І Hh |Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fTaternal non-profit associationj UHiaPH V 50 cents Vol. LVII No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989 Interviews at radiation medicine centerBisho p Michael Kuchmial( named exarch slied iig/it on 198B Chornoby/ disastero f Ukrainian Catholics in Great Britain On June 9-18, Dr. David Marples, were accompanied by another Yuriy, JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Bishop author of two books on the Chornoby I who is a translator with the institute. He Michael Kuchmiak, auxiliary bishop of nuclear accident, visited the Chornobyl presented me with the newly released Archbishop Metropolitan Stephen area and Kiev, courtesy of the Ukrai­ book on the medical effects of Chor­ Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church nian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The nobyl, with contributions from Leonid in the United States, has been named by following is a four-part seriesabout this Ilyin, I.Likhtarevand Dr. Romanenko Pope John Paul II to be the new unique visit to Ukraine, and from various Western specialists. apostolic exarch for Ukrainian Ca­ The institute is a converted sanato­ tholics in Great Britain. by Dr. David Marples rium, located in a pleasant, wooded Bishop Kuchmiak, 66, will leave for area. We were greeted by three specia­ his new post at the end of the summer, PART III lists, under the chairmanship of Oles and his installation is expected to take Pyatak, a winner of a state prize, and a place when the Synod of Ukrainian My continuing research into Chor­ deputy director of the Institute of Catholic Bishops meets in Rome in late nobyl was not over, because on the Clinical Radiology. Both Mr. Likhtarev September and early October, reported following morning, June 15, I had an and B.C. Bebeshko were in Moscow,but The Star-Ledger of New Jersey. interview with the staff of the Institute Mr. Pyatak is certainly a senior and News of the appointment was con­ of Clinical Radiology at the Center for well-known figure. The other specialists firmed by the Archbishop's Chancery in Radiation Medicine, affiliated with the were I.P. Los, head of the laboratory of Philadelphia. Academy of Medical Sciences of the radio-ecology, and V.V. Chumak, head Last year in March he had been USSR. The center is under the director­ of the immunological laboratory. Our selected to serve as Metropolitan ship of Ukrainian Minister of Health meeting room was impressive, the table Sulyk's auxiliary. He was consecrated a Anatoliy Romanenko and is con­ being decorated with cookies, cherries bishop during a pontifical divine liturgy cerned with the monitoring of and a choice of drinks. Mr. Pyatak gave at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Chornobyl victims (a more detailed a description of the center, noting the Catholic Cathedral in Philadelphia on account of these goals will appear in attention being paid to the welfare of April 27. interview). the 209 patients who were subjected to Prior to that. Bishop Kuchmiak had It is located in the northernmost part very high levels of radiation after Chor­ been pastor of Holy Family Ukrainian of Kiev. Valeriy Ingulsky of the Ukrai­ nobyl. Catholic National Shrine in Washing­ nian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I (Continued on page 12) ton for one year, and had been pastor of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic (Continued on page 5) Bisliop Micliael Kuchmiak Vinnytsla: another dark episode of Stalinist era is discussed by| Kathleen Mihalisko testimony of local residents had called in relatives to identify the bodies. Another dark episode of the Stalinist They also brought in an international era has been brought into the open by commission of forensic experts in July the Soviet press: the history behind 1943, to examine the exhumed corpses, Vinnytsia, a city some 200 kilometers and had the bodies reburied with southwest of Kiev, where in May 1943, religious rites in a common grave, where German occupation forces began to un­ a cross was erected "to the victims of earth the remains of almost 9,500 Stalin." people lying in three mass graves. It was established at the time that the Ukrainians in the West consider victims had been arrested and shot by Vinnytsia to be their equivalent of the the NKVD in 1937 and 1938, then Katyn Forest massacre of Polish officers buried in one of three NKVD-guarded although for a number of reasons the areas within the city limits of Vinnytsia: incident received far less attention than a pear orchard, a cemetery and a section the discovery in Katyn that the Ger­ of the municipal park. Of the 679 mans had announced at nearly the same corpses that were identified, the vast time. majority were of Ukrainian nationality, Indeed, with the notable exception of but there was also a substantial number Robert Conquest's "The Great Terror," of Poles, Russians and Jews. Vinnytsia has been largely forgotten by Silski Visti correspondent H. Drob- all but the Ukrainian community in chak had a personal interest in revealing diaspora. Rather unexpectedly, the the facts about Vinnytsia because, he story appeared not in a daring literary writes, having been a schoolboy in the newspaper but in Silski Visti, an organ area during the years of the Stalinist of the Central Committee of the Ukrai­ terror, he recalls the disappearance of nian Community Party. teachers and acquaintances. The background to Vinnytsia as The official Soviet explanation for explained in the emigre literature is as the existence of the graves was first set follows. The Nazis, who were anxious down in a bulletin published in the Tlie grounds of the Institute of Clinical Radiology. Center for Radiation Medicine to reap the propaganda benefits of their summer of 1943 by the Soviet Informa- in Kiev. discovery, extensively documented the (Continued on page 5) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1989 No. 29

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY FOR THE RECORD: Chornov/Ts appeal to Conference on the Human Dimension Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society: Following is the full text of an appeal Commission on Security and Coopera­ to the recently concluded Conference tion in Europe of the U.S. Congress an interview with Dmytro Pavlychko on the Human Dimension, held as part supposedly told the correspondent from of the Helsinki Accords review process by Dr. David Marples pulsory. We are not talking in terms of "Pravda" that the list of American some sort of universal language, simply in Paris, from Vyasheslav Chornovilof complaints to the USSR on the topic of Dmytro Pavlychko, a well-known the language for those who live here. the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. The human rights includes only 13 cases poet and secretary of the board of the appeal, dated July 6, was disseminated compared with 11,000 at the congress of Ukrainian Writers' Union, is chairman In February, you met with Mikhail in English translation by the Ukrainian Bern in 1986. of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Gorbachev. How did he react to the Press Agency based in London, If I could travel to Paris I would Language Socief^. The following inter­goals of the society? complete DeConcini's list, which I had view took place on June 12 at the With forced delay, I would like to the honor of seeing in November of last Ukrainian Writers' Union in Kiev, The details of that meeting might be thank those defenders of human rights year during the U.S. Helsinki Com­ of some interest, but they are not of in democratic countries, especially mission's visit to Moscow, with hun­ What is the current state of the prime importance. What is significant is those in Canada, who made attempts at dreds of cases from the White Book of Shevchenko Ukrainian Language So­ that Gorbachev agreed completely with inviting me, a long-time participant of Administrative Terror in Ukraine, ciety? ^ all our initiatives, even though to date the Helsinki movement and a Ukrainian which the Ukrainian Helsinki Union is there is no law in the country stating dissident who has been fighting for in the process of compiling. The book At present, we have 70,000 members, that Ukrainian should be the state human and national rights, to your documents gross violations of the most and the number is rising. The society language of our republic. conference. Unfortunately, even if the elementary forms of human rights, has been officially registered with the However, our main exchange con­ invitation had arrived on time, I would which the USSR agreed to honor in authorities and has its own bank ac­ cerned the draft program of the Ukrai­ have been unable to accept it. One week Helsinki and Ukraine. In the mean­ counts in both rubles and hard cur­ nian Popular Movement, which had before the opening of the conference, I time, please add to the list of 30 names rency. We have begun to hold some just been published (Literaturna U- was seized from the street and secretly, three more cases: the name of Stepan major events, including a conference on kraina, February 16), because some without even relatives knowing and Khmara, who is also familiar with Sen. the present status of the Ukrainian people had informed Gorbachev that without even basic semblance of justice DeConcini, Stepan Hura from Kher­ language. we were trying to establish an alterna- (witnesses, a lawyer, the opportunity to son, who is a Ukrainian Helsinki Union present evidence) thrown in a prison cell activist imprisoned in May in a psychia­ for 15 days. tric hospital for attempting to travel to ... priorify should be given to fhe Ukrainian language. The reason for my imprisonment was Kiev to attend a meeting of the Ukrai­ that I had addressed a crowd at a pre­ nian Helsinki Union, and finally the If should be faughi and used by fhe eniire populafion election rally. Such participation at a author of this appeal who spent the first normal pre-election rally (gatherings, day of the opening of the conference in a - no maffer whaf fhe origin or nafionalify of fhese meetings, pickets, leaflets) is allowed in stinking cell. people — fhaf is living in Ukraine. all civilized countries in the world. In Many people in the West, mesme­ Ukraine between January and May of rized by Mikhail Gorbachev's democra­ this year, hundreds of people were tic appearances, free debates at the seized and scores of them were sen­ Congress of Peoples Deputies and by How are the society's relations with tive political party in Ukraine. This is tenced to 15 days' imprisonment or other displays of publicity which are major minority groups in Ukraine, such why he raised some questions. But we fined heavily. Stepan Khmara, an unusual for the Soviet Union, have as Russians and Jews? explained the true situation. activist of the Ukrainian Helsinki an inadequate assessment of the real All the same, he emphasized that we Union who tried to put himself forward situation of human rights in the USSR Our chief goal is to work in such a should cooperate with the party, be­ as a candidate to the Congress of today, especially in the non-Russian way as to avoid any confrontation with cause all movements in our country People's Deputies, following two prison republics. other nationality groups living in the today are aimed at ensuring the irrever- terms and a 1,000 ruble fine, was in reality the situation here is com­ republic. However, we encourage every­ sibility of perestroika. sentenced to 10 months'administrative plex and controversial. There is a kind one to learn and use the Ukrainian surveillance, i.e. house arrest. of dual system of authority: on the one language. We emphasize - and people How are relations today between the The dispersal of a peaceful election hand there's the reformist group with should understand — that if one lives in Communist Pftrty of Ukraine and the meeting in Lviv on March 12 of this year Gorbachev at the top, supported by Ukraine, then one should know the society? in its brutality was similar to the democratic forces from the bottom, and Ukrainian language. pogrom of April 9 in Tbilisi, The diffe­ on the other hand is the massive, If the language falls out of use, if it At the higher levels, such as the rence was that nobody was killed reactionary bureaucratic apparatus, dies, then it will perish also in Kazakh­ Central Committee of the Communist because the members of the special unit, which completely controls and uses the stan and in other parts of the country, it Party of Ukraine, we are working the majority of whom fought in Af­ repressive organs of the KGB, the will also die out in Canada. Ukraine is harmoniously and can count on their ghanistan, did not use gas and spades, militia, the courts, the procurator and, its native territory. In theory, if the support. This has never been a serious but used their fists and legs. whenever necessary, the army. Russian language fell into disuse in problem. But we have some minor On May 3J, I managed to obtain in The debilitating breadth of this Ukraine, it would not die because it conflicts with some lower-level organi­ my cell as small piece from a recent counterforce was there for the world to would still be spoken in the massive zations in the cities and regions of edition of Pravda. 