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ubhshed by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit associatiod rainian Weekly Vol. LVII No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1989 50 cents Meeting, hunger strike in capital Kiev post office's portico collapses focus on Ukraine's national symbols LONDON - A round-table meeting offices of the Soviet Peace Committee on the issue of national symbols be­ in Kiev, reported the Ukrainian Press tween representatives of the city's Agency based here. democratic movements and representa­ These informal associations were tives of the Supreme Soviet of the represented by members of the Ukrai­ Ukrainian SSR and other officials of nian National-Democratic League, the the Communist Party of Ukraine took Popular Movement of Ukraine for place on Friday, July 28, at 5 p.m. in the (Continued on page 2) Kiev regional popular front holds constituent conference by Dr. Roman Solchanyk Society, whose speech can only be described as a frontal attack on the A recent issue of Literaturna Ukraina republican party leaders. Mr. Pavly­ carries several addresses delivered by. chko recalled, once again, the discus­ Ukrainian writers at the constituent sion between Mikhail Gorbachev and conference of the Kiev branch of the Ukrainian writers during the Soviet Popular Movement of Ukraine for party leader's visit to Ukraine, which Perebudova,or Rukh, which was held took place in the office of Volodymyr on July 1 in the Republican Cinema Shcherbytsky, the Ukrainian party first Building in Kiev. secretary. According to earlier reports, the According to Mr. Pavlychko, Mr. conference was attended by 442 dele­ Gorbachev asked the writers: "Is it true gates representing more than 200 local that you want to form a new party? I Rukh groups; 188 invited guests from didn't read the draft program of your Kiev's main post office in an early photo. 23 oblasts; representatives of public and Rukh, but I was told that you want to KIEV - Early accounts report that Two more people were seriously hurt creative organizations and informal form a new party!" The answer was: 11 people were killed when the and taken to the hospital. Soviet televi­ groups; and guests from Moscow, "No, we don't need a new party. We portico of the main post office here on sion has shown footage of people Lithuania, Latvia and Ukrainian so­ need perestroika. But inasmuch as the Khreshchatyk collapsed during the attempting to dig victims out of the cieties from Sakhalin (Kievan Rus')and perestroika in the republic is being rush hour period on Wednesday, Au­ rubble with their bare hands. It was Riga (Dnipro). furtively impeded, indeed, often by gust 2, reported TASS, the official reported that due to torrential rains that The conference was opened by Myro- people in high state and party posts, we Soviet news agency. (Continued on page 13) slav Popovych, a doctor of philosophi­ are forced, on the urging of the people, cal sciences and chairman.of the Rukh's to form the Rukh for perestroika." Coordination Council in Kiev, and Nothing has changed since then, said Kiev Consulate idea advances more than 30 speakers are reported to Mr. Pavlychko, arguing that the Rukh have taken part in the debates. resulted from the need of the masses '4o with passage of Senate bill The very fact that the conference intrude themselves into the renewal organizers were provided with a public process, to free it from sabotage, from by Walter Bodnar signature. building to convene the meeting sug­ its deliberately stupid, or simply lazy The Senate conferees have already gests a certain thaw in the strained and unimaginitive course." WASHINGTON - The proposal been chosen, namely, Senate Foreign relations between the Rukh and the Mr. Pavlychko offered four concrete for opening an American consulate Relations Chairman Claiborne Pell (D- authorities that set in after the or­ examples to back his claims. He re­ in Kiev has advanced another step with R.I.), Joseph Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Paul ganized letter-writing campaign direct­ ferred first of all, to the ongoing the passage by the Senate of S. 1160, the Sarbanes (D-Md.), Alan Cranston (D- ed against the Rukh earlier this year. ecological concerns of the population, State Department Authorization Bill Calif.), Jesse Helms (R-N.C), Richard This was also noted in one of the reports which indicate that "the republic's for fiscal year 1990, on Friday, July 21, Lugar (R-Ind.), and Nancy L. Kasse- on the conference proceedings pub­ leadership either does not know how to at 1 a.m. baum (R-Kansas). Their counterparts lished in the party press, which cited or does not want to draw conclusions A similar authorization bill, H:R. in the House will soon be selected. Leonid M. Kravchuk, the head of the from the world's worst 'peaceful' atom 1487 had passed the House of Repre­ Americans for Human Rights in Ukrainian Central Committee Ideology catastrophe, the Chornobyl catastrophe. sentatives on April 12. Ukraine (AHRU), which views the Department, as saying that both he and Then he noted the mass graves in Provisions were made in the Senate opening of the consulate in Kiev as a top Ivan Drach, one of the leading Rukh Bykivnia outside of Kiev, which, during bill for the opening of a consulate in priority item, informed the seven con­ organizers, "mutually acknowledged several years of perestroika, were the Kiev, pending a reciprocity agreement feree members of the Senate of its their mistakes'' during the heated subject of a disinformation campaign with the Soviets for a similar facility in endorsement of the "small consulate" polemics earlier this year and have now by officialdom. New York City. It amends Public Law idea. 'found a common language." Another case in point is the election 100-204 for fiscal years Ї988 and 1989 to "A consulate in Kiev," wrote Bo- campaign in Ukraine, at which time read: "The Secretary of State shall not zhena Olshaniwsky, AHRU president, Nonetheless, the spirit of compro­ "the administrative apparatus grasped allow the Soviet mission to the United "would afford us direct access to such mise that is said to have been apparent at the rudiments of Stalinism" and States to occupy any new consulate in events as park demonstrations, elec­ at the Kiev meeting did not prevent the sought to quash alternative choices. In the United States except on the basis of tions, striking coal miners and strug­ writers from speaking openly about the Ukraine, said Mr. Pavlychko, the elec­ reciprocity as to the establishment by he gles to prevent Chornobyl-type eco­ various problems that remain unsolved tion campaign was "a joke played on the the United States of a consulate in logical disasters that affect the entire in the republic and the continuing rigid people and on socialism." Kiev." world." conservatism of the Ukrainian party And finally, he noted, '4he complete At this juncture,conferees from both "We reiterate the importance of a leadership. switch, overnight, of signposts in Vin- the House and Senate will meet after the U.S. presence in Ukraine — the largest Particularly forthright in this respect nytsia from Ukrainian to Russian at August congressional recess to iron out non-Russian Soviet republic, and we was Dmytro Pavlychko, head of the precisely the same time when the first the differences in their respective bills ask that the members of the Senate team Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language (Continued on page 10) prior to presentation for the president's (Continued on page 3) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1989 No. 32

place over the third and fourth de­ Meeting... mands. A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY (Continued from page 1) In response to these demands, Mr. Perebudova and the independent jour­ Zaichuk was quoted as having said: "As nal Ukrainian Time (Ukrainskiy Chas). long as there is a law, the militia will ". The official representatives included function in accordance with the law, ''A serious political lesson employees of the republican Supreme thereby viewing the public display of Soviet Lata and Shymkach, Ukrainian national symbols as a disruption of Kiev party secretary resigns Minister of Justice Volodymyr Zai- public order and resorting to appro­ chuk. historians Vasyl Tkachenko, priate means." by Dr Roman Solchanyk "Nothing like the passions in the hall Yevhen Kaminsky, Kostiantyn Hro- As a result members of the UNDL where the plenum took place had ever monta, and employee of the city party threatened to hold a daylong hunger Radio Moscow and Radio Kiev on been witnessed before. The clash of committee, Oleksander Pyvovar, and strike if no affirmative response was July 22 reported that the first secretary opposite views, the directness and even others. given to the rest of their demands. of the Kiev City Party Committee, some sharpness, the emotions and Members of the UNDL who were "We view this treatment of the cur­ Konsiantyn Ivanovych Masyk, has temperament — all of this was in the present, including Yevhen Cheriiyshov, rent law by justice minister Zaichuk as been relieved of his position "on his own addresses of the speakers, almost none Arkadiy Kyreyev, Yuriy Pinsky, Vadym lawlessness common for.a totalitarian request'' and transferred to another, of whom could keep on the allotted Helinovsky and Viktor Tymoshchuk, regime, a violation of human rights for unspecified job. The decision was taken seven-minute limit. Some speeches presented a list of four demands regard­ freedom of national self-determina­ by a plenum of the City Party Commit­ seemed like soul searching, with all of its ing the issue of Ukrainian national tion," stated members of the UNDL. tee held on the same day. Mr. Masyk's pains and anxieties. Earlier, such a symbols. The UNDL demanded that The hunger strike commenced on departure comes little more than a week degree of candor could only have been the republican leadership do the follow­ July 29 in front of the republican after Yuriy F. Soloviev, first secretary observed in the corridors." ing: Supreme Soviet building in the Ukrai­ of the Leningrad Oblast Party Commit­ Mr. Masyk admitted that the cam­ 9 ensure an objective explanation in nian capital with some 30 individuals tee, also asked to be relieved of his paign and the elections had revealed the mass media of the history of Ukrai­ taking part. The UNDL activists were position and retire, and in the after­ that the Kiev party organization had nian national symbols, such as the blue- also supported by hundreds of Kiev math of party leader Mikhail Gorba­ made mistakes: "The main one, in our and-yellow flag and the trident; residents, the local Ukrainian Helsinki chev's recent call for a top-to-bottom opinion, is that the city's party com­ ^ warn journalists that the use of Union branch, as well as members of the "renewal" of the party's ranks. mittees, including the City Committee, slanderous phrases against national Popular Movement of Ukraine for Mr. Masyk, age 53, had headed the its Buro and Secretariat, I personally, as symbols will not be tolerated; Perebudova or Rukh, who surrounded party organization of the Soviet Union's the first secretary of the City Commit­ ^ introduce into the legislative the hunger strikers, reported the UPA. third largest city since April 27, 1987. A tee, and the raion committees under­ agenda of the Supreme Soviet of the The hunger strikers were also pro­ party member since 1962, he is a gra­ estimated the novelty and complexity of Ukrainian SSR the question of a review vided protection by a security force duate of the Gorky Institute of Water the current electoral campaign and did of the law of June 5, 1981, which organized by Dmytro Poyezd, former Transport Engineers and the CPSU not take into consideration the real prohibits the public display of any Kiev militia chief and current Rukh Central Committee's Higher Party deployment of forces ... The current national symbols other than official activist. School. In 1981, he was named a deputy elections were held under conditions of symbols; and Despite these efforts the local militia chairman of the Ukrainian Council of the profound social dissatisfaction of ^ conduct scholarly research and a and a special forces unit attempted to Ministers, and came to Kiev after the majority of the city's population." broad public discussion, and secure break up the gathering, beating up and serving as an inspector of the Central A concrete example of the cavalier passage by the Supreme Soviet of the detaining over a dozen people, in­ Committee of the Communist Party of attitude with which the party approach­ Ukrainian SSR of a well-founded law cluding the well-known writer Mykola the Soviet Union. Little over a year ago, ed the elections was provided by Mr. regarding the display of national Kaharlytsky, who came upon the scene in January 1988, he was elected a Masyk himself in an interview with symbols, as well as halt all acts of accidently. candidate member of the Ukrainian Pravda Ukrainy in early March. Asked repression against private individuals Three members of the Rukh's Co­ Politburo. by the newspaper's correspondent why who display national symbols. ordinating Council, Mr. Poyezd, V. Messrs. Soloviev and Masyk w^jje he, a candidate in a national-territorial While the officials present reacted linchevsky and O. Odarych, reportedly among a group of leading party officials district, was conducting the discussion positively to the first two proposals negotiated an agreement with the Kiev who failed to win seats in the first round in Russian, Mr. Masyk answered that, made by the UNDL and Justice Mi­ authorities, which free the detainees but of elections to the Congress of People's as a courtesy, he was responding in the nister Zaichuk even assured the acti­ moved the site of the hunger strike from Deputies on March 26. Mr. Masyk, same language that the correspondent vists, "Don't anticipate any decree that the steps of the Supreme Soviet to,a who ran unopposed in the Kiev City was posing the questions. "Please, ask would prohibit Ukrainian national fountain across from the nearby Ma­ National-Territorial Electoral District (questions! in Ukrainian — I am, after symbols," a heated discussion took ny insky Palace. No. 33, was turned down by 963,994 all, Ukrainian." Determined to put a stop to con­ voters, or 62.8 percent of the electorate. Although the Kiev Party first secre­ tinued harassment of individuals dis­ Addressing the plenum of the Kiev tary may have been honest in his Shcherbytsky reported playing national symbols by authori­ City Party Committee that accepted his answer, presumably the question called ties, the demonstrators declared that request to step down, he explained that for a less abrupt and somewhat more to be terminally ill they would continue their hunger strike his decision was prompted by the meaningful response concerning lan­ WASHINGTON - U.S. News A for a longer period. election results: guage issues not only in Kiev but in the World Report, in its "Washington According to the UPA, that same day "What was the basis for taking such a republic as a whole. Whispers" column, reported that a Kiev court sentenced Dmytro Kor- decision? Party cadres are being verified Later, at the post-mortem joint Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, first se­ chynsky, a UHU activist, to 15 days' by the people through democratic plenum in Kiev, Mr. Masyk conceded cretary of the Communist Party of arrest for "organizing illegal demon­ elections. This was also discussed at the that the Popular Movement of Ukraine Ukraine, is terminally ill. strations." Also, two days earlier, Oles recent meeting in the CPSU Central for Perebudova or Rukh, "complicated The magazine notes that Mr. Bykov, the son of the well-known Committee — in M. S. Gorbachev's the political situation on the eve of the Shcherbytsky, 71, "Ukraine's hard­ Ukrainian director, was sentenced to six speech. I did not get the Kievites' elections" with "the timely attractive­ line Communist Party boss for the days' arrest. He had placed a sign in support in the elections for the USSR ness of the contents of (its! draft past 17 years, is mortally ill and will front of the headquarters of the Central people's deputies. The basic reasons for program," which placed heavy em­ soon resign both that post and his Committee of the Communist Party of this were analyzed in detail at the phasis on the national question. membership in the Politburo." Ukraine which read: "Communists, I plenum of the City Party Committee. I In his address to the joint plenum in don't want to live with you!" feel that I am personally to blame for Kiev last April, Mr. Masyk put his the defeat in the elections because I did finger on the main problem - i.e., not take into account the specifics and widespread popular dissatisfaction with novelty of the election campaign; was the absence of concrete results after four FOUNDED 1933 not familiar enough with the situation years of perestroika: Ukrainian Weel:l! in the city; and approached the elec­ "I want to repeat again: the election tions, as they say, with the old stan­ results, specifically the candidacies of An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National dards." the first secretary of the City Commit­ Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. A majority of the plenum voted to tee fMasykj and the head of the execu­ 07302. approve Mr. Masyk's request, with four tive committee of the city council votes against. (Valentyn A. Zgurskyl, should be Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. It was precisely this first round of viewed as a negative reaction of the (ISSN-^ 0273-9348) elections that signalled what is now Kievites to the absence of tangible frequent^^ referred to as the party's realities of perestroika, to the tension Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - SIO. "loss of authority. "The dismal showing that is growing in a whole series of social Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. of Kiiy's party members in the first problems." rouiil3-- of the 15 party members who The controversial first secretary of The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: stood for election in Kiev's seven Kiev's Podil Raion Committee, Ivan N. (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 electoral districts on March 26 only one Saiiy, stated flatly: "I am convinced that Postmaster, send address was elected - was the subject of a joint for us the moment of truth has come, we changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz plenum of the Kiev City Party Commit­ can no longer entertain illusions. And Associate Edi!u.s: Marta Koiomayets tee and its Control and Auditing Com­ the truth is that we have suffered a The Ukrainian Weekly P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak mission on April 6. major political defeat." Jersey City, NJ. 07303 That meeting, which was opened by Another raion Party first secretary, Mr. Masyk's keynote speech, was Valeriy A. Kirian of the Darnytsia party The Ukrainian Weekly, August 6, 1989, No. 32, Vol. LVil described by Vechirniy Kyiv as being organization, observed: "The elections Copyright 1989 by The Ukrainian Weekly unlike any other in the past: (Continued on pa^e 14) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1989

