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INSIDE:• Survivors of Soviet-era repressions face new hardships — page 3. • “Obzhynky”: Ukrainian Thanksgiving — page 8. • Plast production marks organization’s 50th anniversary in U.S. — page 13.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVIII HE No.KRAINIAN 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine As Chornobyl’sT closingU approaches, Moroz accusesW Kuchma administration workers express their displeasure of plotting Gongadze’s disappearance by Roman Woronowycz the internal affairs minister in “the disap- Kyiv Press Bureau pearance of Heorhii Gongadze.” President Kuchma’s statement called KYIV – National Deputy Oleksander the accusations “baseless and full of insin- Moroz, bitter political foe of President uation,” while the Ministry of Internal Leonid Kuchma, on November 28 accused Affairs said it would turn to the Procurator the highest echelons of power in Ukraine General’s Office to ask for a review of the of direct complicity in the death of a miss- facts as presented by Mr. Moroz and for ing Ukrainian journalist. initiation of appropriate legal action. Mr. Speaking at the opening of a regular Lytvyn took reporters’ questions in the morning session of the Verkhovna Rada, afternoon and said that Mr. Moroz’s Mr. Moroz announced that he had in his remarks must be viewed “calmly, philo- possession audiotapes of telephone con- sophically and perhaps even with some versations obtained from an official of the humor.” Both the president in his state- Security Service of Ukraine, which ment and his chief of staff said they would allegedly implicate President Leonid file complaints against Mr. Moroz for Kuchma, his chief of staff Volodymyr slander. Lytvyn and Minister of Internal Affairs Mr. Moroz, chairman of Parliament in Yurii Kravchenko in planning the disap- 1994-1998 and an unsuccessful presiden- pearance and apparent murder of journalist tial candidate in 1999, allowed journalists Heorhii Gongadze, who has been missing and lawmakers to hear the tape recording since September. in question during a press conference that “With sufficient evidence in hand, I am followed his shocking announcement from obliged to announce that President of Efrem Lukatsky the Parliament floor. The poor quality of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma ordered the dis- the recording made it difficult to follow A portion of the wall of the huge sarcophagus that covers the Chornobyl nuclear appearance of journalist Heorhii power plant’s reactor No. 4 destroyed as a result of the April 26, 1986, disaster. the dialogue or identify the speakers. Mr. Gongadze,” Mr. Moroz told the stunned Moroz said, however, that experts had by Roman Woronowycz falling off to 13 percent by 2008. While legislative body. confirmed that the voices were those of Kyiv Press Bureau more than 1,100 non-essential workers will As the usually noisy session hall quickly the three leaders named by Mr. Moroz and leave almost immediately, another 6,000 fell silent, he added that the tapes show that that work would continue to improve the PRYPIAT, Ukraine – While the West experts will go by the end of 2001. Mr. Lytvyn “took part in preparing and car- sound. impatiently awaits the closing of Chornobyl Plant managers and labor leaders agreed rying out the plan from the beginning,” and Mr. Moroz explained that he had on December 15, and Ukraine makes final that the Chornobyl work force of 9,199, that Mr. Kravchenko was responsible for received the audiotape in late October preparations to bring the curtain down on considered among the most skilled in implementing the operation. from an official in the Security Service of one of the world’s worst industrial and Ukraine, would feel the full fury of a politi- The allegation brought no immediate Ukraine who worked in communications social calamities of the 20th century, work- cal decision that was made without their response from the corridors of power, surveillance, but had withheld making the ers and managers of the nuclear complex practical input. Angry workers, some of either at the presidential administration or recording public until the safety of the are angry and dismayed over the upcoming whom don’t see a need to go, and others the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but that official and his family was assured. The event, which they believe is premature. who simply don’t want to go, vented their evening officials issued two separate state- leftist lawmaker said the security service The plant’s closure now seems assured ments in which they denied any involve- with the European Bank for Reconstruction (Continued on page 4) ment by the president, his chief of staff or (Continued on page 21) and Development giving every indication that on December 7 it will agree to finance $215 million, which Ukraine maintains it needs to help complete construction of two nuclear reactors, one near Khmelnytskyi Plast convenes worldwide conference in Kyiv by Oksana Zakydalsky and the other near Rivne, to replace the energy provided by the damaged KYIV – The worldwide Conference Chornobyl nuclear energy complex. of Ukrainian Plast Organizations – the The closing ceremony is shaping up to international Plast body whose mem- be a high-visibility event. Ukraine has invit- bers include nine national Plast organi- ed the governments of Europe and the zations – held its 14th general meeting United States to help throw the switch that in Kyiv on November 9-12. There were forever shuts down the nuclear complex, a over 100 participants, with delegates move they have awaited for nearly 15 representing all member-organizations years. But, while the Ukrainian government located in Ukraine, the United States, expects international accolades for its Canada, Argentina, Australia, United action, Chornobyl workers foresee only Kingdom, Germany, Poland and grief. Slovakia. The majority of them – some of whom Although the Plast organization in have known each other since before the No. Ukraine became a member of the inter- 4 reactor exploded in April 1986, sending a national body in 1991, this was the first radioactive plume over Europe and the time the general meeting was held in world – will suffer dislocation of family Ukraine. The selection of Kyiv as the and friends as they are retrained and then site of the conclave was intended to aid moved to other parts of Ukraine. the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko (in the center with Ruslana Wrzesnewskyj, The current level of unemployment in Organization in achieving a higher pro- Slavutych, the town that houses the workers founder of Help Us Help the Children) with delegates at the triennial general and their families, will rise from its current (Continued on page 12) meeting of the Conference of Ukrainian Plast Organizations in Kyiv. 8.1 percent to 24 percent in 2002 before 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

ANALYSIS A look at the struggle to establish NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Ukraine left in the dark resources from Russia, making such a decision means acting against national the world’s largest Orthodox Church KYIV – Severe weather conditions, interests,” Interfax quoted Mr. Kuchma as including snowstorms, caused blackouts saying. By agreeing to cash payments for by Taras Kuzio among eastern Slavs as the direct descen- in some 3,000 towns and villages through- energy supplies, Kyiv has lost Russian RFE/RL Newsline dant of Kyivan Rus’ and the Kyiv out Ukraine on November 27, primarily in markets for Ukrainian goods, he added. Metropolitanate (the city of Moscow was the Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi and Odesa (RFE/RL Newsline) During the synod of the Russian founded 600 years after Kyiv). regions, Interfax reported. According to Orthodox Church (ROC) in Moscow on The ROC is concerned also about main- the Ministry for Emergency Situations, Rukh unites or splits further? August 18-20, Patriarch of Moscow and taining its influence in Ukraine. In the for- some 90 percent of all blackouts occurred All Russia Aleksei II had denounced calls mer USSR, two-thirds of ROC parishes because of automatic shutdowns along KYIV – Some 600 delegates from to “confine the Church within the frame- were in Ukraine; today half of ROC power lines. Power supply failures had grassroots organizations of the two wings work of the Russian Federation.” The parishes remain within Ukraine’s borders, caused the Chornobyl nuclear power plant of Rukh, led by Hennadii Udovenko and State Duma backed the ROC’s geopoliti- united under the Ukrainian Orthodox to shut down the same day, while three Yurii Kostenko, set up a political party cal pretensions within the CIS by allocat- Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC- other nuclear reactors ceased operating on called Popular Movement (Rukh) of ing 6 million rubles ($216,000) to the MP). According to the Oxford-based November 28. President Leonid Kuchma Ukraine for Unity at a congress in Kyiv ROC in Ukraine this year. Keston College, the ROC has a greater ordered Vice Prime Minister Yurii on November 25, Interfax reported. The In early August, Ukrainian President number of parishes outside the Russian Yekhanurov to set up a government emer- new party is led by National Deputies Leonid Kuchma sent a letter to his Russian Federation and within the former USSR gency team to deal with the disaster. Bohdan Boiko, Eduard Krech and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, asking Russia (more than 9,000) than within the Russian (RFE/RL Newsline) Heorhii Filipchuk. According to Mr. to return mosaics and frescoes taken from Federation itself (7,000). In Ukraine, Boiko, the aim of the party is “to make Tax police detect 3,800 fake firms St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral in whose population is three times smaller both Rukhs unite” and propose a single list of Rukh candidates in parliamentary Kyiv. The cathedral was built in 1108-1113 than Russia’s, there are two times as many KYIV – Sviatoslav Pyskun, a depart- elections. Neither Mr. Udovenko’s nor and destroyed on the orders of Joseph Orthodox parishes as in the Russian ment head at the State Tax Mr. Kostenko’s faction sent official dele- Stalin in 1934. Some of the surviving treas- Federation (14,000). This makes the Administration, told journalists on gations to the congress. (RFE/RL ures were looted by the Nazis but returned Ukrainian Orthodox Churches potentially November 27 that from January to in the late Soviet era. the largest Orthodox community of believ- October of this year tax police uncovered Newsline) ers in the world. The cathedral was rebuilt in 1996-1999 some 3,800 fictitious firms that had been Ukraine, Poland sign military deal with Kyiv city funds and is now under the Of the 14,000 Orthodox parishes in used by their founders to evade paying jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Ukraine, 8,000 come under the jurisdiction taxes, the Eastern Economist Daily and KYIV – The chiefs of staff of the Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP). of the Moscow Patriarch and the remaining Interfax reported. The authorities froze Ukrainian and Polish armed forces, The reconstruction of the cathedral has 6,000 fall under that of the UOC-KP and the 82 million hrv ($15 million) in the bank Volodymyr Shkidchenko and Czeslaw been seen as direct competition to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church accounts of those firms and have already Piatas, met in Kyiv on November 21 to rebuilding of the Cathedral of Christ the (UAOC). confiscated 39 million hrv that should sign a military cooperation accord for Savior in Moscow, which is backed by The combined total of nearly 15,000 have gone to the state budget. (RFE/RL 2001, the PAP reported. The agency Mayor Yurii Luzhkov. Kommersant-Daily ROC parishes within the former USSR Newsline) noted that the deal provides for the train- deemed the Ukrainian cathedral’s con- gives the ROC the clout to back its histori- ing of Ukrainian officers in Poland. Until struction politically motivated because cal claim of leadership within the Orthodox Ukrainian president visits Turkey ... now, no Ukrainian officers have been “Ukraine is pretending to be the successor world as the “Third Rome.” (The “Second trained in that country. “We don’t want Rome” was Constantinople, now known by ANKARA, Turkey – President Leonid to the whole tradition of Kyivan Rus’.” Kuchma visited Turkey on November our cooperation to be limited to the The ROC stands to lose the most from its Turkish name of Istanbul). Polish-Ukrainian battalion, although to Ukraine, with its large Orthodox com- 22-24 to hold talks with Turkish the unification of Ukraine’s three President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and date it is our flagship joint project,” Mr. Orthodox Churches into an independent munity, is key to the struggle between the Piatas said, adding that Polish-Ukrainian ROC and the Patriarch of Constantinople Turkish Premier Bulent Ecevit, Interfax (autocephalous) Church because Kyiv reported. Mr. Kuchma also addressed the military cooperation can be enhanced would resume its historical leadership for leadership and influence over the after both countries sign a military confi- world’s Orthodox believers. Turkish Parliament and a forum of Turkish businessmen and met with dentiality accord. He explained that the Of particular concern to the ROC is the lack of such an accord is the reason Taras Kuzio is a visiting fellow at the declaration by Constantinople Patriarch Patriarch Bartholomew I of Watson Institute for International Studies Constantinople. Presidents Kuchma and repairs of Polish military equipment, par- Bartholomew in June that Ukraine lies ticularly air force and naval gear, cannot at Brown University. within its canonical territory. That claim, Sezer signed agreements on the exchange of information on nuclear accidents, be undertaken on a larger scale in which is backed by the Greek, Romanian, Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) Bulgarian and Georgian Orthodox cooperation between the two countries’ justice ministries, and protection of Churches, is based on Constantinople’s Ukraine’s five centrist parties merge Moscow says Wallenberg non-recognition of the forcible transfer of defense industry information and materi- the Kyiv Orthodox Metropolitanate to als. They also agreed to raise the volume KYIV – Five centrist parties formed Moscow in 1686, making the ROC’s con- of annual bilateral trade to $2 billion. the Party of Regional Revival “Labor was executed in 1947 (RFE/RL Newsline) RFE/RL Newsline trol over Ukraine uncanonical in the eyes Solidarity of Ukraine” at a congress in of Constantinople. ... slams PM for mistake in energy sector Kyiv on November 18, Interfax reported. MOSCOW – Aleksandr Yakovlev, In 1924 Constantinople Patriarch The new party united the Party of who heads the Russian presidential Grygorii had revived the Kyiv ANKARA, Turkey – President Leonid Regional Revival of Ukraine, the Party commission on rehabilitating victims Metropolitanate by creating the Polish Kuchma told journalists in the Turkish of Labor, the Solidarity Party, the For of political repression, said his com- Autocephalous Orthodox Church (PAOC) capital on November 24 that the “biggest Beautiful Ukraine Party and the All- mission has “no doubts” that war at a time when 6 million Ukrainians lived mistake” of Prime Minister Viktor Ukrainian Party of Pensioners. The con- hero Raoul Wallenberg was executed in Poland. The UOC-KP and UAOC claim Yuschenko’s Cabinet was to switch to gress elected Volodymyr Rybak, at the KGB headquarters in Moscow to be canonical descendants of both the cash payments for energy supplies from Valentyn Landyk and Petro Poroshenko in 1947. Kyiv Metropolitanate and the PAOC and Russia. “When we know that we do not as co-chairmen of the new party. “Wallenberg was a victim of thus back Constantinople’s jurisdiction have enough cash to pay for energy (RFE/RL Newsline) Stalinist repression” and will be over Ukraine. Ukrainian Orthodox “rehabilitated [posthumously] as a Churches in North America came under victim of political repression,” Mr. the patriarch of Constantinople’s jurisdic- FOUNDED 1933 Yakovlev said. tion in 1995, in Canada in 1989. Wallenberg is credited with hav- The ROC rejects any claims by HE KRAINIAN EEKLY ing saved the lives of tens of thou- Constantinople over Ukraine and TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., sands of Jews while serving as a describes the UOC-KP and UOAC as a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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by Lily Hyde ness as a result of the physical hardship they suffered in Special to The Ukrainian Weekly labor camps. But they also have psychological difficulties after years of keeping silent about their past, and many KYIV – Once, the state thought they were important have been left without family. enough to devote pages and pages of files to their activi- “Many people spent many years in camps and prisons, ties. It monitored their movements, deprived them of free- and not all managed to form a good family, and many are dom and methodically destroyed their families. And then alone,” says Marina Tkachenko, a social worker from the came the worst indignity of all: it forgot them. Medical Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Wars and The survivors of Soviet repression in Ukraine number Totalitarian Regimes. in the thousands. They share a past of unimaginable suf- “And those who do have children and grandchildren fering, but their present is dogged by the more common- often can’t tell them everything. Their children and grand- place hardships of ill-health, poverty and neglect. Many of children may support them, and they still fear they can these people suffered for upholding the language or cul- spoil their children’s careers or their children will blame ture of Ukraine, but now that they have their own nation it them for something if they know the truth. There is no can’t afford to look after them. KGB anymore to be afraid of, but it’s understandable, Nina Rubik was sentenced to 10 years in labor camps they are used to living that way. They are still scared to in the 1930s simply for teaching Ukrainian language and speak about their past,” she explains. literature. Now 91, this frail but still elegant old lady has The Kyiv rehabilitation center, the only one of its kind written articles for many publications charting her own in the country, was set up by former political prisoner fate and those of her loved ones. Life on a $10-a-month Semyon Gluzman. Unfortunately, it faces closure soon if pension is hard, but she is still proud of the nation she it cannot find a new source of funding. Here survivors of waited so long to see. Soviet repression can get free medical and psychological “I want the best for Ukraine,” she says. “Of course it treatment, but perhaps most important is the link it pro- could do more for me, but I know what state Ukraine is in. vides to society. Here former prisoners can talk about their I’m still waiting for the day when life here will be better experiences with sympathetic doctors and social workers. for everyone.” The center staff also wants to set up a social group where Official post-Soviet statistics put the number of people clients can meet each other, as the most common com- repressed and killed under the Soviet system at around 4.5 plaint among all of them is loneliness. million. Nearly a third of those were Ukrainian. However, “I’ve got a good apartment now,” says Mr. Shakhiv, that only covers the period between 1930 and 1953. “but what use is that? What use are four walls when I have According to Gen. Volodymyr Pristaiko of the Security Ninety-one-year-old Nina Rubik. no family, when I’m all alone?” Mr. Shakhiv lost 25 years Service of Ukraine (SBU), Soviet repression started in of life with his wife, his childhood sweetheart. He wrote to Andrei Andreiovych, who did not want to give his last 1917 and continued in Ukraine until 1986, when the last her from Siberia telling her she was free to marry another name, was sentenced in the 1930s for belonging to a individual was sentenced for “anti-Soviet propaganda.” while he was away – which she did. When Mr. Shahkiv During that period “there is no family in Ukraine that did- Baptist group. He spent five years in a Siberian gold mine, was finally freed in 1976 he once again wrote to her, and n’t suffer,” says Gen. Pristaiko. where he remembers poor food, terrible hard labor and she divorced her second husband and came to join him in He should know. A KGB officer since 1971, Pristaiko killing frosts. “We started dying of hunger, of cold, of epi- Brovary, a town just outside Kyiv. She died two years ago. co-authored the 1992 Ukrainian law on rehabilitation of demics,” he recalls. “All my ill health stems from there. They never had a chance to have children together. the victims of Soviet repression. I’m an invalid of Stalin’s repression.” The five, 10, 25 missing years are remembered by Now he spends much of his time researching and pub- some as a nightmare of suffering. (Continued on page 17) lishing select secret service archives. Among his works are documentation of repression of Poles and of Jewish members of the Communist Party, and a massive purge of the former leaders of the “special service” he himself now UCCLA activists confer at annual retreat heads. Gen. Pristaiko is perhaps most proud of the rehabilita- CANMORE, Alberta – Following an intensive week- namely that of being considered innocent unless proven tion law, which, despite amounting to an apology for an end of discussions, Ukrainian Canadian activists from guilty. “anti-humanitarian and anti-democratic” regime, was across Canada tabled a series of proposals aimed at fur- In regard to the November 27 federal election, the passed by a 71 percent Communist Parliament in 1992. ther articulating the community’s interests in the public UCCLA has circulated a letter to all MPs with over Under the law, all survivors of repression, or their rela- domain and with the federal government. 1,000 Ukrainian Canadian voters in their ridings, alert- tives, are automatically rehabilitated and can receive Chaired by UCCLA President, John B Gregorovich, ing them to the dissatisfaction felt by the community copies of their original sentence. the discussion focused on several major issues. There with the current Liberal government’s broken promise “You can’t believe what’s written in my file,” says Ivan will be an ongoing campaign to secure federal recogni- on redress and continued support for denaturalization Shakhiv. He spent years in prison camps for “anti-Soviet tion of the injustice of the internment operations and an and deportation hearings. In particular, the community activity” during the war, when he was captured by the accounting of how the confiscated wealth of the is being alerted not to vote for Minister of Justice Anne Germans. “I wasn’t sentenced under real law, like English internees’ has been disposed of. McLellan, who is running in the Edmonton West riding, or international, but Soviet law,” he notes. In addition, the UCCLA will try to promote an offi- because of her support of what is described as a “two- After independence a committee was set up to support cial review of the manner in which naturalized tier justice system.” former political prisoners. Those without decent accom- Canadians are being treated as second-class citizens, The UCCLA also plans to continue unveiling plaques modation were granted flats, and regional groups were set subjected to denaturalization and deportation hearings up to represent their interests. But it has not been enough that do not allow them the most fundamental protection, (Continued on page 17) to cover their medical and social needs. Many suffer ill-