1 read a victorious see at the Congress of People's De­ Russian republic. Ukraine, because the people there report by the Paris correspondent of puties, when the reactionary majority of The main point is that priority should simply do not understand our real that paper, B. Bolshakov, who wrote in the Congress applauded the hangman be given to the Ukrainian language. It goals. Some have referred to us as "the glowing terms about the admission of of Tbilisi - the Russian general Ra- should be taught and used by the entire nationalists," which is incorrect. Still, great progress in the sphere of human dionov. we believe that higher-level support is population - no matter what the origin rights in the USSR at your conference. Gorbachev himself does not take up a or nationality of these people - that is most important, because the lower Sen. Dennis DeConcini, head of the living in Ui.raine. levels will eventually follow suit. (Continued on page 15) Language theorists here have claimed that two languages can survive parallel Do you mean that the society em­ to each other in Ukraine in the same braces an intellectual movement, and way that bilingualism exists in Canada. that sooner or later factory workers, for FOUNDED 1933 But this point of view has no basis example, will follow the lead of the Ukrainian WeeHi whatsoever, because the historical intellectuals? background of Canada is completely An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National different from that of the Soviet Union. To date, our society is composed of Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.j. Canada was formed by the English and intellectuals and all the strata of the 07302. French nations, and if for some reason population that are linked in some way Canadians decided to abandon both with Ukrainian culture: writers, press Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. these languages, they would still be people, teachers and students. But this (ISSN - 0273-9348) preserved in their native lands: Britain, is not to say that working people are the United States and France. alienated from these ideas or are op­ Yearly subscdption rate: S20; for UNA members - SIO. Here, the situation is completely posed to them. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. different. Ukrainian is the native lan­ We already have branches organized guage of the people here. If it is allowed in industrial enterprises in Dniprope- The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: to disappear, that will be the end not trovske and also in coal-mining regions. (201) 434-0237. -0807. -3036 (201) 451-2200 These are small units, organized by only of the language, but of our nation Postmaster, send address itself. workers who support our ideas. We are seeking a mass society not one com­ changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz When we build new schools, it will be Associate Editors: IMarta Kolomayets the task of the government to provide prised only of intellectuals. Many The Ukrainian Weekly working people of Ukrainian back­ P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak them with modern equipment, with Jersey City, N.J. 07303 laboratories and swimming pools. But ground want their children to learn our task is to create the proper environ­ Ukrainian. Tlie Ulcrainian Weelcly. July 16. 1989. No. 29. Vol. LVII ment for such schools, whereby Ukrai­ You might also be interested to know Copyright 1989 by The Ukrainian Weekly nian language learning becomes com- (Continued on page 15) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989

Ukrainian writer WCFU president presses Ukrainian issues in Paris Dmytro Pavlycfiico TORONTO - World Congress of Free Ukrainians President Yuri to tour Australia Shymko kept his promise of giving greater priority to, the organization's activities in the area of external rela­ MELBOURNE, Australia - Dmy­ tions by his personal attendance on tro Pavlychko, head of the Taras June 2-8 at the Conference on the Shevchenico Ukrainian Language So­ Human Dimension of the Conference ciety in Ukraine and secretary of the on Security and Cooperation in Europe Ukrainian Writers' Union, will visit (CSCE). The conference was held in Australia in late July and early August Paris from May 30 to June 23. as a guest of the Ukrainian Professional He joined a Ukrainian contingent of and Business Association. lobbyists who were already in Paris, Mr. Pavlychko was born in Septem­ namely the members of Americans for ber 1929 in western Ukraine. His Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU)and parents were indigent peasants. After the executive director of the Human completing his secondary education in Yuri Shymko, president of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, addresses press WCFU's Human Rights Commission, 1948, he graduated from Lviv Univer­ conference in Pftris. Also seen in the photo (from left) are Christina Isajiw and Christina Isajiw. sity's philology faculty in 1953. In that Gilles Poirier. A number of precedent-setting same year he published his first work, achievements resulted from the WCFU by Mr. Shymko, whose presentation of the USSR's continued violation of "Love and Hate." president's attendance. and answers to the media were all in human rights, especially the persecution In developing his poetic potential, For the first time, the Ukrainian French. of the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrai­ Mr. Pavlychko was primarily in­ diaspora was represented through the Mr. Shymko was joined at the press nian Orthodox Churches, which he fluenced by the works of Ivan Franko. WCFU on the conference floor when conference head table by Gilles Poirier, officially raised on June 5 at the plenary His early political lyrics reflected his Mr. Shymko officially attended the first secretary of the Canadian Depart­ session. inherent sensitivity to issues of social plenary session on June 5 with the ment for External Affairs, and Ms. Mr. Shymko thanked Ambassador justice and his excitement on the occa­ Canadian state delegation, as head of an Isajiw of the WCFU's Human Rights Bauer for Canada's support in defense of sion of the unification of Ukrainian accredited non-governmental organiza­ Commission. human rights and civil liberties in territories in 1939. tion (NGO). This status gave the Also in attendance, in addition to Ukraine, for their close cooperation Starting with his 1958 publication WCFU access to and participation such representatives of the French with NGOs, and for hosting the "Truth Beckons" Mr. Pavlychko deve­ rights at all the plenary sessions of the media as Agence France Press, were WCFU's press conference. He express­ loped twogeneral themes, that of pro­ conference jointly with 12 state dele­ Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Michael ed hope that other delegations would tecting the Ukrainian language from gations. Hrynchyshyn and Ukrainian media and follow Canada's example. Russification, and, more recently, that This has also set a precedent for community representatives. He also thanked U.S. Ambassador of critical analysis of certain aspects of future conferences in Copenhagen In his opening remarks. Ambassa­ Morris Abram and British Ambassador the reality of the period of "stagnation." (1990) and Moscow (1991) for the dor Bauer stressed the important role Sir Anthony Williams for raising the His publications "Sculptor in Word" WCFU as well as for all Ukrainian that such NGOs as the WCFU play in issue of freedom of worship for the and "The Secret of Your Facade" were central organizations in the various monitoring the compliance by signatory Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox milestones in the development of these countries of Ukrainian settlement. states with the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Churches in the USSR. themes. The cycle "From Bygone Years" Furthermore, on June 7, the WCFU He reiterated Canada's condemnation (Continued on page 10) (1988) includes works that were pre­ president initiated and held, for the first viously unpublished and those that were time, a press conference under the published in a censored form. auspices of the Canadian state delega­ Kryso, Slobodyanik to headline His last significant publication was tion at the conference site itself, namely "Hebrew Melodies" published earlier the Centre de Conferences Interna­ this year. tionales in Paris. Ukrainion Insfifute music series Mr. Pavlychko works also in the The press conference, devoted to by Chrystyna N. Lapychak genre of literary criticism and has "The Human Dimension in Ukraine," published three volumes of literary was officially opened by Canadian JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Two vir­ (Continued on page 10) Ambassador William Bauer and chaired tuoso Ukrainian musicians from the Soviet Union recently took a giant step in the current struggle for greater Chernivtsi U. named in honor of Fedkovych freedom of movement by Soviet JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Chernivtsi unique former residence of the metro­ artists. Violinist Oleh Krysa of Mos­ University, founded in 1875 in that politan of Bukovyna, built in 1864- cow and pianist Alexander Slo­ Bukovynian city in western Ukraine, 1882, which combines Romanesque and bodyanik of Kiev each signed a two- was recently renamed in honor of the Byzantine architectural forms with year contract effective in mid-August "Bukovynian Kobzar," writer Yuriy Ukrainian folk art motifs. The residence with the Ukrainian Institute of Ame­ Fedkovych (1834-1888). and its adjoining park became part of rica to do a series of solo recitals, This prominent Ukrainian writer of the university in 1956. chamber concerts and master classes the late Romantic school is described in The decision to name the university in titled "Music at the Institute." the Encyclopedia of Ukraine as the honor of Fedkovych was made earlier During an interview at The Ukrai­ "herald of the Ukrainian revival in this year by the Ukrainian SSR Council nian Weekly's offices, Mr. Krysa and Bukovyna." of Ministers. Chernivtsi University thus Irene Stecura, the UIA's program Chernivtsi University has some continues the tradition of naming director, discussed the purposes and 10,000 students. Teaching is conducted Ukrainian universities in honor of goals of this concert series, which is in three languages: Ukrainian, Russian Ukrainian writers, joining Taras Shev- aimed at bringing these virtuoso and Moldavian. chenko University in Kiev and Ivan talents and Ukrainian classical music The university campus includes the Franko University in Lviv. to general audiences in concert halls all over the United States and Ca­ nada. The UIA's goal of seeking greater exposure for these artists, as well as for the work of other Soviet Ukrainian Oleh Krysa artists and composers, outside the opportunity to forge direct contacts Ukrainian community has come at a and mak^ decisiohs without the time when these Soviet artists have interference of this agency or any actively begun seeking greater auto­ other organ." nomy as well as contacts with Wes­ Avoiding the problems that Wes­ tern managers and cultural agents. tern managers experience in dealing "The main reason for signing this with Goskontsert, "this contract that contract was to forge conLacts with I have signed will help me, ! am manageib ^n the Wcbt/' said Mr, certain, to enter mto contacts with Krvsa ivrmy l^e dne "merview. ma.m,^f-rs ana wbf s^owmv caree^' екр.- t^n^U 'h-:

глгг^е' ChSii\ . ' ^ ' - cme^" 30\j -Q. \ ' - . a.c scheduled . ' ' Л^'П "lO '^ i^ Vjtb diFH/vpr.ere o^ nuary 21, 19m glasnosi ariG pci ebiidova we have the (Coelioiied Oil page Ш) Yuriy Fedkovych University in Chernivtsi. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989 No. 29 Detroit meeting discusses Office of Special Investigations by Marianna Liss

