Inside: • Programs of Ukraine’s presidential hopefuls – page 2. • President Obama’s message on the Holodomor – page 4. • Book launch for “Scratches on a Prison Wall” – page 10.

hePublished by thekra Ukrainian Nationali Association n i a Inc., a n fraternal non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXVIIT UNo.47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER W 22, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Deadly flu epidemic peaks 76th anniversary of Holodomor Confusion, controversy linger in Ukraine marked at St. Patrick’s Cathedral by Zenon Zawada percent rise in the third week. Kyiv Press Bureau Acute respiratory virus infection and influenza have reached their peak and KYIV – Ukraine’s deadly influenza have slowed, Deputy Health Minister epidemic has already reached its peak, Vasyl Lazoryshynets said at a November government officials said, but confusion, 16 press briefing. In the meantime, the contradiction and controversy linger as illness remains an enigma to medical medical experts are increasingly baffled authorities. by their findings. The government’s official position was British scientists confirmed on first stated by Ms. Tymoshenko and November 16 the belief held by Ukrainian Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych on doctors that a dangerous mutation of the October 30, essentially describing it as a virus is causing deaths, the 1+1 television seasonal viral epidemic with occasional network reported. The very next day, H1N1 strains that causes pneumonia. The however, World Health Organization government declared a quarantine of nine (WHO) officials claimed no mutation of oblasts and a three-week recess for edu- the virus occurred. cational institutions. “Fear, panic and total distrust dominate Similarly, President Viktor Yushchenko social attitudes and emotions,” said Ihor noted in a November 4 statement that Zhdanov, president of the Open Politics “three viral agents of serious viral infec- Analytical Center in Kyiv. tion simultaneously combined: two sea- Enormous speculation still clouds the sonal ones and the California [H1N1 UCCA epidemic’s origins and nature, as well as virus].” how the government of Prime Minister “The joining of infections as a result of Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic Churches officiate the Yulia Tymoshenko prepared and respond- mutations could lead to an even bigger, requiem service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Pictured (from left): Bishop Emeritus ed to it. new, aggressive virus, according to the Basil Losten, Metropolitan Constantine, Metropolitan Stefan Soroka, Bishop Daniel, As of November 19, the death toll conclusions of virologists,” the president the Rev. Protodeacon Ihor Mahlay and Archbishop Antony (at the podium). reached 344 out of 1.5 million infected, said. the Heath Ministry reported. Of the Former Health Minister Mykola NEW YORK – Thousands of Tamara Olexy, president of the 85,904 hospitalized, 54,407 have been Polischuk said it’s a standard seasonal Ukrainian Americans attended the com- Ukrainian Congress Committee of released. While deaths rose more than virus with occasional H1N1 traces and no memoration of the 76th anniversary of America (UCCA), called on the Ukrainian 120 percent between the first and second the Holodomor at St. Patrick’s Cathedral American community “to continue to weeks, the casualty rate slowed to a 62 (Continued on page 3) in New York City on November 14. work on behalf of the innocent victims of Ukraine’s Genocide of 1932-1933, and in their name educate the public about this heinous crime against humanity. …to International campaign recalls Famine-Genocide spread the truth to the world in the hope OTTAWA – An educational campaign women and children suffered agonizing that such crimes never happen again.” recalling the Great Famine of 1932-1933 deaths in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933 The UCCA is the sponsor of the in Soviet Ukraine, known as the during what was arguably one of the Holodomor commemoration at St. Holodomor, was launched on November greatest acts of genocide to befoul 20th Patrick’s Cathedral. The event is co-host- 16. Thousands of postcards are being sent century European history. To this day, ed by the Eastern Eparchy of the to Embassies and Consulates internation- there are Holodomor-deniers attempting Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. ally, urging governments to officially rec- to obfuscate what happened, continuing and the Stamford Eparchy of the ognize that the Famine was an act of geno- to cover up this Communist crime against Ukrainian Catholic Church (UCC). cide perpetrated by the Soviet regime of humanity. This educational effort is there- Hosting hierarchs were Archbishop Joseph Stalin. Canada is one of the few fore aimed at reminding governments Antony (UOC) and Bishop Paul countries that have already recognized the everywhere that the father of the United Chomnycky (UCC). Holodomor as genocide. Nations Convention on Genocide was Archbishop Antony recounted the Drawing upon the writings of Dr. personally convinced of the genocidal events of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. A requi- Raphael Lemkin, the “father of the [U.N.] character of Soviet rule in Ukraine. We em service concelebrated by the hierarchy Genocide Convention,” who described are also calling upon countries that of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, includ- the “destruction of the Ukrainian nation” believe in upholding the relevance of the ing Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan as the “classic example of Soviet geno- U.N. Genocide Convention to officially Soroka, Bishop Chomnycky and Bishop cide,” the Ukrainian Canadian Civil recognize the truth of what happened Emeritus Basil Losten; and the Ukrainian Liberties Foundation and partner groups during the Holodomor.” Orthodox Church, including around the world are mailing postcards For the full text of Lemkin’s speech and Metropolitan-Archbishop Constantine, featuring a pastel drawing of Lemkin and to see the postcard log on to www.uccla.ca Archbishop Antony and Bishop Daniel; an excerpt from his 1953 speech “Soviet and go to Sources & Issues/Great Famine. assisted by 30 clergy of the Ukrainian Genocide in the Ukraine,” an effort timed The postcard released by the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic to coincide with the annual day of mourn- Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation, The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Churches. The Dumka Chorus of New ing for the Holodomor’s victims, with support from Ukrainian organiza- Liberties Foundation’s postcard fea- York, under the direction of Vasyl November 28. tions in Canada, the United States, tures a drawing of Raphael Lemkin. Hrechynsky, sang the responses. Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk, editor of Australia and Great Britain, as part of an William Pope, senior advisor for Europe “Holodomor: Reflections on the Great educational campaign about the and Punishment of the Crime of at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine,” Holodomor features Raphael Lemkin, the Genocide adopted by the United Nations read President Barack Obama’s message commented: “Many millions of men, father of the Convention on Prevention in 1948. (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Ukraine’s presidential hopefuls Senate committee OKs Tefft President nominates Yekhanurov WASHINGTON – The nomination of KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor spell out their programs Ambassador John F. Tefft by U.S. Yushchenko on November 18 tabled in President Barack Obama to be the next by Taras Kuzio central Ukraine. SPU leader Oleksander Parliament a motion on the appointment U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was of Yurii Yekhanurov as defense minister. RFE/Rl Moroz discredited himself and his party when he defected from the Orange coali- approved on November 17 by the mem- Mr. Yekhanurov held this post from The deadline to register candidates for tion in July 2006. bers of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations December 2007 to June 5 of this year, Ukraine’s presidential election was Mr. Tihipko, who is also a successful Committee. The next step is for the nomi- when the Parliament dismissed him at the November 9, after which the seven candi- private banker from Dnipropetrovsk, is nation to be approved by the entire Senate request of Prime Minister Yulia dates who were refused registration were predictably emphasizing the central role in a motion on the Senate floor. This will Tymoshenko. Accusations of corruption given two additional days to resubmit of economic policy, thereby echoing the most likely be a unanimous consent vote. that were made against Mr. Yekhanurov their applications. On November 13, the 1994 campaign of former President It is hoped that the vote will take place have not been confirmed. Valerii Central Election Commission will con- Leonid Kuchma. Mr. Tihipko’s slogans this week as the U.S. Senate is out all of Ivaschenko has temporarily fulfilled the firm the final list of candidates for the include, somewhat strangely, “The next week for the Thanksgiving holiday. minister’s duties. The Verkhovna Rada’s January 17, 2010, presidential vote. Economy Above All Else” and “Ukraine’s After the Senate vote, Ambassador Tefft Committee on National Security and The main reason some candidates were Interests Above All Else.” will be sworn in and will travel to Kyiv to Defense, which is headed by presidential denied registration was their failure to Mr. Yanukovych likewise emphasizes assume his duties. Ambassador Tefft was candidate and ex-Defense Minister prove they had provided the mandatory “A Strong Economy – A Strong Country.” nominated by President Barack Obama Anatoliy Grytsenko, is not planning to $300,000 deposit, which candidates that The eastern Ukraine candidates – on September 30. A hearing on his nomi- support Mr. Yekhanurov’s nomination as fail to make it to the second round of vot- including Messrs. Tihipko and nation took place on October 8. (U.S.- defense minister. The parliamentary fac- ing will forfeit. Although the deposit is Yanukovych – place less emphasis on Ukraine Business Council) tions of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, the Party of Regions and the Communist large, political forces might have good democracy, the rule of law and corrup- Rada urges nomination of defense minister reason to back the registration of so- tion. In fact, the Yanukovych program Party also said that they would not back called technical candidates. First, they does not even mention corruption. KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on the second appointment of Mr. mean additional representatives on the November 16 asked President Viktor Yekhanurov to this post. (Ukrinform) Popular populist measures election boards that count the votes and; Yushchenko to immediately nominate a Flu kills 328 in Ukraine second, they could emerge as a potential Traditionally, Ukrainian presidential candidate for defense minister of Ukraine, ally in the second round. candidates promise to battle corruption Parliament Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn KYIV – As of November 18, Ukraine’s In 1999, 13 candidates vied for the energetically, but once in office do little said at a meeting of the Conciliation Health Ministry reported a total of post, while in 2004, there were 24. This to realize this pledge. Combating corrup- Board. Mr. Lytvyn suggested considering 1,457,564 people ill with flu and acute time around, 18 people will attempt to tion requires political will – something this matter simultaneously with army respiratory virus infections, 83,026 of become the next president of Ukraine. that exists in Georgia, but not in Ukraine. funding both by the end of this year and whom were hospitalized. The death toll Those 18 candidates can be divided into The German think-tank Transparency for the next year. His statement was sup- stood at 328. The epidemic level was three groups. First, there are the two lead- International has reported that Ukraine ported by the chair of the Rada’s reached in 19 oblasts and the city of Kyiv. ing contenders – Prime Minister Yulia made some progress against corruption in Committee on Defense and National (Ukrinform) Tymoshenko and Party of Regions Chair 2005 and 2006, but since 2007 has fallen Security. As reported earlier, President Viktor Yanukovych, each of whom is back to the dismal ratings of the Kuchma Yushchenko blamed Prime Minister Yulia Epidemic reported to have peaked polling about 20-30 percent support. era. In contrast, Georgia has improved its Tymoshenko for destructive processes in KYIV – The epidemic of flu and acute The second-tier candidates include rating each year since 2004. In the 2008 the army and demanded that she provide respiratory viral illnesses has reached its incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko, ranking, Ukraine came in at 134th, while extra funds for the armed forces. former Foreign Affairs Minister Arseniy Georgia had risen to 67th. peak in Ukraine, Deputy Health Minister Meanwhile, the post of defense minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said on November Yatsenyuk, former National Bank of In 2004, Mr. Yushchenko promised “to has been vacant for more than five Ukraine Chair Serhiy Tihipko and send the bandits to jail,” but five years 16, noting that the epidemic growth curve months since Yurii Yekhanurov was dis- had stopped and that 54 percent of the Verkhovna Rada Chair Volodymyr later Ukraine’s elites remain above the missed on June 5 at Ms. Tymoshenko’s Lytvyn. Support for these candidates is in law and Ukrainian “bandits” have gone to 175,800 people hospitalized since initiative. The prime minister accused the October 29 had been discharged from the 3-8 percent range. jail in the United States and Germany, but Defense Ministry of financial fraud and The rest can be considered technical or not in Ukraine. This time around, only hospitals. Mr. Lazoryshynets said that land abuses. However, no proof of abuses 17,000 citizens had asked for medical spoiler candidates, including former Ms. Tymoshenko’s program explicitly has been found thus far. Ex-Defense Defense Minister Anatoliy Grytsenko, condemns the capture of the Ukrainian assistance over the past 24 hours. He said Minister Yekhanurov, who was then that the number of patients in intensive nationalist Svoboda party leader Oleh state by oligarchs. appointed the first vice-chair of the Tiahnybok, Free Democrats party leader Populism is a traditional hallmark of care units had fallen to 354. Ukraine has Presidential Secretariat, filed suit on registered 166 cases of the H1N1 flu virus Mykhailo Brodsky, and eight others who Ukrainian presidential elections. In 2004, October 15 demanding his reinstatement have the backing of no more than 1 per- Mr. Yushchenko offered his “10 Steps” pro- as defense minister. (Ukrinform) (Continued on page 14) cent of the electorate. gram that included many social populist initiatives. The Party of Regions recently Setting out programs introduced legislation in parliament to It’s interesting to take a look at the increase social payments, repeating a tactic FOUNDED 1933 domestic- and foreign-policy programs of then-Prime Minister Yanukovych used in Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y 2004 when he doubled pensions. That ini- the first- and second-tier candidates. The An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., platforms reveal many similarities, partic- tiative was backed by all parliamentary fac- tions except Ms. Tymoshenko’s and was a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. ularly in the realm of populist social ini- Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. tiatives. The programs of four of the can- signed into law by President Yushchenko. The measure casts doubt on whether Periodicals postage paid at Parsippany, NJ 07054 and additional mailing offices. didates bear distinct hallmarks of Soviet (ISSN — 0273-9348) nostalgia. the International Monetary Fund will dis- With an eye on the former Communist burse the fourth tranche of a stand-by The Weekly: UNA: Party supporters that have defected to the agreement loan before the election, open- Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 Party of Regions over the last five years, ing up the real possibility of default. Mr. Yanukovych has adopted rhetoric Nonetheless, Mr. Yanukovych’s current Postmaster, send address changes to: about economic growth and political sta- program cynically declares the 2010 elec- The Ukrainian Weekly Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz 2200 Route 10 Editors: Matthew Dubas bility that echoes what one hears in tion is an opportunity to “clean out the P.O. Box 280 Zenon Zawada (Kyiv) Russia these days. populists and political adventurers from the Ukrainian government.” Parsippany, NJ 07054 Mr. Yatsenyuk’s campaign, which has Of the seven main candidates, only Mr. been widely criticized for adopting a mil- Yanukovych and Ms. Tymoshenko priori- The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com; e-mail: [email protected] itary-camouflage color scheme, is domi- tize national and religious matters. As in nated by Soviet-style slogans such as 2004, Mr. Yanukovych supports elevating “New Industrialization” and “A Healthy The Ukrainian Weekly, November 22, 2009, No. 47, Vol. LXXVII Russian to the status of a second state and Educated People.” Copyright © 2009 The Ukrainian Weekly language, a step also supported by Mr. Lytvyn’s program also looks back- Messrs. Symonenko and Tihipko and, ward with an eye toward gaining the sup- possibly, Mr. Lytvyn. As in 2004, the sec- port of former Socialist Party (SPU) vot- ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA ond round will most likely again give ers in the small towns and rural areas of voters two positions on the state lan- Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3041 guage: Ukrainian (Tymoshenko) versus e-mail: [email protected] Taras Kuzio is a senior fellow of Ukrainian-Russian (Yanukovych). Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 Ukrainian studies at the University of fax: (973) 644-9510 Toronto, adjunct research professor at Foreign policy e-mail: [email protected] the Institute of European and Russian In the foreign-policy domain, none of Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 Studies at Carleton University, and edi- e-mail: [email protected] tor of the bimonthly “Ukraine Analyst.” (Continued on page 20) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 3

