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lished by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association! щ, Mrainian Weeklv vol. LVIII No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 50 cents Fokin elected Patriarch Mstyslav speaks on Church's rebirth prime minister by Roma Hadzewycz KlEv - vitold Pavlovych Fokin, KlEv - On the fourth day of his chairman of the Committee on the historic visit to Ukraine, Patriarch Economy in the Ukrainian SSR Su– Mstyslav of Kiev and all Ukraine, the preme Soviet, was elected chairman of primate of the Ukrainian Autocepha– the Council of Ministers, a position lous Orthodox Church, appeared at a equivalent to prime minister, on No– press conference to share his first vember 14. impressions and inform the public, Mr. Fokin had been acting prime through the news media, about his minister since October 23, when vitaliy plans. Masol officially tendered his resigna– The press conference came just three tion. The Parliament accepted Mr. days after the patriarch's arrival in Masol's resignation and then voted to Ukraine on Saturday evening, October name Mr. Fokin the acting chairman of 20. — the first time he had set foot on the Council of Ministers. Ukrainian soil in 46 years — and was Mr. Fokin was confirmed as prime jubilantly welcomed by people's de– minister by a vote of 332 out of 377 puties, faithful and residents of Kiev people's deputies present at the morning and environs, and just two days after he session on November 14. celebrated liturgy at St. Andrew Cathe– Patriarch Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church speaks at The democratic opposition in Parlia– dral in the Ukrainian capital city with press conference in Kiev. At his side is Metropolitan loann. ment, the National Council, did not some 50,000 people gathered near the "The Lord God gave us light. Our (Continued on page 2) church. nation is being reborn, it is beginning to stand on its feet," Patriarch Mstyslav Enthronement set said, describing the significance of Communist bloc in Parliament votes developments in Ukraine at the time of his arrival.1 for St. Sophia to strip deputy Khmara of immunity "For the Church this trebirthj is SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - somewhat more difficult," he noted, St. Sophia Sobor will be the site of KlEv - The Ukrainian SSR the man, dressed in civilian clothes, "but today we have a good basis for the enthronement of Mstyslav 1, Supreme Soviet voted on Wednesday, apparently hit a woman. Mr. Khmara believing that we are proceeding down patriarch of the Ukrainian Autoce– November 14, to strip Stepan Khmara witnessed the incident, which took place the proper path." phalous Orthodox Church in U– of the Lviv Oblast of his immunity as a in a pedestrian underpass on the Kh– "This period for the Ukrainian kraine and the Diaspora, on Sunday, people's deputy, thus allowing authori– reshchatyk, and asked the woman Autocephalous Orthodox Church November 18, at 10 a.m. ties to file criminal charges against him. whether she could identify her assailant. already is historic, it will be impossible According to Jurij O. Hiltajczuk, News of the vote was reported by the The man was spotted at the other end to erase," he stated. an aide to Patriarch Mstyslav in Ukrainian Republican Party and the of the underpass, but he refused to Urging his audience and the public at South Bound Brook, N.J., the Kiev UN1AR-UPA press service. identify himself when Mr. Khmara large to work toward unity and coope– City Council has granted permission The Chervonohrad dentist is accused asked him to do so. Passers-by then ration, Patriarch Mstyslav expressed to use the St. Sophia Cathedral for of assaulting an officer of the Ministry detained the man and seized his identifi– his firm belief that there is a "desire that these historic ceremonies on Sunday. of internal Affairs on November 7 after (Continued on page 2) all our hearts should beat as one." He This was confirmed on Thursday, added, "We must show the world that November 15, by vasyl Chervoniy, a we are worthy of this rebirth." deputy from Rivne to the Ukrainian Referring to his then upcoming visit Parliament who received oral confir– to Lviv, the patriarch noted, "1 will be mation from both Leonid Kravchuk, satisfied when the Lviv metropolitan the president of the Ukrainian SSR tvolodymyr Sterniuk of the Ukrainian and the newly elected prime minister Catholic Church J and 1 go together to of the Ukrainian SSR, vitold Fokin. St. George Cathedral and together kiss The enthronement will be preceed– the Bible. We must demonstrate that we ed by an archiepiscopal divine are brothers by our deeds. ... 1 would liturgy which will be served by the like the bishops of the Ukrainian hierarchs of the Ukrainian Autoce– Autocephalous Orthodox Church and phalous Orthodox Church in U– the Ukrainian Catholic Church to look kraine: Metropolitan loann and each other in the eyes — so much Bishops Andriy, Danylo, vasyl, depends on the bishops." volodymyr, Antoniy, Roman and Nearly 300 persons attended Pa– Mykolay. triarch Mstyslav's first press conference The hierarchs in Ukraine will be in Ukraine, held at the Northwestern joined by Archbishop Constantine of Scientific Center of the Ukrainian SSR Chicago and Bishop Antoniy of New Academy of Sciences, Social Sciences York for the services. Section, located on Kirov Street near The two Ukrainian American the Khreshchatyk. prelates arrived in Ukraine on Wed– First to speak was Metropolitan nesday, November 14, with a delega– loann of Lviv, who gave background tion of 60 representatives of the information on the reborn Ukrainian Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Church in the United States. pointing out that the Church now has Ceremonies connected with the eight hierarchs in Ukraine in addition to enthronement were scheduled to a Kolomayets five abroad. He then noted the historic begin on Saturday, November 17. Stepan Khmara talking to crowds outside of Supreme Soviet in Kiev. (Continued on page 2) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY; NOVEMBER IS, 1990 No. 46

Patriarch Mstyslav... (ContinuecTfrom page 1) significance о і Patriarch Mstyslav's arrival in Ukraine, describing him as "a great patriot and loyal son of Ukraine." in turn, Patriarch Mstyslav described his life and route to the priesthood, as well as the brutal repressions and destruction of the UAOC, its hierarchs and clergy during the Stalin regime. He spoke also of the destruction of churches in Kholm and volhynia under Polish rule of that part of Ukraine. "1 bow my head before my colleague Stepan Baran, who as a lawyer helped me in the Sejm EParliamentJ in protest– ing the burning of our churches." Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky of the Ukrainian Catholic Church also added his voice and his signature to the protest, he pointed out. Finally, Metropolitan Mstyslav des– cribed his immediate plans: "1 want to travel around Ukraine, to experience all of it. And 1 believe that all of our hierarchy will arrive here also." "Our church wants to have its own patriarchal center here fin Kievj to Patriarch Mstyslav answers reporters9 questions during the press conference. Also in the photo are UAOC bishops and clergy house meeting rooms, a library, apart– and (left) People's Deputy Yuriy Sorochyk. ments. it would serve as an embassy,"he added. triarch Mstyslav participated in a of the conflict between the authorities border between the Rivne and volhynia The press conference was attended by liturgy at the Church of the Assump– and the UAOC that has existed since oblasts to greet Patriarch Mstyslav and numerous people's deputies, including tion, reported the UN1AR press service. 1929." lead him to the Church of the Holy Yuriy Sorochyk, who acted as modera– The press service also reported that Discussions were conducted in an Cross, a functioning church of the tor, the news media, faithful and on November 5, the UAOC primate atmosphere of mutual understanding. Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox visiting Ukrainian Americans. journeyed to ivano-Frankivske where The focus of the meeting was the Church. Among representatives of the UAOC he met with people's deputies of the opening of a UAOC mission in Kiev; The patriarch arrived at the church at present were Bishops volodymyr of oblast and city councils, as well as other topics of discussion included the 5 p.m. and was greeted by 5,000 to 6,000 Bila Tserkva, (who is also the vicar of Ukrainian SSR people's deputies. religious situation in Galicia and the persons. He addressed the crowd and Kiev), Roman of Uzhhorod and Khust, Afterwards, Patriarch Mstyslav possibility of conducting Ukrainian then participated in divine liturgy. Danylo of Chernivtsi and Antoniy of offered a requiem service (panakhyda) services in St. Sophia Sobor. The next day, Patriarch Mstyslav was Rivne and Ostroh. at the graves of Ukrainian Sich Rifle- Patriarch Mstyslav also expressed welcomed to Rivne by faithful of the men, and addressed faithful of the dismay over Russian Orthodox Pa– UAOC, members of Rukh and other UAOC and the Ukrainian Catholic democratic organizations, as well as by Related news triarch Aleksey's decision to hold Church. services at St. Sophia Sobor on October the head of the city council and the city The UN1AR-UPA press service re- 28, stressing that the cathedral, the executive committee. Following his stay in Kiev, Patriarch ported that the next day, Tuesday, historic seat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, is in the city center, the patriarch Mstyslav traveled to Lviv, where he was October 23, Patriarch Mstyslav met a treasure of the entire Ukrainian nation addressed the community; and a liturgy welcomed by faithful of the Ukrainian at the Ukrainian SSR Supreme and, thus, should not be subject to was offered near the Cathedral of the Autocephalous Orthodox and Ukrai– Soviet with its chairman, Leonid Krav– bargaining. He emphasized also that the Resurrection. For two weeks prior to the nian Catholic Churches on October 28. chuk. UAOC does not claim churches of the patriarch's arrival in that city, That day, the patriarch appeared at a The press service reported: "As Russian Orthodox Church and expects negotiations were held between the public meeting near the opera theater, Parliament correspondent viktor Fe– an analogous position from the hie– UAOC and the Moscow-affiliated where he was greeted by vyacheslav dorchuk stated, the meeting may be rarchs of the ROC. Ukrainian Orthodox Church regarding Chornovil, chairman of the Lviv Oblast considered a turning point in the history permission for Patriarch Mstyslav to Council, in the presence of some of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– Mr. Kravchuk declined to comment celebrate liturgy inside the cathedral. 100,000 persons. Later that day Pa- dox Church. The meeting marks the end on any matters pertaining to the ROC. Such permission was not granted, Patriarch Mstyslav welcomed the however. Khmara, noting that the procuracy had decision of the Ukrainian Supreme The next day, Patriarch Mstyslav was Communist bloc... received inquiries about the matter. He Soviet to transfer St. Andrew Sobor, to celebrate liturgy in St. Stepan's (Continued from page 1) stated that he believes the people's the metropolitan's palace and other Chapel, located at a cemetery in Rivne. buildings to the Ukrainian Autocepha– The chapel belongs to the Ukrai– cation papers. The assailant turned out deputy is guilty of a criminal act, however, his deputy's immunity pro– lous Orthodox Church, reported nian Autocephalous Orthodox to be Col. ihor Hryhoriev of the Mi– UN1AR-UPA. Church. Afterwards he was to partici– nistry of internal Affairs (MvD). tects him from being tried in court. He then suggested that the Parliament According to Rukh's informcenter, pate in the dedication of a marker to be The latter incident was videotaped could take action by stripping Mr. on November 9 a delegation of some placed at the site where a new cathedral and the tape was late screened on Khmara of immunity. 200 persons from Lutske gathered at the of the UAOC is to be built in that city. television. Mr. Potebenko's proposal was On November 14, during the evening supported by Yaroslav Kondratiev, a Kiev deputy who head criminal investi– session of Parliament, Ukrainian SSR FOUNDED 1933 Procurator Mykhailo Potenbenko, a gations for the Ministry of internal deputy from Mykolayiv Oblast, raised Affairs. Ukrainian Weekly the issue of charges against Mr. Numerous statements by deputies An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National followed, but the party majority known Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. as the "Group of 239" prevailed. When 07302. Fokin elected... Parliament Chairman Leonid Krav– chuk put the matter of stripping Mr. (Continued from page 1) Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. Khmara of his immunity to a vote, „„^^^^^(1SSN - 0273-9348)^^^^^^ nominate its own candidate and did not National Council deputies quit the hall. oppose the election of Mr. Fokin. Nonetheless, 301 deputies remained, Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - S10. in his remarks to the Parliament, Mr. constituting a quorum, and the vote was Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Fokin spoke in favor of a "government taken with 240 persons voting against of democratic agreement" whose goal Mr. Khmara. The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: should be to serve the people. He also immediately after the session, a (201)434-0237,-0807,-3036 (201) 451-2200 expressed support for an independent spontaneous meeting in support of Mr. Ukrainian currency. Khmara took place. Previously, voting for a new prime Postmaster, send address The UN1AR-UPA press service changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz minister of Ukraine had resulted in a noted that the MvD officer involved in deadlock with no candidate gaining the the incident, Col. Hryhoriev, is known The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Maria Kolomayets required number of votes. Mr. Fokin, P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak for his brutality and provocations. For Jersey City, NJ. 07303 who was a deputy to Mr. Masol, also example, on April 26, 1988, he punched was among those previously nominated a pregnant woman, Olha Heyko, in the The Ukrainian Weekly, November 18, 1990, No. 46, vol. ivill yet not elected, reported the UN1AR- stomach during the first ecological Copyright 1990 by The Ukrainian Weekly 1JLPA press service. demonstration ever held in Kiev, No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 з Ukrainian Catholics registered in Kiev CSCE holds briefing in D.C.