WARREN, Mich. - The activity of the Office of Special Investigations at the U.S. Justice Department was the subject of a town meeting held here at the Ukrainian Cultural Center near Detroit on June 25. Sponsored by the newly formed Detroit chapter of the Ukrainian Ame­ rican Justice Committee, a non-parti­ san group encompassing members of various organizations, the event brought together Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian activists, attorneys and authors con­ cerned with due process. Jaroslaw Dobrowolskyj, the local UAJC chairman, decried the existence of war criminals who remain unpunish­ ed, and prafted those who are putting much effort into "ferresting out these. criminals." Speakers at the Ukrainian American Justice Committee's meeting about the work of the Office of Special Investigations "However," he cautioned, "in this included (from left) Hugh Mclnnish, Jaroslaw Dobrowolskyj and George Nesterczuk. laudable endeavor, we must ever be Once actually interviewed by the friends And he reminded his audience of the segregation was the law, and as the careful that injustices are not inflicted of Dr. Rudolph, the witness spoke :ontinued political fallout from anti- internment of the Japanese was the law upon those who today stand accused of positively of the scientist, absolving him Ukrainian literature. "Ukrainians were — but it is not justice." having committed war crimes 40 and 50 from responsibility for the laborers' denied access to the American political The question of justice was address­ years ago." condition. process because they dared to question, ed, as well, by Ed Nishnic, John Dem- He assured his audience that he was For Mr. Mclinnish, the story of Dr. merely question, the methods of the janjuk's son-in-law, on a tour to collect not interested in protecting the guilty, Rudolph was that of a man used and OSI," he said referring to the forced funds throughout North America for but "unless we extend the protection of abused: "Today, though, we no longer resignations of Ukrainians and Baits the Demjanjuk defense. He talked the Constitution to all, no one is safe need Arthur Rudolph — we've gotten from the 1988 Republican presidential about recent developments in the ap­ from a prosecution turning (in)to from him all that he has to give. He is campaign. peal. persecution." not important any longer to the secu­ "The campaign will not end," he A retired autoworker from Cleve­ Askold Lozynskyj, a New York rity, the prosperity, the prestige of the prophesied. "Why? Because it is not in land, Mr. Demjanjuk was denatura­ attorney, the vice-president and legal country. The only thing that's at stake the interest of the USSR for Ukraine to lized and extradited to Israel, where he counsel of the Ukrainian Congress now is justice, and justice, as it often be an independent state." was tried, found guilty of war crimes Committee of America, and an expert does, is taking the hindmost." Ms. Huntwork, an Arizona attorney, and sentenced to death. in OSI cases, was the moderator for the Not everyone was as kind to the OSI. said she believes fervently in the impor­ However, it has been difficult to event. George Nesterczuk, the executive vice- tance of Eastern European communi­ muster a defense, Mr. Nishnic stated. Part of the problem with the OSI, president of the UCCA, who served in ties to the security of the United States. The Demjanjuk family found that the Mr. Lozynskyj said, is that those the Reagan administration and now United, these communities are vital, she World War II archives around the accused by the OSI of war crimes are works as a political consultant, accused said, in discerning Soviet motiva­ world were closed to them. Both Poland charged only under civil statutes and are the OSI of a pattern of defamation, the tions. and Germany refused them access, Mr. subject to denaturalization. Since this is use of "intimidation tactics reminiscent Remembering the battle against an Nishnic noted. a civil, not a criminal, case, a defendant of the Gestapo... distoration of facts, agreement between the Association of In addition, without access to OSI does not have the right to a jury trial. misrepresentation, rewriting of history." Soviet Lawyers and the American Bar investigative files on Mr. Demjanjuk, Neither is the OSI duty bound to hand Summarizing the situation, he said, Association, she commented: "What if the family was forced to go to court over any evidence that might clear the "OSI is, frankly, a bureaucracy run these communities had never been able against the U.S. Justice Department in defendant, as would be normal in a amok." And though he did not argue to unite (behind the issue)? The Soviets order to get the necessary documents. criminal proceeding. with the OSI's goals, he disagreed would have been successful" in getting After seeing parts of the files, the Moreover, he pointed out, that when sharply with its methods. recognition of their legal system in the family went to court with a 678-page the OSI goes to the USSR to take Abuses of procedure, he said, could West. fraud suit against the Justice Depart­ depositions, the presiding Soviet pro­ not be addressed on a case-by-case Therefore, for Ms. Huntwork, the ment for its handling of the case. This curators habitually limit questioning of basis. They could only be resolved OSI issue has broader international litigation is still pending. the witness by the American defense. through political solutions, in the ramifications. She advises a reasoned Mr. Nishnic said he remains hopeful. Nevertheless, "depositions were taken legislature and the public forum. He and a just approach in the work of the Increasingly, experts in law, psychology — American depositions to be used in strongly suggested that Ukrainians and OSI, which she said she highly values. and KGB defamation techniques, along American trials — in accordance with others become actively involved. Just because a process is legal, she with Rep. James Traficant of Ohio, Soviet law," said Mr. Lozynskyj. Looking beyond immediate politics. cautionevi, does not make it automati­ have expressed their doubts about the However, he said he belie 'es that the Dr. Myron Kuropas and Patience cally the right thing to do. "When prosecution's case. American OSI itself is withholding Huntwork considered the larger histo­ people are tried for genocide without He concluded his report with an evidence from defense counsels. rical and legal context of the OSI juries, without appointed counsel, in a appeal for financial support, and he In the case of John Demjanjuk, who denaturalization hearings. carnival atmosphere, when they are vowed: "I will not allow my children to is now appealing his case to the Israeli Dr. Kuropas, an educator and su­ denied the right of cross-examination," grow up thinking that their grandfather Supreme Court, there were many more preme vice-president of the Ukrainian she argued, "it may be the law as racial is a Nazi butcher." witnesses questioned who could not National Association, is a historian of identify Mr. Demjanjuk, but this was the Ukrainian experience in North never disclosed. America. He dated the beginning of Conference focuses on Soviet Christians "What you do not know," Mr. anti-Ukrainian defamation with the Lozynskyj said, "is that approximately opening of the Soviet Embassy in BLOOMINGTON, 111. - A Soviet Baptist Church, Chicago; the Rex 45 (witnesses) were questioned. Out of Washington in 1933, also the year of the Christian Awareness Conference was Harry Matviiv, pastor of the Ukrainian those 45 witnesses, only five identified Ukrainian famine. held in central Illinois on May 6 to Pentecostal Church, Bensenville, 111.; Demjanjuk," Mr. Lozynskyj said. Dr. Kuropas contends that because acquaint American Christians with the and the Rev. Olexa R. Harbuziuk, "Inasmuch as these cases are civil Ukrainians bucked Western illusions plight of Christians leaving the Soviet pastor of the Ukrainian Baptist Church, cases and not criminal cases," he added, about the Soviet Union, they have been Union. Berwyn, III. "the Office of Special Investigations targeted by Soviet propaganda. Participants learned about the va­ The conference also featured singing has no responsibility, except perhaps As an example. Dr. Kuropas quoted rious ways that people and churches can by some newly arrived immigrants and morally, to reveal the exonerating a very popular book, "Sabotage: The assist the immigrants. The conference, the choir of the Ukrainian Baptist evidence." Secret War Against America," pub­ held at Eastview Christian Church in Church under the direction of Alex Evidence was also the subject of lished after the war. The book vilified Bloomington, attracted more than 100 Harbuziuk. Hugh Mclnnish's book, "An American the Ukrainian National Association, people. The conference was organized by in Exile." He maintains that the denatu­ along with other ethnic Americans, and Speakers during the morning session Richard Scheuermann, pastor of the ralization of Arthur Rudolph, once a labeled its daily newspaper, Svoboda,"a included George Wadsworth of Exo­ Baptist church in Hudson, 111. His leading NASA scientist, was accom­ clearinghouse for espionage directives dus World Service, West Chicago, III., family of seven has sponsored the plished under false pretenses. coming from Berlin, Tokyo and Rome." and Sam Hanchett of the Slavic Gospel Hominiuk family of four people from Mr. Mclnnish told the audience that Dr. Kuropas held up the authors' Association, Wheaton, III. Mr. Han­ Ukraine that arrived in April and is the OSI produced a deposition that only evidence — a photograph of a chett recently spent two months in living in his home. seemed to implicate Dr. Rudolph in the nearly illegible envelope addressed to Rome investigating the situation of Pastor Scheuermann encouraged harassment of forced-labor workers in a the newspaper. Soviet emigrants waiting there for participants to sponsor irn -igrant У2 factory where he, too, worked. Notv/ithstanding its scanty data Or relocation to other countries. families, p/ :ae temporary housing, However, Dr. Rudolph's daughter Kuropas found that the book's allega­ Speakers at the afternoon session help find jobs, give financial assistance, found that the OSI never interviewed tions were quoted in "American Swas­ were the Rev. Peter Krasnopolsky, donate used furniture and clothes, and the witness it claimed to have deposed. tika," a recent pubiication. pastor of the Rusjiian,Evangelical assist them in adjusting to a new society No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989

Chicagoans support Ukraine's Catholics

Photos above and on the right show a demonstration held in Chicago on Monday, June 19, to publicize the plight of Ukrainian Catholics in Ukraine who are seeking legalization of their Church. The Chicagoans, led by Bishop Innocent Lotocky, marched outside the Dirksen Federal Building to stress that, if perestroika is real, the Ukrainian Catholic Church should be allowed to exist in the USSR. commission on January 16 of this year State Sen. Dudycz Vinnytsia... similar to the one set up by Byelorus­ Bishop IVIichael Kuchmiak... (Continued from page 1) sian authorities to study Kurapaty. (Continued from page 1) protests court's tion Bureau, where it was stated that the Excavations and the gathering of testi­ victims had been killed by the Nazis. mony are being carried out in the area Church in Newark, N.J., since 1975 It was not until quite recently that the that is the site of more than 500 mass The Newark parish is the largest one decision on flag city's inhabitants decided it was time to graves of 30,000 victims of Stalinist served by Ukrainian Redemptorist executions. fathers. CHICAGO - State Sen. Walter W. discover the truth. Within the past year or two, therefore, a section called A number of well-known writers and Bishop Kuchmiak, who was born in Dudycz (R-Chicago), who led protests scholars are believed to be buried in against a student art exhibit at the Art Memorial was created under the aus­ western Ukraine on February 5, 1923, pices of a historical and regional study Bykivnia, and the site is therefore was ordained a priest in 1956 by Bishop Institute of Chicago that displayed the acquiring the status of Ukrainian cul­ American flag on the floor, has raised association in Vinnytsia (capital of an Isidore Borecky of Toronto. He was oblast by the same name). ture's "field of martyrdom." Not first assigned to St. Mary's Parish at the his voice also to protest the recent surprisingly, the authorities are show­ Supreme Court decision that permits Memorial collected whatever it could Redemptorist motherhouse in Yorkton, by way of photographs, documents and ing signs of unease with the situation: Sask., and later became novicemaster at burning the flag as a political statement Kiev city officials, with one exception, and an expression of free speech. testimonies. But when the group at­ the order's novitiate in Meadowvale, tempted to organize a meeting to were conspicously absent at a mass Ont. commemoration meeting in Bykivnia Speaking on June 25, he called for a commemorate the dead, city officials In 1967 he became pastor of St. constitutional amendment that would "categorically rejected" the idea. on May 7. At the current rate, however, the Mary's in Yorkton and remained there outlaw desecration of the U.S. flag. Prompted by letters to his newspaper, until coming to Newark in 1975. Mr. Drobchak confirmed at the KGB number of uneasy Ukrainian officials During a news conference held in headquarters of Vinnytsia Oblast that promises to keep increasing: not only The seat of the apostolic exarch for front of the Art Institute, State Sen. "the mass executions...were a horrible has Vinnytsia come back to haunt, but Ukrainian Catholics of Great Britain Dudycz noted that it is his social reality" and were under investigation, the Office of the Procurator in Donetske has been vacant since the resignation of background that forces him to be so but that no documentary evidence had has reportedly set up a commission to Bishop Augustine Hornyak in Septem­ passionate about the issue. yet been found. Mr. Drobchak was investigate NKVD execution grounds ber 1987. lucky, however, in that for reasons he in this eastern Ukrainian city. Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, apos­ The Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "He does not clarify, the authorities proved As if that were not enough, a dispute tolic exarch of France, Benelux and described his parents as Eastern Euro­ to be unusually obliging and eventually is developing in Zhytomyr over a Stalin- Switzerland, has been the apostolic pean immigrants who fled communism produced material from the archives of era mass grave site that local officials administrator of the exarchate. and, like others, grew up in Chicago's criminal affairs - an important point, are reluctant to see publicized. But as Seventeen priests presently serve the working-class ghettos.'' by the way, given the Soviet propensity the weekly English-language paper faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic 10 ward off unpleasant revelations by News From Ukraine put it: "Such parishes in England and Scotland that "Only in America can a common man citing "destroyed" or "missing" docu­ graves are numerous in our country." comprise the exarchate. )f two immigrant parents with five ments. The information contained in brothers and sisters from the West Side the archival material given to Silski of Chicago become part of the govern­ Visti conforms exactly with the con­ Metropolitan Sulyk comments on appointment ment," Mr. Dudycz told the news clusions reached by the Germans in PHILADELPHIA -Archbishop tivity and understanding that media. 1943. Stephen Sulyk, metropolitan of the are necessary to bring the 'Good Mr. Drobchak's expose comes on the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the News' to his new flock," the metro­ On June 23, State Sen. Dudycz heels of an official investigation into the introduced a resolution that provides United States, stated he has mixed politan noted in a prepared state­ massacres of NKVD prisoners in the emotions over the announcement ment. for fines and punishment for anyone Bykivnia forest on the eastern outskirts who could desecrate the American flag. that Pope John Paul II has named his of Kiev. The ongoing investigation is auxiliary Bishop Michael Kuchmiak The statement continued: The resolutions was passed by the the third in two decades at the Bykivnia "However, this joy is tempered by Illinois Senate and has been sent to the as apostlic exarch to Great Britain site, where at least 6,300 people were for Ukrainians. the fact that the faithful of our House for consideration. archdiocese are losing a very dedi­ buried en massq. "I have mixed emotions today. I Both of the previous government cated, friendly and inspiring servant "The Supreme Court has spoken, the am very happy that my good friend, of the Lord who, throughout the past politicians have spoken, and now it's commissions — one established in 1971 Bishop Michael has been elected by and another as late as 1987 — took 15 months, has fostered good will, time for the American people to stand our Synod of Bishops and nominated love and warmth throughout our up," he said. deliberate steps to present "the Bykivnia by the holy father as apostolic exarch Archipelago," as it has been called, as archdiocese. Personally, I will miss a to Great Britain. Bishop Michael has very dedicated, trustworthy and At the press conference Mr. Dudycz the work of the Germans, and in Fe­ all the requisite talents and qualifica- bruary 1988, a plague was laid with capable auxiliary and a very good said the American flag stands as a fions for this position. He is a deeply friend. symbol for all the freedoms that all great ceremony at the graves of "the spiritual man of great principle who, Americans have fought for, died for, victims of the Fascist occupiers." with his years of pastoral experience "We pray that our good Lord -^Ш and continue to cherish and enjoy. He Ridicule from the central press and and dedication in serving our Lord, bestow his blessings upon Bishop also said he will continue to defend its from the Kiev public forced the Ukrai­ will provide the fatherly care, sensi­ Michael's new episcopal duties." honor and protect it from desecration. nian government to create another THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JULY 16. 1989 No. 29

Ж иІсгаіпіапУееУу CONGRESSIONAL PROFILE Proceed with caution from the UNA Washington Office 4 WNSJI All the experts have agreed: U.S.-Soviet relations have entered a new era. Under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, economic Rep. Frank J. Guarini of New Jersey decentralization has been introduced, there is encouragement of free Representative Frank J, Guarini is a speech, emigration restrictions have been loosened, political prisoners Democrat who represents the 14th (albeit not all of them) have been released, and elections in which the District of New Jersey (Hudson voters had at least some modicum of choice have been held. Clearly, County) in the U.S. House of the changes in the USSR require a concomitant change in U.S. Representatives. The Home Office of policies toward that state. the Ukrainian National Association is The Bush administration has been urged to steer a middle course in located in the 14th District. He was first reacting to developments in the Soviet Union. An analysis elected to the 96th Congress on commissioned by President George Bush as part of his administra­ November 7, 1978, and each succeeding tion's review of U.S.-Soviet relations advised the president to take Congress. In his sixth term, he serves as advantage of diange in the USSR's internal and external policies and a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade; to expand dialogue between the two states. the Committee on the Budget; and the Prepared by the CIA, State Department, Pentagon and National Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse. Security Council, the report, while acknowledging change in the A native of Jersey City, he graduated USSR, says it will take years, even decades, before some of the reforms from Dartmouth College, received his being promoted by Mr. Gorbachev are realized. law degree from New York University The analysis.also recommends that the U.S. government should School of Law, and did graduate work continue to press for human rights improvements in the USSR. at the Hague Academy of International Law. From 1944 to 1946, he served in Leading Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, meanwhile, expressed Rep. Frank Guarini much scepticism about transformations in his country. The news the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater media quoted Dr. Sakharov as saying that, despite Mr. Gor­ aboard the U.S.S. Mount McKinley. seem to have had little effect on U- bachev's pronouncements about political change to lead the In 1965 Frank Guarini was elected to kraine. During Mr. Gorbachev's visit to Country out of economic disaster, nothing in reality had changed. the New Jersey State Senate and was re- Ukraine and prior to the recent elec­ elected for the 1968-1972 term. A former tions, numerous Ukrainians were ar­ Furthermore, the state apparatus that had brought the USSR to its chairman of the Hudson County De­ rested. How do you view Ukraine present brink still is in place, he observed. mocratic Committee, he hcs also served within the context of the Soviet Union? Thus, Mr. Sakahrov advised "This is a situation, it seems to me, on the board of numerous legal, civic, where it is very dangerous to give financial credits. ... The West and community organizations includ­ The many nationalities forcibly in­ cannot be certain to whom or for what it would be giving these credits. ing the American TYial Lawyers Asso­ corporated into the Soviet Union pose They might support the reactionary tendency." ciation, the American Red Cross and another challenge. Moscow's domina­ "There are times when one must be a bit cautious and wait.... Now is St. Peter's College. tion of the republics is what has caused not the time to artifically press ahead with economic, cultural or This interview with Rep. Guarini the people to resist. The major dissident political relations," he concluded. was conducted by Eugene Iwanciw of republic is, of course, Ukraine. From the UNA Washington Office. the earliest days of the Soviet Union In a phrase, the advice would be: proceed with caution. And this Congressman, earlier this year a new until today, Ukraine has resisted Rus­ certainly is advice well worth heeding given that many of the changes sian domination and the Russians we see, or think we see, in the USSR may be illusory, since they are not administration took office and a new Cong/ess convened. What are the major simply do not know how to handle it. I yet codified in laws. issues and challenges facing the country do, however, hope that they allow the In addition, the West should not forget about the reactionary and the 101st Congress? legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic decrees on public demonstrations and "anti-state" crimes approved by Church and begin to appreciate the the great reformer, Mr. Gorbachev, himself. Former political There is no question that the budget thousand-year history and culture of prisoners have yet to be rehabilitated, while new political prisoners deficit is our major crisis at this time. It Ukraine. have been created thanks to decrees that provide for 15-day sentences affects the stahdard of living of our If perestroika is truly carried out, for participation in public meetings. people and the future of our country. perhaps some of these policy changes Tied to the budget deficit is the trade will occur. Hopefully, the Soviet leader­ Most recently, an official delegation of American experts reported deficit. We are in the process of trying to ship will also reconsider its attitude to the U.S. government that there is reason for concern about Soviet get the budget deficit down tO the toward Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. abuses of psychiatry. The 26-member delegation of psychiatrists, confines of Gramm-Rudman which, They need to open up, establish demo­ lawyers and other experts, including Peter Reddaway, author of two over the next few years, will gradually cracy with free elections, and allow the books on Soviet abuses of psychiatry, noted that in 14 of the 27 get the budget into balance, our ulti­ freedoms of speech, worship and press. patients they interviewed, they could find "no evidence of a mental mate goal. No one can say when this will occur but disorder"; another three cases were so mild that in the West they would The issue of drug abuse and control, it shall. They cannot deny the force and not even warrant hospitalization. which is related to social cost and ties strength of those people and in the long The experts also reported that maximum security psychiatric into our national security and freedom, run the peoples of the Soviet Union will hospitals in the USSR still resemble prisons, even though they are now is also a very pressing problem. It affects be free. run by the Ministry of Health, rather than, as before, by the Ministry our entire population — all income levels, all ethnic groups, all religions. With discussion about increased of Internal Affairs. Some people were hospitalized for "anti-Soviet U.S.-Soviet trade, there have been thoughts" or political behavior, and drugs were being used for In the area of foreign policy, we seem suggestions to either repeal or waive the "punitive rather than therapeutic purposes." to be entering a new era in U.S.