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The Ukrainian Weekly 1984 И-Г-ГЗ m eo -c X X) - - > СЛ Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association! гл- O -CO oon о z m' О гз ' 30 - м п о rainian Weekly , і tr. Z3 Vol. Lll No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1984 25 cents Officials suspect arson in fire Yuriy Lytvyn commits suicide at NYC Ukrainian National Home State Dep't cites brutal conditions in Soviet camp JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The State Department said on October 22 that Ukrainian human-rights activist Yuriy Lytvyn committed suicide some time in August while serving his fifth term in a Soviet labor camp. The department statement condemn­ ed the Kremlin for its harsh treatment of Mr. Lytvyn and the extension of his sentence. "At the time of his death, Yuriy Lytvyn had spent 20 of his" 50 years in the harsh bleakness of Soviet labor camps," said department spokesman John Hughes. "We do not know what special despair led him to his final desperate act," Mr. Hughes went on. "We can only surmise that ^continuing and willful mistreat­ ment by Soviet authorities finally broke him." Mr. Lytvyn, a poet and member of : -the Ukrainian HeT5fnki'C. ^jpTwas'tM ' Yuriy Lytvyn third prominent Ukrainian human- rights activist to die in a Soviet labor and five years' internal exile, Mr. camp in the last six months. Oleksiy Hughes said. Tykhy, who was also a member of the Mr. Lytvyn is perhaps best known group, which monitored Soviet com­ among Western human-rights circles pliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords, for his article on national and human died of cancer in May. Valeriy Mar- rights which appeared in 1978 in the chenko. a 37-year-old journalist, died of fourth issue of the Helsinki Group's apparent kidney failure on October 7. Information Bulletin. AH three men were prisoners in the He observed that the Stalinist terror, notorious special-regimen labor camp the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33) No. 36-1 in the huge penal complex near which killed 7 million, and the post-war Perm in the Ural Mountains. Condi­ battle against Ukrainian freedom tions at the camp, which houses such fighters did not destroy Ukrainian prominent dissidents as Lev Lukia- attempts at liberation. : nenko. Vasyl Stus and Vasyl Ovsienko. "It (the Ukrainian nation) burns and arc said to be particularly harsh. once again rises from the ashes like the "All three deaths can be attributed to mythical Phoenix," he wrote. the brutal conditions in Soviet labor Mr. Lytvyn went on to explain that camps which fail to meet minimal the Ukrainian Helsinki Group based its standards of human decency," Mr. activities on the legalistic principles Hughes said. contained in the Universal Declaration Although the State Department did of Human Rights, the Helsinki Final latalta Dmytrijuk not say how Mr. Lytvyn killed himself, Act and other international covenants. Firemen battle evening blaze at Ukrainian National Home in New York City. there have been unconfirmed reports But "the defense of human rights that he slashed his wrists. without the defense of national rights At the time of his death, Mr. Lytvyn and freedoms is baseless." Mr. Lytvyn by Marta Kolomayets served as the hub of Ukrainian commu­ was serving a 15-year camp and exile wrote. nity life in Manhattan. term. He was first sentenced to prison in Mr. Lytvyn is survived by his mother. N EW YOR K - A fire roared through Approximately 70 firefighters with 1951 because of his "persistent and Nadia Porubchenko. who lives in the the Ukrainian National Home here in 18 pieces of equipment battled the two- courageous struggle for human rights in village of Barakty in the Kiev oblast. the early evening hours of Tuesday, alarm blaze for almost six hours. The the Ukraine," Mr. Hughes said. a 17-year-old son, Rostyslav, and a October 23, destroying three floors of building was still smoldering at mid­ Released in 1953, Mr. Lytvyn was sister, Halyna Boyko, of Kiev. Mr. the building, which housed some 20 night, although the Fire Department was rearrested in 1955 and sentenced to 10 Lytvyn was divorced from his wife. Ukrainian community organizations. able to contain the fire by about 7 p.m. years in a labor camp. In 1974, he was The fire broke out at 5:39 p.m. at 140 None of the adjoining buildings suffered arrested again and given a three-year Second Ave. on New York's Lower East any serious damage. term for "slandering the Soviet state." INSIDE: Side. It was "of suspicious origin," According to the Fire Department's During his incarceration, he was ope­ according to a spokesman for the New press relations office, eight firefighters rated on for a perforated ulcer caused York City Fire Department, which