President marks Captive IVations Wee/cExperts ' report notes USSR4 WASHINGTON - The 30th obser­ Ngor, who fled Cambodia after the vance of Captive Nations Week took holocaust and won an Academy Award continuing abuse of psychiatry place at the White House Rose Garden for his role in the 'Killing Fields.' " by John A. Kim current mental disorder in nine, and the on July 21. Some 200 persons gathered The president reaffirmed that Ame­ UNA Washington Office remaining three had relatively mild rica stands with all nations striving to for the public ceremony initiated by WASHINGTON - The official symptoms that would not typically President Ronald Reagan in 1982. recapture their national history and warrant involuntary hospitalization in freedom. "Indeed, to all nations, Ame­ report of the U.S. psychiatric team that In his remarks, President George visited the USSR earlier this year was Western countries." Bush recalled his inaugural address in rica proclaims that truth cannot for­ The report clearly indicates these ever be intimidated by force. For released during a July 12 hearing of the which he said: "In man's heart, if not in Commission on Security and Coopera­ unnecessary hospitalizations as politi­ fact, the day of the dictator is over. The history shows — and the human will cal: proclaims - that liberty can light the tion in Europe (Helsinki Commission). totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas The analysis, "Report of the U.S. "The pre-arrest behaviors of virtually blown away like leaves from an ancient darkest night." all the released cases (11 of 12) consti­ While the president devoted much Etelegation to Assess Recent Changes in lifeless tree." Having returned from Soviet Psychiatry," provides a "snap­ tuted political or dissident behavior. Poland and Hungary "hopeful and attention in his remarks to Hungary and Examples include activities on behalf of Poland, the strikes in Siberia and in shot" assessment of Soviet psychiatric encouraged," he confirmed that indeed practices with overriding Western Ukrainian dissidents (signing petitions, "The old ideas are blowing away. Donbas and Chervonohrad, Ukraine, distributing literature) (Case No. 27)... were not mentioned in either the pro­ concerns on medical, legal and human Freedom is in the air." rights violations. writing books and taking up the cause Flanked by Vice-President Dan clamation or the president's speech, of the Crimean Tatars (No. 03); distri­ noted the Ukrainian National Informa­ Several members of the U.S. delega­ Quayle and seven immigrants from tion testified at the hearing, including buting a copy of a book by Solzhenitsyn captive nations, President Bush spoke tion Service. (No. 19). These behaviors ... fall into Among those in attendance at the Lx)ren Roth, the leader of the group and about the spirit and heroism of patriots vice-chairman of the Department of categories of writing and distributing which inspires and teaches us: "For they White House ceremony were several anti-Soviet literature, aiding nationa­ officers of the Ukrainian National Psychiatry at the University of Pitts­ embody the spirit of Captive Nations burgh School of Medicine; Darrel listic aspirations or identity, political Association: John O. Flis, supreme organizing, defending rights of disabled Week - the spirit which says that Regier, director of the Division of freedom around the world is not di­ president; Taras Szmagala, supreme groups, or furthering religious ideas." advisor; Eugene Iwanciw, supreme Clinical Research at the National visible, and which lives in the brave Institute of Mental Health; Peter Red- The report also states that of the "fiv^ immigrants from captive nations who advisor and director of the UNA's persons most recently hospitalized Washington Office; and Bohdan Yasin- daway, professor of political science are beside me: Polita Grau de Aguero, and international affairs at the Institute through the medical process, none had for instance, a political prisoner in Cuba sky, chairman of the Baltimore District committed violent acts prior to hospita­ Committee. of Sino-Soviet Studies at George Wash­ before fleeing to America. Or Haing ington University; and William Far- lization. Two patients connected their rand, senior deputy assistant secretary hospitalization to their political be­ The time seemed ripe for a joint at the Bureau of Human Rights and havior: Case No. 11 -engaging in activi­ Kiev Consulate... announcement at the summit meeting Humanitarian Affairs of the U.S. State ties in support of Ukrainian rights (this regarding the opening of the consulates patient had requested to be interviewed (Continued from page 1) Department. in Kiev and New York. However, the The delegation's official document by the U.S. delegation); and Case No. 27 hold fast to the less restrictive Senate INF treaty took precedence and re­ notes that "for the most part, the USSR — activities in pursuit of establishing a two-party system in the USSR." language in the bill," she noted. ceived all the publicity in the press. The hosts complied with the terms of the The House bill includes a waiver of Kiev consulate was reportedly discuss­ agreement under which the visit was The U.S. report cites Soviet abuses in Section 153 (b) of Public Law 100-204 ed, but not acted upon. made, although the delegation did the medical treatment of patients: for fiscal year 1990 and 1991, but Prior to the summit, a Senate letter encounter significant procedural ob­ ^ "1. Antipsychotic(neuroleptic) instructs the secretary of state to submit sponsored by Sens. Howard Metzen- stacles that hindered their time-limited medications have been used to treat a plan, including a budget, for a consu­ baum (D-Ohio), Dennis DeConcini CD- task and that appeared to reflect some patients for 'delusions of reformism' late in Kiev that has "secure permanent Ariz.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Soviet reluctance to provide full access and 'anti-Soviet thoughts' in the ab­ facilities." The language in the Senate Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) was circulated to needed information." sence of accepted medical indications bill allows for more flexibility in nego­ th^t gave reasons why a consulate in The "obstacles" encountered by the for psychotic ideation. Medical records tiations with the Soviets. Kiev should be opened and recom­ Americans occurred from the very start. and patient interviews provided evi­ The "fully secure" language had been mended its announcement at the summit The Americans desired to interview and dence for use of relatively high doses of incorporated into the 1988-1989 guide­ meeting. examine 48 Soviet citizens, 37 of whom neuroleptics in some patients who lines to the State Department by the Members of AHRU and Orest Dey- were identified by the Helsinki Com­ showed no signs of psychotic ideation." House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee chakiwsky of the U.S. Helsinki Com­ mission. However, this list was ulti­ ^ "2. Soviet psychiatrists have used on International Operations (which mission lobbied hard and fast and were mately reduced to 27, primarily because sulfazine treatment ostensibly to en­ oversees consulates and embassies) then able to secure 43 senatorial signatories many patients were released just prior hance treatment response to neuroleptic headed by Rep. Dan Mica of Florida. It in a short span of time. This joint letter to or during the American team's visit. medication. However, they were unable was written at a time when extensive was hand-delivered to the White House Several patients refused to be inter­ to produce any research evidence of its "bugs" were found in the U.S. Embassy in time for the president's summit viewed. By mutual U.S.-USSRconsent, efficacy for this purpose. Furthermore, in Moscow. agenda. two patients were added to the list after the severe pain, immobility, fever and The ''secure permanent facilities" At various intervals in the past 15 the U.S. team began the examinations. muscle necrosis produced by his medi­ terminology became a stumbling block years attempts were made to establish a Of the 27 persons interviewed only 15 cation, as well as the pattern of its use in in the way of the opening of a consulate U.S. consulate in Kiev but, for one were currently hospitalized and 12 had 10 patients, suggest that it has been used in Kiev. Translated into monetary reason or another, the opening never been released. Of the 15 hospitalized, for punitive rather іЬад therapeutic terms, this meant about S40 million for a occurred. Former president Jimmy five were determined healthy and 10 had purposes. In addition to sulfazine, there new facility. Carter imposed sanctions on the Soviets evidences of psychotic behavior. In­ were reported cases in which insulin Rep. Bernard Dwyer (D-NJ.), a for invading Afghanistan. terestingly, since the U.S. visit, four of coma, strict physical restraints, and member of the House Appropriations More recently the Kiev consulate the five healthy patients have been 'atropine therapy'were used for patients Committee dealing with consulates and opening was delayed due to the 1986 released, including Ukrainian rights in whom U.S. psychiatrists found no embassies, told representatives from Chornobyl nuclear accident. activist Anatoly Ilchenko, as Prof. evidence of psychotic or affective AHRU last February, "You have a The present proposal is to work with Reddaway reported in his testimony. (mood) disorder. The use of atropine, tough row to hoe in your pursuit of the idea of a small consulate plan for More damaging to the Soviet "reform which produces a transient delusional opening a Kiev consulate when 17 Kiev (and Bratislava as well) and image" was that of the 12 released state and high fever, is not an accepted consulates are about to be closed due to negotiate a similar facility with the patients. The American delegation therapeutic modality in the West." Gramm-Rudman deficit-reducing legis­ Soviet government. The small-staffed, "found no evidence of any past or (Continued on page 16) lation. Your best bet is to press for a non-classified consulate idea was also non-secure small consulate in order to advanced through public statements ensure a U.S. presence in Ukraine." made by Secretary of State James A. In AHRU's lobbying efforts in the Baker. summer of 1988 a "meeting of under­ The concept of a small consulate standing" was suggested by William has the advantages of establishing a Kychun and acted on by representatives presence in a short period of time in a from the State Department and staff budget-conscious era. This idea now members from the legislative side of has the concurrence of the Senate, the both houses of Congress. The promul­ House of Representatives and the State gation of the idea of the small consulate, Department. Perhaps this procedure it turned out, was the language of will become a trend for future consu­ compromise that satisfied the needs lates in order to maintain a presence from several quarters of the govern­ while keeping the costs low. ment. Dr. Stanley Smith, staff director for Former Secretary of State George the House Foreign Affairs Subcommit­ Shultz gave impetus to the idea of a tee on International Operations chaired small consulate in his proposals prior to by Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D-Calif.), the Reagan/Gorbachev summit,meet­ has stated on several occasions to ing in June 1988. He had just returned representatives of AHRU that "a pre­ Anatoliy Ilchenko, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, is interview(?^d by from Kiev in April with an American sence in Kiev is necessary in order to John Finerty of the U.S. Helsinki Commission during a visit of American experts delegation that inspected possible sites open up the lines of communication in concerned with abuses of psychiatry in the USSR. The interview took place at the for an American consulate there. that portion of the world." Kashchenko Hospital in Moscow in March. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. AUGUST 6.1989 No. 32

Hatyard Ukrainian Summer Institute attracts students from around tiie world CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The 19th session of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Inltitute is well under way with more than 60 students attending. This year's contingent represents 20 states, including California, Oklahoma, Ten­ nessee and Florida. The most numerous group comes from Michigan. Foreign students hail not only from neighboring Canada, but also from Germany and Ukraine. Beside individuals engaged in Slavic or international studies, the contingent includes - among others — a lawyer, a psychologist, a veterinary student, and three priests. Worthy of note is the fact that the summer institute has attracted, once again, a number of students with no ancestral ties to Ukraine. The great majority of students - 50 to be exact — are registered in the Ukrainian language program. Under the guidance of Natalia Pylypiuk, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Univer­ sity, this program has recently under­ gone significant changes. Seeking to vertically integrate the summer insti­ tute's language courses, she has intro­ duced a uniform placement examina­ While the Beginning Ukrainian class looks on, Zora Kulewicz and Alex Ghiso discuss cases. tion as an entrance prerequisite. teaching will allow us to reach this This 200-page text, now in its final at Harvard's Extension School. Dr. Pylypiuk's express objective is to goal." turn the summer institute into a center stages of preparation, addresses the The pace of Ukrainian-language The first publication of Harvard's needs of more advanced students. courses, like that of other programs at that develops college-level materials for Ukrainian Summer Institute will be students of Ukrainian. As she explains, Earlier versions of Prof. Ilnytzkyj's Harvard, is rather intensive. Beside Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj's "Ukrainian Short readers were used at the University of three hours daily in class which include "Harvard's vast resources and commit­ Stories and One Act Plays. An Anno­ ment to excellence in foreign-language Alberta and the Harvard Ukrainian interactive exercises, students are re­ tated Reader with Review Exercises." Summer Institute. quired to devote additional time in the The legitimacy of Ukrainian-lan­ laboratory. All three instructors are guage instruction, in Dr. Pylypiuk's pleased with their students' progress La Salle University offers minor opinion, will be firmly established once and expect to use this year's experience the variety and quality of its teaching toward further improvement on the in Soviet/East European studies aids can compete with materials avai­ program. Dr. Pylypiuk indicates that lable for students of languages such as the students, in turn, appreciate their PHILADELPHIA - La Salle Uni­ perestroika and glasnost,"he explained. Spanish, French or Russian. For this instructors' professionalism and tho­ versity will offer a minor program ffi "Our task is to make La Salle students reason, she gratefully acknowledges the roughly enjoy their imaginative ap­ Soviet and East European studies aware of the various upheavals in the pioneering work done by Prof. Assya proaches. beginning in September on its 20th Soviet bloc and to enable them to Humesky, the author of "Modern Street and Olney Avenue campus, it was The summer institute's language understand and evaluate better the Ukrainian" and a number of manuals program is complemented by a weekly announced the university's provost, historical events which are taking place intended for self-study programs. Brother Emery Mollenhauer, Ph.D. language table. This, a regular feature right now before our eyes." Dr. Pylypiuk also believes that the of most language programs at Harvard, The certificate program will be com­ language instructor has a crucial role to prised of six courses to be. selected by The program will be divided into two is so popular among students of Ukrai­ components — a "foreign language play when mediating between a given nian that, in fact, there are always students focusing on developments not program's stated goals and the indivi­ only in Russia, but in the entire Soviet competency" in either German or enough individuals to fill up to three Russian and a "field competency" to be dual student's needs. She places great large dinner tables. This has taken Union as well as the German Democra­ emphasis on the selection of teachers tic Republic, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, chosen from a dozen elective courses in Harvard proctors by surprise. economics, German, history, philo­ who, beside having a native command The dinner gatherings take place in and Poland. of the language, are open-minded and It will be directed by Dr. Leo D. sophy, political science, Russian, Sla­ the student cafeteria and are presided by vic, or "special topics" courses ap­ willing to learn and experiment with the institute's Ukrainian-language in­ Rudnytzky, a prominent expert in various teaching strategies. Ukrainian affairs who is professor of proved by the director. structors and visiting native speakers. The three members of her staff this Among the latter, a frequent guest is foreign languages and literature at La Dr. Rudnytzky said that each student year are graduate students from the Salle. enrolled in the program would receive a Oleksandra Isaievych, an art student University of Alberta. In charge of from Lviv, who is taking one of the Dr. Rudnytzky said that the content bibliography of selected works and a Advanced Ukrainian is Marta Hara- of the program would be "geo-political" listing of pertinent videotapes, films, institute's Ukrainian history courses. sowska, a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic The summer institute has a busy with the accent on the political. and other audio-visual materials on file linguistics and a certified teacher of "We hope to prepare students for the in the university's Humanities Labora­ schedule of extracurricular films and ESL (English as a second language). lectures. Among them, two types of new international reality which has tory. Guest lectures will also be ar­ Frequently relying on taped interviews come into being with the initiation of ranged. events have been especially designed to and the songs of artists such as Andriy service the needs of the Ukrainian- Panchyshyn, Ms. Harasowska brings language program. The first includes her students closer to the world whose presentations by the poet Pavlo Mov- language they seek to master. Interme­ chan and academician Hryhoriy Syvo- diate Ukrainian is taught by Valentyn kin. The second involves a seven-day Moroz Jr. who has just completed his theatre workshop to be conducted by master's thesis in Slavic folklore. A the well known director Les Taniuk. sensitive bandura player, Mr. Moroz Taking place during the second week of also treats musical material as a lan­ August, the latter will culminate in a guage-teaching and learning device. student performance of Shevchenko's Beginning Ukrainian is taught by Nata­ lyrical poetry and excerpts from My- lia Burianyk, a native of Kiev with ESL kola Kulish's "Maklena Grasa." training. As an undergraduate student Thanks to the financial support of the at the University of Saskatchewan, Ms. Social Sciences Research Council Buryanyk taught Ukrainian under the (SSRC) and the Ukrainian National guidance of Prof. Roma Franko whose Credit Union Association of America, language-teaching methods are highly this is the first time that the summer respected. institute will be hosting such promi­ During the early part of the session, nent guests from the Ukrainian re­ Ms. Harasowska, Mr. Moroz, Ms. public. The SSRC, it will be remem­ Buryanyk and Dr. Pylypniuk devoted bered, also assisted the Harvard Ukrai­ their time to discussions on the theory nian Summer Institute in 1988. The of foreign-language instruction. Of generosity of the Ukrainian Nat'-паї great assistance to them was Dr. Ray­ Credit Union -b і elation of America Dr. Leo Rudnytzky, the director of La Salle University's new minor program in mond Comeau, an accomplished author has allowed the institute to improve the Soviet and East European studies, explains the advantages of the program to of French-language textbooks and the quality of this year's extracurricular Marta C. Perfecky, a student at the university. director of fpreign language instruction ', program. 4,v,,^' '^ ^ No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1989 іштіпііїшітші^і^піШіїтлшііііГіНшшіїииш Young UNA'ers Greetings, resolutions, recommendations of the 1989 UNA Supreme Assembly meeting Following are the youngest and newest members of UNA Branch 368 in MiamL Their photos were submitted by the branch secretary, Andrew Maryniuk, Following are the greetings, resolutions and recommendations approved at the annual meeting of the Ukrainian National Association's Supreme Assembly.