-USSR restrictions of the Jackson- /anik In other words, Soviet psychiatry - like other facets of the Soviet relations. What are your views on the amendment which denies the JSSR system - has not yet been subject to complete perestroika. policies of glasnost and perestroika? most-favored-nation trade statu i based And thus, we have another strong argument for caution in on its emigration policy. Do you relationships with the USSR and firmness in calling on the Soviets to The Soviet Union has a tremendous anticipate any repeal or waiving of live up to their international commitments on human rights. bureaucracy. There is an attempt on the Jackson-Vanik during the next year or part of some people to change the two? direction the Soviet Union has been going because the policies of the past Many experts now believe that Jack­ have not been working. son-Vanik has not been as successful as I visited the Soviet Union on many was originally expected. I have sat down Turning the pages back... occasions and found it to be a very with refuseniks in the USSR to discuss depressing experience. To leave a issues such as this. With 60 people in a democracy where the standard of living room there was total disagreement as to is high, where people have incentives, whether it was helping or hurting On July 18, 1944, the Galicia Division was destroyed at the effort to increase emigration. When the Battle of Brody by Soviet forces much stronger in terms where freedom is enjoyed and then to go to the Soviet Union and find a lack of I discuss the issue with American Jewish of both men and material. basic freedoms as well as empty shelves organizations, I am told some are for it This military unit attached to the 13th German Army Corps was created as part is depressing. The effort to restructure and some are against it. There is still an of a program of creating foreign formations of the Waffen SS to fight on the Soviet the Soviet economy is not the result of over-all reluctance to change it, but it is front. The Galicia Division's formation was announced on April 28, 1943, and it American foreign policy toward the now going to be discussed more openly. was supported by the Ukrainian Central Committee in Cracow which saw it as a USSR but rather the realization by the Perhaps if there are significant Ukrainian fighting force and the basis for a future national army. Soviet people that communism just changes in Soviet policy toward human During negotiations, the Germans gave assurances that the division would fight does not work. rights and emigration, we will be pre­ only against the Red Army. According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, the pared to bring down some trade bar­ Germans also allowed Ukrainian chaplains to serve with the division, undertook to While there has been some liberaliza­ riers. I'm not in the position at this time (Conttaued on page 16) tion in the Soviet Union, those changes (Continued on page 11) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Why does Mr. Bilyk come out with In reading the American media, it is Support for idea his threats to resign again, as he did a Commendation for becoming increasing obvious that the few times earlier as a member of other Baltic states are taking the lead in the of 1988 yearbook bodies and committees? Andrij Bilyk various progressive changes. Their issues are covered quite well, and Dear Editor: His attitude suggests that he pre­ Dear Editor: whatever happens in the Baltic states, Why is Andrij Bilyk saying all these viously had and now has personal Andrij Bilyk should be commended makes it to the Western press in a timely things about the National Millennium professional interests in these matters, for bringing to the Ukrainian com­ fashion. This indicates a tremen­ Committee? To say that the committee as a public relations man. Isn't this a munity's attention the shortcomings of dously well-coordinated operation on never succeeded in one area or another case of conflict of interest? the "Millennium yearbook"project the part of the Baits in the Soviet Union, is absurd. To propose a new set of tasks I would advise Mr. Bilyk to learn planned by the National Millennium and in the diaspora. for the committee at this point is unfair something from all those experiences and try to work with the community, Committee. nd uncalled for. He is even coming out We, however, have not yet been able to A substantial amount of money against the publication of a commemo­ accepting the decisions of the majority. develop an efficient system by which already has been spent on various rative "yearbook.'' Otherwise he will continue to look like a events in Ukraine reach the Western Millennium concerts, banquets, etc., Mr. Bilyk states that the Millennium spoiled child, declaring that he is correspondents and then are followed up with only a negligible impact on mass Committee "has given up the cause.'' walking out with his toys. by good press work in the West. As a media, public opinion or even on our Has it really? The committee's mandate, For a grown-up man this is not only result, Ukrainian religious and nationa­ community's spiritual renewal or unity. as stated in its name, was to comme­ inappropriate, but smacks of an at­ list activists in Ukraine are taking morate the Millennium of Christianity tempt at blackmail. It would be unconscionable to spend tremendous risks, with their best in Ukraine. Therefore, I feel the "year­ another 580,000 on a self-promoting coverage occurring on the pages of the book" documenting our national obser­ Yaroslav Antonovych yearbook, when the eloquent speeches Ukrainian press. Eventually, this situa­ vances of this milestone is a justifiable New York and writings of such courageous Ukrai­ tion is going to become very expensive sequel to the many years of hard work nian patriots as Sverstiuk, Badzio, with Ukrainians in Ukraine paying with prior to and during the millennial year. Pavlychko, Kalynets, etc., remain their lives, and we with our con­ The timing is right. The celebrations unpublished. How much more the sciences. and commemorations are over. While Memorial book Ukrainian people and the people of the Another pressing problem is the issue our memories of recent events is still world would benefit from reading their of new arrivals from Ukraine to the fresh, let us gather the photos, reports, is a good idea soulful expressions of the sufferings and West. There are increasing numbers of lists of publications and symposia, etc. yearnings of our oppressed nation, than Ukrainians, of various religious persua­ into a composite album. Such an album Dear Editor: from a sterile collection of committee sions arriving in the West, and finding ought to be edited and produced in top- I am writing in response to Andrij pictures and repetitive reports of their us unprepared to help. After World notch fashion. Bilyk's recent opinion column in which activities? War II, many of our people were spon­ As a librarian, I believe books of this he states that the National Millennium sored by people they did not know. The nature have an exceptional value. They Committee should not publish a com­ Valentina Makohon only important qualification was that are the building blocks of our collective memorative book because the Ukrai­ Rochester, N.Y. we were Ukrainians in need, and they memory. Our families and friends need nian Churches in Ukraine are not yet stretched their hand in Christian cha­ legalized, and therefore the efforts of to see and feel that we are part of a Editor's note: In re the National rity. Now, 40 years later we are finan­ the Millennium Committee should be larger Ukrainian community, united in Millennium Committee's commemora­ cially secure and have no system of aid. considered to have resulted in failure. purpose. We should collect them our­ tive book project, it should have been selves and donate them to university I'll be honest. His logic evades me. It noted by Andrij Bilyk that the decision Individual communities and reli­ libraries and non-Ukrainian parishes in was my understanding that the purpose to publish the book had already been gious leaders are working, but there is our respective cities. Our descendants of the National Millennium Committee, made in November of last year, Mr, no effective nationwide system of will undoubtedly be grateful for this as well as the local committees, WAS to Bilyk's article misrepresented the situa­ screening, holding-over and settling record of our millennial activities. Yes, commemorate the Millennium of Chris­ tion, making it seem as if the matter was into American life. If we do not esta­ even our brethren in Ukraine will tianity. This was a broad-based commu­ still a topic of discussion, when in fact blish a system, non-Ukrainians will and cherish this publication produced, as it nity effort that took on many forms. the National Millennium Committee we will loose a large number of poten­ were, at a grass-roots level without And I for one, being familiar with had voted to go ahead with the project tial members of the Ukrainian commu­ official government interference. efforts of friends and family in Pitts­ months ago. nity. They may also be forced to return Mr. Bilyk would have us wait until the burgh and in Washington, think that to Soviet Ukraine, proving that we do Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox there was a great deal that happened not care and that, as the Soviet govern­ Church move to legalize our Churches. that was successful and of which we can Stop talking, ment claims, we are ineffective — if we Fat chance! We cannot wait that long. be proud. cannot take care of refugees how can we While I agree that the Ukrainian It is very important that our commu­ start working help politically? community in the diaspora has a lot of nity take the opportunity to record its In the Soviet Union the situation of work ahead in continuing the struggle history, its local and national accom­ Dear Editor: the Ukrainian Churches seems to have for religious freedom and recognition, I plishments. I would have hoped that, as It was very interesting to read the gotten worse - not better. There is think there are other channels in place a public relations expert, Mr. Bilyk views expressed by the supporters of the pressure to open Latin Rite Catholic for this type of work. The job certainly would have understood this. I think that Ukrainian Congress Committee of Churches and not Ukrainian Catholic is not yet done. There is plenty of room it is perfectly reasonable to expect the America and the Ukrainian American Churches. The Ukrainian Orthodox for constructive contributions from all National Millennium Committee to Coordinating Committee. While this Church is non-existent, and the initia­ of us. publish a commemorative book. makes for fascinating reading, there are tive groups formed seem to stand alone. Frankly, I am annoyed when in a issues which yet remain to be addressed Unregistered Ukrainian Protestants are final desperate effort to persuade others Many people do not know, for ex­ by our large secular and religious main­ persecuted viciously. In the West, the to their viewpoint, some people resort ample, that President Ronald Reagan line institutions. mainline religious institutions, from to a suicidal last stand ("hell resign if specifically called for the legalization of It has been three years since the the Vatican to the World Council of the yearbook project is approved"). As I our Ukrainian Churches in his speech in world's worst nuclear accident oc­ Churches, seem to have fallen under the have stated above, 1 very much look front of the Danilov Monastery, that a curred at the Chornobyl plant in U- spell of "Gorbymania" — and we have forward to seeing the commemorative new cathedral was consecrated in Cleve­ kraine. As well there are serious pro­ not found an antidote. book. As for Mr. Bilyk, he may do as he land, or that Byzantine and Latin rite blems with pollution and contamina­ With the various exchanges that are pleases. That's his choice. bishops concelebrated a divine liturgy tion throughout Ukraine. Increasingly at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. occurring, we have yet to establish the there are articles being written in the principle that when Ukraine is concern­ Jurij Dobczansky These events marked many milestones Soviet Ukrainian press, that the reper­ ed we deal not with Moscow but with Washington in our community and must be record­ cussions are much more serious than ed for history. Kiev, that all groups going to Ukraine the Moscow government has led Soviet must be briefed in Ukrainian language This book should not be seen as an Ukrainians and the West to believe. The and culture; and that all groups coming Why is Bilyk end, but rather as part of a foundation, same is being reported in Western from Ukraine must come as Ukrainians, a steppingstone which will allow us to medical and scientific journals. Tourists not Russians, with free access to Ukrai­ reach out to many people and commu­ from Ukraine are reporting catastrophic nian communities here. complaining now? nities. illnesses, abnormal births, and an almost fatalistic attitude by a large segment of Dear Editor: In conclusion, I believe that we must It is high time that all of us, dedi­ strive to unify ourselves, encourage one the Ukrainian population that their cated individuals, grass-roots groups 1 began reading Andrij Bilyk's com­ another, for, a house divided among physical and genetic extinction is not far and large moneyed institutions, stop ments with interest, but the further 1 itself surely will fall. There are many off. talking, and start working. If we don't, read, the more disgusted and disturbed tasks which must be accomplished. lam However, all of these facts have not there will be no problems to solve, for ,I was. not suggesting that with the publication seemed to penetrate our consciousness, our youth will have left us, and there Why did Mr. Bilyk wait so long with of this book we sit on our laurels. I and we have not managed to initiate a will be no one to work for. The Soviets his proposals when the issue of pub­ am suggesting that we say thank you, strategy which will keep this in the will have accomplished what they have lishing a memorial book was una­ congratulations and without wasting forefront of the Western public's atten­ tried to do from the very beginning, nimously decided by the Ukrainian time on recrimination, move forward. tion. We have also not been able to send with very little effort. . Millennium Committee on November aid as a Ukrainian diaspora commu­ 5, 1988, at the meeting attended by Mr. Mark Morozowich nity, although as individuals, that has Larissa M. Fontana Bilyk as its member? McKeesport, Pa. been done. Potomac, Md. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JULY 16.1989 No. 29 East meets West: University of Illinois conference provides forum

