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Swi- should remember all the Ukrainian dersky. people who can not celebrate this Following the SUM presentation, the historical day. Ukrainian youths of P1ast re-enacted a montage called "Our Ukraine." The Student Michael Sawkiw Jr. read the montage consisted of questions and New York Executive Chamber's Pro­ answers, in song and verse form, about r^^i clamation designating January 22, Ukraine and its people. This montage 1987, as Ukrainian 1ndependence Day was prepared with the help of Mrs. From left are: First Selectman Robert J. Koskelowski of Seymour; Mayor Richard in the State of New York, signed by Jakubowycz. A. Grande of Derby; State Rep. Vincent J. Tonucci, (104th District); Mayor Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. The program continued as the St. William J. Menna of Ansonia; First Selectman Wil!liam J. Stakum of Oxford; Dmytro Chorvat followed Michael Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church Mayor Michael E. Pacowta of Shelton and the Rev. Gregory Maslak. Sawkiw with a formal reading of the by Frank F. Stuban congressmen aiid press that the plight of Choir from Watervliet, N.Y., under the Ukraine is and should be their concern Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian direction of Mr. Kushnir, sang two Central Rada. AN80N1A, Conn. - The 69th anni­ as well.'' Ukrainian songs. versary of Ukrainian Independence First Selectman William J. Stakum The observance also featured the At the end of the program, Mykola Day and the 54th anniversary of the Great of Oxford (of Lithuanian descent) and Choir of Ukrainian National Women's Fil thanked all the participants and the Famine in Ukraine, were marked in a First Selectman Robert J. Koskelowski League of America, Watervliet Branch observance ended with the singing of proclamations by many dignitaries on of Seymour (of Ukrainian descent) also 99. The female choir, under the direc- the Ukrainian national anthem. Thursday, January 22, in the former spoke. Court House in Ansonia. State Rep. Vincent J. Tonucci (l04th The ceremonies were opened by District) presented the state proclama­ Rockland County, N.Y. Frank F. Stuban, who greeted the tion issued by the Connecticut General NEW CITY, N.Y. - The Ukrainian Dictrict Attorney Kenneth Gribitz, invited guests, participants and the Assembly for Ukrainian Independence American Veterans of Spring Valley,^ Chairman of the Legislators Kenneth reporters of six local newspapers, Day. New York Post No. 19 marked the 6Slth 2^brpwski and Theodore Robert Dusa- WADS-Radio and WTNH-TV-8 of Over 50 representatives of the Ukrai­ anniversary of Ukrainian Independence nenko, former legislafor"and' sup^r^ nian community, and local and state New Haven. Day on January 25. visor of Clarkstown, addressed the officials joined in singing the Ukrainian The invocation was offered by the audience. and American national anthems at the A ceremony was held at the Rockland Commander Teddy B. Dusanenko Rev. Gregory Maslak, pastor of the Ss. flag-raising ceremonies in front of City Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic County Legislative Chambers here with read letters received from Sens. A1 Hall in Ansonia. Dr. Vasyl Luchkiw as the master of D'Amato and Daniel P. Moynihan. Gov. Church of Ansonia. Host of the event The Rev. Maslak, Prof. John Shup- was Mayor William J. Menna of An­ ceremonies. The Rev. Bohdan Karas Mario Cuomo's proclamation and Sen. lat, Theodore Musco, principal of Ss. gave the benediction followed by sing­ Sam Colman's citation were sent for the sonia, who introduced all guests, signed Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic and read his proclamation. ing of the national anthem. Rep. Ben­ occasion. Dmytro Bodnarczuk was the School, and students of the school, and jamin Gilman, Sen. Eugene Levy, keynote speaker. The keynote address was made by other parishioners led the public in Mayor Richard A. Grande of Derby, singing "Bozhe Vysluchay Blahannia" who spoke of '4he freedom loving and "God Bless America" during the Houston people of Ukrainian [who] have never placing of a wreath for victims of the accepted Soviet domination." 1932-33 Great Famine in Ukraine. Mayor Michael E. Pacowta of She1­ Following the ceremonies a reception ton (of Ukrainian descent), noted "in was held in the Mayor's Chamber, observing the 69th anniversary of which was sponsored by the Holy Name Ukraine's independence, let us tell our Society and and parish organizations of fellow American citizens, senators, Ss. Peter and Paul Church. Binghamton/Johnson City, N.Y. b1..y. Mari%yf^^:a^ ггК . Zobni7^Км:.шw/ глDr^ . AskolЛоЬ^іd^ іLozynsky ^ті/,леI'xмj ^of XІР.\ІNew/ VYor k City who is vice-president of the UCCA BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - January executive board and president of SUM- 22, Ukrainian 1ndependence Day, is a A was this year's special guest. At community activity coordinated here by Binghamton City Hall, Dr. Lozynskyj Mayor Kathryn J. Whitmire (center) presents City of Houston proclamation to the local branch of the Ukrainian gave a dynamic explanation of Ukrai­ members of the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston. Congress Committee with the coopera­ nian 1ndependence Day to the 70 people HOUSTON - On Saturday, Ja­ ing the proclamation. tion of the two local parishes, St. John's present, as well as TV and news repor­ nuary 24, the Ukrainian American The program continued with music Ukrainian Orthodox Church and ters. The flag-raising ceremony at Community of Houston commemo­ supplied by Stephen Schoenfeldt on the Sacred Heart Ukrainian Catholic Binghamton City Hall included Ukrai­ rated the declaration made by the bandura; Alicia Buchynska Dady and Church, and other local Ukrainian nian folk dances performed by Melissa, Ukrainian Central Rada on January 22, son, Hryhorij, on the violin and piano; a organizations. Anastasia and Christina Litwak, Mar­ 1918. The program was sponsored by recitation by Nadia and Luba Dud, and As part of the Ukrainian indepen­ tha Kit, Andrian and Zoriana Zobniw, the Ukrainian American Cultural Club a patriotic reading by Halyna Kichtan. dence commemorations- traditionally Aretka Solecky and Trina Czebiniak. of Houston and held at St. Pius X The keynote speaker was 1hor Kosz- held on January 22, rather than during Due to a snow emergency, the com­ Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall. man, vice-president of Americans for the weekend - there were flag-raising memorative evening had to be post­ The evening's program was begun by Human Rights in Ukraine, who spoke ceremonies in Johnson City and in poned to Friday, January 23. This master of ceremonies Michael Balahu- in Ukrainian and English on the impor­ Binghamton. At Johnson City Munici­ year's entertainment segments were trak, who welcomed those in atten­ tance of keeping alive the hope of pal Hall, the proclamation was read by provided by St. John's Ukrainian dance. After the singing of national independence, underscoring the need to Mayor Edward Boncek. At Bingham­ Orthodox Church Choir under the anthems, UACCH President Eugene A. promote the awareness of the Ukrainian ton City Ha1l, the ceremony included direction of Rt. Rev. Lawryk, with Kuchta presented the city of Houston national plight among Americans as the traditional flag-raising with a short Wolodymyr Melnychenko as soloist. proclamation. He spoke about the well as Westerners, in general. informational and cultural program. The Ukrainian Folk Dancers of Sacred audience with Houston's Mayor Special prayers were recited by Rt. Rev. Heart, under the direction of Jaroslaw Kathryn J. Whitmire.and expressed The program was concluded by the Frank Lawryk, pastor of St. John Bendz and instructors Lesia Klaczany, Councilman Dale M. Gorczynski's Rev. Augustyn Porodko, pastor, St. Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the Genia Klaczany, 1rene Czebiniak, Na- regrets that he was unable to attend due Pius X Ukrainian Catholic Church, Rev. Bohdan Kin, pastor of Sacred talka Czumak and Michael Klaczany, to a prior commitment. Councilman with a prayer for the Ukrainian nation Heart Ukrainian Catholic Church. (Continued on page 13) Gbrczynski was ihstrumental in obtain­ and the singing of "Bozhe Velyki." 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