GREETINGS The Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association, gathered at its annual meeting at Soyuzivka during the week of May 22-26, 1989: 1. As always, sends its fraternal greeting to the Ukrainian nation under Soviet domination, which during the past year, in addition to continuing its tireless struggle for its national self-determination, was subjected to a new immeasurable blow - the consequences of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe which took place in the heart of Ukraine. Deeply sympathizing with our brothers who continue to suffer the aftereffects of the explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and other ecological problems, the UNA Supreme Assembly calls on all its members to continue and intensify their active participation in all actions aimed at assisting the Ukrainian nation living on its ancestral lands. 2. Respectfully greets the hierarchy of our Churches and leadership of our Church organizations, greets our worldwide umbrella organization, and our national central organizations, greets the leaders and members of our national and local charitable, scholarly, youth, women's business and all other institutions, and calls on all its members to participate in their activities conducted for the good of our community and our nation. Michael A. Baker was enrolled by his 3. Commemorating its 95th anniversary, bows its head before its patron, Taras Alexander L. Farmiga became a mem­ grandfather Volodymyr Podubynsky, Shevchenko, on the 175th anniversary of his birth, and expresses solidarity with the ber thanks to his grandparents Nadia who has made sure that all of his Ukrainian nation in its aspirations during this very year to obtain the status of state and Theodore Spas. grandchildren are UNA'ers. language for the Ukrainian language in Ukraine, the legalization of Ukrainian Churches and complete independence and statehood.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE CANADIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE All members of the Canadian Affairs Committee unanimously affirmed the important and responsible role of the UNA in all aspects of our national life and cultural development. In view of this, all UNA branches in Canada are urged to do everything possible to ensure that the UNA remains a strong, single-minded, coordinated Ukrainian community and financial institution. Such a broad goal necessitates a full mobilization of all UNA forces in Canada, the activization of branch secretaries and district officers, the realization of annual organizing goals, and requires raising the qualifications of UNA activists and holding secretarial-organizing courses in Canada. In order to improve the administration of UNA cadres and for a more frequent review of activity, to increase membership and to realize practical and coordinated actions in all of Canada,today requires complete and harmonious cooperation among branch and district officers. All district committee executive boards should cooperate fully with the organizers and the Canadian Representation, and should promptly inform the representation about the results of its work. The resolution of these important questions and the realization of these pressing needs demand the adoption of the following resolutions: 1. Members of the UNA Supreme Assembly in Canada will meet at least twice a year, at which time they will discuss semiannual plans of activity. Such meetings Khristina N. and Chad S. Iwasz were enrolled by their grandfather Petro Iwasz. must be attended by the supreme president of the UNA or someone appointed to represent him. 2. All mortgages for Canada should be approved in consultation with the Canadian Representation. 3. A. building should be purchased, or premises rented, where the UNA's Canadian officers, organizers and secretaries could work. This office should be equipped with files on the UNA's Canadian membership. Having its own headquarters will bring the UNA prestige in Canada. 4. A book about the work of the UNA in Canada should be published in order to acquaint the Canadian community with the achievements of the UNA, which have benefitted the Ukrainian community in diaspora. 5. The Canadian Representation should have direct contact with youths and professionals. The community should be informed about the UNA's activity through advertising in the local press and radio. For this the following budget is required:

Bugdet of Canadian Representation

Organizer .-... - 540,000 Office secretary...... - - - 520,000 Organizing expenses -- 520,000 Office expenses (rent, telephone) 515,000 Advertising 5 5,000 Meeting expenses of Canadian Representation 515,000 Book about UNA in Canada 510,000 The following participated in meetings of the Canadian Affairs Committee: John O. Flis, Ulana Diachuk, John Hewryk, Wasyl Didiuk, Tekla Moroz. Adam D. and Andrew L. Maryniuk were signed up by grandpa Andrew Maryniuk. The resolutions were unanimously approved. RESOLUTIONS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. To do all feasible so that, with the assistance of secretaries and branch A UNA Insurance policy Is officers, members of the Supreme Assembly and its honorary members, 2,000 new members are enrolled this year - a pre4:onvention year. All members and honorary members of the Supreme Assembly should.be obligated to enroll at least an investment in the Ukrainian community fі e new members. 2. To invite the chairpersons of district committees to help reactivate inactive (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. AUGUST 6. 1989 No. 32

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DlcrainJanWeey Ї Communist 'Barty leaders" (July 9). The Helsinki Accords CSCE's list While reading the article, I had a feeling that Dr. Marples' account of the meet­ August 1 marked yet another anniversary of the Helsinki Accords on included 140 ing, between the electorate and the European security and cooperation in the realms of human rights, elected deputies, was as accurate and technology, economics, travel and information, among others. Dear Editor: objective as an intelligent observer can It was 14 years ago, on August 1, 1975, that 35 states, including the United In his appeal to the Paris Conference possibly make it. States, Canada and the Soviet Union, signed this milestone international on the Human Dimension (The Ukrai­ covenant. nian Weekly, July 16), Vyacheslav It would be interesting to know what During this span of time, what has come to be known as the Helsinki Chornovil of the Ukrainian Helsinki reasons those in the audience gave that process has experienced many ups and downs, and promises made in Union refers to an article in Pravda in Borys Oliynyk "has become increasing­ Helsinki have yet to be fully realized. We would argue, however, that much which I supposedly told a Pravda ly unpopular among Ukrainian writers progress has indeed been made in those 14 years toward ensuring that states correspondent that there were 30 out­ and intellectuals." recognize their citizens' rights. For it was at Helsinki that the signatories standing human rights cases left between agreed that the relationship between the state and an individual is a proper the United States and USSR. I believe Leonid Lishchyna subject of international concern — and not a given state's "Internal affair." there may have been some confusion as Toronto Since then, there have been three Helsinki Accords review meetings — in these 30 cases 1 referred to pertain to only Belgrade, Madrid and Vienna — and several other CSCE meetings devoted to one of the lists mentioned during my specialized topics, for example the human rights experts' meeting in Ottawa, May 30 press conference in Paris, which the London Information Forum and the first of the three-session Conference the Pravda correspondent attended. About our orf the Human Dimension (CHD) held most recently in Paris. Among special In reality, the Helsinki Commission's CSCE meetings coming up are two more CHD meetings in Copenhagen and lists, which were presented to the Soviet visibility 'Moscow, as well as a special meeting on environmental concerns to be held in delegation at the press conference Sofia, Bulgaria, this fall. during the week of my visit included Dear Editor: The most recent full-scale review meeting of Helsinki Accords implementa­ nearly 140 political prisoners and over The brutal suppression of the blos­ tion, held in Vienna from November 1986 to January of this year, contained 600 unresolved human contacts cases — soming democratic reform movement more precise language than any previous CSCE document. Sen. Dennis considerably more than the 30 referred in China touched and frustrated many DeConcini, chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, pointed out; to in the Pravda article. of us very deeply. "Particularly noteworthy are those texts covering religious freedom, the The Helsinki Commission will con­ Through your reports in The Weekly, rights of national minorities, freedom of movement, the environment and tinue its efforts on behalf of these and we were pleased to see that Ukrainian information." He emphasized that the document, like those which preceded other cases of individuals of Soviet Americans and Canadians rallied to the it," will be used as a standard against which to measure the behavior of the citizens, including Ukrainian Helsinki Chinese students' support by partici­ participating states." Union activists, whose rights are vio­ pating in various demonstrations. This Co-chairman Rep. Steny Hoyer commented that the Vienna concluding lated. both increases our visibility and involve­ document, "together with the human rights mechanism of the Conference on ment in issues which reinforce our views the Human Dimension, can, in my opinion, if used properly, foster Sen. Dennis DeConcini and concerns before a wider public. substantial further progress." chairman And commission member Rep. Don Ritter stated, "I think we can all Commission on Security and Please note that in Washington, applaud the success of our negotiators in Vienna.... The Vienna negotiations Cooperation in Europe representatives of various area Ukrai­ served as a forum of the United States and our Western European allies to Washington nian American organizations also parti­ highlight violations of existing CSCE provisions in other signatory states. cipated in demonstrations and vigils Our negotiators brought home to the Soviet Union and its allies that for the before the Chinese Embassy and the United States, guaranteeing the rights and freedoms of the individual. is the Commendations replica of the "Goddess of Democracy" paramount goal." He further commented, "In the CSCE process the West has statue. perhaps a unique forum for testing the concrete effect oT Gorbachev's reform for Marples rhetoric on the day-to-day lives of the Soviet and East European population." Marta Pereyma The chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Vienna meeting, Warren Dear Editor: Ukrainian-American Community Zimmermann, echoed Rep. Ritter's remarks. "The foundation laid in Vienna Dr. David Marples is to be com­ Network of the Commonwealth - including the new human rights commitments and the schedule for human mended for his article "AngryKievites of Virginia rights follow-up meetings — creates favorable opportunities for keeping the demand resignations of Ukrainian Arlington pressure on the East on human rights, as well as for pursuing the U.S. agenda on military security and economic cooperation issues." Thus, we see that the Helsinki process has accomplished much and there is much reason to believe that it will continue to nobly serve the interests of FOR THE RECORD: Marples world peace and human rights for all people. As Ambassador Zimmermann so correctly stated, "Our challenge is to make the most of the opportunities writes to News from Ukraine that we have created to advance the human rights agenda." And so, on this 14th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, we pay tribute to News from Ukraine, an English- I write this brief article on the third that document both because of the achievements it has produced and the language newspaper published in Kiev anniversary of the grave disaster at the opportunities it continues to generate for further progress. for distribution abroad, published a Chornobyl nuclear power plant in brief letter from Dr. David Marples of Ukraine. Since that time there have the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian been many beneficial changes in the Studies, University of Alberta, in issue Soviet Union under CC CPSU General August No, 25 (June), Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. In June, What was published, however, was I am being permitted to fulfill a three- Turning the pages back... actually four sentences taken out of year ambition to visit the Chornobyl context from a letter that was meant to nuclear plant personally. Last year, I focus attention on continuing pro­ visited Kiev, and was grateful for the blems surrounding the April 1986 warm reception I received. I believe that Panteleimon Kulish, prominent writer, historian ethno­ accident at the Chornobyl nuclear the international situation, and rela­ grapher and translator, was born August 8, 1819, in power plant. tions between Ukraine and Canada _^ Voronizh, Cherhiniv gubernia. have improved immeasurably. He took on a teaching position in Lutske in 1840 and it was there that he wrote his Below we publish Dr. Marples'letter However, in some respects, I remain a first historical novel "Mikhail Charnyshenko of Little Russia Eighty Years as it appeared in News from Ukraine, cynical Westerner. I am very disturbed, Ago" in Russian. His first Ukrainian-language work was the epic poem "Ukraina" followed by the full text of the original for example, about the new law issued (1843). In 1845; after being invited to teach at St. Petersburg University, Kulish letter, dated April 27. We publish both by the Soviet Ministry of Power, which wrote the historical novel "Chorna Rada, Khronika 1663 Roku" (Black Council, A to set the record straight. prohibits information about nuclear Chronicle of the Year 1663), his most famous work. accidents in your country from being He was arrested for belonging to the secret Ss. Cyril and Methodius There have been many beneficial released to the press. My understanding Brotherhood, spent two months in prison and was exiled for three years to Tula. He changes in the Soviet Union under is that these accidents even include was not allowed to write at this time. Mikhail Gorbachev. In June I am being those that have a significant effect upon In 1850 he returned to St. Petersburg where he later established a Ukrainian print permitted to fulfill a three-year ambi­ the surrounding environment. shop and published a collection about Ukrainian folklore, a grammar primer, tion to visit the Chornobyl Nuclear I am concerned that, as some mem­ Marko Vovchok's stories and the Ukrainian almanac Khata. In 1860-1862 he was Power Plant personally. Last year, I bers of Zelenyi Svit have pointed out, one of the contributors to the journal Osnova. visited Kiev and was grateful for the the full story of Chornobyl has not yet After the Ems Ukase of 1876 forbade Ukrainian publications in the Russian warm reception I received. I believe that been told. Why has it taken three years empire, Kulish went to Lviv and published collections of poems and essays, as well the international situation and relations for the Ukrainian government to reveal as his translations of Shakespeare's works. He considered renouncing his Russian between Ukraine and Canada have the extent of the fallout - especially of citizenship and remaining in the Austria-Hungary-ruled part of Ukraine, but he improved immeasurably. radioactive cesium - to the public? was deterred by government policies there and returned to Russian-ruled Ukraine. Why have the health authorities been so He settled in Motronivka with his wife, also a writer, known under the pen name Dr. David R. Marples secretive about the effects of irradiation Hanna Barvinok. Here he wrote poetry and worked on translations. He died Edmonton, Alta. on the public? Was the information February 14, 1897, in Motronivka. Canada (Continued on page 15) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. AUGUST 6, 1989