ROME - The Ukrainian Catholic that Ukrainian Catholics could not be community in Kiev has been officially given a church "because it would cause on eve of Paris conference registered by authorities but as yet has problems for the Moscow Patriarchate by John Kun CSCE is becoming over-bureaucratized not been given a parish, reported the and the Ukrainian Autocephalous UNA Washington Office and less flexible. Rev. valeriy Shkarubsky, a Studite Orthodox Church." it is anticipated that the Paris meet– monk assigned by Archbishop volo– it should be noted that the Moscow WASHINGTON - The u.s. ing will deal with the establishment of dymyr Sterniuk to care for the needs of Commission on Security and Coopera– mechanisms to deal with election moni– Ukrainian Catholic faithful in Kiev. Patriarchate's Ukrainian Orthodox Church has many functioning churches tion in Europe, known as the Helsinki toring, conflict resolution, twice-yearly The Press Office of the Ukrainian in Kiev and the Ukrainian Autocepha– Commission, briefed non-governmental meetings for foreign ministers of the Catholic Church reported that the Rev. lous Orthodox Church was recently organizations on the upcoming Paris CSCE member-states and the creation Shkarubsky has been celebrating liturgy granted use of the Church of St. An– meeting for the Conference on Security of a permanent CSCE secretariat. for the community, estimated at 25,000, drew. Latin rite Catholics were recently and Cooperation Europe (CSCE). The it is with this bureaucratization and outside the closed Church of the Protec– given use of the Church of St. Alexan– summit, set for November 19-21, is the potential loss of access in the CSCE tion in the Podil quarter of Kiev. The der. expected to shape the future processes process that especially concerns a congregation was not given use of this of CSCE. number of human rights groups and closed church upon its registration. "Kiev is a city full of unused Guest speakers included Ambassador other non-governmental organizations. Rather, parish representatives were told churches," noted Father Shkarubsky. Sam Wise, director of the Commission The Paris meeting will also see the that "eventually" they would be given a "Yet 1 have been told by our so-called on Security and Cooperation in Eu– signing of a treaty to reduce conven– plot of land on which to build and that democrats that we cannot be given one rope; Raymond Seitz, assistant secre– tional arms in Europe. This may be a the land would be "somewhere outside church. This is discriminatory against tary of state for European and Canadian hollow victory, observers note, since the the city." the 25,000 Ukrainian Catholics in Kiev affairs; Philip Zelikow, director of Warsaw Pact is "disappearing." Father Shkarubsky was told by who are citizens of the city and who also European security affairs for the Na– in some quarters there is a feeling that Deputy ivan Saliy of the Podil quarter have the right to practice their faith." tional Security Council; and Jacques the CSCE, while having been a valuable Andreani, ambassador of France to the tool in promoting human rights, seca– United States. rity and cooperation in Europe, has Bishop Losten inspects churches in Ukraine, An evolving Europe finds itself with now outlived its prior usefulness follow– an evolving CSCE. For example, in ing the cold war. foresees extensive reconstruction program July the NATO summit communique Ambassador Andreani said he be– endorsed the CSCE as a forum for lieves otherwise. The CSCE is essential ROME - Bishop Basil H. Losten of Mcuupoiiian Sterniuk and others political dialogue in the more-unified and can continue to be a diplomatic the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of concerned, it was decided to rent this Europe. While this elevates the impor– force. "The future of CSCE is needed to Stamford and Cardinal Myroslav ivan facility for the next eight months in tance of CSCE, there are concerns that (Continued on page 13) Lubachivsky's special envoy to Ukraine, order to begin formation of seminarians recently returned from a 10-day visit to for the Lviv area. the major cities of Ukraine, reported the The Drohobych area has 47 semina– For the record Press Bureau of the Ukrainian Catholic rians who have daily classes in the Holy Church. Trinity parish center, in the ivano– Proclamation of famine remembrance Bishop Losten is a member of the Frankivske area, there are over 300 United States National Catholic Confe– seminarians who attend classes in a On Saturday, November 3, President Bush proclaimed the week of rence of Bishops Ad Hoc Committee to facility rented by the Church. Monaste– November 3 through November 10, as National Week to Commemorate the Aid the Liberated Catholic Churches of ries and convents have all deteriorated victims of the Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933. Following is a copy of the Eastern Europe. to such an extent that it could cost more president s Proclamation, received at The Weekly on November 14. to repair them than build new facilities, On his visit, Bishop Losten inspected the bishop reported: seminaries, convents, monasteries and During the brutal famine that struck the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Evangelization and catefchization are printing plants presently held by Soviet Republic from 1932 to 1933, more than 7 million men, women, and children primary on the list of the bishops in state and city councils. Conversations died of starvation. Tragically - and to the horror of all those who cherish the Ukraine. They are depending upon the with members of these councils indi– blessings of life and liberty - this deadly famine was not caused by drought or West to give them a badly needed cated that there is a possibility of by failed harvests. Rather, it resulted from a cruel and deliberate effort to temporary boost. Bishop Losten esti– retrieving some buildings which are in destroy the spirit and the will of the Ukrainian people. mates that there is need of a S10 million colossal disrepair. None of the buildings Between 1932 and 1933 the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist immediate reconstruction program and belonging to the Catholic Church were Republics, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, willfully permitted and even is depending upon his brother bishops maintained over the years. encouraged mass starvation in Ukraine, in an effort to enforce the in the West to help. collectivization of agriculture and to eliminate resistance to Moscow's rule by There are 700 seminarians registered "The reconstruction program will terror, Soviet authorities not only seized Ukrainian farmers' 1932 crop but in western Ukraine who are attending take time," Bishop Losten said after also prevented desperately needed aid from reaching impoverished villages. classes in various churches such as the giving a report to Cardinal Lubachivsky The United States Commission on the Ukraine Famine, mandated by the Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv. in Rome. "1 know that Cardinal Luba– Congress to study this terrible tragedy and to expand public knowledge of it, Bishop Losten visited a camp outside chivsky is looking forward to being has substantiated the belief that the famine was indeed the result of deliberate Lviv which caters to about 300 youth personally involved in the process upon policies of the Soviet government of that time. After months of hearings, during the summer, in council with his imminent return to Ukraine." eyewitness testimony, and the careful consideration of other documentation, the Commission concluded: "There is no doubt that large numbers of inhabitants of the Ukrainian SSR and the North Caucasus territory starved Canada's Ukrainian youths to death in a man-made famine in 1932-1933, caused by the seizure of the 1932 crop by Soviet authorities." This year the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party support student actions in Ukraine acknowledged that the famine was caused and sustained by Stalin and his by Andrij Hluchowecky protesting the celebration of this anni– associates. The current Soviet Government, led by President Gorbachev, has Ukrainian information Bureau versary. begun to confront the terrible legacy of Stalin and his era. it has begun to take "Your actions are inspiring Ukrai– important initial steps toward filling in the "blank pages" of Soviet history OTTAWA - As part of an interna– Лап students and youth all over the and ensuring the respect for human rights and human dignity that is essential tional campaign of solidarity with world, since in the West we have been to prevent such events from ever happening again. These steps are important, students in Ukraine, a coalition of struggling for many years in every way and they are encouraging. Ukrainian Canadian youth held a possible to us, for our common goal, a As the United States Commission on the Ukraine Famine asserted, it is demonstration in front of the Soviet free Ukraine. We are glad that the hoped that the lessons learned through this terrible tragedy, including "the Embassy in Ottawa on November 7 to young for Ukraine, the future leaders concealment of criminal policies by those who perpetrate them," might protest the Soviet proposal for a union of an independent state, are continuing provide insights which can be of use in confronting the challenges of similar treaty to be signed by the 15 republics. the struggle, a tradition that dates back events. This week, in commemorating the Ukraine famine, we reaffirm our This manifestation coincided with the to our forefathers. determination to do just that. Soviet commemoration of the anniver– "So that you will know that you are The Coiigress, by Senate Joint Resolution 329, has designated the week of sary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. not alone in your aim and effort, the November 3 through November 10, 1990, as "National Week to Commemo– in an open letter of support to the Ukrainians all around the world are rate the victims of the Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933."The Congress has also students and youth of Ukraine, Ca– behind you, we are informing you that requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this week. nada's Ukrainian youth, representing Ukrainian students and youth in Ca– Now, therefore, 1, George Bush, President of the United States of America, Plast, SUM and SUSK, as well as nada are holding a protest before the do hereby proclaim the week of November 3 through November 10, 1990, as supporters of Rukh, and other organi– Soviet Embassy in Ottawa on the same National Week to Commemorate the victims of the Famine in Ukraine, 1932- zations, delivered a strong message of day that you are protesting in Kiev. 1933. І call upon the people of the United States to observe this week with support and solidarity. "Students and youth of Ukraine—we appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that express our continued The letter stated: are with you in the struggle for an determination to uphold the God-given and inalienable rights and dignity of "On this day, November 7, on the independent and free Ukrainian state." all human beings. anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution The 200 protesters — carrying scores in witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand this third day of of 1917, a terrible and bloody anniver– of blue and yellow national flags and November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety, and of the sary for our people, you find yourselves signs bearing the words, "Communism independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth. on the streets of the capital of Kiev, (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER is, 1990 No. 46 Paula J. Dobriansky confirmed as Saskatchewan and Ukraine associate program director at US1A sign join education pact