BOOK NOTES On Canada's alleged war criminals An introduction to Ukrainian history Trial and Error: Canada's Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals and the An Introduction to Ukrainian History, Volume III: Nineteenth and Twentieth Soviets by Nikolai Tolstoy, Toronto: Justinian Press, 1986. 23 pp. S3. Century Ukraine by Nicholas F. Fr.-Chirovsky. New York: Philosophical Library, "More than 40 years after Wor1d War 1986. 517 pp, S30. II, the search continues for perpetra­ This third, and final volume com­ tors of crimes against humanity com­ p1etes Prof. Chirovsky's work, "An mitted by Nazi Germany and her allies. Introduction to Ukrainian History." In recent years the manhunt has concen­ The first two volumes, titled "Ancient trated extensively on suspected authors and Kievan-Galician Ukraine-Rus' of atrocities committed by Germany's and "The Lithuanian-Rus' Common­ allies, and by quisling or mercenary Ші|їР| wealth, the Polish Domination and the AN INTRODUCTION TO elements in her occupied territories. In Cossack-Hetman State" dealt with the particular, blanket charges of collusion Ukrainian experience from antiquity to UKRAINIAN H1STORY with the Nazi program of extermination the 18th century. Volume I1I, "Nine­ VOLUME Ill: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY UKRAINE of Jews have been leveled at the emigre teenth and Twentieth Century Ukraine" Baltic, Ukrainian and Croatian com­ continues in this vein and discusses not munities. !ІІІІІІ only the political and economic situa­ "It is right, in this writer's view that tion during these two centuries, but there should be no statute of limitations looks at the spiritual and cultural life of in this matter. The crimes in question Ukrainians as well. were of such vast and abominable The book is written in two parts: the extent that nothing, not even the pas­ I9th century and the 20th century. A sage of time, would be permitted to theme which remains constant through­ diminish the culpability of those re­ out this three-volume series is the sponsible. In view of the scale of the continuing Ukrainian effort to gain Nazi program of mass murder, it is course for college and university stu­ political and cultural freedom from dents and a general reference book...The intrinsically likely that many of those Russian and, later, Soviet domination. responsible for its implementation are ments of the capitalist West. The author wanted to write an introductory still at large. The fact that they have propaganda value is correspondingly The third volume, writes Prof. Chi- history of Ukraine for general use, and been successful in evading the claims of greater, too, attracting attention as it rovsky in the Preface, "has remained :not strictly a research work intended for justice for so long cannot legitimately be does from the Western media which is faithful to its intention to be...a survey scholars only." employed as pretext for the exercise of denied to more obviously stage-ma­ clemency." naged show trials within the Soviet issue of human rights is important to In these opening words of "Trial and Union. Reaction... the West and that this can have an Error," Nikolai Tolstoy, heir to the "Finally, when feasible, the KGB is (Continued from page 1) effect on relations," she said. senior line of the Tolstoy and Milo- always anxious to pull off the double pen down that effect. I don4 think it "He takes such steps as are neces­ slavsky families, studies the Canadian coup of laying war crimes charges at the is because they have yet changed sary to prove that he is a different government's inquiry into Nazi war door of prominent figures among anti- their basic approach to the relation­ sort of Soviet leader, but he is not so Spyiet emigre political, groupings." ship of the individual with the state." liberal as to release all of the political , \criminals.^:'^^^ ^' .!..^;,.,,,,.^ ., \',.-.,--..,-.../-" ,- ..; prisoners," she cautioned, while Mr. T^(olitoy argues that the use of Finally, Mr. Tolstoy, directs a ques­ Contacted by The Ukrainian tion to his readers: "Does Mr. Littman, Weekly, 0rest Deychakiwsky, staffer pointing out that Nikita Khrushchev Soviet evidence in Canadian courts, for had released nearly a million pri­ war crimes should be questioned, and Mr. [Michael] Meighen [counsel to the of the U.S. Commission on Security Deschenes Commission] or the Hono­ and Cooperation in Europe, said of soners. speaks sarcastically of So1 Littman, the She went on to stress that though Canadian representative of the Simon rable Jules Deschenes really believe that the latest of General Secretary Mi­ truth will emerge from collusion with khail Gorbachev's initiatives, "1t's Mr. Gorbachev was taking bold Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, and steps, he was doing so only to save his claims that Canada is harboring the great totalitarian power, established gone beyond the public relations on the bones of more slaughtered level." the system. "What, he is doing will thousands of war criminals. bring some easing of the situation for millions that even Hitler achieved; Nazi "Even though there's a long way to In discussmg the importance of East the people, but the system is still in Germany's sole surviving a1Iy, partici­ go, these releases are significant, but Europeans as suspects in Nazi war place." pant in many of her major war crimes; 1 would always caution that those crimes investigations and the USSR's Dr. Strokata also found fault with motivation in providing evidence, Mr. and inheritor of those anti-Semitic people never should have been incar­ doctrines Stalin adopted so eagerly in cerated in the first place, and that the fact that the signing of a state­ Tolstoy writes: ment was a precondition for the "Accusations 'substantiated' against the spring of 1939, which his successors there are still many more imprisoned have sustained so congenially since?" — some 800 that we know of by release of most dissidents. ''The Eastern European emigres in Western system treats people without dignity. countries are particularly welcome to The booklet is available from the name," he said. Civil Liberties Commission of the By demanding that dissidents sign a the Soviet authorities, since they also Mr. Deychakiwsky added, "On the statement asking for a pardon, the act as reminder that these 'war cri­ Ukrainian Canadian Committee, 2445- A B1oor St. W., Toronto, Ont. M6S one hand we can't completely dis­ authorities want an admission of minals' have been harbored for the past count (these events), on the other guilt." 40 years by the treacherous govern­ 1P7. hand the fundamental basis of the She referred to such preconditions system is still in place." as "rape of the sou1." He further observed that he be­ The former political prisoner also A Ukrainian perspective lieves Mr. Gorbachev is taking such pointed out in a telephone interview steps for internal reasons. ''He's with The Weekly that none of the on the news... trying to cultivate the intelligentsia dissidents confined to special psy­ and to create a certain kind of climate chiatric hospitals are being released, conducive to creativity." and she cited the case of Hanna He also pointed out, "the Soviets Mykhailenko, a sympathizer of the don't like to be pariahs either." He Ukrainian Helsinki Group who has stressed, "All our efforts - both been in a psykhushka since 1980. governmental and by the public - In a similar vein, five Soviet were a very important factor in these emigres sent a telegram to General releases. Over the years, the Western Secretary Gorbachev on February pressure has chipped away at the 11, asking that he free people incar­ armor of the USSR." cerated for religious practices and Nina Strokata, a founding mem­ those confined to mental asylums ber of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group because of their views. who was forced to emigrate in 1979, Yuri Orlov, Pavel Litvinov, Va1ery had a somewhat different assessment Chalidze, Alex Goldfarb and Lud~ of the situation. milla Alexeyeva wrote: "We would Mr. Gorbachev, she said, finds likeI0 hope that the democratization himself in a complex position, pri­ efforts that have been going on for marily because of the economic years will finally bear fruit and that situation. "He needs Western aid and Soviet citizens will be granted com­ technology foremost. He knows the p1ete freedom of opinion."

