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Report death of Volodymyr Horbovy: Supreme Assembly meeting ends KERHONKSON, N.Y. - On the Another forum where strategies to defended Bandera in 1935 final day of the weeklong deliberations, organize members can be developed, the Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian Mr. Hawrysz continued, are the secre­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Recent National Association approved an taries' organizing courses, scheduled for unconfirmed reports from Ukraine annual budget of 59,039,000 (based on Soyuzivka on June 17 through 22. assert that Volodymyr Horbovy, an anticipated income) with expenses Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk attorney who in 1935 defended Ste­ totalling 58,030,750, and designated added, a few notes about the financial fan Bandera and other Ukrainian 530,000 in donations to various Ukrai­ status of the UNA, stating that the UNA nationalists charged with the assassi­ nian community organizations. expects an income of 52,970,000 nation of a Polish government The conclave, which began on Mon­ from membership dues and 54,440,000 minister and who later spent 25 years day, June 4 and ran through Friday, interests on UNA investments. She in Soviet labor camps, has died at age June 8, was labeled a jubilee meeting noted that 52,226,000, will be paid out 85. because 1984 marks the UNA's 90th to UNA members whose policies have JThe June 17 issue of the Munich- anniversary. matured. About 5750,000 will be paid based emigre weekly, Schlach Pere– In their closing statements, the mem­ out as dividends to UNA members and mohy, carried a brief notice of Mr. bers of the Supreme Executive Commit­ 5688,000 will be supplemented as pay­ Horbovy's death, but gave no other tee echoed Supreme President John O. ments for Svoboda subscribers. She details.3 Flis' thoughts that the ideals of the also said that about a quarter of a It is believed that at the time of his UNA have not changed since the days of million dollars in expenditures has been death Mr. Horbovy was living in his its founding. designated toward scholarship funds, native city of Dolyna, some SO miles Supreme Organizer Stefan Hawrysz and other Ukrainian community dona­ west of Ivano-Frankivske. He re­ thanked the Supreme Assembly mem­ tions, including the newly-established turned there in 1974after completing bers for their organizing efforts, citing Ukrainian National Association Foun­ a 25-year term in Soviet labor camps Supreme Advisor, William Pastuszek dation, Inc. for his activities with the Organize' for his "organizing" 52 new members. Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan lion of Ukrainian Nationalists Volodymyr Horbovy Other supreme advisors who attended and Mr. Flis spoke about the fraternal (OUN). Internal Affairs, who was killed in the meeting at Soyuzivka with new and Ukrainian patriotic goals of this, Warsaw in June 1934. Natidrialists members' applications to the UNA in the largest fraternal organization in the The Pieracki affair accused Mr. Pieracki of being in­ hand were: John Odezynsky, Helen free world. Mr. Sochan stressed ihe volved in the brutal "pacification" of Olek Scott, Walter Hawrylak, Andrew need to interest the younger generations Mr. Horbovy was perhaps best Polish-occupied western Ukraine. Keybida and Supreme Vice Presiden– in the UNA. known for his defense of OUN mem­ It was Mr. Horbovy's task to tess Gloria Paschen, he said. bers during the celebrated "Warsaw defend Mr. Bandera and two other Mr. Hawrysz stated that this anniver­ Meeting decisions process" in which 12 Ukrainian men accused in the conspiracy, Yakiv sary year is an ideal time to organize nationalists, among them Mr. Ban­ Chorny and Evhen Kachmarsky. new members and expressed hope that The working sessions during the week dera, Mykola Lebed, Ya'roslav Kar– Other attorneys involved in the this would indeed happen, based on the were presided over by Supreme Presi­ pynets and Kateryna Zarytsky, were defense of the OUN members were success of the district committee chair­ dent Flis, Supreme Vice President charged with assassinating Bronislav Yaroslav Shlapak, Lev Hankevych men meeting held at Soyuzivka on June Myron B. Kuropas and Supreme Vice Pieracki, the Polish Minister of (Continued on page 3) 2 and 3. Presidentess Paschen. The decisions at the annual meeting were passed on the recommendations of the special com­ mittees listed in last week's Weekly. Rep: McKernan becomes 100th co-sponsor of famine bill As in the past, the Supreme Assembly this year concentrated its efforts on the Rights in Ukraine, a national' human- AHRU reported that Rep. Lawrence organizing department of the UNA, rights group based in Newark that has Smith of Florida, who serves on both specifying that 4,000 members should lobbied extensively for passage of the subcommittees where the bill has been be insured for the sum of 511 million bill, the total number of sponsors now referred, has appealed to his Florida during this next year. Among resolu– stands at 101 counting the bill's original colleagues in the House - including (Continued on page 5) sponsor, Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.). Reps. Dante Fascell (D-Fla.), chairman Other recent co-sponsors of the bill, of the House Foreign Affairs Commit­ known as HR 4459 in the House and S tee. Dan Mica, chairman of the Sub­ INSIDE: 2456 in the Senate, are Reps. Major committee on International Opera- Owens (D-N.Y.), Gary Ackerman (D– lions, and Claude Pepper, chairman of N.Y.). Bill Green (R-N.Y.), John the Rules Committee - to become co- Murtha (D-Pa.), Thomas Foglietta(D- sponsors of the famine bill. Pa.) and William Carney (R-N.Y.). A similar appeal, AHRU said, is Over on the Senate side, a total of 16 being initiated by Rep. Peter K,ost– senators have become co-sponsors of S mayer (D-Pa.) to his colleagues from his 2456, the most recent being Sens. Jeff home state. Bingaman (D-N.M.), Alan Dixon (D– AHRU also reported that two com­ III.) and John Warner (R-Va.). mittee chairmen who are co-sponsors of If passed, the famine measure would the bill. Rep. James Howard (D-N.J.) Rep. John McKernan create a congressional commission to of the Public Works and Transporta­ look into circumstances surrounding tion Committee, and Peter Rodino (D– WASHINGTON - The Ukrainian the Great Famine, which was planned N.J.) of the Judiciary Committee, arc Famine Bill, which would establish a by the Kremlin and resulted in the asking the subcommittee chairmen to commission to investigate the 1932-33 deaths of some 7 to 10 million Ukrai­ report the bill to the full Foreign Affairs Great Famine in Ukraine, reached a nians in a little over one year. Committee for consideration. milestone recently when Rep. John Last week AHRU representatives McKernan (R-Maine) became the 100th Other developments Ihor Olshaniwsky, Daniel Marchishin, ш St. George's at the hub of New York's co-sponsor of the measure in the House. and Walter Bodnar spent several days on changing Little Ukraine - centerfold. According to. Americans for Human In other actions relating to the bill, (Continued on page 3) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 No. 25 Poles report arrest of Bogdan Lis, Has the computer revolution leader of Solidarity underground bypassed the Soviet Union? WARSAW - Bogdan Lis, the se­ has suffered serious blows in the past cond-ranking official of the under­ and in each case they were able to ground Solidarity free trade union, has replace key people with others. 1 think been captured and arrested, the Polish this will happen again." television announced on June 10. Mr. Lis's arrest came amid growing According to The New York Times, speculation that the government is news of the arrest came in a terse planning to announce a major amnesty announcement that gave neither the next month for the approximately 600 time, place, nor circumstances of the 31- political prisoners and detainees who year-old Mr. Lis's arrest. The govern­ are now thought to be confined. ment broadcast declared that the The rumored amnesty has been des­ "Gdansk security service" had arrest­ cribed by a Solidarity spokesman in ed Mr. Lis. Brussels last Friday as a key step in what A former shipyard mechanic, he has he claimed was the government's policy been hiding since martial law was of "normalization." According to the imposed in December 1981. spokesman, Jurck Milewski who heads The newscaster described Mr. Lis as a Solidarity office in Brussels, these one of the members of the "so-called policies are intended as window dress­ Temporary Coordinating Commission ing for foreigners. (TKK)," a clandestine council com­ Mr. Lis is generally considered to posed of those former Solidarity leaders have been second in command in the who, unlike founder Lech Walesa, have underground organization, rankingjust assumed responsibility for underground behind Zbigniew Bujak, the chairman activities in defiance of orders banning of the Warsaw region of the TKK, who the union. remains at liberty. Mr. Walesa, who has remained Mr. Lis, who had been in hiding since publicly detached from the under­ the declaration of martial law, was born ground faction but retains his symbolic in Gdansk in 1952. After completing role as former head of the burgeoning mechanics school he began working as a and now suppressed free union move­ crane operator at the shipyards. In 1974 ment, could not be reached by phone at he joined the Young Communist League his home in Gdansk on June 9, the and served as the vice president of its Soviet computer operators as pictured in the journal Otchyzna Times said. Earlier, however, he re­ local chapter. A year later, he joined portedly told the Associated Press that Poland's Communist Party. JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The The USSR, in fact, was swept by Mr. Lis's capture was "a great loss In 1978, the Times reported, he be­ worldwide computer revolution that what he calls "computer fever." because he was a good activist." came friendly with Andrzej Gwiazda, has seen the proliferation of small Theoretical analyses of the full He had worked closely with Mr. Lis one of the early union activists who at business computers and personal utilization of cybernetics appeared in in the days when both men organized one time was a rival to Mr. Walesa for computers has placed the Soviet popular magazines and books. Uni–' independent unions at the Gdansk the leadership of Solidarity. Union in a quandary. versities established courses on infor­ shipyards. By 1980, he was organizing unions in According to a recent article in mation theory. And schools were Meanwhile, Janusz Onyszkiewicz. the Elmor factory where he worked The, Economist, the Soviets are still created to teach children from an the former spokesman for Solidarity, and soon thereafter rose in the ranks of asking themselves whether to accept early age about cybernetics. repeated in a phone interview on June the Solidarity activists, participating in such small computers, which they see The early computers were large 10 that the seizure of Mr. Lis was indeed negotiations with the government that as a threat to a highly centralized ones, and these were attractive to the "a great loss." But he added: "The resulted in the 21-point agreement on system that strictly controls access to Soviets because they, by necessity, Temporary Coordinating Commission union activities, the Times said. information and information media. were institutionally controlled and As seen by Loren Graham, a used for centralized functions. professor of the history of science at However, since the advent of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ microcomputers, the most efficient U.S. protests assault on diplomat nology, writing in the national week­ use of such technology is in decentra­ WASHINGTON - The State De­ Ronald Harms, a U.S. consul in Lenin­ ly edition of The Washington Post, lized systems in which microcom­ partment has filed a formal protest with grad, reported The New York Times. the crucial questions are: "Will the puters can be used either alone or in the Soviet Union about an assault on an John Hughes, the State Department Soviet Union find a way to use connection with a larger system. American diplomat in Leningrad by spokesman, said Mr. Harms was computers without losing control Such utilization requires that the several young men in April, officials of punched by a group of unidentified over them? And if they do manage to Soviet citizens who use this techno­ the department said on May 30. assailants after leaving a restaurant in control this new technology, what logy have access to enormous The officials said a "strong protest" downtown Leningrad. will be the effects of the controls on amounts of reliable data necessary was lodged in both Washington and The State Department said it docs their own ability to compete with the for their work. But, can these citizens Moscow over the April 17 attack on not know why Mr. Harms was assault­ West?" communicate with each other via ed, but one official remarked: "You microcomputers without undermin­ have to assume when a diplomat is Computer fever ing the security of the Soviet state? roughed up there's some official con­ Soviets scoff at nection. It's otherwise such an orderly Of course, the Soviets understand New samizdat? society." the significance of computers, and Sakharov protests Last year a vice consul in Leningrad they have acknowledged their impor­ And. since every microcomputer was expelled from the Soviet Union tance for 25 years, says Prof. Graham. (Continued on page 12) WASHINGTON - A Soviet Em­ after being charged with spying. bassy aide said here on June 12 that protests over the plight of Andrei Sakharov, the physicist and rights activist, were intended to create an Soviet citizens must artificial crisis and would not help him. reported Reuters. register foreign guests The embassy aide, Sergei Rogov, Ukrainian WeelclY who said he specializes in political and MOSCOW - Soviet citizens who FOUNDED 1933 military affairs, said at a news confe­ have foreigners as house guests face rence that charges of mistreatment were fines of up to S60 if they fail to have Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal also aimed at destroying relations them properly registered with the non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. 07302. between Soviet and U.S. scientists. police, according to a new law. report­ (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) Mr. Rogov. speaking after a confe­ ed Reuters on June 13. The fine can go Also published by the UNA: Svoboda. a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. rence of the World Future Society, an up to SI20 for officials with house organization of scholars, scientists and guests. the Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: businessmen concerned with social and Foreigners visiting the Soviet Union (201) 434-0237. 434-0807. 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 technological advances, said no one in have always been required to register on the West had any facts on which to base arrival, and in the case of those staying Yearly subscription rate: 58, UNA members - J5. the protest about Dr. Sakharov. in hotels, it was the hotel that was Dr. Sakharov was reported to have responsible for police registration. Postmaster, send address changes to: started a hunger strike on May 2 in The new decree, which takes effect THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Hadzewycz July 1. fills a grey area by making P0 Bo. 346 Associate editor George Bohdan Zarycky support of efforts by his wife, Yelena Jersey City N J 07303 Assistant editor Mirti Kolomayats Bonner, to go abroad for medical private hosts repsonsible for their treatment. guests. ' No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 3 Dr. Magocsi promoted to full professor Voice of America editorial TORONTO - The University of Toronto has announced the recent on the death of Oleksiy Tykhy promotion of Dr. Paul'R. Magocsi to the rank of full professor. Dr. Magocsi The following Voice of America rights abuses, and they tirelessly came lo Toronto in 1980 to hold the first editorial was broadcast on Sunday, called for the Soviet rulers to live up Chair of Ukrainian Studies in Canada, May 27. It reflects the official U.S. to the human-rights commitments established with funds from the federal position on the death of Ukrainian they bad made. One such monitor­ government of Canada and the Ukrai­ political prisoner Oleksiy Tykhy, a ing group was in Ukraine. Oleksiy nian community. co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Tykhy was one of its founders. The chairholder is cross-appointed in Group who died, after stomach sur­ But while the Kremlin did not ihe departments of political science and gery on May 6. VOA editorials are choose to respect the Helsinki Ac­ history. broadcast around the world in 42 cords, neither did it want that fact Academic promotions are made on languages, 't publicized to the world. Before long. the basis of scholarly publications, the KGB turned its attention to the leaching and other university contribu­ Last week, the West received Helsinki monitoring groups them­ tions, "and the rank of full professor is reports of the death in a Soviet labor selves. One. by one, their members usually attained after a decade of camp of Oleksiy Tykhy, a Ukrainian were arrested, tried, sent to prisons, service. Dr. Magocsi's rapid promotion human-rights activist. He was simply labor camps, psychiatric hospitals. is based on a solid record of publica­ , one individual among many who In February 1977, less than three tions and teaching, the university said in have suffered in the struggle for months after the Ukrainian Helsinki its release. human rights in the Soviet Union. Monitoring Group was founded, Mr. Since coming to Toronto, Dr. Ma­ But the dignity of individuals is what Tykhy, along with Mykola Rudenko. gocsi has published three books, includ­ human rights are all about. That's the chairman of the group, was ing "Galicia: A Historical and Biblio­ why we can think of no better me­ arrested in Kiev. And four months graphic Guide" published last year. The morial to Mr. Tykhy than to tell his later, in a closed trial, they were dean's promotion committee was espe­ story to the world. sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment cially interested by Dr. Magocsi's In. 1975, the Soviet government in a labor camp and five years' newest manuscript, an extensive univer­ Dr. Palil Magocsi signed the Helsinki Final Act - internal exile. - sity' textbook history of Ukraine from solemnly pledging to respect its Mr. Tykhy's sentence was sche­ earliest times to the present. tures by noted scholars and has acquired people's human rights. Whether duled to end in 1992. But, severely Under Dr. Magocsi's direction, the through supplemental community fund– Moscow ever intended to keep its malnourished, suffering long-un­ chair has also sponsored several lec– (Continued oil page 14) word is doubtful That it did not keep treated stomach ulcers, he did not its word is fact. As it had done before survive so long. He died following an signing the Helsinki agreements - as operation that was reported to have UNWLA members visit congressman it does until this very day — the occurred on May 6. He was 57 years Soviet Union continued to imprison old. dissidents, restrict emigration, perse­ This is the story of one man who cute religious believers, repress na­ championed the cause of human tionality groups and deny the free rights in the Soviet Union. Despite flow of information. his death, however, Oleksiy Tykhy's ^^BKE^–"" '-- wm.fat "шшШ But, though the Kremlin ignored story is not finished. Even as we the Helsinki Final Act, others did speak, there are others throughout Wm– JL ЧІИ '-^Я not. In the years following its sign­ Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet ing, people throughout the Soviet Union who are working, as he did, to BRPv N. і^Щ^Ікі^Ь^Н Кч?Л^Б Union formed Helsinki monitoring win respect for human rights. They mm 1 groups which carefully detailed the have not forgotten the Soviet govern­ human rights situation in their home­ ment's pledges at Helsinki. Neither ^ІЯ land. They recorded specific human have we. ш J Щ '"їґіШШщ HV Buy seminary in Ottawa Members of Branch 35 of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America in New York present Ukrainian Easter eggs to Rep. Joseph OTTAWA - Bishop Isidore Bo– in the vicinity of property purchased by Addabbo (D-N.Y.). Shown (from left) are: Zinaida Lewycky, branch recky, in the name of Metropolitan the Ukrainian Catholic parish in Ottawa treasurer; Valentyna Tretiak, president; Olga Alvino and Pauline Babski. Maxim Hermaniuk and all the Ukrai­ for the purpose of building a new The presentation was made in recognition of the congressman's support for nian Catholic bishops in Canada, church. Ukrainian causes during his many years in the House. UNWLA Branch 35 recently signed a SI million contract The total cost for the Ukrainian held its last meeting before the summer recess on June 3. purchasing a new seminary for the Catholic Church in Canada is Ukrainian Catholic Church. SI,275,000, payable in three install­ the German invasion oi the Soviet The seminary, formerly owned by the ments. The first, paid out by the Ukrai­ Report death... Union. Mr. Horbovy was named by Augustinian Fathers in Ottawa, was nian Catholic Episcopal Foundation on (Continued from page 1) Mr. Bandera to head the Ukrainian built in 1960-61. It is located on six acres Friday, April 6, was for the sum of and Olcksander Pavensky. National Committee in Cracow, of land, includes a chapel, dining room, 575,000. Another installment of The entire process lasted from Poland, which was aimed at uniting a sports stadium, tennis courts and S600.000 is due on June 29, and the final November 1935 to January 13, 1936. tlie majority warring Ukrainian space for a parking lot. The building can payment of S600.000 is payable on In the end. Mr. Bandera, as well as political groups in anticipation of a house 25 seminarians. The grounds are October 30. Messrs. Lebed and Karpynets. were German-Soviet war. The committee, sentenced to death. Mykola Klymy– however, could not attain full con­ firm by the Office of the Clerk and also shyn and Bohdan Pidhany got life solidation, and the outbreak of war Rep. McKernan... by Rep. Howard. sentences. Daria Hnatkiwsky was led to its ultimate dissolution. (Continued from page I) In his letter to AHRU. Rep. Howard sentenced to a 15-year term and Ivan From 1940 to 1944. Mr. Horbovy Capitol Hill discussing details pertain­ pointed to the request for executive Maliutsa, Roman Myhal and Mr. served as a judge on the Cracow ing to the hearings and endeavored to comments and added. "I do hope that Kachmarsky each got I2-ycar sen­ Appellate Conn. secure a firm commitment for a sche­ the comments received on HR 4459 are tences. Ms. Zarylsky was given an After the end of hostilities in 1945. duled date. A leading spokesman for the more favorable than those received on eight-year term, while Yaroslav Rak Mr. Horbovy continued his nationa­ Subcommittee on International Opera­ other human-rights issues in the recent and Mr. Chorny each drew seven list activities. On August 1, 1948, he tions has indicated that the hearings on past." years. was arrested in Warsaw, and follow­ the bill will probably take place in July A similar view was expressed by Mr. The death sentences of Messrs. ing a yearlong investigation, he was of this year, although a definite date has Olshaniwsky in a recent Weekly inter­ Bandera, Lebed and Karpynets were turned over to the Soviets despite his not yet been determined. view in which he said "the State De­ later communted to life imprison­ claim that he was a Czech citizen. The Senate Foreign Relations Com­ partment often voices objections when ment. All three men, as well as the On July 16, 1949. he was sentenced mittee has indicated that it loo plans to congressional initiatives arise pertain­ other defendants, were freed with the without a trial to 25 years in a labor hold hearings on companion bill S 2456 ing to Soviet intransigence, Ukrainian German-Soviet invasion of Poland camp. After completing his full sometime in July, according to AHRU. issues, or violations of human rights." in 1939. sentence, Mr. Horbovy returned to A high ranking official of the Sub­ AHRU has urged Ukrainian Ameri­ ,' - his home in Dolyna. which was committee on Europe and the Middle cans to get involved in this important War years occupied by his nephew. Two years East informed AHRU representatives issue by writing, telephoning, sending later, in 1976, Mr. Horbovy was in Washington that an executive com­ telegrams, and making personal visits to During World War II. Mr. Hor– forced to rent quarters after his ment had been requested from the State the local or Washington offices of their bovy remained active in nationalist nephew threatened him with death Department on May 31, and is to be representatives and senators asking circles. In June 1941, shortly before and drove him from his own home. submitted to the Foreign Affairs Com­ them to co-sponsor the Ukrainian mittee by July 15. This was later con' Famine Bill and support its passage. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 No. 25 UAVets tour Washington Obituaries Community activist Augustina, Choma, veteran of liberation struggle