Lily Hyde is a freelance journalist and an RFE/RL correspondent based in Ukraine. Ukrainian Catholic Church gains three eparchies VATICAN CITY – Pope John Paul II has given his blessing to the creation of three new Ukrainian Catholic eparchies and approved the three bishops elected to lead them, reported the Catholic News Service. In an October 12 statement, the Vatican said the pope agreed with the decisions made by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. The new dioceses are: Buchach and Sokal-Zhovkva, which were split off from the Eparchies of Ternopil and Stryi, which includes territory taken from the Archeparchy of Lviv. According to Vatican statistics, more than 1.4 million people live within the boundaries of the new dioceses, and more than 860,000 of them are Ukrainian Catholics. Auxiliary Bishop Irynei Bilyk, 50, of Ivano- Frankivsk is the new bishop of Buchach. Bishop Mykhailo Koltun, 51, of Zboriv is the new bishop of Sokal-Zhovkva. Auxiliary Bishop Julian Gbur, 57, of Lviv was elect- At its annual retreat in Canmore, the UCCLA placed a barbed wire wreath at the Castle Mountain internment ed the new bishop of Stryi. camp statue and plaque. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

to be properly addressed. percent, was it higher. As Chornobyl’s closing... “All the officials are saying the work is “It is an effectively running nuclear sta- (Continued from page 1) proceeding and that everything will be tion, which works in the same way as all Russians comment other Ukrainian reactors and receives no anger and frustration during a press confer- ready, but come December 15 they will not ence on November 16, which was called be ready to assure the well-being of the per- special privileges,” said Mr. Holoskokov. on U.S. election originally to explain the logistics behind the sonnel of Chornobyl,” said Mr. Lych. “We are closing a perfectly good nuclear RFE/RL Newsline closure but nearly turned into a town meet- Oleksander Bohomaz, retired former reactor.” ing. plant engineer who also stepped up to the Chornobyl officials have estimated that MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin Most vocal was Oleksii Bondar, an elec- microphone during the press conference, $634 million will be needed between now on November 14 underlined that the trician who complained that he saw no tan- agreed. “Everybody says the world will and 2008 for social costs associated with Russian government is expecting conti- gible evidence of the foreign aid promised sleep more easily after December 15,” said relocating and retraining the remaining nuity in its relationship with the United the workers, except for the presence of for- Mr. Bohomaz, “but how will we sleep with workers and for bringing economic diversi- States “whoever becomes president,” eign psychologists who are working with our $18 monthly pensions?” ty to Slavutych, a town built after the disas- Interfax reported. the employees to help them deal with stress Plant managers as well said they believe ter for the sole purpose of housing the Meanwhile, Central Election associated with the changes. In their pres- there is no reason to close the Chornobyl workers. Although Ukrainian and interna- Commission Chairman Aleksandr tional experts had agreed on the figure ear- ence he only saw irony. nuclear complex at the moment. Many are Veshniyakov, who recently concluded a lier, recently the amount was cut in half, “They take away my last bit of soup and convinced that the Chornobyl nuclear com- trip to the United States to observe the according to Mr. Holoskokov. then advise me from which tree to hang plex remains one of the best energy-gener- presidential elections there, spoke out myself,” said a distressed Mr. Bondar. ating plants in the world, regardless of its Whatever their demands and desires, whether based on logical reasoning or sim- against “numerous legal proceedings” to Oleksii Lych, head of the Chornobyl tragic history, and that with improvements determine the results of that ballot, con- trade union, said no good social or econom- made over the last years it also has become ple emotion, the fact remains that the toggle switch that takes the third reactor at the cluding that these are complicating a sit- ic reason exists for taking the Chornobyl one of the safest. They see no reason why Chornobyl complex offline will be flipped uation in which continuing uncertainty nuclear energy plant offline. In his opinion the plant cannot operate effectively until its down on December 15 precisely at noon, in about the results undermines the authori- the decision is strictly political and neither originally scheduled retirement in 2010. a ceremony that the Ukrainian government ty of U.S. democracy. the West nor the Ukrainian government has Oleh Holoskokov, assistant director of hopes will receive extensive attention in the He predicted that it is most likely considered the implications, especially for the Chornobyl complex, said the No. 3 reac- West. that “the principal players will reach the workers. He said that, even as Ukraine tor block, the only one of the four According to current plans, on some compromise to save their own continues extensive negotiations with the Chornobyl reactors still functioning today, December 14 President Leonid Kuchma faces and the face of the democratic West over receiving additional financing is running as efficiently as ever. Thus far, in and a delegation of European and U.S. offi- state.” and proceeds with technical preparations for 2000 the plant has run at 82.4 percent of cials will travel to Chornobyl to meet with the shutdown, the workers’ needs have yet capacity. Only in 1995, when it ran at 83.4 Chairman Dmitrii Rogozin of the plant workers and visit the city of State Duma’s International Affairs Slavutych. The next day, while President Committee said the elections vividly Kuchma and the international delegation of demonstrate “the archaic nature of the VIPs watch via a television link during a democratic system in the United States, Former UNA Treasurer Blahitka dies forum on the subject of Chornobyl in Kyiv, the illiteracy of a huge number of voters, PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian the shutdown will take place. Once the and the complexity and intricacy of the National Association’s Home Office switch is thrown, the main turbine should voting process itself.” learned on November 29 that former stop moving within 25 minutes. UNA Treasurer Alexander Blahitka had After that, presumably, neither block No. died the previous day in a local hospital 3 nor any of the other three reactors will following a serious illness. He was 52. generate electricity ever again. However, a Correction lengthy process will occur before the After serving in the U.S. Army, Mr. The launch of Kostyantyn Morozov’s Blahitka was employed as an accountant Chornobyl complex is free of nuclear fuel. Authorities will completely mothball the book “Above and Beyond: From Soviet with the Financial Department at the site only in 2008, after the last of more than General to Ukrainian State Builder,” was UNA Home Office. 4,000 nuclear fuel rods finally will have incorrectly listed in “Preview of Events” He was elected treasurer of the UNA been removed and recycled. The process (November 26 issue) as being scheduled at the organization’s 1990 convention will not begin until a nuclear fuel reprocess- for December 4. The book launch will and was re-elected in 1994. He left his ing plant currently under construction near be held on Tuesday, December 5, in the position in 1998 due to illness. the reactors is completed in 2003. Longfellow Room of the Charles Hotel The funeral liturgy was scheduled for Electricity to run Chornobyl after the last in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, December 1, at St. John the generator is idled will come from a recently beginning at 4:30 p.m. For additional Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in completed thermal generation plant on the information contact the Ukrainian Whippany, N.J., with burial to follow at premises built with financing from the Research Institute at Harvard University, North Arlington Cemetery. Alexander Blahitka United States. (617) 495-4053.