WASHlNGTON - President George mission of explaining U.S. policies and by Andrij Hluchowecky Regina by Education Minister Ray Bush's nomination of Paula J. Dobrian– actions to vastly differing foreign Ukrainian information Bureau Meiklejohn and Ukraine's deputy mi– sky to be the associate director for audiences," US1A Director Bruce S. nister of public education, volodymyr programs at the United States informa– Gelb said. "She will be heavily engaged OTTAWA - The Ukrainian infor– Luhovy. tion Agency (US1A) was confirmed by in the formulation and implementation mation Bureau has learned from sources "Eastern Europe is undergoing un– the United States Senate on October 28. of the agency's global democracy- within the Education Ministry of the precedented political and social She succeeds Charles P. Horner. building initiatives." Province of Saskatchewan that on change," Mr. Meiklejohn said. "Now Ms. Dobriansky is the highest rank– "Paula Dobriansky brings to this October 16 provincial government more than ever, a window of opportu– ing female executive in US1A. Before position significant program manage– officials entered into a joint education nity is wide open to economic and accepting this assignment, she served as ment and foreign policy experience in agreement with Ukraine. cultural interaction on a scale unimagi– deputy assistant secretary for human the United States and overseas, which The agreement provides for coopera– nable as recently as five years ago. We rights and humanitarian affairs at the will be invaluble in carrying out our tion in a wide range of areas, including must take full advantage of this oppor– Department of State, in which she had student exchanges, exchanges of curri– tunity." principal responsibility for U.S. bilate– cula and other instructional materials The agreement is the first of its kind ral and multilateral human rights and teacher exchanges, it was signed in to be entered into by the Ukrainian policy. Ministry of Public Education with any Prior to that, she served as director of Canadian ministry of education, it calls European and Soviet affairs at the Baptist Youth for annual exchanges of high school National Security Council, with pri– students between Saskatchewan and mary responsibility for the development Ukraine to improve language com– and implementation of U.S. policy hold convention petency and cultural understanding. toward Central and Eastern Europe. BERWYN, ill. - The Ukrainian Preliminary discussions are scheduled She also served as a research assistant Evangelical Baptist Youth Fellowship in the next few weeks on the first student on the Joint Economic Committee staff of the United States recently held its exchange. of the U.S. Congress; and on the staff at 45th annual convention. the U.S. Consulate in Rome. "There is so much we can learn from The convention was held August 31 each other on the fundamentals of Ms. Dobriansky was an adviser on to September 2 at the Ukrainian Bap– teaching and learning," Mr. Meiklejohn the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Decade tist Church in Berwyn, ill., under the said. "This in turn may open the door to for Women Conference held in Nairobi, direction of the Rev. Olexa Harbuziuk. broader relationships in other areas Kenya, in 1985; a member of the U.S. The young people held elections for the such as science, technology, trade and Delegation to the Paris Commission on committee for the next two year term. Security and Cooperation in Europe commerce. Mutual understanding Conference on Human Rights in 1989; New officers are: Moses Kovalchuk gained through education will streng– and deputy head of the U.S. Delegation (Philadelphia), president; David Yuchi– then such relationships." to the Copenhagen CSCE Conference miuk (Philadelphia), vice-president; in November 1989, the Canadian on the Human Dimension in June. Pearl Kovalchuk (Philadelphia), secre– federal government announced its Ms. Dobriansky, from Alexandria, tary; Natalya Datsko (Philadelphia), intention to establish a Canadian Con– Уа., received a bachelor's degree assistant secretary; Diane Terescenko sulate in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to (summa cum laude) in international (Chicago), treasurer; Andrew Berkuta explore the potential for cooperative politics from the Georgetown Univer– (Philadelphia), assistant treasurer. ventures with Canada. sity School of Foreign Service, and an Members at large are: Andrew Cher– in response to an invitation from the Paula Dobriansky (Continued on page 13) nov (Chicago), Miriam Pascieznik Ukrainian Ministry of Public Educa– (Philadelphia) and Chris Harbuziuk tion, Saskatchewan Education sent a (Chicago). Alex Harbuziuk (Chicago) is representative to Ukraine in March to U.S., USSR plan traveling book exhibitcoordinator , while Luba Harbuziuk gain a better understanding of its WASHINGTON - To commemo– academic institution. (Chicago) is editor of the Morning Star educational system. This initial contact magazine. revealed a high level of interest on the rate the 50th anniversary of American The USSR World War 11 exhibit, part of Ukrainian officials in direct and and Soviet participation in World War "Toward Peace Forever, 1945 — Books For further information, interested more extensive interaction with Saskat– 11, the United States information Dedicated to victory in the Second persons may contact: Moses Koval– chewan. Agency and the Soviet State Committee World War," features 650 books pub– chuk, 4304 Chandler Drive, Brook- A return visit to Saskatchewan by on Printing, Publishing and the Book lished in the Soviet Union in Russian, haven, Pa. 19015; (215) 874-3745. Ukrainian Ministry of Public Educa– Trade (Goskompechat) have organized English and other languages; a photo– To receive the Morning Star, contact: tion officials led to the signing of the an exchange of traveling book exhibits graphy show; and a display of Soviet Luba Harbuziuk, 1315 Creighton Ave., joint education agreement. and cultural presentations for the fall of . World War 11 buttons and medals. Naperville, ill. 60565. 1990. Representatives of the Soviet State Publishing Committee are staffing the USlA's exhibit, "Fighting for Free– exhibit in Chicago and Springfield, ill., Obituary dom: The United States in World War Providence, R.1., and Dallas from 11," is traveling to three Soviet cities, September 17 to November 5. Brest, Odessa and volgograd, in Octo– ber and November. The exhibit includes Host institutions include the Office of First Ukrainian eparch in France, three sets of 650 books provided to the Hlinois Secretary of State, the Provi– US1A by over 100 commercial, scholar– dence Public Library and the Dallas Bishop volodymyr Malanchuk, 86 ly, university and government presses Public Library. The Library of Con– which demonstrate the depth and diver– gress-affilated Centers for the Book in by Christopher Guly He came to Canada in January 1951, sity of American research, writing and Hlinois, Rhode island and Texas are where he taught at the Redemptorist publishing on World War H. co-sponsors of the Soviet exhibit. These W1NN1PEG - France's first Ukrai– seminary inWaterford,Ont. Ten months institutions are also arranging a variety nian Catholic eparch, Bishop volo– later, he was appointed provincial The books cover a broad range of of other programs on World War И at dymyr Malanchuk died at St. Joseph's superior of his order in Canada and the categories including the diplomatic, the exhibit site, at universities and Home in Saskatoon, on September 29, United States, a position he held until military, economic and social history of secondary schools and with commu– following a lengthy illness. He was 86. his episcopal consecration in 1960. the U.S. in World War 11; biographies nity groups interested in the war, Soviet Following his retirement as bishop in The Most Rev. Malanchuk was and memoirs of participants; reference affairs, and book publishing. Paris, the Most Rev. Malanchuk re- appointed bishop for all Ukrainian books; official histories of the U.S. Under the leadership of its director, turned to Canada in February 1983, Catholics living in France by Pope John armed forces; collections of U.S. go– Bruce S. Gelb, the United States infor– where he took up residence at the Re– ХХІІІ on November 2,1960. He retired vernment documents; and popular mation Agency, an independent foreign demptorist Monastery in Yorkton, in 1982 when his health began to fail and "coffee table" books. Book selection affairs agency within the executive Sask. He remained there until January was succeeded by fellow Redemptorist and the concept for this US1A cultural branch, explains and supports U.S. 1988, when he was transferred to St. and fellow former provincial superior of diplomacy program were coordinated foreign policy and national security Joseph's Personal Care Home in Saska– Canada, Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn. with Dr. Arthur L. Funk, chairman of interests abroad through a wide range toon. the American Committee on the History of information programs. Bishop Malanchuk was born on Funeral prayers were held in Saska– of the Second World War, an Ameri– The agency fosters mutual under- August 20, 1904 in Zalishchyky, in the toon on September 30 and October 1, can professional association of histo– standing between the United States and western Ukrainian district of Stanislav. before the body was transferred to rians. other countries through a series of He entered the Redemptorist Fathers Winnipeg, where a priestly parastas was in addition to the books, the exhibit educational and cultural exchange novitiate in 1924 and pursued his held at St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic includes famous World War H photo- activities, its programs include the theological studies in Belgium. Metro– Church, headquarters for the Re– graphs and reproductions of World voice of America, the WORLDNET politan Andrey Sheptytsky ordained demptorist Fathers in North America. War H paintings from the collection of satellite television system, the Fulbright him to the priesthood on April 26,1931. A funeral divine liturgy was held in the the U.S. Army Center for Military scholarship program, and a network of Bishop Malanchuk taught in semi– church, one which Bishop Malanchuk History. At the close of the exhibit in overseas libraries and cultural centers. naries in Ukraine and was instrumental helped establish, on October 3. inter– each Soviet city, the US1A will present The agency has 205 posts in 128 coun– in helping refugees following the second ment was at Holy Family Cemetery, the World War:И exhibit to a local tries. v world war settle in Bavaria. outside the city. No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 ттшшішшмтшмшшішштішміяаііш Young UNA'ers UNA auditors complete semi-annual review