Slavs and Jews Consistent and inconsistent Faces and Places perspectives on tine Holocaust by Myron B. Kuropas

by Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky pally victimizers rather than as victims? I believe that one of the possible CONCLUSION sources of the problem may lie in that in Ukraine's SS Division, "Galicia' Books about the Nazi Holocaust by the histories that are exclusively fo­ If there is one period of Ukraine's support of Nazism, Prof. Armstrong such leasing authors as Raul Hilberg, cused on the victimization of the Jews, nationalist history that has been con­ points out that at the time the division Lucy Dawidowicz and Martin Gilbert the only actors that appear on the stages sistently misrepresented by the Soviets was first proposed, "OUN(M) guerrilla are not about the Nazi Holocaust as a of such Judeo-focused books are of — and misunderstood by some Ame­ units in Volhynia were still opposing the whole, but more specifically and expli­ course the Jews and those Gentiles ricans — it is World War II. German occupation authorities," and citly about its most important story, whose activities somehow had a bearing This is especially true when the that OUN(B) initially "denounced the namely, the Nazi campaign to annihi­ upon the plight of the Jews. Thus, only discussion turns to the Ukrainian German-sponsored military forma­ late the Jews. It is difficult to find any those Slavs who collaborated with the military formation "Galicia." Orga­ tion," and "continued to urge armed fault with this since scholars are ob­ Nazis in victimizing the Jews fall within nized as a Waffen (military) SS division struggle against the Nazis and Soviets." viously free to mark off the scope of the scope of such books. by the Germans in 1943, this Ukrainian Looking to the future, however, both their historical analyses however they Ukrainians or Poles who had no unit fought on the eastern front exclu­ the OUN and the Ukrainian Catholic choose, and because the titles or sub­ relationship to the victimization of the sively, surrendering to the British in Church - which insisted that the titles of all three of the major tomes to Jews and themselves happened to be 1945. division include Ukrainian military which 1 have referred above explicitly victims of the Nazis are irrelevant to the The Soviets would have the world chaplains who could "insure spiritual announce that their subject is the Nazi telling of the story about the Jews and believe that the Ukrainian division was and moral counsel"... and "negate any campaign to annihilate the Jews. are therefore invisible on the pages of deeply involved with the murder of Jews attempts at Nazi indoctrination" — Might there not, however, be some such books. As a result, the only and other war crimes, an easy-to-believe came to support the division in the firm concentration between such highly Ukrainians or Poles that usually appear canard if one equates all SS formations belief that it would soon evolve into a regarded histories of the Nazis mur­ on the pages of the standard treatments with such nefarious Nazi extermination Ukrainian national army. derous campaign against the Jews and of the Nazi Holocaust are those who units as the Gestapo and the Einsatz- "By 1944," writes Dr. Armstrong, the reversal of the record that occurs may have collaborated. The historical gruppen. The truth, however, is signi­ ^Virtually all Ukrainian leaders regard­ when Slavs are characterized as princi- record is thus distorted and the Slavs ficantly different, and it is for this ed German defeat, if not complete are represented principally as victimi­ reason that authoritative books like collapse, as probable. Their basic The article above is based on a paper zers rather than as victims. "The Ukrainian Division 'Galicia', assumption was that the wartime al­ delivered at a 1987 Conference spon­ What about the issue of Slavic colla­ 1943-1945," are so welcome by Ukrai­ liance between Stalin and the Anglo- sored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial boration? Once again, I will restrict my nians. Published by the Shevchenko Americans would not only disintegrate Council that focused on ''The Other remarks to the Ukrainians. The type of Scientific Society in 1988, the book is as soon as Nazi defeat was certain, but Victims: Non Jews Persecuted and claim that one frequently hears in the the memoir of Major Wolf-Dietrich that armed Soviet-Western conflict Murdered by the Nazis." The paper will Ukrainian community to the effect that Heike,the Ukrainian division's German would quickly follow. Such a conflict be published in the forthcoming volume no Ukrainians brutalized any Jews but chief of staff from January 1944 until would end with destruction of the titled "У4 Mosaic of Victims: The Fate of that instead Ukrainians tried to shelter the surrender. communist system. Its immediate ef­ Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by Jews is naive, disingenuous or both. fect, however, would be a highly un­ the Nazis, " edited by Dr. Michael The author wrote this monograph in The only statistical estimate of colla­ 1947, while in a British internment settled condition in Eastern Europe, Berendaum and published by New York boration that I ha\^ ever encountered, tesembhng the 1918-1920 period. In University Press. camp. The manuscript was published in (Continued on page 13) Ukrainian in 1970 and in German in such circumstances, even moderately 1973. The present English volume, strong local forces could be effective, NBWS AND VIBWS edited by Dr. Yury Boshyk, is based on both in altering the balance of power the original Ukrainian translation. (especially among suppressed nations as Major Heike has penned a fascinat­ Ukrainians and Poles) and by providing ing history with chapters devoted to the protection for national communities. Restructuring in Ukraine: an issue formation and training of the division Ultimately (if acceptable to the trium­ — emphasis is placed on how the Nazi phant Western Allies), such marginally leadership initially brutalized, later effective regular military formations of concern to Ul(rainians worldwide exploited Ukrainians - the Battle of could bolster new state formations." by Dr. Michael H. Voskobiynyk course stimulates the development of Brody, the reorganization of the divi­ Was such an idea insane? Hardly. the people's forces and their participa­ sion, the battles that followed, and the Hagganah, embryo of the now mighty PART II tion in the political life of the republic. It 11th hour unification of all Ukrainian Israeli army, began its existence as a also stimulates unanimity within the military into the Ukrainian National disbanded, British-estabUshed Jewish Against the backdrop of open of­ nation, and, in this way, can revive Army under the command of Gen. Legion in World War I. The Poles fensives by anti-perestroika forces, Ukraine's dignity in its relations with Pavlo Shandruk. hoped to preserve their underground conservative-Stalinists grouped in Mos­ other peoples of the USSR and with Although mindful of Ukrainian Home Army (Armija Krajowa) as a cow and other cities in the Russian foreign countries. shortcomings, the author is generally viable force after World War II. Indone­ organization Pamiat -an organization All 50 million people in Ukraine are sympathetic to Ukrainians and their sian nationalists had similar dreams that is against Mikhail Gorbachev, deserving of proper treatment in the aspirations, and extremely critical of following Japan's surrender. "On the against the non-Russian nationalists, world, and especially in the USSR itself. Nazi bungling. He describes division uncertain terrain of prediction in inter­ against the Jews, foreigners, etc. — it is This national process is necessary for Commander Fritz Freitag as a person national relations," concludes Prof. important for Ukrainians in Ukraine to Ukraine, for Ukrainians in diaspora, as with "a pathological distrust of people," Armstrong, "the Ukrainian wager on support Mr. Gorbachev's perestroika. well as for the rest of the world to secure overzealous, "especially when he at­ the Ukrainian Division does not, there­ It is obvious that current Ukrainian peace. tempted to force the ideas of National fore, appear to be foolhardy." national interests cannot be disregarded ^ 2. It is especially important to take Socialism on those around him," and The Heike memoir is one more piece by those Ukrainians living in diaspora. a positive attitude toward the Gorba­ egotistical. "He could not understand of needed ammunition in the current They are really concerned with the fate chev's restructuring policy, otherwise the psychology of Ukrainians," writes Ukrainian struggle against defamation, of their former homeland, but no longer his defeat could lead to the return of the major in his description, "and and deserves a place in every Ukrai­ in the abstract sense of "sometime in the either of two policies: the brutal ty­ attempted to force upon them the 4he nian's library. future" — but with events happening ranny of Stalinism, which had been Prussian spirit.' " today. counter-revolutionary and despotic, or Ukrainians are described as a people Therefore, taking into account this corruptive Brezhnevism. Either varia­ who are individualistic — they reject view held by some Ukrainians living in tion would cost Ukraine new victims "collective life which demands severe the West, the following ideas exist and humiliations. discipline and unremitting obedience" ІІІІІііМіїИІіііШІі concerning all-Ukrainian tasks in pre­ ^ 3. Ukrainians have yet their own — traditionally hospitable, and prone sent-day Ukraine. reasons to support the restructuring to allowing emotions control reason. ^ 1. Mr. Gorbachev's liberalizing pohcy. Because of this policy, there has "Among the Slavs,'' writes Major pro-democratic course is a chance to been a spiritual awakening in Ukraine Heike, '4he Ukrainian seems pre­ open a new road for the cultural and among the intellectuals and the people eminently capable of raising himself to economic revival of Ukraine. This - despite anti-reformist reactionary the heights of enthusiasm, only to fall, forces, which have sprung up as well. A after the first indications of failure, to Dr. Michael H. Voskobiynyk is victory by the anti-reformist forces the depths of apathy and disillusion­ professor emeritus of history at Central would lead all of us not forward but ment. He is capable of deep love but Connecticut State University. He is also backward. also, conversely of incredible hatred." the head of the Ukrainian National ^ 4. Economic restructuring in the Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Rada (Council). The article above is an Soviet Union will succeed only if the this significant publication is the 13- English-language version of one that USSR adopts political pluralism. Only page introduction by Prof. John Arm­ ШШШШіШШШШІіїШ appeared recently in Ukrainski Visti pluralism can secure the prerequisites strong who rejects KGB-inspired allega-' (Ukrainian News) of Detroit. It will be needed for new forms of economic lions that Ukrainian nationalists form­ published in three parts. (Continued on page 11) ed an SS division because of their THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1989 No. 32

