The Ukrainian Weekly 1978, No.9
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www.ukrweekly.com ENGLISH" LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION VOL.LXXXV No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 25 CENTS Sen. Yuzyk Cited by UCCA Rudenko's Wife Fears for His Life For 75-Year Service in Senate Seeks Support from Belgrade Conference NEW YORK, N.Y.—Raisa Ruden- of individual peoples, then there will be ko, wife of Mykola Rudenko, the in no peace." carcerated leader of the Kiev Public She said that her husband best ex Group to Promote the Implementation emplifies the fate of man. of the Helsinki Accords, warned the Mrs. Rudenko said that she was participants of the Conference on given the opportunity to see her hus Security and Cooperation in Europe band in the Donetske prison, but only that true peace on earth will not be at through a double-glass partition. The tained unless human rights are guaran meeting was restricted to talks about teed for all people, said the press ser his health. vice of the Ukrainian Supreme Liber She also wrote that other visitors ation Council (abroad). were able to see Rudenko without a barrier and the discussion was not re She specifically asked the delegates stricted. of the 35 governments reviewing com Correspondence between the two is pliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords not forwarded, she said. Mrs. Ruden to raise the case of her husband, who ko wrote that he is not receiving her let was arrested for seeking implementa ters and that one of his letters to her tion of the accords in Ukraine. was not mailed by the prison authori ''You are in the process of discussing ties because it was written in Ukrainian. Sen. Paul Yuzyk, third left, holds the plaque he just received from the UCCA the most important aspects of peace and security. All people welcome your She said that Rudenko continues to Executive Board. Standing, left to right, are Ivan Bazarko, Joseph Lesawyer, Sen, face pressure to recant. Some visitors, Yuzyk, Mrs. Jaroslawa Rubel, Dr. Walter Dushnyck and Boris Potapenko. efforts and wish you success in this most important endeavor of the cur she said, have urged him to publicly NEW YORK, N-Y.—The Executive The plaque was given to Sen. Yuzyk rent era, wrote Mrs. Rudenko on announce the dissolution of the Kiev Board of the Ukrainian Congress here at the Ukrainian Institute of Ame November 1, 1977. "But in addition to group and denounce its activities. He Committee of America presented Sen. rica Sunday, February 26, by Joseph these important problems you cannot was told that if he complies he will be Paul Yuzyk, noted Ukrainian Canadi Lesawyer, UCCA Vice-President and a overlook what may be considered released, and, if not, then his wife an statesman, scholar and community longtime friend of Sen. Yuzyk. ^ small, but actually is the most impor would face similar tortures, wrote Mrs. leader, with a plaque commemorating The plaque reads as follows: tant. That is the problem of the fate Rudenko. his 15-year service in the Canadian 4 Tor his dedication to the cause of and rights of man. Even if you concur The prison officials are taking ad- Senate. (Continued on page 5) on peace, and omit the rights and fate (ContinuedonpageS) Kiev Group Scores Moscow Policies Memorandum No. 18 Charges Discrimination (Below is the full text of Memorandum No. 18 of the Kiev - based Helsinki according to the dictionary of foreign silently to 10-15 year sentences in the monitoring group, translated into English by the Helsinki Guarantees for words, "is (1) a mass resettlement of GULAG Archipelago. Ukraine Committee based in Washington, D. C). population from one country to an In the 1970's the situation has other, caused by various reasons: eco-, changed. As a result of wider interna The question of emigration from as the intellectual heirs of the Com nomic, political, religious and others; tional contacts, it has become impos the USSR has always'been a sensitive munist Manifesto, the Paris Commune an unavoidable consequence of an ex sible to secretly lock people away in one for the leadership of the CPSU. and the First International, they ploitative society/' (State Publishing prisons. In dictionaries, a new defini They have portrayed the Bolshevik re viewed their victory and their social House of Political Literature, Kiev, tion for the word "emigration" volution to all the world as that event order as the paradigms for all other na 1955.) appeared. It is now "departure to nations have striven toward since ancient tions of the world and (according to Because the Soviet Union is not an another country for permanent or times and which finally had its realization the ideas of proletarian internation exploitative society, emigration is not temporary residence." ("Political Dic in the defunct Russian