Rachel, 3 months, and Jillian, 22 months, daughters of Don and Debbie Marinoff, are new members of UNA Adriana Slawa Futala, born December The Supreme Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian National Association, Branch 22 in Chicago. They are the 26, 1989, daughter of Martha and recently elected at the 32nd Regular Convention of the UNA, conducted a granddaughters of Walter and Olga Bohdan Futala of Santa Monica, Calif., semi-annual review of the fraternal organization's assets, operations and Gawaluch of Chicago and Paul and is the youngest member of UNA Branch organizing status. As well, the auditors examined operations at Svoboda Olga Marinoff of Sun City, Ariz. 257 in Los Angeles. Press - which encompasses the Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly and the veselka children's magazine - and Soyuzivka. The review was conducted by William Pastuszek, Stepan Hawrysz and Wasyl Didiuk. The two other members of the Auditing Committee, Anatole Doroshenko and Taras Szmagala, were unable to participate in the review. The Fraternal Corner ^siLtdr^ Xil by Andre J. Worobec Fraternal Activities Director

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Commentary Ukrainian WeeHy The case for independent Ukraine Malcolm Muggeridge by Dr. David R. Marples worthwhile. Ukrainian parliamentarians, includ– 1903-1990 PART1 ing Borys Oliynyk and Yuriy Shcher– bak, were quick to condemn what they "The novelty of this particular famine, what made it so diabolical, is that it in the wake of the remarkable hunger regarded as a chauvinistic and pan- was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind," Malcolm Muggeridge Russian outburst, and reaction gene- once said of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. strike by Kiev students, which led to the removal of Ukrainian Premier vitaliy rally among Ukrainians has been hos– The British author and social critic was one of the courageous journalists tile. who told the truth about the famine engineered by Stalin at a time that others, Masol and the rejection of the proposed enamored of the Soviet Union and blinded by their biases, concealed or even union agreement by Ukraine, it might There have also been pro-union denied its existence. be posited that the stage is now set for commentaries in the Ukrainian press. A This week, on November 14, Malcolm Muggeridge died in a nursing home the reorganization of the republic as a well-coordinated campaign has been in England at the age of 87. Obituaries cited him as a prolific journalist, a sovereign state: in short, for the imple– mounted, for example, to protect Le– noted television personality and a lecturer who traveled around the world mentation of the provisions of the July nin's statues from dismantling, to delighting his audiences with his keen wit, satirical humor and utter 16 Declaration of Sovereignty. More- defend the name of Lenin, and to irreverence. over, in what might be termed a mini- advocate a continued close relationship Ukrainians, however, will remember him best for his truthful reportage of test of strength, the Ukrainian Parlia– between Ukraine and Russia. The key the man-made famine that killed between 7 and 10 million of their kin - men, ment was quick to assert that Ukrainian organizers have been the Communist women and children in Ukraine. laws take precedence over all-union Party of Ukraine and the newspaper Malcolm Muggeridge was an admirer of the Soviet Union who was sent to laws on Ukrainian territory. Pravda Ukrainy, its main voice in the that country in 1932 by the Manchester Guardian as its Moscow And yet, doubts persist about the republic. The ostensible catalyst of the correspondent. feasibility and merits of outright Ukrai– campaign was the disassembly of Le– He left for the USSR at the age of 29 with his wife of five years. The nian independence, both inside and nin's statue in the western Ukrainian idealistic couple meant to stay in the USSR, but the horrible reality of the outside the Soviet Union. There ap– capital of Lviv. Soviet system soon had its effect, in Moscow, Muggeridge had his stories pears to be a consensus amoxig some Writing last month in the organ of the censored, saw evidence of new purges and witnessed other excesses of the observers that whereas the Russian Ukrainian Ministry of Education, Stalin rgime. He defied restrictions and traveled to the famine-stricken regions in Ukraine and the North Caucasus. "... the famine is the most horrible thing І Why ore there such protracted and impassioned have ever seen precisely because of the deliberation with which it was done arguments on the part of Russian and Western and the total absence of any sympathy with the people," he said in a 1983 interview with Marco Carynnyk. observers either that Ukraine should not be it was after he left the USSR — appalled by what he had seen with his own eyes — that Muggeridge was able to tell the full story of the famine. His stories permitted an experiment in self-rule and long appeared in the Manchester Guardian, as well as the Fortnightly Review and overdue nationhood, or that it should be part of a the Morning Post. After he quit the Guardian he wrote a book, "Winter in Moscow," based on his experiences in the Soviet Union, it was a harsh Slavic union that would doubtless dilute, if not critique of the Soviet system that resulted in Muggeridge being attacked in the destroy, its national distinctiveness? press for his views and prevented him from getting a job. Many of our readers no doubt will recall Muggeridge's characterization of New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who actively concealed the state of Boris Yeltsin merits support, Radianska Osvita, a director of a Kiev famine in his news dispatches, as "the greatest liar of any 1 have met in 50 years Ukrainian and Byelorussian indepen– Oblast middle school, Yu. Rybalko, of journalism." if Duranty and others of his ilk had succeeded in their dence, by contrast, represent potential commented that it would be a mistake conspiracy, the world never would have known about the famine of 1932-1933. anarchy, civil war and an economic for Ukraine to close its doors to the Muggeridge himself once noted that"... what the Soviet regime had done in slump. union, like Lithuania. The Russians the villages is one of the most monstrous crimes in history, so terrible that in turn, Western leaders appear to have generously supported the other people in the future will scarcely be able to believe it ever happened." (1983 have resolved to adopt a sympathetic republics financially, he added, and the interview with Bohdan Nahaylo). attitude toward Mikhail Gorbachev's "myth" about Russian chauvinism is a Thankfully, there were honest and responsible men like Malcolm avowed intention to bring about econo– product of Russophobia. in his view - Muggeridge who documented the famine, ensuring that the world would mic revival before attempting to resolve which he acknowledges may be a mino– never forget. the nationalities problem. rity one in Ukraine today — the combi– May he rest in peace. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's polemic nation of Russian, Ukrainian and "How Are We To Organize Russia?," Byelorussian culture has a long history, and his comments therein on Ukraine and and need not be cast off in a sovereign Byelorussia, have already been debated Ukraine. at some length. Suffice it to say here that The question, nonetheless, remains: the article emphasized the longstanding Why are there such protracted and Turning the pages back... historical ties between the three Slavic impassioned arguments on the part of nations, and appeared to have difficulty Russian and Western observers either with the conception of Ukraine in non- that Ukraine should not be permitted an Russian terms, in short, while the experiment in self-rule and long over- An unprecedented series of meetings was held in Moscow author did not perceive any rational due nationhood, or that it should be two years ago today, bringing face-to-face a 14-member basis for the continued existence of part of a Slavic union that would delegation representing the U.S. Congressional Commis– what is today the Soviet Union, he doubtless dilute, if not destroy, its sion on Security and Cooperation in Europe and members of the USSR Supreme maintained that the maintenance of a national distinctiveness? Soviet. Focusing on human rights concerns, the November 14-18 meetings were voluntary Slavic union is logical and The historical roots of the Ukrainian attended by some 100 human, national and religious rights activists, among them state remain shrouded in controversy. leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Estonian rights activists and members of Dr. David R. Marples is a research During celebrations of the Mil-ennium the Hare Krishna sect. associate at the University of Alberta- of Christianity of Kievan Rus1 in 1988, The Ukrainian rights movement, represented by Mykhailo Horyn, Bohdan based Canadian institute of Ukrainian both Ukrainians and Russians claimed Horyn, vyacheslav Chornovil, Stepan Khmara, Oles Shevchenko and other Studies and director of its Program for that the event was part of their heritage. prominent activists, had the opportunity to participate in both formal and informal the Study of Contemporary Ukraine. Soviet historians have long maintained sessions with Soviet and U.S. delegates. The latter delegation was headed by Rep. This paper was originally presented at a that the 988 conversion of viadimir to Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), chairman of the Helsinki Commission, and included other banquet of the annual meeting of the Christianity in Kievan Rus' was a members of the commission as well as several Congressional leaders. Saskatchewan Teachers of Ukrainian significant date in the history of East Among some of the topics discussed during the sessions were freedom of religion, held November 3 in Saskatoon. (Continued on page 12) including the legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the individual and the law, and freedom of movement. The call for the release of all 179 Soviet political prisoners did not receive a concrete response from the Soviets, but a positive step was made in their pledge to allow 147 refusniks to emigrate. The release of exiled UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine! Ukrainian Helsinki Group Monitors, Lev Lukianenko and Mykola Matusevych, was yet another issued raised during the meetings. Ч^^ ^У^ч The Home office of the Ukrainian National According to a report in The Ukrainian Weekly (November 27, 1988), the U.S. ^ ^-4 ^U Association reports that, as of November 15, officials present at the Moscow meetings were satisfied with the opportunity to S? г^л. ІЛ ^nfrn Aj the fraternal organization's newly established address pressing human rights concerns, but noted that the stipulated release of all Нін Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has received political prisoners had not been accomplished. However, Orest Deychakiwsky, a Й 4,205 checks from its members with donations staffer of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, was quoted as saying that "for members of our delegation it was an unforgettable week - in ^ totalling Si06,143.10. The contributions particular our meetings with Soviet dissidents. Many members of our delegation include individual members' donations, as well were genuinely moved by their personal meetings with Soviet rights activists on as returns of members' dividend checks and whose behalf many of them had spoken out." 4 interest payments on promissory notes. The sessions came to a close on November 18, with a joint U.S.-Soviet press ^iOH^ conference held at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 7