State of the art Les Taniuk on contemporary Ukrainian t/ieater

by Marta Kolomayets "^ In a February 1989 Pravda Ukrainy interview, Rostyslav Kolomiyets, a drama studies specialist from Ukraine, summarized the state of Ukrainian theater in this way: "Our theater today exists in a truncated form with a damaged root system." He went on to explain that: "The intensity of the Ukrainian theater movement began to decline steadily with the loss of Les Kurbas and the cessation of the very fruitful collaboration-rivalry of the Traditionalists (the Theater of I. Franko) and the Experimentalists (Berezil). "The monopoHzation and canonization of Ukrai­ nian Traditionalism flowed in the spirit of general collectivization in the Soviet culture of the 30 s. Multi­ national Soviet art had to be in different languages to illustrate the ideological dogmas of Stalinism's victories. And the national element in art was reduced to a souvenir framework and booklet coloring. All aspects of the Ukrainian theater — 'He who is not with us is against us' — were driven into the narrow corridor of the musical-dramatic attribute, as if that had been premordially inherent to it. "There is no contemporary musical drama. And the result is — to keep from being ruined! — we fill empty billboards with operettas, to include foreign operettas. In general, regardless of how sad it is, today's Ukrainian musical dramatic performance has degene­ rated into a routine variety show, an entertaining spectacle. Les Taniuk at the control panels backstage at Broadway'9 ""Phantom of the Opera." "We must certainly have a national memorial offices, but to no avail. Russia employs graduates of the Kharkiv Theater theater where our.classics would be revived in the In his support, the Soviet writers, artists, com­ Institute, and they are creating Russian culture, immortality of the their creators' conceptions and with posers, directors and actors wrote: "The attempt to because they were not allowed to create Ukrainian complete stage presentation. I suggest that in addition turn the Kiev Youth Theater into a cultural center, made culture in Kharkiv, on their native lands. to the purely restorational work of purifying the real by the enthusiasts led by Les Taniuk, met with stiff It was an active diffusion, and only now is the traditions from the canons, stratifications and cliches, resistance and was ultimately cut short. Without going moment right for them to come back, although I must such a theater would become a proving ground to test into detail, we express sympathy for the opinion of add, they are not running back, yet. the new capabilities for introducing the classical legacy Ivan Drach who holds that 'all this is very reminiscent to contemporary problems, rhythms and intonations. of the old method of making short work of men of art In addition, we must also have different theater, if only who not always pleased high-ranking bureaucrats.' Yd like to offer a glimpse into the atmosphere with two trends. ''We believe that the ministry's order on the surrounding the founding meeting of our theater "There must be experimental theaters in which the disqualification of Les Taniuk is illegal and should be union. Earlier, we did not have a union, we had an Ukrainian stage would well up through the decades canceled. association; the Ukrainian Theatrical Society, which that were neglected. I am speaking about the 20th "We suggest that a new Ukrainian theater, under the we called TeTe (Teatralne Tovarystvo). This was the century birth of the musical-dramatic genre of the directorship of Les Taniuk, whose entire life has kind of society that gave you a pension, offered a musical, folk-opera, rock-opera and so forth. And we proved his right to this (as a stage director of many vacation, but did not care about any more serious must have theaters in which the Ukrainian stage would talented performances, an author of books on theater, matters. reveal the unique traits that are focused and expressed and popularizer and researcher of Kurbas's system to Finally, in 1987, we formed a Union of Creative in various of the republic's regions. It is generally not which he devoted 30 years of his life), be set up in the Artists of the Theater. But what 1 witnessed happening worth dictating the direction for theatrical develop­ building located on 17 Sverdlov Street in Kiev, which at this inaugural meeting was a discussion of what ment. Let theaters of various types spring up. Those bears Kurbas's bas-relief. The dramatically inter­ hand to hold one's voting card in, how to sit, etc. What that are viable will survive. And I also do not think rupted tradition of Les Kurbas must be revived! are we talking about? 1 asked. We are not talking that musical drama will disappear." "A new theater should be set up as a cultural hub about the fact that today there is only one Ukrainian- One of the energetic directors of this day and age is which would promote the development of creative language children's theater in Lviv, and all others Les Taniuk, whose work reflects the essence of Les cooperation of representatives of various arts — present productions in Russian. We are not talking Kurbas, and of Ukrainian theater of the 1920s. Mr. actors and literati, artists and producers, movie­ about the fact that in a production of "Eugene Onegin" Taniuk has devoted close to 30 years of his life to makers and musicians, critics and playwrights — as a there were 64 actors on stage, and the audience had reinstating the traditions of Les Kurbas in the Ukrai­ center of international and patriotic education of the only 46 viewers. nian theater. young. Given the conditions of restructuring, reads the Why don't we talk about the fact that there is no Mr. Taniuk, 51, is a graduate of the Kiev Theater concluding part of the letter, the model of Kurbas's Ukrainian repertoire, we have no young Ukrainian Institute. As a student, he became a "Shestydesiatnyk," theater, as a researching artistic laboratory of mutual dramatists; or that our union does have dramatists but taking advantage of the cultural thaw of the early enrichment and unity of different branches of culture, no one puts on their plays. We do have young 1960s. He headed the Kiev-based Club of Creative must be revived/' playwrights who have written anywhere between 20 Youth and at this time put on productions by Mykola in June, a letter was submitted to the Plenum of the and 40 plays, yet they are not allowed into the union. Kulish, "Patetychna Sonata," and "Otak Zahynuv Central Committee on the nationalities question For example, we have Yaroslav Vereshchaka, but he's Huska," as well as Berthold Brecht's ''Mother about the formation of this Les Kurbas Theater. To not let into the union because he is a sharp-edged Courage." the best of Mr. Taniuk's knowledge, this letter has not character. Before moving to Moscow in 1965, because six of received a response. (Mr. Taniuk has been in Canada Well, it came down to the voting for various eight productions in Ukraine were censored, Mr, and the United States since the beginning of June and positions as to the governing body of the union. After Taniuk managed to stage Stelmakh's "Pravda I is scheduled to return to the Soviet Union in early such a speech as 1 had made my fate was sealed. But, Kryvda" in Odessa, and V. Rosov's "U Den Vasilia" September.) the voting results came in and 1 passed with 134 votes, and Ostrovsky's "Pisnia Liubov" in Kharkiv, at the Below, Mr. Taniuk offers his comments on the state the minimum needed to be elected. (Vereshchaka got former Berezil Theater. of Ukrainian theater today. The interview (excerpted that same number.) However, as the voting results Although his stage efforts were thwarted in Ukraine below) was conducted during the University of Illinois were announced, a recess was called. The meeting was as he attempted to Ukrainianize theater, his creativity Ukrainian Research Program's conference in Urbana- called to order two and a half hours later and I was no flourished in Moscow, where over a 23-year period, he Champaign in late June. longer on the list of people elected to the governing staged more than 50 productions, his 50th being "The positions. This entire episode was written up in the w^ti^ni,^t.^^t^^?t^^t^^c^^ Prince and the Pauper" in 1981. Russian journal Teatr by a Valeriy Turovsky, who was In Moscow he staged such productions as "Kazky The picture of contemporary Ukrainian theater is accused of being a Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist Pushkina," which is still being presented after 20 not homogenous; the state of theater, as the state of when in fact he is a Kievan Jew who has not lived in years, as well as "Husiache Pero " and "Svit bez perebudova, is not uniform in the Soviet Union. Both Ukraine for many, many years. Mene." are arriving in Ukraine with some delay. I'm explaining alt of this to tell you that our theater He has directed in Leningrad and Smolensk, and in But the situation in Ukraine is changing. To union finally did come into existence. It has quite a few 1986 Mr. Taniuk was rehabilitated in Ukraine and illustrate how things were, I'd like to cite an example, I talented people, but it does exist as one of the more appointed the chief director of the Kiev Youth was the 116th graduate of the Kiev Theater Institute, conservative forces in our society and has not done Tlieater. He attempted to Ukrainianize the theater and directing faculty, graduating in 1962. Sixteen of the much of anything yet ^^aise its standards, however, after the start of his students went to work hi ,^rit diamatir theatei in We have had a nuniDer^f interestingplar-s !al^vvay^ secopd vea^ there, he was іііт:1 ^^ї'^і,-'^.. 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Religious dissidents: little has changed for Churches in USSR by Patricia Lefevere The charge of "hooliganism" was also brought alive the issues of religious freedom and human Special to The Ukrainian Weekly against six Ukrainian priests for offering liturgy, rights in the Soviet Union. "How," he asked "does according to Ivan Неї, a former prisoner of (President Mikhail) Gorbachev plan to join the MOSCOW — A group of religious dissidents — conscience. Each went to jail for 15 days, he said. common European home with so many citizens . many of them former prisoners of conscience in the Mr. Неї, who heads the Committee for the without rights within his own home?" The journa­ Soviet Union - claim that little real change has Defense of Ukrainian Catholics, noted that dozens lists, two from the U.S. and eight from Western occurred for Churches under the new openness, or of priests and laity have continued the - fast begun Europe, were in Moscow to report on the Central glasnost, proclaimed by Soviet politicians and the May 17 by three Ukrainian bishops and three Committee meeting of the World Council of Soviet media. priests outside the headquarters of the Council for Churches, held July 17-26. Ukrainian Catholics, At a press conference held on Tuesday, July 25, Religious Affairs (CRA) on Moscow's Smolensk including Mr. Khmara, demonstrated for five in a crowded Moscow apartment, the seven Boulevard. afternoons outside the meeting. dissidents called for broad-based discussion and The fact that CRA deputies have received three As a further example of the ambiguous progress public debate on the Soviet draft law on religious delegations of Ukrainian clergy — two last October made by the Churches since the declaration of freedom and freedom of conscience. The law, which and one more recently — demonstrates, Mr. Неї perestroika in 1985, Mr. Ogorodnikov pointed to was proposed more than a year ago but has yet to said, that "the Church is no longer underground ... clergymen who now appear on television and are receive major attention in the media, would Lots of believers are leaving the Russian Orthodox interviewed in the press, but "they need the blessing acknowledge the legitimacy of Churches and their Church (ROC) and coming to the Ukrainian of the Moscow Patriarchate of the ROC" to do so, congregations, and would signal a historic shift in Catholic Church, he said. he said. how believers are viewed by the Soviet Union's Mr. Неї called the ROC "the real enemy in During last year's celebrations to mark the longtime monolithically atheistic society. getting official status for the Ukrainian Church. Millennium of Christianity, 150,(Ю0 Bibles were The dissidents - representing Ukrainian Catho­ They want to keep Ukraine Russian Orthodox," he allowed into the country, he said. "Metropolitan lics, the underground Baptist movement, a Roman said, noting that 70 precent of their income comes Filaret (of Minsk) said they'd be distributed freely, Catholic priest and members of the Russian and from churches in Ukraine. However, according to but they are being sold to friends of the Russian Greek Orthodox Churches — said that while the other sources, the 70 percent claim is somewhat Orthodox Church," Mr. Ogorodnikov charged. liberalizing atmosphere of "perestroika" is "unpre­ exaggerated and the figure comes closer to one- The dissident quoted Metropolitan Filaret's cedented" in the long history of their country, third of the ROC's income. figure of 2,0(Ю for the number of churches that have alterations in Soviet life - especially for people of Ukrainian Catholic dissident Stepan Khmara opened within the past few years. However, Alexei faith — are happening much too slowly. The lack of said: "The ROC is not a Church that conducts its Zalessky, another dissident , who works with timely response to Church needs on the part of own affairs, but it is the state that conducts the communities that have registered to have their government bodies and the slowness with which Church's affairs." Mr. Khmara, a former prisoner, churches opened, believes the real figure is fewer churches and temples are returned to the people who is now hunger-striking outside the CRA than 1,700 nationwide. He based his data on reports have catalyzed an ecumenical organization among headquarters, complained that the claims of in the Soviet daily Izvestia and on an interview the dissidents, according to Alexander Ogorod- Ukrainian Catholics are never reported in the mass given by the Soviet prime minister to a Luxem­ nikov, editor of the Bulletin for Christian Opinion media. bourg paper. and a convert to the Russian Orthodox Church. "Neither the Congress of People's Deputies nor "Registration and opening of a church are two The dissidents pointed to some 30 persons of the Supreme Soviet ever responds to our appeals. different things," Mr. Zalessky said, noting that a religious conviction, whose recent arrests they have They are like the ostrich that puts its head into the community first registers its believers and then it monitored. One of them -- a Baptist in Slaviansk sand and sees nothing around it." petitions the local authorities to allow the church to in western Ukraine - was charged with "hooliga­ Mr. Khmara thanked the 10 foreign journalists be opened. Mr. Zalessky showed dramatic photos nism." huddled into the tiny bedroom for helping to keep (Continued on page Щ

The Rev. Mykhailo Havryliv conducts service. Seen at a service from left are Ivan Неї, the Rev.Petro Zeleniukh and the Rev. Mykhailo Voloshyn. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1989 No. 32

stroika," argued Mr. Pavlychko, has Presumably in response to Mr. Drach's planned beforehand, with regard to Kiev regional... taken its cue from the Sicilian adage remarks, Mr. Kravchuk announced to pacifying the Ukrainian people, which (Continued from page 1) saying that everything must be changed the conference that Kiev had approach­ has gone down in history as a 'famine.' so fundamentally that nothing changes. ed '4he appropriate union authorities The main strategist, the formulator was resolution of the Central Committee of Stalin, and those who implemented it the Communist Party of Ukraine on with a request not to permit the cele­ Language and national question bration of the 280th anniversary of the were the representatives of the party questions of international upbringiilg and state apparatus in the local areas." was published." This, argued the Ukrai­ Mr. Pavlychko devoted the second Poltava Battle on Ukrainian territory according to the scenario of Young Mr. Maniak, criticizing the continued nian poet, was "a garish trait of the two- h^lf of his address to the language hesitation on the part of historians to fill faced character of our republican question, noting that here too, one Russia - the youth branch of the highly dubious Pamiat." in the "blank spots," particularly as perestroika movement," which he de­ could see the results of this "official concerns the famine, proposed the scribed as "Valuev-Zhdanov interna­ republican perestroika," specifically in Mr. Drach also touched on the formation of a People's Commission to tionalism." the discussion concerning state status current discussion about national sym­ Investigate Stalinist Crimes and Their Mr. Pavlychko accused the Ukrai­ for the Ukrainian language, which has bols, expressing his disagreement with Contemporary Consequences. nian Communist Party leadership of been marked by attempts to water down some of the arguments advanced at a having adopted a wait-and-see attitude the proposals offered by proponents of meeting of a Ukrainian Supreme Soviet Experiment witli democracy towards Gorbachev's reforms and of language reform in order to "maintain commission on the subject. Specifically, yearning for the good, old pre-pere- the real state of affairs." he doubted the validity of arguments to Both Mr. Maniak and Mr. Yavoriv­ stroika days. Instead of supporting the Mr. Pavlychko made his position the effect that national symbols such as sky, a deputy to the People's Congress, Rukh, he maintained, the party's ideo­ quite clear: (1) there can be no talk of the blue-yellow flag must be rejected addressed issues related to the recent logical apparatus mounted an attack on two state languages in Ukraine, Ukrai­ because they were associated with elections. Mr. Yavorivsky admitted that the movement, specifically through its nian and Russian; and (2) the state must enemies of the Soviet regime. By the the Ukrainian deputies were poorly organized letter-writing campaign in guarantee the Ukrainian language not same logic, he argued, the Soviet red prepared for the Congress, and it was the media, in the course of which "tens only "the right to priority functioning flag would have to be rejected inasmuch only the courageous speech of Serhiy of thousands of letters supporting the in all spheres of production, spiritual, as "so many millions of Ukrainians were Koniev, who referred to his - and Rukh were ignored by the press, radio, and administrative life but also its prac­ murdered when it was held in the hands Mr. Shcherbytsky's - home town of and television." tical (implementation!." of Stalin and Beria." Dniprodzerzhinske as "the fatherland of "Monopoly on political thought, on The speeches by Mr. Pavlychko's Like Mr. Pavlychko, Mr. Drach stagnation'' that helped the Ukrainian any kind of social initiative,"added Mr. colleagues — Ivan Drach, Vitaliy Don- called attention to the language issue, group to maintain at least a half-decent Pavlychko, "is the main feature of chyk, Volodymyr Yavorivsky, Petro saying that '4he question of state status image. leaders of a Stalinist-type party." Con­ Osadchuk and Volodymyr Maniak - for the Ukrainian language is one of the Mr. Yavorivsky emphasized the need trasting Moscow and Kiev, Mr. Pavly­ were less confrontational but equally sorest aspects of our life today, and it is for consolidation of the Ukrainian chko noted that there appear to be two critical of the situation in the republic. inadmissable to treat this lightly." deputies, and reported that henceforth kinds of perestroika - one, a genuinely Mr. Drach referred to the plans of the there would be a Ukrainian deputies' party perestroika, and "the official Russian patriotic youth group Rossiya Famine as a policy tool club in Moscow. Mr. Maniak proposed republican perestroika," its antithesis, Molodaya ("Young Russia") to cele­ the establishment of a permanent insti­ which "is trying in all possible ways to brate the 280th anniversary of the Mr. Maniak reported that he and the tution, a "referendum of electors," salvage the command-administrative Poltava Battle in Poltava in the con­ journalist Lidia Kovalenko had com­ attached to the Soviets at every level, to system; stir up dissatisfaction with the text of "the vitality of great power pleted work on the manuscript "1933-ii. which the deputies would be accoun­ perestroika changes; frighten the people chauvinism" and '4he dangers of na­ Holod" (1933: The Famine), which has table for their parliamentary work and with the contrived [existence] of raging tional tactlessness." What would be the been submitted to the Radiansky which would have the power of recall. nationalism among the creative intelH- reaction, he asked rhetorically, if, in Pysmennyk publishers in Kiev. On the gentsia; and portray the initiators of the order to promote Ukrainian patriotism, basis of testimony from thousands of Reactions in party press Rukh, who are without a doubt honest Ukrainian youth were organized to witnesses and recently "declassified" The reaction to the constituent con­ and brave citizens, as adventures who march on Moscow, retracing the steps archival materials, Mr. Maniak said ference in the party press has been are trying to seize power." of the Kozak leader Konashevych- that he could now report the following: critical, although measured. From the The "stagnant Ukrainian pere­ Sahaidachny in 1618? "In 1933 there was an action, carefully (Continued on page 15)