Bachynskyi, who led a group of research- Deadly flu epidemic... ers, added, “It’s a very toxic strain which (Continued from page 1) still hasn’t come under the Health cause for alarm, pointing out that acute Ministry’s developed treatment methods.” respiratory illnesses infected 3,221 Dr. Roman Ostiak, the head doctor at Ukrainians in the first 10 months of 2009, the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Clinical compared to 3,989 in the same year-ago Hospital, speaking with a local television period. “It’s a lot, but less by 700 com- network on October 28 shared his specu- pared to 2008,” he said on November 3. lation that it could be a mixed “viral-bac- “But no one kept the people in fear last terial infection,” or an unidentified virus. year.” He witnessed “exceptionally severe While officials and bureaucrats stuck hemorrhaging pneumonia” in which to similar opinions, doctors in western patients had temperatures of about 99 Ukraine with first-hand experience treat- degrees, light coughing and joint pain. A ing patients and victims have offered headache emerged on the second or third sharply contrasting opinions. day, followed by heavy breathing. The 22 virus fatalities in the Chernivtsi As reported in Chernivtsi, transferring Oblast, all of whom were victims between patients to an artificial respirator didn’t age 20 and 40, were not caused by double help breathing in the lungs, which even- pneumonia, but “viral distress syndrome,” tually filled with blood, as observed in or a total inflammation of the lungs, said Ivano-Frankivsk. In Chernivtsi, using an Dr. Viktor Bachynskyi, director of the artificial respirator led to certain death in Zenon Zawada Chernivtsi Oblast Judicial-Medical all the victims. Former Health Minister Mykola Analysis Bureau. Meanwhile, the British scientists Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych. Polischuk. “A certain morphological picture is examining corpses at a Lviv hospital sus- noticed in double pneumonia, which isn’t pected a dangerous mutation, with symp- Dr. Myron Borysevych, the head doc- Mr. Zhdanov, a former Our Ukraine the case with these deaths,” Dr. toms similar to the 1918 Spanish flu virus tor at the Lviv Ambulatory Hospital, ruled consultant, noted that while criticizing the Bachynskyi told a local newspaper, Doba, that killed tens of millions of people out H1N1 altogether and diagnosed the prime minister for hosting the October 24 on November 11. “The fatal virus is very worldwide, the 1+1 television network illness as viral pneumonia. “We don’t event, President Yushchenko himself aggressive, not even touching the trachea, reported on November 16. believe it’s the H1N1 swine flu, but we organized an October 28 campaign rally but immediately finding its way to the “We conducted autopsies of two vic- don’t know what kind of pneumonia this at the Central Election Commission lungs and causing their acute swelling tims and their lungs were black as coal,” is,” he said. involving about 5,000 supporters demon- and massive hemorrhaging.” said a British scientist, who was not iden- So while government officials insist strating a degree of hypocrisy. He observed “H1N1 influenza mixing tified by 1+1. “They looked as though the illness is pneumonia caused by sea- Messrs. Yushchenko and Yatsenyuk with para-influenza viruses.” Dr. they were burned. It’s horrid.” sonal influenza, doctors are still search- also criticized the prime minister for ing. Suspicions shared on Internet blogs overreacting and causing excessive panic and news sites have been as extreme as among the population, particularly in call- genetically engineered killer viruses ing a three-week recess for educational First medical aid shipments unleashed on the population, which many institutions nationwide. Ukrainians are liable to believe. “Tymoshenko is creating a myth about While the public hoped its politicians the ‘horrible’ flu which can’t be eliminat- sent from Canada to Ukraine would act responsibly with public securi- ed,” declared a freely distributed ty in mind, it came as no surprise that an Yatsenyuk newsletter produced days after TORONTO – The first two Canadian viding transportation and freight forward- epidemic causing scores of deaths became an epidemic was declared, under a mast- relief shipments of H1N1 medical sup- ing services for these shipments at no fuel for politics during a nasty presiden- head that read, “Against Panic.” plies left Monday and Tuesday evening, cost. He also praised Ambassador Ostash tial election campaign. The campaign cited statistics that epi- November 9-10, from Toronto’s Pearson and the Ukrainian Embassy staff in Accusations flew in Prime Minister demic levels for acute respiratory viral Airport bound for Kyiv. The shipments Ottawa for their tireless efforts in fast- Tymoshenko’s direction. Often they were infections and influenza virus were sur- were organized by the Canada Ukraine tracking the clearance of these shipments contradictory: she waited too long to passed in the nation’s eight westernmost Foundation (CUF) in conjunction with with Ukrainian Customs and Ministry of respond, she didn’t do enough, she over- oblasts, with no need to call a nationwide the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) Health officials in Ukraine. reacted, she failed to prepare properly, quarantine. in response to an urgent appeal by Ostap Hawaleshka, former president of she played the epidemic for politics, she About 357,800 victims would indicate Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Ihor the CUF, accompanied the initial ship- exacerbated public panic, she spent too a national epidemic, yet only 256,000 Ostash. ment. He will work with Ukraine’s much money, she didn’t spend enough. were ill by the end of the first week of The shipments consisted of some 9,000 Ministry of Health to coordinate future The result was that the Ukrainian pub- November. pounds of urgently needed medical sup- shipments and ensure they are distributed lic didn’t receive a clear or consistent The same newsletter lambasted Ms. plies that included masks, surgical gowns, in Ukraine to areas of most need. message from the nation’s politicians, Tymoshenko for knowing “three weeks disposable gloves, hand sanitizers, Fund-raising efforts within Canada’s observers said. before the meeting about the quickly oxymeters and assorted other medical Ukrainian community are continuing. To Both presidential candidate Arseniy spreading infection, yet taking no mea- goods and equipment. Future shipments donate to the Ukraine Pandemic Appeal, Yatsenyuk and President Viktor sures to combat this problem.” will include antibiotics, anti-virals and readers may long on to www.cufounda- Yushchenko criticized Ms. Tymoshenko Meanwhile, opposition leader Viktor other medications that are currently in tion.ca or mail donations to Canada for holding her October 24 campaign Yanukovych called for Mr. Kniazevych’s short supply in Ukraine. Ukraine Foundation, 203-952 Main St., kick-off on Kyiv’s Independence Square, dismissal. Bohdan Onyschuk, president of CUF, Winnipeg, MB Canada R2W 3P4. involving between 100,000 and 200,000 “There is a direct analogy here – the expressed his particular gratitude to For more information log on to www. supporters, some of whom were arrived current government wasn’t ready for the Health Partners International for donating ucc.ca or www.cufoundation.ca, or con- by bus from Halychyna. economic crisis and didn’t prepare and a large part of these supplies, as well as to tact Lesia Demkowicz at [email protected] or President Yushchenko alleged Ms. disoriented practically the whole country Air Canada and Cole Freight Inc. for pro- 204-942-4627. Tymoshenko was aware that an epidemic that a crisis wouldn’t come to Ukraine,” was unfolding as early as October 20, Mr. Yanukovych said on October 30. when the rate of acute respiratory viral “They did the same with the epidemic.” infections in Ternopil surpassed the epi- Though accusing Ms. Tymoshenko of demic level and the city’s nurseries and “dragging society into panic,” President schools were closed. Yushchenko’s November 4 statement By October 24, 10 infection/influenza- pushed the envelope farther than anyone, related deaths were confirmed in the hysterically calling for “the need to Ternopil Oblast and six in the Lviv change the whole system of organizing Oblast, the president said a statement that state government in Ukraine,” observers at moments was rambling and unbal- noted. anced. “An elementary ignoring of mea- “Now, at this minute, isn’t the time for sures with which the prevention struggle asking and waiting,” the statement said. begins against this illness in any country “The main center of making decisions of the world, any society,” the president’s should become the National Security and November 4 statement said. “But we need Defense Council.” to hold a show, we need concerts because Such alarming statements, coupled everything is paid. 130 million [hrv] was with subsequent pronouncements from already spent.” his advisers in the mass media raising the Mr. Yatsenyuk one-upped the president possibility of martial law, revealed hypoc- and said Ms. Tymoshenko was aware as risy on the president’s end, observers early as October 3, when daily sanitary- said. epidemiological reports placed on her This was evident when President desk began to indicate a quickly spread- Yushchenko said the flu situation was ing infection. “under control” at a press conference the Organizers of the aid shipment sent by the Canada Ukraine Foundation and the They both compared this event to the next day with Belarusian President Ukrainian Canadian Congress (from left) Serhiy Kasyanchuk, Bob Onyschuk May 1 parade following the Chornobyl Alyasandr Lukashenka, who was visiting and Michael Zozula. nuclear disaster in April 1986. Ukraine. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

yet to be done to achieve an even wider 76th anniversary... international recognition of the genocidal (Continued from page 1) character of the Famine of 1932-1933.” on Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Mr. Shamshur reminded the audience Day. (The full text appears on page 4.) members of the construction of the U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) memorial monument in Washington dedi- thanked the Ukrainian American commu- cated to the victims of the Holodomor nity for annually commemorating the vic- that is scheduled for completion in 2013. tims of the Holodomor at St. Patrick’s Also representing Ukraine’s diplomatic Cathedral. “The effort of the Ukrainian corps, Yuriy Sergeyev, ambassador of community here and broad has made us Ukraine to the United Nations, under- remember,” the senator noted. “It [the ser- scored, that “the Holodomor is one of the vice] makes the whole world remember.” darkest pages in Ukraine’s history, during Sen. Schumer remarked that the which millions of innocent victims were Holodomor was “the worst holocaust the starved to death.” world has ever known.” Mr. Sergeyev thanked representatives “Today the American Ukrainian com- of several U.N. member-states for their munity lives despite Stalin’s efforts. We attendance and support: “We highly value see it everywhere. We see it in a free and those important signs of worldwide soli- democratic Ukraine, and we must never darity and support. We are grateful to all let Russia remove that freedom from the parliamentarians and governments Ukraine by any means. The United States who have already shown us their under- must stand with Ukraine to keep it free… standing… I am confident that the pro- UCCA I am so proud that there are so many cess that has started will not be stopped Ukrainian Americans here in New York, by anybody, and the international recog- Clergy listen to the Dumka Chorus of New York during the requiem service. and I am equally proud that the commu- nition of the Holodomor will continue to nity has been replenished by the new grow. Let us remember about this tragedy, remarks on the 76th anniversary of collective memory of this terrible act.” wave of immigrants… So we say to the which is a tragedy to not only Ukraine, Ukraine’s Genocide. Rep. Levin is co-chair of the Congressional evil tyrants, we say to Stalin, you may but the entire mankind.” Sen. Gillibrand noted, “As we com- Ukrainian Caucus and a main sponsor of have tried to annihilate the Ukrainian Mark Edwards, a producer of the docu- memorate the anniversary of the Ukrainian the bill to erect the Ukrainian Famine- people, but the Ukrainian people live. mentary “The Living,” recounted his expe- Genocide, we demonstrate our commit- Genocide Memorial in Washington. God bless them,” he said. rience of learning about the Holodomor ment to human rights and to ensuring that Metropolitan-Archbishop Soroka con- Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United through the words of the survivors, 60 of this will never happen again.” cluded the requiem service with remarks States Oleh Shamshur underscored the whom were interviewed throughout In his statement on November 6, Rep. about the Holodomor and its ongoing worldwide effort to “spread the truth Ukraine during the making of the film. Levin stated, “The recently opened Soviet effects on Ukrainian history. He also about the Holodomor across the world, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and archives show the pre-mediated, political expressed gratitude to Roman Catholic but we are conscious that much more is Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) also sent nature of the Famine. The commendable Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan, work of Ukrainian scholars and the and the entire staff of St. Patrick’s Ukrainian American community is helping Cathedral, for use of the landmark house to bring these horrors to light to ensure our of worship for the ecumenical service.

UCCA Participants listen to the speakers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

CAMPAIGN WATCH Russ Chelak U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer at the Holodomor service. EU to send over 700 monitors hrv ($125,000) last year. The Central Election Commission completed its regis- KYIV – Member-countries of the tration of presidential candidates on European Union will send more than 700 November 13. (Ukrinform) Statement by President Barack Obama monitors for the presidential election in Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Minister Petro Election will cost 122 M hrv more Poroshenko said on November 18. “Yet, on Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Day KYIV – The presidential election in nobody feels any concern after the recent The statement below was released on a breadbasket of Europe. Ukrainians 2010 will cost 122 million hrv more due visit of a task force that pointed out the November 13 by the White House Office could have fed themselves and saved to a rise in the minimum wage, the deputy openness and transparency of the candi- of the Press Secretary. millions of lives, had they been allowed date registration process, and free access chair of the Central Election Commission to do so. As we remember this calamity, of all candidates to the mass media,” the (CEC), Zhanna Usenko-Chorna, said at a Seventy-six years ago, millions of we pay respect to millions of victims minister said. Election day is January 17, press conference on November 18. She innocent Ukrainians – men, women and who showed tremendous strength and 2010. (Ukrinform) said the commission would soon review children – starved to death as a result of courage. The Ukrainian people over- its budget and submit a request to Income ranking of candidates the deliberate policies of the regime of came the horror of the great famine and Parliament so that higher expenditures Joseph Stalin. Tomorrow, we join togeth- have gone on to build a free and demo- KYIV – Serhii Tihipko is the wealthi- are taken into account in the state budget. er, Ukrainian-Americans and all cratic country. est among Ukraine’s 18 presidential can- Ms. Usenko-Chorna said that 80 percent Americans, to commemorate these tragic Remembering the victims of the man- didates, reporting a total income for 2008 of state budget spending on the organiza- events and to honor the many victims. made catastrophe of Holodomor provides of more than 20 million hrv ($2.5 million tion of presidential elections in Ukraine is From 1932 to 1933, the Ukrainian us an opportunity to reflect upon the plight U.S.). In second place is Mykhailo for wages of election commission mem- people suffered horribly during what of all those who have suffered the conse- Brodsky with income of 18.6 million hrv bers. The commission previously estimat- has become known as the Holodomor – quences of extremism and tyranny around ($2.3 million) in 2008. Viktor ed expenditures on organizing and hold- “death by hunger” – due to the Stalin the world. We hope that the remembrance Yanukovych reported 4.8 million hrv ing the presidential election at 212.3 mil- regime’s seizure of crops and farms of Holodomor will help prevent such trag- ($600,000). The incumbent, Viktor lion hrv this year and 1.532 billion hrv across Ukraine. Ukraine had once been edy in the future. Yushchenko, earned more than 1 million next year. (Ukrinform) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 5

OBITUARIES Iryna senyk, 83, OUN member, stefan Tatarenko, public servant, former soviet political prisoner Ukrainian community activist, 62 KYIV – Iryna Senyk, poet, former Soviet CLIFTON, N.J. – Stefan Tatarenko, a political prisoner, a member of the community leader in Clifton, N.J., and a Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Ukrainian community activist in New (OUN) and the Ukrainian Helsinki Group Jersey, died on November 12 after a long (UHG), died on October 25. She was 83. and courageous battle. He was at his home Ms. Senyk was born on June 8, 1926, surrounded by loved ones. into a family of “Sichovi Striltsi” (Ukrainian A long-time resident of Clifton, Mr. Sich Riflemen, military units fighting for Tatarenko, 62, was known to the city’s resi- Ukraine’s independence in Halychyna from dents as responsive public servant always 1912 through 1919 ). She became a member ready to help anyone who sought his assis- of the OUN in 1941, although she had acted tance. He entered politics in 1991 and was as a messenger in a youth section of the elected to the Clifton Board of Education, OUN beginning in 1939. serving for six years. In 1998 he was elected Due to her involvement in the Ukrainian to the City Council and served for eight national liberation movement, Ms. Senyk years. was arrested by Soviet authorities on He was the current president of Holy December 12, 1945, and accused of “treason Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church in against the homeland” (Article 54-1 a) and Clifton, as well as a long-time member of “involvement in a counter-revolutionary the parish choir. He was active in the organization” (Article 54-11) of the Criminal Ukrainian Orthodox League, at one time Code. She was sentenced in March 1946 by serving as president of the Junior UOL. an NKVD military tribunal to 10 years in a Iryna Senyk in a photo taken at the His activity in the Ukrainian community Stefan Tatarenko labor camp and lifelong exile. offices of The Ukrainian Weekly in spanned many organizations, most notably In 1968 she was released, but prohibited 1990. the Ukrainian Congress Committee of remembered for his bright smile and ability from returning to Lviv. She settled in Ivano- America, in which he was an executive to entertain an audience with both a micro- Frankivsk, where she became friendly with six years of harsh-regime labor camp and board member and onetime president of the phone and accordion in hand. He was a the Shestydesiatnyky (patriotic Ukrainian five years of exile outside the borders of Passaic-Bergen County branch. He was a musician with the Tempo orchestra for many activists of the 1960s) and worked as a Ukraine. former member of the Ukrainian Festival years and was known for playing his accor- nurse. She served her sentence in the women’s Committee that organized annual festivals at dion during the popular Ukrainian sing- On November 17, 1972, she was arrested unit of the Mordovian ASSR’s political the Garden State Arts Center and was a alongs held in Wildwood, N.J., during and charged with engaging in “anti-Soviet labor camps, where she took part in hunger member of the Ukrainian National Ukrainian Week. In 2008 he was one of the agitation and propaganda” under Article strikes to mark the Day of Solidarity with Association. organizers of the first ever Accordionfest 62-2 of the Criminal Code. On January 26, Soviet Political Prisoners, and signed letters Peter Paluch of Rutherford, N.J., told a held at the Ukrainian American Cultural 1973. the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Court and appeals to the world community trying local newspaper, The Record, that Mr. Center of New Jersey that brought together declared her a particularly dangerous repeat to draw attention to the “flagrant violations Tatarenko worked to raise awareness of a dozen accordionists. offender. However, bearing in mind her poor of basic human rights” in the USSR. Ukrainian issues, such as the Famine- Surviving are Mr. Tatarenko’s wife, health – in 1958 she had undergone a seri- On November 15, 1978, after six years of Genocide of 1932-1933. Former Clifton Anna, and sons, Peter and Andrew, as well ous operation – the court sentenced her to Councilman Ed Welsh commented that Mr. as a sister, Alexandria Kowalenko, and other (Continued on page 21) Tatarenko’s pride in his family and family members in the United States and Ukrainian heritage was “second to none.” Ukraine. He was predeceased by his parents, Mr. Tatarenko, a native of Germany, Wasyl and Maria Tatarenko, and his sister arrived in the United States at the age of 7. Raya of Ukraine. Yakiv suslensky, 80, advocate He graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson The funeral liturgy for Mr. Tatarenko was University. He was a U.S. Army veteran of offered at Holy Ascension Ukrainian the Vietnam war; he had been stationed at Orthodox Church on Saturday, November of Ukrainian-Jewish relations Fort Hood, Texas. 14, and interment was at St. Andrew’s He had a successful career in the textile Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South JERUSALEM – Yakiv Suslensky, a industry, working at both Burlington Knit Bound Brook, N.J. Memorial contributions former Soviet political prisoner who and Safer Textiles. may be made to the American Cancer became an Israeli civic activist and Friends said Mr. Tatarenko would be Society. founded the Society for Ukrainian-Jewish Contacts, died in Jerusalem on October 19. He was 80. Mr. Suslensky was born in the Leningrad Oblast in 1929. He spoke out against the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the anti-Semitic poli- cies of the USSR and was charged with “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.” He served seven years, 1970-1977, in camps and prisons of the USSR for his THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION human rights activities. will mail Christmas greetings and small gift packages to American-Ukrainian ser- While imprisoned he initiated a move- vice people presently serving their country in many parts of the world. ment for the recognition of the status of political prisoners in keeping with inter- UNA wishes to solicit your help in getting names, addresses and ranks of any national accords on human rights. He and Ukrainian you may know who is serving in the armed forces. Help make this his fellow political prisoners of various project successful. UNA will mail Christmas and New Year’s greetings nationalities refused to do forced labor to our service people by December 25, 2009. and protested the degrading conditions in Yakiv Suslensky in a 1994 photo. which they were held. They appealed to We wish to contact all our service men and women. the United Nations for support and He emigrated with his daughter from With your help we will reach most of them! authored a document on the status of the the Soviet Union to Israel in 1977. Two political prisoner that was known in the years later he founded the Society for Name: West as the “Appeal of the 67.” Ukrainian-Jewish Contacts, which At one point close to death in the worked toward the normalization of rela- Rank: Soviet gulag, Mr. Suslensky credited two tions between the two nationalities and Ukrainian political prisoners, Zynoviy against harmful stereotypes. In his role as Address: Antoniuk and Hryhoriy Prykhodko, with president of the society, Mr. Suslensky saving his life. Mr. Suslensky said he traveled to various points around the began to sympathize with the Ukrainian globe, visiting the United States and Please send the information by December 14, 2009, to: struggle for independence while in prison. Canada dozens of times. Though based in Ukrainian National Association, Inc., He spoke often of his experiences in the Israel, the society at one point had some UNA National Organizer – Oksana Trytjak camps and of his friendship with 400 members worldwide. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 Ukrainian political prisoners such as Mr. Suslensky spoke at countless venues Parsippany, NJ 07054 Yevhen Sverstiuk, Lev Lukianenko and tel: 1 973 292-9800 x3071 e-mail: [email protected] the late Vyacheslav Chornovil. (Continued on page 20) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

