www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: l Russia on a collision course with the European Union – page 2 l Books, music, TV as weapons in the culture war in Ukraine – page 4 l Exhibits at The Ukrainian Museum remember the Holodomor – page 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXXI No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2013 $1/$2 in Ukraine Permanent exhibit on Canada’s ‘Contextualizing the Holodomor’ conference 1914-1920 internment marks genocide’s 80th anniversary operations opens in Banff by Oksana Zakydalsky TORONTO – Since the 1980s, when UCCLA the 50th anniversary of what was OTTAWA – Over two decades ago, Lubomyr Luciuk once called the Great Famine of 1932- of Kingston, Ontario, now a professor at the Royal 1933 in Ukraine was marked, the Military College, initiated a campaign aimed at recall- world has profoundly changed. The USSR no longer exists; archives in ing an unhappy episode in Canadian history. Between Ukraine and Russia have become 1914 and 1920 thousands of Ukrainians and other accessible; and the center of research Europeans were branded as “enemy aliens,” forced to for what is now widely known as the do heavy labor for the profit of their jailers, disen- Holodomor has shifted from North franchized and subjected to other state-sanctioned America to Ukraine. censures – not because of any wrong they had done, Although the literature on the but only because of who they were, where they had Holodomor is now far greater than it come from. was in the 1980s – according to Once described as “Germans, Austrians and Turks,” Ukrainian historian Stanislav most of the internees were actually civilians, including Kulchytsky, “the number of works women and children, some of them Canadian-born or devoted to the Ukrainian Holodomor naturalized British subjects. Most were Ukrainian by has surpassed 20,000 titles” – many ethnicity, with Croats, Serbians, Hungarians and other issues remain hotly debated. nationalities also represented. The aim of the conference held in Marta Baziuk The majority had been lured to the Dominion with Toronto on September 29-30 was to Frank Sysyn presents Roman Serbyn with an award recognizing his promises of freedom and free land, only to find their examine the Holodomor in several dif- contributions to the study of the Holodomor. civil liberties undone with the outbreak of World War ferent contexts to determine how the I because they came bearing the passports of the Holodomor was considered within Ukrainian Historical Research. The the Holodomor had on our under- Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman Turkish or German those contexts and how this interpre- HREC, established through the gener- standing of Soviet history?” He empires. tation has influenced the understand- ous funding of the Temerty Family focused his analysis on the relation- Twenty-four internment camps held over 8,500 ing of the contexts. Foundation, conducts and supports ship between the peasants and the men and some members of their families during the “Contextualizing the Holodomor – research and study of the Holodomor, state. Prof. Graziosi said that the role war years through the late spring of 1920. Thousands A Conference on the 80th and engages in a range of activities to of classes was marginal in state-build- of others were branded as “enemy aliens” and forced Anniversary” was organized by the promote teaching about the ing and was a state-led transforma- to report regularly to the police. Holodomor Research and Education Holodomor in schools. tion. Right from the Russian Fort Henry, where Dr. Luciuk unveiled a commemo- Consortium (HREC) of the Canadian The first session of the conference Revolution, there was peasant opposi- rative plaque in 1994, was the first permanent intern- Institute of Ukrainian Studies, featured a paper by Andrea Graziosi tion. There was a continuity of the ment camp established during the first world war, fol- University of Alberta. The conference (University of Naples) with David peasant-based social and national lowing passage of the now-notorious War Measures Act. was led by Frank Sysyn, head of the Marples (University of Alberta) as dis- revolts of 1918-1920 with those HREC’s executive committee and cussant. Prof. Graziosi posed the ques- (Continued on page 16) director of the Peter Jacyk Center for tion: “What impact has the study of (Continued on page 18) Bishop Borys Gudziak discusses Church’s strengths and weaknesses, threats and opportunities by Andrew Sorokowski appointment as rector in 2000, oversaw its Ukraine commemorate the head of their transformation into a Catholic university. Church as “patriarch.” NEW YORK – In a public lecture hosted In August 2012 he was consecrated a The issue has also been depoliticized: for by the Ukrainian Patriarchal Society in the bishop and in December of that year much of the 20th century the Church U.S.A. Inc., Bishop Borys Gudziak of the became apostolic exarch for Ukrainians in served as a surrogate state, but since Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Eparchy of St. France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Ukrainian