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Australian Parliament passes motion Legislators mark Millennium supporting Ukrainian Helsinki Group Pysanka hits Washington by Malta Kolomayets Ukraine and discouraging the official MELBOURNE, Australia - In whom she has been associated in WASHINGTON - Citing the participation of the United States in any October 1986, the Australian Fede­ monitoring the Helsinki Accords. recently passed Senate Resolution 235 official Millennium ceremonies in the ration of Ukrainian Organizations sent The motion, which was passed una­ denouncing the Soviet government's Soviet Union, Sen. Dennis DeConcini a draft motion expressing support for nimously, deplored the deaths of Ukrai­ suppression of religious freedom in (Continued on page 16) the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG) nian Helsinki monitors at the infamous on the 10th anniversary of its founding, Perm Camp 36-1 and called on the to several Australian politicians in each Soviet government to release the still major party. That initiative has only imprisoned or exiled monitors and now come to fruition. Happily, it "allow them to return to their home­ coincided with the visit to Australia of lands, or if they wish, emigrate to the Oksana Meshko, a founding member of countries of their choice." the UHG. In 1983 an Australian Senate motion On Thursday, March 17, Oksana in defense of the group was proposed Meshko, 83, watched from the by Sen. Brian Harradine (Tas.) and also Visitors' Gallery as Member of passed unanimously. Parliament Philip Ruddock (Liberal, In his introductory speech, Mr. Dundas) proposed a motion in defense Ruddock emphasized the current plight of the group in the House of Repre­ of Ukrainian lawyer Lev Lukianenko, sentatives. who has just begun a five-year term of Referring to this as a "historic day," harsh exile in the Tomsk region after Mr. Ruddock, a long-time supporter of spending 25 years as a political prisoner; the Ukrainian and Baltic communities, While recognizing that there have introduced Ms. Meshko to the House been some signs of liberalization in the as a person with a "great spirit," who USSR, which "all people of goodwill desires to return to the Soviet Union to would want to acknowledge," he felt work for the freedom of those with that a "changed situation"could only be Sen. Dennis DeConcini (left) and Rep. William Lipinski receive their goose egg recognized when "those people who are pysanky. Also pictured: Judge Bohdan Futey, Viktor Sulzynsky and Larissa Smith. still incarcerated axe^jeleased and At the Demjanjuk trial allowed home to monitor the situation freely." Helsinki Accords monitors in Ukraine So that MPs could have direct access Court's dilemma: which to materials relating to the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Mr. Ruddock tabled as confirm their membership in group survivors are correct? documents a booklet on Lev Lukia­ NEW YORK - Human and national Zisels, Yaroslav Lesiv, Olha Matu­ nenko published by the J Melbourne- rights activists in Ukraine have taken sevych and Vasyl Striltsiv. Special to Svoboda and The Weekly yet another step to revitalize the Ukrai­ Messrs. Lukianenko and Matu­ from UNCHAIN Observer based Committee for the Defense of National and Human Rights in Uk­ nian Helsinki Group by confirming the sevych, it should be noted, are both JERUSALEM - The Nazi war raine, as well as The Ukrainian intentions of long-time members to serving sentences of "internal exile" — crimes trial of John Demjanjuk re­ Weekly's special issue on the Ukrainian continue their activity in the group. Mr. Lukianenko in the Tomskaya sumed here for two days, Monday and Helsinki Group, published on the 10th In a statement dated March 11 and Oblast and Mr. Matusevych in the Tuesday, March 21 and 22, to allow the anniversary of its founding. released here by the External Repre­ Chitinskaya Oblast. defense to present recently obtained In his closing remarks, Mr. Ruddock sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki The statement also lists the following evidence that casts serious doubt on the again urged that the Parliament seek to Group, the UHG's executive committee members of The Ukrainian Herald's prosecution's contention that the have Mr. Lukianenko released, "and — consisting of Mykhailo Horyn, editorial board as new members of the former Cleveland autoworker is "Ivan that we give to Ms. Meshko a mes­ Zinoviy Krasivsky and Vyacheslav Ukrainian Helsinki Group: Vasyl Bar- the Terrible" of Treblinka. sage of support, and strength and Chornovil — announced the following: ladianu, Bohdan Horyn, Pavlo Sko- On Monday, defense attorney Yoram encouragement which she can take back "The new social conditions in the chok, Vitaliy Shevchenko, Stepan Sheftel reviewed in detail the testi­ to her fellow citizens in the Soviet USSR, the release of a significant SapeUak and Mykola Muratov. monies of nearly 40 survivors of the Union as they work for the release of portion of political prisoners, and a The statement goes on to note that, Treblinka death camp who spoke with their friends and colleagues who have termination of criminal proceedings "Because of their isolation and other the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi- been involved in human rights." against human rights activists have reasons, contacts have not yet been hunting arm, the Office of Special The motion was seconded by MP made it possible to activate the Ukrai­ established with a few members of the Investigations. Roger Shipton (Liberal, Higgins) and nian Helsinki Group in Ukraine," group (Ivan Kandyba and Mykola He tried to make three principal supported by P.R. Cleeland (Labor, The first step in this re-activization, Horbal). But there is no reason to doubt points: that there are major discre­ McEwan) and David Charles (Labor, was the December 1987 announcement their desire to take part in the group's pancies in the testimonies; that memory Isaacs). that theindependent journal The Ukrai­ work." lapses are evident; and that survivors Mr. Shipton described Ms. Meshko nian Herald would be the Ukrainian It is underUned in the document that had a strong desire to identify war as "an inspiration" who "sits here to Helsinki Group's official press organ the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, which criminals, therefore their testimonies represent not only the people of Uk­ and that the journal's editorial board was founded November 9, 1976, "never are influenced by that mindset. raine but for Christians and Jews and all had been co-opted into the group. disbanded, as did the Moscow group, In one case, for example, a survivor people of all races who cry out for and never ceased to pursue its activi­ For the full text of the Ukrainian ties." said that he knew "Ivan," but then freedom in the Soviet Union today." He Helsinki Group's statement, seepage^. admitted that he was never in Treblin­ reported that when asked what keeps ''Unable to prepare and publish ka, but only at Maidanek. her going, Mrs. Meshko replied, "my In the March 11 statement, the collective documents owing to the mass Most of the witnesses described by love for human beings, a sense of duty UHG's executive committee listed the arrests during all these difficult years, Mr. Sheftel said they knew "Ivan of to the community and a sense of pat­ following persons as having confirmed the majority of the group's members Treblinka," but when shown the Traw- riotism." their membership in the group: Levko spoke out in behalf of the group indivi­ niki ID card photo and the defendant's Mr. Charles, who is the Govern­ Lukianenko, Oksana Meshko, Mykola dually," it states. 1951 visa photo were unable to identify ment's Chairman of the Caucus,Foreign Matusevych, Mr. Krasivsky, Mr. Chor­ The statement also points out that the either one. Affairs and Defense Committee, prai- novil, Mr. Horyn, Petro Rozumny, UHG "was subjected to a more de- (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 5) Petro Sichko, Vasyl Sichko, Yosyf (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988 :: No. 13

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Former Soviet soldiers express concern about POWs in Afghanistan Opposition mounts in Ukraine ELIZABETH, N.J. - Former Soviet "We, former Soviet soldiers in Af­ soldiers, who served in Afghanistan and ghanistan, who no longer wanted to to nuclear energy program later defected to the West, recently sent take part in the war, welcome your a telegram to the U.S. Mission to efforts to end this senseless bloodshed. by Bohdan Nahaylo Robitnycha Hazeta published an inter­ Geneva, the Pakistan Mission to the After waging an exhausting battle for view with F. S. Temirov, the director of United Nations and the United Nations nine years, the Afghan people have CONCLUSION the All-Union Atomic Energy Planning expressing their concern for Soviet earned the right to live quietly and to be Institute "Atomenergoproekt." He prisoners of war, and Red Army defec­ free, but behind all of these truly By the end of last year it was be­ acknowledged that since Chornobyl tors in Afghanistan. momentous decisions which now face coming apparent that concerned Ukrai­ there had been considerable anxiety As talks about the withdrawal of you, there is one problem, which bears nian writers and scientists were, in about the use of nuclear energy. He even Soviet troops from Afghanistan conti­ on us directly, and has gone by un­ effect, forming a joint lobby. In Decem­ implied that local opposition had led to nue in Geneva, the possibility of the noticed: the fate of Soviet prisoners of ber, Literaturna Ukraina and the Ukrai­ the abandonment of plans to build a scheduled puUout on May 15 is impos­ war and Red Army defectors in Afgha­ nian party daily Radianska Ukraina huge nuclear power and heating plant sible, the Soviet Union said on Monday, nistan, of which there are several organized a roundtable discussioh on the western outskirts of Kiev. March 14, citing "procrastination and hundred. Remembering the tragedy between a group of writers, academics, Nevertheless, Mr. Temirov went on delay" by the United States and Pakis­ that took place after World War II, scientists and technicians on the subject to argue that the Chornobyl disaster tan. when countless Soviet citizens were "Scientific-Technological Progress and "occurred because of flagrant violations Although the talks in Geneva were to forcibly returned to the Soviet Union, Morality." One of the participants, the of operating regulations, not because conclude on March 15, with the pullout we fear for these young men. We believe poet Ivan Drach, steered the discussion nuclear power stations are unreliable starting two months later, the United that each of them should have the to what he called "our Chornobyl generally" and that the further develop­ Nations mediator, Diego Cordovez choice of returning to the Soviet Union theme." He began by saying: ment of ''cheap" and ecologically stated that the negotiations have run or going to some free country." "Public opinion is concerned, and not "clean" nuclear energy is essential for into "serious difficulties but added that" It was signed by ten Soviet Red Army without reason, that behind the discu- the Soviet economy. He also confirmed "everyone still says are they determined defectors currently residing in the West: sions about 4he unavoidability of the that during the current five-year plan it to negotiate and sign a peace accord," Mykola Movchan, Aleksei Peresleni, furtlier development of atomic energy,' is planned to complete a new 1,000- reported The New York Times on Yuri Shapovalenko and Sergei Zhigalin, esp^ially here, in Ukraine, the con­ megawatt reactor at the Crimean nu­ Wednesday, March 16. who were given political asylum in the demned practice of (making) volunta- clear power plant. United States in July 1984; Sergei ristic decisions continues with regard to In December 1987, three more 1,000- However, the 10 defectors in the West Busov, Igor Kovalchuk, Vladislav the numbers and siting of new reactors. megawatt reactors were put into opera­ are worried about the repatriation of Naumov, Vadim Plotnikov, Mikolay I know what a worthy and principled tion in Ukraine. On December 4 the Soviet prisoners of war and Red Army Golovin who arrived in November position is taken on this question by the third unit at Chornobyl was restarted defectors who, they believe, should have 1986, in Canada; and Yury Povarnitsyn, president of the Ukrainian SSR Aca­ even though concern had persisted the choice of returning to the Soviet the first Red Army defector to be turned demy of Sciences, B. Ye, Paton." about whether the conditions in and Union or going to some free country over by the mujahideen to the Interna­ Another of the participants also around the Chornobyl plant could be The telegram, sent to Robert A. Peck, tional Red Cross for a two-year period noted that at a recent session of the considered "normal" and safe. On deputy assistant secretary of state at the of internment in Switzerland, after Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, December 22, TASS made the an­ U.S. Mission to Geneva; Zain Noorani, which he was scheduled to be repa­ Dr. Paton had expressed alarm about nouncement that the fourth reactor at minister of state for foreign affairs at the triated to the USSR. However, Mr. the ecological situation in Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia plant had gone into Pakistan Mission to the United Na­ Povarnitsyn refused to return to the had even called for a fundamental operation and that two others are being tions, and Mr. Cordovez, undersecre­ Soviet Union and asked for political review of the way in which the republic's built alongside it. On the last day of tary general for political affairs, and asylum in Switzerland, where he now economic development is planned in 1987, the first reactor of the four-unit mediator of the talks, reads, as follows: lives. order to ensure that ecological concerns Khmelnytsky nuclear power station are taken into account. also went into operation. On January 3, Mr. Drach went on to reveal that Radianska Ukraina carried an article during the roundtable discussion it had welcoming the starting up of the new Levy Society in Lviv says emerged that 90 percent of Ukraine's reactors at the Khmelnytsky and Za­ territory is considered unsuitable for porizhzhia plants, noting that the motto it will explore 'blank spots' nuclear reactors to be built on it because of the builders at the latter atomic of geological, hydrogeological or other station is: "Each year — a new reactor." LONDON - News has reached the On December 20, 1987, the club reasons. Ukrainian Press Agency (UPA) here organized an evening devoted to the It was reported that scientists have Ukrainian scientists protest that in autumn of last year a new club deceased young Ukrainian poet, Vasyl calculated that a maximum of 25 or 26 called the Levy Society/Club was Symonenko, whose works were cen­ thousand-megawatt energy units can be The nuclear energy debate in Ukraine initiated in Lviv. sored for many years. His poetry and sited in the remaining suitable areas. was recently sharpened when on Ja­ The club was organized by a former songs were read out and talks were Mr. Drach stressed that this limit will be nuary 21 Literaturna Ukraina pub­ Kiev student, Konyk. The club is presented about his life. The young reached with the completion of those lished a letter from 13 leading Ukrai­ interested in promoting Ukrainian bandura player Ostap Stakhiv played nuclear power plants currently under nian scientists, most of them academi­ culture and literature, as well as ex­ historical ballads as well as music construction, but that evidently those cians, opposing the expansion of nu­ ploring the "blank spots" in Ukrainian composed to Symonenko's songs. responsible for planning the Soviet clear energy in Ukraine arid urging the history. During the same evening the partici­ nuclear energy program seem to have a authorities to reassess their policy. Students involved with the Lviv Trust pants discussed the officially sponsored different view of how many atomic Significantly, the scientists do not even Group, an unofficial peace movement, attacks upon the editors of the power stations the republic can accom­ mention the controversial Chyhyryn have also expressed an interest in the samvydav journal Ukrainian Herald. modate and how high the concentration nuclear energy plant but concentrate on idea of forming a Culturological Club in Members of the Herald's editorial board of energy units at any one plant can be. providing a detailed rebuttal to plans by Lviv, noted the UPA. also took part in the evening's events. The poet continued: the USSR Ministry of Atomic Energy "Tlierefore all of us, as one commu­ to increase nuclear energy production at nity, should support the position of our the Rivne, Khmelnytsky and South leading scientists. Why is our con­ Ukrainian atomic power stations. FOUNDED 1933 science, four) morality, dormant when The scientists reveal that on August UlcrainianWeeyi these energy units are being forced upon 25 last year a meeting of Ukrainian us beyond reasonable limits...It is scientists and engineers was held to An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Qecessary that everything that is hap- discuss plans to add new reactors to the Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. l^ning (in our republic, that is\ being three nuclear plants and that other such 07302. meetings have taken place. Nonetheless, |)lanned, especially in the field of Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. nuclear energy, should become the the USSR Ministry of Atomic Energy subject of the widest possible public has ignored both the objections of the (ISSN ^ 0273-9348) discussion, (and) the strictest public Ukrainian technical-scientific commu­ control. Thus, our Union (of Ukrainian nity and the opinion jointly reached by Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - S5. Writers) is taking practical steps to form the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. a so-called ecological commission. It Sci^snces and the USSR Academy of The Weekly and Svoboda: Sciences that the maximum production UNA: will be headed by Yuriy Mykolaiovych (201) 434-0237, -0807. -3036 (201)451-2200 Shcherbak, and will work in close capacity of nuclear power stations contact with scientists." should not exceed 4,000 megawatts. Postmaster, send address Editor: Roma Hadzewycz The letter-writers point out that the changes to: Expansion continues Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences Associate Editors: The Ukrainian Weekly Marta Kolomayets and Chrystyna Lapychak has not foreseen any reason to expand P.O. Box 346 Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss Despite public concern and opposi­ production at the three plants in ques­ Jersey City, N.J. 07303 tion, it was made clear that the expan­ tion beyond what was initially en­ sion of nuclear energy in Ukraine was visaged. The ministry, on the other The Ukrainian Weekly, March 27, 1988, No. 13, Vol. LVI not about to be halted. On October 21, hand, they suggest, seems to have lost Copyright 1988 by The Ukrainian Weekly 1987, the Ukrainian workers'daily (Continued on page 11) No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27,1988