Th e Uk r a i n i a n We e k l y The UNA’s successful year Last week’s front page of The Ukrainian Weekly carried a headline proclaim- ing the latest good news about the Ukrainian National Association: “UNA reports successful year, despite economic downturn.” The story about the 2009 annual meeting of the UNA General Assembly (its highest decision-making body The Orange Revolt between quadrennial conventions) reported that the Ukrainian National I have a proposal: let’s stop calling it the The others needed to do something to Association had enjoyed a very successful year since the 2008 annual meeting. Orange Revolution. A revolution implies a thwart the Donbas clan, hence the miracu- President Stefan Kaczaraj could hardly contain his enthusiasm when he stated: sudden, radical or complete change. A rev- lous Yushchenko candidacy. While most “We are pleased to report that it has been a record-breaking year for the UNA.” olution is a fundamental change in political members of the Ukrainian elite are so Sales of annuities led the UNA’s growth, with new business income surpassing organization. reviled by the people that they stand no $20 million in the first three quarters of 2009, as compared to $11.4 million for No type of change has occurred in chance of gaining public support, Mr. all of last year. (The annuities income for 2008 had been a new record, which has Ukraine that justifies calling what hap- Yushchenko had a unique appeal that now been overtaken by the figures for 2009.) National Secretary Christine Kozak pened in the winter of 2004 a “revolution.” inspired the public. He seemed like a man added to the good news by pointing out that the strong sales of annuities led to The Ukrainian government and its organs of progressive reform, having introduced sales of life insurance, which is the UNA’s core business, with the result that life have since drifted into a bizarre, post-mod- the stable hryvnia and paid back wages and insurance sales also have experienced a higher rate of growth when compared ern managed anarchy, which is better char- pensions, owed by the government, during with the previous year. acterized as a gradual social deterioration his tenure as prime minister in 2000-2001. UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich was happy to inform the General Assembly rather than a force for change. His campaign motto was “Not Words, But that, while most suffered investment losses during 2008, the UNA had a healthy Actions.” growth in investment income thanks to a conservative investment policy that The fundamental way of life and doing Ukrainians with Western values support- protected its portfolio during the worldwide financial crisis. Furthermore, the business in Ukraine has not changed. All ed Mr. Yushchenko, who promised the rule UNA’s total assets grew to just under $99 million – the highest level in the the key institutions for a functioning soci- of law, transparent government, fair courts, UNA’s history – and surplus increased to over $5 million at a time when most ety – the courts, the government bureaucra- elimination of nepotism, and separation insurance companies and fraternal benefit societies alike saw their surpluses cy and the police – remain utterly unreli- business from legislation and governance. decline. able and corrupt. Instead he appointed Sviatoslav Piskun At Soyuzivka there was great news about the Ukrainian Cultural Festival of The biggest change that can be spoken as procurator general (widely believed to 2009, which attracted 7,000 visitors – roughly doubling the number of attendees of is former President Leonid Kuchma’s be part of the Orange deal with Mr. from 2008. A full one-third of this year’s guests had never before been to system of organized corruption being Kuchma), appointed “kumy” (parents of Soyuzivka, so there is reason to expect return visits from a whole new group of replaced by the chaotic corruption of godchildren) to key posts, and asked the people. Another good indicator of Soyuzivka’s vitality: camp attendance was up President Viktor Yushchenko. In the good nation’s oligarchs for advice on how to run by 25 percent from 2008 to 2009. ol’ Mr. Kuchma days, there was law and the country’s economy. The UNA’s publications, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly – two of the fra- order in bribery – you knew who to pay Ukrainians with Western values were ternal organization’s most popular fraternal benefits – are succeeding in contain- and how much. Now it’s a free-for-all – utterly frightened of a Yanukovych presi- ing their expenses, most notably with the switchover to a new print shop in the perhaps Mr. Yushchenko’s idea of Western dency, which posed the risk of an Philadelphia area that will allow the newspapers to save an estimated $35,000 to capitalism is allowing the free market to Alyaksandr Lukashenka-style Ukraine. Mr. $40,000 per year. Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly continue to work on the determine the price for bribes. Yushchenko offered a hope for a middle- digitization of their archives, thanks to several major sponsors, and both newspa- Meanwhile, absolutely nothing has class lifestyle, whereas the Yanukovych pers are taking the next steps toward online subscriptions (that’s in addition to, changed in political organization. The same presidency offered stability in poverty. not in place of, regular subscriptions by mail). oligarchs who gained wealth and power in Now Ukrainians are unstable in their pov- Also worth noting was the UNA executives’ report to the annual meeting that the Kuchma era only reinforced their con- erty. the UNA had hired a professional marketing specialist to work on advertising trol of Ukraine’s most valuable resources Through its history, Ukraine has been and promoting the UNA, its products and its fraternal benefits, most importantly and capital during the Yushchenko era. the source of conflict between mighty Svoboda, The Weekly and the Soyuzivka Heritage Center. It was a step long Many of the presidential candidates com- empires, and today is no different. overdue that is sure to yield good results for all these entities. peting in 2004 are competing again. The Anglo-American oligarchy, led by As Mr. Kaczaraj underscored in his report to the dedicated UNA activists This is not a revolution, but a strength- dynasties such as the Rockefellers, Bushes who serve on the General Assembly, the UNA “continues to move in the right ening of Ukraine’s oligarchy that is chok- and Rothschilds, and the British royalty, are direction, with income increasing and expenses declining.” In the end, the mes- ing the people to death and causing many fighting to build the New World Order. sage at the annual meeting was clear: the Ukrainian National Association is to flee the country. Today there are 1.2 mil- This isn’t conspiracy theory anymore – looking ahead to more good news and much progress in the year – and years – lion fewer Ukrainians than in April 2005, Baron David de Rothschild and David ahead. two months after Mr. Yushchenko took office. The nation’s population was 46 mil- Rockefeller have said this themselves. lion in October 2009, and it is likely to fall At the same time, Russian Federation below the 46-million mark by the year’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese end. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are fighting to Nov. Turning the pages back... What happened in 2004 was an “Orange build their own vision of the New World Revolt,” consisting of three key conflicts: Order, in which Ukraine plays a critical the Donbas oligarchy against the other role as a Russian-controlled satellite. The Ukrainian oligarchs, the Anglo-American Orange Revolt was among the battlefields 22 between these competing oligarchies. Four years ago, on November 22, 2005, President George oligarchy against the Moscow oligarchy, and average Ukrainians with Western val- For the Anglo-American oligarchy, pro- 2005 W. Bush released a message from the White House to mark moting “freedom” and “democracy” was as the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. ues against the Ukrainian oligarchy. Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential candi- much the reason for supporting the Rose “One year ago today, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Orange revolutions (in Georgia and citizens stood up to defend democracy in their homeland. Through great courage and dacy in 2004 meant the Donbas oligarchy, led by Rinat Akhmetov and the Kliuyev Ukraine, respectively) as launching war in determination, they showed the world that the love of liberty is stronger than the will Afghanistan and in Iraq. Its goal was of tyranny. Last year’s revolution was a powerful example of freedom and democracy brothers, was aiming to take control of Ukraine and extend Mr. Kuchma’s authori- expanding Anglo-American influence in in action and an inspiration to those aspiring for freedom in their own land,” President the post-Soviet lands to allow multinational Bush stated. tarian policies so they could further rob the country of its wealth. (Mr. Akhmetov is the corporations more access and enable more “Ukraine’s leadership now faces an historic opportunity and has an historic respon- integration with the North Atlantic Treaty sibility to fulfill the promise of the Orange Revolution and continue to transform wealthiest oligarch in the former Soviet Union, and the Kliuyev brothers are three- Organization (NATO) and global institu- Ukraine into a fully democratic state. The United States will continue to support the tions such as the World Trade Organization efforts of President Viktor Yushchenko in advancing a democratic, prosperous and digit millionaires.) This prospect frightened the hell out of (WTO). secure Ukraine, and America is proud to call Ukraine a friend,” the statement contin- In my observations, NATO’s main pur- ued. Ukraine’s other oligarchs, based in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv. Not only pose is not so much to defend against The first anniversary of the Orange Revolution was marked in Ukraine with events alleged enemies as to build the Anglo- on Independence Square. Yulia Tymoshenko, who was dismissed in September 2005 would they be denied access to government posts, which they could abuse to further American vision of the New World Order. from her post as prime minister, commented on the lack of reform since the promises George Soros, among the world’s wealthi- that were made on the maidan (Independence Square) the prior year by President enhance their wealth, but they even stood est men and financer of a handful of Viktor Yushchenko. She also warned of the potential reprisal by Viktor Yanukovych, to lose their wealth (also acquired under Western non-governmental organizations in who lost the 2004 election that sparked the Orange Revolution. “questionable” means during the Kuchma Kyiv, wrote on this topic. Mr. Yushchenko underscored the process that democracy in Ukraine was taking and era) to raids and takeovers by the Donbas The biggest winners from the Orange reassured the audience members that the course had not strayed far from the goals of oligarchy. Revolt were Ukraine’s oligarchs and politi- democracy, freedom and the supremacy of law. The oligarchs who supported Mr. cians, Donbas or not. Between 2004 and The anniversary celebrations were emceed by Yevhen Nyschuk, 33, who DJ’d dur- Yushchenko were millionaires – Petro 2009, Donetsk kingpin Mr. Akhmetov lost ing the Orange Revolution on the maidan. Commenting on the first anniversary, Mr. Poroshenko, Mykola Martynenko and Fedir an estimated $2.2 billion but remains Nyschuk said, “Politicians were forced to reflect on what they do, what they think. Shpyh – while the key oligarchs who sup- among the wealthiest men in Europe, with This [anniversary] grounded them back to reality.” ported Mr. Yanukovych were billionaires – $9.6 billion in estimated assets and wealth. Mr. Akhmetov, Victor Pinchuk and Valerii Guys like him never went to jail, as Mr. Source: “President George W. Bush’s message on Orange Revolution anniversary,’ Khoroshkovskyi – who were poised to The Ukrainian Weekly, November 27, 2005. divide the country. (Continued on page 17) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

hospital fee when making use of a On second thought A correction Canadian medical facility just as any by Alex Kuzma Canadian would if seeking hospital care from CIUS or visiting a doctor’s office in the United States. I very much doubt that any Dear Editor: Canadian doctor insisted on a “bribe” I am writing to bring attention to and before offering medical attention to an Sheptytsky honored on 2010 Holocaust Calendar correct some inaccuracies contained in the American who was injured here. article “Kyiv Conference on World War II Publishing a letter (September 27) In November, Ukrainians mourn the Ukrainian Catholics, in particular our and historical memory” (November 1), whose author claims a Canadian doctor anniversary of the death of one of the heirarchs and the Sheptytsky Institute to which could mislead readers. insisted upon a visitor paying a “bribe” greatest moral crusaders of the 20th cen- reach out to the curators of the Holocaust Zenon Zawada reported that one of the for medical assistance was irresponsible. tury, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Museum and to propose an exhibit and priorities of the Canadian Institute of The person making this claim should pub- For those familiar with his biography, the symposium on the metropolitan’s life and Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University licly name the doctor who allegedly took name inspires an almost visceral rever- the heroic resistance he inspired. of Alberta is to determine “whether World a “bribe” and provide details about where ence among Ukrainians. Our children need to be taught War II Commander Roman Shukhevych and when. A formal complaint with the Even in the most impossible condi- Sheptytsky’s story so they can challenge and his Nachtigall battalion were responsi- hospital or medical facility where tions, Sheptytsky urged his followers to the stereotypes perpetuated by ble for Jewish pogroms in 1941 and 1942.” this incident allegedly occurred should risk their lives to shelter Jews during Ukrainophobes and Russian propagan- This is not a research priority at CIUS. also be filed. If that is not done, then I World War II. He ordered his churches dists who have tried to brand Ukrainians Further, Per Anders Rudling is a con- would suggest that either the incident and monasteries to provide sanctuary for as Nazi collaborators. Our youngsters tract instructor at the Department of never happened or has been exaggerated the persecuted. need to hear the stories of their heroic History and Classics at the University of by someone attempting to score political His revolutionary sermon “Thou Shalt grandparents and community elders who Alberta, and is not associated with CIUS, points in the ongoing U.S. debate over Not Kill” remains a classic moral tract sheltered Jews and took up arms against which one might assume after reading Mr. how to provide health care. for Christians embroiled in war. He the Germans once they understood what Zawada’s article. Dr. John-Paul Himka is a While I am not entirely a fan of the denied the sacraments to Ukrainian kind of threat the Nazis posed. professor in the Department of History and way we do things up here, the fact Catholics who participated in atrocities, Sheptytsky’s biography deserves to be Classics at the University of Alberta. He is remains that the average life-span of a whether against Jews, Poles or fellow taught not only to Ukrainian Americans. It also the director of the Program for the Canadian is greater than the average life- Ukrainians. And, in an act of breathtak- should be part of every curriculum on polit- Study of Religion and Culture at CIUS, span of an American. That suggests which ing defiance, Sheptytsky wrote letters of ical ethics and Holocaust studies. His name whose mandate is to research “the sacral system works better for the average protest to Gestapo chief Heinrich should be a household word in every cultures of Ukrainian churches in Ukraine citizen of either country, be they Himmler protesting the Nazis’ atrocities Catholic school and seminary. For example, and the diaspora, especially in Canada.” Republican, Conservative, Liberal or and their forced conscription of many Catholics are familiar with the life Democrat. Ukrainians to participate in persecution. story of El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Bohdan Klid In the last years of his life, as he saw Romero. Like Sheptytsky, Romero was Edmonton Lubomyr Luciuk Ukraine torn apart by the unspeakable born into a privileged family that groomed Kingston, Ontario brutality of war and the monolithic twin him to join his nation’s religious and eco- The letter-writer is acting director of horrors of fascism and Stalinism, nomic elite. Instead of joining the Roman the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Metropolitan Sheptytsky fully expected Catholic clergy, Sheptytsky opted to serve Studies. to meet the same kind of violent death in the Ukrainian Byzantine rite, scorned by Letter-writer that met so many innocent Catholic faith- Polish Catholics as a Church of peasants, ful during the Soviet and Nazi occupa- illiterates and political subversives. Romero is questioned tions. In fact, he prayed for the privilege was also expected to defend the privileges About research of martyrdom. As fate would have it, of El Salvador’s oligarchs. Instead, Romero Dear Editor: Sheptytsky died what some might call a shocked his conservative fellow bishops by at Stasiuk Program As a Canadian reader of your newspa- natural death on November 1, 1944. becoming an outspoken advocate of human per, I was quite offended by the com- Although he lived into his 80s, his health rights and a pastor to the nation’s poor and Dear Editor: ments made by Dr. Lydia Kossak was broken by years of imprisonment downtrodden. Kernitsky in her letter (September 27) during the tsarist regime. In a brutal civil war that raged during In his coverage of the Kyiv conference Unfortunately, Sheptytsky is virtually the 1970s and ’80s Romero became an on historical memory in Ukraine, Zenon under the title “A reaction to Kuzma col- umn.” unknown beyond the Ukrainian commu- iconic figure whose memory rallied the Zawada (November 1) writes that the nity and beyond a small circle of Catholic Church to champion political Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies If left unchallenged, her comments will lead a reader to believe that Canadian Holocaust scholars and Vatican clergy and economic reform and to condemn the has made it a priority to determine the role who are deliberating his case for canon- political killings, torture and social injus- of Roman Shukhevych and the Nachtigall doctors require bribes to be paid before they will provide emergency services ization. When Pope John Paul II visited tices that plagued Salvadoran society. battalion in the anti-Jewish pogroms of Ukraine in 2000, he announced the can- Shockingly, Romero suffered the mar- 1941-1942. The Stasiuk Program for the This is completely outrageous, and the conduct of this particular doctor as stated onization of Abbot Klementiy Sheptytsky tyr’s death that eluded Sheptytsky. He Study of Contemporary Ukraine, which I (the metropolitan’s brother) and 27 other was gunned down by a right-wing death direct, is neither examining nor conducting by Dr. Kernitsky suggests both unethical and illegal behavior. Ukrainian saints and martyrs of the 20th squad while celebrating a noontime mass research on this question. century, but Andrey Sheptytsky was not in the national cathedral. The assassins Our key areas of focus for the coming I assume Dr. Kernitsky is prepared to stand behind her statement and I offer the among them. Sheptytsky is still denied committed an outrage even the Nazis year are coverage and analysis of the presi- recognition at the Yad Vashem Memorial dared not commit against Sheptytsky. dential elections of January 2010 and a following questions and comments direct- ly to her: in Jerusalem – an honor bestowed on To advance Sheptytsky’s recognition, longer term project on the Famine- over 300 Ukrainian “Righteous Among we should reach out to American Catholic Holodomor of 1932-1933 based on archi- a) Where did you receive treatment for your broken arm? was it in an emergency Gentiles” – many of whom were inspired and Jewish audiences by promoting val research. Coverage of the former will by his example. Sheptytsky’s courage workshops and film screenings of Oles be available on our blog site at http:// room, “walk-in” medical clinic or doc- tor’s office? and his defiance of the Nazis may also be Yanchuk’s fine biographic movie about ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/. I will a source of discomfort for the Vatican Sheptytsky, comparable to Raul Julia’s deliver some preliminary results of the b) Have you written a letter of com- plaint regarding this particular doctor to because it begs the question why Pope film portrayal of Romero. In the words of Famine research at the 2010 Mohyla Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, the College of Physcians and Surgeons in Pius XII did not do more to challenge Lecture, University of Saskatchewan, on Sheptytsky stands out as a “shining the province where this incident occured Hitler’s and Mussolini’s rise to power or February 26, and in a series of lectures at to save European Jews from annihilation. exception” to the moral depravity of the so that a proper investigation into this institutions and Ukrainian communities in In 2010 the Ukrainian community may era in which he lived. His story offers a doctor’s conduct can take place by the Australia in March 2010. have a unique opportunity to break unique opportunity to enter into a professional governing body? If you have through the dearth of public awareness – nuanced and respectful dialogue about David R. Marples not written such a letter or otherwise some would call it “conspiracy of the plight of Ukrainians and Jews during Edmonton, Alberta made contact with the college, why not? silence” – about Sheptytsky’s legacy. The World War II. It has gained new rele- c) Have you and your husband made a U.S. Holocaust Museum just issued its vance at a time when some have argued The letter–writer is professor and direc- formal complaint to the Royal Canadian calendar for 2010 and the month of that a limited use of torture and human tor of the Stasiuk Program for the Study of Mounted Police or local municipal police February carries a portrait of “Andrew rights abuses can be justified in the cur- Contemporary Ukraine, Canadian Institute about the doctor requiring a bribe prior to Szeptycki” with the subtitle: “He led his rent global war on terror. of Ukrainian Studies, University of providing emergency medical treatment? community to shelter Jews.” The caption As passionately as he yearned for Alberta. If you have not reported this matter to reads: “Kurt and Nathan Lewin, sons of Ukrainian independence, Sheptytsky con- police, why not? the Chief Rabbi of Lvov [sic] survived demned the use of terror against civilians d) Perhaps Dr. Kernitsky can state in with help from Andrew Szeptycki, as a means of achieving political ends. which province this incident occurred so Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Even at the height of the most desperate Medical care that the Ministry or Department of Health Catholic Church. The Archbishop and all-consuming war in history, can commence an investigation into a sit- brought the Lewins and other Jews to Sheptytsky reminded his followers that in Canada uation where apparently doctors “...do not monasteries, where the monks risked Christians are bound by moral standards set broken bones on weekends.” Dear Editor: their own lives and the safety of their and universal principles of human rights Greg Rak communities in order to hide them…” that prohibit the slaughter of civilians and Non-residents of Canada must pay a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan This could be a precious opening for demand resistance to injustice. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