Russian-language, and two are Jewish theater studios. We chose this play because we thought it would State of the art... This means to me that in Kiev the theater world was bring AUT closer to the traditional audience, which (Continued from page 8) silenced long ago. And we don't have that many young does not always respond to AUT's style, and recipro­ dramatists; the level of their works is lower than that cally, it will allow AUT, which has always sought to I want to praise and recognize the theater that which is seen on the Russian, Lithuanian or Georgian put on plays with metaphors and a lot of action, but sprang up from Lviv's Zankovetsky Theater, the Lviv stages. Our playwrights were always so interested in little language, to combine both. Youth Theater, which is directed by Volodymyr answering the question "tell me who your enemy is and The story line shows that we live in a world where we Kuchynsky, a student of Vasiliv, a fine modern 111 tell you who you are" that they did not develop director, a director of the Drama Writing School in say one thing, think another, and do yet a third. Over their own styles. But this is changing now. For us looms the devil, Satan, who tries to turn us away Moscow. And this theater's most interesting product­ example, Yaroslav Stelmach has written an intelligent ions include selections from Lina Kostenko's "Sad from our inner God. This play contains mystery and piece called "Provintsiyaty" (Provincials), the story of Gogolian themes; it is very funny and at the same time Netanuchykh Skulptur" (Garden of Unmeltable a mother and daughter who come from a provincial Sculptures) and selected poetry of Vasyl Stus. They very tragic. town to Kiev and want to become a part of and adjust I see that they have the desire to work, yet in were then invited to Moscow by the Slavutych Society, to that city's life. and they put on these two productions that were principle it will be more difficult because the language is gustatory and they have worked with few words. But acclaimed by various audiences. One Russian poetess ЛЄ ^ 4t Yunna Moritz was so taken by their production that Currently, there is a great interest in Ukraine about their energy level is high; they remind me of the actors she, along with writer David Samoylov, have decided Kurbas and (Mykola) Kulish. In Kherson, for in the Kiev Youth Theater I directed in 1987-1988, who to translate Stus into the Russian language. This will example, the theater wants to change its name to followed the Kurbas tradition and who were soon have quite an aesthetic effect in Russia, and it is all Kulish. I had been preparing Kulish's "Myna Mazay- released after my departure from that theater. thanks to the Lviv Youth Theater. lo" and "Vichnyi Bunt" before I was relieved of my viv also has Ne Zhurys, a studio collective that position. N.b th Americans will have the opportunity to see this In Kiev we also have a new theater called KIN, Religious dissidents... fa This is a clever, sharp and witty group which is which wants to stage both verteps and contemporary (Continued from page 9) tr\ ag to renew the traditions of "gay Lviv." It's a plays. from a Soviet magazine of women in Ivanova, Ca ^et, they improvise,they produce a multitude of If I am to talk about professional theater in Kiev, I northeast of Moscow, who went on a hunger strike po -ns. They do this instantly, cleverly and wonderful­ can mention the youth theater affiliated with the and camped at night last winter outside a church in ly ley can sing about Kaganovich, Beria, and once Franko Theater. They recently produced Vynnychen- protest of the authorities' refusal to open their th :ome to the West they will sing you songs about ko's "Moment," which was well-received. They play in church despite high registration. The church the cnigration. such a small hall that no more than 50 people can view remains unopened, he said. 4( 3|t 4t them at one time. I'd say they were very well received, Many former churches have been turned into for they were even threatened with being closed down. .liev, there is also a cabaret group; they are called museums, small factories or simply left vacant to P.^ -Bu, which stands for burlesque, balahan, There is also a group of people in Kiev, a new club, collect debris, he said, illustrating his remarks with b. Mddsi (burlesque, farce, buffoonery). I'd like very called the Viewer's Studio, composed of about 200 to photos. He cited a city near Chornobyl where the UK for them to come to the West with Ne Zhurys. 300 theater enthusiasts, they love the theater, and it is local church had been converted into a planeta­ 1 group includes Victor Neburak, a graduate for people like this that we'd like to form the Les rium and where officials would not release it for s^ I ...nt of the Institute of Literature whose phrases are Kurbas Center, something which is similar to the worship, because it was located in a park where Ci ' ful, very original; Irvanets, who is a writer with a Brecht Center in Berlin, or the Stanislavsky Center in mothers go with young children. "Must we isolate pb ^ sophical approach to life; and Andrukovych, a Moscow. ourselves from the public?" Mr. Zalessky asked. Vi. Г who employs lyricism in his work. "Will they get infections from us?" hat binds them is the fact that they create personal Repeatedly one after another of the dissidents I was very intrigued by the magazine Terminus, and complained of the continual shuffling back and .s. They have this Pan Badzio, a traditional thus became interested in the Avant-Garde Ukrainian . ..^5, you may have heard this song of theirs, Ne forth between the local authorities, the CRA, the Theater of Toronto. We began a correspondence and Supreme Soviet and other government officials C- c. performs it. This Pan Badzio is a unique now Vm here in North America and IVe read them a ler that was never a part of Ukrainian literature. that believers must endurcLocal officials are always play, Nina Sadur's play ''Pannochka," which I members of the party "who claim they have nothing translated into Ukrainian. It is written on Gogol's to do with these questions,'^ Mr. Zalessky said, themes, theater of the absurd with Kozak themes, noting that the situation is gravest in small towns "^ lev, there are about 30 theater studios, and only done in a modern style. We have decided to stage it in and villages. these are Ukrainian-language; all the others are the fall No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1989

prove the material well-being of the Decentralization can be genuinely ^ 9. As one can see from reading in­ Restructuring... population of Ukraine. We believe that guaranteed only in the sphere of a fluential newspapers and watching TV (Continued from page 7) economic restructuring must go to­ republic's sovereignty. programs in the U.S., the national activity, which will then take that gether with a liberalization of the This is connected particularly with restructuring movement in Ukraine has country out of economic stagnation. regime in general and international the foreign currency transactions need­ seldom been mentioned. When the The principles of political pluralism as a relations in particular. A crucial matter ed for the development of Ukraine, catastrophe in Chornobyl was reported, true base and guarantee for the stable for Ukraine has always been to support rather than to have one more channel it was presented as a catastrophe in the development of democracy in Ukraine a just balance between the export and for transmission of capital, from a "south of the USSR." Why? Because the and the USSR will become a founda­ import of capital, raw materials and colony to metropoly. The voluntary government of the Ukrainian SSR does tion for securing national and human human resources between the Ukrai­ integrated economic life of Europe not prevent the status of Ukraine from rights, a guarantee against repressive nian SSR and Russian SFSR. would be impossible without the politi­ being reduced to a "province of Russia'' methods of government. Ukraine, with its tremendous econo­ cal sovereignty of separate European or the "south of the USSR." This would correspond to the USSR's mic potential and creative, diligent states— now participants of the Euro­ people, cannot retained infinitely as an pean Common Market. The Soviet Ukrainian information agreements within the framework of agancy, RATAU, should have displayed the Conference on Security and Co­ exploited supplement to the industrial ^ 7. An equally important and sensi­ Russian metropoly without appropriate tive matter for Ukraine is its unfulfilled more activity and initiative in providing operation in Europe, which are espe­ the world with well-researched and cially urgent today. Ukraine, which justified compensation, for the Ukrai­ status in the international forum. A nian people. Until now, Moscow's positive solution includes the establish­ prepared news so that Western informa­ suffered a great deal because of past tion services, could have more informa­ repressions, should play a leading role policy toward Ukraine has been ordi­ ment of diplomatic and consular rela­ nary colonialism. tions with other countries in accordance tion about important events in Ukraine. in these endeavors. It is abnormal that Ukraine, being the ^ 5. The existence of the Ukrainian No propaganda about the "fraternity with the constitutional rights of the Ukrainian SSR, and the development size of France and Belgium put 1^oget- Helsinki Union, as a legal form of of the USSR's peoples" can substitute her, is almost never included in inter­ alternative thought, is a natural, or­ for the consciousness of the Ukrainian of direct trade relations with other countries. national reporting.^What was said ganic part of the idea of restructuring. people about their economic exploita­ about RATAU also concerns thedclega- It is an urgent necessity to finally The Ukrainian Helsinki Union was tion and their natural wealth. However, tion of the Ukrainian SSRto the United create a Ukrainian diplomatic represen­ created because of its members' deep it was possible to dim their conscious­ Nations, UNESCO and other interna­ tation in Washington and other Western concern for the guarantee of a dignified ness for some time with the slogan of tional organizations. existence for the Ukrainian people. For "building socialism." It was possible to capitals headed by an ambassador of the this reason, they spent many years in suppress it through Stalinist methods, Ukrainian SSR, as is written in the We should also mention other mat­ '4reatment" in Brezhnev's "sanatoria" but that could not be continued forever. Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. (Of ters which have often been written (Chornovil, Lukianenko, Rudenko, People have their own simple answer: course, a constitution must be followed about in the Soviet and emigre press, Svitlychna, etc.). "One's own shirt is closer to one's by any government). namely: the necessity to legalize Ukrai­ If one takes into account the exis­ body." ^ 8. In order that rapprochement nian national churches; to stop terror tence of the UHU, endeavors to create Healthy, durable and friendly rela­ between Ukraine and diaspora would against the groups that support re­ the Popular Front of Ukraine for tions among peoples can be based only be realized more successfully in accor­ structuring; to extend scholarly con­ Perebudova and a number of other on mutual economic and political ex­ dance with restructuring, it is necessary tacts between Ukraine and the diaspora; societies and clubs, plus the existence of pediences between a metropoly and a to resolve as soon as possible, the most to organize seminars between the two restructuring movement among the 'Чіпіоп" republic, or republics, as the pressing problem, that of making the U- sides; to exchange artistic groups; to writers, intelligensia, students and British Commonwealth so brilliantly krainian language the state language in publish memorial works, for example, youth, then all these create a basis for justified itself. Why not develop co­ Ukraine, because as the magazine about the annihilation of several million promoting real democratic ideas by existence among the nations of the Ukraina (No. 2, January 1989, Kiev) war prisoners in the German camps and establishing a pluralistic system, and USSR also on the basis of a justified brilliantly said: "Without a language, repression against those who survived within it a Ukrainian Democratic Party. balance of the interests? there is no people." but were sent to concentration camps of This is the closest to our idea of demo­ It is necessary to support economic The Central Committee of the Com­ the USSR; to establish normal bilateral cracy, a coexistence of the statehood- decentralization and the concept of munist Party of Ukraine is further cooperation concerning publication of minded elements within a pluralistic running enterprises on a self-supporting worried about "improvement of the works emigre authors; to protect people system. basis, but decentralization must be study of Russian language" and with from accidents such as the one at The creation of a Ukrainian pluralis­ realized among the republics first of all. possible 'Violation of parents' rights Chornobyl. Therefore, building of new tic system would put Ukraine in the A super-centralized economy is not regarding their free selection of which atomic stations has to be decided by Kiev vanguard of the development of plura­ rational as the USSR's experiences have language to teach their children." As a instead of by authorities outside of lism in the USSR, and what is especially shown. matter of fact, this resolution further Ukraine.) important, would fortify Mr. Gorba­ Industrial enterprises and entire protects the dominant position of the chev's position as leader of a democra­ branches of the economy, which have Russian language in Ukraine by means HUCULKA tized USSR. been subordinated to Moscow must of so called "bilingualism" in schools Icon St Souvenir's Distribution 9 6. 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Please mail entries to: Bohdan W. Harasym, 5 Manitou Way, Scotch Plains, N.J. 07076 Dues may also be mailed to: Any questions or inquiries please call H. Dron, 2325 W. Rice Street, Chicago, III. 60622 (201) 8897055 or Nestor Olesnycky (201) 761-6480 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1989 No. 32

That Soyuzivka is an asset in the enrollment of new UNA members; and Greetings, resolutions, recommendations... That the Supreme Assembly has an obligation to continue to financially and (Continued from page 5) morally support the renovation and rejuvenation of Soyuzivka; The Supreme Assembly recommends to the Supreme Executive Committee that: branches. 1. The financial support for renovation, new construction, modernization, and 3. During the autumn months to hold organizing conferences in all districts of fraternal, cultural and social activities at Soyuzivka be continued. the United States and Canada. Such conferences should be a stimulus for the 2. A "blue-ribbon panel,"comprised of Ukrainian architects, builders, engineers enrollment of new members. and others, be established to review the physical layout of Soyuzivka and to 4. To conduct a campaign for the establishment of new branches in the U.S. recommend a long-term master plan of development to expand the accommoda­ and Canada. tions including guest rooms, a new dining room, an indoor swimming pool, etc., 5. Professional organizers should have a quota of members that must be making Soyuzivka a modern resort facility. enrolled each month, as well as a quota for the amount of life insurance sold and 3. Within one year, the UNA procures a fascmile machine and a computer annual membership dues. New members should pay in at least one quarter's dues. system to handle registration, inventory, word processing and billing for 6. To continue presenting cash awards to graduates of schools of Ukrainian Soyuzivka at a cost not to exceed 550,000, studies in the U.S. and Canada. 4. UNA procures a new telephone system capable of expansion for telephone 7. To make efforts so that the Financial Department, utilizing computers, service to all existing and future guest rooms and facilities. promptly pays out secretaries' rewards for the collection of membership dues. 5. A change in the By-Laws of the UNA be proposed at the 1990 convention 8. It is desirable that a draft be prepared of an amendment to the UNA By-Laws which would establish a Soyuzivka Committee as a standing committee of the concerning district committees, in accordance with the resolution of the 31st UNA Supreme Assembly which would meet at least twice a year. Convention. This proposal should be presented to the By-Laws Committee of the 6. By the 70th anniversary (1991) of the rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous 32nd Convention for its approval. Orthodox Church in Kiev, Ukraine, under the leadership of His Beatitude 9. In view of the fact that there is a new wave of emigrants from Ukraine and Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky, the UNA, in recognizing this historic event, erect a other countries, it is suggested that the Svoboda administration, upon receiving the bronze bust of Metropolitan Lypkivsky on the grounds of Soyuzivka. addresses of such persons, institute free, six-month subscriptions to Svoboda for For the Soyuzivka Committee: Walter Kwas, Eugene Iwanciw, Nestor these new arrivals to the U.S. and Canada. Olesnycky, Alex Chudolij, Taras Maksymowich, Gloria Paschen, Andrew 10. In order that branch secretaries and other officers have more enthusiasm for Keybida, William Pastuszek, Genevieve Zerebniak, Stepan Hawrysz. their work, it is proposed that those who enroll at least 25 new members (with life The recommendations were unanimously approved. insurance certificates) during the course of two years be entitled to one week's free stay at Soyuzivka. 11. On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the UNA, it is proposed that RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE YOUTH COMMITTEE secretaries' rewards for dues collection on certificates issued before September 1, 1987, be increased by one-half of one percent. 1. In 1989 we celebrate the 175th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko. The following were participants of meetings of the Organizing Committee: Dr. On this occasion we call on all Ukrainian youths to remember and nurture their Jaroslaw Padoch, John Hewryk, Wasyl Didiuk, Mary Dushnyck, Helen 01ek- native language. Scott, Anna Haras, William Pastuszek, Roman Tatarsky, Stepan Hawrysz. Also 2. To continue giving moral and financial aid to youths, students and present was Supreme President John O. Flis. organizations of young professionals in their activities in the scholarly, cultural, The resolutions were unanimously approved. athletic and fraternal fields. Soyuzivka, as well as Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, should be used for this purpose. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE 3. The UNA'S fraternal activities department should establish contact with Ukrainian youth organizations whose membership encompasses persons between The Women's Committee of the Ukrainian National Association's Supreme the ages of 25 and 45, obtain their addresses and consistently encourage them to Assembly recommends the following. participate in events sponsored by the UNA. 1. That members actively participate in the action of supplying Bibles to 4. Establish a four-year scholarship program whereby students majoring in Ukrainians in Ukraine. journalism or political science would, upon completion of their studies on a UNA 2. That members recognize the dire need for clothing in Brazil and Poland, and scholarship, work for the UNA for a minimum of two years. recommend that branches actively participate in collecting and distributing these 5. To hold at Soyuzivka during fall a fraternal activities weekend that would items. attract young adults age 25-45. 3. That members collect information about newly arrived immigrants and offer 6. The Youth Committee supports all national and local sports programs that them aid and comfort. are aimed at interesting youths in the work of the UNA. 4. We encourage women members to take positions of leadership and foster new For the Youth Committee: Alex Chudolij, Eugene Iwanciw, Nestor Olesnycky, fraternal activities. Anatole Doroshenko, Taras Maksymowich. For the Women's Committee: Gloria Paschen, Genevieve Zerebniak, Mary The recommendations were unanimously approved. Dushnyck, Ulana Diachuk, Anna Chopek, Helen Olek-Scott, Tekla Moroz, Anna Haras. The recommendations were unanimously approved. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SPORTS COMMITTEE

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SOYUZIVKA COMMITTEE The Sports Committee of the UNA Supreme Assembly recommends to the Supreme Executive Committee the following: Recognizing that Soyuzivka is an important fraternal benefit for UNA members; 1. Investigate the possibility of establishing a national sports program including and individual districts and those branches interested in pursuing sports activities. 2. Support the youth committee's planned fall fraternal weekend which will That for almost 40 years Soyuzivka has been meeting the fraternal, cultural and include a bowhng tournament on November 25, 1989. social needs of UNA members; and 3. Appropriate the sum of 515,000 for fraternal sports activities for the 1989- 1990 season. 4. That UNA branches actively support the fourth annual national golf Ukrainian National Association tournament to be held in 1989. 5. The Sports Committee voices its commendation to the organizers of the Free 95 years of service Ukrainian Olympiad and Youth Rally held during the 1988 Memorial Day Weekend in Philadelphia and encourages them to hold such games in the future. We commend the UNA for rendering moral and material support for these types of events. For the Sports Committee: Alex Chudolij, Gloria Paschen, Mary Dushnyck, RICHARD F. STERN Tekla Moroz, Helen Olek-Scott, Anatole Doroshenko, Andrew Jula, Zenon Snylyk. AND The recommendations were unanimously approved.