Lautenberg amendment to INF treaty Continuing attacl(s on Chornovil, Horyn focuses on human rights compliance indicate limits of glasnost in Uicraine WASHINGTON - Among the 40 or lopment of friendly relations and co­ Perestroika and glasnost may be the and aspirations for the Ukrainian so amendments to the U.S. - Soviet operation between the United States operative words in the Soviet Union Herald and for the future of the Ukrai­ treaty on the elimination of interme­ and the Soviet Union and calls upon the today, however, these new policies of nian language and culture in Ukraine. diate-range and shorter-range missiles, president to use every opportunity to restructuring and openness are not When they requested that Ms. Kolo­ is one that would link human rights stress the inherent link between respect always observed in all the Soviet re­ mayets interview them, so as to give a concerns to arms reduction. for human rights and the achievement publics to the same extent. clear j^icture to Ukrainian communities Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) of lasting peace." Although Ukrainian human rights in the West about the current situation introduced the amendment on March The amendment also states that the activists have attempted to test the in Ukraine, Ms. Kolomayets told them 21. president should require "sustained and waters of this new political pool their that she had a video camera which she The amendment states that the U.S. demonstrable progress" by the Soviet attempts have not proceeded swim­ could use to record an interview. Both president shall communicate to the Union in its implementation of the mingly. For although they have not parties agreed that this medium would Soviet Union, "in connection with the Helsinki Accords, the Madrid Con­ been arrested or incarcerated for their be useful because it would not only exchange of the instruments of ra­ cluding Document of the Conference on recent outspokenness, they have been voice the men's thoughts, but also give a tification of the treaty": Security and Cooperation in Europe, attacked in the press, a ploy reminiscent visual portrait of the dissidents. It was "The declaration that the Senate the Universal Declaration of Human of the Brezhnev regime. also viewed as a method that had the strongly believes that respect for human Rights, and other international human The attacks began in the fall of 1987 potential of reaching many Westerners rights and fundamental freedoms is an rights agreements which the Soviet and continue to make the pages of the in an effective manner. essential factor to ensure the deve­ Union has signed. Soviet press. Below is a news story Thus, it was a complete shock Ms. about attacks on Vyacheslav Chornovil Kolomayets said, when, the November and Mykhailo Horyn and their video 13 issue of Radianska Ukraina carried a Statement of Ukrainian Helsinki Group interview with tourist Marta Ko- lenghty article titled "Interview from lomayets of New York, the Underground," accusing Messrs. Following is the full text (trans­ Ukrainian Herald, would be the Chornovil and Horyn of "anti-Soviet lated by Marta Skorupsky) of the group's official press organ and that NEW YORK -^ In mid-November agitation" in their conversation with latest statement of the recently revi­ the journal's editorial board had 1987, an article in the daily newspaper her. talized Ukrainian Helsinki Group, been collectively co-opted into the "Radianska Ukraina " based in Kiev Even before the appearance of the group. Talks were held and the attacked Ukrainian dissidents Vyache­ slanderous piece of writing in Radian- Created in 1976, the Ukrainian following well-known human rights slav Chornovil and Mykhailo Horyn in ska Ukraina, reacting to the realization Public Group to Monitor Com­ activists and long-time members of connection with a video-interview they that his residence was bugged, that the pliance with the Final Act of the the Ukrainian Helsinki Group con­ had given to American tourist Marta tape was confiscated and that both he Helsinki Conference on Security and firmed their membership in the Kolomayets in September. The article, and Mr. Horyn were reprimanded, Mr. Cooperation in Europe was subject­ group and their desire to work in it: written by P. Vilkhovyi, was head­ Chornovil wrote that, despite the ed to a more devastating pogrom Levko Lukianenko — Tomskaya lined "Interview from the Under­ current policy of openness, the autho­ during the Brezhnev years of stagna­ Oblast, internal exile ground." rities in Ukraine have continued to view tion than any other Helsinki group in Oksana Meshko — Kiev The videotape of the interview which contacts with Westerners, such as Ms. the USSR. All the members of this Mykola Matusevych — Chitinskaya was confiscated from Ms. Kolomayets Kolomayets, as "subversive." Mr. group served lengthy terms of impri­ Oblast, internal exile along with other possessions - gifts Chornovil's response appeared in the sonment and internal exile, and four Zinoviy Krasivsky — Lviv Oblast from friends and relatives — while she Herald's "Editor's Column," in issue ОЇ its ^ members - Oleksa Tykhy, Vyacheslav Chornovil — Lviv was departing from Kiev's Borispol No. 8. Yuriy Lytvyn, Valeriy Marchenko Mykhailo Horyn — Lviv Airport after a September vacation in The newspaper article claimed that and Vasyl Stus — died in frightful Petro Rozumny - Dnipropetrovske Ukraine. "every foreigner is a potential agent of conditions in a special-regimen camp, Oblast The hoiirlong interview, conducted the CIA and accused the two men of a veritable death camp, where even Petro Sichko — Ivano-Frankivske by Ms. Kolomayets on request of the being instruments used by the CIA, who now, against all dictates of common Oblast human rights activists, covered the are being rewarded with gifts of Japa­ sense and despite the policy of demo­ Vasyl Sichko - Ivano-Frankivske effects of glasnost in Ukraine and nese tape-recorders, calculators and cratization proclaimed in the USSR, Oblast concentrated on the re-emergence of the other material goods bought for them the sufferings of Ukrainian Helsinki Yosyf Zisels — Chernivtsi samvydav journal The Ukrainian Herald, by "the likes of Ms, Kolomayets." monitors Ivan Kandyba, Mykola Yaroslav Lesiv — Ivano-Frankivske which according to members of its Mr. Horyn, too, responded to the Horbal, Ivan Sokulsky, Vitaliy Kaly- Oblast editorial board, has now sought legali­ slanderous attacks on his person in the nychenko and Hryhoriy Prykhodko Olha Matusevych — Kiev zation from Soviet authorities. The Radianska Ukraina article. He sent a continue. Vasyl Striltsiv - Ivano-Frankiv­ revitalized Herald views itself as a letter to the editor of the newspaper, Levko Lukianenko and Mykola ske oblast journal in the forefront of change, with copies of the text forwarded to all Matusevych are now in internal exile as did the following members of the similar to the periodical Glasnost newspapers that reprinted the interview, following long terms of imprison­ editorial board of The Ukrainian published in Moscow. the Central Committee of the Ukrainian ment. His camp sentence completed, Herald, who were co-opted into the During the interview, which took Communist Party, and Lviv Oblast Yosyf Zisels has now been placed group in December 1987: place in late September in Mr. Chorno- officials. The article was also intended under administrative surveillance — Vasyl Barladianu — Odessa vil's sitting room in a residential section for all concerned citizens. He wrote: in other words, under house arrest. Bohdan Horyn - Lviv of Lviv, Messrs. Chornovil and Horyn "I consider the publication of the Such long-time group members as Pavlo Skochok - Kiev Oblast discussed the Ukrainian language issue, article 'Interview from the Under­ Vyacheslav Chornovil, Mykhailo Vitaliy Shevchenko — Kiev the approaching Millennium of Chris­ ground' in the newspaper Radianska Horyn, Vasyl Sichko, Petro Sichko, Stepan Sapeliak — Kharkiv tianity in' Kievan Rus', cultural ex­ Ukraina as a serious retrograde attack Yaroslav Lesiv and others have been Mykola Muratov — Moscow changes between the Soviet Union and against the people who strive for re­ or are still being subjected to various Because of their isolation in im­ the United States, the work of Ukrai­ newal and democracy. As has happened forms of persecution (not permitted prisonment and other reasons, con­ nians in the West and the lack of more than once before, the author has to work in their professions, attacked tacts have not yet been established glasnost in the Ukrainian republic. tried to silence the journal (The Ukrai­ in the press, placed under surveil­ with a few members of the group The two men, veterans of Soviet nian Herald) on the pages of the news­ lance, detained, etc.). (Ivan Kandyba, Mykola Horbal). labor camps, also stressed the impor­ paper by means of a welcome that is Despite the pogrom, the Ukrai­ But there is no reason to doubt their tance of the cultural and academic work well-known since Stalin's days of nian Helsinki Group never disband­ desire to take part in the group's of Ukrainian communities in the West. anarchy. The attack contains accusa­ ed, as did the Moscow group, and work. Ms. Kolomayets met Messrs. Chor­ tions of corruption, slander, investiga­ never ceased to pursue its activities. With the approval of the majority novil and Horyn through Zinovij Kra­ tion of personal details and makes use Unable to prepare and publish collec­ of long-time and new members of the sivsky, also a former political prisoner, of twisted KGB information and other tive documents owing to the mass Ukrainian Helsinki Group we an­ who introduced himself to the New similarly trivial details." arrests, during all these difficult years nounce: Yorker during her first day in Lviv. In Ms. Kolomayets also decided to the majority of the group's members ^ 1. As before, the Ukrainian the current atmosphere of glasnost and answer the attacks with a letter to the spoke out in behalf of the group Helsinki Group will base its activi­ perestroika in the Soviet Union, Mr. editor of the newspaper. Written in individually. The External Represen­ ties on such fundamental interna­ Krasivsky felt it possible to have con­ December, the letter stated, among tation of the Ukrainian Helsinki tional documents on human rights as tact with foreigners and thus openly other things, that the two men never Group remained active. the Universal Declaration of Human communicated with various tourists. discussed the CIA during their inter­ The new social conditions in the Rights and the Convention on Civil Although visitors to Ukraine are still view, as was charged in the article. She USSR, the release of a significant and Political Rights, as well as the encouraged to travel with tour agencies also underscored the fact that the portion of political prisoners, and a Final Act of the Helsinki Conference to the Soviet Union, restrictions have official Ukrainian press these days is termination of criminal proceedings on Security and Cooperation in become less rigid, providing Westerners much more critical of the current against human rights activists have Europe. time to spend with families in urban situation in Ukraine than anything made it possible to activate the ^ 2. As one of the first public centers instead of just being shuffled to discussed by Messrs. Chornovil and Ukrainian Helsinki Group in U- groups formed to monitor com­ and from sightseeing buses and In- Horyn during the interview, and added kraine. pliance with the Helsinki Accords in tourist hotels. that the treatment given the whole The first real step in the resump­ the world, the Ukrainian Helsinki Believing or wanting to believe that situation is reminiscent of Brezhnev tion of the group's activities was the Group confirms its membership in glasnost would allow dissidents to talk days. announcement in December 1987 the International Helsinki Federa- freely about the current situation in The newspaper finally printed two that the independent journal. The (Continued on page 14) their country, both Messrs. Chornovil lines from Ms. Kolomayets' letter, and Horyn openly discussed their hopes (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH-27, 1988 No. 13

Canada's Central and East Europeans Encyclopedia of Ukraine editors meet upset by government accord with USSR TORONTO - The editorial office of completed, and the subject editors are the Encyclopedia of Ukraine in Toronto moving onto the next phase of contact­ was the site on February 27 of the ing and engaging authors to prepare the TORONTO - The response of Ca­ nals found in Canada," said John B. Gregorovich, chairman of the Civil second in a series of meetings between individual entries. The incredible or­ nada's Central and East European the encyclopedia's managing editor. ganization required for coordinating communities to the tabling of a Memo- Liberties Commission of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. "By its selectivity Prof. Danylo H. Struk, and several the work of some 20 subjects editors and randum of Understanding between editors responsible for individual sub­ Canada's Department of Justice and the Ottawa has abdicated its responsibility over 100 contributors has necessitated Procurator General's Office of the to bring all war criminals to justice." jects covered in the encyclopedia. the adoption of the most advanced USSR is one of disappointment and Ron Vastokas, spokesman on behalf The editors present were Dr. P. Dzul, computer technology and the establish­ frustration, according to the Civil of Canadians For Justice, a coalition who is responsible for entries in the field ment of an extensive system of Fax Liberties Commission of the Ukrainian representing several million Canadians, of medicine; Dr. Taras Zakydalsky, machines to ensure speedy communica­ Canadian Committee. urged Department of Justice officials to philosophy editor; Dr. V. Mezentsev, tions. amend the terms of the agreement to archeology editor, Petro Sodol, mili­ The question of finances was also The agreement provides for the tary history editor, and Prof. Ihor discussed at the meeting. The annual investigation of Nazi war criminals provide for the investigation of all alleged war criminals. Stebelsky, geography editor. costs of preparing the encyclopedia are only; it is selective and therefore fails to As at the first meeting in this series, now approaching S250,000. The Cana­ allow for the investigation of all war Mr. Vastokas added, "We have always expressed our willingness to held at Swarthmore College in Penn­ dian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at criminals, the CLC noted in a press sylvania, the main topic of discussion the University of Alberta tries to cover release. cooperate with the federal authorities in bringing any war criminals found in was the organizational structure of the this vast sum out of its regular budget. The Memorandum of Understanding Canada to justice. We are astonished at Encyclopedia project. The project, However, because this great financial was tabled on February 10. the government's flip-flop from its which was begun under the leadership obligation interferes with the institute's of the late Prof. Volodymyr Kubijovyc, other activities and projects, part of the "In its response to the Report of the stated policy of pursuing all war cri­ minals said to be living in Canada and is being completed in Canada under the cost of preparation is covered by the Commission of Inquiry on War Cri­ direction of the Shevchenko Scientific Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian minals, headed by Mr. Justice Jules are again disappointed that we continue to be shut out of the consultative Society, the Canadian Institute of Studies, whose main responsibility is to Deschenes, the government of Canada Ukrainian Studies, and the Canadian promised to prosecute any war crimi­ process." pay for the printing and binding of the Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. The Encyclopedia, which alone comes to encyclopedia's editorial office is located some S250,000 to 5300,000 for each CBC Radio report on famine film at the University of Toronto and ope­ volume. rates under the direction of Prof. Struk. While the foundation has been suc­ Thus far, two volumes of Encyclope­ cessful in securing grants from the angers Ukrainian Canadian community dia of Ukraine have been published: the Canadian federal government and from by Paulette MacQuarrie Prof. Viola of the State University of first, covering the letters A through F several provincial governments, the New York at Binghamton was inter­ was completed in 1984, and the second, amount raised from these sources has viewed for the Village Voice's article on covering G through K, appeared in not been ^ough to cover the costs WINNIPEG - Many Ukrainian January of this year. The meeting