The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: October 2000 COPIES FOR CONGRESS PROJECT Boris Wirstiuk Clifton, N.J. Stephan and Daria Krawczeniuk Jersey City, N.J. Joseph Luczka Hartford, Conn. Amount Name City $20.00 Bohdan Bejger Buffalo, N.Y. G. Maksymonko Springfield, Va. William Chirash New Providence, N.J. $250.00 Ukrainian Orthodox Federal Credit Union New York, N.Y. Luba Palashewsky Rancho Palos Verdes, M. Koropeckyj Baltimore, Md. Calif. Daria Lomnyckyj Venice, Fla. Amount Name City Leonid Petrenko Sun City West, Ariz. Slavko Nowytski Washington, D.C A. Rakowsky Wading River, N.Y. $125.00 Serge Polishchuk Jersey City, N.J. Paul Pleczen Miami Shores, Fla. Irene Saikevych Ashland, Ore. $100.00 Irene Komarynsky Stamford, Conn. Peter Rives Glasgow, Ky. Olga Siegelski Jackson, N.J. Julian Kulas Park Ridge, Ill. Michael and Oksana Saldyt Amherst, N.Y. George Slusarczuk Monroe, N.Y. Peter Pankow Park Ridge, Ill. $10.00 Ksenia Antypiv Warren, Mich. Christine Saith Apo, A.E. George Stasiw Atlanta. Ga. Nadia Bjelajac Belvidere, Ill. Stephen Sokolyk New Braunfels, Tex. Mary Tani W. Palm Beach, Fla. Olga Blethen Sterling, Va. Christina Trojan-Masnyk El Paso, Tex. $95.00 Sputnik Global Telecom Corp Des Plaines, Ill. Bohdan Bulchak Weston, Ontario Phylis Zien Cameron, W.Va. Walter Burdio Deerfield Beach, Fla. Joseph Zucofski Port Carbon, Pa. $70.00 Sputnik Global Telecom Corp Des Plaines, Ill. John Charczenko Montague, N.J. $5.00 Merle and Bonnie Jurkiewica Toledo, Ohio $60.00 Irene Nowak Milwaukee, Wis. John Chernetzky Beachwood, Ohio Anna Kokolski Cumberland, R.I. Wasyl Sosiak Forest Hills, N.Y. John Choma Brooklyn, N.Y. John Kost St. Petersburg, Fla. Jaroslawa Williams St. Louis, Mo. Tamara Constantyn Warren, Mich. Mary Kuduk Blakely, Pa. Maria Dorozynsky South Holland, Ill. $50.00 Rostyslaw Dekajlo Chicago, Ill. Michael Senkiw Inverness, Fla. Svetlana Dubinin Haskell, N.J. Oleh Denysyk Morris Plains, N.J. Michael Vennett Wellington, Fla. Anthony Koltuniuk Hoffman Estates, Ill. Peter Fedynsky Columbia, Md. Olena W. Stercho Wayne, N.J. Nicholas Fil Latham, N.Y. John Pluta Wallingford, Pa. Helen Filenko Houston, Tex. Bohdan Futey Annapolis, Md. Total: $2,250.00 $40.00 Olenka Nowytski Minneapolis, Minn. Roman Golash Palatine, Ill. Kathryn Sos-Hayda San Antonio, Tex. Osyp and Yaroslava Hapij Glen Spey, N.Y. $25.00 Walter Gerent North Port, Fla. Darka Hawryshkiw Rochester, N.Y. SINCERE THANKS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS Bohdan Sklierenko Mississauga, Ontario Peter Homka Elyria, Ohio TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY PRESS FUND. Orest and Judy Tataryn San Jose, Calif. Wolodymyra Kawka Drexel Hill, Pa. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY PRESS FUND IS THE UNA Branch 362 Levittown, Pa. Robert Keybida Califon, N.J. SOLE FUND DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO Thomas Urchuk North Bergen, N.J. Nina Koropey Johnston, R.I. SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THIS PUBLICATION. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Report of Ukrainian National Association Financial Department Credit unions sponsor Total For July August September Total For Six Months 2000 2000 2000 Nine Months Reconciliation of Ledger Assets Ended Ended INCREASES IN LEDGER ASSETS June 30, 2000 September 30, The Ukrainian Weekly’s 2000 Dues And Premiums From Members: Dues From Members $ 961,584.38 132,244.75 116,087.18 124,418.65 1,334,334.96 Annuity Premiums From Members 285,828.58 2,270.82 4,856.41 12,411.77 305,367.58 Copies for Congress Project Universal Life Premium 66,005.44 20,842.47 7,390.90 10,701.76 104,940.57 Reinsurance Premiums Paid -19,014.56 -532.74 -521.18 -1,269.53 -21,338.01 PARSIPPANY, N.J. – In August/September of this year, $ 1,294,403.84 154,825.30 127,813.31 146,262.65 1,723,305.10 The Ukrainian Weekly sent letters to 22 credit unions in Dividend Accumulations $ 1,636.81 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,636.81 the United States – the Ukrainian community’s strongest Investment Income: financial institutions – in an effort to solicit financial sup- Banks $ 1,443.78 571.58 78.65 122.91 2,216.92 Bonds 1,618,931.72 257,058.26 324,845.97 289,392.56 2,490,228.51 port for the cost of complimentary subscriptions sent by Certificate Loans 11,167.07 1,727.19 1,512.29 1,473.99 15,880.54 this newspaper to all members of the U.S. Congress. Mortgage Loans 290,825.91 24,455.59 38,262.02 29,979.22 383,522.74 Real Estate 367,139.98 310,140.64 209,556.28 227,155.48 1,113,992.38 The goal was to offset this program’s annual cost of Short Term Investments 11,297.22 1,286.65 2,266.29 1,726.14 16,576.30 approximately $27,000 which is currently funded by The Stocks 140,273.24 21,892.60 23,398.58 10,318.41 195,882.83 Urban Renewal Corporation 82,875.00 0.00 15,167.00 30,334.00 128,376.00 Weekly but serves the interests of the entire Ukrainian $ 2,523,953.92 617,132.51 615,087.08 590,502.71 4,346,676.22 community. Net Profit(Loss) On Bonds And Stocks Sold Or Bonds Matured $ 74,897.99 6,510.00 0.00 389.49 81,797.48 The first to respond were the newspaper’s neighbors, Official Publications Income $ 629,485.15 96,375.81 93,176.48 89,234.29 908,271.73 Selfreliance (UA) Federal Credit Union, whose main Income From Ukrainian Renewal Corporation $ office is in Newark, N.J., but which has a branch here in Miscellaneous: Parsippany in the UNA Corporate Headquarters Building. Donation To Ukrainian National Heritage Defense Fund 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 Three other credit unions followed suit. Donations To Fraternal Fund 5,575.00 750.00 0.00 1,000.00 7,325.00 Donations To Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine 95.00 0.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 3,095.00 The donors as of November 23 were: Due to Ukr Nat'l Foundation 1,975.99 0.00 295.00 0.00 2,270.99 Exchange Account-UNURC 164,277.44 33,319.29 0.00 -113.29 197,483.44 • $5,000 – Self Reliance (NY) Federal Credit Union, 171,923.43 34,069.29 2,295.00 2,886.71 211,174.43 New York; Total Increases In Ledger Assets $ 4,696,301.14 908,912.91 838,371.87 829,275.85 7,272,861.77 • $1,000 – Selfreliance (UA) Federal Credit Union, DECREASES IN LEDGER ASSETS Newark, N.J.; Paid To Or For Members: • $1,000 – Rochester Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, Death Benefits $ 461,353.87 101,669.00 69,299.68 80,232.00 712,554.55 Endowments Matured 347,916.00 38,154.00 56,759.00 49,373.00 492,202.00 Rochester, N.Y.; Annuity Benefits And Partial Withdrawals 991,649.25 289,704.03 90,591.58 45,778.25 1,417,723.11 Cash Surrenders 361,506.93 62,104.41 118,604.67 42,909.70 585,125.71 • $250 – Ukrainian Orthodox Federal Credit Union, Unversal Life Withdrawals 13,162.24 0.00 0.00 0.00 13,162.24 New York. Interest On Death Benefits 1,070.54 187.01 182.95 648.57 2,089.07 Dividend Accumulations 11,523.75 711.09 2,680.10 1,507.41 16,422.35 The total raised thus far for the Copies for Congress $ 2,188,182.58 492,529.54 338,117.98 220,448.93 3,239,279.03 Project is $7,250. Commissions, Rewards And Refund Of Expenses: Commissions And Overrides On Universal Life 2,871.71 85.38 92.40 196.29 3,245.78 Reward To Organizers 114,372.24 13,996.07 9,614.46 17,307.99 155,290.76 Reward To Special Organizers 7,310.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7,310.00 $ 124,553.95 14,081.45 9,706.86 17,504.28 165,846.54 Comments on proposed UNA By-Laws changes General Expenses And Fraternal Payments: Actuarial And Statistical Expenses 122,770.87 18,150.84 7,402.00 9,536.00 157,859.71 Advertising 10,140.60 1,449.90 3,408.70 1,521.80 16,521.00 Branch 287 Auditing Committee Expenses 2,985.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 2,985.55 Bank Charges 4,829.31 609.77 741.87 607.88 6,788.83 The following comment on the proposed changes to Bank Charges For Custodian Account 13,409.42 4,071.10 1,120.09 587.06 19,187.67 the UNA By-Laws was sent to UNA National Books And Periodicals 2,556.56 0.00 0.00 19.99 2,576.55 Depreciation Of E.D.P. Equipment 13,800.00 0.00 0.00 7,200.00 21,000.00 Secretary Martha Lysko by UNA Branch 287, Sons of Depreciation Of Printing Plant 4,900.00 0.00 0.00 2,500.00 7,400.00 Depreciation Of Real Estate 43,000.00 0.00 0.00 21,200.00 64,200.00 Ukraine. It was signed by Branch President Stepan Donations 6,000.00 0.00 0.00 3,000.00 9,000.00 Parubchak and Secretary Dana Jasinski. Dues To Fraternal Congresses 1,144.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,144.50 Employee Benefit Plan 199,872.49 46,088.81 26,414.84 174,918.48 447,294.62 We read and discussed with our members the pro- Expenses Of Annual Sessions 0.00 0.00 480.00 -480.00 0.00 Field Conferences 10,030.55 263.00 777.69 2,515.51 13,586.75 posed new By-Laws of the Ukrainian National Fraternal Activities 1,899.23 0.00 70.00 366.75 2,335.98 Association and decided that, at this difficult time, new Fraternal Bebefit 99,663.63 0.00 0.00 0.00 99,663.63 General Office Maintenance 8,061.82 805.63 2,158.99 950.84 11,977.28 by-laws are not beneficial to the UNA. Indigent Benefits Disbursed 1,458.00 100.00 450.00 50.00 2,058.00 We ask that the By-Laws of the Ukrainian National Insurance-General 4,114.22 -3,901.75 0.00 0.00 212.47 Insurance-Workmens Compensation 1,095.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,095.00 Association remain unaltered. Investment Expense 5,485.00 0.00 0.00 2,500.00 7,985.00 Legal Expenses-General 11,998.40 0.00 1,334.00 0.00 13,332.40 Medical Examiner's Fee 4,000.00 0.00 0.00 2,000.00 6,000.00 Medical Inspections 2,046.71 66.66 127.44 85.77 2,326.58 Operating Expense of Canadian Office 1,037.90 475.00 0.00 0.00 1,512.90 Payor Death Benefits 1,017.76 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,017.76 NOTICE TO UNA SECRETARIES Postage 31,747.23 4,315.95 4,117.01 596.39 40,776.58 Printing and Stationery 19,603.64 150.86 2,094.44 373.02 22,221.96 AND ORGANIZERS Professional Fees 12,465.00 3,600.00 0.00 0.00 16,065.00 Rent 226,876.68 37,708.16 37,922.16 38,015.78 340,522.78 Rental Of Equipment And Services 36,400.12 13,568.43 2,457.66 3,557.88 55,984.09 The 2000 Membership Campaign ends December Salaries Of Executive Officers 85,304.82 14,217.47 14,217.47 14,217.47 127,957.23 22, 2000. Therefore, we will accept applications of Salaries Of Office Employees 274,289.25 40,697.97 41,762.53 79,108.34 435,858.09 Scholarships 200.00 0.00 750.00 0.00 950.00 new members only through December 22, 2000. Telephone 25,989.95 1,073.58 4,188.39 3,004.42 34,256.34 Transfer Account 1,602.21 0.00 -18,152.26 0.00 -16,550.05 Traveling Expenses-General 992.09 158.76 134.50 0.00 1,285.35 We urge you to make every effort to fulfill your quota Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 200.00 and mail in your applications early enough to reach Youth Sports Activities 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,095.88 1,095.88 $ 1,292,838.51 183,720.14 134,027.52 369,099.26 1,979,685.43 the Home Office by December 22, 2000. Taxes, Licenses And Fees: Taxes-Canadian Premium 0.00 0.00 0.00 -1,768.99 -1,768.99 UNA HOME OFFICE Insurance Department Fees 87,485.41 34,088.12 12,669.74 2,228.79 136,472.06 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 39,085.69 4,403.28 5,803.57 6,667.59 55,960.13 $ 126,571.10 38,491.40 18,473.31 7,127.39 190,663.20 Loss On Bonds, Stocks and Foreclosed Properties $ 106,289.86 0.00 0.00 0.00 106,289.86 Loss On Canadian Exchange $ 171,423.47 0.00 0.00 0.00 171,423.47 NOTICE TO UNA MEMBERS Real Estate $ 580,376.85 296,087.39 284,014.80 253,383.83 1,413,862.87 Official Publications Expenses $ 572,445.33 87,246.96 78,276.84 111,433.32 849,402.45 AND BRANCHES Miscellaneous: Convention Expenses $ 200.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 200.00 Members and Branches of the Ukrainian National Certificate Loans Adjustments 50,174.49 -931.58 11,510.95 1,792.22 62,546.08 Due To Broker 744,286.85 0.00 0.00 0.00 744,286.85 Association are hereby notified that with the ending of Reserve For Unpresented Checks 0.00 0.00 2,319.74 1,044.11 3,363.85 its fiscal year, the Home Office of the UNA must close Trust Fund Disbursed 567.17 0.00 0.00 0.00 567.17 $ 795,228.51 -931.58 13,830.69 2,836.33 810,963.95 its accounts and deposit in banks all money received Total Decreases In Ledger Assets $ 5,957,910.16 1,111,225.30 876,448.00 981,833.34 8,927,416.80 from Branches. Increase(Decrease) In Ledger Assets During The Period $ -1,261,609.02 -202,312.39 -38,076.13 -152,557.49 -1,654,555.03 no later than noon Amount Of Ledger Assets At The Beginning Of The Month 68,547,798.35 67,286,189.33 67,083,876.94 67,045,800.81 68,547,798.35

Amount Of Ledger Assets At The End Of The Month $ 67,286,189.33 67,083,876.94 67,045,800.81 66,893,243.32 66,893,243.32 of DECEMBER 22, 2000

Six Months Money received later cannot be credited to 2000. SUMMARY OF LEDGER ASSETS Ended Therefore, we appeal to all members of the UNA to pay June 30, July 31, August 31, September 30, September 30, 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 their dues this month as soon as possible and all Cash $ 808,117.01 484,347.84 814,764.73 1,035,559.59 1,035,559.59 Branches to remit their accounts and money in time to Short Term Investments 196,044.22 371,514.88 675,314.63 414,144.55 414,144.55 Bonds 47,157,236.42 47,156,124.77 46,570,945.57 46,569,552.63 46,569,552.63 be received by the Home Office no later than noon of Mortgage Loans 6,269,764.92 6,234,941.70 6,202,991.41 6,127,459.67 6,127,459.67 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2000. Certificate Loan 540,550.68 511,389.53 442,484.12 426,775.60 426,775.60 Real Estate 2,867,847.84 2,868,932.19 2,877,728.65 2,861,576.81 2,861,576.81 Printing Plant & E.D.P. Equipment 156,567.91 158,369.83 158,369.83 148,669.83 148,669.83 Notice is hereby given that Branches which send their Stocks 6,385,509.29 6,393,705.16 6,398,650.83 6,404,953.60 6,404,953.60 dues in late will be shown as delinquent and in arrears Loan to D.H.-U.N.A Housing Corp. 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 Loan To U.N.U.R.C. 2,800,000.00 2,800,000.00 2,800,000.00 2,800,000.00 2,800,000.00 on the annual report. Total $ 67,286,189.33 67,083,876.94 67,045,800.81 66,893,243.32 66,893,243.32 UNA HOME OFFICE

STEFAN KACZARAJ STEFAN KACZARAJ, Treasurer Treasurer 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