NEWS AND VIEWS Ukrainian independence and Soviet Ukraine’s KGB (a memoir) by Roman Kupchinsky cer in the U.S. Army and a Vietnam vet- CIA officials and the U.S. government as was introduced to, however, they eran, and this created suspicions that I a critical one. How Ukrainian leaders appeared to be very knowledgeable and By the summer of 1990 it was clear had a dual loyalty and could not be trust- would behave if push came to shove with took an active part in the discussions that that the Soviet Union was on the verge of ed in the day-to-day operations of Prolog. Moscow was high on the list of intelli- followed. collapse and that Ukraine would declare The argument put forth was that I was gence priorities for Washington, and Ritual demanded that we eat and drink independence in the near future. The unable to distinguish between the inter- within a few days Ivan had my visa ready first, and everyone dug in with gusto. Berlin Wall had collapsed, and the Rukh ests of the U.S. government and the aspi- and I left for Kyiv. Toasts were exchanged over and over movement in Ukraine had spread through- rations of the Ukrainian nation. I checked into the Dnipro Hotel, which again, and then Yevhen Marchuk slowly out the country. Officials of the I was contemplating my next career at the time was a drab honky-tonk despite began getting into the more substantive Communist Party of Ukraine were rapidly move when one day in June I met for cof- the six stars on its entrance. Its main part of the discussion. turning in their party cards and switching attraction was a dark loud bar on the top “Pane Romane, we know something sides in preparation for what they saw as fee with my colleague “Ivan,” a KGB officer at the Ukrainian SSR Mission to floor swarming with prostitutes and their about your past and your contacts in a new era in the making. pimps looking for the few Westerners Washington. How do they view the I was living in New Jersey at the time the United Nations. I had maintained reg- ular contacts with the Mission staff and foolish or crazy enough to visit Ukraine. Ukrainian situation there? Are they will- and had left my job at Prolog Research The entrance to the hotel was guarded by ing to help us in any way? Will they back and Publishing Corp., bitter at what I felt the KGB officers assigned to it in order to gauge rapidly changing attitudes inside what the locals called the “Swiss,” securi- us in case Ukraine leaves the USSR? You was the total lack of belief by some of the ty guards who prevented locals from must realize that what we say here is con- founders of Prolog that the tide had the Mission and learn the views of the then-Ambassador, Hennadii Udovenko. entering the hotel – the exception being fidential. The KGB of Ukraine is still part turned in the USSR and that Ukrainian the working girls and their managers. During the meeting Ivan, who at the of the all-union KGB.” independence, the goal of Prolog and the The following evening I heard a knock I asked: “Does this mean that Moscow time was a colonel in Soviet state security, Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian on my door, opened it and there was Col. Center is unaware of this meeting?” suggested that I visit Kyiv and assured me Supreme Liberation council (known by Ivan from the Mission, carrying a large “Yes, that is true. Please do not men- that my safety would be guaranteed. I had its Ukrainian acronym as the ZP UHVR), bag filled with sausages, bread, tomatoes tion this meeting to anyone in Ukraine. never been permitted to go to Ukraine due which set the political direction of Prolog, a few bottles of horilka and salo. We The consequences for us would be dra- was finally within arm’s reach. to the nature of the work of Prolog, and it made ourselves as comfortable as we matic,” Marchuk replied. On the other hand, some of the men was considered too great of a risk for me could in the tiny room and began a long I mulled over Marchuk’s questions and women at Prolog, whom I respected to place myself so close to the line of fire. conversation punctuated by toasts to our about Washington’s views on Ukraine, for decades, believed that I was too keen I listened carefully to what Ivan was families, Ukraine, women and God knows knowing full well that I did not know on serving the interests of the U.S. gov- saying and reported his offer to a friend at what else. what these views were and did not want ernment which, through the Central the Central Intelligence Agency in After an hour of preliminary chit-chat, to say anything which could either give Intelligence Agency, was funding Prolog Washington with whom I maintained con- Ivan came to the point. Marchuk unfounded hope or discourage and that my main loyalty was to the tact. The offer seemed intriguing and, “Roman, if you really want to know him and his comrades, so I told Marchuk: United States and specifically to the CIA. while the risks were still considerable, what is going on in Ukraine you need to “I’m not really in a position to say I was, after all, a former infantry offi- they were deemed not to be as great as talk to the leadership of the ‘kontora’ (the what they think in the White House, I just they were a few years earlier. The agency KGB). They know the real picture and don’t know.” Roman Kupchinsky is an analyst for decided that I should take up the offer will explain everything to you.” Marchuk replied that Ukrainian inde- the Jamestown Foundation in Washington and see what Ivan and his friends had in Ivan told me that a car would pick me pendence was simply a matter of a few D.C. The above is an excerpt from his store for me. up in front of the hotel the following day months and Ukraine needed to have unpublished memoirs. The Ukrainian question was seen by at noon, and he and I would go to meet Washington’s ear as soon as possible. “We his superiors and discuss matters. want to ask you to try and arrange a meet- As promised, the car, a black Volga with ing for us with CIA representatives so we white curtains on the back windows, was can exchange information and views on waiting at noon in front of the Dnipro with events which are on the horizon.” Ivan standing alongside. I got in and we I agreed to do this, and a few days later drove off. That five-minute drive to the I arrived in Washington, where I reported headquarters of the KGB of the Ukrainian on the meeting with Yevhen Marchuk and SSR on Volodymyrska Street was one of his request. the tensest moments in my life. The following day I met my friend My mind was spinning. Was I being set from the agency and his superior for up? Would they try to plant disinformation lunch in Rosslyn. I was told that the agen- for me to take back to Washington? Was cy had agreed to meet with Marchuk or this entire visit a charade set up by his representatives in a city in Central Moscow in order to discredit the Ukrainian Europe to continue the discussions. In a independence movement? few days I boarded a plane back to Kyiv, The car drove into the courtyard of the where I passed this information on to KGB headquarters through a side gate so Marchuk. as not to be seen from the street, and Ivan With that my role in the operation and I headed up to what I believe was the ended. I don’t know if any meetings took fourth floor where we went into a large place in that Central European city or room. what the outcome was if they did. I never Inside were five or six men gathered in asked any of the players involved for a group standing by a large table over- details. flowing with assorted sausages, vegeta- Yet, I’ve always wondered why the bles, pickled garlic, pyrizhky, bread and leadership of the Soviet Ukrainian KGB numerous bottles of brandy, horilka and took what in my mind was a high-risk Borzomi mineral water. chance of bypassing Moscow Center by Ivan made the first introduction. seeking contacts to the U.S. government “Roman, meet Yevhen Kyrylovych without the Center’s approval. Was this Marchuk, the head of the KGB of an act of patriotism or opportunism? Does Ukraine.” We shook hands and I tried to it really matter? Was I serving the inter- size up the man. Marchuk was a power- ests of the United States or Ukraine? fully built man, with broad shoulders, a I suppose the answers to these ques- massive chest and strong arms, yet he had tions might emerge decades from now a shy smile and gentle manner. when documents of these meetings are He took me by my arm and introduced declassified by both the CIA and the me to Gen. Volodymyr Povzhyk, the head Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). of foreign intelligence of the Ukrainian Since the summer of 1990 I’ve met KGB. I recognized Povzhyk from a pho- with Yevhen Marchuk a number of times, tograph I had been shown by the FBI at but we never talked about these events. the time he worked as the KGB resident The one tale we do like to recall is how in New York. after independence we met in Munich. Marchuk then introduced me to Mr. Marchuk was heading a Ukrainian Georgiy Marchuk, a Russian-speaking delegation that was being moved from general who had served in the Far East one hotel to another and I was helping for much of his career as an officer of the him carry his bags to the van. Along the First Chief Directorate of the KGB (for- way I turned to him and said: “Yevhen eign intelligence). The two Marchuks Kyrylovych, if my late father knew that I were not related, but seemed close. had become a porter for the KGB he I forget the names of the other men I would turn over in his grave.” No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 9

COMMENTARY Holodomor: Metagenocide in Ukraine, its origins and why it’s not over by Peter Borisow The archives even contain documents beasts. When one area is depleted, they European empire, just like the Dutch, proving that in the 1950s, in order to divert move on to another. If competitors emerge, French, English and other “real” Europeans, Part I attention from Russia’s crimes in the fights ensue and the winner takes all. Beads, set the stage for centuries of conflict with Holodomor, Russia convinced the East gold and so on, are accrued to trade for that Ukraine. The newly self-proclaimed As Ukrainians wind up the 75th year to German secret police, the Stasi, to forge which they cannot hunt or gather. This is “Russia” lacked warm-water ports, fertile commemorate the Holodomor, they can documents alleging that Ukrainian national- still very much the nature of Russia to this agricultural lands and numerous other look back on the real progress that they ists had collaborated with the Nazis against day. Russia remains a predator state. resources. It had no navy to cross seas or have made in educating people around the Jews during World War II2. In fact, the Early Russia’s nomadic form of survival dazzle its neighbors. world about the genocide in Ukraine in opposite is true – Ukrainians and their mili- also led to an evolutionary acceptance of It didn’t even have a very impressive 1932-1933. Well over 35 countries as well tary, political and religious leaders proac- harsh leadership. Russians literally lived in footprint on the European continent, as as the European Union have recognized the tively opposed German persecution of Jews constant fear of people or wild beasts for most of its so-called territory was, in fact, in inhuman sufferings during the Holodomor and worked to protect and rescue Jews from whom they were either enemy or suitable Asia. “Russia” had no deep European histo- 1 and many , including the United States Nazis.3 prey. Leaders of such nomadic communities ry. “Russia” had no Church to bestow the House of Representatives, have agreed it While Russia continues to use its con- were chosen first and foremost for their blessings of Divine Providence on its was deliberate genocide against the siderable international influence as a major physical prowess in defending the village strongmen. Ukrainian people. world power, victor in World War II, and from beasts and nomadic attackers. By defi- Russia did not even have a real lan- A massive Holodomor Memorial now flush with petrodollars, to promote nition they were large and strong men able guage. What passed for spoken “Russian” Complex is being built in Kyiv. Ukrainians Holodomor dilution and denial, it cannot to use their physical power to get what they was a garbled offspring of Ukrainian mixed broke ground recently in Washington for a change the fact that Russia is responsible wanted. with various local tongues. “Russians” Holodomor Monument just a few minutes’ for the genocide in Ukraine. Being scattered and isolated, they had spoke and wrote in French in the court of walk from the U.S. Capitol. Russia engineered, managed and little understanding that there was any other Peter I and German in Catherine’s. It was Despite all this progress, one glaring implemented the Holodomor. Russia mur- way and even if they did, there was nothing not until the 19th century, when Alexander exception remains – an unrepentant Russia. dered 10 million Ukrainians in 500 days. they could do about it without becoming Pushkin started writing in “Russian,” that Today, Russia has changed only its tactics, The politically convenient argument that victims themselves. Challenges came only Russia acquired a real literary language. not its ultimate goal of solving its it was “communists” or “Soviets” who from even stronger strongmen. So, if you The irony that Russia had to wait for the “Ukrainian problem.” Russia continues its carried out the Holodomor is specious at stayed low and didn’t get the strongman grandson of an Abyssinian slave to give work to eliminate all that defines Ukrainians best. Even those who sell this claim know mad at you, you and your children could Russia a language is not lost on anyone, as a people and as a nation in order to return it’s just spin4. live and perhaps even prosper. The trade-off especially since it was his grandfather (gift- Ukraine once and for all to regional status Russia did not just run the USSR; it was was protection against the external threat in ed to Peter I by the ruler of the Netherlands) within Russia. the USSR. When the USSR fell apart, exchange for just about whatever the who built Russia’s navy. All in all, it was a In order to accomplish this, Russia must Russia became its successor state. Russia strongmen wanted. pretty dismal foundation for an empire. not only reassert its political control over took over all the assets – military, diplomat- In time, this became encoded as not just Just next door to Russia was Ukraine, Ukraine, but also fully subsume Ukrainian ic and financial. Russia took it all, claiming acceptable behavior but the desirable stan- which had much of what Russia lacked. culture, society, business and industry into it was all rightfully hers. Sometimes even dard for leadership in Russia. It is no aber- Ukraine had a long European history. So, the Russian milieu. For Russia, this is a the most accomplished liars tell the truth. ration, therefore, that most Russians still Russia declared itself the heir to Kyivan work in progress. However, Russia must The fact is that the USSR was just another rate Joseph Stalin as their greatest leader Rus’. Ukraine had an old and wonderfully also establish some degree of international incarnation of the old Russian Empire. The and accept Vladimir Putin’s destruction of lyrical language, one that could even be acceptance of the elimination of Ukrainian USSR effectively enforced Russian inter- democracy at home in exchange for suc- written! So, Russia declared itself the moth- national identity as well as of Ukraine as a ests both at home and abroad. cessful conquests abroad. It is their norm. er lode of Slavic languages. Ukraine had a nation. When the USSR became unmarketable, The very name “Russia” reflects its long established Church. Nothing stands in Russia’s way more Russia reinvented itself yet again, this time nomadic nature. From earliest times their So, the metropolitan of Kyiv was than the Holodomor. How can Russia pre- as the Russian Federation. But the Empire northern tundra was known as Muscovy. marched off to Russia, where he was tend to be a respected world leader, a caring aches because it is incomplete – Ukraine is It was not until Muscovy started building declared the “metropolitan of Vladimir” and responsible steward of its people with missing. Without Ukraine there is no its wannabe “European” empire that (Moscow was not worthy of a metropolitan, all that blood on its hands? This is a case of empire. Without the empire, Russia reverts Muscovite propagandists adopted the even by Russian standards, until later) and Lady Macbeth in reverse – the world sees to its perennial status as semi-nomadic tun- name “Russia” as part of their efforts to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church suddenly the blood, while Russia actually believes dra, a sort of frozen Middle Eastern poten- hijack neighboring Ukraine’s history became a subunit of the Russian Orthodox that after 75 years of denial, rewriting histo- tate with gas. (Kyivan Rus’) as their own. In fact, the Church. Ukraine’s ports became home to ry, repression and destruction of evidence, it name “Russia” has nothing whatsoever to Russia’s warm-water fleet (a problem to Different origins, different peoples has washed away the blood and is now do with the “Rus’” of Kyivan Rus’. this day). Ukraine’s rich agricultural land magically pure as a newborn baby’s soul. It is impossible to understand the “Russia,” pronounced “Rass-I-ia” in (where rich, black topsoil is measured in But all of a sudden, here come those Holodomor without examining the histori- Russian (NOT “Roo-ssI-ia”), derives from meters, not inches) together with the people Ukrainian witnesses again. The survivors cal and cultural roots of the Ukrainian and the Ukrainian verb “rozsiyaty,” meaning to who lived on it, was given away to the may be old, but they are unanimous about Russian nationalities, as well as the histori- scatter, as with the sweeping movement of Russian “royal” family. how and why it happened: “The Russians cal relationships between the two nations. the arm when seeding a field with grain. But, Russia still had a big problem. did it.” And, to make matters worse, the Historically, Russia emerged as an The early Ukrainians described their north- The Ukrainians continued to want their Ukrainian government has opened up the empire of fairly rudimentary hunter-gather- ern neighbors as “Rossiyany” – “the scat- own land, their own Church, their own archives – with all those documents clearly ers, which could survive at its levels of tered ones” – which in fact, with their language, their own laws, their own tradi- tions, their own food, their own farms, stating that the purpose of the Holodomor expectation only by conquering and drain- small nomadic settlements scattered all their own wealth, their own borders – and was to destroy the Ukrainians. ing the wealth and resources of its neigh- over the cold and forbidding northern tun- especially their own freedom and inde- bors – ranging from the wheat and seaports dra, they were. pendence. of Ukraine and the Caucasus to the oil and While Western Europe was suffering Peter Borisow is the son of Ukrainians As much as Russia tried to paint itself as gas of Siberia. through the collapse of civilization during whose families were killed between 1921 Ukraine’s “big brother,” Ukrainians viewed To this day, Russia has a remarkably the Dark Ages, Ukraine thrived as a center and 1933 and who emigrated to the it as a rogue young neighbor yet to be civi- unsophisticated manufacturing industry and of culture and learning. European rulers United States after World War II. He is a lized. So, what would any self-respecting supplies much of its technical needs by sent their children to Kyiv to study, as graduate of New York University (where conqueror do with such insolence? The buying them (including, unfortunately, Ukraine prospered from rich trade and sta- he majored in history), and his career answer is obvious. Win what hearts and entire manufacturers in Ukraine). ble agricultural communities. All this has spanned the arts, as well as trade minds you can and kill the rest. And, that’s Contrast this with Ukraine, a nation with changed when the Mongols invaded. and finance. He is the President of a pri- exactly what Russia has been trying to do some of the earliest known agricultural set- Not willing to bow to any conqueror, vately held firm specializing in analysis for the last 400 years. Ukraine fought to the last, and lost. and management of risk in film finance. tlements (dating to the Trypillian and Although Russia’s methods have Muscovy went along with Mongol rule. He is also the president of the Scythian days) and a fundamental difference changed over the years, they have always When the Mongols suddenly packed up and Hollywood Trident Foundation, which in national temperament emerges. Stable been consistent with what was available went home one morning, Muscovy was in a promotes Ukraine and Ukrainians in the agricultural settlements lead to the need to and feasible at the time. There are limits to position to begin asserting its influence, and film industry and supports films about be civilized. You cannot live with neighbors how many people you can kill with a sword. with the urge to dominate ever more territo- Ukrainian subjects. Mr. Borisow is also a without learning how to get along – thus the No matter how good you are, you still have ry came dreams of empire. member of the board of directors of the emergence of rules of behavior, respect and to kill them one at a time. While you’re kill- other aspects of civilized society. Center for U.S. Ukrainian Relations in Russia builds an empire ing one, many others can escape. The coun- New York. He travels frequently to Hunter-gatherers, by definition, take by Ukraine and is an advisor to the head of force – be it berries from trees or meat from Russia’s burning desire to become a (Continued on page 22) the Film Department at the Ministry of Culture. He is active in Holodomor rec- 1. Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, 2. Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) site, Conquer: The KGB Disinformation Campaign ognition and education. Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, English version: http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/ against Ukrainians and Jews,” Ukrainian The article above is reprinted, with the Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, the United control/en/index and http://www.sbu.gov.ua/ Quarterly, Vol. LX, No. 3 (Fall 2004). author’s permission, from Canadian States and the Vatican; statement by Vice sbu/control/uk/publlish/article?art_ 4. Peter Borisow, “ABC’s of Holodomor American Slavic Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3, Minister of Foreign Affairs Yurii Kostenko, as id=74497&cat_id=80545&mustWords=¯tazi Denial,” The Ukrainian Weekly, Vol. LXXVI, (Fall 2008). Idyllwild, Calif.: Charles reported by Ukrinform, Kyiv, November 18, &searchPublishing=1 No. 33, August 17, 2008, pp. 7, 21. Schlacks, Publisher. 2008. 3. See Herbert Romerstein, “Divide and 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