M APLEWOOD. N.J. - Well-known community activist Augustina Choma. ? participant in the historic Ukrainian liberation struggle in 1917-21. died here on June 6. She was 88. Born in Ternopil. Ms. Choma was 21 years old when the Russian Revolution broke out and with it a new chapter in the historic battle for Ukrainian in­ dependence. In addition to participating in the struggle. Ms. Choma was also active in a host of Ukrainian organizations, including Ridna Shkola, the Prosvita literary organization, the Ukrainian UAVets in Washington included (from left) National Commander Edward Zetick, National Women's League and the Maj. Leonid Kondratiuk and Post Commander Dmytro Bykovetz. Besida Club. She was also a representa­ tive for social services in the municipal WASHINGTON - Members of the tation occurred on June 2, just five days government of Ternopil. Philadelphia Ukrainian American after the Vietnam War unknown soldier In the United States. Ms. Choma was Veterans Post No. 4 recently sponsored was interred. also involved in a variety of community a bus trip lo Washington where they While at Arlington National Ceme­ organizations and associations, belong­ took in the sights of the nation's capital tery, the War veterans also visited the ing to the executive of Plast Priat, the and presented a wreath at the Tomb of gravesite of President John F. Kennedy. Association of Former Ukrainian the Unknown Soldier from the Vietnam The tour also included a visit to the Soldiets of America, Self Reliance, the War. Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, the Na­ Chronomorska Sich Ukrainian Sports Members of the post, their families, tional Air and Space Museum on the Club, Branch 28 of the UNWLA and Augustina Choma friends and members of other UAV mall and a final stop at the Shevchenko the World Federation of Ukrainian Margaret, Adrian and Mark. The posts, took part in wreath-laying cere­ Monument, which this year celebrates Women's Organization (SFUZhO). panakhyda was scheduled for June 8 at mony led by National Commander the 20th anniversary of its unveiling. She also assisted the Sister Servants of the Lytwyn^ Funeral Home in Union. Edward A. Zetick.and Post Comman­ Some of the veterans recalled that they Mary Immaculate. N.J., with funeral services taking place der Dmytro Bykovetz. were in attendance and were color Ms. Choma is survived by a daughter. on June 9 at St. John the Baptist UAV Post No. 4 was distinguished as guard participants when the former Luba, with her husband Andrij. and a Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark. being among the first veterans'organi­ President Dwight D. Eisenhower at­ son. lhor, and his wife Nadia and three Interment was at St. Andrew's Ceme­ zation to honor the Vietnam War tended the dedication ceremony in grandchildren, Andrij, with his wife tery in South Bound Brook, N.J. unknown soldier as the wreath presen­ 1964. Msgr. Russell Danylchuck; 61, Taking entries for Antonovych prizes . WASHINGTON — ThcOmelanand tion. vicar general of new eparchy Tatiana Antonovych Foundation re­ The Antonovych Prize in Ukrainian cently announced that the foundation's Studies will be awarded to an outstand­ C A R N EG 1E, Pa. - The Re v. Russell fourth annual prize in literature and ing work in any language on a topic in Danylchuck. long-time pastor of Holy third annual prize in Ukrainian Studies Ukrainian studies, namely, in history, Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church here will be awarded for 1984. history of literature, linguistics, art and the vicar general,of the recently The Antonovych Prize in Ukrainian history, or literary criticism. created St. Josaphat Eparchy, died on Literature will be given to an outstand­ Unpublished manuscriptsand posthu­ June 2 following a prolonged illness. He ing work of belles Ictlres written in mous works cannot be considered. was 61. Ukrainian, irrespective of the author's Each Antonovych Prize consists of a The popular pastor died exactly 37 place of residence or professional citation justifying the award and the years to the day of his ordination to the activity. The following criteria will be sum of S5.000. In order to be consi­ priesthood. used in awarding the prize: high artistic dered, submissions must reach the Although he was plagued bya number merit of content and originality of Award Committee by October 15. of serious illnesses during the past few artistic form. Novels, stories, collec­ Awards will be announced in Decem­ years, the Rev. Danylchuck continued tions of short stories, poems, and ber. his pastoral and eparchial duties. Just collections of poems, whether published Submissions should be addressed to: two weeks before his death, he took part in separate editions or in almanacs or' The Antonovych Foundation. P.O. in a three-day meeting of the Eastern journals, are all eligible for considera– Box 40818. Washington. D.C. 20016. Catholic diocesan directors held in Boston. Priestly requiem services led by Magocsi lectures on Mennonites Bishop Moskal of the St. Josaphat Eparchy were held on June 3-5 at Holy TORONTO Dr. Paul R. Magocsi centage were eliminated as kulak "ene­ Trinity Church. On June 6. the day of represented the University of Toronto's mies" of the Soviet state. interment, a divine liturgy was conce!c– Chair of Ukrainian Studies at a confe­ Despite their close association with brated by Bishops Moskal and Basil Msgr. Russell Danylchuck rence on Mennonites in the Russian Ukraine, the steady flow of Mennonite Losten of Stamford. Other major con- Empire held on May 9-Ю at the Con­ publications in North America refer celebrants were Msgr. Peter Fedor– born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Decem­ rad Grebel College, a Mennonite insti­ only to their homeland as Russia or chuk. Msgr. Walter Paska and Msgr. ber 9. 1922, to Semeon and Helen tution affiliated with the University of South Russia. Peter Skrincosky. all class mates of the (Kumko) Danylchuck. His father was a Waterloo. Dr. Magocsi suggested to his Menno­ deceased. graduate cantor and served as choir The earliest Mennonite colonies in nite colleagues that much of Mennonite Homilies at the service were delivered director and cantor in several parishes the Russian Empire were actually history in the former Russian Empire by Bishop Moskal and the Rev. Ronald in the area. His family eventually settled established in the heart of southern properly belongs within the realm of Popivchak, the editor of The Way, a in Frackville, Pa., where his father Ukraine (at the old Zaporozhian center Ukrainian history. He also argued that Ukrainian Catholic newspaper, and a served as choir director and cantor for of Khortytsia and at nearby Molochna) Mennonite scholars should take more native of Carnegie. A farewell from the 35 years. in the late 18th century. Though often account of the Ukrainian context in family as read by a niece, Denise The young man received his primary considered part of the settlement of which their ancestors lived and that in Daniels, a novice ol the Sisters of St. and secondary education in the public Germans in the Ukrainian steppe, the future writings they should use terms Basil the Great at Fox Chase, Pa. schools of Frackville, before going on to Mennonites. because of their Anabap­ like Ukrainian Mennonites or Menno­ Msgr. Danylchuck is survived by two the seminary. After finishing St. Basil's tist religious tradition, lived apart from nites from the Russian Empire instead brothers. Walter and Dennis Daniels, with a B.A. in 1944,' he went on to- the German colonies. The Mennonites of Russian Mennonites. their respective wives, three nieces and complete his studies at Catholic Uni­ were known for farming skills and The Conference on Mennonites in the two nephews. versity in Washington..The Rev. Danyl­ flourished during the nineteenth cen­ Russian Empire included specialists Burial was at Holy Trinity Acres in chuck was ordained to the priesthood tury. However, the groups suffered from several countries. Also in atten­ Carnegie. by the late Metropolitan Constantine greatly during the post-revolutionary dance was the holder of the Chair of Bohachevsky on June 2, 1947. anarchy of 1919 and especially during .Mennonite Studies at the University of Early life Before taking up pastoral duties in the collectivization and the famine years Winnipeg, Dr. Harry Loewan. a native Carnegie in 1951, he served in Jersey of 1929-1933, when a very high per­ of the southern Ukraine. Russell Stephen Danylchuck was City and Philadelphia. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 5