KEYNOTE ADDRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY “To forget would be a crime” Self-respect, speaking Ukrainian While the history of Ukraine as a whole is a tortured one, it is the 20th century that saw Ukraine go through its most wrenching agony. – and creating a better future In a period of 70 years, the nation witnessed two major wars on its soil, three by Bohdan Vitvitsky self-confidence? Let me suggest to you that in the recent past, there once lived a famines and the systematic destruction of its intelligentsia through murder, arrest CONCLUSION and persecution by a totalitarian regime that was bent on extinguishing national self- tribe of Ukrainians that in fact possessed identity and forcing the country to bow before the gods of communism. Our failure to understand that we a full complement of national self- Prof. Serhii Pyrozhkov of Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences has estimated that in should be speaking Ukrainian and why it respect and self-confidence. That tribe the span of three decades of the 20th century, between 1920 and 1950, Ukraine lost is obvious that we should be doing so is a was called Halychany. They lived in 34.8 percent of its population. reflection of a lack of national self- what are today the three oblasts of Lviv, Although there still are many alive who lived through and remember well the respect. This lack of self-respect and Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil. The peo- widespread arrests and persecution of dissidents in the 1970s during the self-confidence is important because it ple about whom I am speaking lived Scherbytsky era, there are few eyewitnesses to the Great Famine of 1932-1933. breeds in us the national passivity and between the end of the 19th century and During that cataclysmic period of Ukrainian history approximately 7 million inertia that I spoke about at the beginning the first half of the 20th century. Ukrainians starved after Soviet leaders decided to punish the peasantry for resisting of my address to you, this inability to The people about whom I am speaking collectivization and wipe out a good portion of the Ukrainian nation in one swoop. understand that independence is an were a comparatively small tribe and, Few alive today remember the hundreds of thousands more who perished in opportunity, an opportunity to begin except for a small intelligentsia, most of 1937-1938, when Stalin continued his slaughter of the Ukrainian nation, arresting building and creating a normal country, them were peasants and most of them intellectuals and officers, and imprisoning them, exiling them or more often murder- normal politically, culturally and eco- were poor. Yet, despite all this, and ing them. nomically. Am I suggesting to you that if despite having lost a war for Halychyna As painful as these days and events are in the nation’s history, they must remain we all begin to speak Ukrainian rather to Poland at the end of World War I, and firmly entrenched in its collective memory. That is why it is reassuring to see than Russian, everything would magical- despite having to live during the Great Ukrainian officials taking ever more concrete steps to broaden the scope of official ly become OK? That the economy would Depression, and despite having to survive commemorations of those who perished in the Famine-Genocide and all those who instantly revive? That foreign invest- two years of Soviet occupation, three suffered or succumbed to political repression under totalitarian rule. ments would pour in? Of course not. years of Nazi occupation and then a sec- Two years ago President Leonid Kuchma officially declared the fourth Saturday Language is not some magic talisman. ond Soviet occupation, they were full of of each November a national day of mourning for the victims of Soviet tyranny. But it does serve as a kind of barometer national self-respect and self-confidence. While the commemoration has developed slowly and few Ukrainian citizens contin- of national mental health. They knew that they were Ukrainians, ue to realize that it exists, this year several actions and a fair amount of media cov- If, like the first Israelis who embraced and even though some of them who grad- erage made more Ukrainians aware. Hebrew, we had immediately embraced uated from gymnasiums spoke five or six Ukrainian, we would have done so Among the various events that took place during this year’s day of commemora- languages, there was never any doubt because we would have exhibited the tion, which fell on November 25, was a government sponsored two-day academic among any of them that Ukrainian was same kind of self-respect and self-confi- conference on genocide in Ukraine. Participants included internationally recognized their primary and mother tongue. dence regarding who we are and why Great Famine experts such as James Mace of the United States and Stanislav The Halychany of the first half of the what is ours must be cherished. If we had Kulchytsky of the Institute of History, which is associated with Ukraine’s Academy 20th century disagreed with one another the same self-respect and self-confidence of Sciences. about various issues; they fought with one that the first Israelis had, we would not That same day hundreds gathered in the Bykivnia Forest just outside Kyiv to another and in some extreme instances, now be overwhelmed by the thought that attend a prayer service and memorial meeting recalling the thousands of intellectu- they even killed each other for political rea- we have nothing, that we are powerless, als, officers and clergy who were driven to this once-isolated area and shot in cold sons. There were among them socialists, that nothing can be done and that nothing blood in 1937-1938. Today a memorial stands on this once blood-soaked spot. democrats and nationalists. But the one can be changed. The previous day a private exhibition of paintings and photographs opened at the remarkable feature that they all shared in I have thus far suggested to you how common was the fiercely held belief that Teacher’s Building in Ukraine, which emotionally and effectively conveyed the the Ukrainian language use issue may they could make a difference. And boy, did shocking cruelty suffered by the victims of the Great Famine. A solemn evening of have a connection to the current mood of they ever make a difference! They made a poetry and commemoration followed the opening, sponsored by the Ukrainian social and political helplessness in difference at the beginning of the 20th cen- Famine Researchers’Association. Ukraine today. Let me now suggest to tury by forging voting and political coali- The press covered these events to some degree, and several television stations you how those two issues may relate to tions with Jews in the Austro-Hungarian even produced special broadcasts related to the tyranny of Soviet times. the third observation that I spoke about Parliament; by forming the Sichovi Striltsi Journalists also covered a tradition that has continued for the past few years in earlier, namely, the observation that we [Ukrainian Sich Riflemen] to fight for which the president, the prime minister and the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada may today be living in a very different Ukrainian independence; by forming the placed wreaths at the foot of the Memorial to Victims of the Great Famine, located world from the one that existed for cen- OUN [Organization of Ukrainian before the majestic St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery. turies, because in this world countries Nationalists] to fight Polish domination; by Ukraine, which still has not overcome the legacy of 70 years of Soviet domina- may have a much greater opportunity to forming the UPA [Ukrainian Insurgent tion, must keep its past firmly in focus even as it battles with a natural psychological choose national prosperity and well- Army] to fight the Soviets and Nazis; by desire to forget and continues to endure difficult economic conditions. It needs com- being. revitalizing the North American diaspora memorations of the tragic Stalin era, textbooks on the subject for its children to It is always harmful to lack national and helping to keep the idea of an inde- read, and plays and movies to watch. As Vice Prime Minister Mykola Zhulynskyi self-respect and self-confidence, because pendent Ukraine alive – even at a time said during his introduction at the academic seminar: “Time in its implacability has such a state of affairs twists and contorts when everyone in the United States and devoured the witnesses, the victims and the butchers. But the memory must remain, the national psyche and may lead to Canada told them that there was no such for to forget it would be a crime. The most important thing is to strengthen the his- wrong choices and actions. But if we are thing as Ukraine, that it was all Russia. torical memory of the nation so that finally it will feel itself a united nation and will indeed living in a new era, and I think I have not spoken to you about the rise from its knees.” that we are, an era in which it is possible Halychany of the first half of the last to choose national prosperity and well- century in order to draw invidious or crit- being, then a lack of self-respect and ical comparisons between them and us self-confidence is positively fatal. today. No, that was not the point at all. Dec. Our own lack of self respect and self The Halychany were the way they were Turning the pages back... confidence will be a self-fulfilling because of a whole host of political and prophecy. Since we are confused about historical circumstances, such as the luck 9 who we are, we lack national self-confi- they had in living in the comparatively dence. Because we lack national self- progressive and enlightened Austro- confidence, we are convinced that we are Hungarian empire, the luck they had in it 1987 The Boston Globe wrote recently: “The date the Cold War powerless to change things. Because we began is impossible to determine. Its end, however, can be being possible for some of their brightest don’t even try to change anything, noth- sons, such as Ivan Franko, to travel and stated precisely.” ing is changed, except by others for their Globe staffer Mark Feeney explained: “On December 9, study in Vienna and so on. benefit. And because nothing is changed, The point of speaking to you about the 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev hosted a reception at the Soviet Embassy in Washington that further confirms our conviction that and, recognizing George F. Kennan in the receiving line, embraced him. ‘Mr. Halychany was simply to remind you nothing can be changed and that we are that it is possible for Ukrainians to pos- Kennan,’ he declared, ‘we in our country believe that a man may be the friend of powerless to effect change. another country and remain, at the same time, a loyal and devoted citizen of his own; sess full national self-respect and self- Ask yourselves, how and why was it confidence under all kinds of difficult and that is the way we view you.’ ” possible for 700,000 to 800,000 Israelis Four decades earlier, Mr. Kennan had been the architect of the policy of contain- circumstances. to build such a strong state on a dessert Ladies and gentlemen, young brothers ment which defined U.S. conduct toward the Soviet Union. In 1952 Stalin declared while surrounded by tens of millions of Mr. Kennan, who at the time was U.S. ambassador to Russia, persona non grata and and sisters, let me begin to conclude by enemies? There are many answers to this reminding you about what two of our an enemy of the Soviet people. But in 1987 the leader of the USSR, according to the question, but I would suggest to you that Globe, “was saluting the man who, as much as any other, might be said to have most precious Ukrainian geniuses tried to the most important of them was and is a teach us. The first quotation relates brought about his nation’s defeat in the Cold War. It was, perhaps, the most remark- very strong sense of Jewish self-respect able moment in one of the most remarkable careers in 20th century U.S. history.” directly to our discussion about lan- and self-confidence. guage: Source: “American sage: Making history as well as writing it, George F. Kennan masters a Is it possible for Ukrainians to develop century” by Mark Feeney, Boston Globe, October 26. a similar kind of national self-respect and (Continued on page 15) No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Testifying many years later he stated, “A PERSPECTIVES Regarding the matter man [person being interrogated] was in such a state that he could not stand it any BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY of tortured evidence more and he would sign anything ... My Dear Editor: hands would be twisted, I was hung on a wall on a nail.” His interrogation lasted Investigation of the USS Cole attack several months. is being hampered by the government of American investigators in the USS Andrey Sheptytsky, Servant of God Yemen. Some American investigators Cole tragedy are right. Unless they see World War II ended more than 50 years announcements of the formal hangings and believe that high-level officials of the and participate in the investigation them- ago, but it’s still making news as experts shootings were printed in newspapers and government knew or were somehow selves and know that the witnesses are and commissions grapple with the unre- plastered on walls. involved in the terrorist attack. Their not testifying under duress, they cannot solved questions and unfinished business Sheptytsky, though, was undaunted. He suspicions are warranted. rely on the transcripts as a source of evi- the war left in its wake. This process has opened his monasteries, convents, orphan- U.S. investigators (primarily the FBI) dence. more than passing interest for Ukrainians. ages and hospitals, and even his own pri- insist on interviewing alleged witnesses Unfortunately, their counterparts in the After all, the Nazis occupied Ukraine for vate residence, to shelter Jews. A small who are being interrogated by Yemen Justice Department, the OSI, are not hand- three years and turned its territory into a army of monks, priests and nuns risked investigators, but Yemen refuses to allow icapped with due process concerns. The major battlefield of the war. their lives and shared their meager rations FBI agents to be present during the inter- OSI record and precedents taint the justice One of the contentious issues scholars to save whomever they could. Kurt Lewin rogations. As a compromise, Yemen’s system. Let’s hope that the FBI does not and others are now pondering is the role of relates, for example, how one Jewish government is offering “transcripts” of bend to political pressure from the State the Catholic Church during World War II. woman, already married and in the early the interrogatories. President Bill Department and continues to demand that This past October the International stage of pregnancy, entered a convent as a Clinton’s Department of State sympa- evidence produced is not of the level Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission, novice. It was all a facade. Metropolitan thizes with the Yemen government posi- acceptable to such agencies as the OSI. consisting of scholars appointed by the Sheptytsky was just keeping his word to tion – diplomacy is more important than Holy See and the International Jewish Rabbi Lewin. S. Paul Zumbakis justice. (See John F. Burns, “Cole Committee, released a preliminary report The fearlessness that Sheptytsky Chicago Inquiry Provokes Bitter U.S. Dispute,” on “The Vatican and the Holocaust.” The demonstrated in confronting the Nazis The New York Times, November 12, Commission Report makes a point of over the Holocaust was characteristic of 2000.) reserving judgement and instead asks a lot him throughout his long career as a reli- American investigators are not satis- Famine memorial of questions, many of which cast promi- gious leader. Consecrated bishop in 1899 fied with the transcripts – and properly nent people in a harsh light. at the young age of 34, when western so! It is common knowledge that investi- One person, though, is held up as a pillar Ukraine was part of Austria-Hungary, he united our community of moral authority and courage in con- was always an outspoken advocate for his gators in Yemen use torture as a routine Dear Editor: investigative tool. fronting the Nazis and the Holocaust: people. That’s why the invading tsarist American Department of Justice offi- On November 18 the Ukrainian com- Andrey Sheptytsky, archbishop-metropoli- army arrested him during World War I. cials – the FBI is an organization within munity of the South Bound Brook, tan of the Eastern Rite Catholic Church of After the war, when Poland took over the Department of Justice – are fully Manville and New Brunswick, N.J., area western Ukraine. He was spiritual leader western Ukraine, Sheptytsky spoke out aware that “evidence” produced as a journeyed to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in there from 1899 to 1944. Between the two against that government’s repressive “paci- result of torture is unreliable. They also New York City. Due to the enthusiastic world wars this region was part of Poland fication” policy against its Ukrainian citi- know that in a criminal case U.S. courts response from our Ukrainian brothers until the Soviets absorbed it in 1939. The zens. Nazis then occupied it in 1941-1944. will not allow such tainted evidence to and sisters to participate in the memorial In keeping with his ecumenical beliefs, In asking what Pope Pius XII knew and Sheptytsky also condemned the govern- be entered. services, the Brotherhood of St. Andrew when he knew it, the commission relates ment for destroying the churches of The rationale for refusing evidence Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church how Metropolitan Sheptytsky sent a report Orthodox believers. In 1932 and 1933 produced by investigators using torture is chartered bus transportation for this to the Vatican in August 1942, describing Sheptytsky took on a bigger adversary self-evident: such evidence is unreliable, occasion. the horrors unfolding in Ukraine. By that when he denounced Communism and as “witnesses” eventually, under torture, Their mission was to remember the time the Nazis had unfurled in its full fury Stalin’s Terror-Famine in Soviet Ukraine. will comply with the wishes of the inter- painful memories of the brutalities and the genocidal policy they called the “Final Tragically, his words were largely ignored, rogators and say anything to relieve the the atrocities and to pray for the millions Solution to the Jewish Question” and histo- just as they would be a decade later when of victims of the Ukrainian holocaust pain of torture. Such evidence is hope- ry now records as the Holocaust. Jews, instead of Ukrainians, were being inflicted upon the Ukrainian people by lessly tainted. Assessing Sheptytsky, the commission slaughtered – but that didn’t stop him from And yet, some American courts do the Soviet government during the artifi- concludes that “No other high-ranking doing what was right. accept such torture tainted evidence. cially created Great Famine of 1932- Catholic churchman, to the best of our The Nazi retreat from Ukraine in the The Office of Special Investigations 1933. knowledge, provided such direct eye-wit- summer of 1944 brought no relief for (OSI) has for years relied on such evi- The Brotherhood of St. Andrew ness testimony and expressed concern for Sheptytsky and his people. The NKVD dence in immigration courts. To the Memorial Church recognizes that the Jews qua Jews (and as primary targets of replaced the Gestapo, and the Red Army OSI, such evidence is mother’s milk. strong community support given to the German bestiality) in the same way.” supplanted the Wehrmacht. Ukrainians in Legislation is tailored to produce results, commemorative services was due to the What is more, Sheptytsky was not just Galicia were between a rock and a hard courts that do not care much about taint- efforts of many people in our Central passing the buck to the pope. In a breath- place, forced from the frying pan into the ed evidence are wisely chosen – at least New Jersey area. Notably, a heartfelt taking act of courage – matched by few if fire. Anticipating the same policies and tac- when the targeted individuals are “politi- thank-you must be extended to two of any leaders in occupied Europe – tics he had denounced a decade before, cally proper” villains. our Ukrainian clergy, the Very Rev. Jurij Sheptytsky had written a letter to the head Sheptytsky took steps to prepare his The OSI routinely accepts “protocols” Siwko and the Very Rev. Labinsky. Their of the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, con- Church for the Soviet take-over. He secret- produced by agents of the KGB or even enthusiastic promotion of this ecumeni- demning the murder of Jews and protesting ly, consecrated Josyf Slipyj as his successor the notorious killers of SMERSH (spe- cal memorial service must receive warm the Nazi policy of recruiting individual and introduced reforms to allow his Church cial units created by Stalin to kill and thank-yous from all their parishes. Ukrainians to help in that campaign. to function in the underground. torture alleged enemies of the state – The brotherhood also extends a sin- From other sources we know that In November 1944 Sheptytsky died. with license to kill and maim with no cere thank-you to Ukrainian Congress Sheptytsky did not leave it at that. Writing Within a year his fears were realized and second-guessing, even in Stalin’s times). Committee of America member Gregory in 1960, Holocaust survivor Kurt Lewin the Soviets violently disbanded his Church. Protocols taken by the KGB after Dobusz for continuously informing our describes how his father, the chief rabbi of As he had foreseen, the faithful carried on World War II are not even transcripts. Ukrainian community of their events. Lviv, Dr. Jechezkiel Lewin, went to “in the catacombs.” In 1968 Pope Paul VI They are summaries of secret interroga- Metropolitan Sheptytsky after the Nazi honored Archbishop-Metropolitan tions – where torture was the rule, not Ihor Sawon South Bound Brook, N.J. invasion and asked for help. Sheptytsky Sheptytsky with the title “Servant of God,” the exception. The so-called protocols promised to do what he could. He wrote to the first step toward canonization. When are produced by the Justice Department The letter-writer is president of the Himmler and he wrote to the pope. He also the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, the against alleged war criminals as evidence Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s Ukrainian addressed his own congregation. Ukrainian Catholic Church was officially of their guilt. No American investigator Orthodox Memorial Church. In a pastoral letter titled “Thou Shalt Not restored. ever saw the interrogations that produced Kill,” he forbade all Ukrainian Catholics Today Archbishop-Metropolitan the protocols. No defense lawyer was from direct or indirect participation in the Sheptytsky deserves much more than a present. No impartial person was per- The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes extermination of Jews. The letter was read footnote to a preliminary report on the mitted to view the messy process. No letters to the editor and commen- in all 4,500 churches, chapels, monasteries Vatican and the Holocaust. Like Raul due process rules were followed by the taries on a variety of topics of con- and schools under his jurisdiction. Doing Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, he con- interrogators. Yet, the OSI, on behalf of cern to the Ukrainian American so took enormous courage, not only from fronted evil head-on – in his case, in both the United States government, has per- and Ukrainian Canadian commu- Sheptytsky, but also from every one of the its Communist and National Socialist suaded numerous gullible immigration priests who read the letter and the forms. Next year in June – after more than nities. Opinions expressed by judges that such evidence is equivalent Christians who heeded it. 22 years as pontiff – John Paul II will visit to an affidavit freely given by the “wit- columnists, commentators and let- The Nazis were serious, dead serious, Ukraine. I fervently hope that the pope, ness” (who often was shot after signing ter-writers are their own and do about killing Jews. In just half a year from who himself had stood up to the evils of the protocols). not necessarily reflect the opinions 1943 to 1944, the Nazis formally executed Nazism and Communism, takes that oppor- One such witness who was subjected of either The Weekly editorial a hundred Ukrainians for helping or con- tunity to honor Andrey Sheptytsky, a great to KGB interrogation was physically tor- staff or its publisher, the cealing Jews. Many others were shot on the man who defended all people regardless of tured, but due to his accommodating tes- Ukrainian National Association. spot and never listed in official reports. To their background and by so doing, became timony, survived the experience. make sure everyone got the message, a Servant of God. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