dealt Canadians are upset with the govern­ the famine "hoax." incurred. Thus, the Ukrainian commu­ with the plan of work and deadlines that nity in Canada and the United States ment-owned Canadian Broadcasting In Prof. Viola's opinion, "most are being adopted in order to meet the Corporation over a feature aired Fe­ mainstream scholars, which indeed has been asked to assist in the realiza­ goal of publishing the remaining three tion of this project. Contributions for bruary 21 on CBC Radio's program believe there was a famine - a very volumes of the encyclopedia in 1992. ''Sunday Morning," which documented severe famine — in 1932-33, that hit the Encydbpydia bf^ ОкгаШ гіїа^ the."cpntfoyersy" surrounding Ukraine but also parts of the Volga?, The first phase — the preparation of a sent to the Canadian Foundation for ^'Harvest of Despair." Kazakhstan and the North Caucasusj cbmpfdhensive catalog of entries for the Ukrainian Studies, 500-433 Main St., remaining volumes — has almost been Winnipeg, Man. R3B 1B3- "This [program] is helping genocide also believe that famine grew out of denial promoters and does no credit to Soviet policy, ... collectivization and CBC, especially since it was done with very harsh grain requisitioning policies, taxpayers' money," said Roman Ser- but that the famine was not man-made, Winnipeg-Lviv TV hook-up planned byn, professor of history at the Univer­ that is, it wasn't a deliberate, planned by Chris Guly both countries will recount memories of sity of Quebec in Montreal. attempt to starve the country." . earlier days, and both Canadian and The 16-minute feature began with the Dr. Serbyn, however, believes CBC's WINNIPEG - Organizers of Ca­ Soviet audiences will be presented with soundtrack from "Harvest of Despair," conclusion that the majority of resear­ nada's first live satellite TV hook-up a typical day in the life of a typical and an introduction describing the chers are not in agreement is too hasty. between Winnipeg and Lviv, a western Soviet or Canadian family. famine and the secrecy surrounding it, "They didn't do a poll," he pointed Ukrainian city in the Soviet Union, are Winnipeg will also contribute snap­ including the fact that the Soviet Union out. And Prof. Viola was the only 90 percent confident that the two-hour shots of its cukural, sporting and social had acknowledged the famine only historian consulted who was not in­ broadcast will proceed on April 24. life with segments on the world famous recently. tThe commentator then ex­ volved in the film. The project, which has been in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg plained that the criticism levelled Although Doug Tottle and Marco planning stages for the last two and half Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg against the film is "on one level, an Carynnyk were interviewed, CBC was years, has already been postponed as a Jets hockey club and the Winnipeg Blue artistic one, about ethics in documen­ careful to present them accurately. result of opposition by local Ukrainian Bombers football team and the Mani­ tary-making; on the other, it's about "We bent ovef backwards to make Canadian groups. Lack of adequate toba Theatre Centre. two very different interpretations of an sure we were totally balanced," said Mr. funds caused an original October 25, Organizers are also hoping to have historical event." Bernstein. "It was a tough story to walk 1987 broadcast to be put on hold. choirs in Lviv and Winnipeg sing in Dr. Serbyn said he feels the program the line on," he said. "It would have Dmytro Cipywnyk, president of the unison. thus "confused the issue of the fa­ been more sensational to rip apart the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, was Winnipeg Videon, a local cable-TV mine/genocide with the film," Howard film, but we tried not to." He denied quoted in the Winnipeg Free Press station, will produce and broadcast the Bernstein, executive producer of "Sun­ that Mr. Tottle's recently released book saying that the broadcast would "open Winnipeg portion of the show. Mr. day Morning," disagrees. (which he has not seen or read) was the up the possibility of propaganda" and Kolomaya explained that the station is "The story was not on the genocide, reason for doing the feature, although it an opportunity for the Soviet govern­ hoping to feed the satellite signal to the but on the film," Mr. Bernstein said. "added to the controversy." But CBC's ment to portray false religious freedom. Canadian House of Commons parlia­ "The controversy surrounding the film interest was apparently caught by Mr. But the manager of the project, mentary cable TV channel which could stems from controversy surrounding the Tottle's ongoing denial of the man- George Kolomaya, refutes the claim by have a potential audience of over 10 question of the famine being a geno­ made famine. saying that the show is apolitical. million people. cide," he said. "The controversy started with a "It's about people. People to people." The public broadcasting network in However, most Ukrainian historians school board meeting in Winnipeg, and The program will be broadcast on the U.S. has also made inquiries into contend there is no academic contro­ has been brewing for a long time," said April 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Winni­ carrying the program. versy, Mr. Bernstein. The recent Village Voice peg time). It will feature glimpses of Telebridge Inc. is a coalition of 92 "The fact is, the nationalities policy article also adds to the controversy, cultural and social life in both cities. groups representing church, peace, arts was changed in 1932-33, and a draco- although Mr. Bernstein admitted that if Live audiences at Winnipeg's Rendez­ and business groups. nian agricultural policy was imple­ he were Ukrainian, he would feel the vous Club and the Lviv Opera House Although the Winnipeg organizers mented, with specific policies [for article was defamatory: will not only see their own live enter­ are confident with their plans and Ukraine! not applied elsewhere," said The CBC program seems to have tainment but will be able to watch the public support, including that of Winni­ Bohdan Krawchenko, a historian and challenged the Ukrainian assertion of satellite hook-up on huge video screens. peg Mayor Bill Norrie, who is hono­ director of the Canadian Institute of genocide by famine by focusing on the A tentative script calls for greetings to rary chairman of the organizing com­ Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton, who film's contentious photos issue, which is be exchanged by the mayors of both mittee, opposition to the April 24 also edited the book "Famine in U- Mr. Tottle's main ammunition. cities, Canada's Secretary of State for extravaganza has caused some concern kraine." Orest Subtelny, professor of History External Affairs Joe Clark and, pre­ from Soviet authorities. When asked why CBC didn't inter­ at York University, explained that using sumably Soviet Foreign Minister Igor Lobanov, press attache at the view historians familiar with the fa­ a few photos from a previous famine in Eduard Shevardnadze and Manitoba Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, was reluc­ mine, Mr. Bernstein said the network the 1920s was in keeping with modern Premier Howard Pawley and his Ukrai­ tant to confirm iCther the show would was determined "not to take sides." documentary-making techniques, and nian equivalent. go on. "We chose to interview Lynne Viola that they were in fact relevant to the Winners of a joint high school poetry "We're ready,..that I can confirm. It's because she is the first and only North film's theme, which was Soviet rule in contest will share thought on the theme, now up to Winnipeg and various икщь American bistoria:i allowed access to^ Ukraine in the 1920s and 30s. "What this day of peace and under­ nian Canadian groups w reach some Soviet files on co!lectivizafi-.'.ri/"' he said. (Continued on page 13) standing means to ine." Seniors from agreement." No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988

Ukrainian Heritage Foundation board Australian... (Continued from page 1) For the record: sed the work of the Australian Fe­ discusses conference, dance project deration of Ukrainian Organizations Australian motion CLEVELAND - The Ukrainian video were invited to this meeting. They which "does a tremendous amount of Heritage Foundation's executive board are Markian Komichak, director of the work for the human rights of the people on Helsinki group met on Saturday, February 20, here at Cleveland Kashtan Dancers; Evonne back in their homeland." Below is the full text of the motion the Hilton South. Woloshyn, TV reporter from Youngs- This debate, he said, would "send a The foundation's 1988 meeting at town, Ohio; Roman Liscynesky, presi­ clear message to the Soviet Union that unanimously passed by the Australian Soyuzivka on September 23-25 was dent of the Kashtan Dancers; and the rights of groups like the Baltic States Parliament's House of Representatives discussed, and Taras and Anne Mak- representatives of Out There Produc­ and Ukraine and others be recognized, on March 17, symowich were appointed to manage tions, in Youngstown. immediately." He did recognize, though This House: this meeting. A sum of SI25 for the The video was discussed in detail and that when an authoritarian regime has weekend was agreed upon, and reserva­ existed for 70 years changes are unlikely ^ (1) notes that - all agreed that this was a project that (a) on 1 August 1975, the Final Act tions will be handled by the Maksy- should be produced, using the talents of to arise overnight. mowiches. Rooms at Soyuzivka will be He closed the debate by welcoming of the Conference on Security and Mr. Komichak as the producer, Ms. Cooperation in Europe was signed at allocated on a first-come-first-served Woloshyn as the assistant producer and Ms. Meshko not only to Australia but basis. For reservations, please send the to the bayside suburb of Edithvale Helsinki, Finland, by 33 European narrator, the Kashtan Dancers and the states, together with Canada and the SI25 fee to Taras and Anne Maksymo- services of Out There Productions. (where she is staying with her niece, wich, 1318 18th St., Miami Beach, Fla. Maya Hrudka) in his own electorate, U.S.A., Work will begin in the near future, (b) the signatories committed 33139. with an aim of producing part of, or all and looked forward to further talks The next item discussed was the with her. themselves under Principle VH to of the video for a preview at the founda­ "respect human rights and fun­ proposed video of the "Hopak" to be tion's September meeting. Walter Ba- Ms. Meshko spent the whole day in dedicated to Vasile Avramenko, the Parliament House, accompanied by Dr. damental freedoms, including the cad presented a sample of a brochure to freedom of thought, conscience, balletmaster who brought Ukrainian be used in conjunction with the video Marko Pavlyshyn, lecturer in Ukrai­ folk dances to Ukrainian American nian at Monash University, who acted religion or belief, for all without and he was authorized to proceed with distinction as to race, sex, language communities in the United States and it. as interpreter. They lunched with a Canada, in the 1930s. group of representatives of senators or religion," The aim of the foundation is to With all the discussion of the video who have been active defenders of (c) the signing of the Final Act provide a historical record of the production, comes the reality that this Ukrainian interests. They included raised expectations of the peoples of authentic Avramenko dances, such as type of venture is very expensive. It was Sens. Jim Short and Brian Harradine, the Soviet Union for greater ob­ "Hopak Kolom,""Arkan"and "Hony- the consensus that the Ukrainian com­ and MPs Alan Cadman, David Charles servance by the Soviet Union of viter." In fact, the video will show each munity and in particular, Avramenko's and Roger Shipton. human rights, gave rise to the individual step of the "Hopak Kolom" former pupils, could help generate some Further meetings with politicians are formation of the Moscow, Lithua­ dance. The balance of the tape will of the needed funds. Donations may be planned after Ms. Meshko has re­ nian, Georgian, Armenian and feature a Hutsul dance and dance sent to: "Hopak" Video, c/o Taras covered from her eye operation. Ukrainian citizens' monitoring Maksymowich, at the aforementioned groups to inform the peoples of the group's version of the "Hopak." The Australian Federation of address. Soviet Union and the world about One of the goals of the foundation is Ukrainian Organizations has gratefully the Soviet government's compliance to provide this video, free of charge, to In attendance at this meeting of the acknowledged the assistance which was with the Final Act; colleges and universities with folk dance foundation's executive board were: provided by the Committee for the groups, throughout the United Sta^-Eugene Woloshyn, president; Helen Defense of National and Human Rights (d) 9 November 1987 marked the aqntjd Canada, This would help perpe- Shipka, vice-president; Mr. Bacad; Mr. in Ukraine, which made it possible for 11th anniversary of the establishment tiiate the Avramenko dances. Maksymowich, treasurer; Estelle Wolo- Ms. Meshko to witness the defense of of the largest such citizen's group, the After considerable groundwork, shyn, secretary; and Taras Szmagala, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote people interested in producing such a adviser. Australian Parliament. the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords; (e) three members of the Ukrainian Group, Oleksiy Tykhy, Yuriy Lytvyn Ukrainian American Veterans Post 101 installs officers and Vasyl Stus, died after years of inhuman treatment in Soviet labor WARREN, Mich. - For the first flag-bearers for annual Decoration Day Stefan Fedenko, judge advocate; Ro­ time in Greater Detroit, a formal ritual camps while a fourth, Mykhailo services and Ukrainian national holi­ man Petraszczuk, judge advocate; Melnyk, committed suicide as a was held to install newly elected officers days. Andre Lublaneski, provost marshall; in Michigan's Ukrainian American result of continuous KGB perse­ Perhaps the most productive and Wolodymyr Zacharyj, service officer; cution; and Veterans Post 101. The observance was successful achievement since the post's Michael Shumylo, historian; Wasyl (f) seven members of the Ukrai­ held during a banquet on February 6 in inception was the highly acclaimed 40th Mackiw, public relations; Roman Mak- nian group are still imprisoned, the social hall of St. Josaphat's Ukrai­ National UAV Convention held in June simowich, public relations; Wasyl Bara- three are in internal exile in remote nian Catholic Church. National Com­ 1987. This gathering marked a mile­ bash, auditor; Mykola Tataryn, audi­ parts of the Soviet Union, while 17 mander Atanas Kobryn from Staten stone in UAV history. Major Gen. tor; the Very Rev. Bernard Panchuk, have been released from prison and Island, N.Y., assumed the role of Nicholas Krawciw, commander of the chaplain; Peter Kapitanec, quarter­ are living in Ukraine and nine installation officer. 3rd Infantry Mechanized Division in master; and Joseph J. Elnick, advisor. have been forced to emigrate to the Founded on September 4,1983, UAV Wuerzburg. West Germany, was ho­ The new commander, Mr. Temnyk, West after serving prison terms; Post 101 has given initiative to several nored with a recognition award at the in his acceptance speech, promised to ^ (2) acknowledges the concern felt major projects in Metro Detroit and convention banquet. give unfaltering support to the Ukrai­ currently boasts more members than After defining duties to each elected by members of the Australian com­ nian community and to all Ukrainian munity over the continued harass­ any other post in America. Composed officer, Commander Kobryn, in unison organizations. He promised further to of World War II, Korean, and Vietnam with the new staff, recited an "Officer's ment of the Ukrainian Public Group search for ways and means to streng­ to Promote the Implementation of veterans, a major thrust in directed Obligation Pledge." The following then the image of UAV. He concluded activities has been the pursuit of human persons were inducted into office: the Helsinki Accords; by attesting "that those organizations ^ (3) seeks assurances from the rights in America and Ukraine. Wolodymyr Temnyk, commander; which now oppose each other, will A single rally for John Demjanjuk Stephen M. Wichar Sr., senior vice- government of the Soviet Union that abandon their differences and form members of the Ukrainian and other defense fund netted more than S5,000. commander; Miroslaw Pryjma, junior with UAV as one united front." Post 101 also played a major role in vice-commander; Mike Ogrodnik, fi­ public Helsinki monitoring groups Mr. Wichar, the senior vice-comman­ be released from their incarceration defense of Myroslav Medvid's attempt­ nance officer; Steven Maksymiuk, der, was called to emcee the banquet ed defection. The post also provides adjutant; Jerry Tkachuk, adjutant; and allowed to return to their home­ (Continued on page 14) lands,or if they wish, to emigrate to the countries of their choice; e (4) seeks to convey to the govern­ ment of the Soviet Union its belief that such humanitarian acts and demonstration that its citizens have freedom of expression will serve to reduce tensions between East and West and help to erase doubts about Soviet commitments to their I international obligations; ^ (5) calls upon the Soviet Union to allow Ukrainian Helsinki Monitor Yuriy Shukhevych, together with his family, to emigrate to Australia, where he has family members willing to sponsox" him, as an immediate demonstration of its goodwill; and ^ (6) requests the speaker to bring Ibis resolution to the attention of the ! Suprc c Soviet of the USSR. UAV National CoimBaeder Atanas Kobryn ins^^lk the newof^cers of Post 101 in Michigan. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988 No. 13