Toronto conference on the Great Famine Experts discuss importance Faces and Places of oral history in research by Myron B. Kuropas by Oksana Zakydalsky out. Series conclusion t Was the famine intentional? All the survivors assume the famine TORONTO - The importance of did not just happen but was organized Stalin's apologist oral history in documenting the Great by the authorities. No one mentions Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine was drought or crop failure. All the survi– "Walter Duranty fancied himself a skepticism on the rise, Mr. Muggeridge discussed at the recent conference on vors witnessed food seizures and their Citizen of the World," writes S.J. was soon out of work. new research findings regarding this descriptions, conveying a sense of Taylor in "Stalin's Apologist," (Ox- Duranty, on the other hand, was tragic episode in Ukrainian history. The cruelty and brutality, are very similar. ford, 1990) her best-selling biography, glorified by everyone, in 1932, he conference was held at the University of They describe how the peasants were "a man of knowledge and influence, received a Pulitzer Prize for his Moscow Toronto in late September. forcibly removed from lines for food in culture and wit, born, symbolically, on reporting, and when President-elect Witness testimony as documentation the cities. the isle of Man, and this particular bit Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to know of the famine was discussed by iroida A conclusion that can be drawn from of fluff he obligingly spun out for more about Joseph Stalin and Soviet Wynnyckyj, director of Archives at the the testimonies is that the local authori– anyone who cared to listen." life it was Walter Duranty he called into Ukrainian Canadian Research and ties were much more interested in "it sounded good and enhanced his his office. When the United States Documentation Center (UCRDC), and making sure the peasants had no food image. But it wasn't true."British writer formally recognized the Soviet Union in Lydia Kovalenko of Kiev, journalist than in fulfilling grain requisition Malcolm Muggeridge called Duranty 1933, the first public toast from the and researcher of the famine. quotes. "the greatest liar of any journalist 1 have Soviets went to President Roosevelt, ^ Who were the local officials who met in 50 years of journalism." the second to Walter Duranty, des– Famine witnesses: The West removed the food: other Ukrainian As The New York Times correspon– cribed by one Soviet Foreign Office peasants or the poor turning against the dent in Moscow from 1923 to 1936, official as the man who helped "facili– Oral histories are of particular value rich, that is a class struggle? Walter Duranty lived the good life. tate America's discovery of the USSR." to the documentation of the famine of The local officials are described as the "When he wasn't in Berlin having his Duranty was among some 1500 digni– 1932-1933 because of the denial of its village thugs and bums while those in wooden leg readjusted, or in St. Tropez taries who attended a banquet at New occurrence, lack of documents and charge of them as coming from the basking in the sun, or in Paris at the York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel honor– census data, Ms. Wynnyckyj stated. outside and speaking Russian. races in the Bois de Boulogne," writes ing Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's emissary The UCRDC archives hold 164 oral Thus, the manner of the searches, the Ms. Taylor, he "could usually be found to the U.S. As the toastmaster intro– history accounts collected 1981-1990. removal of the food, the severe punish– among the throngs at the bar of the duced the honored guests, each received These are accounts of famine survivors ment for retaining food - all indicate fMoscowJ Metropol Hotel." polite applause. When Duranty was living in the U.S., Canada and Western an organization of the famine and that Duranty enjoyed a four-room flat in introduced as "one of the great foreign Europe, who were from 2 to 38 years of the starvation was intended, Ms. Moscow, a stock of rare vintage liquors, correspondents of modern times, age at the time of the famine. Some 90 Wynnyckyj said. caviar, shellfish and the opium to which serving a great newspaper of this city," percent of the witnesses were former The survivors were also asked to he had become addicted after the loss of the crowd rose and cheered for the first villagers. Fifty-six of the interviews estimate the numbers who had died or his leg in a railway accident. time. were done by the UCRDC and 98 are survived. The answers varied: the low He also enjoyed the services of a Although he knew the Ukrainian from the U.S. Commission on Ukraine estimate was that 20 percent of the chauffer, a maid, a secretary, a re- famine was no hoax (his private report Famine project. village disappeared (either by death or searcher, and a cook who eventually to the British Embassy estimated a Ms. Wynnyckyj chose the sample of flight) but some claimed 100 percent became his common-law wife and the famine toll of 10 million) Duranty, who 56 interviews done by the UCRDC for casualty. The average was 60 percent mother of his son, both of whom he eventually was fired from The New analysis, stressing that this was not to be above the usually accepted figure of 30 abandoned when he left Moscow for the York Times and died penniless, never considered a survey, but oral history percent — but the number of respon– last time. really came to terms with his own records. To structure the interviews, dents is probably too low for a good Believing that the Russian soul ac– mendacity. questionnaires were developed asking estimate, Ms. Wynnyckyj cautioned. tually thrived on suffering and oppres– in his 1935 autobiography he avoided about personal factors, information Therefore, based on the survivors' sion Duranty lauded Stalin's tyranny as the famine altogether, in an article titled about institutions, names of indivi– testimony, Ms. Wynnyckyj summed up, a "natural" component of Russian life. "Europe — War or Peace?", published duals, timing of the famine and num– the following picture emerges: the To convince the world that collectiviza– that same year, he blamed the famine on bers. The core of the interviews dealt famine was something over which they tion was "working remarkably well in Nazi propaganda, the result of aconspi– with dekulakization, collectivization, had no control, it was not from natural Russia," he wrote: "You see, the Rus– racy between Germany and Ukrainian resistance, food seizure and famine. She causes but orchestrated by outsiders sians, except for those on top, never nationalists. Changing his mind briefly provided an analysis of the interviews who had total control over the village. had any sort of freedom at all before the in 1941, he admitted the famine was by showing how they bear on some The regime outside the village wanted to advent of Soviet rule. They never had man-made, an unfortunate response to questions about the famine: hurt them to the point of annihilation. the benefit of private capital. And so, peasant resistence. in 1944 he changed 9 What was the relation of the fa- Oral histories are an invaluable what may seem to an American to be a his mind again writing that it was a mine to collectivization? source of many details and recreate for state of abject slavery, is to the Russian, "misconception" to call the famine Practically noone of the people inter- the researcher a sense and feeling of the a wonderfully new freedom." "man-made" because Japan had been viewed mentioned that the famine was a events, Ms. Wynnyckyj concluded. Accurately predicting that Stalin poised to attack the USSR in 1932 and means of forcing them into the collec– would eventually become Lenin's sole the Red Army needed reserves of food, tive farms; 12 of the witnesses point out Famine witnesses: Ukraine heir, Duranty become a life-long ad– in 1949, Duranty, still blaming the that people on the collective farms mirer of the Soviet dictator, in his peasants for resisting Soviet rule in starved as much as everybody else. Ms. Kovalenko, together with her stories, he lied about Stalin's trea– Ukraine, was once again willing to Witnesses mention assassinations of husband, volodymyr Manyak, also a cherous consolidation of power, his concede that the major culprit was not party officials, the so-called "babski journalist, started to gather famine reign of terror, the gulag and the Stalin (never Stalin) but the Soviet bunty" (which were not confined to witness testimony four years ago in Moscow trials. government. women). They attribute the famine to Ukraine. They planned to use eyewit– Faced with the greatest story of his "The Ukrainian Famine of 1932- food seizures, Ms. Wynnyckyj pointed (Continued on page 15) life, Stalin's enforced Ukrainian famine 33," writes S.J. Taylor, "remains the of 1932-1933, Duranty chose not only to greatest man-made disaster ever record^ cover it up but to attempt to discredit ed, exceeding in scale even the Jewish those correspondents who had written Holocaust of the next decade. .Had the truth. Duranty, a Pulitzer Prize-winner at the "Mostly bunk" was the way Duranty peak of his celebrity, spoken out loud characterized the famine stories. He was and clear in the pages of The New York prepared to write that there had been Times, the world could not have ig– "serious food shortages" in Soviet nored him, as it did Muggeridge and Ukraine, but starvation? "There is no Jones, and events might just con– actual starvation or deaths from starva– ceivably, have taken a different turn." tion," he wrote; "but there is widespread Although some have suggested that mortality from diseases due to malnu– Walter Duranty was working for the trition, especially in the Ukraine, North Soviets all along, there is little evidence Caucasus and Lower volga." it was to support this thesis. He was, by his "the most outrageous equivocation of own admission, a man who lived with the period," writes S.J. Taylor. "Yet the no moral purpose, "for my own interest- statement seems to have pacified entertainment, and in later years, almost everyone," amusement," Reporters like Malcolm Muggeridge it is time that The New York Times and Gareth Jones who wrote the truth returned Duranty's Pulitzer Prize about the famine were slandered and with apologies to the civilized world, it's vilified by the left. The infamous Spyiet– the least thatxaa be done by that liberal Lydia Kovalenko (left) and iroida Wynnyckyj speak on the importance of oral ophile Beatrice Webb labeled the Mugge– bastion for aiding and abetting a scoun– history in researching the famine. ridj?e story "a hvsterical tirade," With drei like Duranty for so many years. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1990 No. 46

Sheptytsky clinic dedicated in Lviv during physicians' congress

Metropolitan volodymyr Sterniuk of Lviv delivers sermon on the deeds of Servant of God Andrey Sheptytsky.

