The Ukrainian Weekly 1980
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ZA ж Ч)Е СВ ОБОДА J^SVOBODA П П oo Щ """"” І УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОА(ННИК У()ЩІУ UKUAINIAHDAIIV І І ?`s OO' UkrainiaENGLISH-LANGUAGnE WEEKLY EDITIOWeekN l Ї VOL. I.XXXVU. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1980 25 CENTS Soviets arrest Bohdan Chuiko, Vyacheslav Chornovil sentenced exiled former political prisoner to five years of imprisonment Chuiko was born in 1919. He was first arrested on May 23, 1949, and three- to eight-year sentence for the sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. offense. He was arrested for the second time on Chornovil has conducted a hunger August 15, 1972, and was tried under strike since his arrest in April. His wife Article 64 of the RSFSR Criminal Code Atena, who was allowed to visit him but` for "treason against the fatherland." was apparently barred from the trial, This time he was sentenced to 15 years reported that his health is deteriorating of labor camp and five years of internal as a result of his ordeal. exile. Circumstances surrounding Chorno- On February 3. 1976, Chuiko's sen vil`s alleged offense and arrest raise tence was commuted for health reasons grave doubts as to the legitimacy of the (he is an invalid), and he was released charges and seem to indicate that he was from a Perm camp. Chuiko, who served framed by the KGB in yet another his term of exile in the village of attempt to discredit the participants of . Bachkar, Tomska oblast, was then the human rights movement. allowed to live with his wife in Michu rynsk. He was never allowed, however^ On April 8, the KGB summoned to return to Ukraine. - Chornovil from Niurba, where he was exiled following seven years' imprison Upon reaching retirement age, Chui ment, ostensibly to review procedural ko went to .Moscow where, on the basis and legal matters relating to his case. of a physician's testimony, he was When he arrived in Myrnyi, however, granted the right to remain with his wife he was summarily arrested for the without having to apply annually for Vyacheslav Chornovil alleged attempted rape of an unidenti special permission from local authori fied woman. NEW YORK p Bohdan Chuiko, a ties. NEW YORK - Vyacheslav Chorno The chronology of events and the fact vil, Ukrainian Helsinki monitor and that the trial was closed seem to uphold former participant of the national When be returned from Moscow he liberation movement in Ukraine, was journalist, was found guilty on J une 6 of allegations that Chornovil's trial was in was arrested in Michurynsk on charges dubious charges stemming from an fact politically motivated. arrested on March 10 in Michurynsk, that he had submitted a falsified docu Tambovsk oblast, on charges of "falsi alleged attempted jape under Article ment. 117 of the Criminal Code, according to With a renewed wave of dissident fication of documents," according to arrests prior to the start of the Moscow the press service of the Ukrainian Chuiko is being held pending further the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (abroad). Olympics, the Soviet government seems Supreme Liberation Council (abroad). investigation of the case. intent on confining dissidents still free The verdict was reached after a three- and rearresting even those still in exile In Moscow day closed trial in Yakutsk. Chornovil in hope of heading off the remotest was promptly sentenced to five years of chance of any disturbances or incidents Two families still refuse imprisonment. Soviet law calls for a during the Games. to leave U.S. Embassy Ukrainian Anti-Defamation League responds LONDON - With the approach of Now, following the arrests and ba to stamp magazine's slander of Petliura the 1980 Summer Olympics, the Soviets nishments of dissidents, the two families may be forced to deal with the two would be the only dissident voices left in PHILADELPHIA - An article in a of a law which guaranteed personal and families that have refused to leave the Moscow to speak to the Western press recent issue of Scott's Monthly Stamp cultural autonomy to the ethnic minori U.S. Embassy in Moscow for almost during the Olympic Games. Journal titled "Philately and Murder" ties of Ukraine and which legislated two years, according to the Keston slanders the name and government of separate ministries in the government News Service. The only way the Soviets could get Symon Petliura, president of the Direc for Jewish, Russian and Polish affairs. the Vashchenkos and Chmykhalovs to tory of the Ukrainian National Repub Moreover, the league noted, as com- The Vashchenko and Chmykhalov leave the embassy is to give them and lic, according to the Ukrainian Anti- mander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, families have lived restricted lives in a other members of their family a guaran Defamation League. Petliura went to great lengths to pre semi-basement