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UNA district committees meet Supreme Assembly... Fraternal Activities department Due to the fact that the fraternal The meeting was called to order by (Continued from page 1) activities coordinator. Marta Korduba Albany Dr. Snihurowych. who greeted UNA tions passed were the following: recently resigned and that the depart­ Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk and " to hire, on a full time basis, field ment needs an expanded job descrip­ TROY, N.Y. - The UNA> Albany Prof. John Teluk, honorary district organizers in the United States and tion, the Supreme Assembly, on the District Committee met here at St. chairman, among the participants. Canada, as well as organizers in the proposal of the fraternal activities Mary the Protectress Church hall on The proceedings were then turned districts; committee, appointed Supreme Vice March 31 for– its annual elections over to a presidium which included " to hold an organizing meeting in President Kuropas to develop a job - meeting. The district encompasses Yakiv Nesteruk, chairman; and Taras the autumn months for all districts in description and present it at the next UNA branches in Troy, Amsterdam. Slewinsky, secretary. the United States and Canada; meeting. Hudson. Watervliet, Kerhonkson. Co- Reports were delivered by the out­ a to begin a campaign to ensure that hoes and Pittsfield. going officers: Dr. Snihurowych, chair­ all districts jubilantly celebrate the 90th man; Mr. Slewinsky, secretary; and anniversary of the UNA. This campaign Also during the conclave, the Su­ The'meeting was called to order by preme Assembly extended the following the district chairman, Mykhailo Sawkiw. Wasyl Dobczansky, treasurer. The should also have as its goal to organize auditors', report was given by Walter new members. Also, in the fall, the greetings to the Ukrainian nation, the A presidium, consisting of Yaroslaw governments of the United States and Kusnir, chairman, and Ivan Ourbak. Vasylenko. districts should plan meetings in their Elections were then held. The follow­ Canada and the hierarchs of Ukrainian secretary, was elected to conduct the communities. Members of the Supreme Churches. meeting. ing are the district's officers for 1984: Assembly and honorary members of the Prof. Teluk, honorary chairman; Dr. UNA should be present at these meet­ Reports on the district's activities for Resolutions the past year were given by Mr. Sawkiw; Snihurowych, chairman; Mr. Nesteruk, ings; vice chairman; Mr. Slewinsky, secre­ e to visit all.schools of Ukrainian Walter Warshona; treasurer; and Pavlo Among the resolutions, the Supreme Shcwchuk of the auditing committee, tary; tyir. Dobczansky, treasurer; Ste­ studies and Ukrainian parochial schools pan Tarasiuk, Irena Oliynyk, Dmytro during the fall organizing campaign Assembly confirmed that the ideals and who proposed that a vote of confidence duties of the UNA remain the same as be given the outgoing officers. Stec, Osyp Hladun and Wasyl Ro– and to present the films "The Helm of manyshyn. members. Destiny" and "UNA Insurance Plus." they were 90 years ago when the organi­ A slate of officers was then proposed zation was founded, and commended and elected. The new board includes: The auditing committee consists of During these visits, to distribute litera­ Mr. Vasylenko, Hryhory Gina and ture about the UNA, UNA bookcovers the work of the Supreme Executive Mr. Shewcuk, chairman; Stephanie Committee, which it said, carried out its Hawryluk, vice chairman; Mr. Durbak Stepan Mychajlyshyn. and pencils. Members of the Supreme Afterwards Mrs. Diachuk addressed Assembly should take part in these duties during the Great Famine Mani­ and Russell Kolodiy, secretaries; Mr. festation in Washington in October and Warshona, treasurer; Yevheq Nabo– the 30 meeting participants. A discus­ visits; sion ensued. " to hold a secretaries organizing throughout the entire famine comme­ lotny, organizing director; and: Roman morative year. Harasymiak, member. course at Soyuzivka for districts in both The auditors are: Mr. Sawkiw (chair­ the United States and Canada; The Supreme Assembly harshly con­ man), Stepan Yedyniak and! Walter Newark e to continue advanced organizing demned the Soviet ban on sending JCoshykar. courses at the UNA headquarters in goods to Ukrainians in the Soviet At the conclusion of the meeting, NEWARK. N.J. - The Newark Jersey City; Union. participants were addressed by UNA UNA District Committee, which en­ " to run campaigns to organize new Supreme Advisor Walter Kvvas. who compasses 20 branches, held its annual UNA branches where needed; Appeal spoke on a variety of UNA topics. elections meeting here on Sunday, " to continue running radio ads for March 18. with the participation of the the UNA in the United States and The Supreme Assembly also called presidents and secretaries of nearly all Canada; upon all its members and Ukrainian Toronto the branches. " to continue, on a monthly basis, community members to take part in the Also present at the meeting were: the Tribune of the UNA page in Svo– united manifestation against Russifica– UNA Supreme Secretary Walter So– boda and a UNA page in the Weekly; lion, scheduled for September 16 in TORONTO - The Holy Eucharist chan. who represented the Supreme " to continue collecting addresses of Washington as part of the 20th anniver­ Church hall was the site of the annual Executive Committee; Supreme Ad­ prospective UNA members with the sary celebrations of the unveiling of the elections meeting of the Toronto UNA visor Andrew Keybida. Supreme Audi­ help of branch secretaries, to send UNA Shevchenko Monument. District Committee held Sunday, March tors Nestor Olesnycky and John information-literature to prospective II. Hewryk; and Alice Orlan, field or­ members; After the last items on the agenda. The meeting was called to order by ganizer. " to publish special jubilee year Dr. Flis noted that he considers this the district chairman, Wasyl Sharan, The meeting was called to order and informative material on the UNA; year's meeting one of the most construc­ who greeted the many meeting;partici– conducted by Julian Baraniuk, district " to award all persons during this tive. He asked God that the meeting pants. The meejing was then conducted chairman. Reports were delivered by jubilee year, with honorary plaques who result in the further aid and hope in the by Supreme Advisor Wasyl Didiuk. the outgoing officers, Mr. Baraniuk. have served as branch secretaries for 25 future for the UNA and the Ukrainian Mr. Sharan then delivered his report Volodymyr Boyarsky," treasurer: and years or more. community. on the district's activity. The treasurer's Roman Lapychak, secretary. report was given by Leonid; Fil on Vasyl Hnatiw delivered the auditing The matter of the UNA-UFA merger On this note, the president closed the behalf of Yakiv Buriy, who was; unable committee's report, which recommend­ meeting and the Rev. Stephan Bilak led to attend the meeting. ed that a vote of confidence be given the the Supreme Assembly in a closing A vote of confidence was unanimous­ outgoing board of officers. The merger of the Ukrainian Na­ prayer, followed by the singing of the ly approved for the outgoing board as Meeting participants then heard the tional Association with the Ukrainian Ukrainian anthem. recommended by the district's auditors. report of the nominations committee Fraternal Association was also a topic A slate of officers for 1984 was then of careful consideration during the The weeklong conclave was tape- and elected the following officers: Mr. recorded. Maria Sawchak, a secretary proposed by the nominations commit­ Baraniuk, chairman; Yaroslav Lesiw, weeklong meeting. The first steps for tee and elected. The new officers are: the merger were voted upon during the for the organizing department, on the vice chairman; Oleksander Liskevych. proposal of Supreme Secretary Walter Mr. Sharan, chairman; the Rev.Myron secretary; Mr. Boyarsky, treasurer; and last conventions of both associations Stasiw, vice chairman; Ivan Shlapak. respectively. Further developments in Sochan is responsible for the minutes of Olha Oseredchuk, events chairperson. the meeting. secretary; Gabriel Myskiw, treasurer: The auditing committee members this matter, which have taken place over Dmytro Popadynec, organizing direc­ are: Volodymy Senezak, Michael the last year, were discussed by Dr. Flis. On the occasion of this annual meet­ tor. Ciapka, Mr. Hnatiw, Julia Demchuk, After discussion and debate, the mem­ ing, the Supreme Assembly had a festive The auditing committee is composed Volodymyr Shpyrka and Myroslav bers of the Supreme Assembly, agreeing dinner and program on Thursday even­ of Stepan Vovk, Mykhailo Hrytsyshyn Deresh. that the merger of the two associations ing, June 7. The master of ceremonies and Leonid Fil. An address was then given by the would be in the best interests of both was honorary UNA Supreme Assembly At the conclusion of the elections. UNA supreme secretary, who touched organizations and their members, voted member Stephan Kuropas. All mem­ Supreme President John O. Flis was on a variety of UNA concerns. to continue their negotiations with the bers of the Supreme Assembly and invited to address meeting participants. UFA and to prepare a contract which honorary members of the UNA received A discussion on a variety of topics would allow the merger to become plaques commemorating the UNA's followed his remarks. reality at the UNA convention in 1986. 90th anniversary. Dr. Bohdan Hnatiuk Passaic a supreme auditor who celebrated his Senior citizens' home birthday on that day was honored by New Haven PASSAIC, N.J. - The annual elec– the Supreme Assembly members rendi­ is meeting of the Passaic UNA On the proposal of the committee on tion of Mnohaya Lita. STAMFORD, Conn. - The New District Committee was convened here senior citizens' housing, the Supreme Haven UNA District Committee held at the Ukrainian Center on Saturday, Assembly decided to give the UNA The program closed with an enter­ its annual elections meeting here at St. March 10. Executive Committee the go-ahead to taining comedy act, "We Shall Over­ Volodymyr Ukrainian Catholic Churcn In addition to branch representa­ buy land owned by the Shevchenko take," performed by the female UNA hall on Sunday, March 18, and re- tives, the meeting wasattended by UNA Scieniuic society, which is adjacent to Supreme Assembly members, who implied that they would take over the elected Dr. Michael Snihurowych dis­ Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk, Soyuzivka, and to begin preparing the : trict chairman. (Continued on page 14) ^ land to build housing. - - UNA. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 „ No. 25

Effective Media Relations Ukrainian Weekly by Andrij Bilyk

On Father's Day Russification is like anti-Semitism such a way that it begins to understand (Both are horrible crimes) that it has been unintentionally misre­ Today, the third Sunday in June, marks the 73rd anniversary of presenting the Soviet Union, particular­ dad's red-letter day^in this country - Father's Day - and as we Together, we can accomplish much. ly Ukraine, to the American public. celebrate this special occasion, so too do the merchants of ties, shirts, We proved it last October, when one- Once this understanding had been distilled spirits and men's toiletries. It's a banner day for them too. third of the daily newspapers in the U.S. absorbed then you'll see that the media But despite the noble intentions of the holiday's founders, the day to told the story of the "Forgotten Holo­ will begin reporting on Ukraine with the honor the patriarchs of America's families has not quite caught on caust." Our challenge is to mold the respect our nation deserves (and not as a "region" to be interchanged with the with the same unabashed fervor as the day to honor their responsible story of cthnocidc through Russifica­ tion much the same way Jewish Ameri­ word Russia). partners in parenthood. Mother's Day has, over the years, stolen some Every day there is at least one example, of the limelight, what with history's greatest poets composing odes and cans have molded the story of anti- Semitism. Both are horrible crimes and and usually several examples, of Russi­ panegyrics to motherhood, great masters rendering countless idyllic should be exposed. Jewish Americans fication in your local newspaper, on paintings of mother and child, all elevating the concept of maternity to are exposing anti-Semitism every day. television or on the radio. Your media titanic heights in our individual and national psyches. If we Ukrainians do not begin now to does not know and will not know about Overstatement, you say? When was the last time a football player on expose cthnocide through Russifica­ these unintentional misrepresentations the sidelines waved "hello, dad" at a TV camera?" Mom and apple tion, no one will. What are we waiting - unless you bring it to their attention pie" is a phrase that has come to echo the American spirit. Why is for? - and continue to tie ethnocide through necessity the mother of invention and not the father? Moreover, when The only way we are going to get the Russification with ^thnocide famine. was the last time anyone has seen a sailor with "dad" tatooed on his media to tell the story of the Russifica­ (Much the same way as the Jewish arm? tion (ethnocide) of Ukraine is by making nation is quick to point out examples of it a local story. The radio, television, anti-Semitism and tie those to their And how does dad come out in all this? Well, judging from today's Holocaust). TV advertisements, which purportedly gauge the national pulse, not so and newspaper editors in your city need to be informed that when they allow the How to bring examples of Russifica­ good. j phrase "the Soviet Union," to be used tion to the attention of the news media If we are to believe many of the nation's ad men, your average dad isa when the person writing the story (or in your city is what this column is all well-meaning, easygoing, slow-on-the-draw kind of fellow constantly being quoted in it) is talking about an about. The fact that we are marching learning new things about life from his wife and overly precocious event in 'the Russian Republic of the again on the Soviet Embassy in Wash­ children. Soviet Union, then they are themselves ington September 16 -just three short He is the man constantly losing to his kids in games and puzzles that participating in the Soviet-Russian months from now - will make our a simpleton could master, or the beleaguered husband who faces open policies of ethnocide against all non- media efforts that much easier. revolt from his children until he serves Thomas's instead of toast. Russians in the Soviet Union. You. the reader of this column, are a Admittedly, despite women's liberation efforts to erase some of Editors need to be informed that key ingredient in helping all Ukrainians "localize" the story that says, "Russi­ these sexual and social stereotypes, women don't fare much better in when they allow the word Russia to be spoken or written and the reporter or fication is a horrible, official Soviet commercials either. But despite the changing roles in the family Russian policy of genocide that is structure, with fathers taking on more of the responsibilities of child wire story in question is actually talking about Ukraine, then both the reporter systematically destroying the culture, rearing and domestic chores, the mystique of motherhood still and editor (or the person being quoted) language, and ethnicity of SO million overshadows the seminal role of the father, and for some valid reasons. are taking part in Soviet Russian Ukrainians." Because the mother bears the child, carries it in her own body and inspired ethnocide against Ukraine and You localize the story by pointing out nurtures it, the bond between mother and child is elemental — both in Ukrainians. examples of Russification on a specific a physical and psychological sense. The father, then, does not share We need to stress to our media that radio or television program, or in a this innate and fundamental link. Father and child must get to know this is the same ethnocide that resulted . specific newspaper by talking with a key each other in other ways. in the "Forgotten Ukrainian Holo­ editor, and, if necessary, asking the To his son, he must try to overcome any personal weaknesses and caust" of 1932-33 (and thus kept alive editor's help in escalating your concern to the networks (if, in fact, your con­ present an image of respect and stability; to his daughter, he must often the memory of our holocaust as the nation of Israel has kept alive the cern involves a network show or a wire overcome the difficult barriers of gender and offer guidance and story over which your local editors have understanding through triumphs and travails, and help guide her memory of its Holocaust). What we are talking about here is no control.) through the difficult road from adolescence to womanhood. working with the media in our cities in (Continued on page 10) In many instances, the father takes on the thankless and often misunderstood role of disciplinarian, full of bluster and tough talk, but always with his child's welfare in mind. In observance of The Weekly's 50th In a narrow sense, he is the protector of the family, and in a broader sense, the father often must go to war to protect his country and his way of life, something most Ukrainians, whose fathers or grandfathers From our pages in 1966 fought bravely for Ukraine or the United States, are keenly aware of. In Ukraine - A New Wave of Terror, April 30, 1966. So, a pox on those who would make fatherhood something less For several months now, increasingly alarming reports have been reaching the noble, demanding, or satisfying than motherhood because it simply West of large-scale arrests, trials and deportations in Ukraine of writers, critics and isn't so. Parenthood involves a mutual awareness of shared other literary figures for non-conformity and alleged breaches of party discipline. responsibilities for the well-being of the family. Accusations range from "propagation of anti-Soviet views" in literature to And on this 73rd anniversary of the day of the dad, we say baloney to "ideological subversion" and activity which "undermines the security of the Soviet all those time-worn and oft-presented sterotypes of the modern, Union." hapless dad, suffering through the nattering of his wife, and outwitted The latest known victims — and there are countless others — of this new wave of by his smart aleck children. terror and persecution are two Ukrainian literary critics, Ivan Svitlychny and Ivan Today, we pay he3rtfelt tribute and respect to the men who did their Dziuba, who were tried recently and sentenced to long terms of hard labor in Siberia. Apparently, this new drive against Ukrainian intellectuals is the Kremlin's best to provide for us. showed us the ropes about the intricacies of life, reply to demands for greater freedom of expression and obvious manifestations of and loved us in their own way. unrest, if not rebellion, against the dictates of the Red regime. So dads, here's to you, and we hope you enjoy the new ties and shirts Coming in the wake of the Daniel and Sinyavsky trial, and the virtual expulsion or toiletries you get today. They were given to you not out of habit, but of the writer Tarsis, the latest crackdown is not confined to any particular area of out of love and appreciation for all the things you have done. Have a the Soviet Union, although it is widely acknowledged that its scope and intensity great Father's Day. After all, you deserve a break. may be greater in the non-Russian republics than in Russia proper. The Reds are themselves furnishing evidence to that effect in that they are This editorial was first published in The Weekly on June 21. 198І. repeatedly bringing up charges of "bourgeois nationalist deviation"even among the younger intellectuals who are supposed to be well indoctrinated in Communist ideology. This is especially evident in Ukraine. Stripped of their dialectical phraseology, the charges reveal butonething: that years of political terror, religious persecution, Russification and cultural ruination have failed to break down the spirit of resistance among the Ukrainian people, who Attention, students! continue with unabated determination in their struggle to free themselves of Throughout the year, Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold Russo-Communist domination. activities. The Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Unshaken in their hopes and unyielding in their will, they refuse to succumb to Ukrainian community know about upcoming events. the Big Brother's power. This can be clearly read in the latest wave of inhuman The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be atrocities perpetrated by the Kremlin rulers in Ukraine. glad to print timely news stories about events that have already taken I he voice of protest raised here, in the free world, by Ukrainian scholars, writers, place. Black and white photos (or color with good contrast) will also be intellectual and civic leaders in behalf of their persecuted brethren in Ukraine must accepted. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. be brought to bear on the conscience of humanity. The call from our enslaved nation compels us to raise our voice here so that others may hear and heed and act. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 7