Two signs now hang near the entrance of 4 Pyrohiv St. The old (right) labels it the Third Municipal Clinical Hospital. The new (left) shows a relief of Metropolitan Sheptytsky for the "Ukrainian Hospital-People's Clinic of Metropolitan Andrey The children of Lviv and other residents pray during moleben dedicating the Sheptytsky. Built through the will and efforts of the people, accepted its first People's Clinic. patients on April 10, 1938." philanthropist, whom he called "the narrow street or lined up on top of a by Chrystyna N. Lapychak dern medical treatment. embodiment of compassion and stone embankment across the street. Metropolitan Sterniuk concelebrated mercy." Lviv - Among the many stirring a moleben with Bishop Julian voro– in 1938 Metropolitan Sheptytsky had events that occurred during the historic novsky and other clergy at a makeshift A number of speakers addressed a brought in Benedictine nuns from third congress of the World Federation altar on the street near the clinic's visibly moved crowd among whom were Belgium especially to work with the ill of Ukrainian Medical Associations held entrance. He said it was appropriate children and parents dressed in tradi– in his clinic and the newly renewed in Ukraine this August was a ceremony that the hospital was dedicated to the tional embroidery as well as Benedictine order in Lviv has been asked to assist in that revived yet another Lviv landmark. Ukrainian Catholic spiritual leader and nuns, all of whom blocked off the (Continued on page 14) The WFUMA congress, which drew over 600 physicians for 12 days of medical sessions August 3-17 in Kiev and Lviv, was characterized by nu– merous signs of growing cooperation between Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. During an August 16 ceremony, hundreds of Lviv residents, local and visiting physicians, tourists and local officials observed Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan volodymyr Sterniuk of Lviv bless the newly renamed People's Clinic of Metropolitan Andrey Shep– tytsky. Located on a side street near St. George Cathedral, the clinic is housed in a building once owned by Metropo– litan Sheptytsky who had established the original Narodna Lichnytsia (People's Clinic) in 1938. Since World War 11 the building at 4 Pyrohiv St. has served as the Third Municipal Clinical Hospital, without the metropolitan's name. This year the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund in cooperation with WFUMA and the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America has do– nated medical equipment and supplies to the clinic with plans to transform it into a center where persons resettled out of areas affected by radiation from the Chornobyl accident could receive mo– A view of the main entrance to the re-named People's Clinic. No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNOAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 9 Follow-up on Rukh congress: excerpts of principal addresses This week, The Weekly continues period that will examine its criminal publishing excerpts of principal ad- activity and will see its complete dis– dresses delivered at the Second'All appearance from the political arena. Ukrainian Congress of the Popular it is true: no one voluntarily relin– Movement of Ukraine. The speeches quishes power, The Communist parto– were delivered during the first two days cracy will not step aside voluntarily; of the Rukh congress, October 25 and Ukrainian democratic forces will be 26. faced with an acute and bitter battle.... We are at a turning point. ... There are LEV LUKIANENKO many elements who are apt to use force Member of the Grand Council of Rukh against participants of meetings and "Our Struggle" demonstrations in order to save their own class privileges. The leaders of the ...From 1985 to mid-1990, the Com– National Council, the Ukrainian Re- munist Party was able to control the publican Party, Rukh and other leaders situation, it progressively lost authority of the people must be vigilant so that at and lost one ideological position after a tense moment they can correctly another, but still retained the deciding gauge the ratio of forces and can direct voice, in five years, the Communists the emotions and energies of the de– understood their own ideological bank– monstrators into the proper channel. rupcy. During this time they also The question of tactics at such a time realized what their strongest foothold can take on a fateful significance. ... is, and they united around it. This An empire built during the course of foothold is administrative authority, as six centuries cannot fall in two years. So well as the army and repressive organs. that during the course of this fall our This is their final stronghold. dearest plans are not buried under the lpoma Hadzewycz The elimination of Article 6 of the ruins, we must be careful and not allow Serhiy Koniev addresses press conference. Also in the photo are (from left) Dmytro USSR Constitution and dissemination the conflict to reach the point that arms Pavlychko, Yolodymyr Yavorivsky and (in background) Mykola Porovsky. of the idea of depoliticizing the army are employed against us. and repressive organs, and the threat of What is needed so that democratic ...A nation that has experienced the due to its lack of principles still allows transforming them from repressive to forces are able to advance quickly and imminent attainment of independent the Kremlin to control the energy law-defending organs, have shaken the so that they do not provoke a bloody statehood and the attraction of freedom industry. This will lead to a situation foundations of party rule. The earth massacre? will not stop midway - and no Russian whereby, in addition to struggles over trembled beneath its feet even more For this it is essential that we streng– chauvinists will stop it. May the Lord food,there will be a fierce cold in apart– when demands were expressed regard– then our oblast organizations, esta– hasten this blessed day of freedom! ments and people, in the literal sense, ing the depoliticization of enterprises, blish organizations in every region, will begin to freeze — if decisive action factories, educational and scholarly establish branches in the villages. is not taken. institutions, and other spheres of acti– it is essential that our organizational SERHIY KONIEY ...if we do not act quickly to ensure a First vice-chairman of Rukh better quality of life for the people, all vity. To this day, however, the party still network encompass every region and 91 has the power to hire and fire emplo– that it be capable of removing the "Rukh and Rule by the People our work will have been in vain; for yees. As long as it retains such power, the Communists from every level of autho– once the trust of the people is lost it is people will be afraid of it. As soon as it rity and from all facets of society...... Let us understand this simple fact: a too difficult to regain it. it is precisely for person who walks down the streets of loses this power, the quick demise of the The Ukrainian Republican Party and this end that the Association of Demo– large Communist Party will begin. ... Lviv with a blue and yellow flag elicits cratic Councils of Ukraine was found– Rukh must focus special attention in the sincere support in that environment; in nearest future to assisting workers in ed; it united Lviv, and Donetske, and Throughout Ukraine the Commu– Zhytomyr — a normal interest; and in Ternopil, and Dniprodzerzhynske, nists let loose their agitators and opened establishing independent trade unions, Kherson, it is entirely possible, asto– it is essential that the party apparat's ivano-Frankivske, Sumy, Kharkiv, fire on the Ukrainian Republican Party, nishment and even indignation. And Rivne, Lutske, Kiev, Kremenchuk, Rukh and all other democratic organi– game be exposed; under the guise of while such a form of agitation in Lviv creating independent trade unions it is Zhytomyr, and many smaller cities and zations, blaming us and our democratic supports the local healthy patriotism, in regions where democratic forces were efforts for the fact that foodstuffs and attempting to create a new variant of its Zhytomyr it awakens national con– servants. victorious. The sincere desire to defeat footwear, washing machines and con– sciousness, while in Kherson it could economic, social, ecological and na– struction materials have disappeared ...let us prepare for new public meet– have a negative effect if this agitation is tional difficulties has enabled us to find from the store shelves; we are respon– ings, demonstrations, marches, picket– not preceded by explanatory work by a common language and to resolve sible for all of this, they say. Return the ing, hunger strikes and strikes, and we talented activists within the work problems at the negotiating table, beneficent Communists to one-party will hasten the arrival of the day of environment, in residential areas, and in regardless of many ideological diffe– power and all this will reappear imme– independence for Ukraine, and along the communications media... it is not rences. This is the path to trust and diately! What strange logic! it is as if the with this, raise the material well-being necessary to halt efforts toward the mutual understanding, and only in this Communists themselves had not led and create normal conditions for a free rebirth of national consciousness, but way can we achieve harmony and defeat Ukraine to this contemporary ruin! .,. life. Ukraine is a great country, and the forms of agitation must be funda– the chief enemy'of progress: the totalita– We are on the eve of a new period, a through our efforts we must bring it out mentally changed in Russified re– rian system. ... period of progressively decreasing onto the world arena on par with other gions. ... civilized nations. As regards the activity of Rukh, the influence for the Communist Party — a І believe that the east and west must logic of events obliges us to clearly visit each other more often, especially as distinguish ourselves in further actions, this has a great influence on the aware– as follows: (we must seek) removal from ness of the people. ... Today, like never authority on all levels of the Commu– before, all Ukrainians and non-Ukrai– nist Party, and chart a course toward nians who consider Ukraine their home- free, multi-party elections and direct land must unite their efforts for the elections of the president of Ukraine. building of a free, democratic republic. ...The only realistic method is the This is the principal goal, and we must creation of a republic-wide political use all that unites us today, for example, bloc "Democratic Ukraine," which our common sore, the CPSU (Commu– would participate in multi-party elec– nist Party of the Soviet Union), that has tions with one slate - an alternative to spoiled our lives for 73 years. the CPU (Communist Party of U– Today a significant number of local kraine), The founders of such a bloc councils have a democratic bloc majori– could be, in addition to Rukh, united ties who understand and are ready to strike committees, student associations, introduce market reform. However, the committees of soldiers' mothers, the local councils, with foresight, were Chornobyl Union, Green World, the stripped of basic levers of power by Ukrainian Language Society, Memo- valentyna Shevchenko and her Presi– rial, progressive workers' movements, dium. Thus, all vital services of the cities non-Communist youth and women's were subordinated directly to oblast organizations, etc. ... authorities headed, if not by uncon– cealed criminals with party cards, then by mostly retired nomenklatura types YEYHEN SVERSTIUK from the period of stagnation. Without Member of Rukh's Grand Council any control they allocate funds for re- The role of the Church in Ukraine's sources, new materials, and, what is Rebirth. worse, provisions, and often, simply block those cities where a democratic ...Today we lack true leaders, true government was elected. Another pro– priests, true poets and teachers - there Oles Shevchenko signs autographs for Rukh congress delegates. blem is that the republic's government, (Continued on page 10) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 No. 46