room at the embassy. tee of emigration. Pyotr Vashchenko clude the outbreak of pogroms, con They refuse to leave the building With stated in an interview in 1978. that he Charles Fitz, author of the article, vinced that they were disruptive tactics out exit visas. would stay in the embassy "all my life if calls Petliura a "mass murderer" who instigated by hostile Soviet forces to initiated the bloody pogroms in Uk Their presence has been a constant necessary." divert public attention from combating raine and points out that a stamp the true enemy and, thereby, under source of embarrassment to the Ameri According to the Rev. William Vil- depicting the former president is known can authorities, and the prolonged lack mine his government and the Ukrainian laume, who has just completed a two- as the "murderer stamp." National Republic. of a solution has shown other would-be. year tour of duty as Protestant chaplain emigrants that the U.S. Embassy is in Moscow, local press articles have In a letter to the journal, the league powerless to help them, the news service suggested that the families are not denied Mr. Fitz's allegations and called noted. worthy of Soviet citizenship. This could on the magazine to publish a retraction and the league's response to the charges INSIDE: On the other hand, their continued be a way of preparing the ground for in a forthcoming issue. presence in the embassy has been an stripping of citizenship and expulsion Ш Uke-eye, by Anisa Handzia Sa- advantage to the Soviet Union since it for the two families. Even more signifi Calling Petliura an advocate of wyckyj, returns — page 6. serves as a discouragement to others cantly,, the Vashchenkos' second son national and social justice for all people. a Senior citizens corner by Ma who might have wanted to follow their loann has not yet been called-up for the league pointed out in its letter that rion Kushnir Burbella - page 7. example. (Continued on page 2) Petliura participated in the preparation 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1980 No. 3 BoJfch intellectuals say Soviet Union Parishioners' letters reveal events must be tried for war crimes surrounding murder of priest Jtffcjtf YORK - An article in the only 82,000 survived, according to the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Letters from On the day before his death. Father October 1979 issue of Komunikat, a article. Ukraine describing the death and fu Gurgula received a package from the monthjy issued in Warsaw by the The article also notes that during the neral of the Rev. Anatoliy Gurgula and United States which contained a cha Committee for Social Self-Defense Soviet occupation (1939-41), 1.6 to 1.8 his wife were recently forwarded to lice, a set of vestments and other (KOR-), outlined a series of war crimes million Polish citizens were transported Svoboda by a reader. articles. This package was not destroyed and atrocities — among them the 1940 to prison, labor camps and forced- The Gurgulas died in a fire at their in the fire and was later found in an Katyn massacre - committed by the settlement territories located primarily home on February 26. The German adjoining room of the house. rSo`?iet Union against the Polish in the Soviet arctic. Catholic Information Agency had re In reading the excerpts from the 'Republic during the World War II, ported that the couple was bound, parishioners' letters, one discerns that Perhaps the most notorious and "according to Freedom Appeals, a drenched with gasoline and set on fire. the incident understandably made a --bimonthly published by the Center for ruthless crime described is the 1940 strong impact on the villagers. execution of 15,000 Polish army officers Father Gurgula was the parish priest Appeals for . Freedom at Freedom of the village of Tomashivtsi, Kalysh There were no witnesses to the fire House. by the KGB in the Katyn forest, a crime which Soviet authorities refuse to district (not frohi Rohatyn, as was which was set to the Rev. Gurgula`s The committee, previously known as acknowledge and admit to, accusing the previously reported). He succeeded his house on the night of February 26. the Committee for Workers' Defense, Germans at the Nuremburg trials of father as the parish priest upon the The charred state of the bodies gives was created in 1976 by a group of Polish committing the murders. Although the latter`s death shortly before World War reason to suspect that a combustible intellectuals in support of the workers' Germans were exonerated, it was not II. agent was purposely used. demonstrations earlier that year. until 1952 that the Katyn Commission The Rev. Gurgula was known to be in The funeral for Father Gurgula and Komunikat carries documents and of the United States Congress affirmed poor health, suffering from partial pa hiS wife took place on March, with three information on violations of the law by that it was the Soviet NKVD which shot ralysis.