І НН І Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association 4(лгО У i- - X in t- ш x 'ж: >зо I I znsi О -t о-о OZO raintan Oz VoU No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21.1982 25 cents D.C. honors Helsinki group Protesters hold vigil Gen. Grigorenko addresses ^;di Soviet "ЕгфсШу special concert program --Й/ WASHINGTON - Approximately WASHINGTON - Former Soviet 25 persons participated in a protest vigil political prisoner Petro Grigorenko was outside the Soviet Embassy here on the featured speaker at a special concert Tuesday, November 9, on the occasion program here on Monday evening, of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group'ssixth November 8, marking the sixth anniver­ anniversary. sary of the founding of the Ukrainian Led by members of the Philadelphia- Helsinki Group. based Ukrainian Human Rights Com­ The event was organized by an ad- mittee, the organizers of the demon­ hoc planning committee sponsored by stration, and former Soviet political the three Ukrainian parishes of Metro­ prisoner and member of the Ukrainian politan Washington. Helsinki Group Nina Strokata, the The commemorative program, held protesters handed . passers-by leaflets at Kay Spiritual Center on the campus, explaining the reason behind the de­ of American University drew an audience monstration as well as copies of the of over 2S0 people. Opening prayers, Petro Grigorenko addresses a special Ukrainian Helsinki group program; at left presidential proclamation of a day in conducted in both English and Ukrai­ is translator Jurij Dobczansky. „jtiicrirJSitte to the Ukrainian Helsinki moni­ nian by the local pastors, the Revs. tors.- Stephen Shawel and Mykola Churak, and the Soviets and the world denied group was able to do, he said. During the course of the vigil, corres­ were preceeded'by the singing-of the them recognition. Today; he вШн the After their arrests and incarceration pondents of the Voice of America and U.S. and Ukrainian national anthems. world knows of that struggle and the the group's members continued to study Radio Liberty interviewed Dr. Stro­ In his welcoming remarks, Jurij current struggle for human rights. and work for human rights - even in kata. Dobczansky briefly reviewed the history The sparks of the Ukrainian national the confines of Mordovian labor camps, Later that afternoon, Dr. Strokata, of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. He struggle have never died out, he added. he noted, adding that they have not members of the Ukrainian Human emphasized the significance of the Is it not significant, he asked, that recanted. They now consider them­ Rights Committee, including Ulana November 9 proclamation by President Danylo Shumuk, a former member of selves corresponding members of the Mazurkevich, Christine Senykand Vera Ronald Reagan and the congressional the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) group. Andreyczyk, and other demonstrators concurrent resolution. and Mykola Rudenko, a former Soviet Gen. Grigorenko said that in contrast met for 45 minutes with representatives Mr. Dobczansky, who also served as officer find themselves in the same labor to the open activity of an earlier period of the State Department. translator, introduced Gen. Grigo­ camp? when he was directly involved with the The 12-member Ukrainian delega­ renko, founding member of both the Turning his attention to the members group, members today must operate tion met with Melvyn Levitsky, deputy Moscow and Ukrainian Helsinki groups. of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Gen. clandestinely. The outside world does assistant secretary of state for human Gen. Grigorenko began by contrast­ Grigorenko described them as a small not know of them, he added, because rights and humanitarian affairs; Judy ing the situation today with that of 40 but spiritually strong group of people. they must remain silent under the Buncher, human-rights officer for years ago, when the Ukrainian people The group formed an external represen­ .constant threat of discovery and arrest. (Continued on pap; 12) rose to struggle against both the Nazis tation abroad, something no other (Continued on pap 5) UNA district chairmen і hold 7th conference at Soyuzivka estate KERHONKSON, NY. i- Repre- " sentatives of 18 UNA districts through­ out the United States and Canada met at the seventh conference of district": committee chairmen held here at Soyu^j zivka during the November 13-14 weeb-w end- CI.S The conference, attended byt0ej district committee chairmen, one fWS-' chairman and one secretary, was con­ ducted by Supreme Organizer Stefan Hawrysz. з м After the conference was opened wi^B'^ introductory remarks by UNA^e^" preme President John O. Flis,3(he^- d is trie t representatives present reported - on activity in their respective districts. Representatives of eight districts were unable to attend. Wasyl Orichowsky, senior field or­ ganizer, also took part, reporting on the problems encountered by the districts