“Obzhynky”: Ukraine’s version of the Thanksgiving holiday by Orysia Paszczak Tracz The major ceremony in the field cen- Ukrainian traditions, some of the basic ele- When the hospodar symbolically sows tered around the last clump of uncut grain. ments are the ancestors, nature, holy moth- a few grains from the Boroda around it, You just celebrated a really traditional, The spot was located near the boundary or er-earth and bread. The belief is that every we have reinforcement, and the progres- old-fashioned Thanksgiving, with turkey, dividing furrow between two fields. These aspect of nature has a soul and is part of sion from the seed seeding itself (as it did stuffing, pumpkin pie, cornstalks, the stalks (“kolosky”) were tied and braided in the clan, the extended family. In prehis- in the Paleolithic) to agriculture Pilgrim hats, and all the other fixings and such a way that even though the roots toric times people believed that if they car- (Neolithic). As a beard/boroda, it also took decorations of the American kind. So were still in the ground, the braided stalks ried out certain actions and rituals, chanti- on the symbolism of the old respected when would a Ukrainian Thanksgiving no longer reached up, but faced down, ng or singing specific words, then they members of the family, the ancestors. (I happen? Too late for this year – you would towards the earth. This clump of still-root- could have an effect on the world of nature had tried to envision what the Boroda real- need to move it back from late November ed grain formed an enclosure, like a short around them, and ensure that what they ly looked like, and had a vague idea based (on the second Monday in October for tent with a flat roof, at the front of which say will happen will actually come true on the descriptions in the various books. Canadians) to mid-August, to the general was an opening, with the braided stalks because of their actions. The sun must be But it was only during my visit to the time when harvesting ends in most tem- hanging down over the opening. This liv- praised and reminded to return every museum located within the fortress at perate climates. ing structure had many names, depending spring. Mother earth must be thanked and Kamyanets-Podilskyi that I saw an actual And while we are moving the time of upon region: “Spasova Boroda,” “Didova praised for her bounty, and entertained and Boroda in the obzhynky display. [The celebration, we might as well move back Boroda,” “Tsapova Boroda,” “Vlasova honored so that next year the harvest will members of my tour group could not fig- the origin of Thanksgiving, from the 17th Boroda,” “Velesova Boroda,” “Illi be even better. The ancestors who have ure out why I was so thrilled about seeing century of the first Pilgrim-Native Boroda,” “Boroda,” “Koza,” “Perepilka,” departed stay around protecting and help- a clump of wheat!] American feast, to a few millennia before “Perepelytsia,” Prokipia.” Most of these ing the living, and they, too, must be The vinok/wreath has a double mean- Christ, to the Neolithic period, when agri- names have the word “boroda” (beard), praised and thanked. ing. Along with its meaning of eternity, culture began. Now we’re talking turkey! recalling that the braided stalks hanging In the rituals of obzhynky these ele- honor and glory, it also signifies goodness, “Obzhynky” is the Ukrainian down look similar to an old man’s or a ments are obvious, as they are in other rit- beauty, chastity, purity and innocence. Thanksgiving, and the culmination of the goat’s beard. uals of the yearly cycle. In the harvest Standing under a vinok means to get mar- harvest. The basic word is “zhaty,” to reap, Into this enclosure the “hospodar,” the songs, the sun and rain are praised and ried (the Ukrainian word for the church to harvest. From it we have “zazhynky” – owner of the particular homestead, placed thanked. Ritual prayers and incantations ceremony is “vinchannia” from the root the first reaping, “zhnyva” – harvest, a round loaf of bread, salt and water. He are offered for future bounty and fertility, word, vinok). That is why the hospodar “obzhynky” – the harvest feast and knelt before it while the women reapers and for protection from hail, fire, drought tells the kniahynia that he hopes to see her “zhentsi” – the reapers. recited, “Rody Bozhe, na vsiakoho doliu – and flood. Veles is an important god, the in a vinok next year – he wishes she will bidnoho-bahatoho, vdovytsi i syroty ...” protector of cattle and other animals – marry then. (God, let the earth provide for all, the poor hence one of the names for the clump of With the harvest came the end of the and rich, the widows and orphans ...) The grain, Velesova Boroda. To the people it hard field work. People had more time, hospodar stood up, bowed to the Boroda was obvious that where the animals were, and fall was the time of “vulytsia,” and to the four directions of the field, and through natural fertilizer, the grain grew “vechornytsi” (matchmaking) and “vesil- blessed the field. He took a few grains more bountiful. lia” (weddings). Blended into the from the Boroda and sowed them into and The sun and rain were not the only Obzhynky songs are many references to around it, reciting: “Siisia, rodysia, zhyto- powers responsible for a good harvest. being under the vinochok. The procession pshenytsia, vsiaka pashnytsia, krascha Some of the souls of the ancestors who back from the fields takes on the appear- nizh toi rik.” (Sow and grow, rye and had departed this world lived in the fields. ance of a wedding procession, with wheat, and all grain, even better than this They protected and nourished the “nyva” “druzhky” (bridesmaids). By blending the year.) Games were played and other rituals (field), they ensured that the crops grew obzhynky and vesillia motifs (the latter were carried out by the zhentsi, to ensure a well. The souls also had to be thanked. In motifs appear in all annual rituals), people good harvest next year and to foretell the the songs and in their actions, the zhentsi wished bliss and fertility to both the fields yield. pay homage to the departed. With the end and the families. During this time, in addition to plaiting of harvest, the souls go in different direc- The obzhynky songs are special. They the grain wreaths and crosses, the female tions, some into the rivers and lakes, some recreate what the people believe. I espe- zhentsi picked a “kniahynia,” their queen into the woods and forests. Some become cially like the wishful thinking – by of the harvest. She stood in the center of birds – that is why the “perepilka” (quail) singing that the stodoly (barns) are full, the their circle, placed a sickle on her left is mentioned so often in the harvest songs. zhentsi are hoping they will be. shoulder, and held a “iurok” (a short stick The souls closest to each family came One harvest song that has become a The root of the word means “to cut.” If used in binding sheaves) in her right hand, home in the didukh – that is why making regular folk song is “Oi litaye sokolonko we were to transport ourselves to early and bowed to the people. The oldest male it, decorating it, and carrying it home in a po poliu, tai zbyraie cheliadonku dodomu. pre-industrial agricultural times, before zhentsi tied a “pereveslo” (a band of straw procession was such an important part of Idy, idy cheliadonko dodomu, vyhuliala combines and other modern farm equip- used to tie sheaves) around her waist, and obzhynky. vse litechko po poliu. Vyhuliala vse ment, we would know that the harvest crowned her with the wreath of grains and The Boroda was another vital aspect of litechko, sche i zhnyva, zabolila holovon- cannot be completed in a day or two, espe- flowers. She bowed again, and led the pro- this feast, and is a custom that reaches into ka sche i spyna. (The young falcon is fly- cially when you’re reaping with sickles cession back to the hospodarstvo, carrying agricultural prehistory, when humans first ing over the field, and calling his family and scythes. The result of the harvest is the didukh. Everyone followed, the young realized that seed from a plant will grow home. Come home, family, you spent all and was so important – food itself – that, women first, then the other zhentsi, all into another plant. This realization, this summer and the harvest in the field. The as with all Ukrainian traditions, the harvest with their harvesting implements decorat- paradigm shift marks the beginning of head hurts, and so does the spine.) rituals are recorded for us in the early oral ed with grain stalks and flowers. The har- agriculture, in the Neolithic period, Symbolically, this shows the ancestors literature, the “obzhynkovi pisni” (harvest vest songs continued. approximately 7,000-3,500 B.C. (depend- being called home from the fields. songs) and in some unique items of mate- At the gate to the house, the zhentsi ing upon the region). While most archae- In other songs, the singers sing about rial culture. The ritual songs accompanied were welcomed by the owners. Now they ologists consider the Near East the cradle their aching backs, about the moon and practically every action of obzhynky; were not field workers, but guests. of agriculture and the source of its spread stars (indicating that they worked well into much of what is mentioned is no longer Outside, in the yard, the table was set with into Europe, there are some indications the night), about the number of sheaves, carried out – only remembered in songs. white tablecloths, bread, salt, water and that there were local discoveries of agri- the girls in their vinky, the field birds, the Zhnyva, the process of harvest, was horilka (Ukrainian vodka). After the wel- culture and animal domestication. farewell to the fields for the winter, and long and hard, with only hand implements come, the table was moved closer to the At present, we have no way of knowing the high hopes for good fortune and a full with which to work – the “kosa” – the house. The kniahynia stepped forward, whether some agricultural discoveries hap- harvest next year. scythe, and the “serp” – the sickle. Men bowed, and said: “Dai Vam, Bozhe, scho- pened on the territory of Ukraine. But the There were even special songs for the used the former, women the latter. People by ste schaslyvo dochekaly na toi rik siy- continuation of the rituals of obzhynky, road they walked along going to the wore loose white clothing to work in the aty, oraty, a my, zdorovi, zbyraty.” (May especially the Didova Boroda, indicate hospodar. As they got closer to the house hot August sun, with wide-brimmed straw God grant that you happily live until next that the birth of agriculture was remem- and to the gate, the lyrics turned to more hats for the men and kerchiefs for the year, to sow and plow next year, and that bered by the population on Ukrainian terri- basic things: We’re tired, we’re hungry, women. Ritual songs were sung about the we may harvest for you.) The hospodar tory, and that these rituals were so impor- pay us, feed us and give us horilka to sun, the grain, the implements, the birds replied: “Dai, Bozhe, dochekaty v dobrim tant that they were passed on to future drink. living in the grain, about being tired and zdoroviu! A ty, moloda, Boh Day, zdorova generations. There is still no indication of The pioneers who settled the Canadian aching backs, about the abundant harvest rosla i shliubnoho vintsia dorosla!” (May if or how these Neolithic residents were prairies celebrated just as they did back for this year and next, and about wreaths God grant that we survive in good health. ancestors of the later Slavs, and then home, although in a much harsher climate. (“vinochky”) for weddings. And you, young lady, may God grant that Ukrainians (with DNA analysis, we may For those who came to the cities, the har- The last day of the harvest was the holi- you grow healthy and get married!) The know soon enough). By plaiting the rooted vest holidays were the first to be forgotten, day, obzhynky. The last sheaf of the best words varied from region to region, and grain clump in a way that the stalks point because they did not have relevance in an grain, “ostannii snip,” was ceremoniously village to village. The kniahynia gave the downward, the Ukrainian farmer of a few urban setting. The National Ukrainian reaped, tied and decorated with flowers hospodar the vinok, which he hung in the centuries ago echoed the prehistoric real- Canadian Festival in Dauphin, Manitoba, and ribbons. This became the “didukh” for house on a peg at the “pokuttia” (the cen- ization that grain actually seeded itself. A at the beginning of August, still has “Sviat Vechir” (Christmas Eve). Along tral and ritual corner of the house). The continuation of this symbol is the tree of obzhynky rituals as part of the opening with the sheaf, in some regions of Ukraine didukh was ceremoniously carried into the life (so elegantly and simply depicted by ceremonies. a large “vinok,” or wreath of grain stalks home, placed on the pokuttia, along with the late Jacques Hnizdovsky in one of his Nonetheless, while urban Ukrainian was also prepared and decorated with field bread, salt, water and honey or horilka. woodcuts), with the seeds falling to the families are not that close to the rural soil, flowers. In the Poltava region a large Then all sat down for a well-deserved ground, sprouting and growing into a plant the didukh of Ukrainian Christmas is a cross, the “obzhynkovyi khrest,” was meal, which had to include varenyky. that blooms and produces flowers, then reminder of harvest, its bounty, our ances- woven out of grain. So what does all this mean? In seeds – which fall to the ground. tors and the beginning of agriculture. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 9