by Marta Kolomayets some level of glasnost and democratization is making itself felt in Ukraine, of course not URBAN A, 111. - More than 150 scholars with the approval of the authorities in Kiev. and supporters of the positive changes in the Nevertheless, there is an aperture now, Soviet Union - from Ukraine, China, Israel, through which these talented people can Australia, Germany, England, Canada and extend their hands to us in the West," added the United States - exchanged innovative Mr. Nahaylo. ideas, engaged in lively dialogue and ener­ Amidst all the praise that the conference gized with constructive debate during a garnered, there was one critical observation. conference titled: "Glasnost, Perestroika and After spending more than 74 hours, listening Ukraine," sponsored by the Ukrainian Re­ to 54 papers, two panel discussions, one search Program at the University of Illinois. keynote address and viewing anywhere from The weeklong cbnference, planned with the one to 10 hours of film and video about cooperation of the Canadian Institute of Ukraine, some participants complained of the Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton, which ran hectic pace and the innundating information from June 19 through 24, "will be a hard act to that made many a head spin. It must be follow," stated Prof. Bohdan Rubchak, one pointed out that no one was forced to sit of the conference organizers, who closed the through every session, listen to every speaker, eighth annual forum on Saturday, June 24. yet the majority of the participants were glued And what distinguished this conference from to their seats, in anticipation of some observa­ others was the fact that it featured and tion, correction or explanation from the Bohdan Nahaylo of Radio Liberty in Munich and Les Taniuk, a encouraged dialogue with leading figures in guests from Ukraine. theater director from Kiev/Moscow during a session. Ukraine's cultural and national reawakening, among them Kiev poet Pavlo Movchan, The Ukrainians'outspokenness and know­ as: What will happen to Shcherbytsky? Will Ukrainian), two panel di theater director Les Taniuk and his wife, Nelli ledge of current affairs in Ukraine provided perebudova in Ukraine continue? Will ecolo­ the audience. The first Kornienko, a sociologist and theater scholar food for thought as well as inspiration. All of gical issues take top priority? Will the contemporary issues in from Moscow. Other visitors from Ukraine, them had lived through the long years of Ukrainian people's deputies speak out in posed of the guests fron who took an active part in the discussion at stagnation and repression of Ukrainian defense of Ukraine? This is but a small Baley and Prof. Taras the university's mini Union were Mykola cultural life, yet emerged from this situation sampling because the list of topics discussed had just returned from I Zhulynsky, assistant director of the Institute with unfaltering spirits and a relentless at the conference, are by far, too many to panel on Ukraine and tl of Literature at the Ukrainian SSR Academy patriotism. mention, but the Ukrainian Research Pro­ four women, all of them i of Sciences, and Stepan Pavliuk, an ethno­ Yet, not only guests from Ukraine provided gram is making the arrangements to have the United States and Canad grapher from Lviv. interesting insights into the situation in proceedings of the week come out in book political prisoners and ( Ukraine today. Speakers such as Virko Baley, form as soon as possible, as it has done in Nina Strokata-Karavan "I attribute the success of this conference professor of music at the University of to two factors: it concerned itself with current previous years. chne, Raisa Moroz and Nevada in Las Vegas, who claims that in 1989 "I cannot overemphasize the importance of (more on these panels in information concerning a process - perebu- he has spent more time in Ukraine promoting dova — that the whole world is watching. issuing conference notes, not only for the Weekly). cultural relations than he has at home, Western worid, but for people in Ukraine," Among the highlight Each session was pithy and the voices from provided the audience with a glimpse at Ukraine were candid and rejuvenating," said stressed Mr. Movchan during the conference. conference was the keync treasures he has discovered in Ukraine's "I did pick up a lot of new information here by Prof. George Shevel Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn, the co-organizer, world of art, music and theater. commenting on the kudos this year's confe­ and the strength of some scholars I met here is standing ovation at the rence received. Liu Dong, a professor at Wuhan University. unsurpassed. In certain aspects, subjects that tions. Titling his paper "0 "This conference has a historical signifi­ in China, was also a speaker at the conference. are taboo in Ukraine were raised, but I must Chronicle of Current Eve cance; it is the first time that people who are so The scholar talked about the future of add that in principle, the atmosphere here is joked that if he said ever involved in Ukrainian affairs in the West have Ukrainian studies in China, where, upon her not unlike the one in Kiev today. say, he'd be at the podii the opportunity to meet leading national/cul­ return from Canada, she hopes to introduce "I understand that the diaspora is not Drach stood at the la tural activists from Ukraine at a free and open the Ukrainian language into the regular apathetic to the changes that have occurred meeting, delivering a s forum. It is significant that we have found a curriculum of her university. and are occurring in Ukraine," he added. between six and seven ho communality of trusts, and concerns, espe­ Other topics presented during the week Mr. Taniuk agreed that the publication of reached that age: I no lo cially about the present situation in Ukraine," included a paper on the Ukrainian Insurgent works is very important, and was over­ don't say something the w observed Bohdan Nahaylo, the acting direc­ Army in Soviet sources, delivered by Petro whelmed by the colossal amount the diaspora The professor emeritu! tor of Radio Liberty's Ukrainian desk in Sodol, of Litopys UPA, and an up to the has achieved. "As a director, I personally am versity then spoke abou Munich, and a conference participant. minute report about Chornobyl and environs very happy with the tone of this conference; it role of the book in ou "Four people have arrived from the Soviet from Dr. David Marples, who had returned is academically penetrating, intelligent, yet at freedom, and the role of i Union, (Taniuk, Kornienko, Movchan, only a few days earlier from the site. Dr. the same time it has a light atmosphere, not which is not found in the I Zhulynsky) and they have cleared up some Zhulynsky delivered a report about the newly forced. It is a conference where people trust or for that matter in most things that until now could only be specula­ established International Association of each other, whether they hold the same He added that the Ul tion. They are not only the eyewitnesses to the Ukrainianists, which held its founding meet­ positions, or whether they differ. In this defines this word as solita changes in Ukraine, they are the involved ing in Naples in eariy June. respect, it is different than the conferences in secluded. He pointed out motivators," said Roman Solchanyk, Radio the Soviet Union: here you don't see anyone right to be yourself, the Christina Isajiw of the World Congress of trying to force a frog down your throat, as Liberty's director of program research and Free Ukrainians, Human Rights Commis­ yourself, to own a place to development, who p-^inted out that Mr. Ta­ they do in the USSR. Well, I'm not a French­ boundaries of this privacy sion, delivered a paper on "Psychiatric man and I don't eat frogs," he said. niuk is not only involved in Kiev's Memorial Abuses in the Soviet Union in Light of the a state as well as from s society, which he heads, but is also the vice- Paris Conference on the Human Dimension," Besides the interesting papers that were word does not exist in chairman of the all-union Memorial society in and Taras Kuzio of the Ukrainian Press read at the conference, most in Ukrainian guage," he said. Moscow, headed by Andrei Sakharov. Mr. Agency in London, spoke about "Dissent and (this change came at the last moment, for Every evening most ( Movchan is one of the initiators of the Opposition in Ukraine under Gorbachev," most speakers had agreed to deliver papers in participants continued t( Popular Movement for Restructuring in which included a detailed listing of all the tens English, but once they saw the guests from program and viewed varic Ukraine. of samvydav coming out in Ukraine today. Ukraine, as a courtesy, many switched to and videotapes fro'' Mk "It has been particularly inspiring to see The conference covered a breadth of topics, Pavlo Movchan here, for this does attest that running the gamut, and asking such questions

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Nina Strokata, Nadia Svitlychna, Stefa Hnatenko and Raisa Moroz take part in a panel The guests from Ukraine included: Mykola Zhulynsky, Les Taniuk, Pavlo discussion about Ukraine and the diaspora. Kornienko and Stepan Pavliuk. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989

dialogue Pavlo Movchan: A poet's words on language by Marta Kolomayets

Born on July 12, 1939, in a village near Ukraine's capital city of Kiev, Pavlo Movchan is the antithesis of his name (movchan, the silent one). An outspoken critic of the stagnant Soviet system, he is one of the founders of the initiative group of the Popular Movement for Perebu' dova in Ukraine, commonly known as the "Rukh." A passionate observer of the political characteristics of these complex times, the poet, literary critic and essayist has a detailed knowledge of the Soviet system ї speaker George Y. Shevelov with conference organizer and its people and the ability to Dmytro Shtohryn. penetrate events, synthesizing them in a few rich phrases. brought "Wellspring for the Thirsty," "...and about Horses^and "The Eve of Ivan Kupalo." As a member of the Ukrainian Mr. Nahaylo showed a collage of videotapes Writers' Union, he is part of the which included excerpts from Soviet televi­ vanguard of the national and sion and the BBC. He also showed the cultural reawakening in Ukraine videotape of the Ukrainian cabaret group today, a role he sees as the respon­ from Lviv, "Ne Zhurys." sibility of writers!poets during these changing times. Halya Kuchmij showed her film dedicated to the Millennium titled "Celebrations of the The embodiment ofglasnost, in Millennium of Christianity in Soviet U- his style and speech, Mr, Mov­ kraine" a CBC television production. Her chan has described the process in this way: "It has Pavlo Movchan film was released last year at Christmastime. become clear to me that responsibility is glasnost, the 1960s, during the repressive years of the On Friday evening, June 23, a banquet was that conscience demands the truth," For this poet, Brezhnev regime, that Mr, Movchan began speak­ held at the Illini Union and featured poetic work and political work are almost sy­ ing out bravely against the system, in his search for entertainment by bandurist Julian Kytasty nonymous in Ukraine under Gorbachev, the truth. and tenor Pavlo Pysarenko. During this time, A staunch supporter of younger poets and Described by Prof, Bohdan Rubchak as a man conference participants had the opportunity writers, he began his own creative work in the with "great intellectual energy and a philosophical to thank the organizers, as well as the 1960s, His first collection of works was published in mind," Mr, Movchan is currently in the United organizational committee, which included 1963, when he was only 24, and to date he has States, where in June of this year he participated in Natalia Lonchyna and Mark Bandera. released eight collections, the latest appearing in a conference titled "Glasnost, Perestroika and "This conference