by Andrew Sorokowski tic minorities must not be denied the Russification right to enjoy their own culture, profess The following paper was presented at and practice their religion, or use their the Conference on Religion and Ethnic Examining the crucial issue of own language. Oppression in the USSR Marymount A UNESCO convention forbids College, Arlington, Va., on May 17. discrimination in'education, and an national discrimination in Ukraine 1LO convention prohibits discrimina­ Parti tion in employment of occupation. The subject of national discrimina­ persons, groups, cultures or institutions national or social origin. The Inter­ Finally, the U.N. Declaration on the tion in the USSR as practiced against on the basis of their national or ethnic national Covenant on Civil and Politi­ Elimination of All Forms of Racial the Ukrainian people is vast, and only a identity. We shall correspondingly cal Rights and the Convenant on Discrimination provides that "no state, general discussion is possible here. divide national discrimination into four Economic. Social and Cultural Rights institution, group or individual shall Since a purpose of this conference is to types: discrimination against indivi­ likewise grant certain– rights to"all make any discrimination whatsoever in marshal some of the evidence about duals, against groups, against cultures, regardless of race, language, religion, matters of human rights and fundamen­ ethnic repression in the Soviet Union, I and against political institutions. political or other opinion, national or tal freedoms in the treatment of persons, shall attempt to present evidence of the і groups of persons or institutions on the most concrete and accurate kind/ grounds of race, color or ethnic ori­ available. Because of the limitations ojj "Apparently, the theory of the development gin. Both the USSR and the Ukrai­ time, however, this evidence shaJVbe nian SSR are parties to these instru­ largely confined to that illustrating a and convergence of the nations of the USSR, ments of international law. few aspects of nationai,djscnmination only. " leading to their ultimate fusion...into a Soviet law First, national discrimination must be denned. Here it is useful ,to cite the single, uniform Soviet nation, remains in Soviet law, too, forbids discrimina­ definition of racial discrimination used tion. Article 34 of the USSR Constitu­ in the International Convention on the force." tion proclaims all citizens equal before Elimination of All Forms' of Racial the law regardless of, among other Discrimination (ratified, incidentally, -^– categories, race or nationality, lan­ by both the USSR and the Ukrainian International agreements 'social origin, and so on. In addition, the guage, or place of residence. Article 36 SSR): "any distinction, exclusion, Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifically grants citizens of different restriction or preference based on race, Since the approach of this conference proclaims equal protection of the law to races and nationalities equal rights. It color, descent, or national or ethnic is critical as well as analytical, it is all, and specifically grants protection makes restrictions of rights, the esta­ origin which has the purpose or effect of appropriate to mention that national against discrimination in violation of its blishment of privileges on grounds of nullifying or impairing the recognition, discrimination is explicitly prohibited principles, and against incitement to race or nationality, or the preaching of enjoyment or exercise, on an equal by international law. The principles of such discrimination. It also grants racial or national exclusiveness, hosti­ footing, of human rights and funda­ the United Nations Charter include everyone the right to a nationality. lity or contempt punishable by law. mental freedoms in the political, econo­ equal rights of peoples, sovereign The International Covenant on Civil Under Article 64, every USSR citizen mic, social, cultural or any other field of equality of UN members, and respect and Political Rights mentioned above must respect the national dignity of public life" (Article 1-1). For our for fundamental freedoms for all with­ not only grants all persons the equal other citizens and strengthen the friend­ purposes, however, it will suffice to out distinction as to race, sex, language, protection of the law, but requires the ship of the nations and nationalities of define national discrimination as or religion. The Universal Declaration law of each country to prohibit any the USSR. follows: the differential treatment of of Human Rights proclaims equal discrimination and to guarantee to all Quite apart from the question of rights for all human beings, and grants persons protection against discrimina­ enforcement, these legal guarantees must Mr. Sorokowski is a San Francisco freedoms without distinction of any tion on any ground such as those be seen in the light of Soviet nationali­ attorney and community activist who kind, including race, color, language, previously cited. Under this covenant, ties policy — for Soviet law is at least in ^writes and lectures oh Soviet affairs. religion, political or other opinion, or members of ethnic, religious or linguis– (Continued on page 13) шютмншюашшшшттшшшяшиттшттшнтттшшттштттттттяшшшшшт Commentary The famine: Today's young IUkrainians : Stalin imposes a materialistic ggeneration ? a "final solution" by Bohdan Y. Cymbalisty II were fortunate. They were raised and educated in the United States in a Like any other ethnic group in the period of after-war prosperity and rapid by James E. Mace from public consciousness, official United States. Ukrainians have been economic and social progress. At the efforts to deny that it had occurred are steadily moving up the economic and same time, dominant attitudes of Ame­ . The following article appeared in a reinforced by a human tendency to social ladder of American society. rican society toward ethnic groups recent issue of the journal Problems of disbelieve that such a thing could ever Children and grandchildren of previous changed: they became more open, more Communism. have happened. For this reason, it is generations of immigrants from Ukraine tolerant and more accepting. Thus, necessary to sketch briefly what we became part of the large American post-war immigrants and their children Parti know about the famine and how we middle class. They are professionals: began their upward mobility very After the har\est of 1932. millions of know it. teachers, businessmen, public em­ rapidly and progressed far. Ukrainians starved to death in one of The most obvious source for what ployees. If they did not reject their Today, hundreds of young and the world's most fertile regions. The happened is the memory of those who origin, their only link with the larger middle-aged Ukrainian Americans have local population had produced enough survived the famine. Eyewitnesses to Ukrainian American community seems, achieved success. They occupy middle food to feed itself, but the state had any event of half a century ago become in general, to have been their member– or high management positions in Ame– seized it. thereby creating a famine by fewer in number with each passing year, an act of policy. The areas affected were but there are still hundreds, perhaps demarcated by internal administrative thousands, of them living in the West. A "Very few of our young professionals are as borders in the Soviet Union, leaving few managed to flee across the Prut immediately adjoining areas virtually River into Rumania at the height of the generous as their parents...parents...Of paramount importance untouched. Thus, the famine appears to famine, but most lelt the Soviet Union have been geographically focused for during World War II. Soon after the are personal pleasure andand living well." political reasons. Since it coincided with war. they formed organizations which far-reaching changes in Soviet nationa­ published their testimony in their native ship in a Ukrainian Church. They rican corporations or arc competent, lity policy, and since the areas affected Ukrainian or still imperfect English. attend church services and some of acknowledged professionals. Most of were inhabited by groups most resistant Others were interviewed as part of the them are quite active in their parishes, these high achievers attended Ukrainian to the new policy, the famine seemed to Harvard University Refugee Interview and often contribute quite generously to Saturday schools, belonged to Ukrai­ represent a means used by Stalin to Project. Still other published individual the church. With the exception of a few nian youth organizations, summered in impose a "final solution" on the most accounts. Most, of course, remained indiviuuals. they generally show little Ukrainian camps. Like previous gene­ pressing nationality problem in the silent. interest, understanding, or support for rations of immigrants, they continue to Soviet Union. According to interna­ There are also individuals who may the cultural, scientific, educational and attend Ukrainian church services, ad­ tionally accepted definitions, this con­ broadly be classified as perpetrators of political endeavors which go beyond the here to the traditions and customs of stitutes an act of genocide. the famine, and who have told their boundaries of their own parishes and their forefathers and strive to pass them story in print. Lev Kopelev was a young arce relevant to the entire Ukrainian on to their children. They maintain Information about the famine communist who was sent into the community in the United States. strong friendship ties among them­ Ukrainian countryside to procure grain Children of the last wave of immi­ selves; for many, their Ukrainian peers Once an event of this magnitude fades in 1933. and he has written with regret grants who came here after World War form their primary social group. In about those whom in his youthful addition, they frequently expand much enthusiasm for the communist system Dr. Mace is a post-doctoral fellow at Dr. Cymbalisty, a psychologist, is effort to send their children to Ukrai­ he condemned to death by starvation. the Harvard Ukrainian Research Insti­ president of The Ukrainian Museum in nian Saturday schools or summer tute and an expert on the Great Famine.. (Continued on page 12) Sew\ew York. (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JUNE 17. 1984

New building project will keep St. George's at center of New York's I

by Marta Kolomayets ol worship until 1978. It was around ihe church that com­ NEW YORK "Do you think I'm a munity life sprang up. Ukrainian busi­ Don Quixote for undertaking this nesses and organizations' headquarters project?" the Rev. Patrick Paschak were developed around the church and OSBM. pastor of Si. George's Ukrai­ soon the Lower East Side was not only nian Catholic Church asked as he the Ukrainian Catholic community inspected an architect's rendering of a center, but the Ukrainian Orthodox and proposed S8.5 million housing project Baptist center as well. St. George's planned on the property adjacent to his grammar school and high school were church. established in 1950s. At the present time, specifications lor According to recent statistics, over 80 the building are being reviewed as the Ukrainian organizations of over 110 energetic pastor continues meeting with registered New York Ukrainian or­ the architect, lawyers and real estate ganizations have their headquarters on agents to iron out the details before the Lower East Side, and the area is introducing the package to Self Reliance crawling with people, especially on Credit Union, an institution he hopes Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays, who will assist him financially. attend church, community meetings.do "My greatest concern is whether their food shopping and run errands, Ukrainians are mature enough, sophis­ and just plain "hang-out." ticated enough, to invest in a solely The people moved in almost 75 years Ukrainian co-op on Manhattan's Lower ago and today the area affectionately East Side." he said. known as the "ghetio" still flourishes The Rev. Patrick Paschak, pastor of St. with activity. As a matter of fact, George Ukrainian Catholic Church in Genlrification according to the 62-year-old Father New York. Paschak. who has served Ukrainian meaning that individuals will own If the Ukrainians' response to this communities since 1947. the current trend seems to indicate that ihe Ukrai­ shares in the project. Although no final project can be measured on the basis of plans have been made, he hopes that the the rising fever running through the nians who were scared away from the Lower East Side in the 1960s because of building will have 90 apartments, eastside neighborhood, then the Rev. studios, one and two-bedroom co-ops. Paschak has no reason to be concerned. the urban decay, the drugs, the"hippies" and the crime rate, are now clamoring The first two floors will house St. This long-time Ukrainian area, roughly George's rectory, another two floors bordered by 14lh Street on the north to get back into the "Ukrainian village/' He only hopes thai they will be willing will have aparimertts for ihe priests and and Houston Street on the south, is but nuns serving the parish. the latest in a siring of neighborhoods, ю invest the money needed to pull off this multi-million dollar project. The pastor hopes that St. George's such as Park Slope. Chelsea. Upper parish will buy about 20 of the studio West Side and Soho. which have gone apartments and they will be subsidized through drastic changes in recent years. New building project for the elderly Ukrainians who want to This relatively new phenomenon, be near the church, but cannot afford a known as genlrification. has thousands Back in 1978. during the blessing of co-op. of young middle class professionals the new Si. George's Church, the late The rest of the building will be moving into Manhattan's sagging Metropolitan Joseph Shmondiuk ex­ available to Ukrainians who want to neighborhoods, investing their money pressed pride thai the New York com­ buy into the co-op. and the current to spruce up buildings and calling them munity could raise S3 million to build projected price will be between SIOO,OOO home. what he called "the Mecca for the and S 140,000 per apartment. Amidst these new urban pioneers, Ukrainian communitv and religious The reverend knows what he wants. one can still find the deeply rooted- life." However, he cannot go ahead with his Lower East Side melting pot residents, It was then that the Rev. Paschak plans until he is assured of some finan­ the Ukrainians. Poles. Chinese. Puerto staled that "Ukrainians have made cial backing from Self Reliance., and Ricans and Jews, as well as the several marvelous progress in the span of nearly until he sees that the Ukrainian com­ generations of bohemians who have a ccniury." munity is indeed ready for this project. always been a staple of the area. Now once again, he would likeЮ see He remains optimistic and hopeful, It is a study in contrasts, where a Ukrainians prove that they are indeed saying that "although I haven't publi­ person can move into a S1,500-a-month progressive, that they are looking ahead cized this project at all, already. I'm two-bedroom apartment right next to establish a tight-knit community on getting phone calls from people in New door to a family who has lived in the the Lower East Side. Jersey. Queens. Long Island, who building for 30 years and pays SI50 a Father Paschak said that the real would like to move into the co-op." month because of rent control. estate where the old church had stood is "1 only hope 1 can get guarantees In a recent profile of the Lower East vvonh between S7 and S9 million, and from the people who want to live here," Side in New York Magazine. Craig although the original plans for this plot (Continued on page 10) Second Avenue, on New York's; Lower East Side, Unger reported that in the Tompkins of land was to build a new two-story Square Park area, co-ops were being rectory, including housing for the sold for SI 10.000. They were all bought priests and nuns, he said he saw that up by young professionals, in six weeks. plan as a waste of valuable space. This was the same area that only as After Pastor Volodymyr Gavlich's recently as live years ago was labelled death in 1981. Father Paschak was as decaying, crime ridden and infested appointed pastor of St. George's with abandoned buildings. Church. He soon began meeting with developers who advised him to build Church at the hub housing on the empty lot. guaranteeing that it would be swept up like hotcakes. "The limes are changing and we have However, the priest had different to change with them." ihe Rev. Paschak plans, envisioning the development of a said, "otherwise, we will crumble away housing project solely for Ukrainian and die." people, which would allow them to be in Although the By/antine-style St. the hub of Ukrainian activity., close to George's Ukrainian Catholic Church their organizations, their businesses and was completed in 1978. Ukrainian their churches. Doing some investiga­ community life has revolved around the tive reporting, he soon learned that Lower East Side since the early 1900s. instead of building a four-story build­ The parish community first bought a ing, he could transfer air space not used church on East Seventh Street in 1911, by the low structures of St. George's moving downtown from the original schools to ihe emptv lot. which would 20lh Street location. allow him to build a structure up to II The parishioners had bought a build­ stories tall. (New York city building ing on East Seventh Street and it served guidelines indicate how tall buildings in as a church for a short while. Soon certain areas can be: however, the space afterward the parish moved down the is transferable to adjacent buildings) block to a Methodist German Church, The modern-day dreamer sees the which served the Ukrainians as a house new project as a cooperative building. Ground-breaking ceremonies for the Byzantine-style St. George's church. The ol THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 9