independence in 1991, it can Volodymyr the Great, which is based in Netherlands and Luxembourg. When the concentrate on being a Church. Moreover, Paris, analyzed the current state of the Paris-based exarchate was elevated to an many questions concerning the patriarchal Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. The lec- eparchy the following month, the 52-year- issue were decided favorably in the 1990s, ture followed the Patriarchal Society’s old bishop assumed the title of eparch. due to Pope John Paul II’s support of the annual general meeting held on Saturday, Bishop Borys’ theme was “The Ukrainian Church, he explained. October 5, at The Ukrainian Museum. After these introductory remarks, A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Borys Gudziak Patriarchate, Ecclesial Maturity and Mission in the Context of Globalization, Bishop Borys proceeded to a “SWOT” anal- was a student of the exiled Ukrainian ysis of the current state of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic metropolitan of Lviv, Josyf Secularization, and New and Traditional Threats.” He began by saying that he was Greek-Catholic Church (as it is known in Slipyj, who initiated the patriarchal move- Ukraine). This method, used in the corpo- ment in the diaspora. He completed theo- not particularly worried about the Patriarchate. Although it has not been for- rate world, consists of examining Strengths, logical studies in Rome and received a Ph.D. Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats in history at Harvard University in 1992. He mally recognized, in effect “we already have (SWOT). The speaker invited members of was ordained a priest in 1998. it.” Nor is the Patriarchate controversial any the audience to participate in the analysis. Father Gudziak worked to renew the longer: the episcopate has come to accept Lviv Theological Academy and, after his Bishop Borys Gudziak it, and today most Greek-Catholic priests in (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2013 No. 42 ANALYSIS Russia on a collision course EuroParliament extends mission Belarusian negotiations held on October 7, according to the press service of the BRUSSELS – A European Parliament Economic Development and Trade with the European Union monitoring mission looking into the case of Ministry. “Businesslike and active negotia- Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister tions took place. The most important was by Pavel Felgenhauer nations to join an association with the EU” Yulia Tymoshenko has been extended until (http://www.pravda.ru/economics/rules/ that we settled everything on a friendly Eurasia Daily Monitor mid-November. The extension was globalcooperation/08-10-2013/1177326- basis, there was not any policy, only the announced on October 15 after the The Kremlin is demonstrating its grow- litva-0/#). economy. We discussed concrete and prac- Parliament’s envoys, former Parliament ing anger with the European Union for Lithuania has complained to the tical issues, including those related to encroaching onto the territory of the for- European Commission about Gazprom President Pat Cox and former Polish trans-border cooperation. The signing of mer Soviet Union, which Moscow considers using its domination of the natural gas President Aleksander Kwasniewski, briefed six documents was an important moment, its exclusive sphere of influence. An impor- market to charge excessive prices. The European lawmakers on their mission. Ms. including the document called the road tant summit between the EU and the commission, in turn, announced last week Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years map for 2013-2015, with the main focus on Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, that it is close to making a judgment on in prison in 2011 for abuse of office in a real projects, related primarily to agricul- Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova and Gazprom’s gas trading practices in case widely seen as politically motivated. tural machinery production,” Mr. Prasolov Azerbaijan) next month in Vilnius, Lithuania and other former Eastern EU governments have linked her release to said. During the negotiations, the parties Lithuania, may extend EU Association European countries, which may result in the signing of association and free trade showed a mutual interest in further Agreements and a free trade zone to multi-million-dollar fines (http://www. agreements with Ukraine. Ukraine hopes to enhancement of partnership in different Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova – policies kommersant.ru/doc/2311502). sign the agreement at a November 28-29 spheres of the national economy: in partic- the Kremlin believes are aimed at under- In September, the Russian Federal summit in Vilnius. (RFE/RL) ular, in energy, pharmaceuticals, transport mining President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to Customs Service began creating the same and agriculture, as well as scientific-techni- havoc on the border with Lithuania as with Fule expects Tymoshenko’s release reintegrate the post-Soviet space by form- cal and innovation cooperation.