Ulcrainian Weekly Faces and Places A long way to go by Myron B. Kuropas Two recently released reports on freedom and human rights around the globe gave the Soviet Union some points for positive trends arising out of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika. The UNA and the Church In its annual Comparative Survey of World Freedom, Freedom In the beginning, there was the tishin wrote: "We were not very nu­ House, which describes itself as a national organization dedicated to Ukrainian Church in America. merous, we did not have glory nor a strengthening democratic institutions, scored the USSR a notch Then came the Ukrainian National well-known name. We were poor. We had neither friends nor influence in high higher in the category of civil liberties for 1987. Association. The first Ukrainian parish in the places. Nevertheless, we let ourselves be The organization's report noted: United States was founded in 1884. The heard and noticed, and we generated "1987 saw many advances in freedom. In the Communist world, the UNA was founded 10 years later, in 1894. more interest in our cause than other most significant advance was that in civil liberties in the USSR. Many The relationship between the UNA more developed and better situated long-term political prisoners were released. Discussion of political and the Church was initially very nationalities in the United States...Never issues became more open in the government's primary media, while in intimate, yet separate. before nor since," the Rev. Poniatishin more elite or specialized publications and discussion groups, a wide The first five UNA supreme secre­ concluded, "has our community been so variety of issues were addressed with a new frankness." taries were priests. So were the first four united nor so dedicated to helping our Thus, the USSR earned a rating of 6 for 1987, whereas in 1986 the editors of Svoboda, and two of the first national cause in Europe than during score was 7 (the lowest level of freedom on a scale of 1 to 7). five UNA supreme presidents. those years when the Ukrainian Na­ tional Committee was active." In the rubric of political rights (defined by the survey as rights to In many communities, it was the local participate meaningfully in the political process), however. Freedom UNA branch that provided the leader­ Few immigration historians will House left intact the USSR's dismal rating of 7. ship for the formation of the local argue that the years 1916 through 1924 With those ratings, the USSR found itself in the company of such parish. were also the most productive алід The UNA was in the forefront of the cooperative years for the UNA and the ^not free" states as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ghana and Church. Burundi, though still a step above even more repressive "not free" struggle to establish a separate Ukrai­ states designated by Freedom House, including Afghanistan,Bulgaria, nian diocese in America with a bishop Relations between the UNA and the Catholic Church began to unravel Rumania and Iraq. Poland, with ratings of 5 on both scales of independent of the American Roman Catholic Church. When Bishop Soter again soon after the arrival of Bishop freedom, was labelled a "partly free" state. Ortynsky arrived in 1907, he was made Constantine Bohachevsky in 1924. A different study, "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for an honorary UNA member and the Rightly or wrongly, many Ukrainian 1987" prepared by the U.S. Department of State, provides an extensive official "patron" of the organization. American Catholics came to believe review of new developments in Mr. Gorbachev's USSR. Relations between the two most that Bishop Bohachevsky was attempt­ "This year saw some change in the Soviet handling of dissent. The important Ukrainian institutions in ing to ''Romanize" the Ukrainian limits of permissible dissent were expanded, and those who exceeded America began to deteriorate in 1910 at Catholic Church by introducing certain them usually were not subjected to imprisonment or exile. Instead, the UNA convention in Cleveland. practices that were more common to authorities used other means of intimidation short of court trial," the Bishop Ortynsky was elected chairman Western Christiamty than JtO;.Easleirn. report noted. of the by-laws committee and in that When the editor of Svoboda began to capacity pushed through a motion which side with Bishop Bohachevsky's detrac­ It went on, however, to point out: "These changes, although evident tors, a rift was created between the in Moscow and Leningrad, were barely felt elsewhere. Official would have made the UNA an exclu­ sively Catholic society under his con­ Church and fraternal that lasted until attitudes toward dissent also seemed to harden as the year trol. A number of branches protested the 1950s; It was during the episcopacy progressed. ... Even in Moscow, the city where the most notable the move by bolting the UNA and of Bishop Ambrose Senyshyn that real changes occurred, most dissident sources described the changes as establishing a second fraternal society, healing was finally achieved. primarily in the sphere of what was possible to say and much less in today known as the Ukrainian Frater­ Today, relations between the UNA what it was possible to do." nal Association. When it was later and the Ukrainian Catholic Church are One of the reasons for the report's cautious treatment of Soviet learned that Bishop Ortynsky's mo­ good despite certain tensions between liberalization is that, "Reforms are taking place at the direction of the tion did not follow procedures outlined the UNA and the Providence Associa­ party and are primarily the product of political decision, not the result in the UNA By-laws, the changes were tion in the aftermath of the 13th UCCA of legal reform. The improvements in Soviet human rights ruled null and void. Two years later, the convention. It is in the interests of both performance which took place in 1987 have yet to be reinforced by bishop established a third fraternal institutions that these tensions not insurance society, today known as the reform laws, administrative regulations and bureaucratic procedures interfere with improving relations even Providence Association of Ukrainian more. which would help ensure that the rights of individuals are respected." Catholics. As a result, the report states, "Under current laws, those who One obvious reason for closer ties is exercise their rights continue to face the possibility of arrest, trial and Following Bishop Ortynsky's un­ that the best years our community has timely death in 1916, the Holy See imprisonment; internment in a psychiatric hospital; or, more experienced in the past have been those appointed the Rev. Petro Poniatishin as decades when the UNA and the Church commonly, the loss of their jobs and opportunities for education, interim administrator of the Ukrainian were working hand in glove. Good housing and even medical treatment." eparchy. During the Rev. Poniatishin's things happen when there is harmony Furthermore, according to the State Department, prison and camp eight-year tenure, relations between the and cooperation. conditions in the USSR did not improve in 1987; "they may have UNA and the Church improved drama­ Another obvious reason is that the grown worse, owing to more consistent implementation of tically. The UNA and the Providence UNA and the Church need each other. regulations, which are harsh." Prison life still is "marked by isolation, Association cooperated in the establish­ All of us are losing members (the poor diet and malnutrition, compulsory hard labor,beatings, frequent ment of the Ukrainian National Com­ Orthodox are no exception and need to illness and inadequate medical care." mittee, an umbrella organization which be part of the equation) at an alarming The study does report that more than 300 political prisoners were represented most organized Ukrainian rate and unless we do something soon to Americans. Headed by the Rev. Ponia­ released in 1987 (some of them had simply completed their terms). But stem the tide, our common future will tishin, the committee was instrumental be very grim indeed. I realize that there it also observes that, "A substantial number of the best-known in having President Woodrow Wilson prisoners were forced to emigrate, with the implicit or explicit are leaders in our community who proclaim a national "Ukrainian Day" believe we shouldn't be talking about understanding that the alternative was an eventual return to the labor (April 21, 1917) for the purpose of "losing members" lest this somehow camps or mental institutions from which they had just been released." collecting monies for Ukrainian war "hurt our image" (I've never been able Many others remain imprisoned, however — among them 13 relief. A total of 553,189.32 was collect­ to figure the logic out), but that's unfor­ members of groups set up to monitor compliance with the Helsinki ed by committee volunteers on that one tunate. Hiding our head in the sand Accords. day. Much of the money came from won't make the problem go away. The Clearly, then (even on the basis of this brief sampling of findings), Americans dropping nickels and dimes stark reality is that generation between neither Freedom House nor the State Department has lost sight of into collection cans held by Ukrainian the ages of 25 and 40 is not emerging to Americans on street corners throughout take on the institutional leadership roles Soviet reality. Both have seen through a well-crafted public relations America. offensive and have told the truth: In the realm of freedom and human that would guarantee a brighter future. rights, the USSR has a long way to go. The committee also sent a Ukrainian What to do? American delegation headed by Rep. UNA members need to re-dedicate James A. Hammil (D-N.J.), perhaps the themselves to serving (not running) the Correction best Congressional friend we have ever Church. Church leaders need to reach In last week's editorial, the last sentence contained two typographical errors. It had, and Dr. Cyril Bilyk, a physician out to responsible UNA laity and invite should have read: from Chicago, to the Versailles Peace them to play a more meaningful role in It is much more than ironic that, at a time Ukrainian activists in Ukraine are Talks. the Church. All of us need to set aside struggling to preserve andcnha.ncc Ukrainian culture, an American talent agency Reminiscing about those momentous our differences, heal our wounds and that brings a Ukrainian performing ensemble to this country is promoting years in an article published in the UNA come together determined to save our Russification. Jubilee Bock of 1936, the Rev. Ponia­ heritage. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988

THE MILLENNIUM: Christianity's role in building the Ukrainian nation by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas formed. At the same time, a reform lay leaders were liquidated in the purges Russian Orthodox Church; and 142 movement was initiated primarily by which followed. monasteries and convents were expro­ CONCLUSION the married clergy, demanding certain During the 1930s, famous Orthodox priated or closed. liturgical, democratic and attitudinal structures in Kiev such as the Church of A similar scenario was followed in Text of address delivered at the changes in the Russian Orthodox St. Basil, the Collegiate Church of St. Carpatho-Ukraine where the Ukrainian Denver Ukrainian community's Millen­ Church, as well as the use of the Nicholas, the church of Ss. Borys and Catholic Church was "reunited" with nium banquet on January 23. Ukrainian language in sermons, reli­ Hlib, St. Michael's Monastery and the Russian Orthodox Church in 1949. gious texts, and the liturgy. many others were destroyed. The last Thus ended 350 years of formal commu­ Russia's policy in eastern Ukraine The emphasis was on autocephaly Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Soviet nion between the Eastern Catholic was similar in aim to the earlier policy of (independence), democratization and Ukraine was closed in 1936, while those Church of Ukraine and the Western the Poles in western Ukraine: consoli­ Ukrainianization. All such reform that remained open were converted into Catholic Church of Rome. dation of the empire through political efforts, of course, were vigorously museums of atheism. and cultural assimilation. opposed by the Russian Orthodox The Church in the catacombs The first institutions to be destroyed hierarchy committed to the continued Ukraine during and after World War II were the two Ukrainian Churches. In use of the Church as a vehicle of Forty years after Moscow's formal 1686, the Metropolitanate of Kiev was Russification. Hitler's and Stalin's partition of dissolution of the Ukrainian Orthodox attached to the Patriarchate of Moscow The Ukrainian Orthodox revival Poland in 1939 provided the Soviets and Catholic Churches, both institu­ effectively absorbing the Ukrainian reached its culmination soon after the with yet another opportunity to destroy tions are alive and well and gaining Orthodox Church into the Russian establishment of the Ukrainian Na­ Ukraine's religio-cultural institutions. members in the "catacombs." Orthodox Church. tional Republic. A Ukrainian Orthodox Attacks on the Ukrainian Catholic In 1977, the Rev. Vasyl Romaniuk, a The CathoUc Church was next. All Sobor was convened in 1918 and began Church began soon after the Soviets Ukrainian Orthodox prisoner serving episcopal and monastic estates were to press for the establishment^ of an arrived in Galicia. The program was time in the gulag for his religious beliefs, confiscated in 1786. The Russian Or­ independent Ukrainian Orthodox initiated to sow fear and dissension addressed a letter to Metropolitan thodox Holy Synod was ordered to Church, a move formally sanctioned by within Catholic ranks with planted Mstyslav, leader of the Ukrainian oversee the appointment of all monas­ the Ukrainian government in 1919. On informers and provocateurs, discrimi­ Autocephalous Orthodox Church in tery abbots in 1828. In 1832, Ukrainian May 5, 1920, an All-Ukrainian Ortho­ natory taxation, and the arrest of the free world: Catholic theological schools were dox Church Council announced the leading lay leaders and priests. "Your Grace! First of all, I assure you ordered closed and their students trans­ creation of the Ukrainian Autocepha- Hitler's surprisingly successful inva­ of my devotion and humility. I declare ferred to Orthodox seminaries. Finally, lous Orthodox Church and, after a sion of the USSR prompted StaHn to that I consider and have always cona- in 1839, at a solemn meeting of the Holy short delay, consecrated a metropolitan temper his attacks on religious commu­ dered myself a member of the Ukrainian Synod, the Ukrainian Catholic Church and three bishops. nities. Hoping to mobilize the national Autocephalous Orthodox Church in was ordered to "freely unite" with the patriotism of the Russian people against spite of the fact that I formally belonged Mother Church in Moscow. Ukraine between the wars the Nazis, Stalin moved to co-opt the to a different hierarchy, for it is well Russian Orthodox Church into service known that the Ukrainian Church, The CathoUc revival Ukrainian independence, as we know, for the regime. Anti-religious propa­ Orthodox as well as Catholic, is out­ was short-lived. Attacked by the Red ganda was reduced and concessions to lawed in Ukraine. Such are the barbaric While Ukrainian religious and cul­ Russian army from the east, the White the Russian Orthodox Church were ethics of the Bolsheviks." tural institutions were being obliterated Russian army from the south, and the made to ensure loyalty to the war effort. Fr. Romaniuk's affirmation was in eastern Ukraine, western Ukraine was Polish army from the west, Ukraine When the war ended, all provinces of testimony that the Ukrainian Auto­ enjoyiлg a reUgio^ultural renaissance finally fell in 1920. By 1923, Ukraine Ukraine — Carpatho-Ukraine, northern cephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine ^vhich began soon after Poland's parti­ was partitioned among four states. Bukovina, western and eastern Ukraine remains alive among believers and that tion in 1772. there is new ecumenical understanding Galicia came under Austrian rule in a Despite repeated Kremlin attempts to stem between Ukrainian Orthodox and Ca­ sadly neglected condition. The Polo- tholics. Although little is known about nil^dUlcrainian upper classes were the tide, Christianity appears to be thriving in the activities of the underground Ukrai­ estranged from the illiterate masses nian Orthodox Church, there is evi­ while the Ukrainian Catholic clergy, Ukraine. dence that church attendance in Soviet who had faithfully maintained the Ukraine has been increasing steadily. It religio-cultural traditions of the past, Carpatho-Ukraine was part of Czecho­ — were united under the aegis of is estimated that more than 50 percent and to whom the impoverished peasant slovakia; Bukovina was part of Ruma­ Moscow. All suffered the same fate. of the functioning Russian Orthodox looked for spiritual and temporal gui­ nia; Galicia was part of Poland; and The newly constituted Ukrainian churches in the USSR are in Ukraine. dance, were barely surviving. eastern Ukraine was a Soviet republic. Autocephalous Orthodox Church in More is known about the catacomb The Ukrainian Catholic situation in In Carpatho-Ukraine, where the western Ukraine was simply incor­ Catholic church in Ukraine. Priests who Galicia improved dramatically under Ukrainian Orthodox Church never porated into the Patriarchal Russian refused to join the Russian Orthodox the Hapsburgs. Seminaries were opened really took hold, the struggle was with a Orthodox Church. Church in 1946 left the formal priest­ in Vienna and Peremyshl and in 1807, Russian Orthodox Church rejuvenated A similar fate eventually befell the hood but continued to serve the faithful the ancient Metropolitan See of Halych by the arrival of hundreds of Russian Ukrainian Catholic Church. In the secretly while engaged in other occupa­ was re-established