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cution witnesses in the coming trial of and of the wrong nationality (Polish) to mesomorph that Polish villagers re­ Buchanan... Demjanjuk in Jerusalem. belong to the elite Gestapo. No moral or member — a monster of a man who (Continued from page 6) "Again, Epstein is one. In Ft. Lau- legal sanction was ever imposed upon wenched and drank in their village near derdale, Epstein testified that he per­ those 11 'witnesses,' whole falsehoods Treblinka, and who either died in the be found on either the Trawniki camp August uprising or perished in the roster or the transfer list of Treblinka - sonally witnessed a cold-blooded muder bankrupted and broke an innocent by Fedorenko at Treblinka, a murder American." Balkans with other Nazi survivors of the both of which the defense now has?" death camp. Mr. Buchanan also questioned wit­ never mentioned in his earlier state­ Mr. Buchanan also discussed a photo "The other half of the composite is, I nesses which Mr. Ryan has stated prove ment. Under cross examination, Ep­ display to which Mr. Ryan alluded in stein began contradicting himself and, his reply. This display, Mr. Ryan wrote, believe, a German, a Nazi, a middle­ that Mr. Demjanjuk is "Ivan the aged veteran of Hitler's 'euthanasia' Terrible." as trial judge Norman Roettger des­ of eight unmarked photos, was prepared cribes it, 'began to squirm and fidget in by the Justice Department to conform program, a man Alexander Donat "The indispensible witness is Elijahu the witness stand.' " with U.S. Supreme Court standards for describes as a 'hot-tempered, brutal Rosenberg, the first of the Treblinka Another witness against Mr. Dem­ criminal cases. Witnesses were asked to individual and ruthless careerist,' seen survivors to pick Demjanjuk's picture janjuk, Josef Czarny is dubious, as well. pick out the picture of Mr. Demjanjuk. 'running through the camps brandish­ out of an Israeli-arranged photo spread, In Mr. Fedorenko's trial, he was dis­ Mr. Ryan wrote that each witness, ing his whip and his gun, shouting and and identify him as the sadistic camp missed by the judge 'as a 4heatrical' without hestiation picked out the photo cursing,' a criminal one SS historican guard of Treblinka. Yet in a sworn figure, 'clearly the least credible of the of Mr. Demjanjuk. Wrote Mr. Bucha­ described as a 'conceited ogre.' His statement given in 1947, Rosenberg survivor witnesses.' This description, nan: name was Christian Wirth, but he was declared that Ivan, the gas chamber though would seem to belong to the "A copy of that original eight-picture known to inmates by a nickname — operator, was beaten to death with witness Turowski who, asked to identify display sits before me. Demjanjuk'sand 'Christian the Terrible.' Wirth was shove1s during the uprising of August the camp guard Fedorenko, pointed to Fedorenko's photographs are twice the killed by partisans near Triste on May 1943. Which of Rosenberg's contradic­ a middle-aged spectator in the back of size of the others; they are clear, while 26,1944. tory statements - both given under the courtroom," Mr. Buchanan conti­ the others are unfocused or cloudy. The oath - is true?" nued. Florida court declared the whole dis­ "So let us review Ryan's airtight case. "Again, these are the men and women play was 'impermissibly suggestive'and "Moscow had to be virtually dra­ "Other clouds have gathered over the whose testimony has destroyed Dem- 'simply does not pass muster under gooned into producing the only piece of credibility of Ryan's witnesses. Those janjuk's life and upon whom his survival American law.' " documentary evidence against Demjan­ clouds date to 1978 when another depends. After having read Jankel Wiernik's juk: An 1.D. card, the authencity of Ukrainian American, Feodor Fedo- "They have contrawicted themselves 'A Year in Treblinka" (he was the first which has yet to be fully established. renko, was brought into court in a under oath. They have contradicted :o bring word the Nazis were exter­ Confronted by competent counsel in Ft. denaturalization hearing in Ft. Lauder~ each another. They have been contra­ minating Polish Jews in Treblinka) and Lauderdale — as they were not in dale." Unjike Mr. Demjanjuk, Mr. dicted by testimony of third j)arties. the post-war statements of Rosenberg Cleveland — the Demjanjuk witnesses Fedorenko admitted to having been at They are contradicted by the first­ and Epstein, "The Death Camp Tre­ collapsed into a cacaphony of contra­ Trawniki and Treblinka, Mr. Bucha­ person accounts from Treblinka, pro­ blinka," Mr. Buchanan stated he found dictions. The Polish government is nan said. He was subsequently deport­ duced in the immediate aftermath of the not even one mention of "Ivan the preventing Demjanjuk's counsel from ed to the Soviet Union. camp's destruction in 1943. terrible." visiting villagers near Treblinka whose "The Florida judge believed Fedo­ "They call to mind those 11 'survivor "Did 'Ivan the Terrible' ever exist? testimony — that the guard 'Ivan' was a renko - and found the evidence against witnesses' who testified under oath - "In my judgement, 'Ivan the Terrible' man twice Demjanjuk's age in і943 and him - the sworn testimony of the half a and testified falsely - that they knew is probably a composite of Ivan, the gas half again his size - could exonerate dozen survivor witnesses - 'fraught Frank Walus as the Butcher of Kielce, chamber operator mentioned by Wier- the accused. And the Israelis held with conflict and uncertainty and ... when hard evidence demonstrated that nik, the 'enormous brute,' the 'sadistic Demjanjuk six months before lodging therefore inconclusive.' These same Walus was a farm worker in Germany at giant,' of Jean-Francois Cohen-Stei- charges. Some airtight case. men and women are the critical prose­ the time, who was too young, too short ner's 'Treblinka,' (1966), the huge "Over to you Mr. Ryan." On February II, Soviet plainclothes for a pardon. Mr. Shevchenko said he Yosyf Zisels, a member of the Ukrai­ 140 political... police tangled with some 20 protesters would not do so because he does not nian Helsinki Group, and Zakhar (Continued from page 2) in Moscow as they demonstrated on consider his trial to have been legal. As a Zunshein, a Jewish activistii were false. Others freed include: five Latvians, Mr. Begun's behalf. The demonstration result, Mr. Shevchenko was sent40 do She added that Danylo Shumuk, a Gunnars Freimanis, Janis Rozhkalns, was broken up when security agents difficult field labor despite a serious veteran political prisoner, was released Janis Barkans, Alfreds Tauberts and pushed the protesters down a side street, intestinal illness. as scheduled, not under the provisions Jaan Korb; Estonian Heiki Ahonen and tore up their placards and roughed up Still unclear are the fates of sorn^ of the Supreme Soviet decrees. Armenian Genrikh Altunyan. reporters covering the story. other dissidents, including Anatoly Another member of the Ukrainian Estimates of the number of political The Washington Post reported that Koryagin, a psychiatrist, and Sergei Helsinki Group, Dr. Vasyl Kurylo, was prisoners who remain imprisoned vary prisoners about to be freed responded in Khodorovich, administrator of the set free for health reasons. The 66-year­ from several hundred to several thou­ various ways when told to write a Russian Social Fund. Dr. Koryagin, old denfist, whose membership in the sand. One newly freed dissident, Sergei statement. Some, from the national who is known for his involvement in the group was just revealed last December Grigoryants, a Moscow literary critic republics, Lithuania or Ukraine, re­ Working Commission to Investigate the although he had been a member since released from Chistopol, stated that wrote the statement to say they would Abuses of Psychiatry for Political 1980, has heart disease and tuberculo­ there are about I,500 prisoners still never take part in activities against their Purposes, was transferred to a prison sis which is causing him to go blind. He confined because of political or reli­ own people. They were released none­ near his home town of Kharkiv, U- had been arrested for Ukrainian na­ gious activities. theless, The Post quoted a dissident kraine. He was sentenced in 1981 to a tionalist activity and sentenced to 10 source as saying. 12-year-term. years' imprisonment and five years' Prisoners' statements The Post also noted that in some In other news, Ms. Svitlychna cau­ exile for circulating nationalist litera­ cases prisoners about to be released tioned that reports about the releases of ture. The freed prisoners were reportedly were also asked to list where they transferred to jails near their homes on wanted to live, whether within or developing mental retardation. As you the eve of their releases. Nearly all of outside the USSR. Infants may show... can guess, there will be a small but them were required to write statements The New York Times reported that (Continued from page 2) definite number of people who were promising that they would not engage in one of the released dissidents, Yuri director of the bone-marrow transplant exposed in utero as a consequence of "anti-Soviet activity" and the releases of Shikhanovich, a mathematician and program at the University of California Chornobyl." some prisoners were conditional on editor of the underground journal Medical Center, Los Angeles. When asked if abortions were per­ their signing such statements. Some Chronicle of Current Events, stated in Dr. Gale told Newsday reporter formed in the wake of Chornobyl, Dr. prisoners were also told to ask for a reference to the statements renouncing Robert Cooke in a recent telephone Gale said, "I'm sure there were. But the pardon in their statements. illegal activities: "Any piece of paper interview that Soviet health authorities decision was left to each