FFOOCCUSUS ONON PHIPHILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych

The world’s first international, and regular, airmail service PART I however, had two major drawbacks, none of them were regularly scheduled In the area of aeronautic firsts, several flights (all were subject to the vagaries of countries make claim to having the first the weather) and none could know their airmail service. The problem in distin- exact final destination (since the balloons guishing which claim is valid lies in how were dependent on the winds, they – and one defines “airmail service.” Upon clos- the mail – would be moved whither the er examination, it becomes clear that vir- air currents carried them). tually all these “firsts” failed to meet two The world’s first officially approved important criteria one would expect a service to perform: they did not last for airmail flight by a powered craft FIGURE 1: Launching the world’s first regular international airmail service, any extended period of time and they did occurred on February 18, 1911, in two Austrian Army airmail fliers prepare to take off from Vienna to Kyiv on not follow a regular schedule. Towards Allahabad, British India. Some 6,500 let- March 20, 1918. The flight service was put under the command of Capt. August the close of World War I, however, an ters were flown by French pilot Henri Raft von Marwil (inset), who also piloted the first flight. Austrian airline was finally established Pequet from the Agricultural Exhibition that met the length and regularity crite- grounds to Naini Junction (about 13 kilo- more was flown out. Covers from this The world’s first officially approved ria. In addition, an extension of the serv- meters). Proceeds raised by the event temporary service are highly desired by round-trip airmail flight, an experimental ice to Kyiv made it an international mail funded the construction of a new hostel. collectors, who must be careful to avoid junket featuring the use of the first air- run. Over the next few years other experi- the many fakes that have appeared over mail stamp, took place in May of 1917 mental airmail flights were made in vari- the years. between Rome and Turin. The stamp was Pioneering airmail efforts ous parts of the world. None were for Another irregular service that arose created on May 16 by overprinting about the time the Peremysh flights express mail stamps with a three-line Homing pigeons were used hundreds very great distances; usually going only ceased was an international service. inscription “Experimento Posta Aerea/ of years before Christ in Greece, Persia, from a temporary postal station at an air- Many people do not realize that not all of Maggio 1917/ Torino-Roma-Roma- and China (it is difficult to determine field to a post office in an adjacent com- Belgium was overrun during the first Torino.” First scheduled to take off on which was first), so all three countries munity. Most of these flights were in world war. King Albert and his govern- May 19, the flight was delayed due to have some claim to having invented the conjunction with aviation meets, where ment sequestered themselves in a small bad weather. All mail was postmarked first airmail service. The first example of the carrying of souvenir mail was inci- pocket surrounding De Panne in West May 20, but foul weather again forced a regular pigeon-carried mail service was dental to the competitions among the Flanders, and communications were set pilot Mario de Bernardi to cool his heels. the overly successful New Zealand pilots. While these various flights are up with England. While most mail went He finally took off about 11 a.m. on May Pigeon Post (1897-1901). This operation worth recalling, they still do not meet the out by ship, some was carried by plane. 22 and landed four hours later in Rome, was ordered stopped by the New Zealand designation of airmail service. All these It wasn’t long before civilian mail also handing over about 200 kilograms of government with the excuse that it vio- flights were simply for one-time special will accepted: the first such mail is mail and 100 newspapers. The return lated the official governmental postal events. believed to have been flown on March flight was once more delayed because of monopoly. Ad hoc wartime airmail services 15, 1915. Flights continued sporadically weather until May 26. Although a few However, what is usually meant by until about mid-December when they aeronautical firsts were achieved during airmail is mail carried by an aircraft, and It was during World War I that cir- were discontinued for the winter. In 1916 these two flights, they never evolved into here the earliest flights were made by cumstances necessitated the setting up of the service resumed. It is not known a regular air service. balloon. The first flight to carry mail on more regular delivery of mails. Over whether a fee was charged for flown January 7, 1785, was also the first inter- time, and by the close of hostilities, these mail, since the few covers that have sur- Establishing the Vienna-Kyiv Line national airmail flight. Piloted by a interim delivery methods evolved into vived have neither stamps nor charge It is an often-overlooked fact of histo- Frenchman, Jean Pierre Blanchard, and what became the world’s first regular air- marks. They are simply canceled with a ry, but while the Central Powers of an American, John Jeffries, the trip was mail service. circular date stamp of “PANNE”. So, made across the English Channel from The first of these provisional services Germany and Austria-Hungary did lose even though international flights were World War I on the Western Front, they Dover, England to the vicinity of Calais, was a military airmail effort set up by made, they were never regular and would France. The event was part of the new Austrian units into and out of the hardly constitute a service. (Continued on page 14) spirit of amity between the two countries besieged town of Peremyshl (then part of following the American war of independ- the Austro-Hungarian Empire, currently ence (where French aid was instrumental in Poland). Both airplanes and balloons in securing the colonies’ victory over were used to transport the mails during England). Several letters, carefully two sieges between September 1914 and Stamps commemorate wrapped in a pig bladder to keep them March 1915, when the Russian armies dry, were sequestered in the gondola of were finally pushed back. There was one this hydrogen-inflated craft. Over the mail-carrying flight during the first siege the Vienna-Kyiv line next century many more famous balloon and13 during the second. While some The Austrian Postal Administration has airmail flights were made. All of them mail was flown into the fortress, much commemorated the first regular international airmail service on two occasions. The first was a stamp produced for the philatelic exposition FIGURE A “Luposta Wien 1961,” which showed the Brandenburg aircraft used in making the first airmail run (A). A more recent stamp recalling the Vienna- Kyiv service was released in 1989 for “Postage Stamp Day.” Depicted was the take-off of the first flight from Vienna’s Aspern airport on March 20, 1918 (B). The stamp vignette is modeled on the photo of the first flight (Figure 1), with several figures added to the foreground by the artist designer. Mention should also be made of another commemoration of this international mail serv- ice. In 1993, just two years after regaining its FIGURE B independence and 75 years after the Vienna- Kyiv route was inaugurated, Ukraine issued a stamp (part of a two-stamp set) depicting the Brandenburg aircraft used on the first flight to Kyiv (C). Interestingly, this stamp set was pre- pared at the Austrian State Printing Office in FIGURE 2: The solid line shows airmail routes established to link Vienna to Vienna, because Ukraine would not acquire the Kyiv via Krakow and Lemberg in one direction, and Vienna to Budapest in the printing facilities to produce its own stamps for other. The dashed line shows the projected “southern route” of Budapest-Arad- another year. FIGURE C Bucharest-Odesa that was never set up. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49 Lviv clinic specializes in treating children suffering from cancer, leukemia by Alex Kuzma LVIV – In 1990, at the height of the non-violent movement for Ukrainian independence, the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund approached the regional health minister in Lviv with a radical proposal. The CCRF urged Dr. Zinovii Kryvoruchko to recruit a specialized team of progressive young doctors to take over the abandoned Communist Party hospital on Dnistrovska Street, once reserved for the Soviet elite, and to convert it into a specialized medical cen- ter for children suffering from cancer and leukemia. The proposal was the brainchild of Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, a New Jersey-based surgeon, and his wife, Nadia. As co- founders of the CCRF, they had returned to Ukraine with a dream to create a hos- pital that could become a model for the transformation of a medical system that had been shattered by decades of Soviet neglect and mismanagement. At first the proposal met fierce resist- ance. Health officials in other cities turned down similar offers to form part- nerships with Western relief agencies. But in a few months the proposal cap- tured the imagination of Dr. At the front entrance to the Lviv Regional Children’s Specialized Clinic, more than 75 former patients who have recovered Kryvoruchko and other leaders of the from leukemia and cancer gather around two of their treating physicians to express their appreciation prior to the clinic’s Lviv medical community. They assem- 10th anniversary festivities on September 22. bled a team of visionary young special- ists, including Dr. Orest Sozansky, Dr. the families of children who have sur- their professionalism and their strong cytometer, a large volume of cancer med- Yarema Voznytsia, Dr. Theophil vived illnesses once considered untreat- commitment to their vision. ication and an electrocardiogram. Pidlesetsky and Dr. Oleksander able or terminal. Over the past 10 years, the Children of Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Myndiuk. In September 1990, amid great The CCRF’s co-founder and president, Chornobyl Relief Fund provided more Agency for International Development, public excitement, the Lviv Regional Dr. Matkiwsky, was among the guests of than $5 million of medical aid to the the CCRF was able to provide a full pro- Children’s Specialized Clinic was born. honor from the United States. He pre- LRCSC. Among the tons of supplies tocol of chemotherapeutic agents for The LRCSC celebrated its 10th sented Dr. Myndiuk, the chief doctor of delivered aboard CCRF’s earlier airlifts combating leukemia and non-Hodgkins anniversary on September 22 with a gala the LRCSC, with a special plaque and were a complete surgery wing, sophisti- lymphoma. In later years, the CCRF dinner and testimonial concert that drew congratulated all members of the medical cated blood chemistry analyzers, an ultra- hundreds of local dignitaries, as well as staff for their outstanding achievements, sound machine, Ukraine’s first flow (Continued on page 23) No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 11 UUARC releases annual report on aid to needy Ukrainians

PHILADELPHIA – For over 50 years packages, weighing 30,551 pounds and the United Ukrainian American Relief valued at $100,000. Committee has been providing all forms • March – a container was shipped to of humanitarian aid to Ukrainians the Prosvita Society in Luhansk. The throughout the world. After World War shipment contained 36 bales of used II, relief efforts were targeted to hun- clothing, weighing 31,720 pounds and dreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees valued at $40,000. in Europe. • March – a container of 42 bales of During the arrests of dissidents in used clothing was shipped to the Ukraine in the 1970s and 1980s, the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of UUARC directed aid relief to them and Kolomyia, for distribution to needy vil- their families. These actions were lagers. The container weighed 34,266 financed exclusively by the Ukrainian pounds and had a value of $53,000. community in the United States. • March – a container of 38 bales of In the late 1980s and early 1990s the used clothing was shipped to the UUARC sent thousands of parcels con- Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano- taining clothing and medicines to needy Frankivsk for distribution to the needy. Ukrainians not only in Ukraine, but also The container weighed 33,279 pounds Brazil, Argentina, Romania, Yugoslavia and had a value of $41,200. These three and Poland. Financial aid was provided containers also were shipped through the to Ukrainian refugees through our repre- efforts of the UCCA’s Council of sentatives in Germany and Austria. Defense and Aid for Ukraine. With Ukraine’s independence in 1991, • June – a container of 700 parcels of a concerted effort has been made to help used clothing and bedding went to Sarny, needy Ukrainians in Ukraine during the Rivne Oblast, through the efforts of transition period from a command to a Ukrainian Evangelical Churches, market economy. Since 1993, the Lowville, N.Y. The shipment weighed UUARC, as a 501(c)(3) organization, has 29,835 pounds and was valued at annually applied to the U.S. government $50,740. to obtain grants from the Ocean Freight • June – a container containing 829 Reimbursement Program of the United parcels was shipped to Kyiv through the States Agency for International efforts of the humanitarian organization Development to ship humanitarian aid to Children are Hope in Virginia. The ship- Ukraine and other former Soviet ment weighed 29,150 pounds and was republics. Most of these applications valued at $127,000. It included medical were approved and the UUARC was able instruments and supplies, school supplies to use taxpayer dollars to help our needy and computers. brethren in Ukraine. • June – a container was shipped to For fiscal year 2000, which ran from the Kyiv regional office of UUARC by July 1, 1999, to June 30 of this year, the UUARC headquarters in Philadelphia. UUARC obtained an Ocean Freight The shipment contained 656 parcels Reimbursement grant of $60,000 to weighing a total of 27,000 pounds with cover ocean freight (only) for shipments a value of $51,500. It included equip- to Ukraine and Kazakstan. This funding ment for two dental offices, an x-ray was restricted to shipping humanitarian machine, wheel chairs, antibiotics, vita- aid, using U.S. registered ships. Funds to mins, bicycles, etc. The dental equip- purchase boxes, transportation to loca- ment was destined for Lutsk, Volyn tions in the U.S., and warehousing in Oblast. Ukraine still came from the generous • June – a container of 408 parcels, donations of the Ukrainian American weighing 25,237 pounds valued at community. As a result of the Ocean $70,000 was shipped to the Sevastopol Freight Grant for fiscal year 2000, 13 40- branch of the Prosvita Society through foot containers and 251 additional the efforts of Tidewater Ukrainian parcels were shipped to Ukraine, and one American Cultural Association, container was shipped to Kazakstan. In Richmond, Va. The shipment included x- most cases, the UUARC regional office ray machines, dental and medical equip- in Kyiv obtained duty-free status for ment, and school supplies. these shipments. • June – a container of 921 boxes was A listing of the containers, their desti- shipped to Kyiv through the efforts of the nations and organizations involved fol- Ukrainian National Association. The lows. shipment included books for the Taras • November 1999 – a container with Shevchenko Institute of Literature, 115 medical equipment and medicines was boxes of used clothing for the Society of shipped to the Lviv Oblast Children’s Former Political Prisoners in Kyiv and Hospital by Emergency Medical Aid for four parishes in Kyiv, and office supplies Ukraine – Ukrainian American Youth for the UUARC office in Kyiv. The total Association. The shipment was valued weight was 42,679 pounds, valued at at $145,000 and weighed 20,417 $70,560. pounds. • June – a container was shipped to the • December 1999 – a container was UUARC’s Lviv regional office by the shipped to Lviv regional office of the UUARC headquarters in Philadelphia. UUARC by the UUARC headquarters. The shipment contained 835 parcels The shipment contained medical instru- weighing 34,568 pounds and valued at ments, medicines such as aspirin and $70,000. It included 100 boxes for the Tylenol, bedding and used clothing, des- Prosvita Society in Uzhorod, medical tined for over 30 organizations including equipment, laboratory instruments for a Caritas Kolomyia, internaty (boarding college in Lviv, bicycles, etc. schools for children with disabilities), the • July – a container was shipped to the Association of Political Prisoners and UUARC regional office in Kyiv by the Sisters of the Holy Family in Hoshiv. The UUARC headquarters in Philadelphia. shipment consisted of 670 packages, The shipment contained 620 parcels weighing 17,737 pounds and valued at weighing 32,000 pounds with a value of $60,000. $71,000. The container included 100 • March – a container was shipped to boxes of brand new encyclopedias, val- Kazakstan, through the efforts of the ued at $25,000, purchased by benefactor Council of Defense and Aid for Ukraine, H. Malynowsky for the National which functions under the aegis of the University of Kyiv – Mohyla Academy, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. The shipment included 790 (Continued on page 19) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

Plast’s Orlykiada competition focusesby Deanna T.on Yurchuk UkrainianThe boys’ group heritage from New York Special to The Ukrainian Weekly researched Ukrainian monuments in the diaspora for their exhibit “It is interesting KERHONKSON, N.Y. – “Ukrainian to be able to travel to different areas of the Heritage” was the theme of the 39th world and see your country represented Orlykiada, an annual Plast competition there,” said Kolya Pylyp, one of the sponsored by the Plast fraternity named group. after Hryhor Orylyk, an 18th century “This weekend took us back in histo- Ukrainian political émigré. Twelve teams, ry,” said Oleksa Slywynskyj, a competitor comprising 106 teenage “plastuny” from from Toronto. “People my age seem to be 12 U.S. cities and Canada met at talking more about their Ukrainian her- Soyuzivka, the resort of the Ukrainian itage now, something I didn’t see before. National Association, on November 11-12 I’m proud along with them.” to compete in this three-part event. Referring to her cultural heritage, Relying on a packet of materials about Ukrainian heritage compiled by George Laryssa Temnycky from the Newark Soltys and their own research, the teams group added, “It provides you with your tried to outdo each other in the panel of own cultural identity, a special sense of questions, performance competitions and the past. It is reassuring to know that our exhibit presentations. Ukrainian heritage has survived the hard- “The idea behind this year’s theme was ships of war and persecution, standing the tests of changing generations and loca- The contingent of Plast girls from the Newark, N.J., branch at Soyuzivka. to continue the celebration of the new mil- lennium,” said Mykola Kurczak, an tions, and our unifying Ukrainian roots Orylykiada organizer for many years. “Our cannot be easily erased.” task was to give our children a sense of The competition also featured new Ukrainian life and history,” he continued. faces of recent immigrants from Ukraine. The artistic portion of the event saw a Taras and Tania Fedak of Passaic, N.J., re-enactment of Taras Shevchenko’s poem brought their son to his first Orlykiada. “Hamalia”; a new version of the “We had heard of Plast in Lviv. When we Ukrainian story “Ripka” (Turnip) which in arrived in the United States, our son want- this version would not grow because of all ed to become involved,” Mrs. Fedak said. the country’s battles that had trampled on “It is impressive how well these children it; as well as original songs about have preserved their heritage,” she contin- Ukraine’s history. ued. “In the skits the teams aptly recreated The broad theme of this year’s our past in contemporary interpretation.” Orlykiada also inspired many ingenious “This year’s Orlykiada has been a suc- exhibits. For example, the Washington cess,” said Bohdan Kopystianskyj, chair- group created a project titled “Yaroslav, man of the Orlykiada committee, who is Bohdan and Shukh, and What Sophia currently discussing next year’s theme Saw.” They presented a model of the St. with his colleagues. “Our children need to Sophia Sobor in Kyiv and reported on know where they came from. Our aim is events in the capital during three different to teach them things they will not learn in eras of Ukraine’s history. Among other their classrooms,” added Mr. Kurczak. projects was a display of Ukraine’s het- The winners of the competition were mans, the tryzub through the ages, and the boys’ group from New York and the Friends from New York and New Jersey enjoy the new gazebo at Soyuzivka. ancient Ukrainian costumes. girls’ group from Philadelphia.