by Pope Pius VII priests fleeing the Bolsheviks. winter of 1944-45, the NKVD orga­ tions. They were later joined by priests and transferred to Lviv. In Rumania, where the Ukrainian nized a "re-education" program for the released during post-Stalinist amnesty A similar revival effort was initiated Catholic Church was protected by an clergy. On April 5, 1945, an anti- periods. in Carpatho-Ukraine where the Catho­ agreement between the Rumania go­ Catholic campaign was inaugurated by By the late 1950s, the Ukrainian lic clergy had been Magyarized after vernment and the Vatican, the struggle the Soviet media and six days later the Catholic Church was experiencing a centuries of Hungarian rule. was with the Rumanian Orthodox NKVD began arresting the entire U- revival as more and more former Catho­ The unprecedented support of the Church which demanded that all Ukrai­ krainian Catholic hierarchy as well as lics repudiated Russian Orthodoxy. Ukrainian Catholic Church by the nian Orthodox Churches be Rumania- secular and monastic clergy. Alarmed, Soviet authorities unleashed Austrian royal family in the 19th nized. As the mass arrests continued, Soviet a new wave of anti-Catholic media century provided the stimulus for the The Ukrainian Catholic Church in authorities sponsored the so-called agitation. Priests were harassed and first phase of a national revival that Poland also enjoyed the protection of "Initiating Committee for the Reunifi­ arrested during the 1960s as the cam­ culminated in the establishment of the Vatican, This was not the case with cation of the Greek Catholic Church paign to eradicate the Ukrainian Catho­ Ukrainian independence in the 20th the Ukrainian Orthodox Church which With the Russian Orthodox Church." lic Church continued. It was during this century. In contrast to eastern Ukraine, was subject to discrimination and Working closely with the bogus com­ period that secret seminaries were dis­ where the clergy had been absorbed by repression from the Polish government. mittee the NKVD sponsored a "Sobor" covered in Ternopil and Kolomyia and the Russian Orthodox Church and the Of the over 300 Orthodox churches in in 1946, during which the Union with disbanded. national awakening was led by the laity existence in 1914, only 51 survived until Rome was declared null and void and The election of a Slavic pope seemed almost by default, the Ukrainian Catho­ 1939. Fortunately, the Ukrainian Auto- the Ukrainian Catholic Church was to inspire Ukrainian Catholics to even lic clergy in western Ukraine provided cephalous Church in Poland was recon­ proclaimed in "reunion" with the Rus­ great efforts on behalf of their faith. the kind of intellectual and organiza­ stituted in 1942 at the insistence of the sian Orthodox Church. Knowledge of Responding to the Catholic resurgence tional leadeiship required to make Patriarch of Constantinople. the "Sobor" had been withheld from the in the 1980's, one Communist party change. It was the clergy that began to In Soviet Ukraine, meanwhile, the public, there was no election of dele­ official wrote: promote the Ukrainian vernacular in Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox gates, and only 216 clerics and 19 "The growing efforts of the Vatican both temporal and spiritual communi­ Church enjoyed a brief respite from laypersons were in attendance. and clerical-nationalistic centers abroad cation, and it was the clergy that helped Soviet repression. By 1924, the Ortho­ The Vatican and the Ukrainian Ca­ to influence the population of the Ukrainianize the de-nationalized dox network included 30 bishops, tholic Church in the free world de­ Ukrainian SSR and negative tendencies masses, especially in the countryside. approximately 1,500 priests and dea­ clared the "Sobor" uncanonical and in the actions of the Catholic clergy and cons, some 1,100 parishes, and between illegal but the protests meant nothing to remnants of Uniatism have called for an The Orthodox revival 3 million and 6 million faithful. the Soviets who continued to dismantle expansion of aggressive counter-pro­ The revival was short-lived, however. the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Ac­ paganda activity from Party commit­ The Orthodox revival in eastern In January of 1930, the Ukrainian cording to the U.S. State Department, tees, Soviet organs, and ideological Ukraine began during the latter half of Autocephalous Orthodox Church was by 1950, the four Ukrainian Catholic institutions." the 19th century as an outgrowth of a ordered dissolved and absorbed by the dioceses had been eliminated; 2,772 On September 9, 1982, the Initiative national renaissance among lay intellec­ NKVD-directed Russian Orthodox parishes had been liquidated or incor- Group for the Defense of the Rights of tuals. Despite government restrictions, Church. Two metropolitois, 26 arch­ ported into the Russian Orthodox Believers ^nd the Church was founded Ukrainian literature was circulated arid bishops and bishopsi sbme 1,150 priests Church; 4,119 churches and chapels by Ukrainian Catholics. Headed by clandestine national organizations were and deacons, and approximately 20,000 were either closed or absorbed by the (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 27, 1988 No. 13

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Russians and the Moscow patriarch. of this, the address of the archbishop- turies, and thus the problems. Lubachivsky's Mr. Primak went further and specified major of the Ukrainian Catholic Before each performance Dancebills when is the right time to forgive: "You Church was appropriate. were handed out presenting the Russifi- brilliant move only forgive when you are in a position We should keep in mind that "The cation, human rights and Millennial Dear Editor: of strength or when someone asks you Russian Orthodox Church is currently problems in Ukraine. About 2,500 I think that from a political view­ for forgiveness." This is in disagree­ engaged in a series of continuing dis­ Dancebills were distributed, and sent on point. Cardinal Myroslav Lubachiv­ ment with the basic rules of Christian cussions with the Roman Catholic to Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, San sky's act was a brilliant move. I would ethics. I remind Mr. Primak that when Church, the Anglican Church, Luthe­ Francisco. The Dancebills used here like to compare it to a move in a poker Jesus Christ was dying on the cross, He ran Churches, the non-Chalcedonian were based on formats received from game: when a player suspects that forgave the people who were crucifying Churches of the Middle East, and New York and Boston. Similar Dance­ another one is bluffing, he may "call the Him and making fun of Him; they also others. It participates actively in the bills were distributed in the other cities. bluff" by putting his money on the table were not asking for forgiveness, and World Council of Churches, the Coun­ Perhaps the lesson we can learn from and thus forcing the bluffer to show his Jesus Christ, as a human being, was not cil of European Churches and other this is the following: The Soviets need hand. in a position of strength. international bodies." This quotation is American money. We Ukrainian Ame­ Cardinal Lubachivsky made a Chris­ The long quotation from Winston from the book "The Russian Orthodox ricans, therefore, play a large role in this tian gesture towards the Moscow Pa­ Churchill of how he will fight the Nazis Church: A Contemporary History" by equation. If we are to pay top dollar for triarch. The latter must now decide how on the sea, in the air, on the shores, etc., Jane Ellis, 1986. a performance, we have the right to to respond, if at all. If he responds to the is irrelevant, because when Churchill Alexander Lysko expect an equal in value performance. Christian gesture of the head of the made his statements he had a powerful Lakewood, Colo. If we are to pay for a Soviet Ukrai­ Ukrainian Catholic Church, he would Navy (the Germany Navy was no match nian performance, we have a right to implicitly recognize that Church's for the English Navy), the Royal Air expect a "Ukrainian" performance existence — a recognition which would Force, tanks and artillery, and he had a Virsky ensemble without any adulteration of costumes, go a long way in helping Ukrainian very convenient strategic position in the content or style. Otherwise, we can Catholics in the USSR in their struggle British islands. He was also backed by and disinformation produce Ukrainian dance ensembles in to obtain official recognition from the the United States, the most powerful the West which can compete with those Soviet government. If he fails to country in the world. In what position Dear Editor: in Soviet Ukraine. This message should respond to Cardinal Lubachivsky's are the Ukrainians right now? We I have just finished reading the be sent to the Soviet government and to gesture, he would demonstrate that he fought bravely but were overrun by Washington Post's review of the Virsky those who sponsor such groups, in this is not as Christian as he claims to be. superior forces. At present, and for the Dance Company. The review gives no case: Ms. Lee Lamont, ICM Artists, 40 Either way, Cardinal Lubachivsky foreseeable future, no country is pre­ hint of national or human rights abuses W. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. wins. pared and willing to fight the Soviet in Ukraine or anywhere else in the There is economic clout that we can Roman Tratch Union. Presently, we can achieve some Soviet Union. An excerpt: use; if we don't we will continue to be Penfield, N.Y. concessions for our Churches in U- "While you sit there marveling at sent questionable wares, and we will not kraine, and for individuals, solely the...technical feats, you're also lulled force the Soviets to clean up their act. through diplomatic intervention by by the symmetry of the formations, the Cardinars speech some democratic governments, by the innocence and sense of community, the Larissa M. Fontana Vatican and by organizations such as joviality and simplicity of it all. Safe Potomac, Md. was appropriate Amnesty International. within this theatrical Utopia, you're Dear Editor: From the statements made by Pope temporarily freed from worries about I have a few comments regarding two John Paul II on January 18 and Ja­ the tensions of the modern world." A Millennium letters in The Ukrainian Weekly of nuary 26, it is clear that he is striving for According to quotes from the dance February 7, one by Ksenia Antypiv and legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic troupe's Ukrainian-born director, the film project the other by George Primak. Church in the Soviet Union, and that he Virsky visit is the result of "the thaw in It seems to me that these two writers is not writing off the Ukrainian Catho­ Soviet-American relations," which is an Dear Editor: did not read the complete speech of lic Church in the Soviet Union. Pope expression of the wishes of "the whole In the March 6 issue of The Ukrai­ Archbishop-Major Myroslav Ivan John Paul II clearly stated that he wants world." nian Weekly, there was an article by Lubachivsky. In the address to the the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the According to the review, when asked Peter Dudycz attesting to the lack of Moscow patriarch, and archbishop Soviet Union to be free and to be able to to identify "any distinctly Ukrainian some type of film or video project major primarily expressed willingness participate in ecumenical dialogues trait," the troupe's director exlaims: commemorating the Millennium of to forgive the Russians and the Moscow with other Christian denominations, "We love music! We're a singing na­ Ukrainian Christianity. Although Mr. patriarch, and not the other way including the Russian Orthodox tion." Dudycz raised valid points, he was around. Church. To conduct ecumenical dia­ Happy, jovial Ukrainians. Happy wrong in one regard. There is someone Some people claim that now is not the logues, the parties in question should music. Happy dancing. Happy, singing filming a documentary on the events right time for Ukrainians to forgive the be, so to say, on speaking terms. In view Ukrainian nation. Happy disinforma­ occurring this year. tion. New Horizon Films is producing this Welcome, Virsky dancers. film, focusing on the common man as he FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Letter to Voice celebrates this historic event. This Patience T. Huntwork documentary has already been one year Below is the text of a letter to the about an atrocity that cost millions editor sent to the Village Voice by Phoenix, Ariz. in the making, and has the support of of lives. the Ukrainian Catholic Church, as well Assemblyman William J, Larkin Jr, Whether the famine death toll was as many of the various Ukrainian in response to Jeff Coplon's article higher or lower than the number of Write to sponsor organizations involved with the Millen­ titled "In Search of a Soviet Holo­ Jews who perished in concentration nium. caust. " camps is not the point. The purpose of Virsky tour of the course is to teach the horrible Our film crews are traveling through­ Dear Editor: lessons of genocide. A study of the Dear Editor: out the United States and Canada, The article "In Search of a Soviet forced famine in Ukraine, the Jewish I read with great interest The Wash­ stopping not only the large urban Holocaust" (January 12) by Jeff holocaust, the massacre of Arme­ ington Group's account of the Virsky centers, but also in the small towns and Coplon says that I was a "major nians, and Pol Pot's reign of terror in Ensemble's performance in Washington villages wherever Ukrainians live or player" in getting the New York State Cambodia keeps this history alive in and the reception that followed. While will gather to celebrate 1,000 years of Department of Education to teach hopes that it will never be repeated. the general performance was techni­ cultural continuity. The importance of high school students about the U- cally excellent and the reception that this historic milestone cannot be over­ kraine famine in 1932-33. Genocide committed by any na­ followed most gracious, I feel com­ stated. It is a unique moment in history I am proud of the role I played in tion or people against any group pelled to write a few words for the sake that has few, if any, parallels. convincing the Education Depart­ cannot be tolerated in our world or of balancing the picture of what oc­ we cease to be a civilized people. Mr. curred here in Washington. This is an ambitious project, and it ment and the Board of Regents to needs the support of the entire Ukrai­ develop a volume on the Ukrainian Coplon says if New York's school­ The new director, Myroslav Van- children are taught of the Ukraine nian community. Our goal is to record famine for inclusion in the Human tukh, is described in the book sold at the for posterity this singular moment in Rights Series on Holocaust and famine, they will be "losers."I believe performances as an expert in Russian Coplon is the loser for even suggest­ history that will not pass our way again. Genocide. That Mr. Coplon chose to folklore, and it was under his direction Only with a unified effort can this film question the credibility of the writers, ing that our young people shouldn't that the Russian dance was introduced. have their eyes opened to a real world be completed. Any assistance, finan­ researchers and Ukrainian nationali- We witnessed such a phenomenon as cial or informational, would be most lists involved in this project is re­ where it is possible that millions can Hutsuls dancing in red boots, and the die against their will for no reason. appreciated. For further information grettable. traditional Ukrainian dance, "Hopak," on the Millennium Film Project please There is undeniable proof that the I helped initiate the Holocaust and labelled as the "Gopak." In general, call (312) 235-2600 or write to New famine did indeed take place. The Genocide study program and will there was an aura of "Sovietization" of Horizon Films, P.O. Box 148500, exact events and the specific number continue to support the teaching of the Ukrainian dance. Chicago, 111.60614. of Ukrainian lives lost are clouded lessons that should not be forgotten. During the TWG reception, all of this because the famine was covered up was called to the attention of the by Stalin and ignored by the Ameri­ William J. Larkin Jr. dancers, Mr. Vantukh and Lee Lamont Paul Pawluk can media. However, this should not Member, 95th District, of ICM Artists Ltd. Ms. Lamont's President preclude students from learning New York State Assembly perception was that, after all, Ukraine New Horizon Films has been under domination for cen­ Chicago No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988