was perhaps the most 1988 CPorih") A graduate of the Gorky Institute, Ukraine," sponsored by the Ukrainian Research productive of any I have ever been to," he also took courses in stage directing, and is a Program at the University of Illinois, commented Osyp Zinkewych, publisher of respected literary critic and author of children's Below, is an interview with him about the Smoloskyp, based in Maryland. "I would books. situation in Ukraine, conducted during the week- propose that such a conference be organized Although he is an unflinching individualist who long conference in Urbana-Champaign, III for our community leaders, the heads of our hesitates to be categorized Mr, Movchan is The conclusion of this interview will appear in political organizations, leaders of the secular regarded as a ''Shestydesiatnyk, ''for it was during next week's Weekly, organizations. It is important for people who take an active part in Ukrainian community PART I "History of Ukraine-Rus' " He placed Rus' in the life also know what life is like in Ukraine, for During your presentations at this conference, secondary position, because this historic concept of it would be wonderful for us to stop living in Rus' has not been used for years; our cultural heri­ that Utopian, fantasy world. you have stated that it may be too soon for us to talk about Ukraine as a nation, when the people tage has been taken away from us. "It is wonderful that our guests from There is a lot of work to be done, and it is not the Ukraine came and spoke so openly, but their themselves do not know who they are. How do you understand the concept of national identity? kind of work that can be done in one day. interests cover only cultural life. We also need Nationhood, and the constitutional status of the some economists, ecologists, as well as Ukrainian language, this all will take a lot of work. I political leaders to visit us here," he said. We have become accustomed to one ethnic concept: the Soviet people. We have been trained cannot imagine who can do this kind of work in a "1 hesitate to judge the situation in Ukraine short span of time, wher over the centuries we have today. I have only been out of Ukraine for 10 from the mid 1920s to this day that only this concept, the Soviet people, exists in our country. had so much taken away from us. years," remarked Raisa Moroz, but so much For me, the problem of Ukraine is the struggle of has happened that I already feel it is harder for The Soviet people, this concept, has no ethnic boundaries, everything is dissolved, our history has evil and good, it is an ongoing battle which has no me to grasp their way of thinking, and so on. end. I am simply blending these concepts, expand­ That is why it worries me when people who been washed away, as has been our consciousness. Due to historic and other factors, Ukrainians and ing to a bigger, wider context. The Ukrainian have been here more than 40 years act as if problem is a cosmic problem, it is transcendental, they know the reality of the Soviet system," Byelorussians (the Byelorussians find themselves in a more tragic state) were more susceptible to probably because our house is located on the she said. periphery. But, no, we are in the middle. We are in Such problems as the ones raised by Mr. dissolution than other peoples in the Soviet Union. Thus, only one salvation remains for us today, a marginal situation, between Asia and Europe. All Zinkewych and Ms. Moroz will be raised in roads, all interests, cross in Ukraine, not only next year's conference. Just a few weeks after and that is self-defense, self-protection of our consciousness. What does this mean? It requires an because Ukraine is full of riches, not only because the 1989 conference. Prof. Shtohryn has set of its geopolitical situation, but for a variety of the wheels in motion for the 1990 conference, entire complex plan. In this situation, the attainment of a constitu­ reasons, including the fact that religious currents titled "Ukraine and the Diaspora," which he intersected here. hopes will encourage further dialogue between tional status for the language will not save us. If today the language receives this status, it does This is why I feel that nationhood is a complex the East and West. Set for June 21-26, the problem that must be given immediate attention conference hopes to feature Ukrainian not mean that it will automatically become the widely used state language. First we must evoke a and resolution, beginning on the economic level. scholars from not only Ukraine and No/th Seventy-plus percent of all Ukrainian businesses America, but also Europe, including activists feeling among these people, their ties to the land and to their roots, and return to them all that has are centralized in Moscow. Only when we attain from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugo­ autonomous economic, sovereign economic condi­ slavia. been lost. And, so much has been lost over a period of more than 300 years, of the tsarist, imperialist — tions, can we begin talking about sovereignty in Next year Prof. Shtohryn also hopes that other spheres of life in Ukraine. the Ukrainian Studies Research Institute will and I underscore imperialist — treatment of become a reality, for the University of Illinois Ukrainians. Ukrainians have been treated as Recently, there have been rumors that consti­ in Urbana-Champaign has one of the most colonial people in a colony. This consciousness is tutional status may be granted to both Ukrainian extensive Slavic libraries and, coupled with still prevalent among many Russians: I see this in and Russian as the state languages in Ukraine. this summer studies program and the summer attacks today on my articles and my radio inter­ What are your thoughts on this bilingualism? laboratories it offers, this setting is ideal for views, where Ukrainianism, the entire Ukrainian such an institute. problem irritates them. This is nonsense. Bilingualism is nonsense. There The aberration of historical context and geo­ cannot be a second state language; it is even Due to the extensive materials presented at graphic concepts took place a longtime ago. An the Urbana conference. The Weekly will carry nonsensical in its formulation, and this cannot be, example of this is why Hrushevsky. (Mykhailo for Russian is already a state language, the аЛ- various interviews and information about the Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian) used the formula conference over the next several weeks. (Conthiued on page 10) кО THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1989 No. 29

additional issues which were not in the the Ukrainian republican government In his concluding remarks, the WCFU president... congress memorandum. Firstly, he was responsible for compliance with the WCFU president condemned the Soviet (Continued from page 3) stressed that Ukraine should be allowed Helsinki Accords in areas of human government's discrimination against rights in Ukraine, then logically U- the Ukrainian media, numbering over In his statement, Mr. Shymko re-. to participate in the CSCE process as the 36th signatory with a separate kraine should sit alongside the USSR as 200 press, radio and television agencies ferred to highlights of the WCFU's in the United Nations at. all CSCE in Ukraine, none of which were given memt)randum (published in The Ukrainian state delegation at all future conferences. Otherwise, the status quo conferences. Ambassador Kashlev re­ press accreditation to attend the Paris Weekly on July 2), which was distri­ plied that this made sense yet, he could conference, while over 25 Soviet Rus­ buted to all 35 participatory states along reaffirms Ukraine's colonial status and Moscow's de facto use of policies of not commit himself to recommending sian-language media representatives with a memorandum from the WCFU's Ukraine's separate participation at were in attendance. Ecological Commission. He pointed out political and national apartheid with that Ukrainians 138 documented cases regard to Ukraine and its people. future CSCE conferences. He expressed hope that someday of individual prisoners of conscience still Mr. Shymko also added that he had such a press conference will be held by Secondly, he pointed out the plight of confronted the Soviet ambassador with Mr. Lukianenko, as spokesman of an incarcerated in prisons, labor camps the Ukrainian ethnic minority in the and psychiatric asylums in the USSR. the question as to why such NGOs as the officially accredited Ukrainian Helsinki Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Ukrainian Helsinki Union and its Union, alongside an independent U- He spoke of the series of repressive Republic. These citizens of Ukrainian laws recently enacted by the Soviet president, Lev Lukianenko, were not krainian state delegation. "Only then origin, numbering between 8 and 10 given accreditation to attend the Paris will we have made genuine progress Union, especially the April 8 amend­ million, are subjected to policies of ments to the Criminal Code which he conference, enjoying the same rights as towards security and cooperation in ethnocide, since they are stripped of all the WCFU. He replied: "We know Europe," said Mr. Shymko. said "virtually placed all Soviet citizens educational, cultural and institutional under martial law and have all the Lukianenko!" rights to preserve and maintain their Mr. Shymko stressed that this matter attributes for renewed Stalinist repres­ linguistic and cultural heritage. sion." ^ should be pursued by other state delega­ Ukrainian writer... "This constitutes a major violation of tions. "It is absurd," said Mr. Shymko, (Continued from page 3) The WCFU president expressed his the Final Document signed on January "that Ukraine, a founding member of amazement at how a number of delega­ critiques. Many of his poetic works 19, 1989, in Vienna," said Mr. Shymko. the U.N., territorially the largest coun­ have been used as lyrics to popular tions made reference on June 5 to the He criticized the Western media for try in Europe, the third largest by tragic massacre of Chinese students in songs. confusing such "ethnic questions" with population, was prevented in 1976 by Before the beginning of the current Beijing, yet no mention has been made "national questions" in reference to the the Brezhnev regime from joining other so far at the conference by any delega­ "restructuring" phase Mr. Pavlychko nations in the Soviet Union who are European states as a signatory of the had experienced occasions of repres­ tion of the brutal massacre of innocent Helsinki Accords." civilians in the capital of Georgia in ethnic minorities only if they live sion: "Truth Beckons" became a for­ outside their national boundaries. The WCFU president stated that bidden Vtork; "Sculptor in Word" was April by special Soviet army units, since the new leadership in Moscow has whose actions were sanctioned by subjected to unjustified criticism, and In response to a question, Mr. already condemned domestic and Mr. Pavlychko was removed from his present Soviet laws and were carried out Shymko mentioned his unofficial foreign policies during the so-called on orders from the present leadership in position as the editor-in-chief of Uni­ chance encounter at the conference period of stagnation, it should strike out verse in 1978. M6SCOW. center with Soviet Ambassador Yuri this policy, which prevents a European Mr. Pavlychko is visiting Australia to As for the persecution of the Ukrai­ 'Kashlev on June 5, at which the head of U.N. member-country from partici­ the Soviet delegation agreed with a meet with the Ukrainian community to nian Catholic and Orthodox Churches, pating at an international conference familiarize them with his own creative Mr. Shymko said that this constituted a recent statement made by Yuri Khriy- dealing with security and cooperation in major violation of the Vienna Final storadnov, member of the Council of work and with the programs of the Europe. Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Lan­ Document. "The real measure of Soviet Ministers of the Supreme Soviet, who Mr. Shymko added that he had raised compliance with the Helsinki Accords told three Ukrainian Catholic bishops this question with French Ambassador guage Society and the work of the and of genuine changes in the USSR in Moscow that the question of lega­ Xavier Dunfresne de la Chevalerieatan Ukrainian Writers' Union. under Gorbachev," said Mr. Shymko, lizing their Church fell under the official meeting on June 6. The am­ He will speak at public meetings in "will be the degree of religious liberty jurisdiction of the government of the bassador, according to Mr. Shymko, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Mel­ granted to the people of Ukraine." Ukrainian SSR. agreed that the issue had merit and that bourne, Adelaide and Perth between The WCFU president raised two To Mr. Shymko's response that since he would give it due consideration. July 25 and August 13.