Ukrainian life

The proposed S8.S million housing project next to St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church. It will stand on the site of the old )ld church, purchased in 1911, is to the left. church. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 No. 25

sports story). Furthermore, news stories Effective media. tend to suggest that the Eastern Bloc" (Continued from page 6) nations had a choice - but what choice Notes on people You localize the story of Russifica– did Ukraine have? What's worse. Ukrai­ lion by organizing a network of local nian athletes gel shafted in another way During her stay in Poland, Dr. experts on Ukrainian history, language, - often they are referred to as Russian... Senior citizen cited Grimsted''also completed work on sport, the dissident movement and You can - and should - be doing the final version of the first volume of whatever other topics come to mind. As the same in your city right now. Build­ her directory/bibliography of archives opportunities arrive, you bring these ing a media mailing list. Building a list and manuscript repositories in the experts to the media for interviews. of experts. Looking for media opportu­ Ukrainian SSR. The extensive direc­ For example, right now the media is nities. Making media contacts. Localiz­ tory is based on Dr. Grimsted's full of stories about the Olympic Games. ing the story of the ethnocide of Ukraine earlier research visits to the Soviet If I still lived in Rochester or in Syra­ through Russification. A press kit is in Union, including many of the archives cuse. N.Y.. then 1 know whom 1 would the works and will be available to you in and manuscript collections in U– target as the sports expert for each city. early August upon request - but you . kraine that she describes. The direc­ I also know which wire story to pick on can't wait lhai long. Good Luck. tory describes all types of archival to show an example of Russification. holdings in over 162 institutions now It's the. one that says there are 14 in Soviet Ukraine, ranging from the boycotting nations - you and 1 know- major central state archives in Kiev, that there are an additional 14 nations Editor's noie: Anyone wishing a Lviv, and Kharkiv, to smaller collec­ within the Soviet Union. In other mailing list of the media in his or her tions in" regional museums in all 25 words, there are twice as many nations city, should write to Mr. Bilyk at P.O. oblasts. boycotting the Olympics as has been Box 9653. Alexandria, Va. 22304. Coverage includes major institu­ reported (coming from your local tional records of state, church, and Next week: Making news by making Prof. Volodymyr Vynnytsky expert, this could make an interesting a package. private agencies dating from early ММММПМШЯЯНМИЙИИМЯЯМЯЯММ PHILADELPHIA - Prof. Volo­ centuries to the present. Materials be a tremendous step for the Ukrainian dymyr Vynnytsky, the president of the range from medieval manuscript New building... community" he said. "1 want to gel Self Ukrainian Senior Citizens Association books and folklore -collections to (Continued from page 8) Reliance involved in the Ukrainian ' of Philadelphia, was recently honored films, photographic archives, and he said. community and I want this area to for his contributions to the betterment Communist Party records. The en­ The Rev. Paschak added that as soon develop, 1 want us to live in the 20th of life of ethnic senior citizens. tire text for the volume has now been as he gets th'e green light from both his^ century." Prof. Vynnytsky received a citation set up in computerized text-process­ superiorsr""the hierarchs of the Ukrai­ from Mayor W. Wilson Goode of ing system at Harvard, which makes nian Catholic Church in the United "When this project gets the go-ahead, Philadelphia, at Convention Hall, who it easy for Dr. Grimsted to update States and the Self Reliance Credit work on it can'start as early as this fall," had designated May 9 as senior citizens' and expand here coverage on the Union, he will appoint an architect and said an enthusiastic Rev. Paschak. day in keeping with President Ronald basis of the additional information then turn the project over to the bank "Then we will indeed see how far our Reagan's declaration of May as the shefound in Poland. and a real estate agent, who will handle Ukrainian community has come." month of older Americans. Last year this volume in its pre– the selling of the co-ops. Now does that sound like he's dream­ Prof. Vynnytsky, who heads the close publication version was awarded the "If this project comes through, ii will ing the impossible dream? to 1.000-member organization, is also Cenkd Prize for Ukrainian Biblio­ the secretary of UNA Branch 239 in graphy. This volume is planned for Philadelphia. publication next year by Princeton University Press, sponsored by the HELP WANTED Harvard Ukrainian Research Insti­ Tours Poland tute in collaboration with the Cana­ dian Institute for Ukrainian Studies. Editorial assistant/assistant editor CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard Later this year Dr. Grimsted will be full time Ukrainian Research Institute asso­ presenting a seminar at the Harvard ciate. Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grim– Ukrainian Research institute report­ (part-time position possible) sted, recently returned from a three- ing on the latest phases of her work month research visit in Poland, on this project. She made a similar Requirements: training in journalism or related field, writing experience, where she was a visiting scholar at the presentation at the School of Sla­ knowledge of Ukrainian language. Institute of History of Warsaw Uni­ vonic Studies in London oh her way Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications; good benefits. versity as part of the exchange home from Warsaw. program sponsored by the Interna­ Send resume, reference and clippings to: The Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly 30 tional Research and Exchanges Board Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. (IREX). Wins scholarship During Dr. Grimsted's stay in Poland, final publication details were completed for her book length study of the Lithuanian Metrica, the FOR ONLY 2Ф PER DAY chancery archives of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which she has you can te insured for been preparing in collaboration with S5.000 a Polish historian at the Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The book will under an be published next month by the ACCIDENTAL DEATH Harvard Ukrainian Research Insti­ and tute, and has recently been awarded a publication subsidy grant by the DISMEMBERMENT CERTIFICATE National Endowment for the Hu­ of the manities, to supplement funds avai­ UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION lable from institute sources. The low, low premiums for new ADD Certificates, The Lithuanian Metrica includes issued after Oct. 1, 1983, are as follows: copies of state charters and other John Worobij 56.50 Annually documents affecting the Ukrainian territories of the Grand Duchy from S3.35 Semi-annually PITTSBURGH - John Worobij, a the late fifteenth century to 1569. The senior at Langley High School here, has S1.75 Quarterly related books of the so-called Ruthe– 60 Monthly been awarded a full four-year scholar­ nian Metrica, kept for the Ukrainian ship, including room and board, from Premiums are the same for all members, age 16-55. lands under Polish rule from 1569 to the Duquesne University Tamburitzans. the 1970's. are also .described in Dr. Founded in 1937, the university- Grimsted's book. While in Poland, based performing folk ensemble is she discovered a hitherto unidenti­ composed of 40 musically talented fied volume in this Ruthenian series, young men and women and is dedicated now located in the library of the to promoting East European heritage. Polish Academy of Sciences in Mr. Worobij is an accomplished ^mm MELANIE HRYCIUK-MAZZORANA Kornik. near Poznan. The other dancer with the Poltava Ukrainian lEXRBESS volumes in this Ruthenian series are Dance Ensemble of Pittsburgh, which Financial Consultant now in Moscow, but Dr. Grimsted performed at the 1982 World's Fair,and has not been permitted to examine (212) 7857453 a member of the St. John the Baptist them there. Dr. Grimsted has acquir­ Church Choir in McKees Rocks, Pa.,as STOCKS, BONDS, PENSION PLANS, TAX SHELTERS ed a microfilm of the Kornik volume well as a member of UNA Branch 53. Come to me with your financial questions and problems. on behalf of the HURl, and is He will pursue his studies in the planning an edition of the complete College of Liberal Arts A Sciences at text to be published in Cambridge. Duquesne University. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JUNE 17. 1984 11

mono with substandard orchestras. Perhaps these complex and representa­ tive works to texts by Shevchenko can be better recorded in the West. Conventional stereo record produc­ tion will, no doubt, continue in the USSR, while in the West new technolo­ gies take hold.

Digital recording

Digital records, introduced here a few years ago, represent a new technology Recorded music, "quo vadis?" aided by computer. The product is generally praised for low background Immediately following World War Stereo noise, wide frequency response, and 11 the sound recording industry ex­ wide dynamic range. perienced two major breakthroughs. The modern LP stereo disc as we Pianist Lydia Artymiw is the only know it today was likewise commer­ The first was the introduction of mag­ Composer Lev Revutsky, whose Sym­ Ukrainian artist to record digitally thus cially introduced in the United States netic tape (already used by Germany phony No. 2 became one of the first far although her albums did not feature (1958) although stereo recordings for during the war) as the chief recording important Soviet LP albums of Ukrai­ any Ukrainian works. limited distribution were realized by medium for motion pictures and phono­ nian classical, music. It can be safely predicted that the graph records, a method offering vastly conductor and recording pioneer Leo­ digital stereo LP will remain a standard improved sound (giving birth to the pold Stokowski as far back as the 1930s. records in 1960 but Ukrainian repertory in the phonorecord industry for an "High Fidelity" trademark) -and un­ did not blossom until the 1970s. Since indefinite period. ' limited editing possibilities. The first Ukrainian stereo disc was that time both vocal and instrumental The second milestone, long in the recorded again by mezzo Eugenia music is being produced in some quan­ The Compact Disc experimental stage and a blessing to the Zareska assisted by an orchestra con­ tity although there is too much em­ broadcasting profession when it finally ducted by Jacques Belasco. The album, phasis on the folk genre. The newest development in the audio became commerica!ly feasible, was the titled "Ukrainian Songs," contained 12 In some measure, at least, the basic field is the digital Compact Disc (CD) long playing record (LP) started in the selections, for the most part folk songs. music instrument, the solo piano, has introduced last year in the West. The United States in 1948 by the Columbia This issue included English annotations finally been transferred to vinyl. Now we disc is barely five inches in diameter, label. A 12-inch LP record offered an for each song plus one paragraph each can put on our turntables music up to recorded on one side only with playing uninterrupted playing time of up to 25 on Ukraine and Zareska. 200 years old ranging from Bortnian– time of over one hour. The traditional minutes per side, plus improved fre­ The recordings took place in New sky through Lysenko to 20th century's phonograph stylus is replaced by a quency response and reduction of York in early 1959. The album was Liudkevych, Revutsky, Kosenko, laser beam. surface noise. The LP was also unbreak­ released on the Urania label in the Liatoshynsky and others. The CD is virtually indestructible, able. summer of that same year (pressings Being recorded also are samples of noise free, the frequency range and were also done in traditional mono chamber music (Bortniansky, Lysenko, clearity still extended and improved Shellac records outdated sound). Barvinsky— and much activity is felt in over best stereo LPs. The sound comes Compared to the 1956 Columbia the orchestral repertory (Revutsky, G. through without any ticks, scratch, or Thus in 1948 the traditional three- album of art songs by Zareska, this issue Mayboroda, Liatoshynsky, Hrabov– hiss whatever. four minute brittle, shellac disc - a was of distinctly lighter character due to sky, others). Current prices of a CD range from standard for 50 years — suddenly the repertory and the more "folksy" S15 to SI8, which is comparable to the became outdated. But for a time some settings and accompaniment. Classics still unrecorded more expensive digital LPs. CD players firms, however, refused to bow to the With the advent of commercially are in the S75O-SI0O0 range but, it is new LP. Ukrainian record companies practical stereo technology in the West, Although by the year 1970 the USSR said, once production of players and continued to issue short playing discs records and also tapes (open reel and had produced much Ukrainian material discs picks up, the prices are expected to well into the 1950s. However, as LP cassette) achieved a high level of sophis­ recorded in mono (since the 1970s drop. playback equipment gradually replaced tication. Best represented is Ukrainian monophonic production is being phased The CD system has its critics but for older technology the demand for U– vocal music (especially folk) for chorus out gradually), at present a majority of the most part experts agree that this krainian LP records increased. or soloists; purely instrumental works Ukrainian classics are still unavailable invention has the best potential sound (piano, violin, chamber music) are in stereo. quality yet to be offered to the home LP issues in the USSR much rarer since they have a limited Even though such operas as Ly– consumer. Some think the CD is the number of devotees. senko's "Taras Bulba" or Mayboroda's greatest advance in home sound repro­ The Soviet Union initiated LP record Due to high costs of production in the "Yaroslav the Wise" were released, duction since the switch from the production in 1951, three years after the West completely untried are works for there are no stereo versions of such acoustic to the electrically amplified American Columbia issues got off the symphony orchestra and operas in favorites as "Zaporozhets za Dunayem" phonograph, which occurred way back ground. When Ukrainian repertory first stereo recordings. (Zaporozhian Kozak beyond the Da­ in the year 1925. appeared in the LP format, it was both On the other hand much is being nube) or even "Natalka Poltavka." And Although a few digital LPs have been late and limited. Noted Soviet releases accomplished by Ukrainian young much of the operatic fare ranging from found in the Soviet record production, for the year 1954 included the grand people in reocrding popular fare. By Lysenko's "Nocturne" to Liatoshyn– the CD is yet unheard of in the USSR. opera "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" by Dan– merging music and electronics they sky's "The Golden Ring" were never What about the CD and Ukrainian kevych (which later surfaced in the West have created a bold new world of recorded, even in moho sound. music? Most probably the first release modern sound albeit based oh the on the Westminster label) and Revut­ True, in vocal music some projects will be effected in North America by the Ukrainian idiom. sky's enchanting Symphony No. 2. were accomplished such as the complete younger generation in a recording of Technically dated by today's standards choruses by Leontovych. But the majo­ soft rock. Just when this will come these early mono LP pressings never­ Stereo in the USSR rity of solo art songs ranging from about is hard to tell. In the meantime, theless brought Ukrainian classical Lysenko to Barvinsky never faced the there are still hundreds of serious music music to a wider circle of listeners. The Soviet Union initiated stereo microphone. Such epic cantatas as "The classics to be premiered on conven­ Testament" and "The Caucasus" by tional stereo LPs which for the average Ukrainian LPs in the West Liudkevych, which demand stereo Ukrainian consumer will remain a technology, were recorded only in satisfactory medium for years to come. Ukrainian LP production outside the USSR was even tardier in coming due to old technology which saturated the field in the 1950s.