Plast sponsors Harvard USF prepares children's play information packets NEW YORK - Throughout this Who, what, when, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Ukrai­ year, the Millennium of Christianity in nian Studies Fund at Harvard Univer­ Rus'-Ukraine will be celebrated in sity has put together Millennium infor­ myriad ways; there will be concerts, mation packets intended to help the programs, manifestations, etc. How­ where and why... Ukrainian community inform the press, ever, youngsters, age 7-11, ("novatstvo'^ and non-Ukrainians in general, about in New York's Plast branch, marked the Millennium of Christianity in this jubilee anniversary with a play. Kievan-Rus'. Titled, "In the Prince's Court," the play Marta Baziuk of the USF explains was written by Marta Zielyk and per­ how the packet came to be: "Over the formed by both boys and girls on past year the Ukrainian Studies Fund Sunday, February 21. has responded to nearly daily requests It told the story of a little girl, for information on the Millennium, Malusha, who gets lost in the woods both from the community and from and is separated from her mother, while government officials, scholars, teachers running away from a horde of Peche- and religious groups. Our office is negs. She finds herself in Prince Volo- constantly sending letters and informa­ dymyr's court, where a grand banquet is tion to correct journalists when they in progress on the eve of his baptism of have called the Millennium a Russian Kievan-Rus'. During the banquet, he is event. I realized that the materials we entertained by various foreigners, had developed would be useful to others including guests from the Far East, and that it would be much more effec­ Egypt and Scandinavia (Vikings). tive if people in their own communities Prince Volodymyr tells the little girl would notify local media." about his plans to bring Christianity to Egyptian girls, visitors to St. Volodymyr's court, perform a dance during the Andrei Harasymiak, director of his state, and gives the pagan Malusha Millennium play presented in New York by Plast. publications for USF, adds, "We can be the Christian name of Anna in celebra­ sure that the Soviets will be very tion of the acceptance of this faith. successful in getting publicity for the The play, which was held at New What's happening in Washington Millennium celebrations to be held in Moscow in June. In fact, articles have York's St. George School auditorium, Following is information about events in Washington as released by the was prepared by the novatstvo coun­ already appeared. So it is important selors Sofia Zielyk and Marko Slyz National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in that we get accurate background infor­ and members of Plast-Pryiat. Ukraine. mation into the hands of the media now. March 28 to Easter That means sending information to Presentation of pysanky to senators, congressmen and notable political foreign desk editors, religion editors, St. George students activists along with appropriate information about our Millennium. news editors, and it would be a good idea to send information, to religious present concert April 24 groups planning to attend the events in NEW YORK - St. George Academy Dedication of newly built St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Moscow. We hope this packet will make and St. George School presented their Silver Spring Md. it easy." Millennium Concert on January 29 and The packet includes copies of Bohdan January 31 in the school auditorium. May 28-29 Nahaylo's articles in the Wall Street Under the direction of Lesia Tkacz with Convention of Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society "Ukrainpex- Journal and the American Spectator; a the assistance of Lydia Andrusyszyn, 1988" at St. Andrew's Church hall in Silver Spring. Convention theme: Ukrainian position paper by Andrew three symbolic gifts were presented to Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. Sorokowski; a list of major newspaper, the Christ Child by the three Magi. The magazine and network addresses with first was the gift of the baptism of May 29 (Continued on page 13) Ukraine. Day of national prayer and unity with Sunday services in churches located Under the patronage of the second throughout the world in countries where Ukrainians have settled. king, Ivan Mazepa, the Kievo-Mohy- Ukrainian booth at lanska Academy became the first uni­ June 5 versity in Ukraine, as well as a well- Demonstration and protest march against so-called "Celebrations of the broadcaster's conclave respected educational institution Millennium of Christianity in Moscow." Local communities are urged to WASHINGTON - The Ukrainian throughout eastern Europe. hold similar actions on June 5 or 12. community was visible at the 45th The third king, the leader of our Annual National Religious Broadcas­ persecuted church in Ukraine, conse­ June 5-12 ters Convention and Exposition here on crated the blood of Ukraine's many Prayer service near Soviet Embassy to focus attention on persecution of February 1-3. martyred bishops, clergy, and faithful, Ukrainian Churches. The National Committee to Comme­ praying for the resurrection of the morate the Millennium of Christianity Christian Churches in a freed Ukraine. June 19 in Ukraine purchased exhibit space, and Oksana Cehelsky was in charge of 4 p.m. — Concert of Ukrainian Religious Music at the National Cathedral the exhibit booth was organized and costumes; Sonia Szereg, singing and with the participation of Metropolitan's Choir and Prometheus Chorus of designed by Lydia Chopivsky from The piano accompaniment; Daria Genza, Philadelphia, directed by Michael Dlaboha, Washington Group. dancing; and Taras Hirniak, lighting. President Ronald Reagan and First The staging of the performance was October 7 Lady Nancy Reagan addressed the aided by Sister Monica, OSBM, Tania 8 p.m. — Youth Festival at Constitution Hall featuring performance by 80- NRB, and another assorted 10,000 Ferraro and Nadia Kulynycz. member Ukraina Dance Ensemble of Chicago. people visited the exhibition center. The mission of the NRB is to foster and October 8 encourage the broadcasting of religious Noon — Manifestation and march from Lincoln Memorial to Washington programs and to stimulate public inte­ rest in religious matters. Memorial and White House, culminating at Taras Shevchenko Monument. 8 p.m. - Concert of Ukrainian Classical Music at Constitution Hall to be The Ukrainian Millennium booth performed by soloists, symphony orchestra and Ukrainian National Choir — was equipped with a map showing 270-280 singers from the Prometheus and Metropolitan's Choirs of where Ukraine is in relation to the rest Philadelphia, the Dibrova and Prometheus Choirs of Toronto. of Europe, and a map of the U.S. and Canada showing where there are large populations of Ukrainians in order to October 9 make broadcasters aware that there Morning — Liturgy at all Ukrainian churches. may be Ukrainians in their listening Noon — Ecumenical moleben near the Washington Memorial. area, and that perhaps they should 2:30 p.m. — Concert of Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus directed by include information about Ukraine and Wolodymyr Kolesnyk at Constitution Hall. the Millennium of Christianity in Kievan Rus' on their programs. Not yet finalized: Dates for conference on religious persecution in the In addition, there were several icons USSR to be held at the White House and for a scholarly conference on the hung with traditional "rushnyky" (ri­ Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. tual cloths) and liturgical music playing. The public is requested to purchase tickets now for all three concerts. Prices Literature to be distributed was for each concert are: S30 — loge; S25 — orchestra and first, second, third and coordinated by Andrij Bilyk and Ste- fourth balconies; S20 — fifth through eighth balconies; S15 — ninth through phan Procyk. A number of local com­ twelfth balconies. Orders should be sent to: Ukrainian Millennium munity activists and members of the Princess Olha in the Millennium play Committee, c/ о UNA, 3rd floor, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07303; Washington Millennium Committee staged hy St. George Academy and telephone: (201)451-2200. volunteered their time to man the School. booth. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988 No. 13

ween movements of a sonata?). In short, piano and in his works he wanted the the sonata was well evaluated but, no player to produce a "sonorous halo." doubt, this music requires full emo­ This is exactly what Miss Chudio tional maturity. Beethoven, the philo­ produced. It was an effect of reflected, sopher, finds 60-year-old pianists still shimmering light. The Debussy, to making progress with his music. whom it seems Miss Chudio's nature is To give Miss Chudio a break after the especially attuned, was a truly creative demanding Beethoven, her teacher, interpretation. Prof. Klym read an entertaining "The Cat and the Mouse" by Cop­ humoresque of her own design about land, had notes bouncing around every­ music's trials and tribulations, never­ where. Amusing and acrobatic, this is theless wishing in the end that Miss one of Copland's most engaging pieces Chudio have fun at the keyboard and and the young pianist was equal to the that her fun be transmitted to the task. Pianist Miriam Chudio in recital audience. Chopin is indispensable for any Highlight of program On Sunday, March 6, under the tition, No. 23 in A, K.488, and perform­ aspiring pianist. Miss Chudio played auspices of the Ukrainian Music Insti­ ing the second movement of this work the Second Ballade Op. 38 and the The highlight of the evening was tute of America Inc. (UMIA), pianist with the Monmouth Symphony Or­ Etude Op. 10, No. 12 ("Revolutionary"). Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto Op. 16 Miriam Chudio gave her diploma chestra at Brookdale College in Lin- Here we had Chopinesque creativity, in A Minor. This concerto simply won't recital at the Ukrainian Community croft, N.J., which sponsored the com­ with much to say that was original and go away. Young pianists still learn the Center in Irvington, N.J. The hall was petition and presented her with a persuasive, with phrasing and pacing piece; audiences still cheer it; record filled to the brim and the proceeds commemorative plaque. that made each piece come alive. Miss companies continue to bring out new benefitted St. John the Baptist School "In the summer of 1986 Miriam Chudio penetrated convincingly to the versions. And all this in spite of the in Newark, N.J. participated in the finalist concert of the poetry and spirit of the two works. condescension and disdain of numerous S. Liudkevych competition in Toronto There followed works by three Ukrai­ critics, who preach what's good and Biographical notes and a year later took part in a Two- nian composers, Lysenko, Revutsky what's not. The concerto's simple, Piano Festival as well as Teen Arts and Kos-Anatolsky. The Second Rhap­ heartfelt melodies, its piquant har­ I quote from the notes on the bilin­ Festival at the state level. At this time sody on Ukrainian Themes Op. 18 by monies and lilting rhythms have always gual program: "Young Miriam's musical she was also soloist in a program on the Mykola Lysenko is constructed of two impressed, both the sensible pianist and feeling and especially her accurate sense occasion of the Commemoration of the contrasting episodes, the first one — reviewer. of rhythm was evident in the staged 40 Years of the Persecution of the slow and musing, in the style of aduma. Miss Chudio's performance here fairy tales of Pre-School Music in Ukrainian Catholic Church, where she The second episode Lysenko styles after revealed her study of the piece in detail Irvington, under Marta Shlemkewych- performed works of well-acclaimed a dance song, resorting to a fast tempo, (only the first movement was perform- Sawycky's supervision. Ukrainian composers." a jocular grace and distinct rhythms. (Continued on page 14) "Miriam began her piano studies at Substituting for the UMIA president, The Second Rhapsody is a gem among age 7 in the UMIA, as the student of Daria Karanowycz, who was indis­ Lysenko's works for the piano. Helen Klym. Her progress was so posed. Prof. Rafael Wenke in a brief Levko Revutsky's Prelude Op.4, remarkable, that after her first year of foreword described UMIA's work and No. 2 starts in an introspective mood but instruction, she was able to accompany underlined that very few students have proceeds to more dramatic dispositions. the children's choir at her school at St. the perseverance and stamina to per­ Using polyrhythmic devices, the work John's. Also after one year of study, she form a diploma recital. The talent and seems devoid of any Ukrainian ele­ was the youngest among fellow perfor­ efforts of 16-year old Miss Chudio have ments, but its, let us say, cosmopoli­ mers of S. Liudkevych's works, in a enabled her to complete the full require­ tanism is nonetheless highly effective as 1979 concert. ments of the UMIA, to attain her are the rest of his preludes. "Two years^arlier than prescribed, diploma and to prepare the program of The works by Lysenko and Revutsky Miriam progressed to the intermediate this recital. were played with both technical and level of piano instruction with an musical elements receiving their due evaluation of 'outstanding.' Since that The recital and considerable "heart" was infused time, she continually participated in into these performances. representative concerts of the UMIA in First on the program was J.S. Bach's A. Kos-Anatolsky's "Hutsulian Toc­ New York, Philadelphia and Newark Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Major cata" uses uniformity of propulsive and during the summer months in (from WTC, vol. I). The obligatory motion through the entire work and a young people's events at the Soyuzivka Bach was approached with convincing certain percussiveness of each note and estate and Hunter, N.Y. familiarity and directness while the chord. However the Hutsulian melody "At 8 years of age, Miriam entered counterpoint had the necessary preci­ introduced here is of the canorous type the Music Educators of America sion. The Prelude, fluent and charming, and the work's basis in folk song piano competition and took second was especially memorable. remains in force despite the percussive­ place among competitors and in the In Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata ness. Miss Chudio's performance was next two succeeding years won first Op. 13 the tempos were right, the flowing, not overly percussive, under­ places and a medal from ME A of New dynamics and phrasing — all were as lining the singing character of the piece. Jersey. However, her greatest achieve­ indicated and there was enough con­ Debussy's "Reflections in the Water" ment, at age 12, was winning the New trast between movements (when will are not easy to convey. The composer Jersey Mozart Piano Concerto Compe­ Ukrainians learn not to applaud bet­ detested the percussive effect of the Miriam Chudio work on behalf of the Church. Arrested are secret seminaries, secret religious cent in the last 20 years, twice as many Christianity's role... again in 1985, he was sentenced to seven schools for the youth, clandestine funerals as infant baptisms, a lack of (Continued from page 7) years' imprisonment and five years' bishops, priests and religious, and no youth involvement, a shortage of priests Yosyp Terelia, a well-known Catholic exile. shortage of intelligent, articulate and and religious — or, will we heed these lay dissident who had already spent Despite repeated Kremlin attempts to eager young men and women willing to signs and act now to do something time in Soviet psychiatric clinics for his stem the tide, Christianity appears to be work for the Church. meaningful to reverse this downward outspoken religious beliefs, the group thriving in Ukraine. Today, the cata­ Most important of all, evangelization slide? We can be the most committed (also known as the Central Committee comb Church reportedly includes hun­ is not something that is just being talked "hurrah nationalist patriots" in the of Ukrainian Catholics) announced that dreds of Catholic priests headed by at about. It is being practiced, in Kazakh­ world but if we lose our Church, we've its primary aim was to legalize the least two secret bishops working under stan, Siberia and other regions of the lost it all. Ukrainian Catholic Church. In a letter the authority of their primate in Rome, USSR where significant numbers of The next 1,000 years of Christianity to the Central Committee of the Com­ and over 1,000 secret nuns. Significant­ Ukrainians reside. begins with us, with you and me. And munist Party of Ukraine, Mr. Terelia ly, the faithful appear to be a new breed Our people have come a long, hard we can inaugurate our spiritual renewal wrote: and this was confirmed by a Communist way since 988. They have suffered right here, right now, with one simple Despite the declarations and prog­ researcher who recently wrote: unbelievable horrors, endured unpre­ but powerful Christian act. We can noses of some party members, we are "Of late, a new type of believer has cedented calamity, and they have sur­ forgive. We can heal each other's living, growing and triumphing. The been emerging and becoming more and vived it all. Why? Because they believed. wounds. Our renewal begins with each trials and persecutions suffered by more noticeable. Compared with the They were Christians. When all else of us individually — Melnykivtsi, Catholics in Ukraine have strengthened old traditionalist believer, he has a failed, they had their Christian beliefs to Banderivtsi, old^alendar Catholics, us even more in the faith, and have given higher level of intellectual develop­ nourish them and to heal their wounds. new-calendar Catholics, Orthodox, us the opportunity to sound the depths ment, a marked tendency towards And it is the rich heritage of faith that Baptists - healing our wounds. We of God's providence. I can state without rationalistic justification of his faith, an they have passed on to us. need to heal, for our Church, our exaggeration that there is nothing interest in the philosophical and ethical And what will we do with our inherr- greater than to die, a Catholic in a aspects of dogma, and the history of community, our children, but most im­ tance? Will we squander or cherish it? portant of all, for ourselves. Communist prison. He who loses fear, religion." Will we allow our Church to die in gains truth and hope. That is why we There can be no greater tribute to the America or will we take steps now, When Volodymyr the Great brought believe that the Kingdom of God is resilience of Christianity in Ukraine during the Millennium year to preserve Christianity to Ukraine he was asking coming and shall have no end." today than the words of this Commu­ it? Will we continue to criticize our his people and their heirs to adopt a Forced out of his job, Mr. Terelia was nist official. But there is more. As you religious hierarchy, our priests, and our radical new lifestyle, a lifestyle predi­ arrested for "parasitism" on December know, Mr. Terelia was allowed to nuns or will we finally realize that we, all cated on Christian love and forgiveness. ;24, 1982. Other members of his com­ emigrate to Canada in 1987 and the of us, are the Church. Will we continue The day we forget that is the day we mittee were ^uiysequenfty^altaclced'^nd - -story Tie-has told- in -tfte' West is truly to ignore the danger signs - a Church cease being a people with a promising later released, Mr. Terelia returned to inspiring. Mr. Terelia informs us there membership that has declined 40 per­ future and a brilliant destiny. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1988