OLENA STERCHO HENDLER RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SENIORS COMMITTEE

ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE 1. The committee notes with dismay that the UNA Executive Committee did not make any progress toward building a UNA seniors colony in accordance with plans THE FORMATION OF A PARTNERSHIP for the past 13 years. 2. The Halych villa, which was built for single persons and has 11 rooms, does FOR THE PRACTICE OF LAW not meet the needs of married couples. 3. In accordance with earlier plans and decisions, residences and condominiums TO BE KNOWN AS for UNA seniors, who want to live near Soyuzivka after selling their homes in various other locations, should have been built. STERN AND HENDLER 4. It should be announced in Svoboda that the UNA will build residences for senior members of the UNA once there are interested persons. If there are no such interested persons, then it will be clear that there is no need to build anything. The committee affirms that the UNA should approach this matter seriously; to date there have only been promises. 4TH FLOOR 5. Because the recommendations and proposals of seniors were not approved by BENJAMIN FOX PAVILION the UNA Executive Committee, the Seniors Committee does not want to repeat JENKINTOWN. PA 1 9046 itself, feeling that its existence is meaningless. TELEPHONE (215) 572-81 1 1 JULY IT 1989 For the Seniors Comtfiittee:StepahKuropas, Dr. Jarosfaw Padoch, Wolodymyr " FAX (215) 572-5025 Zaparaniuk, Genevieve Zerebniak, Anna Chopek, Anna Haras. The recommendations were unanimously approved. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1989

evidence exists that could resolve this through a fair amount of terrifyingly of the Russian collaborator General Consistent.. question in an authoritative fashion. bureaucratic rigmarole to help shelter a Vlasov have frequently been referred to (Continued from page 7) There are, however, a number of single Jewish friend by helping to in Polish and Soviet accounts as "the one based on the records of Israel's War factors that must be taken into account establish that his friend was a Christian. Ukrainians."^ This is, in some sense, Crimes Investigations Office, suggests in any serious attempt to analyze this On the other hand, one Ukrainian similar to the anti-Semitic impulse to that there were 11,000 Ukrainians who issue. First, it is crucial to bear in mind collaborator could single-handedly in allege that Lenin and most of the other were involved in some type of anti- that the conditions under which the an hour or a day undo that which some leading Bolsheviks were all Jewish. One Jewish measures such as massacres or Ukrainians and Poles lived during the good Samaritans had so laboriously would hope that any serious attempt to deportations.5 Some Ukrainians have Nazi Holocaust were radically different achieved, and could probably do so analyze the question of Slavic collabo­ announced the figure as being wildly from those experienced by the Danes, with a fraction of the effort that the ration would eliminate all such misiden- inflated.^ For the purposes of this Belgians or French. The Ukrainians and good Samaritans had to exert in order to tifications. paper, however, I am willing to accept it Poles were themselves being brutalized do their good deeds. A single Ukrai­ To conclude, there is no incompatibi­ as accurate. on a massive scale. Naturally, this had a nian or Polish collaborator could easily lity among telling the full story of the What is important is that we construe major impact on these peoples' interest brutalize a hundred Jews in a couple of genocidal — and incomparable - this estimate within some type of in or ability to be concerned about hours while it might require of a number victimization of the Jews, making an context. Given the dramatic decrease in someone else's suffering. of Ukrainian or Polish good Samaritans honest accounting of the roles of the Ukraine's population between the be- Second, the size of and relationship an extended commitment to shelter a various collaborators and providing an ginnmg and end of the German occupa­ to the Gentile populations of the Jewish single Jew. accurate portrayal of the victimization tion, it is very difficult to estimate the communities in Poland and Ukraine Surely, this may explain at least some of the Slavs. population's size at any given point were very different from those in any of of the psychology behind why some in Indeed, given the prominence of the during the occupation. For our pur­ the Western European countries. Since the Jewish community may believe that moral dimension in the impetus to poses, however, let us postulate a figure most of the Western European coun­ every second Slav was a collaborator. record and understand as fully as that some believe to be a reasonable tries had much earlier expelled most of But was the above-described state of possible the events of the period here wartime estimate, namely 36 million.- their Jews, Jewish populations in affairs prevailing in Eastern Europe discussed, a general recognition and in relation, then, to a total population Western Europe were a fraction of the during the Holocaust a reflection of the acceptance of the compatibility seems of 36 million, there were 3 million size of the Jewish populations of Poland Slavs moral inferiority, or simply of the doubly warranted. Ukrainian Gentiles who perished at the or Ukraine. Concomitantly, due in part demonic conditions created by the Nazi hands of the Nazis, another 2.4 million regime? 5. Stefan T. Possony, "Antisemitism in to their own volition and in part to the Russian Area," Plural Societies (Winter who were pirated off for slave labor in historical accident, the Jewish commu­ At least one other issue needs to be 1974), pp. 91-92. Germany, additional hundreds of thou­ nities in the West were much more raised, namely thatof misidentification. 6. Such views have been conveyed to me sands murdered as Soviet POWs and, integrated into the fabric of their During the war in Poland and to some orally. lastly, 11,000 who collaborated.^ respective societies. extent since the war, it has been com­ 7. Possony, "Anti-Semitism," pp. 91-92. As should be patently obvious, the In part, this explains why a few of the mon in some of the official Polish and 8. Sources for these estimates of civilian number of Ukrainians who collabo­ Western European peoples may have Soviet publications to refer to anyone victims, slave labor deportations and POW rated with the Nazis is dwarfed by the found both the inclination and opportu­ originating from the Soviet Union and victims are gathered in Wytwycky, Other number of Ukrainians who were victi­ Holocaust, p. 91; the estimates of collabora­ nity to shelter their comparatively small accused of some wrongdoing during the tors is in Possony, "Antisemitism," pp. 91- mized by the Nazis. And, the number of communities of Jews. This factor may war as a "Ukrainian," regardless of collaborators simply disappears in 92. reveal that logistics probably had more whether that individual was in fact a 9. See, e.g., Central Commission for significance when compared to the total to do with the location of the death Ukrainian or a Russian or a Byelorus­ Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, population. Once again, we see that the camps in Poland than anything else. It sian or something entirely else. German Crimes in Poland, 2. vols. (Warsaw, portrayal of Slavs as principally victi- seems fairly obvious that from the Thus, for example, the Russian forces 1946-47). mizers rather than as victims consti­ German perspective, transporting se­ tutes a profound distortion of the veral hundred thousand Jews from vision program reported that "it looked historical record. Western Europe to Poland made much Kiev post... as if the balcony and the columns had The fact that Slavs were principally more sense than trying to transport 3 (Continued from page 1) been cut with a blade." victims rather than victimizers, does million Polish Jews to France. have plagued Kiev, Ukraine's capital The seven-story post office was built not, however, resolve the question of city, over the last several days, dozens of in 1953, with bricks taken from the whether or not the response to the Nazis Third, there is what might be called passers-by had taken shelter under the rubble of houses leveled during World genocidal campaign against the Jews the problem of proportions. The Ukrai­ portico. War II battles in the Ukrainian capital was more reprehensible in Ukraine or nian Catholic Metropolitan Andrey "It was pouring rain," Vremya said. city, which today is the Soviet Union's Poland than it was in other countries in Sheptytsky needed to employ a network "Suddenly at 4:20 p.m. the normal buzz third largest center with a population of Europe. Was the behavior of the Ukrai­ of some 550 Ukrainian monks and nuns of activity on Khreshchatyk (square) 2.5 million. in order to provide shelter during the nians or Poles truly less humane, less was engulfed by the roar of the falling According to TASS, the post office heroic, less concerned with ethical German occupation for some 150 to 200 structure." has been undergoing repairs for the last Jewish children. On an infinitely more imperatives, as suggested by Mr. Wie- "It is believed that the accident was 18 months, including replacement of the modest scale, my father had to go sel? Unfortunately, very little reliable due to violations of engineering stan­ facing of four of the portal columns. dards during the portal's construction, However, this news conflicts with other maintenance and repair," TASS said. accounts from Soviet television which KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC, Soviet television reported that the reveal that the building was to be !57SecomlЛгкпш:, New York, N.Y. 10003 "torrential rains of the recent period restored and scaffolding had already been erected though work had r? t (212)254-8779 Шш apparently accelerated the deteriora­ tion of dilapidated support columns." begun. Television newscasts showed footage It was also reported that former par я Bishop BASIL LOSTEN - Patron of firefighters and local residents pull­ troopers who were holding a reunicn Rev. PATRICK PASCHAK, OSBM - Spiritual Director ing bodies from the rubble. Some of the nearby on the Khreshchatyk's central film, captured by a passing cameraman, square, is next to the entrance to a YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CELEBRATE showed victims' bodies being carried to metro station and across the street waiting ambulances. Vremya, the tele­ from the hotel Moskva. THE CLOSING OF THE UKRAINIAN MILLENNIUM YEAR and UKRAINIAN SAVINGS A LOAN ASSOCIATION ii THE 175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH 8100 Roosevelt Blvd., Philadelphia. Pa. 19152 has immediate opening for OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO TELLER and MORTGAGE DEPARTMENT ROME 1st of OCTOBER KANIV 12th of OCTOBER CLERK POSITION At St. Peter's Basilica - blessing of mosaics of Pay tribute to the bard of Ukraine at his eternal CLERICAL AND CASH EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Sts Volodymyr 8 OIha, Pope John Paul II resting place in Kaniv overlooking the mighty participating with the Ukrainian Hierarchy. Dnipro River. 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PRICE INCLUDES: round trip jet transportation, rail sleeper compartment for 2 persons, firstclass Fellowship applications and further information are available from the hotels, Rome ft Paris continental breakfasts, Budapest ft Ukraine fuilboard, trasnfers and baggage address below. Completed applications are due by September 15, 1989. handling, guided sightseeing tours, tipping, visa handling ft fees, services of Kobasniuk Escort from NewYork. The Washington Group FeUowship Program RESERVATIONS ^ DEPOSIT OF S300 PER PERSON BEFORE AUGUST 15th. P.O. Box 11248 Washington, D.C. 20008 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,1989 No. 32

'A serious..." The Carpathian Ski Club of New Yoric (Continued from page 2) showed that we have lost authority. under the auspices of the Cases of voluntary resignations from UKRAINIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION OF USA and CANADA (USCAK) the party are more frequent. At present, will hold we can do nothing to counter the loss of authority. It is getting increasingly THE ANNUAL difficult to recruit cadres for Party work ... These are the facts. It is also a fact that the people voted not against K. L. Masyk or V. A. Zgursky but against all TENNIS AND SWIMMING COMPETITION of us, because we could not guarantee the realities of perestroika." These same themes were echoed at at SOYUZIVKA the May plenum of the Ukrainian Party Central Committee, which was perhaps the most self-critical gathering of Ukrainian party leaders in several decades. September 1-4, 1989 (Labor Day Weekend) The massive strikes of Soviet coal miners are part and parcel of the same problem described by Mr. Masyk and his former colleagues in Kiev - i.e., the crisis of confidence in the ability of the TENNIS TOURNAMENT SWIM MEET party to lead anyone anywhere. And although Mr. Masyk personally bears for individual CHAMPIONSHIPS of USCAK no direct responsibility for the situation and trophies of the Saturday, September 2, 11:30 a.m. in the Ukrainian coalfields, he is none­ theless its victim. Perhaps it was with a UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SOYUZIVKA, for sense of premonition that the editors of (INCLUDING THE B. RAK MEMORIAL TROPHY), Kiev's city newspapers headlined their report on the April plenum in Kiev as SVOBODA, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY and the INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS of USCAK "A Serious Political Lesson." sportsmanship Trophy of MRS. MARY DUSHNYK In spite of this setback, Mr. Masyk's and PRIZE MONEY. career in Kiev does not appear to be Qualifications: This competition is open to any player whose club and finished. Ukrainian Party leader Volo- is a member of USCAK. - Singles matches are scheduled in the fol­ dymyr Shcherbytsky, who also took lowing division: Men, Women, Women (35 and over). Junior Vets Ukrainian National Association part in the July 22 plenum, reported (35-44), Senior Men (45- and 55), Junior (Boys and Girls). Trophies Д Ribbons that Mr. Masyk's request had been Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while senior^ are those dicussed at a session of the Ukrainian over 45 years of age. The following events will be held for girls S boys: Politburo and approved. At the same time, he informed the plenum that the Registration for tennis matches, including name, age divisions Politburo considered it "logical" to and the fee of S15.00 should be sent to: 10 8. Under. - 11 gi 12 '^ee Groups istoter Age Groups appoint the former first secretary a Mr. George Sawchak deputy chairman of the Ukrainian 7828 Frontenac, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111 25 m. - freestyle 50 m. - freestyle Council of Ministers, a post that he had 50 m. - freestyle 100 m. - freestyle previously held for five years. Registrations should be received no later than August 23, 1989. 25 m. - backstroke 50 m. - backstroke Mr. Masyk's successor in Kiev is No additional applications will be accepted before the competitions, 25 m. - breaststroke 50 m. - breaststroke Anatoliy Ivanovych Kornienko, who, since the schedule of matches will be worked out ahead of time. 25 m. - butterfly 50 m. "- butterfly according to Mr. Shcherbytsky, had 4 X 25 m. - freestyle relay 100 m. - individual medley been proposed for the job by the Bur о of 4 X 50 m. - medley relay TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE: the Kiev City Party Committee and the R. Rakoczy, Sr., Z. Snylyk,.G. Sawchak, Dr. Z. Matkiwsky, first secretaries of Kiev's raion party 0. Kyzyk, G. Pope!. committees. Mr. Kornienko, a deputy to the People's Congress, previously Swimmers can compete in three (3) individual events and one relay. worked as deputy head of the Party SCHEDULE OF MATCHES: Construction and Cadre Work Depart­ ment of the CPSU Central Committee. RIDAY, September 1, Soyuzivka, 1:00 p.m. Men's preliminary round. Registration will be held at poolside on Saturday, September 2, from Between March 1987 and April 1989, -SATURDAY, September 2, Soyuzivka, 8:30 a.m. first round junior 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. ONLY. Registration fee is S3 per swimmer. he was head of the Organizational- girls (all age groups), junior vets, senior men, women and women Party Work Department of the Ukrai­ 35 and over. New Paltz, 8:30 a.m. - men's first round, Soyuzivka, nian Central Committee (now called the 10:30 a.m. Juniors (all age groups), New Paltz, 10:30 a.m. - Organizational-Party and Cadre Work men's consolation round. Soyuzivka, 3:30 p.m. Senior men 55 SWIM MEET COMMITTEE: Department). Before then he served as and over. Time and place of subsequent matches will be de­ first secretary of the Ternopil Oblast signated by tournament director R. Rakoczy, Sr. Party Committee and as first secretary Players in men's division, scheduled to compete Friday but E. Ь S. Zyblikewycz, M. Bokalo, M. Gerych, C. Kushnir, G. of the Ukrainian Komsomol. Mr. Kor­ jnable to arrive on this day, as well as losers in the preliminary round, Tarasiuk, 0. Napora, T. ^ L Kalyta, S. Halaway. nienko was chosen for the Kiev job by a can compete in the consolation round. 76-4 secret vote. Because of limited time and the large number of entries, players Assistant program coordinator for can compete in one group only; they must indicate their choice on the cultural and social events. Fluent in registration blank. Ukrainian. 40 hirs./wk. ^18,000 per Players who fail to report for a scheduled match on time will be year. Room and board included. Two iefaulted. years' training or equivalent ex­ perience. Call UNA office: (201) 451-2200