Wartime memoir by Luba Komar presented at The Ukrainian Museum by Neal Goldberg NEW YORK – A book launch for Christine Prokop’s English translation of the wartime memoir by her mother Luba Komar, “Scratches on a Prison Wall,” was held on Friday evening, October 17, at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City. The event, co-sponsored by The Ukrainian Museum, the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., drew over 100 people. Attended by a virtual cross-section of the Ukrainian community from the tri-state area, the launch was described by Hanya Krill, the museum’s program director, as one of the best attended events in the museum’s three-year stint at its new building on Sixth Street in Manhattan’s East Village. Following introductions by Maria Shust, director of the museum, Ms. Krill and Lydia Prokop, Ms. Komar’s younger daughter, the evening’s historical context was set out by Alexander Motyl, a profes- sor of political science at Rutgers University. Prof. Motyl discussed the background to the book, describing the history of Ukrainian resistance move- ments and, in particular, the role of women in the fight for an independent Ukraine. The highlight of the evening, however, was a series of dramatic readings from “Scratches on a Prison Wall” by Christine Seen on the screen is a video clip of author Luba Komar describing her experiences. Prokop. After describing how the book’s translation came to be, she read several the harrowing events the author witnessed math, the book describes the horror of add many more chairs than anticipated as excerpts to the large overflow audience first-hand and later recorded. These their imprisonment and Ms. Komar’s sub- people streamed in that evening,” she on the first floor of the museum. included her arrest and trial as a member sequent fate, when her death sentence is said. Accompanying the readings were clips of the infamous “Protses 59-ty”, a Soviet commuted to Siberian exile. The excerpts “The high attendance speaks to the of a video interview with the now- show trial in which 59 arrested Ukrainian read by Ms. Prokop included: Ms. public’s desire to learn more about the deceased Ms. Komar, along with numer- activists were sentenced to death or exile. Komar’s interrogation by the NKVD; her historical setting of Ukraine’s entry into ous historical photographs, highlighting Centered around the trial and its after- transport to exile followed by her work as World War II, and in particular, its inter- a courier for the Organization of est in the kinds of personal experiences Ukrainian Nationalists; and her lyrical Luba Komar describes in her story. It is a descriptions of nature and Ukraine. story so well told, with such powerful Ms. Prokop ended her presentation visual imagery, that I was unable to put with a moving statement of how her the book down once I started reading it,” mother’s book has impacted her life. she added. “The turnout was a great tribute to my Sections of this book were previously mother and what she did for Ukraine,” published in Ukrainian as “Protses 59-ty” said Ms. Prokop. “I felt privileged for the (The Secret Trial of the 59) by the opportunity to share her story and Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1997. describe what it meant to me.” This is the first English translation of Ms. Ms. Krill was also impressed by the Komar’s memoir. event and what the book’s publication “Scratches on a Prison Wall” is cur- Music at the Institute means for the Ukrainian community. “We rently available through the online retail- knew that the event was going to be a tre- er, Amazon.com and in the Museum’s gift presents mendous success when we had to quickly shop,www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop. Pianist, Mykola Suk

celebrating twenty years at the Ukrainian Institute of America

With cellist Andrew Smith

Saturday, December 5 at 8 pm

performing BEETHOVEN selected Sonatas for piano and cello

Tickets: $30, UIA members and seniors $25, students $20.

The Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street (corner of 5th Avenue) New York City 212-288-8660 Christine Prokop reads excerpts from her translation of her mother’s memoir, “Scratches on a Prison Wall.” No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 11 FILM REVIEW: “Okradena Zemlya” – a documentary masterpiece by Daria Myrna tary masterpiece that intersperses numer- ous brief but effective interviews with MONTREAL – Twenty-five years after such Kyiv-based historians as Volodymyr his collaboration on the seminal film Serhiichuk, Yurii Shapoval, Hennadii about the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, Boriak and Vasyl Marochko, and Roman “Harvest of Despair” (1984), award-win- Serbyn of Montreal with testimonies of ning Montreal director and producer Yurij Famine survivors, as well as children’s Luhovy has directed and produced his drawings that explore the Holodomor own film on genocide against the theme. Ukrainian nation, known as the Like a magnificent orchestral piece Holodomor. moving smoothly and unhesitatingly to The Ukrainian-language documentary its finale, each part of the Luhovy film film “Okradena Zemlya” (known in segues flawlessly from section to section, English as “Genocide Revealed”) is now exploring various aspects of the devastat- being screened in various Ukrainian com- ing Famine in Ukraine that the Soviet munities in Canada and the United States. regime engineered and then for decades It had its second screening in the concealed from the international commu- Montreal area on Sunday, October 4, in nity. the hall of the Ukrainian Catholic Parish This remarkable documentary is also of St. Basil the Great in Lachine. greatly enhanced by the narration of the In view of the scarcity of photographic celebrated Ukrainian actor Bohdan Filmmaker Yurij Luhovy (left) with Holodomor survivors Mykhailo Lozorenko and documentation on the Kremlin-engineered Beniuk and the moving film score by Natalia Rud, and Wasyl Pyszniak of the Lachine, Quebec, branch of Prosvita. (right). Famine in Soviet Ukraine – which, composer Roman Luhovy of Kyiv. The according to Stalin himself, claimed 10 film will soon be available in DVD form. million lives – a Holodomor film based An English-language version is in the exclusively on interviews with Famine works, provided sufficient funding is survivors and historians could easily turn obtained. BOOK REVIEW: Aslund into an exercise in tedium in the hands of “Okradena Zemlya” will go a long way a less skilled director. But that is not the toward explaining the Holodomor to on Ukraine’s development case with Mr. Luhovy’s film, which those Ukrainian citizens raised under the showcases the director’s thorough knowl- Soviets, who still harbor doubts about the “Ukraine: How Ukraine Became a edge of his subject and his expert editing. genocide that was perpetrated against the Market Economy and Democracy,” by Working on a shoestring budget, Mr. Ukrainian nation. It will also arm young Anders Aslund. Washington: Peterson Luhovy and his film student daughter, generations of Ukrainians on both sides Institute for International Economics, 2009. Adriana, shot 44 hours of footage, which of the ocean with information to counter 345 pp., paperback, $26.95. he then scrupulously honed to produce a the specious arguments of Holodomor dynamically paced 75-minute documen- deniers and Holodomor “diminishers.” by Taras Hunczak Dr. Aslund has been studying the eco- nomic developments in Ukraine since the time Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly, the Soviet Union in 1985. To learn more about the society, he also studied the com- call 973-292-9800, ext. 3042 plex history of the Ukrainian people. This brought Dr. Aslund closer to Kyiv, and from 1994 to 1997 he served as an economic adviser to the Ukrainian government and became one of the founders of the Kyiv School of Economics and still remains its Christmas Greetings 2009/10 co-chairman. Currently Dr. Aslund is senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for Continue your tradition... International Economics. After a brief discussion of Ukraine’s his- Use the UNA’s publications to send holiday tory Dr. Aslund’s book addresses the social, greetings and wishes of goodwill, prosperity and the economic and political problems that the hyperinflation and an economic collapse. season’s blessings. Please note, to accommodate all Ukrainian governments had to face from Dr. Aslund discusses in some details the the day of its declaration of independence economic developments in Ukraine in 1994 of our advertisers and the many holiday obligations on August 24, 1991. since he and George Soros discussed eco- and deadlines, we must strictly observe the Leonid Kravchuk, a skilled politician nomic problems with Mr. Kuchma. After following deadlines... and as the first president of Ukraine con- his election Mr. Kuchma articulated in his centrated his efforts, according to Dr. presidential address of October 11, 1994, Aslund, on nation-building, i.e., developing his economic plan for the future: “Ukraine PUBLICATION DATES & DEADLINES a sense of national identity which was dev- can confirm itself as a really independent astated by the tsarist and communist and sovereign state only on the basis of a regimes. strong economic and social policy” (p. 71). Christmas Issue Advertising His problems were not only internal but The period of 1994-1996 was character- Publication Date Deadline also external, as is illustrated by the speech ized by financial stabilization. Currency of the U.S. President George H.W. Bush stabilization reached its high point when on during his visit to Kyiv on August 1, 1991, August 24, 1996, President Kuchma The Weekly December 20 December 8 when he stated: “We will maintain the announced the introduction of hryvnia as strongest possible relationship with the the Ukrainian currency. The brief period of Soviet government of President growth was followed by decline and stagna- Gorbachev….Americans will not support tion until President Kuchma appointed as The Weekly January 3 December 20 those who seek independence in order to prime minister Viktor Yushchenko, who replace a far-off tyranny with local despo- launched a comprehensive economic reform tism. They will not aid those who promote of Ukraine. “The first four months of 2000,” a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic (writes Dr. Aslund), “saw the greatest 1/16 page – $35; 1/8 page – $50; 1/4 page – $100; hatred” (pp. 29-30). reform drive that Ukraine had seen since Washington’s attitude towards Kyiv the fall of 1994” (p. 133). 1/2 page – $200; full page – $400 changed when Ukraine, which had the third The author also has a very interesting largest nuclear arsenal in the world with chapter on the role of oligarchs in Ukrainian 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles, economic and political life. He even pro- agreed to become non-nuclear. As a follow- vides the number of votes that each oligar- All advertising correspondence, reservations and payments should be directed up, Ukraine, the United States and Russia chic clan has in Parliament (pp. 156-159). to Mrs. Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager, tel. 973-292-9800, ext. 3040, on January 14, 1994 signed a trilateral Indeed, the period 2001-2004 was a time of e-mail: [email protected] accord in Moscow, which was followed in competitive oligarchy in which the gas trade Kindly make checks payable to The Ukrainian Weekly or Svoboda, as appropriate. February 1994 by special security guaran- also became a factor. Please send payment to The Ukrainian Weekly, or Svoboda, tees of the United States. This provided In chapter 7 the author deals with the P.O. Box 280, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Ukraine with a favorable position on the complexities of the Orange Revolution of international arena. Domestically, Ukraine experienced (Continued on page 16) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47 No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 13 Twin Cities community presents Ukrainian Heritage Festival by Dr. Michael J. Kozak MINNEAPOLIS – The history of the Ukrainian settlement in Minnesota dem- onstrates that the Ukrainian communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have always shown much interest and concern for the preservation and promotion of their rich religious and cultural heritage. Despite hardships and occasional misunderstand- ings, once a year they managed to get together to enjoy the beauty and richness of the cultural heritage of their Ukrainian ancestors. These events at first were called Ukrainian Picnics, later Ukrainian Days and now they are Ukrainian Heritage Festivals. This tradition is being successfully car- ried on by St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Parish, St. Katherine’s Ukrainian Orthodox Parish, St. Michael and St. George Ukrainian Orthodox Parish, the Association of American Youth of Ukrainian Descent (ODUM), Ukrainian American Youth Association, Ukrainian Credit Union, Ukrainian Engineers’ Society and Ukrainian Event Center. Each year on a rotating basis, one of the parishes is in charge of organizing the festival. This year that function was car- The children’s choir of St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Parish. ried out by St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Parish. dren into the ranks of Plast Ukrainian The festival was held on Sunday, Scouting Organization. A very interesting September 20, a bright and sunny day. On patriotic display was set-up by Alexander that day, anyone passing by could notice Poletz celebrating the jubilee of that it was not an ordinary day at the “Ukrainian Kozak Glory.” Ukrainian Event Center. Outside the The official opening of the festival pro- building there were several tents where gram was initiated by the 2008 festival’s one could obtain samples of traditional queen and princess, who extended a tradi- Ukrainian food, pastries and baked items. tional Ukrainian greeting with bread and There were games geared for children salt, and was followed by the singing of and there were places where one could sit American and Ukrainian national anthems. and enjoy being part of the Ukrainian The entire program was conducted in community. Ukrainian and English by Svitlana Uniyat In the spacious auditorium, the back and Luba Lewytzkyj. The program began wall displayed a large trident – the sym- with students ages 5 to 15 of St. bol of independent Ukraine – with Constantine Ukrainian Saturday School Ukrainian embroidery designs on both singing Ukrainian songs conducted by Juri sides. Around the side walls of the audi- Ivan. The children’s Ukrainian costumes torium were displays of various Ukrainian impressed the audience and provided much items that visitors could purchase. The beauty and variety to the entire event. Ukrainian gift shop had Ukrainian art and A vocal trio, Stephania and Kristina crafts, jewelry and souvenirs for sale. Korsunsky and Daria Kushnir, who call Teachers Halyna Tataryn and themselves Ukrainochky, sang three The vocal trio of Andrij Karkoc, Oleksij Khrystych and Volodymyr Ileksij. Volodymyra Kramarczuk of St. Ukrainian folk songs. Danyila Pavlyk, a Constantine Ukrainian Saturday school poetess, presented a patriotic recitation of costumes, they pleased the audience with to the program by playing traditional prepared a table presenting the activities “A Ukrainian Festival Greeting.” such dances as Kolomyika, Hutsulka and Ukrainian melodies. of the school children. Photos were on Lasting for over four hours, the pro- Arkan. Popular among the young people, a display showing the children making gram included more vocal performances The local dance ensemble, Cheremosh, varenyky-eating contest was held under pysanky, singing and reciting, and there by solos, duets and trios, folk dancing and under the artistic direction of Ken the supervision of Ihor Kudanovych. were samples of their writing and their art instrumental music. Matlashevsky, skillfully performed a Following the tradition of the past few work. To promote St Michael and St. Ukrainian folk dances added more series of dances from the Carpathian years, Alex Pavlov and Daria Kushnir George’s School, Maria Matlashevsky excitement, variety and beauty to the pro- region, Bukovyna, Volyn and Poltava. were elected king and queen, and Taras organized a table of souvenir T-shirts and gram. Thanks to the efforts of Stefan The meaning of each dance was very elo- Tataryn and Nastazia Baranovsky were Ukrainian wreaths. Iwaskewycz, a well-known dance ensemble quently explained in English by elected prince and princess of the Festival. At another table Christine Jennihov, from the Ethnic Dance Theater staged Volodymyr Anastaziewsky. To provide information about George Bazarko and Zenon Stepchuk “Hutsuls From Carpathian Mountains.” As always, The Village Band orga- encouraged parents to enroll their chil- Dressed in identical and beautiful Hutsul nized by Stefan Iwaskewycz, added spirit (Continued on page 20)

The Ukrainian Village Band. Young dancers of the Cheremosh Ensemble. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

that the virus is similar to the virus used NEWSBRIEFS for production of the pandemic influenza CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) vaccine, reconfirming the vaccine’s effi- since October 29 and 15 deaths due to the cacy at this time, the statement noted. TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 virus. (Ukrinform) Additional questions about the pandemic virus circulating in Ukraine will be or e-mail [email protected] President vetoes flu funding answered as more data is available, the WHO said. The WHO also commended KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko SERVICES the government of Ukraine “for its open vetoed the law allocating 1 billion hrv to sharing of samples to inform global mon- fight the flu, the first vice-chairman of the itoring of the virus for signs of change.” Presidential Secretariat, Oleksander (Ukrinform) Shlapak, reported on November 16. He said Mr. Yushchenko did not sign the law Opposition seeks Cabinet’s ouster and returned it to the Verkhovna Rada with his proposals. Mr. Shlapak empha- KYIV – The opposition Party of sized that the president by no means is Regions of Ukraine (PRU) faction, led by against the allocation of these funds, add- presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych, ing that his disagreement stems from the on November 18 started collecting signa- question of where this money should be tures in the Parliament for the dismissal allocated from. He explained that the of Yulia Tymoshenko’s government. Ms. president believes such expenses should Tymoshenko is Mr. Yanukovych’s chief not be covered at the expense of the emis- rival for the presidency. A total of 120 sion funds of the National Bank of signatures have been already collected, Ukraine. The president proposes to which, however, does not suffice for increase the state budget deficit for 2009 including the motion of no confidence on by 1 billion hrv and to approach the bank- the agenda. According to Oleksander ing system and the NBU with a request to Yefremov, PRU first vice-chair, the col- lection of signatures is in process. OPPORTUNITIES finance this deficit. Mr. Shlapak also noted that Mr. Yushchenko is ready to Meanwhile, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc take an obligation to personally carry out faction said it has no doubt that the PRU Earn extra income! consultations with bankers to gain the initiative will fail. (Ukrinform) necessary funds within several days. As Lazarenko still wanted in Ukraine The Ukrainian Weekly is looking reported earlier, Prime Minister Yulia for advertising sales agents. Tymoshenko forecast that the Parliament KYIV – The Internal Affairs Ministry For additional information contact would overrule the veto on the law allo- is planning to arrest Ukraine’s ex-Prime Maria Oscislawski, Advertising cating 1 billion hrv to fight the flu that Minister Pavlo Lazarenko (1996-1997) if was passed on November 3. (Ukrinform) he returns to Ukraine, Minister Yurii Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, Lutsenko has told the press on November 973-292-9800, ext 3040. YTB seeks postponement on budget 12. “Pavlo Lazarenko is on the interna- tional wanted list. In view of the fact that KYIV – The parliamentary faction of he has expressed a wish to return to the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) has ABB GROUP seeks employees for: Ukraine, he will be arrested at the air- BOOKKEEPER, PAYROLL/PAY RECEIVER. asked the Verkhovna Rada to postpone MERCHANDISE port,” Mr. Lutsenko said. The newspaper Attractive salary plus benefits, and takes little consideration of the draft state budget for Delo had reported that Mr. Lazarenko of your time. Requirements: computer literate, 2010 until next week, the faction’s deputy NO age discrimination, must be effificent and was preparing for a return to Ukraine and chair, Andrii Kozhemiakin, said at a dedicated. Conact [email protected] intended to resume his family business. meeting of Parliament’s conciliatory According to the newspaper, a U.S. court council of the heads of parliamentary is to consider Mr. Lazarenko’s release as groups and factions. He asked opposition Facility Manager his term of imprisonment ends this Ukrainian Commuity Center at 140 Prospect members to refrain from “making the month. Mr. Lazarenko was deprived of Ave., Irvington, NJ, is seeking a Facility budget hostage to political processes.” his immunity as a national deputy of Manager. Position requires max. 2 evenings Mr. Kozhemiakin said that up to 1,000 during the week and being on site during Ukraine following his detention in amendments had been made in the draft weekend events. Salary negotiable. Contact Switzerland in 1998. The ex-prime minis- state budget for 2010 and that they have Eugene Mandzy at 973-476-4361 ter has been in the United States since to be considered in detail. He also said to schedule an interview. February 1999. He was accused by the that the draft budget itself should be thor- U.S. of money laundering in 1994-1999. oughly considered, including in the He is among the 10 most corrupt world Our company seeks employees for part time Budget Committee which, in his opinion, leaders, according to the World Bank. In workers for the post of BOOKKEEPER, “had not effectively worked” on this doc- Ukraine, the local Interpol appraises the PAYROLL/PAY RECEIVER. Attractive salary ument. (Ukrinform) plus benefits, and takes little of your time. volume of damage inflicted by Mr. Requirements: computer literate, NO age dis- Lytvyn insists on considering budget Lazarenko on Ukraine at about $130 mil- crimination, must be efficient and dedicated. lion (U.S.). (Ukrinform) Contact [email protected] KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada must consider conclusions and recommenda- Ukrainian robots win awards tions of its parliamentary committees, as FOR SALE KYIV – Ukraine took sixth place at the well as suggestions of national deputies, World Robot Olympiad 2009 in and pass the 2010 budget in the first read- Gyeongbuk Pohang, South Korea, it was CONDO FOR SALE ing to be then sent to the Cabinet of reported on November 12. The Ukrainian Ministers for completion, Verkhovna robots can move, dance, produce various Somerset NJ: Ukrainian Senior Citizens Center. Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said on 2 bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen. sounds and even make a pie. In fact, the November 16, while visiting the Cherkasy pie was presented the Jury’s Choice Ground level. $145,000.00 region. He noted that fulfillment of the 908-526-1259. Award. Ukraine’s robots participated in law on increasing social standards will the international competition for the first increase the fiscal deficit by 2 percent. time. The World Robot Olympiad is a FOR RENT Mr. Lytvyn added that he understands the competition for young people age 16-19 “unrealistic” nature of proposals that raise who are interested in robot technology the budget spending by 140 billion hrv. and development. The first international Rental apartment available (Ukrinform) 3 bedroom apt. available effective 12/1/2009. World Robot Olympiad took place in Located at 136 Prospect Ave., Irvington, NJ. WHO detects no mutation of flu Singapore in 2004; subsequent competi- Rent: $750/month + utilities. tions have been held in Bangkok, Contact Eugene Mandzy - 973-476-4361 KYIV – Preliminary tests have Thailand (2005), Nanning, China (2006), PROFESSIONALS revealed no significant changes in the Taipei, Taiwan (2007) and Yokohama, pandemic H1N1 virus based on investiga- Japan (2008). This year 217 teams from tions of samples taken from patients in 24 different countries participated in the Ukraine, according to the press service of event. (Ukrinform) the World Health Organization, it was reported on November 18. A total of 34 Ukraine 14th among arms exporters samples were analyzed independently by KYIV – According to the Stockholm the WHO Collaborating Center for International Peace Research Institute Reference and Research on Influenza in (SIPRI), Ukraine in 2008 exported weap- London and the WHO Collaborating ons worth $233 million, and became the Center for the Surveillance, Epidemiology 14th country in the global ranking of and Control of Influenza in Atlanta, Ga. Preliminary genetic sequencing shows (Continued on page 15) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 15