United States and Canada. ideals of Plast – duty to God and country, duty to others Plast convenes worldwide... But the highlight of the meeting was the appearance and commitment to self-development – and he praised (Continued from page 1) of Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko, who not only Plast for taking up the task of involving Ukraine’s youth file in the capital city. spoke to the delegates but was named an honorary Plast in the building of the Ukrainian nation and the The move proved to have been a good one as official member. Ukrainian state. greetings were conveyed from President Leonid The Prime Minister mentioned that he had become During the four-day meeting, the delegates approved Kuchma; the State Committee on Sport, Youth and acquainted with the work of Plast several years ago a revised constitution and passed numerous resolutions Tourism; the National Committee of Youth when he visited the summer camps in the Carpathians that will serve as guidelines for the newly elected lead- Organizations (a non-governmental association); the organized for Ukrainian orphans by Help Us Help the ership. Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church; and the Children. The camp leadership at the time was made up Slava Rubel of the United States was elected to head Ukrainian Catholic Church. Mykhailo Horyn appeared mostly of Plast members – both from the diaspora and the Supreme Plast Bulava, and Yaroslav Havrykh of the on behalf of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council Ukraine. United Kingdom was elected to head the Supreme Plast and greetings were sent by Kyiv-based embassies of the The prime minister emphasized that he shares the Council.

Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko is made an hon- orary Plast member and receives a scout hat. Behind The outgoing head of the Supreme Plast Bulava, Ludmyla Darmohray (left), convenes the worldwide meeting the prime minister is Levko Zakharchyshyn, who of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. heads the National Plast Council in Ukraine. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 13 Theater production celebrates 50th anniversary of Plast in U.S.

The Plast Spirit (Lida Prokop Artymyshyn) appears to Levko In the first act of “Yuvileina Vatra” (Jubilee Bonfire) a group of young Plast members sing (Pavlo Farmiga) in a scene from “Yuvileina Vatra,” a production around a campfire. commemorating the 50th anniversary of Plast. by Roma Hadzewycz ple while conveying the enduring ideals of ‘Yuvileina Vatra’ was to mark the 50th them the newly elected president of the Plast.” anniversary with the Ukrainian communi- Ukrainian Congress Committee of CLIFTON, N.J. – Plast Ukrainian One and a half years in the making, the ty – and I think we achieved that goal,” America, Michael Sawkiw Jr., and the Scouting Organization continued the cele- program was organized by Zenia Brozyna said Ms. Brozyna. “We also felt it was an president of the Ukrainian American bration of its 50th anniversary in the and Oksana Korduba, both members of achievement to get all these youths togeth- Youth Association (SUM), Yurii United States with a special presentation the Chortopolokhy sorority, and Adia er to perform in this show.” Nakonechnyj. titled “Yuvileina Vatra” (Jubilee Bonfire) Fedash, a member of the Chornomorski Ms. Korduba added, “Zenia and I were Also present were Chief Plastun Dr. here at Clifton High School on Sunday Khvylky. Mmes. Brozyna and Korduba asked by the National Plast Command to Lubomyr Romankiw and the newly elect- afternoon, November 19. wrote the play, and preparations began in prepare this presentation” and “we decid- ed president of the Supreme Plast Bulava, Founded in 1911 in Lviv, Ukraine, February, with rehearsals starting in April. ed that we wanted to conclude Plast’s Slava Rubel. Plast was transplanted in 1949 to the United States with the arrival of post-war The committee enlisted the assistance jubilee year with a theater piece.” She A proclamation from the City of Clifton refugees. Today branches of the youth of two renowned women of the Ukrainian explained that the organizers considered was presented to Plast on the occasion of organization are found in all major cities stage and longtime friends of Plast: theater themselves lucky to have had the coopera- its 50th anniversary by Mayor James where there is a Ukrainian community. director Lydia Krushelnytsky, who gra- tion of a large number of Plast members Anzaldi. Also present was City Many of those branches were repre- ciously agreed to serve as drama coach to from the northeastern United States. Councilman Stefan Tatarenko, who was sented at the “Vatra” program, and many a crew of amateur actors, and choreogra- In addition to the cast – drawn primari- instrumental in arranging for the perform- of their members were the actors, singers pher Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, who ly from the ranks of Plast members in the ance to take place at Clifton High School. and dancers who performed in the show. worked with her Syzokryli Ukrainian youth organization’s branches in Newark At the conclusion of the ceremony, the First and foremost, the “Vatra” was a dance ensemble and other dancers to pre- and Passaic, N.J., as well as New York president of the U.S. National Plast presentation by Plast youth meant to pare the terpsichorean sequences for the City – there were 108 extras from Plast Command, Borys Pawluk, thanked all the reflect the continuity of Plast ideals and presentation. branches in New York, Philadelphia, performers and others involved in the pro- traditions from its founding to the present Musician Andrij Stasiw provided piano Newark and Passaic, N.J., and New Haven duction for their hard work and congratu- day. accompaniment throughout the program, and Hartford, Conn., who participated in lated them on their success in presenting a Featuring a play that depicted scenes of including musical introductions and inter- the parade of Plast groups organized by unique depiction of Plast’s development in Plast life, the action centered on a young ludes. Andrij Farmiga, Dora Hapiy and Ms. Fedash. the United States. scout, Levko (Pavlo Farmiga), and his Deanna Yurchuk organized the Plast Present at the jubilee program were The entire program was filmed by conversation with the Plast Spirit (Lida singers for the program. representatives of various Ukrainian com- Vlodko Artymyshyn and copies of a video Prokop Artymyshyn). “The main reason we prepared the munity organizations, foremost among of the anniversary event will be available. While Levko is camping with his Plast colleagues, the Plast Spirit takes him back in time to western Ukraine, where Plast was founded, and introduces him to the brave “plastuny” who served Ukraine dur- ing two world wars. In one scene Levko sees the prominent leaders of Plast’s past, including Gen. Roman Shukhevych (Taras Chuprynka), a member of the Chornomortsi Plast frater- nity who was the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The Spirit leads Levko to the United States, where Plast members organize new troops and branches in cities where Ukrainians settle. He witnesses a parade of Plast members representing “stanytsi” (branches) throughout the United States and Plast sororities and fraternities, as well as Plast campgrounds and publica- tions. Once Levko “returns,” he encounters his fellow “plastuny,” tells them of his journey and shares with them the true spirit of Plast. Ms. Artymyshyn, a veteran actor of Lydia Krushelnytsky’s drama studio, reflected on her role: “It was a pleasure for me to do this. It felt good to get involved with the whole idea of this proj- ect, to express the value of Plast and the reason for its long and successful exis- tence. And it was also fun to do. It’s a healthy, wholesome feeling because you Performers and organizers take a bow at the conclusion of the play. Holding flowers (from left) are: Roma Pryma get to connect with so many different peo- Bohachevsky, Zenia Brozyna, Oksana Korduba, Adia Fedash and Lidia Krushelnytsky. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

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There O (Figure 2). After overnighting in ÍÌËÊÍË Lemberg, they arrived in Kyiv about noon were 22 aircraft in the airmail fleet, O ÊÛð̇ÎË which was made up of several model O ·ðÓ¯ÛðË PROFESSIONALS the following day. Only official and mili- tary mail was carried on this trip (Figure types: the Hansa-Brandenburg C1 (most O ÍÓ‚ÂðÚË, ͇̈ÂÎflð¥ÈÌ¥ ‰ðÛÍË of the aircraft), the Oeffag C2, and the O 3). [Author’s note: Since Western Ukraine ‚¥ÁËÚ¥‚ÍË Knoller-Albatros B1. O ‚Âҥθ̥ Á‡ÔðÓ¯ÂÌÌfl ̇ ð¥ÁÌËı ÏÓ‚‡ı Michael P. 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They made the return plane was employed on one particular leg trip to Vienna in a single day, logging 10 only, going back and forth over just this ATTORNEY hours in the air and stopping only to refu- one section. el. It was this return trip that was to be Each flight from Vienna to Kyiv or in JERRY the model for all subsequent flights the opposite direction had to be complet- between the two capital cities. ed during daylight hours, since there KUZEMCZAK On March 27 the Austrian government were no facilities for night flying and no issued “Post and Telegraph Order No. 15, navigational aids. As each plane came • accidents at work which contained specific instructions into sight, the pre-heated engine of the automobile accidents pertaining to the establishment of an air- plane for the next leg was started with • the crew of two, pilot and observer, slip and fall mail service between the major Austrian • already on board. The crew’s outfits con- medical malpractice cities of Vienna and Lemberg. A few • days later, on April 1, a flight schedule sisted of warm clothing, leather jackets FIRST CONSULTATION IS FREE. was established, which was revised at the and thick goggles. Mail bags were quick- end of June 1918 as follows: ly transferred and signed for by the pilot Fees collected only after against a bill of lading. Although passen- personal injury case is successful. Departure from Vienna at 0430 and land at Olmuniec (present-day Olomouc, gers were not permitted, an occasional VIP or press reporter was carried. ALSO: Czech Republic) at 0600. Resume flight at 0630 to arrive in Krakow at 0800. A manual titled “Instructions for • DWI Airmail Pilots” was prepared, which real estate Leave Krakow at 0830 and arrive at • Lemberg at 1100. Depart from Lemberg dealt with the handling of mails. In case criminal and civil cases • at 1130 to arrive at Proskuriv (present- of a forced landing, the pilot was respon- • traffic offenses day Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) at 1400. sible for ensuring that the mail was for- • matrimonial matters Leave Proskuriv at 1500 and arrive in warded without delay and all pilots held • general consultation Kyiv at 1730. The return flights to be in a special Post Office Certificate. Insure and be sure. reverse order starting at 0400. (To be continued.) WELT & DAVID The distances between the landing 1373 Broad St, Clifton, N.J. 07013 sites at Vienna, Olmuniec, Krakow, Dr. Ingert Kuzych may be contacted at Join the UNA! P (973) 773-9800 Lemberg, Proskuriv and Kyiv were .O. Box 3, Springfield VA 22150 or at approximately 150, 200, 300, 250 and [email protected] No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 15

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laborators. Other than the files on Survivors of Soviet-era... repressed people, secret police archives in With sorrow we announce that on November 20, 2000, Ukraine remain closed, and even the infor- (Continued from page 3) our beloved husband, father and grandfather Nina remembers her 10 years in central mation on political prisoners is available Asian camps more positively. She learned only to the people directly involved. how to drive a tractor, and founded a choir According to Gen. Pristaiko, that saves for the doctors, artists and intellectuals in a lot of pain because the Soviet system George Prociv forced many to become informers and the camp. Yet Nina’s family was decimat- passed away at the age of 81. such facts are better never uncovered. ed by the purges. Her father was arrested Funeral services were held on Saturday, November 25, 2000, “There are people still alive who are not and shot; her husband was sent to a camp at 10 a.m., at the Immaculate Conception Church, Palatine, Ill. guilty before anyone or anything, but it where he met a woman he married when Interment was held on Monday, November 27, 2000, at 2 p.m. could cast a cloud on them that their father he was eventually freed. at Holy Spirit Cemetery, Campbell Hall, NY. or grandfather was whatever,” he says. “I Arrangements were made When Nina was released she was not wouldn’t want to sentence them. People given permission to live in the same town were in an extreme situation.” by Muzyka & Son Funeral Directors, Chicago, Ill. as her sister and her son. She was reunited As Gen. Pristaiko himself acknowl- with her son only after Ukrainian inde- edges, keeping the records secret has In Sorrow, pendence, when she finally got an apart- allowed him to keep his post. “I’ve been wife Maria ment large enough for them to live in told, and more than once, that because I’m children Theodore with wife Joann together. However, the arrangement did not a colonel of the KGB I’m guilty of some- work out after a lifetime apart, she recounts thing,” he says candidly. “In some coun- Stefan with wife Ingrid with sadness. Her son moved into a differ- tries the personal affairs of officers is open Christine Leutz with husband Ren ent apartment and died soon afterwards. to everyone. But Ukrainian people look at eight grandchildren Independence in Ukraine has been a the past and past events calmly, without Eternal memory! disappointment to many of these sur- extremism.” vivors, but despite today’s hardships they His point of view is shared by the don’t look back on the Soviet era with the founder of the rehabilitation center, Dr. nostalgia many Ukrainians show for the Gluzman, one of Ukraine’s youngest lost security of communism. prison-camp survivors. He was sentenced “Now I say what I think and do what I in the 1970s for questioning the use of DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS want,” says Mr. Shakhiv. “We’ve got our psychiatry by the state to get rid of dissi- to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian real Ukraine. The Communists were dents. Gluzman the dissident and Pristaiko or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. responsible for such a terrible famine, the KGB general now share one of those there was such repression. A car would unlikely friendships that characterize post- Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. come and you’d wonder who it had come Communist societies. (The Weekly goes to press early Friday mornings.) for. For me? For my father? For my broth- Dr. Gluzman, too, is against the kind of er? It was no life. And most people lived purges which in the former Eastern bloc Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. in those conditions.” have banned anyone associated with the Information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department Unlike the Eastern bloc countries of Communist secret services from holding and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 (NB: please Poland, the Czech Republic and East civil posts. He describes the process, do not include post office box if sending via courier), Parsippany, N.J. 07054; called “lustration,” as a “meat grinder.” Germany, Ukraine has not rejected its fax, (973) 644-9510; telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; His attitude and his association with Gen. communist past out of hand, trying to e-mail, [email protected]. purge the new regimes of communist col- Pristaiko have raised some eyebrows among other former dissidents in Ukraine. Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. But Gen. Pristaiko, with the publication of selected secret service files (for which UCCLA activists confer... Dr. Gluzman helps find funding), could be (Continued from page 3) said to be doing more than the newly inde- and statues commemorating the intern- pendent state of Ukraine is doing for the ment operations across Canada and to prison camp survivors. As Dr. Gluzman’s develop a more effective national com- center offers them practical and social munications, fund-raising and education- help, Gen. Pristaiko’s books honor them al strategy. by remembering their suffering. Commenting on the events of the “These people were sentenced for their weekend, Mr. Gregorovich said: “The ideals,” says Dr. Gluzman. “They didn’t UCCLA continues to be an effective, end up there accidentally. Yes, it was a representative and cutting edge group of machine that scooped up everyone, just tried and true activists who have come to because they were wives or children of our Canmore meetings now for three dissidents. But these are people who years and, every year, develop new ini- actively fought for Ukraine and spent all tiatives that, I believe, will remind all their youth in the gulags. Now their lives Canadians, and especially the govern- aren’t all in order, but they still dream of a ment, that we have every intention of better life. They want everyone to live seeing justice done to the memory of the well, and young people to have a future; victims of the internment operations, and no war, no repetition of the nightmare that to those being victimized today by dis- happened to them. Their main dream is a criminatory and unjust denaturalization free Ukraine. They just want to live to see and deportation procedures.” that time, to see what it would be like.” 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49 No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 19