The first issue to appear in the LP 1 format was a prestigious album titled STILL AVAILABLE "Chants d'Ukraine" (Songs of Ukraine) recorded by mezzo Eugenia Zareska SAGA OF UKRAINE (Zarytska) with Giorgio Favaretto at AN OUTLINE HISTORY the piano. This record was pressed by Vol. 1 - The Age of Royalty the Columbia label (Paris) in 1956. It Vol. 2 - The Age of Heroism consisted of art songs and folk song settings by nine Ukrainian composers of (in English) the 20th century. The album featured By Myron B. Kuropas French texts explaining the program of )Only S2.00 each at the: the individual songs; its artistic and technical execution was excellent in all Svoboda Book Store respects. 30 Montgomery St. In late 1950s and the 1960s, i.e. well Jersey City, N. J. 07302 into the stereo era, Ukrainians in the Mezzo-soprano Eugenia Zareska (New Jersey residents add 6'. sales tax | West produced mono LPs on a fairly (Zarytska), who recorded the first LP large scale. This condition had its mono and stereo record albums of parallel in the Soviet Unioi\. . lf „.,, Ukrainian songs released in the West. 12 . THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY i. SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 . No. 25

natural rate of population growth for the basis nl the 1959 census. Since Belgorod are only about 35 kilometers The famine: the Ukrainian SSR up to 1931. we can birthrates decline and infant mortality apart. The fact that one was affected (Continued from page 7) project a probable Ukrainian popula­ soars during a famine, we have clear and ihe other was not can only be Victor Kravchenko. a Soviet trade tion total of 34.165.000 on the eve of the evidence of extraordinary mortality in attributed to a deliberate policy to official who defected at the end of the famine (1931). Yet. because Ukrainians areas where the number ol rural women concentrate the famine geographically war. has also written about what he did were concentrated in the countryside, (the least mobile segment of the'popu– for political ends. and witnessed as a young Ukrainian where the natural rate of population lation) is exceptionally small in age communist. Nikita Khrushchev, who growth was higher at the time, this is a groups born immediately.before or was not in Ukraine at the time, re­ conservative estimate during the famine. Since the 1959 The state and national communism membered how he learned about it: We may then project back from the census provides age data for five-year "Mikoyarj. told me that Comrade 1939 figure to ask how many Ukrai­ periods, this yardstick can only provide A key to understanding the geo­ Demchenko. who was then Hirst Secre­ nians would have had to have been alive information about areas where nforta– graphy and motive of the famine is to tary of the Kiev Regional Committee, in 1934 to result in 28.1 million half a lity was exceptionally high from the recall events that took place immediate­ once came to see him in Moscow. Here's decade later. Since the natural rate of beginning of forced collectivization ly after the Bolshevik seizure of power. what Dcmchcnko said: 'Anastas Ivano– population growth was declining up to through the famine, that is. for the years During the 1918 German occupation of vich. does Comrade Stalin for that 1931 (when it reached a low point of 1929-1933. Areas that shows evidence Ukraine, even Menonite German com­ matter, does anyone in the Politburo 1.45 percent annually) and we lack of high morality in this period are munities welcomed their co-nationals know what's happening in the Ukraine? similar statistics for the later 1930s, we Ukraine, the then heavily Ukrainian and provided volunteers to fight the Well, if not. I'll give you some idea. Л have little choice but to project back and Cossack North Caucasus krai. Bolsheviks, despite old pacifist tradi­ train recently pulled into Kiev loaded from the natural rate of population Kazakhstan, some areas of the Volga tions. (Later, in 1941. the Volga Ger­ with the corpses of people who had growth observed for Ukrainians in the basin, and parts of Western Siberia, mans as well as those in Ukraine were starved to death. It picked up corpses all Ukrainian SSR in 1958-59 (1.39 per­ where collectivization was carried out in deported en masse as a possible security the way from Poltava to Kiev...' " cent), which gives as a 1934 population a particularly harsh manner. If we threat). The Cossacks attempted to As we shall see. Stalin knew perfectly estimate of 26.gll.000. If we subtract exclude areas where mass mortality can establish a separate state under General well what was happening. He had ample ' our estimate of the post-famine popiir be attributed to the years before 1932 Alexei Kaledin and later provided the warnings that a famine will result if his Union from the pre-famine population, (Kazakhstan and Western Siberia), we most important base for the anticom– policies were carry out. and received the differences is 7.954.000. which can are left with areas .containing Ukrai­ munist forces of Anton Denikin. The continuous appeals to change the poli­ be taken as an estimate of the number of nians. Cossacks, and Germans, the last Ukrainians not only formed their own cies once the famine had started. Ukrainians who died before their time. being affected somewhat less than the nation-slate but - after their military A number of'foreign journalists Again, this is a conservative estimate two others. What is particularly striking defeat and incorporation into the reported the famine, among them because it assumes that no one was born is the sharp contrast between con­ USSR - became what Poland would Malcolm Muggeridge ol the Manchester hi the years 1932 or 1933. From this tiguous oblasts along the border become in the Soviet bloc after World Guardian. William Henry Chamberlin figure one must subtract victims of between Ukraine and Russia proper. War II: that part of the larger entity that ol The Christian Science Monitor. unnatural deaths not related to the For example. Kharkiv oblast on the was most conscious of its national Eugene Lyons of United Press, and famine. Some 200.000 farms in the Ukrainian side of the border shows distincliveness. most assertive of its Harry Lang of the Jewish daily Der Ukrainian SSR were "dckulaki/ed." demographic evidence of being one of prerogatives, and least willing to follow Porvert. Others, most notably Walter Estimating live persons per family on the most devastated areas, while Bel­ Moscow's model in arranging its own Duranty ol ITie New York Times and average, this makes lor a total of gorod oblast. contiguous to it.on the affairs. Not coincidcntally. it was the Louis Fischer of The New Republic, I million individuals of whom perhaps Russian side, shows no evidence of territories inhabited by Ukrainians. seemed to have been perfectly aware of 250.000 were either executed or died in exceptional mortality. Both oblasts Cossacks, and Germans that were it. but actively aided the Soviet slate in the harsh conditions ol exile. Let us have the same son of farming and affected by the famine in 1933. suppressing the story. assume thai another quarter of a million weather, while the cities of Kharkiv and , To be concluded Soviet historiography sporadically Ukrainians were executed or died in refers to the famine by using euphe­ exile'in 1936-39. This still leaves almost misms such as "a severe shortfall wf 7.5 million Ukrainians who died in the Has the computer... broad use of the modem, a device edible produce."caused partially by the famine. that links computers through the "incorrect planning of the grain pro­ This is only a rough estimate. The (Continued from page 2) phone lines. curements campaign." In the Soviet figure might be lower, because some which is connected to a printer is a Computers are useful for mani­ Union, what purports to be fiction is persons who were counted as Ukrainian potential printing press, will this new pulating information. But that infor­ often more forthright than what pur­ in the I926census could have been listed technology lead to a new form of mation, in order to be useful, must be ports to be history. Kan Stad– as Russian in 1939. It could also be samizdat? reliable. Reliable facts and figures are restricted in the Soviet Union, niuk. a recipient of a Lenin .significantly higher, because the cir­ According to Prof. Graham, the Ivan Stadniuk. a recipient of a Lenin cumstances surrounding the 1939 cen­ and unless this state of affairs was Soviets would have several solutions changed, the use of computers in Pri/e whose fiction portrays Stalin in a sus indicate thai its figures were in­ to this dilemma. All computers could relatively positive light, wrote about the flated. A census was taken in 1937. but it industry and government would not be housed in institutions and con­ have the same impact as in the West. famine in a 1962 novel called "People was never published. Instead, an an­ trolled by institution officials. Or. if Are Not Angels." Set in the Vvnnytsia nouncement was made that the officials microcomputers are permitted in Moreover, if the Soviet Union is to oblast near what was then the Soviet in charge of preparing the census were private homes or under decentralized border with Poland, this work gives the participants in a plot to discredit the become compatible with computers, control, there could be a prohibition schoolchildren will have to be taught following eloquently simple descrip­ progress of socialism by deliberately against having printers. Persons tion: "The first to die from hunger were uftdercounting the Soviet population. about computers. Even now the wishing to receive a print-out would computer gap in schools is a matter the men. loiter on the children. Ancflast Since the census officials were shot for have to take a disc to a central office of all. the women. But before they died, nor finding enough people in 1937. we of concern in the USSR, says the The where it could be printed and check­ Economist. - people often lost their senses and ceased may safely assume that their successors ed for politically volatile material at to be human beings." made every effort to avoid any percep­ the same time. Or. all microcom­ Computer support services — Demography can aid us in deriving tion that their own work suffered from puters could be connected to central technical consultation, maintenance approximate numbers of those who similar shortcomings. computers that would record every­ and equipment - are poor in the died. Sergey Maksudov has demon­ Another way to estimate the famine thing filed into the microcomputers. USSR. Certainly this situation, too, strated that at least 9.1 million people in losses is to compare the Ukrainians' would have to be remedied if the the Soviet Union died prematurely demographic fate with that of the The Soviets would wind up paying Soviets are to adapt to computers. between I926and 1939. that 8.5 million Byelorussians - a closely related a high price for such controls, how­ of them died before 1935 (i.e.. during nation that had a somewhat lower rate ever. The spread of computer literacy According to The Economist, the period of collectivization and fa­ of natural population growth before among the population would be Soviet pride may eventually nudge mine), and that 4.S million died in the 1931: went through similar political severely hampered, and.thus the the USSR into accepting more of the Ukrainian SSR. Since his analysis campaigns against "bourgeois nationa­ Soviets would hardly be able to keep new microcomputer technology. assumes the absolute accuracy of the lism" and similar pressures to assimi– і pace with the computer revolution in Without it, the USSR's industries 1939 census and docs not take into late: and had a lower level of literacy the West. will not be able to compete with the account the effects of intcrrepublic and weaker traditions of national self- West. migration, the figure of the Ukrainian assertion, which might have made them Hindrances to computers SSR probably underestimates the loss more prone to assimilation. However, j Maintaining control of life suffered there, by not making Byelorussia did riot go through the But, even if the Soviets did decide allowances for the policy of resettling f;tmine. and the number of Byelorus­ to join the computer revolution, However, according to The Wash­ villages depopulated by the famine in sians in the USSR increased I 1.5 several factors would hinder their ington Post article by Prof. Graham, the Ukrainian SSR with villagers from percent in the time that the number of successful participation. According the leaders of the Soviet Union are other republics. Ukrainians decreased by 9.9 percent. If- to The Economist, the USSR is less adept at maintaining control, and A more accurate estimate of Ukrai­ Ukrainian population growth had computer-friendly than, say, the they will find ways of lessening the nian population loss can be derived by matched that of their Byelorussian United States or Japan, which are threat to their authority that is posed examining the 1926 and 1939 censuses neighbors and by every indication it already wired up to fully exploit the by small computers. on the basis of nationality, since the new would have surpassed that of Byclo–. new communications technologies. So, the bottom line is: the Soviets settlers were not ethnic Ukrainians. In russians but for the famine there are damned if they do and damned if the 1926 census, the USSR contained would have been almost 6.7 million' The Soviet internal telephone they don't adapt to the computer 31.2 million Ukrainians, while the 1939 more Ukrainians in the Soviet Union in network, for example, is outdated revolution. Only time will tell what census lists only 28.1 million, an abso­ 1939 than were recorded. and highly inefficient. It certainly compromises the Soviets are willing lute decline of 9.9 percent or 3.1 million Census data is also helpful in tracing could not support a large-scale to make in order to try and keep up individuals. On the basis of official ihe geography of the famine. Maksudov microcomputer network that makes with the rest of the world. Soviet administrative estimates of the has shown how .this could be done on No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17,1984 13

