www.ukrweekly.com ІГОР Нї" published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! да-ло Ш ш оо Л"ЧО ф - і 4t S ' л оо-в ОЖШ - ^я : г Я— . І^О .' ото Ukrainian Weekl ї ШІ 2. Vol. L No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31,1982 25 cents Arrest Yevhen Antonenko-Davydovych Bishop Rohoreckl dies ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - The son Ukrainian writers, had previously of well-known Ukrainian poet and served a five-year sentence in 1971-76. TORONTO - Bishop Andrew dissident mentor Borys Antonenko- The following year, he was sentenced to Roborecki of the Saskatoon Eparchy in Davydovych was arrested during the a one-year term. 1 Canada died of a heart attack on summer and sentenced to four years' Saturday, October 23, here while attend­ The elder Davydovych, now 83, imprisonment, reported the Smoloskyp ing the convention of the Brotherhood gained prominence in 1928 with the Ukrainian Information Service. of Ukrainian Catholics. He was 71. publication of his novel, "Smert" According to recent reports from ("Death"). In the early 1930s, he and Ukraine, Yevhen Antonenko-Davy­ Bishop Roborecki was born in Mosty scores of other Ukrainian writers and -Veiyki, western Ukraine, on December dovych, 30, was tried in Kiev, the intellectuals were exiled from Ukraine. Ukrainian capital, on a criminal charge, 12, 1910. He arrived in Canada as a Many of his contemporaries Were young boy with his parents. He gra­ the exact nature of which is not known. ел ecu ted. Reports indicate that the prosecutor duated from St. Paul College in Winnipeg in 1929 and from St. Augustine Roman had asked for a six-year term. Rehabilitated in the 1950s, he re­ Catholic Seminary in Toronto in 1934. turned to Ukraine, where a volume of The younger Davydovych,"whose That same year in Winnipeg he was his short stories was published in 1959. father was exiled in the early 1930s ordained into the priesthood. during Stalin's massive crackdown on He fell out of official favor in the 1960s. He served Ukrainian Catholic parishes in Dauphin and Roblin, and other cities in the province of Manitoba, as well as Support Ukrainian Helsinki Group Day St. Josaphat Parish in Toronto, r On June21 the-b.Sreongresspassed a'concurrent resolntiori(H. CohtRe^- In 1948 he was appointed auxiliary Bishop Andrew Roborecki 205) which confirms that the Soviet Union, despite guarantees in its own bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic constitution and in various international agreements it has signed — Eparchy of Winnipeg and was conse­ Bishop Roborecki was a member of especially the 1975 Helsinki Accords signed by the USSR along with 34 states crated in Toronto. He was subsequently various Ukrainian and Canadian including the United States and Canada, the U.N. Charter and the Universal appointed exarch of Saskatoon in 1951 Catholic organizations, including the Declaration of Human Rights - continues to violate these commitments "by and eparch of Saskatoon in 1956. Council of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops. denying to the citizens of Ukraine rights of national identity and basic human rights in every walk of life," and it "flagrantly persecutes and imprisons the citizens of Ukraine who are lawfully engaged in asking their government for the institution of national and human rights in Ukraine." Slavistrseek Helsinki monitors' release The resolution further confirms that "continued violations by the Soviet WASHINGTON - The American to release imprisoned members of all the Union of human rights, and in particular, its persecution of the members of Association for the Advancement of Helsinki groups, reported the Smo­ the" Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group, are factors that contribute to Slavic Studies, meeting here on October loskyp Ukrainian Information Service. tensions between the East and West." For these reasons, Congress 14-17, drew up an appeal to Soviet The appeal, signed by 82 Slavists recommended that the president of the United States set aside November 9, President Leonid Brezhnev and Volo- the day the Ukrainian Helsinki Group was founded in 1976, as a day honoring attending the AAASS's 14th conven­ dymyr Shcherbytsky, head of the Com­ tion, said that the imprisonment of the group, and demand that the Soviets "release incarcerated members of the munist Party of Ukraine, urging them group" and "cease the persecution and imprisonment of those citizens in members of the groups, set up to Ukraine asking for the institution of national, civil and individual rights in monitor Soviet compliance with the accordance with the Soviet Constitution, the United Nations Charter, the 1975 Helsinki Accords, "casts doubt on Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Helsinki Accords." Hierarchs asks prayers - the Soviet Union's commitment" to the In accordance with the resolution, President Ronald Reagan on September agreement. 