brace of Moscow, the other toward the have authority among the Catholics and the nation. ...We must win the struggle Follow-up... embrace of Warsaw. The arsenal of among the Orthodox. ... with ourselves, raise ourselves morally (Continued from page 9) bolshevik propaganda began its circula– The Church, perhaps, is the only and turn our faces to God in order to is room for all of them! But what is the tion: half-truths, probabilities, rumors, force that can unite the people. But such rise to the level of our prayers. 1 criterion for genuineness? The most suspicions, instead of a lofty preacher, a a Church requires profound faith and He who is morally stronger is victo– general is this: the true leaders unite demagogue emerges and plays on hu– wisdom. ... The Church is a great force, rious in life. ... around high-minded selfless principles, man frailities. Politics and politicking and it is the Church that can return Excerpts selected and translated by and place honor and duty above all have entered the church. Prayers have moral axioms and Christian values to Roma Hadzewycz. else. ... become empty. ... From the very start, the rebirth of The moral position of Rukh is shaky. Ukrainian Churches, is a difficult and Events are unfolding faster than one can controversial problem, because neither become aware of them, in some places, the Autocephalous Orthodox Church members of Rukh already are standing nor Ukrainian Catholic Church hasany– at the helm and try to manage an thing; while the Russian Orthodox unsteerable car. ... Church... is not planning to return Today one cannot be envious of those anything to. anyone. Therefore, each deputies who have come to take the place will have whatever it takes for itself of yesterday's ruling bureaucrats and who through the efforts of the faithful. ... are sitting on magic chairs. Can we Here the clergy found it difficult to today boast that Rukh has provided a remain on the level of a profound morally different type of person? How? sermon. The battle for parishes began. We should begin a movement to create a The search for arguments began — not different type of human relations. ... so much for oneself, but against some- We must advance not so much on the one else. Unpardonable accusations, ideological, but on the moral front; dillentantism regarding history be– because discreditation is the most gan. ... effective method of battle against a new Today, we and the entire world need idea. ... profound sermons, like life-giving Today people do not ask: Are you for water, which returns us to the source, to or against? They ask: Who are you? our spiritual homeland, to our essence. What are you doing? What are you Today, we and the entire Western world sowing around you? The question need to return to truth and love; these regards responsibility as the measure of a person. ... Dr. volodymyr Mokry, member of the Polish Parliament, was among those who should be the basis of our lives and the greeted the Rukh congress. guarantee of our renewal. ... in religious work, Rukh is weak in the east, and in the west it is one-sided, it A mistake was made in that — has not risen to the requisite Christian completely in the spirit of bolshevism — and national level in order to stand one started to suspect and reject the above the various denominations, to other: one toward the imperial em–

Greetings to Rukh congress Sen. Bob Dole Foilowing is the text of a letter to the ceived from the people of Ukraine. second Rukh congress from Sen. Bob 1990 has been an historic year for Dole of Kansas. Rukh and Ukraine. Because of difficult budget issues here in Washington, 1 was To the leaders and founders of Rukh: unable to meet with Mykhailo Horyn in September of 1989, we in the when he was in Washington in Septem– United States heard about the founding ber. І had wanted to hear first-hand congress of the Popular Movement of about the developments and your Ukraine (Rukh). it seemed extraordi– careful efforts to build a nation for all of nary that over 1,100 delegates attended the people of Ukraine. Others who did a democratic gathering in the capital of meet with Mr. Horyn were greatly the Ukrainian republic. More exciting impressed, and pleased about the pro– was the announcement of the congress' mise of Rukh's goals and direction. You program and charter. Rukh's commit– have advanced democratic principles a ment to individual rights, social justice long way in one year. You have attract– and democratic reform holds such great ed the attention of all freedom-loving promise for the people of Ukraine. Just people. І realize that you have much left in this last year so much has been to accomplish and 1 want you to know A delegate from Donetske, Petro Sventsytsky, speaks about Donbas miners' accomplished. A year ago we could not that we support your efforts to develop support for Rukh. have envisioned the success of the fully democratic processes for the democratic candidates during the people of Ukraine. March election, of the passage of the І wish you well and look forward to Declaration of Sovereignty, or the Rukh continuing to lead peaceful groundswell of support you have re– change in Ukraine. Sen, Alfonse D'Amato Fo Ho wing is the full text of greetings rights are fulfilled. sent to the second congress of Rukh by І would like to take this opportunity Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York. to commend Rukh in its ongoing struggle to establish a democratic Dear Friends: Ukrainian nation-state founded upon it is a indeed a privilege to offer my international law and the principles of heartfelt congratulations to the mem– individual human rights for each and bers and participants of the second every citizen. annual organizational congress of the І would also like to commend My– Popular Movement of Ukraine meeting khailo Horyn, a true leader of his people in Kiev. who has demonstrated the strength and For over 70 years, the American the determination to never surrender people have stood shoulder to shoulder this most noble of causes. His visit to the with the men and women of Ukraine in United States has had a tremendous their quest for freedom and self-deter– impact on the perspective shared by mination. Today, more than ever be- American government officials and all fore, all Americans join in the unequi– those who share the goal of true inde– vocal call for the freedom and dignity of pendence for Ukraine. the Ukrainian people. Changing times My best wishes to all in attendance at in the Soviet Union diminish neither the this vital and most critical conference Washington attorney Robert McConnell offers the "American Perspective" on desire of the Ukrainian people for full for much success, as we near the day Ukraine. At his side, serving as interpreter, is Judge Bohdan Futey. who offered human rights for every individual nor that Ukraine is independent and free, greetings to the congress from the lkrainian American Bar Association, Ukraine our determination to see that those once aftd for all time. " """ 2000 and The Washington Group. No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1990 11

NEW RELEASES Bread recipe calendar for 1981 Focus on festive Ukrainian cooking PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Festive u– krainian Cooking, a 232-page, hard- bound cookbook has recently been released here by the University of Pittsburgh Press just in time for the holidays. Researched for nearly eight years by author Marta Pisetska Farley, the cookbook contains precise instructions designed for the modern kitchen and 38 drawings by Yvonne Kozlina which illustrate the correct technique for executing the recipes. Devotees of ethnic cuisine, expe– rienced cooks and beginners alike, as well as scholars of culinary and related aspects in Ukrainian culture will find additional information contained in the last section of the book, which contains multiple appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography and an index. The comprehensive assortment of SUDBURY, Ont. - in celebration turgy. Chapter introductions describe the meal plans portrays cuisine in old of the centennial of the arrival of the As stated in the introduction, "Bread folkways associated with major holi– Ukraine as a highly developed art form; first Ukrainians in Canada, Mary Ste– has played a central role in Ukrainian days and family events, and the symbolic traditional cookery that reflected the fura has developed the "1991 Ukrai– folk customs and rituals, many of which and celebratory role of food appro– productivity of a rich farming and nian Bread Calendar," dedicated to the date back a thousand years or more ... priate to each. sheep-raising region, celebrated the festivals in the church calendar, and memory of the Ukrainian pioneers who Ukrainians have used ceremonial Ms. Pisetska Farley worked from helped build Canada, and particularly breads to mark passages in the human marked important family milestones original sources in Ukrainian, Russian such as births, christenings, name days, the Canadian West. life-cycle: births, christenings, engage– and Polish, and drew on her own expe– ments, weddings, religious holidays, bethrothals, weddings and commemo– The calendar contains 12 full-color riences as an accomplished cook in rations of the dead. social functions, and even funerals... order to arrange the menus as they were plates of traditional Ukrainian baked The ceremonial breads that are such an goods and 12 detachable recipe cards enjoyed throughout the year, beginning Festive Ukrainian Cooking is avai– important part of these traditions with the Christmas season and ending lable from the University of Pittsburgh which provide detailed, step-by-step nourish the spiritual link of Ukrainians instructions for producing each item with succulent dishes made with wild Press, c;oCUP Service, P.O. Box 6525, with their ancestral past." mushrooms gathered in the fall. ithaca, N. Y. 14850. List price is 519.95. photographed. The monthly tablet note The funds raised through the sale of the important holidays of the year the commemorative calendar will sup- according to both the Julian and Gre– port the Ukrainian Seniors' Centre gorian calendars as well as designate the 1991 centennial project; the planting of No place like Soyuzivka on Thanksgiving Day! important Ukrainian "first" historical 100 trees in a park now being designed event for each month. adjacent to the center. Thus, the reader is informed that The "1991 Ukrainian Bread Calen– Messrs. Eleniak and Pylypiw were the dar" is available for 510 plus 90 cents THANKSGIVING DINNER first recorded Ukrainians to arrive in postage from the Svoboda Bookstore, Canada, on September 7,1891,and that 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. at SOYUZIVKA April 12, 1897, marks the date that the 07302; phone: (201) 434-0237. (New Rev. Nestor Dmytriw celebrated the Jersey residents please add seven per– first Ukrainian Catholic divine li– cent sales tax.) Thursday, November 22, 1990, at 1 p.m.