Russian people or that their interests demographic and language-affiliation culture. This is evidenced by statistics Examining... are incompatible with those of the data. Here one can discern continuing on the number, language and content of (Continued from page 7) colonized peoples, its national identity Russification. While the overall number Soviet publications in the RSFSR, the part an instrument of policy. The or affiliation is only one characteristic of Ukrainians in the USSR increased Ukrainian SSR, and the Soviet Union constitution itself refers to some of the of the Soviet ruling elite. While this 3.9 percent from 1970 to',1979, the as a whole. Such statistics were cited by relevant policies: Article 36 declares aspect does result, as we shall see, in percentage share of Ukrainians in their Soviet-Ukrainian literary critic Ivan that the exercise of equal racial and discrimination against non-Russians, own republic declined from 74.9 percent. Dziuba in 1965 in his work entitled national rights is ensured by a policy of other characteristics of the Soviet elite ot 73.6 percent. At the same time, the "Internationalism or Russification?" comprehensive development and rap– place it at odds with the interests of the percentage share of Russians increased To properly assess the significance of proachment of all Soviet nations and bulk of the Russians as well. In fact, it from 19.4 percent to 21.1 percent. these statistics it is necessary to keep in nationalities, by educating citizens in may be said that this elite represents the According to the 1979 census only mind the following demographic statis­ the spirit of Soviet patriotism and interests of no national group, and of no about 86 percent of Ukrainians in the tics: in 1979 the population of the socialist internationalism, and by the socio-economic or political group other USSR lived in the Ukrainian SSR: 8.6 . RSFSR was about 52.4 percent that of possibility of using, one's native lan­ than itself. All the same, this does not percent lived in the RSFSR. A study the USSR, with the proportion of guage and the languages of other prevent it from carrying on certain of the I970census revealed that employ­ Russians in the Soviet population peoples of the USSR. Article 19 an­ practices which discriminate in favor of ed Ukrainians with a higher education likewise at about 52.4 percent; the nounces that the state promotes the Russians and to the detriment of non- tended to work outside their native population of the Ukrainian SSR was strengthening of the national homo– Russians. republic. In the 1960sand 1970sovera about 19 percent of that of the USSR, geneousness of society and the all- third of Ukrainian scientists in the while Ukrainians constituted about 16.1 round development and rapproach– Forms of discrimination Soviet Union worked outside the Ukrai­ percent of the Soviet population; Rust– ment of the Soviet nations and nationa­ nian SSR, reflecting a policy of planned sians made up about 21.1 percent of the lities. Apparently, the theory of the What are the forms of national resettlement of Ukrainians to Russia population of the Ukrainian SSR, with development and convergence of the discrimination against Ukrainians? In and other union "republics. The ma­ Ukrainians constituting 73.6 percent. nations of the USSR, leading to their the category of discrimination against jority of individual inter-republic trans­ The population of the RSFSR was thus ultimate fusion (which is not, however, individuals, those persecuted for assert­ fers involving the Ukrainian SSR in about 2.8 times that of the Ukrainian mentioned in the constitution) into a ing and exercising basic human rights 1968-1970 was between the Ukrainian SSR; the overall Russian population single, uniform Soviet nation, remains such as free speech, press and assembly and the Russian republics. Generally, was about 3.3 times the over-all Ukrai­ in force. It seems to influence both in defense of Ukrainian culture and skilled, educated Ukrainians have been nian population. One should also administrative practice and the inter­ national rights are best known. The encouraged to move out of their coun­ consider the figures for native language pretation of laws. One may well ask members of the Ukrainian Public Group try, for example, to Central Asia and affiliation cited above. whether this nationalities policy, now to Promote the Implementation of the the non-black-earth region 'of Russia, In light of this, let us examine some codified in the Fundamental Law of the Helsinki Accords, for example, have while Russians have transferred mas­ official statistics on publishing in the Soviet Union, is in harmony with the been severely persecuted. At times, sively into Ukraine. USSR in the year 1982. Of the books spirit of the international legal prin­ those who protest national discrimina­ In cases of Ukrainian out-migration and brochures published by USSR ciples set out above. tion are themselves discriminatorily to other non-Russian republics such as publishing houses, some 70.8 percent of punished: the sentences for Ukrainians Latvia or Estonia, there is a triple the titles were in the Russian language; Discrimination against Ukrainians convicted of political crimes like anti- Russifying effect. First, the migrating only 22.2 percent were in the languages Soviet agitation and propaganda (Ar­ Ukrainians lose touch with their lan­ of the non-Russian Soviet republics. Having outlined the legal framework, ticle 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, guage and culture; they are deprived of Only in the union republic publishing we can now proceed to examine the Article 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal access to Ukrainian newspapers, li­ houses did the figures for book and actual practice of national discrimi­ Code) have often been unusually long braries and theaters, while their chil­ brochure titles correspond roughly to nation towards the Ukrainian people. A and have in some cases been imposed dren can no longer go to Ukrainian the over-all population figures: -52.4 few words must be said, however, about successively. Perhaps the most shocking schools. In order to communicate with percent Russian-language titles, 44.3 its origins and nature. example is that of Yuriy Shukhevych, their new neighbors and co-workers percent titles in the languages of the Of the three heirs of medieval Kievan son of an anti-Soviet resistance leader, they will use Russian, and will most non– Russian republics. Out of the Rus\ it was Muscovy that eventually who has been imprisoned for thirty of -likely send their children to Russian overall number of books and brochures subsumed its brothers under the rubric his fifty years primarily for refusing to schools. This brings about the second published in the USSR, 80.9 percent of of "Russia." The process of imperial denounce his father's ideas and actions; effect of out-migration: Russification of the titles were in Russian. This far conquest and colonization inevitable 99 percent blind, he remains in exile the receiving country by the non- exceeds the 52.4 percent Russian popu­ involved discrimination against the near Tomsk. There is a further discri­ Russian migrants themselves. Third, lation. Only 2.7 percent of the titles were Ukrainians as well as against other mination in that Ukrainian political the out-migrants are commonly re­ in Ukrainian, well under the 19 per­ subjugated peoples, cultures and states. prisoners must commonly serve their placed at home by Russian or Russian- cent of the Soviet population living in The fact that individuals could escape sentences of imprisonment outside the speaking immigrants, who thus contri­ the Ukrainian SSR and the 16.1 percent discrimination only by assimilating Ukrainian SSR." bute to Russification there. Indeed, who are Ukrainians, as well as an with the Russian people — that is, by While active dissidents are but a from 1970 to 1979 the percentage of the estimated 13.3 percent (author's esti­ participating in the gradual elimination fraction of the Ukrainian population, population of the Ukrainian SSR mate) of the Soviet population claiming of their group and their culture — ordinary citizens do not escape dis­ claiming Ukrainian as its dative lan­ Ukrainian as their native language. It is illustrates the mechanism by which crimination either. For example, in guage decreased from 69.4to 66.3, while also less than the comparable figure for individual discrimination in colonial 1970 the share of Ukrainians in the the percentage claiming Russian as its 1966, 4.1 percent. conditions is a factor in group and USSR with higher education was only native language increased from 28.1 to An index of the. dissemination of cultural discrimination. In a multi­ about 75 percent the share of Russians 31.2. Of Ukrainians throughout the national language and culture is the national empire, this leads ultimately to with higher education. In 1970 the USSR. 85.7 percent claimed Ukrainian number of translations published. the eradication of all national groups Ukrainian SSR had a smaller share of as their native language in 1970; in 1979 While in 1982 75.8 percent of the other than the dominant one. In a multi­ employment in the "non-productive" the figure dropped to 82.8 percent. In translations from languages of the national federation, it involves discri­ sector (health, education, science and the city of Kiev, however, both the USSR published in that country were mination against entire political entities art) and in the non-agricultural branches Ukrainian language and Ukrainian from the Russian language, only 2.8 as well. of the "productive" sector — such as national consciousness apparently percent were from the Ukrainian lan­ While the state structure of the industry, transportation, communica­ increased during that period - al­ guage. Russian-language works were USSR, with its 15 republics and various tion and trade — than did the Russian though there,.too. the Russian language translated into 104 languages, while autonomous republics, regions and republic. It had a much larger share of remained dominant.- It must be re­ Ukrainian-language works were trans­ national areas, is a concession to the employment in the agricultural sector. membered that Kiev was heavily Russi­ lated into only 20 languages. There, the share of collective farmers in fied well before Soviet rule. aspirations of its nearly 100 nations and To be concluded nationalities, the actual administration the Ukrainian SSR was more than twice The intensified teaching of the Rus­ of the Soviet government closely follows that in the RSFSR. It is well known that sian language in the schools of the non- Visa and Master Card now accepted. the colonial pattern. The doctrine of the collective farmers rank at the bottom of Russian republics announced at the All- drawing-together and ultimate fusion of the Soviet social and economic scale. Union Scientific-Theoretical Confe­ antions referred to above provides a While in 1970 the Ukrainian SSR rence on the Russiaa language held in SToFFlfS' theoretical justification for continuing provided a quarter of the Soviet Union's Tashkent in May. 1979 signalled a the policy of Russification begun under agricultural labor force and nearly a renewed policy of linguistic Russifica­ the Tsars, now ill-concealed beneath the third of its collective farmers, it had tion. The recommendations of the slogan of socialist internationalism. only a fifth of its agricultural specialists Tashkent Conference prompted action Even a close examination of the formal with higher or secondary specialized on both the all-union and republic constitutional structure of state power education. Higher education among the levels.' At the same time, the number of will reveal a high degree of centralism; rural population of the Ukrainian Ukrainian-language schools, generally the unitary structure of the ruling party republic was below that of the USSR as held to be inferior to Russian-language reveals it even more. a whole. In the 1960s and 1970s, schools, was declining in the heavily Ukrainians had a smaller percentage of Russified, urbanized, industrial south­ In view of this, one may well ask, first, college graduates and students than did whether national discrimination is a east Ukraine; the last Ukrainian school the Russians in the Ukrainian SSR. HAIRCOLOR BROWN SLACK BLOND ЯЄО systemic rather than an incidental in Donetske — a city of over a million Only about 60 percent of the students in СШ2В4ІШ. SOCCCTftiu r ems BALL problem of today's USSR, the second, inhabitants - was reportedly shut Ukraine were Ukrainians. """O!/!O?LKW VOLLEYBALL BALLOONS whether national discrimination is down in 1979. inherent in any Russian successor state preserving the basic outlines of the Demographic data Assault on culture шпал mtmma ми 8 ^ мій a Atow4-6 wetkikfdtttety ТШагкІжЮу Empire. UAM.ro meGomnGooMCMMntSouttKO National discrimination against U– A distinct but related phenomenon is 2115 л С/кмоЛж This is not to suggest, however, that смоадаашівовг? colonialism serves the interests of the krainians as a group is evident in І discrimination against the Ukrainian 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 ? No. 25 Hnizdovsky attends exhibit The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund Donations to special famine book fund