woman. For State Department spokesman Charles satisfies them. They want to release as are aware of the dangers. "They know each person it might be a different Redman criticized the requirement that many of the Article 70 prisoners as all of the pregnancies that were related evaluation. For example, a woman who those released sign statements renoun­ possible." to Chornobyl. These people have ]been had a great deal of difficulty getting cing illegal activities. identified." pregnant and had no children yet might Two Ukrainian political prisoners, |decide to accept the risk." "We hope," he said, "that the Soviet lawyer Lev Lukianenko and psycholo­ Soviet doctors are now trying to government will now move to free all figure out how much radiation each The correlation between radiation gist Mykhailo Horyn, were reportedly and the risk of brain damage was docu­ remaining political prisoners without transferred from Camp No. 36 in Perm, woman and fetus got, he said. Any requiring them to sign statements children affected should be given special mented by William J. Schull of the where they were serving their sentences, University of Texas and his colleagues recanting their previous aciivities or to Ukraine. However, both were return­ care and education to overcome the agreeing to limit their future activities deficit. who reported in 1984that the amount of ed to the camp — Mr. Lukianenko on brain damage received corresponds to on behalf of human rights. January 11 and Mr. Horyn at the end of "We think there may be a possibility to "In this regard, we are disturbed at intervene and help these individuals, if the amount of radiation received. The the month. The speculation is that both over-all risk of brain damage is five or the news that imprisoned Hebrew they can be identified at an early age," men refused to sign any statements. more times greater during the sensitive teacher losif Begun is not being re­ Dr. Gale said, although there may be no The case of 01eksander Shevchenko period in eariy gestation, Dr. Schull leased because he refused to sign such a (no relation to the freed Vitaliy Shev­ hope in regaining lost mental capacity. reported in The British Journal of statement," he was quoted in The New chenko, although the two were tried He added that he did not know how Radiology. York Times as saying. together), appears to be similar. Ac­ many infants may be at risk, Newsday A Soviet spokesman had said on cording to information released by reported. "But it's not in the thousands; Another UCLA physician, Dr. Ste­ February 10 that Mr. Begun had not Nadia Svitlychna of the External Re­ it's probably in the low hundreds." phen Zamenhof, put it bluntly in the been freed because he declined to ask presentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Through the Japanese data, "you can English journal Nature: "Brain damage for a pardon and sign a statement Group, Mr. Shevchenko was advised on see that fetuses that were exposed to could occur in almost every fetus pledging to avoid illegal activities. January 26 to write a statement asking even relatively low doses have a risk of exposed to radiation." 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

with unlimited resources. Israel will be cky, director of research at the AFL- of terror. "This reign," wrote John T le Demjanjuk... allocating well over S4 million to the C10 Free Trade 1nstitute (August 1986, Sopinka, (Mr. Sopinka is of Ukrainian (Continued from page 7) case. The American Spectator). What Soviet descent), one of Canada's leading civil propaganda has sought to and succeed­ attorneys in his submission to the owned by Jerome Brentar, a non­ To help with some of the costs, a ed in doing is downplaying the existence Canadian Commission of Inquiry on Ukrainian, who has generously ad- Toronto-based group has created a of the Ukrainian nation, while War Criminals, "has been characterized vaEced much credit to a cause in which fund in aid of John Demjanjuk's family. simultaneously furnishing fabricated by deportation and mass murder on a hetias no personal involvement. The Ukrainian Charitable Committee evidence about "Ukrainian war crimi­ scale equalled only by Hitler." After which commenced its work on Novem­ nals" in the West. Ukraine was decimated by Sta1in's man­ Unlike in the I961 trial of Adolf ber 10, 1986, functions under the made famine in which as may as 10 Eiehmann, when Israel contributed auspices of the Ukrainian churches and Mr. Karatnycky noted that the "lin­ million men, women and children S30,000 to the defense costs, Israel has the Ukrainian Canadian Committee gering perception of Ukrainian war perished, Ukraine lost "an estimated 7.5 in this case denied any financial aid for (UCC), and has the cooperation of the guilt and image of thousands of citizens million of its citizens during Wor1d War th|s stateless Ukrainian, a former Ukrainian Canadian Sociaf Services. lining the streets to welcome the Nazi II as a result of both Nazi and Soviet Anlerican. The family coffers will have (Contributions may be sent to: Ukrai­ troops in I94I haunts Ukrainians," but repression. An estimated 2 million to provide for the expenses of the local nian Canadian Charitable Committee that image of Ukrainian nationalists as Ukrainians were deported to Germany Israeli counsel which could run in in Aid of John Demjanjuk's Family, "overwhelmingly pro-Nazi reflects an as slave laborers. 1t has also been excess of S200,00O — and much more if 2118-A B1oor St. W., Toronto, Ont. image promoted by Soviet propa­ estimated that in 1943 between 10and an appeal stage is reached. M6S ЇМ8.) 1n the United States the ganda." This image has been bought by 28 percent of the population of the only family authorized fund-raising a guillible press and public. What's The costs of Mr. O'Connor's U.S. co- prison camps was Ukrainian. This is not group is the John Demjanjuk Defense more insidious is that this potent image counsei, .John Gill, have not been the story of a people in some way Fund. While both groups are meeting has immobilized many Ukrainians who included. Add to this costs of translat­ favored or privileged by the Nazis." with success, the funds raised are have not troubled themselves to seek the ing the daily official trial transcripts at truth. Most Ukrainians know that the inadequate in a trial of this magnitude. He went on to роті out that after the rates of S73 per day. There are nu­ image of widespread Ukrainian war What is needed is an immediate million war, between 1 and 2million Ukrainians merous other expenses which need to be guilt and indulgent treatment by the dollar floating fund backed by wealthy were in D.P. camps m Europe. Due to met in order for Mr. 0'Connor^s skele­ Na7is is a myth; studying about and professionals and business leaders who the Yalta accords, !rundreds of thou­ ton stair to match a team of state exposing this myth is a cumbersome recognize the importance of this trial. It sands were forced to return to the Soviet prosecutors and a staff of eight lawvers and often thankless task. But Ukraine"'s 1S this trial that will catapult Ukrainians Union. They were Kiiled or deported ^SSSS^S3SS:SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS:y. sufiering can no longer be our cherished i0t0 the forefront of peoples'conscious­ upon return. The oniy hope for those on Orders taken now for (/) little secret. The fact is that apart from ness. "repatriation" lists waS: to claim or relative!y few cases. Ukrainians were PYSANKA: | prove their origin as being from outside For decades Ukraine and the Ukrai­ victims of the Nazis, not allies. THE UKRAiNlAN | nian question have been invisible. "(3nly the pre~ і939 Soviet Union borders. The story that has not been told "For Ukramians tms meant assuming EASTER EGG - dimly existing on the fringes of Western frequently enough is that after forcible S!avko Nowytski's Щ consciousness." wrote Adrian Karatnv~ new identities either as Poies or ethnic incorporation into the Soviet Union. 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I Embroidered bIouse - an excellent gift for4| not afraid to publicly walk through the 16mm film version still available celebrating the 1000 year Christianity in Ukraine. ** Ukrainian language helpful. minefield of misrepresentations about at S289 + S5. '*isi**ii* *isI* *iai* *;s:**i5:**:2:* *it:* *is:* *І^**І5;**;Ь (212) 477-3002 the fate of Ukrainians and their dilem­ mas during and immediately after the war. This was precisely Mr. Demjan- juk's dilemma. He was denaturalized for visa infractions and then extradited to Israel. He claimed to be a Polish farmer to avoid repatriation. It is the architects of repatriation, not their victims, who should be tried as war criminals, wrote noted Canadian jour­ nalist Barbara Amiel. She writes of the bloodbath that awaited the 70,000 men, women and children who were know­ ingly returned by former British Prime Minister Har0Id Macmillan to impri­ sonment and death under Stalin and Tito in 1945. "For the Allies to turn around and hand over 70,000 people to slaughter before the war had even finished makes a travesty of all for which our fathers died. We owe the d^ad an investigation and the living the truth," she wrote. Borrow - at competitive rates for any provident риф08е We Ukrainians owe the public the Save - where you get a high return on your savings truth about ourselves, our history and our sufferings. It is information, the effective packaging of this information and our generous contributions which are needed to combat the disinforma­ tion which awaits us come February 16. Before the mo1d for a succession of anti­ ,Ukrainian stories is cast, we must provid^ for a PR presence in Israel staff|ed by seasoned ajid informed spokespersons, or persons who have conducted hundreds of press briefings. This and funds for the defense are mandatory if we care about truth.