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in a hitherto Russian-speaking city, is a definite commitment to Ukraino– and early 1930s. The case... Donetske. phone rather than Russophone institu– The declaration of independence in (Continued from page 6) in mid–August of this year, a draft tions. Even Leonid Kravchuk, the June 1941 is an event that is much more Slavdom, it is held that Kiev was but plan for middle general educational chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, controversial in nature, as it appeared one of the major principalities that national schools was published in the has of late adopted the practice of to mark the zenith of integral Ukrai– eventually became dominated by Mos– press. As one teacher from Khmelnyt– responding to questions only in Ukrai– nian nationalism, that became a domi– cow, as the religious and political sky commented: Ukrainians have been nian, even if the speaker addresses him nant force in western Ukraine in the capital of Russia. Kiev, according to waiting for such schools for 300 years. in Russian. One should not imagine that 1930s, in 1989-1990, there has been a this theory, was artificially separated The plan is evidence that the formation the Communist Party of Ukraine has notable revival of interest in both this from Moscow by the Mongol invasion of a truly national Ukrainian school committed itself irrevocably to the period and that of postwar guerrilla and its subsequent incorporation into system is fast approaching reality, Ukrainianization of education: it is activity of the Ukrainian insurgent the Polish-Lithuanian state. though admittedly there is some way to rather a case of being dragged forward, Army (UPA) against the Soviet regime, go. kicking and screaming, in the light of in fact, in several cities of western Similar arguments persist over the At the grade school level, there will be popular wishes. Ukraine, statues of the leader of the "union" or "reunion" of Ukraine and most militant wing of the Organization Russia in 1654: Were Bohdan Khmel– a significant increase in "national edu– Soviet historian Yuriy Mytsyk has cation" this fall. Ukrainian history, provided a recent new analysis of of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), nytsky and his Kozaks authentic repre– Stepan Bandera have been erected, sentatives of Ukraine, or a collection of folklore, art and culture are being Pereyaslav. He notes that on the one moved from topics of peripheral con– hand, it cannot be considered a treaty while those of Lenin and Marx have peasant refugees and vagrants of diverse been taken down. origins? How far did Khmelnytsky cern to the central focus of the educa– that had the backing of Ukrainians. The establish the foundations of the Ukrai– tional system, in western Ukraine, peasantry which comprised the bulk of it would appear that such movements nian state in the period 1648-1653? where activists are promoting the population did not participate in the represent but a fringe of the popular Finally, and most important, what was national education as the key priority, talks, while western Ukraine was under outpouring of emotions in Ukraine the naturev of the agreement between Russian studies is to become part of the the rule of Poland, Hungary and Tur– today, in addition, statues and monu– Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich and the framework of world cultures, on the key at this time. On the other hand, he ments to so-called wartime heroes — Ukrainian Hetman? Was it a "union of same level as English or German. insists that the treaty preserved Ukrai– who fought against Stalinism, it is often equals," or did Khmelnytsky agree to Since 1988, current history books nian sovereignty and that the treaty stated — may be partly an attempt to Ukrainian vassalage in return for Rus– were withdrawn from circulation in the constituted a confederation of the two "resurrect" national heroes at a time of sian aid against Poland? There is no Soviet Union, in Ukraine, the rapidly countries. increasing separatist sentiment. They doubt that after the death of Khmelnyt– changing circumstances have precluded By 1659, however, the Hetmanshchy– may also be a reaction to the perceived sky in August 1657, the relationship was rapid replacements. New history books na had been transformed into an party oppression of past years. dominated by Muscovy^Russia. are being written and finding their way autonomous unit within the Russian There is little indication that many to the printing press, but in the mean- Empire by the tsarist government, in Ukrainians have made the progression The Ukrainian language is distinct time, teachers have resorted to news- Mr. Mytsyk's view, the key error on the from the image of Bandera as a national from, albeit similar to, Russian. The paper articles. Mykhailo Hrushevsky's part of Ukrainians was their unilateral hero to a thorough examination of his development of Ukrainian schools has "History of Ukraine," for example, is oath of allegiance to the tsar in January- life and deeds, or to an adherence to his made significant progress over the past currently being serialized in several February 1654; again, he stresses, the beliefs or political program. two years, with impetus from the Ukrainian newspapers; and new infor– peasants and the clergy took no such Shevchenko Ukrainian Language So– mation on the Pereyaslav Treaty has oath and remained aloof from the whole One must ask: upon what basis does a ciety, which held its founding congress already been noted above. process. nation have the right to exist? if it is Similarly, in higher education, there dependent upon a significant and dis– S1NCE 1928 Thereafter, Ukraine's most serious attempts to assert its independence were tinct nationality group with its own SENKO FUNERAL HOMES limited to two: in 1918-1919, when language, in addition to ample econo– New York's only Ukrainian family owned A a.e. smal Ь co. 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including Taras Chornovil, the son of Paula... CSCE... Canada's... Ukrainian People's Deputy vyacheslav (Continued from page 4) (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 3) Chornovil, and Roman Koziy, both M.A. in Soviet political j military affairs fortify democracy and human rights for Communists, Freedom for U– from Lviv, were visibly moved by the from Harvard University. She is a throughout Europe," he contended. kraine," and "No to the Union Treaty" students' display. former Fulbright-Hays Scholar and a This theme was also echoed by other — pointed to one central theme: U– in Ottawa, the demonstration re– Ford Foundation Fellow. witnesses. Assistant Secretary of State kraine has reached a new phase in its ceived widespread newspaper, radio She was selected as one of the "Ten Seitz commented that while, "the Paris existence on the road to its complete and television coverage in the main- Most Outstanding Young Women of independence. summit will be a celebration to the stream Canadian media. The Cana– America for 1982," and is listed in conclusion to the cold war, problems Reinforcing this theme, the Ukrai– dian voices of solidarity were broad- Who's Who in America and Who's Who still remain" and that "human rights are nian students staged a symbolic scena– cast through Radio Canada interna– Among American Women. not secure in Eastern Europe or the rio of Ukraine breaking the shackles of tional to Ukraine. Ms. Dobriansky has published wide– Soviet Union." communism, by showing a young girl, ly on various foreign and defense policy Mr. Zelikow, referencing President dressed in a traditional Ukrainian The vigil, facilitated by the Ukrai– issues, and has lectured and traveled Bush's Mainz, Germany, speech where costume chained to a black-robed and nian information Bureau in Ottawa, extensively throughout Europe, Latin he foresaw a Europe "whole and free," hooded Gorbachev, being set free by concluded with the singing by all America, Africa and Asia. remarked that the key to development Ukraine's youth resulting in the rebirth present of "Hey u Luzi Chervona As policy advisor, Ms. Dobriansky of Europe will be the human rights of a nation. Kalyna" and the Ukrainian national provides guidance for all of USlA's basket of the Helsinki Accords. 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Experts discuss... difficult to quantify and document. youth who wanted equality, but these easy to understand: do not kill, do not Witness testimony can help as it shows were joined by drunks, layabouts and steal, love your neighbor, do not covet (Continued from page 7) how people were changed by brain- thieves - the dregs of the village anything of his, do not bear false ness testimony to supplement docu– washing. society. The whole structure of the witness, help the weaker, honor your ments obtained from official archives in Some of the questions she said she Ukrainian village was turned inside out. father and mother. a book about the famine. They made had wanted to answer were: how the Those who had been nothing became But the new order brought a new appeals through newspapers and televi– repressions killed the religiosity of the everything, Ms. Kovalenko said. morality. Ms. Kovalenko quoted Lenin: sion asking people to provide informa– people and forced them to do evil We are familiar with the intellectual "Morality is that which serves to destroy tion. consciously; what it meant to have evil discontinuity in Ukrainian history, Ms. the old exploitative system and unites Soon 50 letters a day began arriving. sanctioned by authority; what it meant Kovalenko stated, but the famine all workers around the proletariat People sent personal accounts, photos, when the laws of state forced people resulted in another kind of disconti– which is building a new society of official announcements of the time, lists into immorality and encouraged them nuity, one of skills. The 7 million took communists." The first commandment of those who had died in their villages. to be informers and criminals. with them to their graves not only what became "bread for the state." The researchers were surprised to find Official ideology had always seen they could have created themselves but The famine found the peasant already out how close the events of the 1930s the peasant in an untruthful light, Ms. what they did not teach their children. demoralized. The concept of sin had were to the people. Kovalenko explained. The feeder of the The live "chain of being" was broken, as disappeared; individual conscience was The overwhelming response changed nation, the carrier of its spiritual values, famine was followed by repressions and liquidated. The value of human life was their plans, Ms. Kovalenko said. They was blamed for being backward, re– war. nil. informing became a social duty. decided to produce a "people's book" - actionary, petty bourgeois, counter An impoverishment of skills was the "Enemy" became the most popular a memorial book of eyewitness testi– revolutionary, nationalistic — all this to result, Ms. Kovalenko said. The famine word — "enemy of the people," "enemy mony. They travelled throughout U– excuse the severe repressions of the produced a generation of orphans, of socialism," "enemy sabotage " kraine gathering testimonies and were peasants which began in the first days of values were not passed on. it destroyed "enemy spies." taken by villagers and shown the spots the revolution and culminated in the the leaders, the people with authority; She called it a fatal triad: repression, where villages had once stood, saw the famine. By taking away the peasant's gradually the culture and language of destruction of the churches, famine. new buildings built on top of old land, the regime destroyed the last Ukraine were buried. The whole fabric Ms. Kovalenko asked: "How is the cemeteries. survivor free from its will. of rural life was torn, she said. nation to live with such an inheritance?" Ms. Kovalenko and Mr. Manyak Thus the image of the peasant be– "This is how the famine still reaches collected over 6,000 eyewitness ac– Ms. Kovalenko reminded the au– out to us. We must know what hap– came distorted: the kurkul, the petty dience that Ukraine came to the tragic counts. They have included 1,000 of landowner, became the "enemy of the pened to us before if we are to under– these in their book on the famine, moments of the famine with ruined stand why it is so difficult for us now," people." This low opinion of the village churches, with its faith trampled on, "Famine: The 33rd" (Holod: 33yi). The survives today; it demeans the dignity she concluded. book is currently at the publishers and without moral commandments. By the and pride of the villager and forces him mid 1930s only 9 percent churches were they expect that it will come out before to push his children out of the village, Join the UNA the end of this year. still open in Ukraine (compared to 35 Ms. Kovalenko said. Family ties are percent in Russia and 28 percent for the The title of Ms. Kovalenko's presen– broken, language is lost. tation was "Spiritual Ruin: The Conse– USSR as a whole), it was no coinci– HURYN MEMOR1ALS Ms. Kovalenko pointed out that it is dence that repression of the church and quences of the Famine." She stressed FOR THE F1NEST 1N CUSTOM MADE believed that the famine did not choose collectivization came together, it was that the gathering of data is now most MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME– one of the methods to enslave the important in Ukraine. The people have its victims — but in fact it did. it chose TERIES IN THE. METROPOLITAN AREA awoken from a forced amnesia; they the best of society. 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