Opposition... — of diktat of producer over consumer, project would be taken in the first The newspaper quoted the Minister to preserve the privileges that accrue quarter of this year. Ivan Lutak, the first of Health of the Ukrainian SSR, O. (Continued from page 2) from being an unquestioned authority." secretary of the Cherkassy Oblast Party Romanenko, as saying that were it sight of the fact that energy problems It is also worth noting that despite the Committee, acknowledged that the possible to allay the fears of the popu­ should be tackled not only by further airing of public concern discussed scheme "does not inspire enthusiasm" lation, many of the social and medical expansion of production of nuclear above, the scientists feel, as they put it, from the public but was quoted as problems resulting from the disaster energy but also by economizing and that, "The problems connected with the commenting: "The public doesn't know "would have been dealt with long ago." finding ways of saving energy. development of atomic energy still anything about nuclear energy. How Accusing the USSR Ministry of remain a forbidden subject for public can they give a qualified opinion?" Involuntary workers at Chornobyl Atomic Energy of being guided by analysis and discussion in the press." narrow institutional interests and of not Nevertheless, they end on a more Why no announcements? Something else should be mentioned taking into account the full complexity hopeful note, stating with regard to the that is probably a source of resentment. of ecological and safety factors, the Ministry of Atomic Energy: "But times Curiously, although at the end of It seems that the Soviet authorities aire Ukrainian scientists stress: are changing. It is not as easy to wave January Komsomolskaya Pravda re­ still relying on, among others. Army "The concentration of very powerful restructuring aside. It is necessary for vealed that public protests had halted reservists, to decontaminate the Chor­ [energy units! in densely populated everyone to undergo restructuring." the construction of an atomic power nobyl area. districts, the loss of water and fertile station in Krasnodar, no announcement Interestingly, Pravda Ukrainy of land, socioeconomic faqtors — all these Public pressure is maintained about the suspension of work on the February 5 inadvertently confirmed are a very important nexus of problems Chyhyryn project seems to have been reports reaching the West for some time that are worrying the republic's scien­ made so far in the Soviet press. During January there were other now that dissenters and those who are tists and specialists. The territory of the indications of mounting public opposi­ On February 4 Molod Ukrainy pub­ perceived as troublemakers are being Ukrainian SSR has the highest level of tion to the expansion of nuclear energy lished an article by a specialist from dispatched to clean up at Chornobyl. economic development in the country. in Ukraine. The first issue for 1988 of Kiev University opposing the building The newspaper carried a letter from a In an area of 603,000 square kilometers the monthly journal Prapor, which is of the Chyhyryn nuclear power plant worker in Krolovets in the Sumy Oblast (or 3 percent of the country's entire published by the Ukrainian Writers' but making no mention of the suspen­ protesting that after a complaint he had territory) is produced more than 20 Union, carried an article by a mathema­ sion of construction. made at his place of work his employer percent of the all-union aggregate tical physicist, V. I. Strikha, who put Furthermore, the following day, had arranged with the local military product, including over a quarter of the forward the case for building solar Radianska Ukraina carried a brief authorities for him to bfijcalled up and entire gross agricultural product. Thus, energy plants instead of atomic power report that the Central Committee of sent to Chornobyl. it Cthe Ukrainian SSRj is responsible for stations. the Ukrainian Communist Party had over 20 percent of the gross grain held a meeting to examine questions harvest, 60 percent of the sugar-beet, 45 Meanwhile, in Moscow, Sovetskaya What chance of success? Kultura of January 5 published an connected with the development of the percent of the sunflower seed, close to chemical and energy industries in 25 percent of the meat, milk and pota­ article by the humorist Yevhen Dudar, Tlie year 1988 has begun, then, with who writes for the Ukrainian satirical Cherkassy. Although the report stated toes, as well as a third of the fruit that is that the attention to the Cherkassy Ukrainian public opinion stepping up produced in the country," magazine Perets'. Titled "The Virus of its opposition to the construction of Irresponsibility," the piece dealt with authorities had been drawn to the Furthermore, the scientists also unsatisfactory level of ecological safe­ new nuclear reactors in Ukraine. What emphasize the size and importance of ecological problems in Ukraine and, the outcome of this pressure will be is among other things, criticized the guards in the city, the Chyhyryn nuclear Ukraine's industrial output as well as energy plant was not mentioned. still to early to predict. Clearly, much the republic's role as a recreational and atomic energy authorities for building will depend on how the debate about the Chyhyryn nuclear power station What has made the matter even more holiday center. intriguing is that on February 15 Radio nuclear energy in Moscow itself will go. The letter-writers go on to examine despite "indignant voices of the com­ This discussion, too, has been getting munity." Kiev reported in a broadcast to North the danger that the expansion of the America that a special state commission sharper in the central press. On January ^Ufleg^r energy program poses for "resolved that the construction of the 27 Komsomolskaya Pravda called the Ukraine's rivers and hence for the The Chyhyryn plant [Chyhyryn] atomic power station has outcry against the construction of republic's water supply. Significantly, not been sufficiently thought out and is nuclear power stations a "chain re­ at one point they also point to the threat The protest letter from the Ukrainian to be stopped." In the same broadcast action" of "fear, ignorance and dis­ |o Moldavia from the envisaged use of scientists prompted at least one Western Radio Kiev acknowledged that some trust." Two weeks later, Andrei Sakha- 100 milhon cubic meters of water a year newspaper to undertake its own investi­ scientists in Ukraine were ^"resolutely rov, writing in Moscow News, proposed from the Dniester River by the nuclear gations. On February 2, The Christian against" building more nuclear power that nuclear reactors should be built energy industry. They add: "Here it is Science Monitor telephoned Mykola stations in the republic. underground to prevent accidental essential also to ask the scientists and Nehoda, the head of the Cherkassy In addition, the broadcast reported leakage of radiation. Almost immedia­ specialists of the Moldavian SSR for Oblast branch of the Ukrainian Writers' that the state commission had been tely, however. Minister of Atomic their views." Union. According to the newspaper's carrying out its own investigations at Energy Nikolai Lukonin declared in The scientists likewise maintain that account, Mr. Nehoda "confirmed that various construction sites and that a Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya: "To the Ministry of Atomic Energy has not work had been stopped" on the one-hour-long program about its work exclude any possibility of a catastrophe fully taken into account various social Chyhyryn nuclear plant and "read from was recently shown on Soviet Ukrai­ of the Chornobyl type is fully reali­ and economic considerations. How the minutes of a meeting held last nian telvision. The broadcast also made zable." else, they ask, can the fact be explained November 19 in the Ukrainian Council it clear that the commission had decided that the projected cost per kilowatt of of Ministers. The Ministry of Atomic the construction of a nuclear power Conclusion energy produced by the new reactors in Energy of the USSR considers it pos­ plant at Kharkiv should go ahead but at Ukraine will be two to three times lower sible to agree with the proposal of the a different site. As this preliminary survey shows, the than in the West? Ukrainian Council of Ministers to cease nuclear disaster at Chornobyl has had The letter ends up as a blistering construction of the Chyhyryn atomic ''Radiophobia"" persists profound repercussions in Ukraine. attack on the USSR Ministry of Atomic energy station." Quite apart from lasting sh зск and fear, Energy. The Ukrainian scientists accuse Mr. Nehoda also told the newspaper As for the general climate in Ukraine, the disaster has focused attention on this body of displaying a "belligerent, that public opinion had played "a very the Soviet press has acknowledged only environmental issues and has precipi­ bureaucratic" attitude and of "refusing important role" in securing the suspen­ this month that almost two years after tated the development of strong public to submit itself to any restructuring." sion of the Chyhyryn project and that the Chornobyl disaster, there is still opposition to the further expansion of They say that they are distressed by the last October "a petition with 5,965 widespread fear of radiation in the nuclear energy in the republic. ministry's refusal to take into account signatures" had been submitted to the republic. According to a report from For once, the Ukraine's scientific and public opinion, the views of scientists USSR Supreme Soviet. Kiev that was published in Izvestia of technical intelligentsia has been gal­ and experts, and "the bitter lessons of The Christian Science Monitor also February 10 and intended to dispel such vanized into taking a public stand Chornobyl." spoke with two officials who confirmed fears, doctors in the regions directly alongside the nation's writers in defense In their view, the only explanation for that work on the Chyhyryn plant had in affected by the accident are spending of Ukraine's right to have some say in' this is "the desire to hold on to a system fact been stopped for the time being but "most of their working time" on "com­ the way that crucial decisions affecting — one that is slipping out of their hands that a final decision on the future of the bating radiophobia." its future are made.

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at the camp or were there in capacities mony. If, on the other hand, the factory. Court's dilemma... that put them close to the gas chambers, prosecution decides that Danylchenko In Novemer 1944, Danylchenko said, (Continued from page 1) where "Ivan" committed his crimes. He is a phoney, then this casts doubt on the they were transferred to a camp near One of the survivors said that the also noted that the new testimonies did Trawniki ID card which also places the Regensburg, and then in April 1945 to person on the ID card was the loco­ serve to support evidence that Ivan was defendant at Sobibor. Nuremberg. Then, Danylchenko es­ motive engineer of a train that brought at the Treblinka death camp. According to the Danylchenko caped, while Mr. Demjanjuk was afraid Jews to Treblinka, while the person on On the first day of the reconvened testimony, both Danylchenko and Mr. to do so. Since that time, Danylchenko the 1951 photo was a high-ranking trial, Mr. Sheftel also began to speak Demjanjuk served the Germans in said, he had not seen Mr. Demjanjuk. Ukrainian officer. about the testimony of a Soviet citi/en. Sobibor, Flossenberg and Regensburg. However, he recognized him on three Still another witness questioned by Ihnat Terentiyevych Danylchenko, who The defense believes that this testi­ photos: the ID card, the U.S. visa the OSI said he had worked at the camp testified on November 21, 1979, about mony is fabricated and that when the application, and in another photo of laundry and knew "Ivan," yet he could the wartime whereabouts of the de­ OSI received the Danylchenko testimony three Red Army soldiers. not pick him out on the photos shown fendant. from Soviet Procurator Roman Ru- In reviewing Danylchenko's state­ by the OSI. The Danylchenko testimony presents denko it had to make a choice: either go ment, Mr. Sheftel said that even the There were other discrepancies. a serious problem for the prosecution with the testimonies of Treblinka Soviet investigator had called in two Mr. Sheftel put the total of various because it places Mr. Demjanjuk not at survivors who said Mr. Demjanjuk was witnesses to observe the photo identifi­ "Ivans" at more than 10, since each TrebUnka but at Sobibor, and later at in Treblinka, or with the Danylchenko cation session — something that Israeli survivor, he said, knew an "Ivan," yet Flossenburg and Regensburg. The version that put him in Sobibor. The investigator Miriam Radiwker had not not the ones in the photos shown defense considers the Danylchenko OSI chose the former route, and then done, choosing to conduct these ses-^ them. In addition, Mr. Sheftel testimony, as well as the Trawniki ID — tried to cover up the existence of the sions alone. reminded the court that witnesses in both Soviet-source documents — ^ Danylchenko testimony, the defense It should be noted that the Da­ Poland had pointed to a German named forgeries prepared by the KGB in says. nylchenko version of the Demjanjuk Alfred Billitz as "Ivan of Treblinka." response to a request for more in­ According to Danylchenko, he story coincides with that published in Prosecutor Michael Shaked attempted formation on Mr. Demjanjuk from the and Mr. Demjanjuk were both in the Molod Ukrainy (Youth of Ukraine) in to dismiss these newly obtained testi­ OSI. Red Army and were captured by the April 1986, along with a reproduction monies as those of "peripheral witnes­ The prosecution, however, faces a Germans. They were then sent to of the Trawniki ID card with a photo ses," and stressed that the five Treblinka dilemma. If it accepts the Danylchenko be trained as guards to the Trawniki different from the one on the card now survivors called to testify by the prose­ testimony as genuine, then this con­ training camp - though at different in Israel. cution had spent longer periods of time tradicts the Treblinka survivors' testi- times. In March 1943, Danylchenko In conclusion, Mr. Sheftel asked: So, said he was sent to Sobibor as a guard; which version do we believe: the de­ Mr. Demjanjuk was already there as a fendant's, the five Treblinka survivors', Penn. Anthracite Region UNA Branches guard. or Danylchenko's? will hold an Danylchenko described Mr. Demjan­ Speaking for the prosecution, Mr. juk as tall (1.86 meters), with gray eyes, Shaked argued that Danylchenko's ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE blond and slightly balding. He was a memory was failing, and that the good guard and very responsible, so the defendant could have been in both MEETING Germans treated him well. He wore a Sobibor and Treblinka. However, he black uniform with a gray collor, and said he basically accepts the Danylchen­ Sunday, April 10, 1988 at 2:00 p.m. carried a rifle, as did all the guards. ko testimony as genuine. at St. Michaers Church Hall, Frackville, Pa. Danylchenko said he never saw Mr. At the conclusion of the Tuesday Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Demjanjuk shoot anyone, and that he session, presiding Judge Dov Levin Convention Delegates and two (2) delegates from the following Branches: did not work near the gas chambers, but announced that the court would an­ only guarded the camp. According to nounce the elate of its^(li0t itt;^b 6r Berwick, 164, 333 this account, Mr. Demjanjuk, Danyl­ three weeks. (The court must announce McAdoo, 7 chenko, someone named Ivan Ivan- that it is ready to render a verdict at least FrackvHIe, 242, 382 Minersvilie, 78, 129, 265 chenko and several other guards were 10 days prior to doing so). Freeland, 429 Mt. Carmel, 2 transferred in March or April 1944 to Shamokin, 1 Flossenburg, where they guarded some Lehighton, 389 Share The Weekly Shenandoah, 98 200 inmates who worked at an airplane Mahanoy City, 305 St. Clair, 9, 31, 228