Myron Boluch, Scituate. Mass !J50 Pearl Dent Danbury, Conn 550 Andrew Keybida, Maplewood, N.J J25 Pelagia Kuchkeba, Brick T.own, N.J ..J25 Irene Nowak, Milwaukee, Wis J25 Michael Rinasz, Manhattan Beach, N.Y J25 T.R. Botiuk, Toronto 520 Walter Bula, Long Beach, Calif J20 Myroslaw Modryckyj, Lincolnwood, III 516 Michael Hoobchak, Springfield, Va 515 William Markowsky, Candle Lake, Sask ; 515 Peter Burak, Adell, Wise 51.0 Alexandra Hnatiw, Kenner, La 510 Michael Kryka, Eddystone, Pa 510 Harry J. Muryn, Chicago v 510 John Myholuk, Chicago ., 510 Branch 106 of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America in Annette A. Pankiw, Westland, Mich .5 510 Hartford, Conn., sponsored an art exhibit of the works of Jacques Alexander Pless, Middlesex, Mass 510 Hnizdovsky at St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Parish School auditorium Peter Semeniw, Pittsfield, Mass ;. 510 on May 12-13. Pictured here with Mr. Hnizdovsky are members of the ^ Zenia Stechishin, Toronto 510 organizing committee (from left): ValentinaChudowsky, Halya Dyda, Nadia Stephan Stecura, Parma, Ohio 510 Haftkowych, Anna Pokora, Halya Balaban, Natalka Rudko, Wanda Baxer, Peter Zemsky, Nanuet, NJ 510 Lana Babij (committee chairman) and Vira Chiropalobych. Helena Kozak, Philadelphia 58 Omelian Tyshownytskyj, Los Angeles 56 honorary board member; Mr. Chomko. Irene Badiak, East Willston, JN.Y 55 Passaic chairman: Mr. Klymcnko. vice chair­ Peter Bard. Dayton, Ohio 55 (Continued from page S) man: Vasyl Marushchak, recording Nicholas Bulba, Philadelphia 55' who represented the Supreme Execu­ secretary: Mr. Blycha. treasurer; Vasyl Raymond Doskofch, Columbus, Ohio 55 tive Committee. Harhay. organizing chairman; Vasyl Mary Diaganchuk, Branch 213 . 55 Reports were given by the outgoing Mochula. press chairman; Theodore L. Dzinsbaniuk, Norwood, Mass 55 district officers; John Chomko. chair­ Kowalyk. Ivan Bury, Osyp Kibala and M, Dzwinka, New York 55 man; Cregroy Klymcnko. vice chair­ Anna Makar, members. Serhij Hoshawsky, New York 55 man; and Ivan Blycha, treasurer. Bar­ Auditing committee members are: Anne Hossofsky, Bridgeport, Conn 55 bara Tyzbir reported on behalf of the Paul Wojniw. Ms. Ty/birand Volody– Ewstachia Hoydysh, Westbury, N.Y 55 auditing committee. myr Oliarnyk. Daria Jarosewych, Downers Grove, III 55 The meeting participants unanimous­ The newly re-elected district chair­ A. Kohoszka, Fall River, Mass 55 ly elected a new slate of district officers. man then informed those in attendance Basalie Laszok, Maplewood, NJ 55 They are: the Rev. Myron Pacholok. that New Jersey's four districts were Stephen Leush, Jersey City, NJ 55 honoary chairman: Peter Holowachuk, planning to mark the 90th anniversary Mary Meleta, New York , 55 of the founding of the Ukrainian Na­ Stan Romaniuk, Toronto 55 tional Association with a banquet on Iwan Sadowyj, Elkhart, Ind 55 May 20 at the newly remodeled Ukrai­ Marko Susla, Bridgeport, Conn ...J5 nian Community Center in Jersey City, Wolodymyr Turczynowskyj, Glenwood, III 55 N.J. Helen Chandoha 54 UKRAINIAN At the conclusion of the meeting, Olga Kiselyk. Millburn, NJ .-. 54 participants were addressed by the Joseph Bondar, Montreal 53 COOKERY supreme treasurer, who spoke about Maria Demtschuk, Newark, N.J 53 various UNA matters. Michael Dorosh, Toronto „. 53 Yurij Serhijczuk, Islington, Ont 53 Michael Wenger, Great Neck, N.Y 525 Dr. Magocsi... R.L. Chomiak, Mc Kean, Va 510 (Continued from page 3) Theodor Motorney, Washington - 510 ing a unique collection of 19th Walter Clebowicz", New Britian, Conn 55 century Galician-Ukrainian serials and Katherine Kedrowsky, Red Bank, NJ 55 21 old Ukrainian books from the 17th Wasyl Kovach, Stratford, Conn 55 by Savella Stechishin, and 18th centuries. The chair will also T. Szkrumelak, Jpnquiere, Que 55 sponsor in November 1984 the first TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN COOKERY international scholarly conference on lllllllllllllllllinillllllllll!lllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!ll!llll!!ll!lllll!llll!lll!l!llllll!!IIIIIIIIIHIIIII by Savella Stechishin the life of Metropolitan Andrey Shep– (Handling and postage charges tytsky. Insure and be sure. included) - Ш.00 Before coming to Toronto. Dr. New Jersey residents aJd 6; sales tax. Magocsi completed his studies at SVOBODA BOOK STORE Rutgers (B.A.. M.A.). Princeton (M.A.. 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Level I - S2365, Levels II and III - 52750 facilities. 32 buildings. Excellent condition. 50 in Washington. D.C. Prices include Perpetual Care also acres. 75 minutes from N.Y.C. Price S550.000. Terms offered. D in Mausoleum In-ground burial sites, vaults, monuments, markers e. t. c. ... and Owner (212) 499-8200 D in ground ' services available. (Pre-need and At-Need) Name 1 burial site - S720, including Perpetual Care. For further information mail this coupon to: PARCELS for HOUSES Street UKRAINIAN MEMORIAL. INC. FOR SALE City .Zip. P.O. Box 430 m Dunkirk. Md. 20754 Kerhonkson, N.Y.. by Soyuzivka. or call collect: Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call (201) 455-0396 or (516) 794-8993 Telephone: Area Code Number (301) 568-0630 -J No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 15 Today's young... the main contributors to our cultural institutions. (Continued from page 7) ATTENTION, LOVERS OF HUNTER! camps. Insensitive to needs The Ukrainian Association in Hunter is selling parcels of laid. The association's real estateencompu– і All this is fine and.good. Wc can only ses mountain valleys situated at an altitude of 2,500 feet amid forests and mountains, and featuring applaud such an admirable effort to Very few of our young professionals fresh air, beautiful views and hunting areas located in close proximity to the church and cultural center j assert and preserve our identity and are as generous as their parents. Their (1.5 miles) as well asto ski areas, in Windham. Hunter and Haines Falls. Purchasers will be able toenjoy heritage. It even provides hope that priorities appear to be totally different. a 25-acre spring-fed lake (26-feet deep), fishing a beach, boats and sailboats - all surrounded by a there will still be life in the Ukrainian Of paramount importance arc personal coniferous forest owned by the association. For information, write to: community after several generations, if pleasures and living well. Despite their LEXINGTON HIGH ACRES P. 0. Box 6 only centered around the churches. close social tics with the Ukrainian JEWET N Y 12444 community, they are insensitive to the or call (518) 734-3626 a'fter 6 p.m. Few feel obligated pleas of Ukrainians in other parts of the world who were not fortunate enough What is puzzling, however, is the to be raised in this land of opportunity. strong self-centered and rjialerialistic After spending hundreds on one dinner trend evident in this generation. Hun­ with friends at a good restaurant, these AN APPEAL dreds of these young and middle-aged successful Ukrainians can remain un­ Ukrainians earn well over S50.000 per moved by the plight of needy Ukrainian To all concerned people year. Of these, only few feel morally children in Brazil, anxious to attend obligated to contribute to the support of school but lacking the necessary S200 our scientific, cultural and educational per year to pay their tuition. Although Your support is needed for passage of a bill to establish a U.S. institutions. Even fewer arc members of they continue to. send their children to government-funded congressional commission to study the causes these institutions or would think of Ukrainian Saturday sdhools. they seem and consequences of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine. helping needy Ukrainians in other not to appreciate the importance of A massive letter-writing campaign to U.S. legislators is being initiated countries. Frequently, these financially publishing books about Ukraine, or of by AHRU. Get involved! Your financial and active help is essential for successful, well, established Ukrainians keeping the Ukrainian culture alive. the success of this effort. Send your contribution and/or write for justify their selfish attitudes through Can this be due to the influence of the additional information to: various rationalizations. materialistic American society in which Perhaps they disagree with the "poli­ we live? Hardly. Americans are known Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine tics" of an organization, or dislike its to be generous and sensitise to the 43 Midland Place leadership, or its goals are no. longer suffering of people, even in distant Newark, N.J. 07106 relevant to "modern" times. Such, or countries. Those American families that similar justifications abound. Seeming­ amassed great, well-known fortunes felt ОЄЯМК ly, these Ukrainians are unaware of the a moral obligation toward society and most basic premise of long-term ethnic created foundations, gave large dona­ Help wanted survival, a premise which has been well- tions to libraries, universities, schools, researched and is commonly accepted hospitals. It is also well known that SEEKING IBM SYSTEM 34, by most American sociologists — a American Jews contribute billions of SYSTEM 36 OPERATOR group's ethnic identity and heritage can dollars to help needy Jews around the only be preserved if that group is bound world, to fight any form of discrimina­ Minimal experience required. Will train. together by a net of its organizations tion against Jews, to help Israel, as well Call which support that subcultures very as to support Jewish cultural activities. existence within American society. As How arc they able to do this in our so- THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION the Jewish author Oscar Janowsky called materialistic world? Jewish local (201) 451-2200 wrote about American Jews, "to be a committees impose a financial obliga­ Jew in America means to belong to tion on everyone, (this is often in the Jewish organizations." If a young thousands of dollars). Young Jewish Ukrainian assumes his right not to be professionals frequently must take out involved in Ukrainian organized activi­ loans to meet these obligations. There's no place like Soyuzivka ties and to only pursue his self-interest, then he must concede that same right to Thu„s. it is not the "materialism" of everyone. If all act accordingly, then the American society which can be held community dies out and the ethnic responsible for the apparent lack of S0YUZIVKA heritage and identity will quickly be social consciousness and of responsibi­ lost. lity among young successful Ukrainian When the parents of the present Americans. Then what is it? Perhaps it young and middle-aged generations is the psychology of the nouveau riche armed in this country, they earned who grew up in poverty, saw the struggle many times less than their children do of their parents and felt deprived. now. Nevertheless, they were able to Consequently, they now o\crcstimate 1984 SUMMER/FALL build churches, found Saturday and all- the value of material possessions. day Ukrainian schools, organize summer Material success per se may be accorded CAMPS Ь WORKSHOPS camps, support the publication of the highest value, viewed as the pin­ at SOYUZIVKA: various journals and books, including nacle of happiness. Thus, it is very the many volumes of The Encyclopedia jealously guarded, like a child's new toy TENNIS CAMP - June 24 - July 3 , of Ukraine, establish three chairs of that cannot be shared with anyone. (Boys and Girls ages 12-18). Food and lodging 5170.00 (UNA members), Ukrainian Studies at Harvard and the These questions and speculations are J200.00 (non-members). Tennis fee: 560.00. thrown out in the hope that some young Ukrainian Harvard Research Institute, BOYS' CAMP - June 30 - July 14 as well as found and continue to support Ukrainian Americans will be willing to engage in soul-searching and question Recreational camp for boys ages 7-12, featuring hiking, swimming, games, The Ukrainian Museum. Today, these Ukrainian songs and folklore. UNA members: 5100.00 per week; non-members parents are old. many are retired and on the motivation, attitudes and conse­ fixed incomes, but thev continue to tv– quent behavior of their own generation. 5120.00 per week. GIRLS' CAMP - July 15-29 FOR ONLY 2Ф PER DAY Similar program to boys' camp; same prices. you can be insured for UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP - July 29 - August 11 S5,000-S10,000 Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate and advanced under an dancers. Food and lodging: 5195.00 (UNA members), 5205.00 (non-members.) Instructor's fee: 560.00. ACCIDENTAL DEATH UKRAINIAN ART COURSES - August 11-25 and Hands-on experience in woodcarving, weaving, embroidery and easter-egg decorating, under the supervision of experts. UNA members: 5200.00. Non- DISMEMBERMENT CERTIFICATE members: 5220.00. o– .tie UKRAINIAN AND INTERNATIONAL COOKING COURSES - UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION September 30 - October 5 The low, low premiums for new ADD Certificates, Baking, cooking, meat and fish preparation and nutrition instruction for men issued after Oct. 1, 1983, are as follows: and women. UNA members: 5225.00. Non-members: 5250.00. 56.50 Annually 53.35 Semi-annually For more information, please contact the management of Soyuzivka: C1.75 Quarterly SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE .60 Monthly Foordemoore Rd.. Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 m (914) 626-5641 THIS CERTIFICATE IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO 16-55 YEAR-OLD UNA MEMBERS. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1984 No. 25

Saturday, June 16 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings PREVIEW OF EVENTS from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m. beginning PHILADELPHIA: The Voloshky direction of W. Kieba. Another of Americans for Human Rights in June 26. This non-credit workshop Ukrainian dance ensemble will hold tradition is the father/son soccer Ukraine. Mr. Olshaniwsky will speak ends August 2. Fee for the work­ a benefit concert at Northeast High match. Ukrainian foods and refresh­ on the U.S. congressional commis­ shops is SI20. To register for the School on Cottman and Algon ave­ ments will be available. Admission is sion on the Great Famine at 7 p.m. at workshop, visit or write to the Office nues at 7 p.m. Admission is S10, S8, S2 per person; children under 16 will the Ukrainian Senior Citizens Club, of Continuing Education, Manor and S5. For more information please 'be .admitted without change. Pro­ 2355 W. Chicago Ave. Everyone is Junior College, Fox Chase Road and contact Vira Homick at (609) 547- ceeds from the day's events will cordially invited to attend. Forrest Avenue, Jenkintown, Pa. 9200, ext. 274. benefit the Ukrainian-American 19046 or call (215) 884-2218 or 884- Sport Center. 2219. The office is open Monday, Wed– Sunday?June 17 Education is open Monday, Wed­ BUFFALO, N.Y.: The Ukrainian nesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 HORSHAM, Pa.: The Ukrainian Saturday, June 23 Saturday School here will present a p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday American Sport Center and the graduation banquet and dance at the from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Early registra­ Ukrainian American Businessmen CHICAGO: The Committee for the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox tion is advised. Association will host their annual Defense of Human Rights in Ukraine Church Hall, 200 Como Park Blvd. Father's Day picnic. This year's and the Booth of Conscience ("kram– in Cheektowaga, N.Y1 The program JENKINTOWN, Pa.: A "hands-on" edition of the Philadelphia-area tradi­ nychka sumlinnia") at Ss. Volo– will begin at 6 p.m. and donations are workshop designed for people in tion will feature a performance by the dymyrand Olha.Ukrainian Catholic S12.50 per person. For additional business and education who want to' Voloshky Ukrainian dance ensem­ church will sponsor a meeting of details, please call Anna Malaniak, learn how to use the Visi-Calc soft­ ble. Dancing music will be provided Chicago's Ukrainian community evenings at (716) 674-5689. ware available on the Apple 11-E by the Chumaky Orchestra under the with lhor Olshaniwsky, coordinator computer will be held today at Sunday, June 24 Manor Junior College. The six-hour workshop begins at 9 a.m. and ends BALTIMORE: St. Michael's Ukrai­ at 4 p.m. Fee is S100 and this includes nian Catholic Church will sponsor a a workshop and the use of the Apple parish picnic from 1 to 9 p.m. today. Il-E microcomputer. In this work­ The event will be held at the Variety shop, participants will learn to use Club, Holabrid Industrial Park. the Visi-Calc "Electronic Spread­ UKRAINE: During the day, picnic-goers will be sheet" for forecasting, productivity able to swim in the pool, enjoy evaluation, cost estimation, inven­ delicious food and dance to the music tory evaluation, operating income, of the Spomyn– orchestra. A raffle cash flow projections. The workshop A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA for a weekend in Atlantic City will assumes no previous knowledge of also be held. All proceeds will benefit computers and will include an intro­ the building fund. For more informa­ duction to the personal computer, an Volume I and II tion please call (301) 675-7557. overview of Visi-Calc commands, The First Volume: General Information, Physical structures and applications. Week of June 24-29 Registration for the workshop Geography and Natural History, Population, Ethno­ may be made by visiting or writing to graphy, Ukrainian Language, History of Ukraine, TORONTO: A bandura course for Manor Junior College, Office of Ukrainian Culture, and Ukrainian Literature. advanced students sponsored by the Continuing Education, Fox Chase Society of Ukrainian Bandurists Road and Forrest Avenue, Jenkin­ Price: S75.00 under the auspices of the Ukrainian town, Pa. 19046 or by calling (215) Bandurist Chorus will take place this 884-2218 or 884-2219. week. The Rhotkevych Bandura The Second Volume: Law, The Ukrainian Church, Ensemble of Toronto is the host of Scholarship, Education and Schools, Libraries, Ar­ this course. PREVIEW OF EVENTS,a listing chives, and Museums, Book Printing, Publishing and The program of instruction will of Ukrainian community events open the Press, The Arts, Music and Choreography, include advanced technique, new to the public, is a service provided approaches, solo performance, ex­ free of charge by The Weekly to the Theater and Cinema, National Economy, Health pansion of individual repertoire, and Ukrainian community. To have an and Medical Services and Physical Culture, the Ar­ practical and theoretical lessons in event listed in this column, please med Forces, Ukrainians Abroad. performance and stagecraft. Much of send information (type of event, the instruction will be on an indivi­ date, time, place, admission, spon­ dual basis. The director of this course sor, etc.), along with the phone Price: S85.00 is Julian Kytasty. the musical direc­ number of a person who may be tor of the New York School of reached during daytime hours for Bandura. The cost of the course is additional information, to: PRE­ S65, with the number of participants VIEW OF EVENTS, The Ukrainian You can obtain both volumes limited. There will be a chance during Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey the evenings to visit the Toronto City, N.J. 07302. for only S140.00 "Caravan" festival, and also to visit the Beamsville Ukrainian Festival Including Postage after the end of this course. For more PLEASE NOTE: Preview items ++J+++—--i–-----e–ff–----- information, please contact: Vasyl must be received one week before Korec, 291 Armadale, Toronto. desired date of publication. No Fill out the order blank below and mail it with Ontario M6S 3X5, (416) 763-3422. information will be taken over the ur check or money order. phone. Preview items will be publish­ Tuesday, June 26 ed only once (please note desired date of publication). All items are publish­ USB THIS COUPON! JENKINTOWN, Pa.: A basic che­ ed at the discretion of the editorial mistry, workshop will be offered for staff and in accordance with available six weeks by Manor Junior College space. o: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Inc. 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302 I hereby order Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia Q Volume 1 S75.00 Announce regents exam Q Volume 11 S85.00 NEW YORK - The New York State head of the language department in Q Volumes I A II S 140.00 Regents exam in Ukrainian will be their school, while students from other Enclosed is (a check, M. 6.) for the amount 3 offered on Thursday, June 21 at desig– high schools must ask their principal to Please send the book (s) to the following address: , nated high schools around the state. contact the principal of one of the schools offering the exam and make the The schools that will offer the exam, proper arrangements. 'fame which is worth three'eredits if passed, The format of the Ukrainian-lan­ are: Gilderland near Albany, St. George guage exam is similar to that of other Academy in New York, Penfield near No Street foreign-language regents tests, and Rochester, Riverside in Buffalo, Chris­ meets the state requirements. The test tian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, was prepared by Oksana Bakum, Tania City State Zip Code Roundout Valley near Soyuzivka in Durbak, Avra Sliusarchuk, Nadia Ellenville, the Free Academy in Utica Trach and Mykhailo Heretz. and Sacred Heart in Yonkers. The regents begins at 9:15 a.m., and Students from these schools wishing costs S5 per student to cover expenses in to take the exam should contact the preparing the test. 7