Reservations should be made individually by the competitors by writing to: HURYN MEMORIALS FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE Soyuzivka, Ukrainian National Ass'n Estate, Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446. Tel.: (914) 626-5641 MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA of New York mciuding Holy Spirit m REGISTRATION FORM - TENNIS ONLY H^mptonburgh, N.Y.. St, Andrew's m South Bound Brook, Pme Bush Cemetery m Please cut out and send in with registration fee of S15.00. Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery Name m Glen Spey, New York. Address We offer personal service S, guidance in your home. For a biiingua! representative call: Phone ... fWAN HURYN Date of birth P.O. Box І21 Hamptonburgh, N.Y. 10916 Event age group Tel.: (914)427-2684 Sports club membership ^OHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ 45 East 7th Street Check payable to: K.LK. American Ukrainian Sports Club New York, NY. 10003 Tel.: (212) 477-6523 No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1989

session of the Ideological Commission for Perebudova. much the authorities in Kiev may not fCiev regional... of the Ukrainian Party's Central Com­ like it, they have now taken the position (Continued from page 10) mittee. Conclusion that it is a reality that they are forced to "One cannot ignore the fact that deal with. Under current conditions, standpoint of newspapers like Radian- there are sober, realistically thinking The Kiev regional organization of when support, albeit qualified, for the ska Ukraina and Pravda Ukrainy, the people among the initiators of the Rukh, as reported by Mr. Donchyk. popular fronts as an institution born by most disturbing aspect of the confe­ Popular Movement of Ukraine for presently has almost 200 local groups perestroika has been expressed in such rence is that it provided a public forum Perebudova. They are gradually rea­ which no less than 200,000 members. In unlikely quarters as the top leadership for human rights activists and former lizing the necessity of seeking com­ addition tothe Kiev Coordination Coun-^ of the KGB. It would seem that the political prisoners like Vyacheslay promise solutions, they support the idea cil, formed on March 18, coordination Shcherbytsky team could hardly do Chornovil, one of the leaders of the of forming coordination councils of councils have been established in Lviv, otherwise. Ukrainian Helsinki Union, who was public organizations. But there is the Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, and greeted with a standing ovation when he danger that individuals who are inclined many other cities, towns and villages. addressed the meeting and Serhiy to be anti-socialist and anti-Soviet could The conference elected a new Coordi­ Marples... Naboka of the Ukrainian Culturologi- take over the leadership of the Popular nation Council of the Kiev organiza­ cai Club. This is part of a larger and, in (Continued from page 6) Movement's structures," he said. tion, which consists of 78 members. provided by reporter Vladimir Kolinko the long term, more serious problem - Among them, according to Solidarity's i.e., the integration of these radical Another focus of criticism was the really as sensationalist as scientists at Gazeta Wyborcza, are Ukrainian Hel­ the Center for Radiation Medicine have activists and their organizations into the speeches by the guests from Lithuania sinki members Mykola Horbal and Mr. Rukh structure, which Mr. Kravchuk and Latvia. The Sajudis representative declared? Is the nuclear industry world­ Badzio. The new head of the Kiev wide too secretive about nuclear acci­ warned against in his speech. is reported to have informed the au­ regional organization is People's De­ A case in point is Radianska U- dience that the Lithuanian Komsomol dents? Why is Ukraine being used as the puty Yavorivsky. At its first session, the center for the Soviet nuclear program, kraina's observation that the Lviv had already split from its parent or­ council chose an organizational com­ regional branch of the Rukh was ini­ ganization in Moscow and that a re­ especially given the lamentable over- mittee to prepare for the All-Ukrainian usage of its natural river systems? Why tially headed by Ukrainian Helsinki publican party congress in November Constituent Congress of the Rukh, Union leaders. The same issue was would decide if the Lithuanian Party are local voices not permitted a greater which is scheduled for the end of August day in determining the planning, loca­ raised by Pravda Ukrainy, complaining organization would do the same. He or early September. that people like Mr. Chornovil, Yuriy ended his presentation with "Long live tion and operation of nuclear power The conference also a adopted a plants? Badzio, and Mykhailo Horyn were Ukraine! For your freedom and ours!," resolution, which has yet to made allowed to speak, although "they in fact which was followed by another standing For three years I have been asking public. And although there have been these questions. They have formed the represent no one except Radio Liberty ovation. references in the press to a second and the foreign Banderite information The representative from the Latvian subject matter of part of my new book, variant of the Rukh's draft program, called "The Social Impact of the Cher- center." Popular Front emphasized that Lat­ this document also remains unpublish­ vians and Ukrainians had the same nobyl Disaster," copies of which I The newspaper also pointed out that ed. brought to Kiev last year. But I do not a representative of the outlawed Ukrai­ objectives — "genuine democracy, a On July 2, the Rukh organized a mass law-governed state and our indepen­ believe that they have been answered nian Catholic Church was permitted to rally in Kiev under the slogan "All satisfactorily. address the conference, concluding his dence," and that Hungary and Poland power to the Soviets!" which is reported provide the models for '4vhere we will I do not want to take on the role of a speech with "Long live the Ukrainian to have been attended by 10,000 to self-righteous Westerner, who declines Catholic Church! Long live indepen­ go." 15,000 people. Although not particular­ In response, Robitnycha Hazeta's to look at some of the problems endemic dent Ukraine!" Clearly, if the party has ly original, the slogan accurately reflects inhis own society. On the other hand, I now decided that its interests are better correspondent asked: "The question the seemingly widespread dissatisfac­ believe seriously that the citizens of served by tolerating the Rukh, it would now arises as to why the conference tion of the Soviet man in the street with Ukraine have a basic human right to be prefer to have the so-called extremists participants applauded [them]? What, the party's much coveted "leadingrole." provided with answers to these quest excluded from the organization. Mr. is this also how they understand the goal The Rukh, as Mr. Drach pointed out, ions. I would welcome a dialogue on Kravchuk made this clear at a recent of the Popular Movement of Ukraine is alive. And it appears that however them.

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CALL US TODAY 201-3714004 or 1-800242-7267 CALL US TODAY 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. AUGUST 6,1989 No. 32 U. of Pittsburgh PREVIEW OF EVENTS to hold conference August 11 7835. be held to benefit the Baltimore Festival Committee. For more infor­ on trade with USSR WASHINGTON: The Washington CHICAGO: The Center of Ukrai­ mation call Roman Goy, (301) 323- Group (TWG) will sponsor a presen­ nian and Religious Studies in Chi­ 2312, or Lydia Sushko, 342-3723. PITTSBURGH - The Center for tation by Sergiy Berezovenko, Vita- cago will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Russian and East European Studies at iiy Voloshyn, and Sergiy Mischenko Mykola Mushynka of Priashiv, Cze­ August 15 the University of Pittsburgh with the from the Ukrainian School of Inter­ choslovakia, at 7 p.m. in the Cultural assistance of Soviet-American Business national Business (Biznex) in Kiev, Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. Dr. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Opportunities Inc. of Pacific Grove, titled: "Ukraine: Economic Potential Mushynka will speak on cultural life Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) Calif., will host a special seminar on and Trade Possibilities." The lecture and problems of the Ukrainian mino­ will host the Glasnost Film Festival "Doing Business with the Soviet Union: will be held at the Hunan Chinatown rity in Czechoslovakia. Ukrainian with screenings at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Risks and Opportunities" on Monday, Restaurant, 624 H St. NW. Cocktails publications from Czechoslovakia at the Carpenter Center for the August 7, in the ninth floor conference and dinner will be served at 6:30 and will also be on display. For more Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St. Among room of the LRDC Building on Ohara 7 p.m., respectively. The cost4S^S25 information call (312) 489-1339. the films featured is: "This is How Street in Oakland. per person. For more information We Live," directed by Volodymyr The seminar will feature three Soviet and reservations call Orysia Pyly- JEWETT, N.Y.: The Music and Art Oseledchyk and was filmed by M. scholars and businessmen from the shenko, (202) 671-1452. Center of Greene County will spon­ Hrechko. A second film by Ukrai­ Center for Business Analysis and Mar­ sor a concert featuring Thomas nian News and Documentary Film keting Research (Biznex) and the U- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Hrynkiw on piano. He will perform Studio, gives a frank and disturbing krainian School of International Busi­ Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) works by Kosenko, Chopin, Rach­ look at unofficial young people's ness in Kiev, These experts, fluent in will feature a lecture by Les Taniuk maninoff and Schumann. The con­ groups. The admission is free, but the English, are well informed on the details and his wife, Nelli Kornienko, on cert, held at the Grazhda Hall, next seating is limited. For more informa­ of the new legal and economic situation current developments in the Soviet to St. John the Baptist Church, will tion call the HUSI, (617) 495-7835. in the Soviet Union, how this effects Ukrainian theater at 8 p.m. at the begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are S5 for current business practices, and what Science Center D. For more infor­ members and senior citizens, and S7 August 19-20 opportunities this presents to American mation call the HUSI, (617) 495- for all others. business. 7835. LOS ANGELES: The Ukrainian The leader of the delegation is Dr. August 12-13 Culture Center of Los Angeles will Sergiy Berezovenko, founder of the first August 12 present the Ukrainian Festival Days. post-war business school in the USSR BALTIMORE: The annual Ukrai­ A zabava will be held on August 19 at and chairman of Biznex. CAMBRIDGE^Mass.: The Harvard nian festival will be held this week­ 8 p.m. at the Ukrainian Cultural Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) end, noon to 7 p.m., in Baltimore's Center, 4315 Melrose Ave. General The August 7 seminar is also a students will perform three works at Festival Hall, Charles and Pratt admission is SIO, while students pay prelude to the sessions on economics 8 p.m. at the Sanders Theater in streets. Featured will be traditional S5. The festival takes place on Au­ and trade that will take place as part of Memorial Hall The works featured Ukrainian arts and crafts, exhibi­ gust 20 at the Long Beach Police the Chautauqua-at-Pitt Conference are: Taras Shevciinko's lyrical poe­ tions, Ukrainian folk dancing and Department Park (off Dovey Drive) scheduled for October 29 to November try, excerpts frojfl. "Maklena Grasa" food. Ukrainian young professionals beginning at 11:30 a.m., with the 3 at the University of Pittsburgh. The by Mykol'a Kulish, and excerpts are invited to a festival dock party on opening ceremonies taking place at seminar fee is S35 per person and from ''Jimmy Higgins" by Les Kur- Saturday, August 12, 6:30 p.m. to 1 12:30 p.m. The Vesna Folk Dance includes lunch. For reservations call bas. Les Taniuk will be the director a.m.,at Harrison's Pier 5 Restaurant Company and the Yavir Folk Dance Penny Wermeyer, (412) 648-7407. of "Maklena Grasa," and Virlana and Bar on Baltimore's inner harbor. Company, both of Los Angeles will Tkacz of New York will direct Special rate rooms are available at perform during the festival, and The other two Soviet speakers will be "Jimmy Higgins." For more infor­ Harrison's Clarion Inn, (800) CLA­ traditional Ukrainian gourmet food Sergiy Mischenko, deputy chairman of Biznex, and Vitaliy Voloshyn, co- mation call the HUSI, (617) 495- RION. An auction fund-raiser will will be sold. director of the Ukrainian School of International Business in Kiev.

The Weekly: Ukrainian perspective on the news At Soyuzivka: August 12-13 Союз УКРАЇНОК АМЕРИКИ THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The exhibit of paintings by artist Liubo- Verkhovyna trio will be the featured slav Hutsaliuk. In addition, on WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA, performers during the Saturday, Sunday, August 13, there will be a INC., is the oldest and most active independent August 12, entertainment program at display of sculptures and a slide show nonprofit Ukrainian women's organization in Soyuzivka, the upstate New York focusing on Mykola Holodyk. the free world. resort of the Ukrainian National Association. For additional information about We CARE about preserving Ukrainian identity, culture and language. The concert begins at 8:30 p.m. Soyuzivka accommodations or pro­ We CARE about the future of our children and the future of the and will be followed at 10 p.m. by a grams, please call the resort at (914) Ukrainian community. We CARE and take pride in upholding our dance to the music of Khloptsi zi 626-5641. (UNA members are en­ tradition of tending to the needs of our Ukrainian children and youth Lvova. titled to a 10 percent discount on All weekend long there will be an as well as others in need. We CARE about the national ideals and lodgings.) aspirations of our sisters and brothers in Ukraine. ?^b^^C^V^t^X^X^^U^X^?X^'H^V.^?X^^t^X.^V.^b^^^^^t^'H^X.^^t^^C^iV^ C'^'H^'M^V not acknowledge it today.''' I Experts' report... Prof. Reddaway offered little hope As a member of our organization (Continued from page 3) that conditions would improve in Soviet psychiatry. He noted that while You, too, can make a difference. These types of abuses were central to the Soviets had transferred special Contact the UNWLA for more information about a BRANCH in your area the U.S. visit as past allegations of psychiatric hospitals from the Ministry or how to become a member-at-large. Soviet psychiatric abuse of political of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of dissidents were well-known. Western Health (MoH) for the purpose of ^^--- groups had concluded that these abuses "guaranteeing against abuses," the "Ч CARE did occur, and in 1977 the World transfer is not real or significant. Please send me information about how to become a member of the Psychiatric Association (WPA) "con­ He contended that the doctors are UNWLA, demned the Soviet Union for such still MVD officers and the KGB con­ practice...and six years later, the Soviet In English П In Ukrainian П tinues to exert a strong influence in the A11-Union Society of Neuropatholo­ special psychiatric hospitals. Prof. Name gists and Psychiatrists resigned from the Reddaway stated, "A timid start has WPA rather than face certain expul­ been made to reform, but it has been Address sion," as is noted in the report. imposed on a resistent, hostile and . Phone (^ ^K Prof. Reddaway, who was quite defensive MoH..." Mail to: UNWLA, Inc. I strong Ш opposing Soviet readmittance "The worst contribution we could make to the reform of Soviet psychia­ Ш Second A ve,, New York, N. F. 10003 j to the WPA, quoted Dr. Semyon GIuz- man of Kiev, " 'I don't understand .., try would be diplomatically to soften or call: (212) 533-4646 j how one can accept back in the WPA our criticisms of^it," Prof. Reddaway m^ ' Др s^yjyjys^^ Щ people who tortured in the past and do concluded.