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democratization proclaimed in the on human rights as the Universal CBC Radio... Helsinki Accords... USSR, the sufferings of Ukrainian Declaration of Human Rights and the (Continued from page 4) (Continued from page 1) Helsinki monitors Ivan Kandyba, My- Convention on Civil and Political "The CBC tried to get us to admit to vastating pogrom during the Brezhnev kola Horbal, Ivan Sokulsky, Vitaliy Rights, as well as the Final Act of the some great error on our part, but we years of stagnation than any other Kalynychenko and Hryhoriy Pry- Helsinki Conference on Security and have no need to be apologetic," he said Helsinki group in the USSR. All the khodko continue." Cooperation in Europe." later that day. Dr. Subtelny is not a members of this group served lengthy Other UHG members are exiled Also, it is noted that, due to the famine specialist, but he helped in the terms of imprisonment and internal outside the borders of Ukraine, under emigration of Mykola Rudenko, UHG production of the film, mostly verifying exile, and four of its members — Oleksa house arrest or subjected to various chairman, Levko Lukianenko, a found­ historical facts. Tykhy, Yuriy Lytvyn, Valeriy Mar- forms of persecution and harassment, ing member of the group, has assumed Although he is not happy with the chenko and Vasyl Stus — died in the statement continues. the chairmanship. Until a general meet­ program over all. Dr. Subtelny feels frightful conditions in a special-regimen Finally, the statement announces ing of the group is held, the executive there is no need to get too upset over it. camp, a veritable death camp, where that, "As before, the Ukrainian Helsinki committee comprised of three secre­ "Bad publicity is better than none at even now, against all dictates of com­ Group will base its activities on such taries will coordinate the group's activi­ all," he said. "The best thing is to get mon sense and despite the policy of fundamental international documents ties and carry out operational tasks. people to talk about the famine, and they're doing that now." Harvard USF... KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. (Continued from page 9) 157 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 names and phone numbers; and sample (212)254-8779 letters and press releases for Millennium Established 1920 Vtra Kowbasniuk-Shumeyko, President events. In addition, the packet includes a four-page guide called "Getting Media 1988 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS Coverage for Your Millennium Event," which contains helpful hints about planning your event, contacting the May 2 S1599.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Budapest media, writing a press release and pitch BERIZKA Lufthansa Single Suppl. Я75.00 letter, and making follow-up phone 11 Days calls to the media. The Ukrainian Studies Fund has May 10 S2298.00 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Kiev/Kaniv - already sent out over 150 packets, and RUTA I Lufthansa Ternopil - Budapest has used information from the packet to 17 Days Single SuppL S350.00 inform senators, documentary film­ S1955.00 May 31 Budapest - Lviv - Ternopil - Budapest makers, scholars and columnists, for Swissair Single SuppL S275.00 example. MARICHKA I 15 Days The packet may be ordered by writing to: Ukrainian Studies Fund, Harvard S2025.00 June 9 Lufthansa Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Ternopil Budapest University, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Single Suppl. S280.00 Canibridget, M.^ss. 02138; or by calling TREMBITA I 15 Days (^17) 495-7835V the cost is S3. S2075.00 June 9 Budapest (transit) - Lviv - Chernivtsi - Budapest Lufthansa Single Suppl. S280.00 Seeking full-time live-in TREMBITA II 15 Days KaUSEKEEPER Please call after 8 p.m. S2550.00 Prague - Uzhorod - Lviv Yalta - Kiev June 23 Lufthansa Single Suppl. S375.00 (201)8941895 YAVIR 18 Days

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accept recognition certificates. Major (through its executive committee). inian American... acknowledgements were granted to Statement... ^ 6. We repeat that the official (Continued from page 5) Messrs. Fedenko, Kapitanec, Pryjma, (Continued from page 3) organ of the Ukrainian Helsinki program. After some introductory Temnyk, Zachary and Myron Woro- tion, with which it wishes to main­ Group is The Ukrainian Herald, remarks, he called on the Very Rev. nowycz for initiating and founding of tain genuinely constructive relations. whose platform is based on the Bernard Panchuk, OSBM, also retired Michigan's UAV Post 101. ^ 3. Owing to the emigration of principles embodied in the Universal major, USMC to conduct the invoca- One of the most entertaining seg­ the Ukrainian writer Mykola Ru- Declaration of Human Rights and tional prayer before dinner. ments during the 40th convention denko, who headed the Ukrainian the Final Act of the Helsinki Con­ With a profile, Mr. Wichar intro­ banquet in 1987 was Mr. Fedenko's Helsinki Group, the prominent U- ference. Additional extra editions of duced Mr. Kobryn as the keynote anecdotal reflections on military living. krainian human rights activist and the journal will be wholly devoted to speaker. Commander Kobryn was For the installation banquet, Mr. founding member of the group, Ukrainian Helsinki Group materials. especially complimentary to the leader­ Fedenko was invited to repeat this lawyer Levko Lukianenko, is the new ^ 7. The rights and duties of ship of Post 101 and how they had performance to the delight of all in Hfead of the group. An executive members of the Ukrainian Helsinki demonstrated ability in discharging attendance. The banquet portion was committee comprised of three secre­ Group, regulations governing the meaningful activities. He showed great concluded by the Rev. Bernard Pan­ taries has been formed to coordinate admission of new members, the concern for the divisiveness in the chuk, when he offered concluding the activities of the group and to election of the group's leader, execu­ Ukrainian disapora, saying, "This is an remarks and a benedictional prayer. A carry out operational tasks. Until a tive committee and editor of its press urgent matter which affects us all and as social evening followed. general meeting of the group is held, organ and other such matters will be veterans of American conflicts, it is On Sunday, February 7, a brunch the executive committee consists of defined in the group's constitution, incumbent on us to provide leadership meeting was held at a local restaurant. Mykhailo Horyn, Zinoviy Krasivsky which will be drafted by the executive ^in solving this problem." Commander Kobryn exchanged views and Vyacheslav Chornovil. committee for approval by the majo­ After introductions of the Ladies with Post 101 officers concerning a ^ 4. From now on, any individual rity of members at a general meeting Auxiliary Division of Post 101, visiting membership drive, the national UAV and group statements or other docu­ of the group. A general declaration dignitaries and representatives of U- Charter, local activities and the forth­ ments of the Ukrainian Helsinki of principles, which will take into krainian veterans' organizations, the coming national 41st Convention to be Group, if not approved by the execu­ account the new circumstances in emcee called on UAV life members to held in Philadelphia next June. tive committee and through it by the Ukraine and in the world, will be majority of the group's members, will adopted at the same time. We expect opposite of a dry, percussive pianist, her be regarded as invalid or as such that to hold a general meeting of the Pianist. hands literally flow over the keyboard. express only the views of their group before July 1, 1988. (Continued from page 10) Miss Chudio's recital rose easily authors. We ask the governments and citi­ ed). Her interpretation was both sensi­ above the ordinary and was something '^ 5. The External Representation zenry of states that signed the Hel­ tive and sensible, and the challenging very special. The program was filled of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group sinki Accords, as well as the Interna­ cadenza was successfully negotiated. with variety and interesting contrasts, (Mykola Rudenko, Leonid Pljrushch, tional Helsinki Federation, to sup­ The part of the orchestra was perform­ and for a 16-year old this was a demand­ l|ladia Svitlychna) represents the port our activities. ed by Ms. Klym on a second piano. The ing recital. A few missed notes did not |roup in the International Helsinki Prior to confirmation by the majo­ ensemble playing of soloist and accom­ detract seriously from the over-all federation and before the govern- rity of original and newly co-opted panist was highly rewarding and excellent impression. iients, parliaments and public or­ members of the Ukrainian Helsinki smoothly carried out. In her closing remarks, Miss Chudio's ganizations of signatory states of the Group, signed by: After considerable applause Miss teacher, Ms. Klym, explained that four I elsinki Accords. On all key issues, Mykhailo Horyn Chudio played an encore which consist­ things have to be present if one is to be I le External Representation coordi- Zinoviy Krasivsky ed of a "Toccatina" based on the successful at the keyboard, namely I ates its activities with the members Vyacheslav Chornovil Ukrainian folk song "A Violin Is talent, a good teacher, hard work and a I f the Helsinki Group in Ukraine Ukraine, Lviv, March 11, 1988. Playing in the Street" by the Ukrainian conducive atmosphere at home favor­ composer Vladimir Groudine (Hrudyn). ing musical development. No doubt, all Щ four are present in abundance in tlis? WHY STRUGGLE WITH THE NEW TAX LAW? 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Ukrainian people. What we see in the rianism. The United States continues to Pysanka... Soviet Union is a campaign to label this support the struggle of Ukrainian PREVIEW (Continued from page 1) commemoration a 'Russian Millen­ Orthodox, Catholic, Baptist, Pentecos­ (D-Ariz.) opened the Ukrainian pysanka nium.' It is ironic that a country that is tal and other believers to openly wor­ and icon exhibit during a press conference as anti-Christian as the Soviet Union, ship and to practice their faith without OF EVENTS constant fear of persecution." March 27 here on Monday afternoon, March 21. would want to take credit for one of the The senator, who introduced the great milestones of Christian history, Mrs. McConnell then invited all ELIZABETH, N.J.: The Elizabeth the present legislators and guests, branch of the Ukrainian National legislation in the Senate, was joined by yet sadly, our Western press has essen­ Rep. William O. Lipinski (D-IIL), tially accepted this line of reasoning, "he which included more than 100 members Women's League of America will hold ) of the Ukrainian American community, its annual Easter bazaar in St. | sponsor of the identical resolution said. (HJR 429) in the House of Representa­ As an example, he referred to a recent to stay for a reception and view the Vladimir's School hall,425 Grier Ave., 8 pysanka and icon exhibit in the Rotun­ a.m. to 3 p.m. Traditional Ukrainian I tives, which currently has more than 130 Washington Post article which reported sponsors and is still awaiting passage. on the "Russian Millennium," and da of the Russell Senate Office building. foods will be on sale, as well as pysanky j The display, which featured more than and other craft items. Both men expressed their pleasure in added that he and Sen. DeConcini had sent a letter to the editor of that 700 pysanky from the collection of April 1 joining the National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of newspaper criticizing the historical Boris Sawyn of Chicago, 200 from the TORONTO: Americans for Human! inaccuracies in revisionist articles. collection of Sofika Zielyk of New York Rights in Ukraine will hold a public ( Christianity in Ukraine in co-spon­ soring such a traditionally rich and "That is why it is critically important City and dozens from the collections of meeting, featuring Bozhena beautiful display of more than 1,000 that our resolution pass the Congress in Helen Badulak of Pennsylvania, Marta Olshaniwsky, AHRU president, pysanky and 36 reproductions of icons. this Millennium year. We need to Tyshynsky of New Jersey and The speaking on the unofficial human rights educate the public and our government икШпіап Museum, was scheduled to seminar in Moscow, the current "The Easter eggs are a sign of rebirth, a sign of life, which hold a deep symbol­ about the true significance of the close on Thursday, March 24. situation in Ukraine and AHRU's fund- Millennium," Rep. Lipinski added. During the reception, Ms. Zielyk raising efforts for the Commission on ic meaning for Ukrainians, particularly in this year of the Millennium of the He briefly cited a recently received showed senators and congressmen the the Ukraine Famine, at 7 p.m. in the art of pysanka-making; some of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral hall, Christianization of Kievan Rus'," said letter from the Soviet Union to the House Sen. DeConcini in his opening remarks. and Senate leadership criticizing the braver legislators tried their hand at the 404 Bathurst St. For information call craft before choosing one pysanka for (201)373-9729. "Ukrainians the world over are resolution. The letter also states that observing this joyous occasion, this there is religious freedom in Ukraine. their own collection. April 2-3 The icon exhibit, also on view in the NEW YORK: The Young Professionals significant event in their history, but at Rep. Lipinski concluded that "this is the same time are mindful of the reli­ evidence in my eyes that the charges Rotunda, was funded by the Chopivsky of the Ukrainian Institute of America gious freedoms denied Ukrainians and Family Foundation based in Washing­ will sponsor an open house of "Easter against the Soviets are true and well- other Christians in the Soviet Union," founded." ton. The exhibit, created and organized Traditions," a Millennium celebration he added. by filmmaker Slavko Nowytski, consis­ of Ukrainian Easter, featuring graphic Nadia Komarnycky-McConnell, the "If the Soviet government truly wants ted of photos of Ukrainian icons from displays, pysanka decorating and National Millennium Committee's to commemorate the Millennium of liaison for government relations, the 11th to 20th centuries. The Byzan­ screening of the film "Pysanka,"noon-6 Christianity, it can abide by commit­ tine icons "have played a profound role p.m. each day, at the UIA, 2 E. 79th St. thanked the senator and congressman ments made in Helsinki in 1975, to for their support of both the resolution in the creation of the deep spirituality of For more information call the UIA, respect religious rights and legalize the and the exhibit, and dedicated this the Ukrainian nation," said George (212) 288-8660. Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian pysanka and icon exhibit to the 50 Chopivsky, Jr., president of the foun­ ONGOING Orthodox Churches," he said. million Ukrainians who are prohibited dation. "This exhibit is one of the best \ BAYONNE, NJ.:Bayonne's Ukrainian ways to bring the history and beauty of "Like the Ukrainian Easter eggs, our from celebrating the Millennium of American Millennium Committee is Christianity in their homeland. icons to the greatest number of people sponsoring an exhibit of various government's position on religious throughout the United States," he artifacts from local churches, icons, freedom in Ukraine must stand for On behalf of these millions of perse­ added. The exhibit will tour the United \ books, embroidery and other fine folk renewal and rebirth," said Congress­ cuted believers and the Ukrainian States in 1988. crafts, at the town library, 31st Street man Lipinski of Chicago, adding that American community, she and Judge Throughout the two-hour reception, and Avenue C. The exhibit will runj "this is precisely why Sen. DeConcini Bohdan Futey, head of the committee's the following senators stopped by the through April 15. and I introduced legislation deploring organizational subcommittee, pre­ Caucus Room to pick up their LOS ANGELES: The Ukrainian Art| the Soviet government's active persecu­ sented the two legislators with goose egg Ukrainian Easter eggs: Thad Cochran Center Inc., will mark the community's 1 tion of religious believers in Ukraine. pysanky - and thanked them for their (R-Miss.), William Cohen (R-Maine), \ celebration of the Millennium with a J "Specifically, the bill brings to light support. She added that, on this, the Mr. DeConcini (D-Ariz.), Mark special "Easter Selection" exhibit of the forcible liquidation of the Ukrainian LOOOth anniversary of Christianity in Hatfield (R-Ore.), Gordon Humphrey pysanka and fine art through April 9, at Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic Ukraine, the pysanka is a symbol of (R-N.H.), Robert Kasten (R-Wis.), its faciUties, 4315 Melrose. The exhibit J Churches in the 1930s and 1940s," he hope for the rebirth of Christian wor­ Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.), Steven is the joint effort of two sisters: Tanya said. ship in Ukraine. Symms (R-ldaho), Malcolm Wallop Osadca of Cleveland, a master in the art 5 "Perhaps most important, our bill Dr. George Soltys closed the press (R-Wyo.), John Warner (R-Va.), of making pysanky, and fine artist and i sends specific greetings to the Ukrainian conference, introducing various mem­ Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.), Timothy sculptor Aka Pereyma of Troy, Ohio. I people as they mark this most solemn bers of the national committee inclu­ Wirth (D-Colo.) Exhibit and sale hours are Tuesday J and beautiful event in their history. This ding Yuriy Starosolsky, president; Among the representatives at the through Friday, 11a.m. to 3 p.m., and I is the reason we are all gathered here Ulana Diachuk, financial secretary; and reception were: Tom Bevill (D-Ala.), Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. J today. While the Millennium might Stephen Procyk and Evhen Stakhiv, William Broomfield (R-Mich.), Jack For information, call the center, (213) have significance to other ethnic members of the executive board. Davis (R-Ill.), Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), 668-0172. groups, it has special importance to the Adding that he was saving the "best Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Mr. for the last," Dr. Soltys read a letter Lipinski (D-Hl.), Joseph Skeen UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DEFENSE COMMITTEE from President Ronald Reagan, which, (R- N.M.), Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), in part, said': "The faith you cherish has Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Thomas Petri (R- and the withstood and outlived all the many Wis.) and Manuel Luhan (R-N.M.). SUPREME EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE persecutions and wars of the past. Legislatives aides also came to pick . of the Today, the faithful living under Soviet up pysanky for many senators and domination display the perseverance of congressmen who could not attend the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION their ancestors in the face of totalita- ress conference. call upon you to DONATE FUNDS for their work and actions: 1. To promote the Ukrainian Story 2. To counter rnaccuracies about Ukrainians 3. 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