in Georje Za гуску his territory. Participants of the seventh conference of UNA district committee chairmen. (Continued on page 5) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1982 No. 47 Dissident profile Soviets continue to harass Moscow disarmament group Lev Lukianenko: MOSCOW - Soviet authorities on measures authorities have taken since November I blocked attempts by a 11 Soviet intellectuals announced the serving second 15-year term beleaguered pacifist group here to hold formation of the Group for the -Esta­ a press conference, barring members of blishment of Mutual Trust between the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - In 1961, the Western press from the building United States and the USSR on June 6. imprisoned Ukrainian activist Lev, where the meeting was to take place, It. was the first pacifist organization to Lukianenko, then just 34, thought reported The New York Times. challenge - the official Soviet "peace" his life was over. Convicted of trea­ The conference was to have been the apparatus. son, he was sentenced to face a firing first appearance by Sergei Batovrin, a Members of the group have been squad. His sentence was later com­ 25-year-old artist and the unofficial subjected to considerable harassment, muted to 15 years' imprisonment. group's leader, since his release from a evidently because Soviet authorities^ This time, authorities tried to kill his psychiatric hospital in early September. perceive the group's existence as spirit, his dedication to the cause of But, according to residents of the challenging the officially projected Ukrainian independence and human apartment where the news conference image of a nation united behind Presi­ rights. They did not succeed. was scheduled, Mr. Batovrin and his dent Leonid Brezhnev's peace initia­ Today, Mr. Lukianenko is in the wife were prevented by security agents tives and politics. fourth year of a 10-year labor-camp from leaving their home. Mr. Batovrin spent a month in a sentence, which will be followed by a Two other members of the group psychiatric hospital after his arrest on five-year exile term. On December never reached the conference site and August 6, the day a group of American 12, 1977, just four months after he were presumed to have been inter­ activists was to visit him. Two other renounced his Soviet citizenship, Mr. cepted, while two who did arrive were members were detained for 15 days in Lukianenko was arrested and charged pushed back by plainclothesmen. Re­ July to prevent any contact with 200 with "anti-Soviet agitation and pro­ porters arriving at the site were ordered Scandinavians who staged a closely to leave. controlled peace march though several paganda." On July 20, 1978, he was Lev Lukianenko sentenced to his second 15-year term The forcible breakup of the planned Soviet cities. in 17 years. In addition, Mr. Lukianenko was meeting was typical of the repressive (Continued on paje 13) Lev Hryhorovych Lukianenko told by the KGB that constitutional was born on August 24, 1927, in the guarantees of Ukrainian secession village of Khripovka in the Cher- were "for foreign use," adding that if nihiv region in Ukraine. His parents mass demonstrations were organized Soviets abused Baptist prisoner were peasants. In 1957 he graduated in support of secession they would be from the law faculty of Lomonosov crushed by Soviet troops especially MUNICH - A young Soviet Baptist, During her two-day stay, she was not State University in Moscow. Shortly prepared for that purpose. who was released from prison last given any food, nor was she fed on a 14- after, he joined the Communist Party The secret trial began in May 1961. August, was so abused during her hour flight to Moscow. From Moscow, and began working as a staff propa­ All seven defendants were charged confinement that she only weighed 88 she was flown to her hometown of gandist in party district committees with treason and/or participation in pounds when she was freed, according Brest, Byelorussia, where she was in the Lviv region of western Ukraine. an anti-Soviet organization. Because to Soviet sources. briefly placed in jail. While working in the Lviv region, he had drafted the UWPU's pro­ Galina Vilchinskaya, 24, who served During her three-year confinement, he was to befriend several other gram, Mr. Lukianenko was sen­ three years for operating a religious young Ukrainian lawyers, among tenced to death, which was later Ms. Vilchinskaya reportedly suffered camp for children, had been denied from scurvy and lost six teeth. them Ivan Kandyba and Josyf Bo- commuted to 15 years in a strict- food for five days prior to her release rovnytsky. They began to discuss the regimen labor camp. from a Siberian prison, reported Following her release, she returned prospect of the eventual secession of Mr. Lutskiv, reportedly affected East/ West News. home, but sources indicate that she Ukraine from the USSR, a right by drugs, attempted to avoid punish­ Ten days before she was freed, Ms.