Manor College has new chaplain JENKINTOWN, Pa. – Manor College has announced the appointment of a new chaplain, the Rev. Michael Rozmarynowycz. The Rev. Rozmarynowycz will serve as a chaplain to the Sisters of St. Basil the Great, Manor College and St. Basil Academy. Born and raised in Oberlin, Ohio, the Rev. Rozmarynowycz earned an associ- ate degree and entered the Basilian Fathers’ novitiate in 1981 in Glen Cove, Long Island. He earned a bachelor of philosophy at the Benedictine Ateneo of San Anselmo in Rome and was awarded a bachelor of theology at the Dominican University of St. Thomas in Rome. In 1988 the Rev. Rozmarynowycz traveled to Michigan to teach and remained in the Detroit Metropolitan area working at Wayne State University. He married in 1991 and was ordained a dea- con. In 1994 he went to Rudno, Ukraine, and was ordained to the priesthood at Holy Spirit Seminary. After working as an assistant pastor and The Rev. Michael Rozmarynowycz administrator in Michigan and Ohio, the Rev. Rozmarynowycz received a master’s because I wanted to share in the sisters’ degree in counseling and accepted an offer community life and work with the people to work with Manor. here at Fox Chase,” said the Rev. “I immediately expressed interest Rozmarynowycz.

dollars for the WARC shipments. UUARC releases... There are countless families and (Continued from page 11) individuals to thank for having given of 42 boxes of books for Ukraine’s National themselves, volunteering their time and Academy of Defense, 37 boxes for the their efforts and collectively donating Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kyiv, hundreds of thousands of items for shipment to Ukraine. While we could supplies for hospitals in Brovary and never name all of them, there are two other sites, 1,000 pairs of eyeglasses and families that must be mentioned: Petro 30 refurbished bicycles. and Irene Shcherba of Wilmington, The UUARC also shipped 271 Del., and Wolodymyr and Ivanna parcels to needy organizations in areas Woznyj of Philadelphia. Between them, distant from Lviv and Kyiv, for a com- they collected hundreds and hundreds bined weight of 9,561 pounds and with of boxes of new and used clothing for a collective value of approximately shipments to Ukraine, bringing them to ORDER A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT $50,000. UUARC headquarters on a regular The UUARC is indebted to all the basis. A Full Color Album organizations and individuals in this Kudos to the community for answer- UKRAINIAN FOLK ICONS effort to help our brothers and sisters in ing the call to show that Ukrainian FROM THE LAND OF SHEVCHENKO Ukraine. Special thanks must also be Americans could unite to make use of given to the Catholic Medical Mission such a generous government grant, help- from two of Ukraine’s leading collectors/researchers, Lidia Lykhach and Mykola Kornienko Board, which provided medicines and ing so many unfortunate people in vitamins worth several hundred thousand Ukraine. In English and Ukrainian (Kyiv, RODOVID PRESS, 2000) This album contains nearly 200 color illustrations of cottage icons from central regions of Ukraine — the most widely dis- tributed and popular saints and holy figures of the village cal- Full Financial Services endar of the last three centuries. This is the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of Ukrainian naïve iconography for our Ukrainian Community from the end of the eighteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Illinois - Jersey City - Indiana Price: $40, plus $5 for postage. RODOVID: 18000 South Mullen Road, Belton, MO 64012 fax: (816) 322-4228; e-mail: [email protected]

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by a centrist takeover of the formerly left- Moroz accuses Kuchma... ist-run Parliament. (Continued from page 1) But the most important debate raged official was ready to testify in a court of around the authenticity of the tapes: were law if a trial should proceed from the they real or well-produced forgeries? And if they were forgeries, then why go to such matter. extensive and dangerous lengths? Mr. Moroz suggested that the For all the speculation, National Deputy Verkhovna Rada must take the lead in Roman Bezsmertnyi summed up what for investigating the tape recordings. He said Mr. Moroz would be the most frightening he would turn the tape over to the parlia- scenario. mentary ad hoc committee investigating “It may be that Mr. Moroz has been the Gongadze disappearance, which is politically manipulated and set up by polit- chaired by National Deputy Oleksander ical forces who are out to discredit him and Lavrynovych. destroy him as a politician,” said Mr. The next day the Socialist Party of Bezsmertnyi. Ukraine posted a transcript of the tape Mr. Gongadze, a controversial 31-year- recording on its website, as did Mr. old journalist and publisher of Ukrainska Gongadze’s Internet publication, Pravda, went missing the evening of Ukrainska Pravda. The transcript involves September 16 after leaving the apartment 11 different conversations between male of his editor-in-chief, Olena Prytula, on his individuals. The dialogue is short, almost way home to his wife and twin daughters. stream of consciousness in the way the Since then, the mystery of his disap- various sides express their thoughts in pearance has been further clouded by uncompleted staccato bursts of words. irregularities in the actions and pronounce- Amid the extensive use of obscenities ments of law enforcement officials, who and racial slurs, Mr. Gongadze is men- have maintained for more than two months THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOUR PARENTS, CHILDREN AND FRIENDS tioned directly several times. It is plain that that they do not have a shred of evidence one of the speakers says the journalist about what happened to the journalist. should be physically removed to Georgia, The latest unorthodox moves came on “èðÓÒÚÓ ìÍð‡ªÌ‡ – Simply Ukraine” his birthplace, or abducted by Chechens November 15, when state militia quietly and held for ransom. The tapes also make moved a headless body from a local 190 colored photographs from all over Ukraine it clear that the speakers believe Mr. morgue after Ms. Prytula and a colleague Gongadze had political ties to Mr. Moroz had identified jewelry and markings found Also available and wrote for the Socialist newspaper, on it as belonging to Mr. Gongadze. The 2001 calendar “UKRAINE” Haring. corpse, covered with what was believed to Mr. Moroz’s shocking accusation be a substance that hastens decomposition, both by photographer Tania D’Avignon immediately sent a riptide of speculation was discovered two weeks earlier in a par- through Kyiv, leaving in its wake more tially unearthed shallow grave in a wooded Simply Ukraine - $40.00, Calendar – $10.00, Both – $48.00 questions than answers. Many politicians area near Bila Tserkva. (all postage included) wondered aloud about Mr. Moroz’s rea- Soon after the body was moved, law sons for bringing the allegations in such a enforcement officials arrested the medical dramatic fashion. Others accused the law- examiner who worked on the body and Order from: maker of attempting to prop up a political had issued Ms. Prytula a death certificate Tania D’Avignon, 25 Church Street, Newton, MA 02458 career that has declined rapidly since for it. They have refused to discuss the (617) 964-1942; e-mail: [email protected] President Kuchma won re-election a year identity of the body until they complete ago, which was followed soon afterwards their own investigation. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49 No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 23

“Certainly, we would like to reduce Lviv clinic specializes... mortality to nil,” said Dr. Myndiuk, “but (Continued from page 10) even the finest American hospitals are delivered an ambulance funded by a struggling to overcome these deadly dis- grant from John Deere & Co. that arrived eases, and we are greatly encouraged by together with First Lady Hillary Rodham the progress we have made. There is a Clinton during her historic goodwill mis- sizeable group of our children who were sion to Ukraine in 1997. once given very bleak prognoses – six or The LRCSC has also received sub- less months to live – and who are now stantial support from the Ukrainian attending colleges and universities with a National Women’s League of America, clean bill of health.” which provided sophisticated diagnostic The LRCSC has also become an incu- equipment and reagents, and the bator for important cancer research and Emergency Medical Aid to Ukraine proj- innovative treatment techniques. The ect affiliated with the Ukrainian medical staff has published over 118 arti- American Youth Association (SUM) that cles in medical journals, including 32 in provided on-site training in new surgical Western peer-reviewed publications. techniques. Several LRCSC doctors who received The confidence and resources that training or stipends through the CCRF Western aid organizations have invested were invited to present their findings at in the Lviv Hospital have been amply international conferences in pediatric justified, as the LRCSC has become the oncology. envy of many hospitals in Eastern Although there was much cause for Europe. The clinic’s biochemistry labora- celebration, the September 22 gala was tory, renamed posthumously after also tinged with sadness. Besides the CCRF’s late vice-president, Dr. children who fell victim to disease, some Volodymyr Hordynsky, has been certified of the pioneers of the Lviv Regional as the most accurate and most advanced Children’s Specialized Clinic have diagnostic facility of its kind in Eastern passed away. Among them is the brilliant Europe by an international team of young geneticist Dr. Orest Sozansky, experts based in Vienna. who died in a tragic automobile accident To ensure that the LRCSC’s staff was during a medical training conference in properly trained to use the blood analyz- Tunisia. Dr. Hordynsky, a highly respect- ers delivered by the CCRF, Dr. ed innovator in the field of biochemistry Hordynsky arranged for special training and the chief strategist, had enabled the programs at the University of Medicine CCRF to establish the model biochem- and Dentistry of New Jersey and the istry laboratory at the LRCSC that has University of Pittsburgh. Several doctors since been renamed in his memory. More and laboratory technicians studied in the recently, Vyacheslav Chornovil, the for- United States under the CCRF’s auspices. mer Lviv Oblast chairman who presided All of these doctors returned to Ukraine, over the dedication ceremonies of the and several still work at the LRCSC, LRCSC, a legendary political prisoner including the laboratory director, Dr. and candidate for president of Ukraine, Andriy Petrukh. The LRCSC has now died in an accident that raised suspicions become a training center for physicians of foul play. and biochemists from across Ukraine. 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50th Anniversary Student Country Gender which will take place on First Name Middle Initial Last Name __ South America __ Female __ Europe __ Male Saturday, December 16, 2000 Address __ Ukraine __ Romania at the Fifth Avenue Ballroom, 24 Fifth Avenue and 9th Street, New York City City State Zip Reception - 7:00 p.m. • Banquet - 7:30 p.m. • Dance - 9:30 p.m. Formal attire Telephone E-mail Address Dinner and Dance - $100.00 per person; Dance (students only) - $30.00 per person Please make checks payable to: Amount of Donation Tickets will not be sold at the door. UNWLA, Inc., Scholarship Program Signature Date P.O. Box 24 Please make checks payable to: PLAST, Inc. Matawan, NJ 07747 For information and table reservations: (718) 668-0996 UNWLA, INC. THANKS YOU FOR YOUR MOST GENEROUS DONATION 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2000 No. 49

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Monday, December 4 in the Melrose Park section of Philadelphia. Starting time is 9:30 a.m. OTTAWA: The Metropolitan Andrey Throughout the day there will be plenty of Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian delicious food for breakfast and lunch, hot Studies at St. Paul University, faculty of and cold drinks, games and entertainment theology, is celebrating the opening of its for children, a “Wheel of Fortune” for Ph.D. program in Eastern Christian adults, many interesting items for sale, Studies, the first in the Western hemi- including Christmas cards, the traditional sphere, with a public lecture given by Dr. Christmas “kutia” and much more. St. Kyriaki Karidoyanes Fitzgerald on Nicholas will pay a visit at 3 p.m. The “Therapeia: Insights into Healing from Heavenly Office will be open from 1 p.m. Orthodox Theology and Spirituality.” The For more information call Olya lecture will be held in St. Paul University Kuzewych, (215) 722-7212. Amphitheater, 223 Main St., at 7 p.m. Reception to follow. For more information Monday, December 11 call (613) 246-1393, ext. 2332; fax (613) 782-3026; e-mail [email protected] CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard tawa.ca; or visit the website at Ukrainian Research Institute will present a http://www.ustpaul.ca/Sheptytsky.htm. lecture by Dr. George G. Grabowicz, Harvard University, titled “National Poets Sunday, December 10 and National Mystifications.” The lecture will be held in the institute seminar room, SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: St. 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For Andrew’s Ukrainian School will hold its additional information call the institute, annual Christmas Bazaar at noon-3 p.m. in (617) 495-4053. the parish hall of St. Andrew’s Memorial Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Easton Saturday, December 16 Avenue. There will be traditional Ukrainian foods such as borsch, varenyky NEW YORK, N.Y.: The New York and holubtsi available to enjoy on the Chapter of Plast is holding a banquet/ball premises or to take out, along with a vari- on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of ety of baked goods. Tables are available Plast. The event will be held at the Fifth for crafters and vendors. For further infor- Avenue Ballroom, 24 Fifth Avenue and mation or to rent a table, contact Christine Ninth Street. Hors d’oeuvres, 7 p.m.; ban- Instead of sending money to your family in Ukraine, which will be quickly exhausted, Syzonenko, (973) 895-4868, or Lida quet, 7:30 p.m.; ball, 9:30 p.m. Formal bring them to Canada so they can support themselves. Taras Machula and his staff Hucul, (732) 356-2560. attire. Tickets: $100, includes dinner; $30, at Machula and Associates have completed over 60 workers work visa applications students, ball only. Tickets will not be sold successfully in the year 1999. If you are currently in the U.S. and would like to come YONKERS, N.Y.: Ukrainian National at the door. For reservations call (718) to Canada, or have family in Ukraine and cannot get them into the U.S., please consider Canada. Women’s League of America Branch 30 is 668-0996. Checks should be made out to Manitoba has a fast-track immigration program. Therefore, for successful work visa processing or to holding its annual Christmas Bazaar and Plast, Inc. apply for permanent residency, please contact Taras Machula. bake sale at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, Shonnard Place, at 9 Sunday, December 17 Machula and Associates Inc. a.m.-noon. This is a wonderful opportuni- Foreign Worker Recruiters and Immigration Consultants ty to purchase unique gifts, greeting cards, MENDHAM, N.J.: Soprano Oksana 412 Bonner Ave., Winnipeg, MB R2G 1C4 ornaments, etc., for the holiday season. Krovytska will perform in concert with the The bazaar will feature the art work of the New York Concert Opera, with other Tel.: (204) 669-1078 • Fax: (204) 663-7197 • Cell: (204) 294-0925 soloists and a chamber orchestra, at the [email protected] following: Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ivan Mitsyk, Andrij Khomyk and Zhdana Mallinckrodt Convent of the Sisters of Feduszczak, as well as ceramics by Slava Christian Charity. The concert, under the Gerulak and Daria Hanushevsky. For addi- artistic direction of Ulrich Hartung, Ms. tional information call Nadia Liteplo, Krovytska’s husband, will consist of vari- (914) 949-4911. ous Christmas selections from oratorios, as well as operatic scenes from Puccini’s PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian “La Bohème” and Massenet’s “Werther.” American Youth Association (SUM), The convent is located at 350 Philadelphia Branch, invites the communi- Bernardsville Road. 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