National Security Bureau chief Alexander NEWSBRIEFS Szczyglo. “Taking into consideration (Continued from page 14) delays of supplies by military transporta- arms-exporting states. In comparison, in tion planes, the Airbus-A400-M, the 2007 Ukraine was ranked seventh with Ukrainian party proposed to European $774 million worth of arms exports. partners that it would participate in According to the SIPRI, the world’s top renewal of production of the Ukrainian three arms exporters were the United planes AN-124-100 and military transport States (nearly $6.2 billion), Russia (near- planes AN-70, as well as to prolong an ly $6 billion) and Germany (about $2.8 agreement on the SALIS project,” she billion). (Ukrinform) said. The SALIS project envisages ren- dering transport services by Ukraine to Air service with Bosnia-Herzegovina convey NATO cargos involved in NATO KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko peacekeeping operations. The NSDC sec- on November 12 signed a law ratifying retary said that details of these two proj- an agreement between the Cabinet of ects would be decided at the Defense Ministers of Ukraine and the Council of Ministry level. (Ukrinform) Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina on air service. The original agreement was President seeks review of gas contracts signed in Kyiv on June 24, 2008. KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor (Ukrinform) Yushchenko has called for the review of Missing paraglider found in India some clauses of Russian-Ukrainian gas accords of January 19. The Presidential KYIV – Indian rescuers found former Secretariat is drafting a statement to military pilot Ihor Tabaniuk, who on Russia, according to Bohdan Sokolovsky, November 6 made a crash landing in a the president’s commissioner for interna- mountainous region of the Indian state tional energy security. The president will Himachal Pradesh, the Foreign Affairs propose introducing common market Ministry press service reported on principles of determining the prices of November 12. Mr. Tabaniuk was under imported gas and tariffs for its transit medical supervision and was to be taken across Ukraine, as well as responsibility to a hospital in Delhi. (Ukrinform) for any refusal to meet the assumed com- Illegal migrants detained in Zakarpattia mitments based on the practice of using current contracts, he said. Mr. Sokolovsky KYIV – Border guards detained five also said the president would suggest the illegal migrants at railway stations in creation of a bilateral agency of experts Mukachiv and Uzhhorod, the State who would consider all of the problem Border Guard Service press service issues and submit agreed proposals. He reported on November 12. Three foreign- said that along with the “take or pay” ers without documents who arrived by the Kyiv-Uzhhorod train in Mukachiv were principle of buying imported gas, Ukraine detained by a mobile detachment. The would insist on the use of a similar prin- detainees do not know any European lan- ciple during the transit of Russian gas via guage and arrived without any docu- Ukraine. Mr. Sokolovsky said on ments; two are citizens of Pakistan, and November 18 that the document would be the third is a citizen of Sri Lanka. At the submitted to Russia as soon as it is draft- Uzhhorod station two Moldovan citizens ed and approved by the president. were stopped for examination of their (Ukrinform) documents. The foreigners had migration Payment for gas to grow twofold cards to Odesa; they arrived in Zakarpattia Svetozar BIZIC, with the aim of illegally crossing the bor- KYIV – Payment for Russian gas tran- her husband der into Slovakia. (Ukrinform) sit via the territory of Ukraine will grow

twofold as of January 1, 2010, Prime Reshuffle in Ukraine’s armed forces Antonina SZTUL, Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told a brief- KYIV – The President Viktor ing at the Cabinet on November 18. She her daughter Yushchenko on November 18 introduced emphasized that it will allow for improv- the chief of the General Staff of Ukraine’s ing the financial state of the Naftohaz Daniel and Julia SZTUL, armed forces, Col.-Gen. Ivan Svyda. He Ukrainy. She also noted that Ukraine her son and daughter-in-law noted that reshuffle in the armed forces’ guarantees stability of Russian gas transit top command is due to the retirement, via its territory. “For 18 years we never Alexis, Oleh and Melanie, because of disability, of Serhii disrupted these supplies to Europe a sin- her grandchildren Kyrychenko as the armed forces com- gle time,” the prime minister said. mander-in-chief. Mr. Yushchenko thanked (Ukrinform) Mr. Kyrychenko for his contribution to Askold and Jeannette KOBYLKO, the development of the Ukrainian army. Kyiv wants new free trade pact her brother and sister-in-law Speaking about Col.-Gen. Svyda, the president said he has a great experience KYIV– Ukraine has called for a new and families and voiced confidence that the new chief agreement on a free trade area to be signed with Russia, Prime Minister Yulia would use that experience in modernizing Tymoshenko said. Speaking at a press the armed forces. Mr. Yushchenko also have the great sorrow to announce the death of said he expects the new army leadership conference on November 18, she said this will show a qualitative implementation of would be a key issue at a meeting of the the army development program. inter-governmental Ukrainian-Russian Katherine SZTUL-BIZIC (Ukrinform) Committee for Economic Cooperation meeting in Yalta on November 19. “The née KOBYLKO Ukraine proposes transport services key issue is how to build open and mutu- KYIV – Ukraine has proposed its ser- ally beneficial trade relations between Born November 28, 1919 in Zhmerynka, Ukraine, she passed vices in transporting NATO’s humanitari- Ukraine and Russia. The subject of our away on October 26, 2009 in Paris, France. an cargos using Ukrainian planes, discussion will be the possibility of sign- National Security and Defense Secretary ing a new agreement on a free trade area A civil engineer, writer and editor, fierce Ukrainian patriot, in Raisa Bohatyriova said at a November 18 between Ukraine and Russia,” Ms. 1945 Katherine Kobylko married Oleh Sztul, who was to press conference held jointly with Polish Tymoshenko said. (Ukrinform) become the third Head of OUNm, and with whom she had two children.

Death announcements After his death, she later married Svetozar Bizic.

Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. Funeral services were held on November 7, 2009 at Saint Simon Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. Ukrainian Orthodox Church, followed by interment at Cimetière Telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; e-mail, [email protected]. du Montparnasse, Paris, France. Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47 Ukrainian Technological Society honors Ukrainian of the Year Stephen Sivulich PITTSBURGH – The Ukrainian his broadcasts he has championed the cause Technological Society (UTS) of Pittsburgh of freedom and independence for Ukraine, presented its 2009 Ukrainian of the Year promoted Ukrainian culture and conscious- Award to Stephen Sivulich, Ed.D., at its ness, and worked to preserve and nurture 40th annual award ceremony and dinner Ukrainian identity and heritage. dance, held on Saturday, November 7, at The re-dedication of his 1974 award also The Club at Nevillewood in Pittsburgh. recognized his steadfast support and promo- Dr. Sivulich was honored for 45 years of tion of Ukrainian fraternal, cultural, civic devoted service with the Ukrainian and religious organizations both locally and Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and the nationally; his leadership in organizing and Ukrainian Orthodox League; his dedication promoting community events and obser- to his local parish, Ss. Peter and Paul vances of interest to the Ukrainian American Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie, community in the tri-state area; and his lead- Pa., where he has served in leadership roles ership in mobilizing community financial and was responsible for initiating various support for numerous Ukrainian projects humanitarian outreach efforts to the elderly, and causes including the endowment of needy and housebound; and for his profes- Ukrainian studies at the Ukrainian Research sional achievements in the area of higher Institute at Harvard University, the education administration, where he served Ukrainian Nationality Room at the in leadership roles in student affairs and stu- University of Pittsburgh, and for child vic- dent development for over 30 years. tims of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Dr. Sivulich was born in Dixonville, Pa., Roksana Korchynsky, Ph.D., president of and grew up in Sharon, PA, the second of 10 the UTS executive board, welcomed the Metropolitan Constantine and Dr. Stephen Sivulich, winner of the 2009 Ukrainian children to parents of Ukrainian ancestry. award recipients and guests and provided a of the Year award presented by the Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh. He served in the U.S. Army and then attend- brief history of the society – now in its 40th ed Mount Union College, graduating with a year and one of the longest continuously President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. B.A. in business and economics. active Ukrainian organizations in the tri- Bohdan Hryshchyshyn, a UTS member, Dr. Sivulich began his professional career state area. She also highlighted the meaning made the nomination address honoring Dr. with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and of the society’s Ukrainian of the Year Award, Sivulich as the 2009 Ukrainian of the Year. went on to earn an M.A. in sociology from which recognizes people of local, national The nomination was submitted to the soci- Kent State University and then a doctorate and international stature who have contrib- ety by UTS member Elizabeth Mitchell, of education in education administration uted to the Ukrainian community or who was unable to attend the ceremony. The from Lehigh University. Across his 30-year Ukrainian scholarship, or who have demon- award proclamation was read aloud in professional career, Dr. Sivulich has held strated significant achievement which brings English by George Honchar, UTS executive positions in higher education administration recognition and prestige to the Ukrainian board vice-president, and in Ukrainian by at several colleges and universities in Ohio, community. Motria Hodowanec, UTS executive board Pennsylvania and West Virginia and has Past recipients include Ukrainian member. authored several papers on student affairs. Orthodox (later Patriarch) Metropolitan Dr. Sivulich accepted the award and The UTS took the occasion of its 40th Mstyslav; Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch thanked the UTS for this honor. He stated anniversary to re-dedicate Michael Josyf Slipyj; dissident, poet, and activist that he was honored to be recognized along- Komichak’s 1974 Ukrainian of the Year Nadia Svitlychna; historians Wasyl Jaszczun side the society’s other awardee this year, Award. Mr. Komichak, a native of McKees and Andrew Gregorovich; Judge Bohdan Mr. Komichak. In his acceptance remarks, Rocks, Pa., has been the voice of the Futey; the first president of a re-born Dr. Sivulich recognized many members of Ukrainian Radio Program for 60 years. In Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk; and the current the clergy who were influential in his life. He also recognized the many hard-working members of his local parish who continue to carry out many important outreach efforts. Michael Komichak whose 1974 award Dr. Sivulich especially thanked his wife, was rededicated this year. Alice, for her devotion and invaluable advice across the years. ic artist Kathy Boykowycz. Nickolas C. Kotow, UTS executive board Metropolitan Constantine, of the secretary and Treasurer, made the nomina- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., tion address re-dedicating Mr. Komichak’s gave the invocation and Archbishop Antony 1974 Ukrainian of the Year Award. Mr. gave the benediction. Honchar read the award proclamation aloud Following the dinner hour, musical enter- in English, with Mrs. Hodowanec reading tainment was provided by The Continental the proclamation in Ukrainian. Mr. Dukes of Pittsburgh. Komichak accepted the award and, again, To learn more about the UTS, the thanked the UTS for this honor, originally Ukrainian of the Year Award, past recipients presented 35 years ago. of the award, and other UTS activities read- The beautifully designed awards for both ers may visit their website at www.utspgh. recipients were created by Pittsburgh graph- org or e-mail the UTS at [email protected].

shed. Mr. Yushchenko triumphed over Aslund... Viktor Yanukovych, who was supported by (Continued from page 11) Mr. Putin, and the victors succeeded in 2004. Since he attended in February 2004 a forming an Orange Coalition. large international conference in Kyiv dur- The author discusses in some detail the ing which major political, societal and eco- dramatic events of the Orange Revolution, nomic problems were discussed, Dr. Aslund the struggle for power, the victorious coali- is in good position to provide the reader tion that was formed and the inability of the with his personal insight into the making of political leadership to act in harmony. the revolution. The central issues were Despite the numerous problems that problems related to the election – the prob- today face Ukraine, Dr. Aslund emphasizes lems were not only internal, but also exter- that during its 18 years of independence nal since Russia played a very significant Ukraine had many achievements – the most role in the election campaign, with President important of which were protecting its sov- Vladimir Putin personally involved. ereignty, becoming a democracy and creat- Commenting on the Russian involvement, ing a market economy. two Russian scholars, Nikolai Petrov and “How Ukraine Became a Market Andrei Ryabov stated: “Russia’s involve- Economy and Democracy” is one of the ment in the Ukrainian presidential election in most interesting sources of information October and November 2004 is widely about Ukraine since its proclamation of viewed as the Kremlin’s greatest foreign independence in 1991. The author’s analy- relations blunder since 1991. The problem is sis and thoughtful presentation make the not that the Kremlin gambled on a candidate book enjoyable reading. who lost, but that the Kremlin’s involvement The book can be purchased by calling was so conspicuous and crude. (p. 182). 202-328-9000, by writing to the Peterson Despite the complexities, the Orange Institute for International Economics, 1750 Revolution was a glorious event in which Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC democracy triumphed without any blood- 20036-1903; on online at www.piie.com. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 17 Five scholars awarded 2009-2010 post-doctoral fellowships at HURI by Peter T. Woloschuk CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) has awarded five post-doctoral fellowships for the 2009-2010 academic year, includ- ing three Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies and two Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies. The financial support provided by these donors enable scholars from around the world to conduct wide-ranging research at HURI on specific topics of Ukrainian history, politics, literature, lin- guistics and culture. As part of the fellow- ship program, each scholar is also required to deliver a formal lecture on his/her area of research at HURI’s weekly “Seminars in Ukrainian Studies.” Ines Garcia de la Puente Robert Kuśnierz Tetyana Portnova Iryna Vushko