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Binghamton.,. C '-^^ VIй tied frc*m pag- ^' a1 і wOM Л^И.Р c! 0.meiUa. T ,-ir і Q c і d .jd\avcLJi c' jup 'Є ^o.ii .. '^T \'" -^o. LCV і ne .0Va1 SUV \ g'0ap unaer ^h dh.'^ lOr О Vjodia ZaIuьк_; р^ечепіеСі ^ Funeral services began with a pa- inonrage, ''Mykold o^ the Stbdent - nakhyda (memorial service) sung by the IJril/' commcmo!at'ng the Ba1tIe 01 1n May of I973, she received a Very Rev. Mitred VoIodymyr Andru- Kruty Pertorming m t1ie inoptage wa^^ bachelor of arts degree, summa cum, shkiw and the parish choir of Ss. Peter also Iryna Buksa laude. That fall she entered a master of and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church Ukrainian Independence Day pro­ arts program in French at the State of Cohoes, on Thursday, December 25, clamations were read by Johnson Citv University of New York in Albany. In 1986, at 7:30 p.m. at Fitzgerald's Fu­ Trustee Nicholas Tarcha, who is a the summer of 1974, she took courses at neral Home in Cohoes. feliOw Ukrainian and member of St the Ukrainian Catholic University in John\ Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Many friends and relatives came Rome, where during a special audience The guest speaker was Dr Lozynsky|. from a11 parts of the country - Buffalo, with Patriarch JosyfSlipyj, she received a well-known Ukiainian communitv Hartford, Cleveland, Texas, Chicago his patriarchal blessing. While in Eu­ leader and attorne\. who presented in and Canada to join in this final good­ rope, she visited 1taly, Yugoslavia and Ukrainian and English a historical bye to Miss Pawiiw. Martha Kuchar bid ENCYCLOPEDIA, an album о Germany. review of the Ukrainian struggle of I918 farewell to Oksana, her closest friend, and the reaction of Western nations. !ected cartoons by Volody In May I975., she received a master and a group of her P1ast f.:ends sang "The community was grateful that Hayduk can sti!l be obtaine" of arts degree in French language and one of the deceased^s favorite songs - Dr. Lozynskyj agreed to stay an add1~ sending S22.5O to Vografik c literature Iron1 the State University of "Karpaty." tional day in order to be present at the P.O. Box n, Lachine. Quet New York at Albany. That summer she commemorative evening. The presence traveled once more to Europe, visiting The next day, December 26, a funeral of Dr. Lozynskyj help make this event H85 4A5 Canada. Ukraine, including Lviv and Kiev. She liturgy was concelebrated by the Very memorable/' said Lubomyr Zobniw visited the famous cathedrals of St. Rev. Mitred Andrushkiw and by the local UCCA chairman. Very Rev. Theodore Humanitzki. The WHY TAX YOURSELR George and St. Sophia, and laid flowers The flag-raising ceremonies were church was overflowing with those Let experience work for you. on the grave of Taras Shevchenko in covered by local TV stations and news­ wishing to pay their last respects. The Michael Zaplltny, EA, OFF Kaniv. papers. One TV station included a Very Rev. Andrushkiw delivered the FIRESIDE TAX CONSULT!NC special editorial about Ukrainian In­ Her search for new professional eulogy in Ukrainian, comparing Miss 909 Union Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Ш dependence Day. (718) 6221560 challenges led her to Houston, Texas, Pawiiw to a star that shone for us here 4 where she first worked as a translator on earth and will continue to shine and then obtained a position with forever in heaven. Father Humanitzki KANED Services as a director of public briefly recounted in English the high­ THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION relations and publications. 1n June of lights of Miss Pawliw's life and career. ANNOUNCES 1984, Miss Pawliw began working for He concluded his eulogy by stressing Off Shore Data Services as the editor of her acceptance of death with the words the company newsletter. Her duties 'Thy will be done.'' SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS included traveling to other countries FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1987/88 and representing the company at va­ At the cemetery, at the conclusion of rious oil industry conferences. the funeral services, Michael Heretz The scholarships are available to students at an accredited college or universi spoke on behalf of the P1ast organiza­ WHO HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR She also participated widely in the life tion, and her friends from this organiza­ LEAST TWO YEARS. Applicants are ludged on the basis Of sC1ioiastic recorc!, of the community at large. She was tion sang "Nich Vzhe Ide'' ("Taps") for nancial need and involvement in Ukrainian community and student life. Appfi listed in Who's Who in American her. tIons are to be submitted no later than APRIL1, 1987. For application form wr Women and was a member of the Alpha to: Mu Gama National Language Honor After the funeral a dinner was served UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Inc. Society, the Texas Journalists Or­ at the Watervliet Ukrainian American ganization, and Young Republican Citizens' Club. Father Andrushkiw 30 Montgomery Street ш Jersey City, N. J. 07302 Women. 1n addition she was an officer opened with a prayer, and Anna Go- AnENTION! APPLICATIONS SUBMinED WITHOUT ALL REQUIRED OOCUIIIENTS ATTACHED Wi of the Houston branch of the Ukrainian gosha reminded all present of Miss NOT BE REVIEWED BY THE COMMITTEE. National Women^s League of America, Pawliw's many contributions, both a member of the Houston Ukrainian professional and for the community. Cultural Club, and a member of the The many participants used the time to editorial board of the Ukrainian Ame­ reminisce about Miss Pawiiw and to Attention! CHICAGO AREA Attentic rican community's newsletter, Trident. share their sorrow at losing someone UKRAINAIN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION For her active participation in commu­ who had given so much of herself to announces nity activities, Oksana received a key to others. Miss Kuchar shared her the city of Houston. thoughts about Miss Pawiiw, stressing her openness, her zest for life, and her ORGANIZING MEETING Miss Pawliw was a very outgoing ability to laugh and to make others person who enjoyed organizing nume~ laugh. of the

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Saturday evening CONCERT SERIES presents to be held on Saturday, February 28, 1987, at 2:30 p.m. Juliana Osinchuk and Thomas Hrynkiw St. Wolodymyr Church Hall, 2255 w.Cortez (Corner Oakley Bivd), Chicago, III All members of the District Committee, Convention Delegates and Branch Officers IN A TWO PIAN0/FOUR HAI4D CONCERT of the following Branches are requested to attend: on Saturday, February 21 at 7 p.m. 17,22, 33,35, 51, 61,1GO, 103,106,107,114,125,131,136,139,157,176, A reception will follow. 190, 220, 221, 243, 250, 259, 301, 379, 395, 399, 423, 425, 452 and 472. Suggested donation: %IQ, %S for senior citizens and students; PROGRAM: Ukrainian institute of America 1. Opening 2 East 79th Straet. NMr Yoik, N.Y. 10021 2. Minutes of prior meeting 3. Addresses of Supreme Officers 4. Discussion of UNA insurance sales campaing 5. Introduction of Regional UNA Representative, STEPHEN BOHACH ^""""~^~^^^'^^^ 6. Adoption of District program of 1987 7. Miscellaneous and adjournment GOLD TRIDENT I Meeting will be attended by: Dr. John 0. Flis, UNA Supreme President JEWELRY Dr. Myron B. KuropaS, UNA supreme vice President from Gloria PaSChen, UNA supreme vice Presidentess AnatOle DorOShenkO, UNA supreme Auditor Helen Olek-ScOtt, UNA Supreme Advisor EMBLEMS OF THE WORLD For THE DISTRICT COIVIIVIITTEE: Ventnor. N.J. OS406 і P.O. Box 2224 John Gawaluch, Chairman Michael Olshansky, Honorary Chairman Roman Prypchan, Secretary Genevieve Blidy, Treasurer Send for free broct)ure Toll free 1-800-872-3600 | 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

