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www.ukrweekly.com 4: -4 Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., I I c, a fraternal non-profit association! rainian V Vol. LI No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARИY 23,1983 Ukrainian Helsinki Group representation Exiled dissident arrested By 1981, he was reported to also be calls for USSR's decolonization NEW YORK - Ukrainian dissident suffering from an undisclosed heart Zorian Popadiuk, 29, was recently ailment. Alarmed by his illness, authori­ NEW YORK - The External Repre­ forcibly incorporated in the USSR arrested while serving an exile term in sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki fought both against the Soviets and the ties quickly transferred him to Kazakh­ the Kazakhstan region of the USSR, stan. Group issued a statement on December Nazis during World War II, and suffered reported the External Representation 10 condemning Soviet violations of the severe repressions after peace was of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. The charges brought against Mr. 197S Helsinki Accords and calling on restored. In 1973, Mr. Popadiuk was sentenced Popadiuk are not known, but of late the international community to support According to the External Represen­ to seven years in a labor camp and five Soviet authorities have been re-arrest­ the decolonization of the Soviet Union. tation, this repression continues to this years' internal exile.for publishing the ing political prisoners in exile on The statement was released in con­ day, and includes the unrelenting perse­ underground journal, Progress. criminal rather than overtly political junction with the 60th anniversary of cution of such dissidents as Yuriy Born in Sambir, Mr. Popadiuk was charges. the formation of the USSR on Decem­ Shukhevych, Danylo Shumuk, Vasyl enrolled in the philology faculty of Lviv ber 30. It was signed by Gen. Petro Stus and others. University. While a student, he pro­ In addition, the External Represen­ Grigorenko, Nadia Svitlychna and Because the Soviet Union poses a tested the Soviet invasion of Czecho­ tation reported that Mr. Popadiuk's Leonid Plyushch. threat not only to its own citizens but slovakia in 1968. mother, Lubomyra Ivanivna, who lost In the statement, the External Repre­ also to the free world, the External After completing his labor-camp her job as a German instructor at Lviv sentation reminded Western nations Representation urged the United States, term, Mr. Popadiuk was first exiled in University when her son was arrested, about the Stalinist tyranny in Ukraine Canada and Europe to propose a reso­ 1980 to the Yakutsk region of the has been paralyzed for a number of which resulted in the artificial famine of lution in the U.N. General Assembly USSR, where he caught pneumonia, years following three cerebral hemor­ 1933 that killed 6 to 8 million people. calling for the decolonization of the which later became tuberculosis. Later rhages. It also noted that several nations Soviet Union. that year, surgeons removed several Mr. Popadiuk, her only child, was segments of his right lung. due to be released from exile in 1983. P^NuteJp^ щтштт PHILADELPHIA -The Philadel­ the destruction ot Ukrainian language Soviets repeatedly harass phia Ukrainian Human Rights Com­ and culture. mittee organized a "Hunger Luncheon" Deputy Mayor Evelyn White read a at the mayor's reception room to call resolution from the mayor's office Yosyp Terelia and wife attention to January 12 as the Day of proclaiming January 12 as Solidarity tary eight-year term for "slandering the Solidarity with Ukrainian Political Day with Ukrainian Political Prisoners. NEW YORK - Former political prisoner Yosyp Terelia, whose brother government." He was placed in mental Prisoners. Jerome Shestack, former ambassador hospitals in 1972 and again in 1977. The hourlong luncheon featured a to the United Nations and president of was killed last June in a shootout with political prisoner's typical meal: watery the International League for Human the KGB, has been the subject of The KGB first visited Mr. Terelia last gruel, black bread and watered-down Rights, spoke of the need to keep the increased official harassment, including summer on June 18, about a week after cabbage soup. The program began with world informed of the plight of the loss of employment and the threat of his brother was shot. Taking part was the sharing of black bread to show Ukrainian political prisoners. re-arrest. Lt. Col. Mykhailo Dziamko from the solidarity with Ukrainian political Dr. James Mace of the Harvard According to the External Represen­ Uzhhorod KGB and Maj. Yosyp Vy- prisoners. Ukrainian Research Institute and Am­ tation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, chay, also a KGB operative. nesty International delivered a report Mr. Terelia and his wife Olena were visited by the KGB on four occasions According to the external representa­ The members of the City Council on the status of various political pri­ tion, Col. Dziamko was extremely issued a resolution, which was soners. last summer. The couple resides in the village of Dovhe in the Transcarpathian abusive during the visit, threatening to read by Councilman John An­ Dr. Nina Strokata spoke in English arrest Mr. Terelia and accusing him of derson. The resolution enume­ and urged people to keep up their work region. During the fourth visit, on June 23, being a malingerer and a provocateur. rated the founding members of on behalf of political prisoners. He also told Mrs. Terelia that he knew the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and The program received coverage in the Terelias were told that their home would be searched for weapons belong­ her husband was not afraid of facing noted that the members of the City the major newspapers of Philadelphia prison, and that the KGB could "bump Council were adding their voices to as well as on TV Channel 6. The ing to Borys Terelia, who was killed in a gun battle with KGB and militia forces him off" at any time and she "would not those of Rudenko, Lukianenko, Sichko, program was broadcast by Radio even be able to find the pieces." Shukhevych and others in protesting Liberty to Ukraine. near the tiny village of Poliana on June 10. Borys Terelia was believed to be a He warned that Mr. Terelia had member of an armed group operating in better stay at home and report to the the rugged Carpathian Mountains, KGB if he ever intended to leave the historically a haven for Ukrainian area. Columnist exposes unauthorized -nationalist organizations. Several days later they came bac,k, While ostensibly searching for wea­ this time to tell Mr. Terelia that the fund raising for Polovchalc pons, KGB agents confiscated letters, KGB would not object to his emigrating CHICAGO - According to Chi­ "save this boy's life," the YAF has photographs and private papers during to Israel. cago Sun-Times columnist 'Roger misspelled Walter's name, asking the five-hour search. When Mrs. Terelia During the third visit, however, the Simon, the Young Americans for that Walter "Polochak " not be sent protested that these were hardly wea­ Freedom (YAF), a well-known Con­ back to the USSR. KGB took yet another approach. In pons, she was told that the men were addition to Maj. Vychay, the Terelias servative group, have started a fund- Contacted by Mr. Simon, Sam also looking for "anti-Soviet" litera­ raising campaign for Walter Polov- were visited by Capt. Mykhailo Du- Pimm, executive director of the ture. banych. The Terelias were told that Col. chak, but lawyers for the 15-year-old YAF, said that the error came about Mr. Terelia, 39, was released from a Ukrainian boy fighting to remain in Dziamko was drunk and out of line because the organization got the Soviet psychiatric hospital in late 1981 when he made his threats, and that the the United States are not too thrilled spelling from The Washington Times, after serving four years for writing a by the enterprise. KGB wanted the couple to live and a paper financed by the Rev. Sun letter to then KGB head Yuri Andropov work in peace. Maj. Vychay provided Writing in the January 4 issue of Myung Moon's Unification Church. protesting his repeated incarcerations the Terelias with his telephone number. the Sun-Times, Mr. Simon noted Furthermore, Mr. Pimm told Mr. ют nis religious and nationalist beliefs. that in its letters urging people to Simon that the YAF plans to spend In 1962, he was sentenced to four Less than a week later, however, the contribute "S500 or even S250" to (Continued on page 12) `jzz" in a labor camp on a criminal KGB moved in, searched the Terelia charge, and later received a supplemen­ home and threatened him with arrest. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1983 No. 4 Andropov cracks down on corruption; Dissident profile special squads weed out loafers Vasyl Lisovy: MOSCOW - As promised, Soviet On January 9, Pravda ran a long leader Yuri Andropov is coming down story by the Soviet Union's-chief law ` arrested in exile hard on official corruption, worker enforcement officer, Alexander absenteeism and goofing off on the job. Rekunkov, which delineated a list of JERSEY CITY. N.J. - The story A recent issue of The Economist reports serious crimes plaguing the USSR, of imprisoned Ukrainian philosopher that special police "truancy squads" including rape, muggings, burglary and Vasyl Lisovy and his wife, Vira, is have started raids on food and cinema vandalism. similar to that of many young Soviet lines during working hours to crack The Economist said that it is clear dissidents of the post-World War II down on malingerers. Mr. Rekunkov wrote the article with era. Well-tducated, optimistic and These stern-faced militiamen demand the blessing of his new boss, Vitaliy dedicated Marxists, these intellec­ work papers and a credible explanation Fedorchuk, head of the interior minis­ tuals had faith in socialist principles, of why a weary shopper is not in an try.

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