Shklar Research Fellows focus on the topic “From Kyiv to Rome Robert Kuśnierz, currently a research the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Ines Garcia de la Puente, who received along the Ladoga: Reassessing Trade fellow at the Institute of History at the Foundation of California. Routes in Rus’,” a topic that she began Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Poland, her doctorate in Slavic philology and Mihaychuk Fellows Indo-European linguistics from the researching in 2008 under a post-doctoral received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from Complutense University in Madrid in fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of the University of Maria Curie- Rostyslav Melnykiv, an associate pro- 2006, will use her Shklar Fellowship to Education and Science. Skłodowska in Lublin. While at HURI in fessor in the Department of Ukrainian the fall semester, Dr. Kuśnierz will focus Literature at the Skovoroda National his attention on researching Poland’s atti- Pedagogical University of Kharkiv, Western culture and values among millions tude toward the Holodomor and the Great received a “kandydat nauk” (candidate of The Orange Revolt... of central, southern and eastern Ukrainians. Terror in Ukraine (1932-1938) and how science) degree in philology from (Continued from page 6) Don’t believe it? these events influenced Polish-Soviet Kharkiv State University in 1998. His relations. Yushchenko had vowed during the Orange Only 36 percent of Ukrainians approve area of interest is 20th century Ukrainian Revolt. Instead, Mr. Akhmetov’s right-hand of the nation’s shift to a market economy, Iryna Vushko, who received her Ph.D. literature, focusing on the 1920s and woman, Raisa Bohatyriova, is serving as down from 52 percent in 1991, according to in history from Yale University in 2008 1930s. Mr. Melnykiv will spend the Mr. Yushchenko’s National Security and the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes and recently completed a Max Weber spring semester at HURI looking at the Defense Council chair. Project survey, conducted August 27 to Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the European models of “ideal literature” and “ideal Mr. Kuchma might have had his enemies September 24 with about 1,000 respondents University Institute in San Domenico di fiction” that participants in the literary taken care of, and Mr. Yanukovych may in Ukraine. Fiesole, Italy, will research the topic discussions of those two decades attempt- have made his millions in corruption. But A meager 30 percent of Ukrainians “Enlightened Absolutism, Imperial ed to define. neither deceived the Ukrainian people to approve of the nation’s change to a multi- Bureaucracy and Provincial Society: The Tetyana Portnova, a junior research the extent that Mr. Yushchenko did. All the party system of government (i.e., democra- Austrian Project to Transform Galicia, fellow at the Department of while, he used the Ukrainian language and cy), compared with 72 percent in 1991, the 1772–1815.” Dr. Vushko’s work will ana- Historiography and the Study of Sources the Holodomor to deflect from his dealings survey said. And 62 percent of Ukrainians lyze the Austrian bureaucratic moderniza- and Archives at Dnipropetrovsk National with oligarchs. believe they’re worse off now than under tion of Galicia from its annexation by the University, received her kandydat nauk in Along with oligarchs Dmytro Firtash, communism. Habsburg monarchy in 1772 to the final history from the same institution in 2008. Yurii Boiko and Serhii Lvochkin, President On the cultural front, Mr. Yushchenko’s settlements of the Congress of Vienna in While at HURI during the fall semester Yushchenko is suspected of getting a cut of poor handling of Ukrainian language and 1815. The reforms undertaken by the Ms. Pornova plans to research peasantry the billion-dollar profit off RosUkrEnergo, cultural politics, overemphasizing these Austrian bureaucrats in Galicia, which and peasant culture in Ukrainian public a natural gas intermediary that epitomized themes instead of addressing life-and-death were aimed at replacing Polish institu- discourse during the second half of the Ukrainian corruption during the Orange era. issues, has discredited them for millions of tions with new Austrian ones and to forge 19th century. (Mind you, Mr. Boiko and Mr. Lvochkin indifferent Ukrainians, dashing any hope of political loyalty among the local Poles, The Mihaychuk Fellowship in actively support the Party of Regions, the Ukrainianization in the next decade. Ruthenians and Jews, created new identi- Ukrainian Studies is made possible by an supposed enemies of Mr. Yushchenko.) Mr. In the aftermath of the Orange failure, in ties and reinforced existing identities that endowment established through the gen- Yushchenko’s brother Petro Yushchenko which Ms. Tymoshenko has adopted a rap- were intended to be suppressed. erous gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Mihaychuk, owns an apartment near Mr. Akhmetov and prochement with Prime Minister Vladimir Indirectly, they gave rise to modern who first gave donated in 1981 and have Mr. Firtash in the same Kyiv building. Petro Putin, the Russian Federation is already nationalism in Galicia. added to them periodically. They reside in Yushchenko also stands accused of profit- preparing its next imperialist moves. These annual fellowships, awarded for Parma, Ohio, and are noted community ing from RosUkrEnergo. Is all this coinci- It’s already a given the Russian language the seventh year in a row, are funded by activists. dence? will continue to dominate business, social Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yulia life and mass media for a few more decades, Tymoshenko allegedly enhanced her wealth which is critical. Language is as strong a through the elections – by charging millions bond as any between people. It’s no coinci- of dollars for a space on her bloc’s closed dence that the U.S., Canada, Great Britain list – and her two tours as prime minister, and Australia are the closest of allies. among which she allegedly siphoned off They’re all English-speaking. millions for her campaign war chest, In the meantime, Russia’s energy grip on observers said. the European Union is successfully deter- So just what were Western governments, ring the European Union from supporting largely influenced by the Anglo-American U.S. involvement in the region. oligarchy, thinking when they supported Deterioration of the dollar, which many Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko? economists have predicted, will further Western governments lost as a result of the strengthen Russia’s grip on Ukraine, which Orange Revolt when they lent support to is not only a geopolitical test but a matter of politicians who did little to promote Western pride and soul. values of rule of law, government transpar- If there will ever be a true revolution, ency, property rights, free markets, and then November 2004 was only the start. If even basic concepts of democracy. After all, the 2010 presidential election’s outcome is Ukraine’s highly flawed voting system of dubious – observers expect to see wide- closed lists – in which voters choose a party spread election fraud, with neither side or bloc of parties instead of individual can- acknowledging the other’s victory – and the didates – is a direct product of the compro- economic derailment continues, then the mise reached during the Orange Revolt. As real Ukrainian revolution could begin. Or a a result, not a single Ukrainian knows a sin- Russian takeover. gle national deputy who is responsible to Until then, the biggest losers of the him or her. Orange Revolt remain the hundreds of thou- The inability to uphold Western stan- sands of Ukrainians who risked their lives dards has directly resulted in the failure of and health in the freezing winter of 2004 on attempts to convince more Ukrainians to behalf of the same oligarchs who oppress support accelerated Euro-Atlantic integra- them, only to have been used as pawns and tion. The Orange failure has discredited shut out in the cold yet again. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47 No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 19

Pobratymy Fraternity hosts 11th annual Plast Open golf tournament CHICAGO – Picture-perfect weather The winning men’s team consisted of crowned the 11th annual Plast Open host- Marion Abramiuk, Paul Abramiuk, Elliot ed by the Pobratymy Foundation in Grey and Damian Matusiak. The winning Chicago. This year’s outing was held at women’s team members were Halyna the Hilton Chicago Indian Lakes Golf Traversa, Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna Resort on September 12. and Roma Wowchuk. Using a team scramble format to rank Roman Marushka scored the longest the 60 men and women golfers, the outing drive for men and Ms. Tymiak-Lonchyna provided an opportunity for participants to had the longest women’s drive. Mr. Grey enjoy the beautiful setting, the friendly won the closest drive to the pin and Kevin competition and the great camaraderie. Fitzgerald won the putting contest. The day was capped with a post-golf Proceeds from this year’s event will reception at the St. Andrew Ukrainian support Plast Chicago’s development of Orthodox Church Hall, located near the the new Round Lake grounds, the Plast- golf course, where award winners were Pobratymy ski camp scheduled for announced. December in Colorado, and the 60th anni-

The winning men’s team (from left) Paul Abramiuk, Damian Matusiak and Marian Abramiuk (missing from photo: Elliot Grey).

versary celebrations of Plast Ukrainian and cooperation among Ukrainian youth; Scouting Organization to be held this fall and to inform others about Ukraine. in Chicago and Detroit. The Pobratymy Foundation thanked its The Pobratymy Foundation, a 501 (c ) volunteers and sponsors for their support (3) tax-exempt corporation, was estab- of the golf outing (sponsors were recog- lished in 1992 by members of the Plast nized in a separate ad to in The Ukrainian Pobratymy fraternity. The purpose of the Weekly). For more information on the foundation is to support the activities of 12th annual Plast Open, scheduled for Plast, both in North America and in September 11, 2010, readers may contact Ukraine. The foundation also awards con- Oleh Skubiak at [email protected]. tributions to other 501 (c) (3) organiza- For information on the Plast- tions that support the stated purpose of Pobratymy Ski Camp in Winter Park, the fraternity: to renew and strengthen Colo., scheduled for December 26 -31, The winning women’s team (from left) Roma Wowchuk, Halyna Traversa-Young Plast; to encourage excellence and self- contact Antin Durbak at pbweb@pobraty- and Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna. improvement; to encourage identification my.org.

Ukrainian pro sports update: golf by Ihor Stelmach

through a parking lot while attending a wanted to go out and get a low number, and Jim Furyk: Golf’s great “grinder” Baltimore Ravens football game when he whether I’m playing with Tiger Woods or attempted to engage in a game of catch with someone else, it doesn’t make much of a Known for his consistent top level of herky-jerky swing like a geologist conduct- a football. The hurt wrist forced him out of difference.” play and one of the more unique looping ing a seismic survey.” several late 2000 PGA events. He ended the 2003 PGA season second golf swings ever, Jim Furyk became a pro- Prior to each swing, Furyk hitches up his Between 1998 and 2003, Furyk won at in earnings, some $400,000 behind Woods. fessional golfer in 1992. The reputation he pants with his right hand. Before every putt, least one tournament per year on the PGA The 2003 golf year was a great campaign has earned over the past 15-plus years on Furyk reads the putting line, addresses the Tour. During these years his was the second Jim Furyk, with his name earning a most the pro golf tour describes him as methodi- ball, steps away, then repeats his routine a best winning season streak, behind Tiger deserved slot right up there with Woods, cal: straightaway driving and conservative second time. Furyk related the following to Woods. The wins earned Furyk recognition Vijay Sing, Davis Love and Mike Weir. In shot selection. Mr. Silver: “I got a lot of recognition early in the top 10 Official World Golf Rankings. an interview with Joan Alexander of ASAP How consistent has his performance in my career because of my goofy swing Arguably his biggest career win came on Sports, Furyk said that after winning the been over the past decade? How about a and it was a positive for me. I’m a guy who June 16, 2003, when he tied the record for U.S. Open people told him his life would top-10 ranking for over 270 weeks between finds a comfort zone and sticks to his the lowest 72-hole score in U.S. Open his- undergo a drastic change. He admitted his 1999 and 2009? Jim Furyk quietly inched guns.” tory to earn his first major championship. personal time was more in demand both his way upward in pro golf rankings with Furyk’s father offered the following Jim married his long-time girlfriend, with business and personal interests. his consistent approach. So consistent, his comment on his son’s swing: “If you have a Tabitha Skartved in late 2000. The young Autograph requests were plentiful, as were ardent fan base nicknamed him “The manufactured golf swing, I’m a firm believ- couple built a home on Maui, Hawaii – inquiries from the media: “For some reason, Grinder.” The entire golf universe did er that you won’t hold up under pressure. If Furyk’s favorite spot in the whole world. my opinion matters more now. It’s a good abruptly sit up and notice his 2003 U.S. you’ve got a swing that’s natural, whatever By the end of 2000 Furyk healed from his problem to have and it goes with the territo- Open and Buick Open victories over the it looks like, you’ve got a chance.” wrist injury and immediately did some ry. You realize that we all want to win major world’s best duffers. Furyk took to heart his father’s emphasis damage at the Mercedes Championship in championships and win golf tournaments, A standout player on his high school on practicing and perfecting what came nat- January of 2001. A dramatic comeback, and the more you do that, the more your baseball, football and basketball teams at urally. He further inherited his dad’s work deemed quite improbable as South time becomes in demand. That’s part of it… Manheim Township High School in ethic and a focus for perfection. African Rory Sabbatini held a command- It’s really not a bad problem to have.” Lancaster, Pa., Furyk had a hidden love for Golf World’s John Hawkins commented ing lead into the final round, gave Furyk The 2004 year saw Furyk limited to still another sport. Word is he felt embar- on Furyk’s father-son relationship: “The a surprise win. Sabbatini missed a three- playing in only 14 events due to a three- rassed about his affection for the game, and two have formed an effective, low-key team foot putt on the final hole, giving Furyk a month layoff after a second cartilage repair often asked his mother to take him to school since Furyk began winning on the PGA chance at 18, which he nailed. As Furyk in his wrist; the year saw him fall out of the early so he would have enough time to hide Tour, not so much in terms of mechanical related to of SI: “There was one key: atti- top 100 on the money list. 2005 was a his golf clubs in his locker before his class- alterations, but in strengthening the kid’s tude. Whenever I started to get mad at return to good form and his top-10 ranking mates arrived and saw them. two biggest assets: his head and heart.” myself, I would remember that my goal with a PGA Tour event win. The next year Furyk learned golf from his Ukrainian Furyk attended the University of Arizona was to be able to complete all 72 holes of was even better. father, Mike, who was head pro at and turned pro in 1992; a year later he the tournament.” A career-best second position on the Uniontown Country Club in the Pittsburgh earned his first tour win at the Nike In 2002 Furyk won the Memorial money list, two PGA Tour event wins and a suburbs. Dad encouraged his son to stick Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic. Subsequent Tournament and ended the year with nine first Vardon Trophy were among his 2006 with his rather quirky swing, which defied years on the tour saw more victories includ- top-10 finishes. Following his incredible highlights. (The Vardon Trophy is awarded all conventional wisdom about golf’s prop- ing the Las Vegas Invitational (1995, 1998, U.S. Open victory in June of 2003, Furyk annually by the PGA of America to the er form but worked for him. Furyk also 1999), the United Airlines Hawaiian Open doubled his pleasure with a decisive win at PGA Tour’s leader in scoring average. engages in a unique pre-swing ritual, (1996) and the Doral-Ryder Open (2000). A the August 2003 Buick Open, where he Woods has won this trophy six times this described in a 2003 Sports Illustrated (SI) freak hand injury sidelined Furyk in late managed to outplay Woods. Furyk’s game decade.) Furyk ended the year with a career- article by Michael Silver as: “The 33-year- 2000, when he fell on his left wrist, tearing remained calm and collected throughout the old grinder’s grinder prepares for each some cartilage. He was hurt walking Buick Open. As he told SI’s Shipnuck: “I (Continued on page 20) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

as one of the “Righteous of the World” – Directory of the UNR, and Roman destroyed by the Soviets during the artifi- Yakiv Suslensky... Gentiles who saved Jews from the Nazis Shukhevych, commander of the Ukrainian cial famine of 1932-1933.” (Continued from page 5) at great risk to their lives – at Israel’s Insurgent Army (UPA) and a leader of the At the time of the Nazi war crimes trial about Ukrainian citizens who saved Jews Holocaust memorial complex, Yad Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, of John Demjanjuk in Israel, Mr. during World War II , organized conferenc- Vashem. He authored an article about Yad as well as others who he said had been Suslensky and his colleagues worked to es on that topic and wrote a Ukrainian- Vashem’s snub of Sheptytsky that was unjustly vilified in the past. promote balanced public opinion about published in the January 19, 1986, issue In 1985 Mr. Suslensky led protests in the case. Mr. Suslensky also assisted the language book titled “True Heroes: About of The Ukrainian Weekly. Despite 18 Jerusalem at the site of a vandalized Demjanjuk defense team with translations the Participation of Ukrainian Citizens in appeals for Sheptytsky’s recognition, Mr. memorial honoring Ukrainian and Jewish and research in the Israeli archives. Saving Jews from the Fascist Genocide” Suslensky and his group did not succeed victims of the Holocaust and the By the year 2008, the work of Mr. (1993). He also authored a book about in their quest. Holodomor to protest what the demon- Suslensky’s society had resulted in the Ukrainian-Jewish relations called “Islands He also worked to promote a more strators saw as deliberate inaction on the recognition by Yad Vashem of well over of Friendship” (1983). objective view of Ukrainian historical part of Israeli authorities to bring the 2,000 Ukrainians as “Righteous of the Mr. Suslensky actively pursued the personages such as Symon Petliura, com- crime’s known perpetrators to justice. Mr. World.” At the time the society was cause of recognition of Ukrainian mander of the army of the Ukrainian Suslensky cited “Ukrainophobia,” an founded, only four Ukrainians had been Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky National Republic and president of the anti-Ukrainian attitude held by many represented among that group of heroes. Jews who he said consider all Ukrainians Mr. Suslensky was honored by three responsible for the “crimes of the few” presidents of independent Ukraine for his promoting power. The club’s shaft moves during World War II. work in promoting inter-ethnic under- Jim Furyk... straight back and straight up, making it The monument to Ukrainian and standing. In 2007 President Viktor (Continued from page 19) stay on path longer, mentally reinforcing Jewish victims of the regimes of Hitler Yushchenko presented him with the and Stalin was unveiled on May 13, 1985, Ukrainian state’s Order for Merit, III best 13 top-10 finishes, including nine top- the route along which to bring it back into and destroyed just over four months later, class. three finishes, four second-places and his the ball. At the top of the backswing the on September 26. It was located near the During Mr. Suslensky’s March 2008 two victories. club shaft is parallel to the intended line of flight, elbow flying crazily off. Starting the Tomb of King David on Mount Zion, on visit to Philadelphia, Dr. Leonid The Furyk swing downswing, Furyk then “corrects” for his property purchased by Yuriy Dyba of Rudnytzky of the St. Sophia Religious unconventional takeaway by dropping his Vancouver, British Columbia. Association of Ukrainian Catholics Furyk’s unique looping golf swing starts The monument’s inscription paid trib- described him as “an Israeli patriot with a with a setup, where the ball sits at the heel right elbow into the slot where it needs to be, bringing the club onto the correct ute to “the 1.5 million Jewish Ukrainians Ukrainian heart.” of the club instead of the center or at the and 3 million Ukrainians destroyed by the Mr. Suslensky’s funeral was attended toe. This positioning forces his 6’2” frame swing path for optimum results. This downswing beginning causes the idiosyn- Nazi regime between 1941 and 1945,” as by Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Ihor in closer so his hands are almost touching well as “the 10 million Ukrainians Tymofeyev. his thighs. The average golfer would cratic loop in his swing. encounter much difficulty with a club from His mentor father says Jim’s hips such a starting point. “underturn” during the backswing and In comparison, Woods starts his swing “overturn” coming down. Commentator al complex. with his hands eight inches or so away Gary McCord once said it looked like Ukraine’s presidential... Three leading candidates have distinct from his body. Tiger’s position promotes a Furyk was trying to swing in a phone (Continued from page 2) foreign-policy proposals. If elected, Mr. take-away which puts the club over his booth. A second commentator, David the candidates mentions NATO in any Yanukovych would pursue a pro-Russian right shoulder at the top, keeping his right Feherty, likened Furyk’s swing to an octo- form – a pattern that repeats earlier elec- multi-vector foreign policy, in contrast to elbow tucked against his body. This is the pus falling out of a tree. tions (Yushchenko and Our Ukraine have the largely pro-Western multi-vectorism classic launch position used since the onset Early in his pro golfing career Furyk’s never included NATO membership in Mr. Kuchma pursued in his two terms in of time, whether to throw a spear or a swing created some controversy. Once their election programs). Of the seven office. Ms. Tymoshenko has outlined a baseball, or swing a club. The larger body everyone accepted it as natural, a contro- main candidates, only Ms. Tymoshenko pro-European foreign policy that links muscles – the back, shoulders and thighs – versial swing became unique. Call it what and Mr. Yushchenko support European domestic progress in reforms to Ukraine’s control the movement. The weaker mus- you will, Furyk’s famous ball-striking pre- Union membership. Messrs. Symonenko integration into Europe. cles of the hands and wrists are secondary. cision has served him well on the profes- and Yatsenyuk oppose it, and the other Mr. Yatsenyuk moved from his pro- The athlete’s entire body is poised in the sional tour for 17 years. three are ambivalent. Western position as foreign affairs minis- maximum power position. Besides, there were a couple of other Messrs. Yanukovych and Symonenko ter and Rada chairman to a Ukrainian Furyk does it his own way, similar to a golf legends with unconventional swings. support Ukraine’s full membership in the third-way “isolationist-nationalist” plat- basketball player hoisting a hook shot. His Some guy named Jack Nicklaus had a very Commonwealth of Independent States’ form that has been developed by Russian arms move backward vertically with his upright swing with a flying elbow, while Single Economic Space (SES). Countries consultants in his team since June. right elbow flying away from his body. Lee Trevino was one of the biggest loopers cannot be in two customs unions at the Although elected to parliament in 2007 as This type of movement is an early step to of all time. Let’s add “The Grinder” to this same time and, therefore, joining the SES one of the top five candidates of the pro- facilitate accurate ball-striking rather than elite list of unique duffers. is impossible if Ukraine signs a free-trade Western Our Ukraine-People’s Self agreement with the EU next year – an Defense bloc, Mr. Yatsenyuk now oppos- important nuance that will be missed by es NATO and EU membership for Ukraine. The 2009 Festival Committee consist- the average Mr. Yanukovych supporter. Twin Cities... ed of John Luciw, chair; Alla Khrystych, Mrs. Yatsenyuk’s proposed Eastern European union of Ukraine, Russia, Copyright 2009, RFE/RL Inc. (Continued from page 13) vice-chair; Oksana Bryn, secretary; and Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Reprinted with the permission of Radio Ukrainians, a pamphlet titled “About Zenon Dawydowych, treasurer. Members Armenia and Azerbaijan with Kyiv as its Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Ukraine and Ukrainians” prepared by Ms. of the committee were: Dr. Walter capital is surprisingly similar to the SES. Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC Lewytzkyi was made available at the Ananstas, Renee Bell, Nina Chorewycz, His program calls for joint programs by 20036; www.rferl.org. (See http://www. front entrance. Inside the auditorium, last Paul Jablonsky, Bob Kuchwarskyj, Ihor these eight countries in the fields of ener- rferl.org/content/Ukraines_Presidential_ year’s festival queen, Sophia Kudanovych, Alexander Poletz, Maria gy, transportation and communications, Hopefuls_Lay_Out_Their_ Anastaziewsky, made a short presentation Odermann, Svitlana Uniyat and Romana industrial production and exports, science Programs/1877436.html?page=1#related about Ukraine and Ukrainians. Vasylevych. and technology, and the military-industri- InfoContainer.) No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 21 Pianist Roman Rudnytsky completes his latest tour of Australia