be used and abused and discarded like trash if the goal it 1S not the so-called arms race. American weapons Patrick Buchanan,.. is the building of some distant Utopia. It is this set of remain today as much the guarantees of peace and (Continued from page 7) beliefs that is the starting point from which deter­ freedom as they did in June of 1944 when they were Soviet Union to stand trial for collaborating in war mined and unprincipled men eventually arrive at used for the liberation of Europe. crimes with Adolph Hitler, when Adolph Hitler's Treblinka and Auschwitz, at Kolyma and Vorkuta. The primary cause of wor1d conflict today is the principal collaborator in the great war crimes that Yesterday, there were two great totalitarian threats character and nature of the Soviet regime, its global launched Wor1d War П was the self-same government to the survival of the West: Hitler and Stalin. 1n his ambitions, its implacable hositlity to the West. The of the Soviet Union. brilliant work, "Sta1in'sSecret War,"Nikolai Tolstoy USSR is a state unlike any other in history. 1n reality, As George Will has reminded us, the Soviet regime writes of the terrifying plight of the East European it consists 0fan all-powerful Communist Party — with that rules in Moscow today is Hitler's only surviving peoples caught in the struggle for supremacy by these satellite parties in a dozen states - which has imposed partner from Wor1d War 11. malevolent forces. Count Tolstoy quotes a Polish an alien and atheistic doctrine upon all the countries of Too much of that history of Wor1d War II has been prisoner at the great Stalinist labor camp of Vorkuta: Central and Eastern Europe - and which intends to forgotten - or rewritten - to erase the criminal 'Ч think with horror and shame of a Europe divided impose that dogma upon the unwilling peoples and responsibility of the regime of Joseph Stalin in into two parts by the line of the [River] Bug; on the one nations of the world. launching it. side of which millions of Soviet slaves pray for 1f true peace means not only the absence of war, but The wor1d has forgotten that it was Sta1in's liberation by the armies of Hitler, and on the other the presence of justice, then the indispensable concentration camps that served as a mode1 for Hitler's, millions of victims of German concentration camps condition of true and lasting peace on this planet is that Stalin's purges served as a mode1 for what Hitler awaited deliverance by the Red Army as their last that one day this giant prison house of nations, this did to his own Nazi Party. The wor1d seems to have hope." penitentiary of peoples, be pried open — and the forgotten that while Great Britain and the United Today, there is one great external threat to the peace nations and peoples held captive for decades be set States were Sta1in's allies of necessity — from June of and freedom of mankind, and the liberty and integrity free. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia do not belong to 1941 to May to I945-Adolph Hitler was Sta1in's ally of nations. That threat is the Soviet empire. Moscow; they belong to the West. Poland is a great of choice^ As Stalin was to say nostalgically after the In the I9th century, the Russian Empire of the Catholic country, one of the eldest daughters of the wor1d war, '*Ech, together with the Nazis we could Romanovs was known in the West as the "prison Church. Why, then, should Warsaw have imposed have been invincible." house of nations." During the chaos of the first world upon her an odious 19th century Ma'rxist dogma, Too many Western men — who speak warmly of the war and its aftermath, and Lenin's successful putsch refashioned by a 20th century Asian fanatic whose great wartime alliance with the Soviet Union - forget against the democratic Provisional Government, waxen corpse sits in some mausoleum in Moscow a that when Hitler attacked Poland from the west, many of those nations escaped for the first time in thousand kilometers away? Today, we celebrate the Stalin attacked from the east. They forget that when centuries. lost independence of Ukraine; we memoralize it. France was invaded in the summer of 1940, and The great Catholic nation of Poland was re­ Tomorrow it must again become reality. Churchill was rallying his country for the coming established. The Christian Baltic republics of Lithua­ Finally, as Solzhenitzyn reminds us, Russia herself Battle of Britain, the Wermacht and the Luftwaffe nia, Latvia and Estonia reappeared on the map of is the first captive nation; Russia, too, must one day be were flying on fuel that had been provided from the Europe. Ukraine, a nation as large and populous as set free. Soviet oil fields at Baku. When the United States was France, with its own history and culture and religions Despite all the propaganda we get today from the Great Arsenal of Democracy in those desperate and language, broke free. Finland was disgorged by Moscow, we Americans are not now and have never days of 1940, the Soviet government was providing the collapsing Russian Empire. been enemies of the Russian people. We have never both the food and the fuel for fascism's war against the Then, the Bolsheviks, who had promised indepenr gone to war against them; we do not covet their West. 1^ r-y-v. ' dence for the various nations inside the empire, led by. territory. We have not smashed their unions, diEfse- Nothing is said here to denigrate in the least the Trotsky's Red Army, betrayed that promise. Ukraine qrated their churches, suppressed their writers, starved enormous sacrifices, suffering and heroism of the was force-marched back into a captivity far more their peasants, purged their officer corps or taken peoples inside the Soviet Union in their just war to brutal than anything imagined in the times of away their 1and and freedom. All these things have expel the Nazi invaders from their 1and during the Alexander H1 or Nicholas 11. been done to the Russian people by the Communist years 194I-І945. But the wor1d should know that of Two decades later, Stalin fully restored and Party of the Soviet Union. the 20 rnillion Soviet citi7ens within the Soviet Union expanded the old Russian Empire, replacing the 1t is not the United States, but that Communist who perished in that conflict, hundreds of thousands authoritarian rule of the Romanovs with the totalita­ Party that is truly at war with all the peoples of the died fighting during the alliance with Hitler, and rian rule of the party. Soviet empire. millioi|i more peii^h^di^rb Sta;1in-'s'P*?t^b* and -4n that devil's bargain that history knows, as the '' 1f we see the wor1d this way, which is :to see it^ 1 concentration camps that matched and perhaps Hitler-Sta1in Pact, the Soviet Union was ceded half of believe, whole and true, we will rearize that our best exceeded in number and size what Hitler himself Poland, the right to annex the Baltic republics, and and strohgest allies in the struggle for true peace are erected in his corrupt empire in Central and Eastern given a free hand to seize sections of Rumania and the oppressed peoples Cci3t of the 1ron Curtain; the Europe. Finland. From the Yalta Agreement with Franklin dozen or more nations held captive inside the Soviet Now, many of the people in this room know, as few Roosevelt, Stalin won control over half a dozen of the empire. Americans know, that totalitarianism, whether Nazi ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe -the or Communist, whether black or red, has at its root the balance of Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania, When all those peoples are again free, when the^ same fa|se and evil idea. It is an idea grounded in the Bulgaria, and eventually Czechoslovakia. enjoy the full panoply-ofhjump-P i;ights :andrfreedom same pick 0flies - thejiie tkat God i^ dea,d, that man Here, then, is the primary ,cause of East-West- t|iat \vetjake for gIranted, )ЛіЬад^еасЬ of t;hes^e;indepenr- has no Intrinsic worth, that the liberty and life of the tensions, the primary cause of the perrnanent conflict dent: nations is onceagain in control of its own destiny, weak are at the disposal of the strong, that people may between East and West. then, we in the West will be secure — but not before.