Empire. alism) yearned to endow others with endemic to it. tionary," Kiev, 1976) which no longer According^to^its own claims, for the their bounty. To accomplish this, they There is also no reason for emigra contradicts the right enunciated in first time in the iii.i^iy of mankind, implemented immediately after the re tion for national reasons, because the international law for a citizen to freely the Bolshevik revolution brought to volution a systematic, urgent and ever- nationality question has been resolved leave his country and then return. life those higher ideas of philosophers, widening campaign boasting of their in the most just manner once and for The present regime no longer labels economists, social reformers of yester efforts following the restructuring of all. as treason the desire to emigrate and no day and destroyed that ancient evil, the all aspects of social and family life and This is how matters looked accord longer tries people for merely expres exploitation of one person by another, the Soviet order. In dozens of develop ing to Communist propaganda. So that sing such wishes, but does employ vari shattered social antagonisms, secured ed countries, Communist parties were living witnesses could not contradict it, ous means to lessen emigration and to the optimum pace for economic created, which in turn helped to create the borders were sealed tight. destroy the sentiments favoring emi development, created the proper envi the myth of the ideal nature of Soviet For half a century, while the West gration. We can discern different ronment for the multi-dimensional society. And the fact that people did heard odes sung to the glory of the approaches to three different catego development of the individual, and so not emigrate from the Soviet Union great achievements of the free Soviet ries of citizens who are potential emi on and so forth. In a word, the revolu served to reinforce the idea of the per nations and citizens, brave individuals grants: Jews, Russian dissidents and tion created on our sinful Earth what fection of the Soviet order. within the Soviet Union attempting to non-Russian individual thinkers. until then had only been a dream. Indeed, no one flees paradise. Peo flee would get caught at border traps For Jews who have expressed the de- Since the Bolsheviks saw themselves ple leave bad places. "Emigration," and on barbed wire fences and go (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 No. 50 Ukrainian Accused of Stealing Weapons Rudenko Faced Pressure to Recant NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mykola Ru In a letter to the decorated Soviet Gets 15-Year Sentence denko, a co-founder of the Kiev Public military leader-turned dissident, Ru HEW YORK, N.Y.—A former Uk On August 4, 1976, the Zhytomyr Group to Promote the Implementation denko detailed the KGB attempts at rainian political prisoner, who spent oblast court sustained the sentences. of the Helsinki Accords, faced stern pressuring him to recant. Grigorenko 15 years in prison and concentration Babych originally worked as a car KGB pressure to recant his views, wrote that after the trial, Rudenko was camps, was sentenced to another penter in Ternopil. In 1960, when he revealed former Red Army Gen. Pyotr taken to Kiev where he met with his two 15 years for allegedly stealing weapons was 21 years old, he was arrested for Grigorenko in a letter written before his oldest sons. Grigorenko said that under from a high school, reported the press protesting against Russification, poor arrival in New York City in December KGB pressure they told the elder Ru service of the Ukrainian Supreme living conditions and low pay. He was 1977, reported the press service of the denko: "Recant, father, or you will die Liberation Council (abroad). sentenced that year to three years Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council and ruin our lives." (abroad). Serhiy Babych, 39, was accused of severe regime incarceration. The first Grigorenko wrote in his letter to the Grigorenko said in the letter that breaking into the weapons room of the two years he spent in one of the Mor Rudenko is an invalid as a result of a Hulske High School in the Zhytomyr dovian concentration camps and the participants of the . Conference of Security and. Cooperation in Europe wound he received during World War oblast with Mykola Radchuk on May last year he was confined in the Vla II. He said that any length of incarcera 26, 1976, and stealing two rifles and dimir Prison. and Amnesty International that the Soviet secret police first suggested to tion for the 56-year-old Ukrainian poet^ one automatic rifle. He was released on April 13, 1963. would mean death. The court determined that Babych Rudenko to renounce his beliefs during The following September 27th Babych the pre-trial investigation.