were injured putting out the fire, and ш Ukrainian National Home te­ by an improper prison diet. nants wonder how to recoup losses- based its assessment on the "rapid four of them were taken to the hospital. In 1978 Mr. Lytvyn joined the two- spread of the fire and the large volume One fireman suffered a punctured left page 3. year-old Ukrainian Helsinki Group. A aOur TV image, in Effective Media of fire" engulfing the building when leg, and three were treated for smoke in­ year later, he was sentenced to three firefighters arrived on the scene. halation. No civilians were injured. Relations - page 6. years for his activities with the group, aWhite House's ethnic liaison, in Hundreds of spectators, including the Police reported that one man was ar­ Mr. Hughes said. But five months many Ukrainian residents of the area, rested during the blaze for burglarizing Faces and Places - page 7. before his scheduled release he was "Mr. Suzie-Q selected - page 10. watched as three Fire Department the building. "cruelly" retried on another charge and battallions tried to save the home, which (Continued on page 3) sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1984 No. 44 Russian Orthodox activist is first Jewish prisoner's mother dies rearrested under new Soviet law after learning of son's condition MUNICH - A Russian Orthodox NEW YORK —Reports from Siberia "Mrs. Zunshain endured much pain activist who was about to complete a on the condition of imprisoned Soviet and suffering as she fought for her son's term in a Soviet labor camp has been re- Jewish activist Zakhar Zunshain con­ freedom," said Herbert Kronish, chair­ arrested under a new law that allows tributed to the death of his mother, man of the conference. "She died in authorities to extend the sentences of according to information received anguish, knowing that her son was ill prisoners who allegedly disobeyed today by the Greater New York Con­ and incarcerated. We extend our deepest camp rules. ference on Soviet Jewry. sympathy to the Zunshain family during After hearing that her son lost 44 this tragic time, and urge the Soviets to According to USSR News Brief release Zakhar so that he may attend his based here, Vladimir Poresh is believed pounds. Mrs. Zunshain suffered a massive heart attack and passed away mother's funeral and, together with his to be the first political prisoner to be family, emigrate to Israel. Mrs. Zun­ charged under Article 188-3 of the on September 30. In a telephone con­ versation with the administrator of the shain's dreams may have died with her, RSFSR Criminal Code. The measure, but it is not too late for the Soviets to which was incorporated into the code in labor camp, Mr. Zunshain's father, Mikhail, learned that his son, a 33-year- fulfill the hope of Zakhar Zunshain and October 1983, gives camp administra­ the rest of his family for a new life in tors arbitrary power to extend the terms old physicist, reportedly lost the weight while enroute to the Irkutsk oblast, freedom. Perhaps now the Soviets will of dissidents, a practice that was com­ reveal a human heart." monplace under Stalin. where he was scheduled to serve a three- year sentence for "defaming the Soviet New York Rep. Bill Green expressed Mr. Poresh, 34, was arrested in Sep­ state." his sorrow, saying: "Words cannot tember 1979 and charged with "anti- He also ascertained that camp offi­ convey the depth of our grief for Soviet agitation and propaganda" for cials are currently making plans to prisoner of conscience Zakhar Zun­ helping to publish an underground re­ transfer his son to either a tin mine or a shain and his family, and our anger at ligious journal called Obshchina (Com­ chemical plant where working condi­ the officially sanctioned Soviet persecu­ munity). He was sentenced to five years tions are known to be extremely tion which we hold responsible for the in a labor camp and three years'internal Vladimir Poresh hazardous. death of his mother last week. When exile. He is currently detained in Chisto- nished for rule infractions could face The family is now making plans for Zunshain was arrested, my colleagues pol Prison. additional sentences of five years. the funeral and are concerned that and I condemned the Soviet Union for Under provisions of Article 188-3, pri­ Mr. Poresh, a native of Leningrad, is Zakhar will be forbidden from attend­ manufacturing a flagrantly unjust case soners considered "dangerous recidi­ a historian and philologist. He is a his­ ing. (Continued on page 14) vists," those who have shown "malicious torian and philologist. He is married and disobedience" of camp regulations, or the father of two daughters, Olga, 7, and those who have been previously pu- Ksenia, 5.
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