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impress anyone. What did impress bytsky is unwelcome in Mr. Gorba­ someone else's failings, but rather to Memo to... everyone, however, was the criticism of chev's Politburo, which cannot be underscore the dangers of simplistic (Continued from page 2) the Ukrainian Central Committee and documented but which is a fair assump­ assumptions about Soviet politics, * April-May 1986. Chornobyl. Con­ Council of Ministers for "the into­ tion given the dynamics of bureaucratic especially personnel politics that in­ clusion: Obvious. Mr. Shcherbytsky is lerably s1ow pace of restructuring the politics. It is quite logical and perfectly volve center-periphery relationships. really finished now. It won4 be long. agro-industrial complex as required by understandable for administrators, Much too little scholarly research has the party,'' which was voiced by the particularly new administrators, to opt been done in this area to warrant the The components of the most recent Kremlin's number two man, Yegor for subordinates of their own choosing. scenario positing Mr. Shcherbytsky's current volum|;jOf offhand remarks and Ligachev, at a meeting held at the Informed and logical speculation "instant analyses" that find their way fall had the Soviet Minister of Foreign CPSU Central Committee on January about Soviet politics is acceptable and, Affairs Eduard Shevardnadze replacing into the dailз^лj)ress and even into the 23, barely a week before the plenum indeed, necessary in the absence of hard academic JQurnals. Viktor Chebrikov as head of the KGB, opened. facts. What is not acceptable is tem­ while the latter was to be moved to Kiev The fact tt,|^e matter is that we know In Western reports, this criticism was porary loss of memory, distortion and next to ndtffing about what Mr. Shcher­ in p1ace of Mr. Shcherbytsky. The rendered as devastating and was inter­ pure fantasy. Unfortunately, the latter explanations that were offered were bytsky thinks and what his ro1e in preted as a personal attack on Mr. play a disproportionate ro1e in Kremli- Kremlin politics amounts to. Perhaps, rather vague, having to do with the Shcherbytsky. Conclusion: TJie Ukrai­ nological exercises. notion that Mr. Shevardnadze's posi­ in view of the current emphasis on the nian party leader has had it. One One commentator is confident that tion had, in any case, always been need for more and more glasnost , Western diplomat was even quoted to "the Ukrainian party leader is noto­ considered a temporary one. But why someone should ask Messrs. Shcher­ the effect that he "was now 75 percent riously hostile to the new general should Mr. Chebrikov move to Kiev? bytsky and' Gorbachev to tell us the real certain" that Mr. Shcherbytsky would secretary, being another native of story. This theory continued to make the be forced out. The more judicious view, Brezhnev's home town." Where did this rounds even after the East German and which argues that it is highly im­ "fact" come from? Even more colorful is On the other hand, perhaps that is Czechoslovak news agencies reported probable that a republican party leader the discovery by a Moscow correspon­ unnecessary. A Western news agency on January 22 that Mr. Shevardnadze who holds a Politburo seat in Moscow dent of personal animosity between recently reported that analysts "expect would make state visits to the two East would be evicted from it without first Messrs. Shcherbytsky and Gorbachev him [Mr. Shcherbytsky] to last now European countries. Undaunted by this being sacked in his own republic, was that "dates back to five years when, until at least the spring." turn of events, Kremlin watchers conti­ drowned out. acting on Andropov's anti-corruption nued to insist that Mr. Shcherbytsky Mr. Shcherbytsky is still with us. At orders, Gorbachev supervised the YOUR PAST LIVES AND would be removed at the upcoming the moment, the prevailing view is that ousting of a number of regional bosses, REINCARNATION RECOLLECTION Central Committee plenum. The fact Mr. Gorbachev does not have sufficient the largest number being in Ukraine and Free information. Send self-addressed, that the Ukrainian party leader con­ support to dislodge him, and that Mr. Kazakhstan." Interesting. But is it true? stamped envelope, to: ducted business as usual at the Decem­ Esoteric Club Shcherbytsky's supporters themselves The purpose of this exercise has not Box 86О5, Chicago, III. 60680 ber 8, 1986, plenum of the Ukrainian are strongly behind him. 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MAY 12 51,500 K L M Budapes t - Lviv* -^ Ki^v/^Kaiiiv '-^ t о ^n FEBRUARY-MARCH - FUND-RAISING VESHA 12 Days MAY 25 S1.762 Lufthansa Budapest - Lviv - Kiev/Kaniv MONTHS FOR UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY FUND RUTA I 17 Days Tem0piI - Budapest Dear community members, Ukrainians in the U.S.: JUNE 9 51.680 The brutal repression and great suffering endured by our nation in Swissair Budapest-Lviv^Ternopi1-Budapest Ukraine, including the horrible aftereffects of radiation following the nuclear MARICHKA I 15 Days disaster in Chornobyl, as well as the mighty campaign of enemy forces, the JUNE 18 51.730 defamation of our name and accusations of alleged war crimes, demand from Lufthansa Budapest - Lviv - Chernivtsi us a consolidation of all our national forces to counteract this slander. TREMBITA 15 Days Lviv transit - Budapest In the face of such a hopeless situation, the Ukrainian American JUNE 28 52.160 Budapest - Uzhorod - Lviv Coordinating Council has always stressed the need for one strong central Lufthansa Odessa - Yalta - Zaporizhia organization of Ukrainians in the United States and has worked toward the HOPAK 20 Days Kiev/Kaniv realization of this goal. Unfortunately, through no fault of the UACC, these 51,862 Lufthansa Budapest - Lviv - Kiev/Kaniv attempts have thus far been fruitless. 17 Days Tem0piI - Budapest The UACC has studied the possibilities of establishing, on the basis of the 52.093 Canadian experience, a special committee which would take charge of Lufthansa Prague - Uzhorod - Lviv gathering materials and mustering the appropriate manpower to prepare an 18 Days Yalta - Kiev/Kaniv analysis of the Ukrainian immigration to the United States and publish its JULY 21 51.485 findings. Lufthansa Budapest - Lviv - Budapest The UACC cooperated in the efforts to gain New York State Education MINI-LVIV 10 Days Department approval of a volume on genocide that contains information JULY 23 51.902 about the Great Famine in Ukraine, and which will be incorporated into the Finnair Moscow - Lviv - Tem0piI curriculum of schools in the state of New York. KASHTAN 15 Days Kiev/Kaniv - Moscow The UACC executive committee actively participates in the work of the AUGUST 4 52.245 Finnair Moscow - Lviv - Sochi - Kiev/ National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in ZIRKA 19 Days Kaniv - Leningrad/Petrodvorets Ukraine. AUGUST 18 51.680 In external political matters, the executive continued its contacts with Swissair Budapest-Lviv-Temopil-Budapest government officials as well as ethnic organizations, and supported those MARICHKA II 15 Days policies which benefitted the Captive Nations and especially Ukraine. AUGUST 24 51,860 The executive committee made interventions in regard to the U.S. Lufthansa Prague - Uzhorod - Lviv Consulate in Kiev and supported actions of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. A ARKAN 14 Days Kiev/Kaniv representative of the UACC participated, within the delegation led by the SEPT. 16 51.500 Wor1d Congress of Free Ukrainians, in the Conference on Security and K L M Budapest - Lviv - Kiev/Kaniv Cooperation in Europe that opened in November 1986 in Vienna. MIMI-TOUR 11 Days 1n order to enable the UACC to continue fulfilling its goals, as well as its OCT. 1 51.475 financial obligation toward the WCFU, which amounts to S37,500, the Swissair Budapest-Lviv~Temopil-Budapest executive committee thanks all its past supporters and appeals to the public to ZHURAVEL 15 Days continue supporting the Ukrainian Community Fund established three years NOV. 5ід74 Lufthansa Budapest - Lviv - Budapest ago to help cover the costs of UACC activity. O5IN 11 Days The Ukrainian Community Fund dues are as follows: S25O from national organizations; S5O from their branches; S25 from employed persons; S15 from TO: KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC, Please send me detailed information retired persons; S5 from students. 157 Second Avenue FLYER/BROCHURE for the 1987 Tour We ask that, if feasible, you contribute more than these minimal sums. New York, N.Y. 10003 Checks should be made payable to Ukrainian American Coordinating Departing USA on Council, and mailed to: NAME/S: ADDRESS: UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COORDINATING COUNCIL City 142 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 Zip Code Tel.No. UACC Iexecutive Commmee 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1987 No.7