23 issued a proclamation whicho'esignated November 9 "as a day honoring for Ukrainian dissidents Copies of the appeal were also sent to the sixth anniversary of the establishment of the Ukrainian Public Group to the Soviet U.N. Mission, the Soviet Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords." PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Ukrai­ Council of Ministers, the Soviet Su­ In the proclamation, the president also declared: "In commemorating the nian Catholic hierarchs here have asked preme Court, as well as other Soviet sixth anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring that Church members in the United officials and several Soviet newspapers. Group, we renew our determination never to forget the valiant struggle of the States offer a prayer for persecuted peoples of Ukraine for their inalienable rights, and we pledge to do all we Ukrainian dissidents on Sunday, No­ Two Soviet Slavists, Vladimir Miko- can to ameliorate the plight of those Ukrainians who have been persecuted by vember 7, in conjunction with Presi­ yan from the Soviet Embassy and the Soviet authorities for attempting to assert their rights." dent Ronald Reagan's proclamation Henryk Trofymenko from the Institute Hence, the Congress and the president - our Congress and our president designating November 9 as a day com­ for the Study of the U.S.A., had been — have made an authoritative and significant statement We, U.S. citizens of memorating the formation of the Ukrai­ invited but failed to attend. nian Helsinki Group. Ukrainian descent,now have the important obligation to do everything in our Several Ukrainian scholars and pro­ power to make sure that word becomes deed. The brief appeal, issued on October fessionals took part in the conference. For the proper actualization of the congressional resolution and the 22, urges Ukrainian Catholics to "ask Among the Ukrainians taking part in presidential proclamation, a committee has been formed through the God in His mercy to help those suffer­ the panels were Yuriy Bozhyk, Roman initiative of the External Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, ing in Ukraine and in exile to.persevere Serbyn, Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, Stepan and it has already begun making plans to take advantage of the opportunity in their faith in God, our Ukrainian Rapaviy, Roman Solchanyk, Roman provided by the resolution and the presidential proclamation declaring a day Catholic Church and the U- Szporluk, Stepan Horak and Marta honoring the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. krainian nation, fend to bring Bohachevsky-Chomiak. We, the leadership of Ukrainian fraternal associations that throughout the an end to their suffering and history of American Ukraine have conducted similar actions, wholeheartedly allow them to live in peace and liberty, Several Ukrainian organizations had and with the freedom to worship God support and ally ourselves with the actions of the committee and ask all our set up information booths, including and to work to safeguard Church and members and branches, as well as the entire patriotic Ukrainian American Smoloskyp, which displayed samples of national attainments." Ukrainian samvydav, and the Shev- community, to participate. chenko Scientific Society and the Jersey City, N.J. - Scranton, Pa. October 1982 The appeal was signed by Metropoli­ tan Stephen Sulyk, Bishop Basil Losten Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Supreme Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association of Stamford, Bishop Innocent Lotocky Sciences, which had a joint display of Executive Committee of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association of Chicago and Auxiliary Bishop Robert scholarly materials in Ukrainian and Moskal of Philadelphia. English. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31.1982 Ha 44 Dissident profile KGB nabs Ukrainian fugitive Vasyl Stus: who tried to flee to West JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A Ukrainian and asked for political asylum. Instead, persecuted poet who had served time for trying to escape the Finns turned the group over to to Finland in 1974 and had been in Soviet authorities, and he was sentenced hiding for nearly a year to escape re- to seven years' imprisonment. Mr. - JERSEY CITY, N.J. - In 1959, arrest was recently taken into custody Shatravka reportedly took the action ^asyl Stus, then 21 years old, seemed by the KGB in the Tyumen region of after numerous appeals to be allowed to to have a future of limitless possibi- Siberia, reported the Smoloskyp Ukrai­ emigrate had failed. l Jities as a rising young Ukrainian nian Information Service. ' poet. His early poetry was being After his release in 1981, he learned Oleksander Shatravka, 32, an author , published in various Ukrainian that the KGB was planning to re-arrest whose works had appeared in several periodicals. In 1963, his major poetry him and he fled to the remote Tyumen underground publications, was charged ' began appearing in Dnipro, a leading region. After his arrest, he was returned with "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ literary journal. Less then 10 years to Ukraine. ganda." He had sought refuge in Siberia later, however, his career came to an in 1981 after getting word that his arrest Mr.