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Concert pia- States. nist Roman Rudnytsky recently conclud- Other recitals on Mr. Rudnytsky’s ed his 16th Australian concert tour, which tour took place in venues ranging from began in the middle of May and consisted large regional performing arts centers to of 36 concerts. He played recitals all over churches and small theaters. One recital the country, the majority of them in took place at Sydney’s Macquarie smaller country and Outback towns. University, one of Australia’s major uni- These took place throughout versities. Mr. Rudnytsky also appeared as Queensland, in Western Australia, in the soloist with the Cairns Youth Orchestra, Northern Territory, New South Wales and performing with them Mozart’s Concerto Victoria. In several towns, he also con- in D minor, K.466 and the Liszt “Fantasia ducted masterclasses and workshops for on Hungarian Folk Melodies.” He has local piano students and teachers. This performed with this orchestra every two was one of his most successful tours any- years since his 1983 tour. where, as he received invitations to return Mr. Rudnytsky has toured Australia from every venue. Thus, his next tour in every two years since his first perfor- Australia, in 2011, will again be a large mances there in 1979 and has played one. more concerts there than in any other of The tour concluded on August 22 with the 90-plus countries where he has per- Mr. Rudnytsky playing the massively formed: approximately 480 concerts in 16 complicated Third Piano Concerto by tours of Australia. Rachmaninoff as soloist with the Penrith The Australian tour was preceded by Symphony in the Joan Sutherland performances in Honduras, Britain, and Pianist Roman Rudnytsky in Kalgoorlie, Australia. Performing Arts Center. Penrith is a satel- the West African countries of Senegal, lite city to Sydney – about 30 miles to the The Gambia and Mauritania (the last received an invitation from the Sergei Melodies.” This will be the Ukrainian west of it in the foothills of the Blue three: through the U.S. Embassies there). Prokofieff Symphony Orchestra of premiere performance of the Liszt No. 3, Mountains. Mr. Rudnytsky, who is a member of Donetsk for May 14, 2010, to perform which was discovered only in 1989: the Mr. Rudnytsky played in some unique the music faculty of the Dana School of with them Liszt’s Concerto No. 3 in E “Fantasia” will be performed for the first places involving travels of long distances. Music of Youngstown State University, Flat and “Fantasia on Hungarian Folk time ever in Donetsk. One of these, where he played for the second time, was the historic Hoover House in the now-ghost town of Gwalia (next to the town of Leonora), in the remote northern goldfields area of Western Australia north of Kalgoorlie. Mr. Rudnytsky had played there on his 2007 tour and, the recital then and now took place outside on the porch of this house, with people sitting on the porch and the surrounding lawn. The audience came from 150 miles around and a local family loaned a Beale upright piano for this occasion. This was, as the audience remarked afterwards, a true “outback con- cert” experience. Hoover House is historic because it was built in 1898 by and for Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer by profession, who had come to Gwalia then to be man- ager of the gold mine there. It subse- quently housed 14 other managers until that mine closed in 1963. It is situated right next to that mine and is now a muse- um and a bed and breakfast. It is the only house associated with a U.S. president located outside the borders of the United

Iryna Senyk... (Continued from page 5) labor camp, Ms. Senyk was sent to serve her five-year exile period. She joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG) in 1979. On October 30, 1979, in a document titled “Lamentatsiya” (Lamentation), three women members of UHG – Oksana Meshko, Nina Strokata and Ms. Senyk – addressed an appeal to the world community and to all people of good will, informing them of the numerous instances of the “esca- lation of state terror and defamation directed at the Ukrainian human rights movement in Ukraine.” In autumn of that year, Ms. Senyk signed the UHG memorandum stating that the group was alive and functioning despite the repressions perpetrated against its members. Ms. Senyk spent 34 years in captivity. She was finally released on August 17, 1983. In November 2005 she was awarded a prestigious Ukrainian state award, the Order of Princess Olha, III class, and in November 2006 she was presented Ukraine’s Order for Courage, I class. Internment was on October 27 at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.

– Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

Ukraine loses to Greece, MAY WE HELP YOU? fails to quality for World Cup To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below).

Editorial – 3049, 3088 • Production – 3063, 3069 Administration – 3041 • Advertising – 3040 Subscriptions – 3042

UNIAN DONETSK, Ukraine – Ukraine on November 18 lost its bid to advance to the World Cup, to be played next year in South Africa, when it lost to Greece 1-0. Greece will play in its first World Cup in 16 years. The lone goal in the match, played in Donetsk, was scored by Dimitrios Salpigidis in the 31st minute of the first-half on a pass from Georgios Samaras. Ukraine and Greece had played to a 0-0 draw on November 14 in Athens. The Associated Press quoted Ukraine’s coach, Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, as saying: “It is very painful for me that it has ended this way, as I felt we deserved to qualify for the World Cup.” He added, “It’s a shame we didn’t have quite enough skill and creativity. I don’t have any complaints about our players, they gave everything they had but it wasn’t enough.” Above, Ukraine’s Artem Milievsky is surrounded by opponents.

to the word “diabolical” as he took to all Holodomor... three challenges like a duck to water. The (Continued from page 9) disposal of bodies was a problem – not just tryside is open, transportation is slow, and the sheer numbers, but also the need to communication depends on how fast a man dispose of them in a way that left the least can travel. evidence. The process of Russification was not So, they dug huge pits near railroad sid- willfully less intense in the early stages. It ings, dumped in the bodies interspersed was just slow and inefficient due to the lack with logs to aerate the fires and burn as hot of more efficient means. The emergence of as crematorium ovens. The smell of burning more effective means to control, communi- human flesh permeated the countryside. cate and transport was paralleled by the Those who smelled it never forgot it – they emergence of ever more efficient means of took it to their graves in their nightmares. segregating and killing those who insisted Foreign reporters were taken on escort- on being Ukrainian. ed tours of Potemkin villages, greeted by children neatly dressed for the occasion Modern genocide and holding large loaves of bread – which By the early 1930s, Russia had sufficient was soaked in kerosene to make sure the technology to move the destruction of starving children didn’t eat it. Survivors Ukrainians to a level of slaughter not seen report traveling for days in eastern Ukraine before or since in human history. Supported without seeing any living thing – not just by the political will of Stalin, Lazar no people, but also no dogs, no squirrels or Kaganovich became the father of modern other animals, rarely even a bird – the genocide. Joined by Pavel Postyshev and bone-chilling silence broken only by the Viacheslav Molotov, these three Stalinist wind. henchmen were the “commanders of the Into this wasteland of death Kaganovich Holodomor.”5 brought native Russians, many from the Kaganovich effectively closed Ukraine’s military, to repopulate those regions of borders, controlled the flow of informa- Ukraine that were devastated by the geno- tion, confined the target population, physi- cide. Many fled and had to be brought back cally removed or destroyed all available numerous times. The abandoned houses food and then sat back and watched mil- reeked of death, the plows turned up human lions and millions of Ukrainians starve to skeletons. But in time they stayed put, and death. He topped off his masterwork by gradually those regions became largely killing millions more by traditional means, Russian-speaking. like shooting or freezing them to death in Unlike other masters of genocide, Siberia. Kaganovich’s kill rate remains Kaganovich died in comfortable retirement unchallenged to this day – 10 million dead in Moscow in 1991, at the ripe old age of in 500 days. 98, attended by two faithful servants. When Such massive slaughter is hard to fath- asked if there was anything he regretted om, hard to manage and hard to cover up. about what he had done, he replied, “I only Kaganovich brought a whole new meaning regret that I didn’t finish them off.”6

5. “Not to be Forgotten – A Chronicle of 1990. I know this person well and deem him Communist Inquisition,” Roman Krutsyk, to be credible. However, he is afraid to declare Visit our archive online: Kyiv: Memorial, 2001, panels 16-17. this publicly for fear of retribution. As he lives 6. This quotation was reported to me by a per- in Ukraine and is now elderly, threats against www.ukrweekly.com son who spoke with Kaganovich by telephone his life and safety are equally credible, and I (in his Moscow apartment) around 1989 or have promised not to reveal his identity. No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 23

OUT AND ABOUT

November 26-27 Film screening, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: December 5, 6, 13 Ukrainian Christmas tree ornaments workshop, Toronto Ukrainian Cinema Since Independence,” New York The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 University of Toronto, www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/ukrcinema/lec04.html December 6 25th anniversary liturgy and dinner, St. Mary North Port, FL Ukrainian Catholic Church, 941-497-3548 or November 27 “Morska Zabava,” Chornomortsi Plast Fraternity, [email protected] Whippany, NJ Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, 973-476-1970 December 6 Concert, “Celtic Harp for a Winter’s Day,” Madison, NJ featuring Odarka Polanskyj Stockert, Museum of November 27 Paintball tournament, Bobrivka, 860-402-5055 or Early Trades and Crafts, 973-377-2982 North Colebrook, CT [email protected] December 6 Christmas Bazaar, sponsored by St. John the November 28 Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company, Peabody Whippany, NJ Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Daytona Beach, FL Auditorium, 386-671-3462 American Cultural Center of New Jersey, 973-476-1970 November 28 Holodomor commemoration, “Execution by Hunger: Washington The Unknown Genocide of Ukrainians 1932-1933,” December 6 Christmas Bazaar, featuring Ukrainian foods and Embassy of Ukraine, [email protected] South Bound Brook, NJ crafts, Ukrainian Orthodox League Convention Committee of Maplewood, St. Andrew Ukrainian November 28-30 Religious and ethnic art exhibit and open house, Orthodox Church hall, 973-635-8124 North Port, FL featuring embroidery, pysanky, architecture and iconography, St. Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, December 6 Parish feast, including St. Nicholas and Christmas 941-496-8593 Passaic, NJ programs and dinner, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, 973-779-0249 November 29 Film screening, “Bereza Kartuzka” by Yurij Luhovy, Oshawa, ON Ukrainian Cultural Center, 605-725-0545 December 11 Lecture by Oleh Wolowyna, “The Famine that New York Stalin Tried to Hide: Demographic Aspects,” November 30 Lecture by Robert Kusnierz, “Ukraine During the Columbia University, [email protected] Cambridge, MA Great Famine and Great Terror of the 1930s in or 212-854-4697 Light of Polish Diplomatic and Intelligence Documents,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 December 12 Ukrainian Christmas traditions workshop, The New York Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 December 1 Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company, King Melbourne, FL Center for the Performing Arts, 321-242-2219

December 4 25th anniversary moleben service and concert, St, North Port, FL Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, 941-497-3548 or Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to [email protected] events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion December 5 Christmas bazaar, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox of the editors and as space allows. Please send e-mail to mdubas@ Philadelphia Cathedral, 610-892-7315 ukrweekly.com. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 No. 47

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, December 5 take out. Homemade holiday cookies will Soyuzivka’s Datebook PALATINE, IL: The Ukrainian American be featured in our “Cookie Walk” and sold Veterans 1st Lt. Ivan Shandor Post 35 in by the pound. Holiday gift baskets, crafts and gift items will be available for raffle November 21-22 Private function December 31 New Year’s Eve Palatine and the Palatine Chapter of ACT invite you to a presentation “Why the U.S. or sale. Admission is free. For more infor- Wins Wars and Will Win the War on mation call 973-635-8124. This Christmas November 26 Thanksgiving Terror” presented by Prof. Larry Bazaar is being held concurrently with the Schweikart of Dayton University. Prof. grand opening of the “2009 Christmas Schweikart is the author of “America’s Display” at the historic Hendrick Fisher Victories,” “48 Liberal Lies” and co-author House, which is located next to the church of “A Patriot’s History of the United hall at 1960 Easton Ave. Somerset States.” He is also a commentator on Fox County’s oldest historic house is lovingly News. The presentation will take place at 2-4 p.m. at the Palatine Public Library decorated in Victorian Christmas style and located at 700 N. Court, Palatine, IL available for tours that day and throughout 60067. There is no charge for the event. the holiday season. For more information call Roman Golash, Sunday, December 13 847-910-3532, or e-mail romangolash@ sbcglobal.net. HILLSIDE, N.J.: You, your family and Saturday-Sunday, December 5-6 friends are invited to visit with St. Nicholas at 12:30 p.m. in the church hall SILVER SPRING, Md.: Holy Trinity To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 of Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Church will sponsor a Catholic Church located at the intersection 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Christmas Bazaar featuring traditional of Liberty Avenue and Bloy Street. The Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Ukrainian Christmas foods, holiday crafts parish children will present an informal E-mail: [email protected] and tours of its Hutsul-style church. Food Website: www.Soyuzivka.com will be available for purchase along with bilingual entertainment program. Odarka items from the gift shop and unique hand- Polanskyj-Stockert will also perform sev- made holiday gifts. Bazaar hours: eral holiday pieces on the harp. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, after Complimentary refreshments will be 11:30 a.m. divine liturgy, 1-4 p.m. The served. For those attending the divine lit- church is located at16631 New Hampshire urgy at 10:45 a.m., a “light lunch” will be Ave. (nine miles north of the Beltway – provided after the service. If you would I-495, between Route 198 and Ednor like to attend the luncheon please contact Road). For more information e-mail Mike Szpyhulsky, 908-289-0127, Maria [email protected] or call Mary Shatynski, 973-599-9381, or e-mail the Bergman, 301-439-7603. parish at ICUkrainianCatholic@yahoo. Sunday, December 6 com by December 1. Additional informa- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of tion and directions to the parish may be America invites all to Children’s Christmas found on the parish website, www.byzcath. Festivities (for ages 3-13) featuring a org/ImmaculateConception. music program by Olya Fryz with a “koli- Saturday, December 19 ada” (carol) sing-along. Festivities will be at 2-4 p.m., with Christmas tree decorat- BETHESDA, Md.: The Taras Shevchenko ing, games, surprises and gingerbread dec- School of Ukrainian Studies will host a orating with Olesia Lew. Parents and fami- Mykolai Show and Holiday Bazaar. ly members are encouraged to join the fun. Students will present “Mykolai Admission: in advance – $10 per child, –Superhero” at noon. Sviatyi Mykolai (St. $20 per adult; at the door – $15 per child, $25 per adult. Please RSVP by Friday, Nicholas) will then meet with each grade/ November 27, by calling 212-288-8660 or age group (non-students welcome). The Being Ukrainian means: e-mailing [email protected] The Heavenly Office will be open at 9:15-11:45 UIA is located at 2 E. 79th St., corner of a.m.; please bring only one item per child Fifth Avenue. ($2 fee), clearly labeled (child’s full name, o “Malanka” in January. grade/age). The bazaar/bake sale at 9:30 SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: You are o a.m.-noon will feature: torte slices, fancy Deb in February. invited to attend a “Ukrainian Kitchen and cookies for your holiday cookie tray, kola- Christmas Bazaar” to be held in the church chi, makivnyky, medivnyky, children’s o Two Easters in springtime. hall of St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox sweets, varenyky and vushka (frozen), Church in South Bound Brook, N.J., at 11 o “Zlet” and “Sviato Vesny” in May. books, CDs, gift items. Location: Westland a.m.-4 p.m. sponsored by the 63rd annual o Soyuzivka’s Ukrainian Cultural Festival in July. UOL Convention Committee of the Middle School, 5511 Massachusetts Ave., Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Holy Bethesda, MD 20816. For further informa- o “Uke Week” at Wildwood in August. Ascension in Maplewood, N.J. The tion visit http://www.ukieschool.org/ Ukrainian Kitchen will feature homemade events.htm, or contact Lada Onyshkevych, o Back to Ukrainian school in September. varenyky, holubtsi and borsch to eat-in or [email protected] or 410-730-8108. o “Morskyi Bal” in New Jersey in November. o “Koliada” in December. PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES o A subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly Preview of Events is a listing of community events open to the public. It is a ALL YEAR ROUND. service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly, fill out the form below, clip it and mail it to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, To have an event listed in Preview of Events please send information, in English, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. written in Preview format, i.e., in a brief paragraph that includes the date, place, type of event, sponsor, admission, full names of persons and/or organizations involved, Or simply call 973-292-9800, ext. 3042. and a phone number to be published for readers who may require additional information. Items should be no more than 100 words long; longer submissions are subject to editing. Items not written in Preview format or submitted without all required information will not be published.

Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Items will be published only once, unless otherwise indicated. Please include payment for each time the item is to appear and indicate date(s) of issue(s) in which the item is to be published. Also, senders are asked to include the phone number of a person who may be contacted by The Weekly during daytime hours, as well as their complete mailing address.

Information should be sent to: [email protected] or Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, 973-644-9510. NB: If e-mailing, please do not send items as attachments; simply type the text into the body of the e-mail message.