Millennium celebrations to begin PREVIEW OF EVENTS PHILADELPHIA - Sunday, Both the Philadelphia and South February 19 5502; Michael Wengrenovich, (914) March 1, the day before the start of the Jersey deaneries will mark this event at 735-5241; or John Smalley, (914) Great Fast (Lent) that is known as the Philadelphia Cathedral on Franklin WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian 356-7833. "Forgiveness Sunday," will mark the Street at 3 p.m. The North Jersey formal opening sevices in the Philadel­ American Bar Association of Michi­ February 21 - March 1 Deanery will gather at St, John's gan will hold its monthly meeting at phia икґкіпіап Archdiocese of celebra­ Church, Newark, N.J., at 4 p.m. Ukrai­ tions of the Millennium of the Baptism the Ukrainian Cultural Center,26601 JENKINTOWN, Pa.: A special exhi­ nian faithful from Delaware, Maryland Ryan Road (south of I-696). The of Ukraine. The Millennium Commis­ and the District of Columbia will have bit of art/ photography by Alexander sion and the Office of Religious Educa­ guest speaker will be 0rest Jejna. His Mychaluk will open Saturday, Fe­ their celebrations at St. Nicholas topic will be "ABA-ASL Pact: Must tion of the Archdiocese jointly have Church in Wilmington, Del., at 3 p.m. bruary 21, at 7 p.m. at Manor Junior announced these celebrations. It Continue?" Mr. Jejna will also give College Fox Chase Road and Forrest 1n Pennsylvania the Scranton Dea­ an update on the latest develop­ Avenue. The exhibit in the Seminar The services will consist of Forgive­ nery will gather at St. Vladimir's Church ments in the Medvid affair. Cocktails Room of the Basileiad Library, will ness Vespers with a Renewal of Baptis­ in Scranton at 4 p.m. The Shamokin are at 6:30 p.m., dinner promptly at 7 also be open to the public Sunday, mal Vows for all participants. Liturgi­ Deanery will assemble also at 4 p.m. in p.m. followed by the speaker. Mem­ February 22, Saturday, February28, cal texts in both English and Ukrainian St. Michael's Church in Frackville, bers and friends are invited. Cost of and Sunday, March 1, from 1 to 4 are being provided by the Office of Pa. the dinner is S15. Reservations Religious Education for this purpose. The Reading-Northampton Deanery should be confirmed in writing or by p.m. Special appointments to see this unique exhibit through the week may will have services at 3 p.m. in Phoenix­ phone before February 17 to: Jaro~ The day will be celebrated on a viIIe's Ss. Peter and Paul Church and in siaw Dobrowolskyj, 2000 Cadillac be made by calling Christine Izak, deanery level in centrally located Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center Northampton's St. John's Churchy also Tower, Detroit, Mich. 48226; (313) churches in each deanery. at 3 p.m. 962-6046. curator, (215) 885-2360, ext. 64. February 22 February 20 Second language conference slated CHICAGO: The Chicago Branch of SASKATOON - The Ukrainian Blueprint for Action" and "Promotion CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Ameri- the Patriarchal Society will hold a Canadian Committee, Saskatchewan of Language Programs in Saskatche­ : can Justice Committee (UAJC) will public commemoration of late Provincial Council and Saskatchewan wan." Group discussions and a debate hold a meeting at St. Nicholas Ca­ Patriarch Josyf Slipyj on the occasion Teachers of Ukrainian will host the on "Why Learn a Second Language? thedral Church basement at 7 p.m. to of the 95th anniversary of his birth. province's second annual language Why Learn Ukrainian?" will also take discuss future strategies. For infor­ Divine liturgies will be celebrated in conference here on February 21. place. mation call Walter Tun at (312) 489­ the morning in Chicago's Ukrainian Registration will begin at 9 a.m. in the Registration is S15 which can be paid 0О77. Catholic churches. At 1 p.m. a auditorium of the Saskatchewan Tea­ on the day of the conference or in February 20-22 solemn commemoration will take cher's Federation Building, 2317 Ar­ advance to: Ukrainian Canadian place in the auditorium of the Ss. lington. Some of the topics dicussed will Committee, Saskatchewan Provincial ST. PETERSBURG, F1a.: SPIFFS Volodymyr and 01ha Church. Ad­ be "Ukrainian Language Education in a Council, P.O. Box 14I, Saskatoon, (St. Petersburg 1nternational Folk mission is free. Multicultural and Multilingual Con­ Saskatchewan, S7K 3K4. text." "BuildinjB^ the Future: Ukrainian Fair Society) representing 42 nations For more information contact Vero­ Canadians in the 21st Century - A is sponsoring a three-day festival at February 25 nica Chuchman at (306) 652-5850. Bayfront Center, 400 First St. S. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Male He then plans to challenge 1srael's Ukrainians will be participating in Demjanjuk triaL. jurisdiction in this case and then will this Folk Fair with the Ukraina Chorus Surma under the direction of Roman Andrushko, will partici­ (Continued from page 1) explained sequence by sequence the \ dancers and Ukraina choir, plus a it a KGB forgery. defendant's alibi. display pf arts 4nd crafts, and a pate in the city of Chicago cultural program "Music Alive." The pro­ Then, in December, the existence of Next, 1sraeli State Prosecutor Yona Ukrainian food booth, sponsored another version of the card was reveal­ Blattman will explain the theory of the by the Ukrainian American Associa­ gram will be on Cable TV Channels 23 and 49 for a week at 9 p.m. ed when a copy was obtained of ,an case, and Mikhail Shaked, another tion. For further information please article published in the April 30 issue of prosecutor, will explain the order of call John Kohut at (813) 576-2488. February 26 Mo1od Ukrainy, a newspaper published presentation of the evidence, according for internal consumption in Ukraine. to Mr. O'Connor. February 21 OTTAWA: An author's reading The article, headlined "The Vampire What the defense will try to do is to from and the discussion of the newly Lived in Cleveland," was accompanied "get to the heart of the matter" — the NEW YORK: Pianists Thomas published biography of William by a reproduction of the Trawniki 1D identity issue, Mr. O'Connor stressed. Hrynkiw and Juliana Osinchuk pre­ Kurelek, the late Ukrainian Cana­ card with a different photograph of a There is no need to go through the sent a two-piano, four-hand concert dian artist, written by Patricia Mor- person alleged to be Mr. Demjanjuk. history of the Holocaust or describe the as part of the Ukrainian 1nstitute of ley, will take p1ace in the hall of the The Mo1od Ukrainy photo aind the horrors of the Treblinka death camp, he America's Saturday Evening Con­ St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Ca­ photo appearing on copies of the said, adding we do not deny what cert Series at 7 p.m. Featured works tholic Church at 8 p.m. For more Trawniki ID card seen in the United happened at Treblinka. include compositions by Arkimenko, information call 1rene Bell, (613) States and forwarded to 1srael were of However, he said he thinks this will Liszt, Lysenko, Mayboroda and 236-4725 or 994-6976. two different individuals, according to not be possible because for 1srael this is Wytwycky. Suggested donation: S1O, persons who have seen both. a political trial that is seen also as an S6 for senior citizens and students. A February 28 1n other developments regarding the educational too1. reception will follow. The UIA is Demjanjuk case, Mr. O'Connor said he Meanwhile, Edward Nishnic, Mr. located at 2 E. 79th St., (212) 288­ EDISON, N.J.: The 12th annual has learned that the only video record of Demjanjuk's son-in-law, speaking to 866О. Heritage Festival Ball will be held at the Demjanjuk trial will be taken by the The Weekly from the Cleveland area, the Pines Manor, Route 27. This Israeli government. The news media revealed that family members are facing ST. CATHARINES, Ont.: The U- year's ball will honor New Jersey will not be allowed to film the proceed­ a grave financial situation and, therefore, krainian Canadian Committee is Gov. Thomas Kean. Special prize ings, though American networks had only Mr. Demjanjuk's son, John, will be sponsoring a "Queen's Ва1Г' at the drawing for those attending in their planned to use a pool camera operated present at the trial. He is expected to Ukrainian Black Sea Hall, 455 Wel- ethnic costume. Tickets are S37.50 per by a CNN staffer, he said. leave for 1srael on Friday, February 13, land Ave., at 7 p.m. Entertainment person (not available at the door) In fact, news correspondents will not with Jack Burscu, president of St. by the Burya Orchestra. Admission is and will include dinner, dancing, even be allowed in the hall where the Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathe­ S15 per person. Tickets are available entertainment and open bar. For trial will be taking place. They will, dral, who is paying for his own and at Ukrainian Treasures, (416) 9З5­ tickets and information call Anne instead, watch from another hall over John's trip to Israel. Mr. Nishnic, who is 7779, or Ukrainian Credit Union, Banasewycz-Miele, (201) 463-9248; closed circuit TV. president and administrator of the (4I6) 684-5062. Advance purchase or Stan Jakubowycz, (201)458-3089. Mr. O'Connor said he was distressed family controlled John Demjanjuk recommended. that the 1sraeli government would have Defense Fund, said he will continue his PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian such control over what the media and, fund-raising tour, with the next stops SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.: The U- Educational and Cultural Center, in turn, the public will be able to see of being in Canada. krainian American Veterans of Post 700 Cedar Road, Abington Town­ the Demjanjuk trial. "They're closing Bishop Antony of the Ukrainian 19, are sponsoring a dance and buffet ship, will hold its annual banquet and the window to the wor1d," he charged. Orthodox Church also will be leaving at the Ukrainian Ha1I, 16 Twin Ave. the grand opening of the newly Asked by The Weekly how the pro­ for 1srael on Friday, Mr. Nishnic added. Buffet will begin at 7 p.m. and renovated auditorium. 1ncluded will ceedings will begin when the trial The trial, which actually began on dancing will be at 8 p.m. - midnight. be the presentation of the Man of resumes on Monday, Mr. O'Connor November 26, 1986 - because of a law Music will be played by Angelo the Year award. The event will start explained that, according to the rules of that stipulates a trial must begin no later Muto. Donations are S10 per person. at 6:30.p.m. For further information the court, the defense will be able to than 60 days after the indictment - Tickets may be obtained by calling call the center, (215) 663-IІ66, 66З­ speak first. The defense will first be may last as long as four to six months, Teddy B. Dusanenko, (914) 6З4­ 0707 or 663-9820. allowed to plead to each of the counts. observers say. The Ukrainian Weekly: THE UNA: MORE THAN 50-plus years of news and features AN INSURANCE COMPANY