Pavio Movchan... guage is Russian. I can't be sure that these people program, one feels he can slander and defame all speak Ukrainian at home. across the board, and this does happen from the (Continued from page 9) And this is true of all organizations in Ukraine. Central Committee newspapers to student publi­ union language. To make it constitutional in the The language has been subordinated. The subordi­ cations. republic would be ridiculous. If the Ukrainian nation begins from the top level and ends in the Often, unfamiliarity with a platform expresses language is the native language, and it is constitu- village council, or the raion committee, organiza­ caution. Take for example, my caution toward tionalized -along with the Russian language, we tions that conduct their meetings in the Russian Chornovil's platform; it is understandable because make both equal, this means we leave the situation language. I was witness to this fact when I went to it is a natural reaction based on preconception. unchanged. southern Ukraine; to deliver a talk. I spoke to the If the platforms were announced, posted, if the Constitutional bilingualism is, without a doubt, a chairman of the collective farm in Ukrainian, his programs were available, if people were aware of step backwards in our development. It is not only a native language, but when he stepped up to others working for the Helsinki Union, what they step backwards, byt is the confirmation of the introduce me, in front of an auditorium full of are striving toward, then we would say that our imperialist regime that exists in today's society. people, he ufed the Russian language. I asked him acceptance of this, or rejection of this was a why he did this, to which he answered, it looks position, however, we have no position on this But how does one deal with the masses, who to better. Another person told me that they were told because we don't know about it, he have no natural this day believe that their children should be sent to to do this in the raion. reaction for we don't know their work. Russian-language schools if they are to get ahead in Here we have a great problem. Without a doubt, I have yet to see any samvydav that is published life, take on challenging careers? if an example were set at the top level, matters would today. Honestly, and unfortunately speaking, I be different. If Ukrainianization took place on the have not yet laid eyes on any of the unofficial rhis is the inferiority complex among Ukrai­ top echelons of Ukraine, there would be hope. journals. If I had seen them I would give you my nians. It has real foundations. It does not come impressions, my positions. For t least here, we must from the fact that I am worse than you, nor does it The Ukrainian Writers' Union has taken an have glasnost. ccme from the fact that my outward appearance is active role in the national reawakening. How do Look, if we cannot publish our speeches in worse than yours.No,it comes from the fact that the you compare your union's role with the role of such support of the Popular Movement, in our news­ Ukrainian language has been degraded to house­ Ukrainian dissidents as Vyacheslav Chornovil and paper, the Ukrainian Writers' Union Newspaper, hold use solely. The streets, the towns, the cities, all other members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union? Literaturna Ukraina, agitation from the top levels o: our infra-structures have been Russified, continues, then how can we even discuss the beginning with the Central Committee, where our Here at the conference we have spoken about the samvydav publications? First, we want to have our fiisi secretary Volodymyr Shcherbytsky delivers true isolation, the boundaries between the different program published, then it would be advantageous speeches in the Russian language, and concluding forces who want to aid perebudova. We perceive to have roundtables about the program and hold v/ith instructors of that office who conduct their this to be true. discussions. bi^smess in Russian. Because I lack absolute information about the The people will decide for themselves. It is not if anyone there leads discussion in Ukrainian, Ukrainian Helsinki Group, about Chornovil, I necessary to agitate them beforehand. If they find these are people who work within the cultural cannot comment. I know them only from quotes, something incorrect, it will be judged and correct­ spheres. The instructors and directors, who are taken from the official press, which accuses them of ed. This would be fruitful work. forced to speak in Ukrainian, often do so, yet in being extremists, but I truly do not know their their speech patterns, one picks up Russian programs, their platform. For many people, this is Next week: Pavlo Movchan talks about his role articuiations. also true of the Popular Front for Perebudova in in the Ukrainian Writers^ Union and the Popular . do not go there often, but from what I have seen Ukraine; the majority of the people do not know Movement in Ukraine for Restructuring, as well as i^rsJ witnessed, I observed that their working lan- our program. And often when one does not know a his creative work. 4ішг^- -'i^. ' '

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Rep. Frank... Congress? will continue to remain the same. We need to make fighting drugs the We have changed the tax code so number one national priority. (Continued from page 6) often since 1980 that there must be a As you mentioned earlier, one of the This president has appointed his to advocate repeal, but Ї do feel that period of our forebearing on any signifi­ major problems facing our nation is "drug czar" and his first act was to refuse to make him a Cabinet-level there should be debate on how effective cant tax changes within the next year or illegal drugs and the violence associated with it. As a member of the Select position. This refusal was contrary to it has been and whether or not it has two. Businessmen need to plan with House Committee of Narcotics Abuse Congressional intent when we passed served its purpose. certainty and the more we change the and Control, what do you feel needs to the Omnibus Drug Act last year. We laws, the more difficult it becomes for be done to effectively combat the spread need a president who is going to be more As you pointed out, one of the major tax lawyers, CPAs and businessmen to of drugs? determined in fighting the war against challenges facing this nation is the make proper business decisions. That drugs. budget deficit. From your position on has an adverse effect on our economy the House Budget Committee, what do Presidential leadership. There has to and our growth. I hope that we will be a national strategy and a determina­ There have been suggestions of the president and the Congress need to make no changes, except for technical stronger penalties for drug users, in­ do to bring the deficit under control? tion to remove the drug threat from our corrections, in our general revenue code society. We need more money for cluding the so-called recreational drug within the next year or two. users. Do you favor this approach? We first need the leadership of the education, more effort from our state I don't think you are going to solve president and the bipartisan coopera­ and local law enforcement agencies, and What are your thoughts on the the problem if you don't go after the tion of our political parties so that there better rehabilitation and treatment proposal to reduce the capital gains tax? centers. It also means we must put more drug users. I don't think they have to be will be political goodwill in achieving pressure on the drug-producing nations. put in jail, but you can take away certain the balanced budget objectives and an That's a very interesting subject. That entails tightening our borders and privileges from them. You can, for understanding of our national priori­ When we enacted the Tax Reform Act making better use of our military for example, mark their passports and ties. of 1986, we raised the capital gains tax surveillance. It is a multi-faceted ap­ driver's licenses. You can take away At one time, we had prosperity in our from 20 percent to 28-33 percent and proach on every level and requires a their right to drive a car since they are a country; we were the leading trading increased tax revenue by S13 billion. nation that is willing to spend the menace on the road when they are under nation in the world; we were the only Now, President Bush is suggesting that money to be able to do the job. the influence of drugs. You can do more country that survived World War II if we lower the tax rate to 15 percent we testing, especially in occupations which Last year the Congress enacted a without any devastation to our cities will make S6 billion. It's a marvelous affect public safety. Student loans and major drug bill. Do you feel that it will and our nation. Since then, however, we way to make money. The Internal other federal aid can be denied to drug have developed some very bad habits. Revenue Service found, in a study, that assist the effort against illegal drugs? users. There are a number of non-legal When our managerial styles were only 54 percent of the capital gains tax is Last year the president signed the penalties that can be enforced which challenged by the Japanese and the paid in the nation. Omnibus Drug Act which called for would provide incentives to be a non- Germans, we did not respond. We have We do need capital formation. We do S2.8 billion dollars. But in the new user. not moved forward with our educa­ need venture capital. When we need to budget proposal of the president, the Right now we don't do anything; we tional system or in science and techno­ stimulate our economy, we may wish to program is only partially funded. Illegal don't even put the dealers in jail because logy. In effect, we have become very lower the capital gains tax which may drugs represent a SlOO billion industry we don't have enough jails. It's a contented and very careless. Because we result in better compliance and more which is tax-free and growing. There has revolving door justice system. The were managing our economy poorly, venture capital. At this time, I'm not been an insufficient effort in the past to result is that the game is worth a the dollar has fallen very badly. Our tax sure when will be the appropriate time stop drug trading. So, I do think that we gamble; people can make millions of policy was not as viable as it should or the appropriate rate, whether 20 must be willing to use more money as dollars and, if caught, get a suspended have been. So we were on a fiscal course percent or 15 percent, but there is a "bell effectively as we can on every level. We sentence. We took a step in the right that led to fiscal instability and irres­ curve" which will help determine the need to address both the supply and direction when we gave the death ponsibility. rate. demand side. We need the president at penalty to the drug lords and kingpins. We now realize that we have to get the helm showing strong and deter­ Laws should be strengthened and I do Rep. Benjamin Gilmari recently in­ our act together and straighten our mined leadership, something we didn't believe that the users are an important troduced legislation to eliminate the age house. We are being seriously challeng­ have during the eight years of Reagan. part of the equation. ed by other developed nations of the requirement, currently at 55, for eligibi- . world, and if the United States does not lity for the one-time exclusion of capital change its course it is going to fall gains from the sale of principal resi­ behind. The budget is a problem which dences. Do you have any thoughts on The Ukrainian Weekly: 56 years on the job stems from these many symptoms. this proposal? When we look at the budget, we need to rethink the philosophy and policies The age of 55 is a very arbitrary age. DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA which we have had since the end of What is good for someone at age 55 or in conjunction with the World War II. Now, 40 years later, older should also be good for someone UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL COMMITTEE we need to restructure our economic at age 50 or 40.1 don't see why there has and political process. to be an age requirement. We should of the ' 1 encourage everybody to own their own UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY of METROPOLITAN PHILADELPHIA How does the trade deficit fit into this home and to be abje, as their family equation? situation changes, to acquire a larger or smaller home as necessary. So, I do The trade deficit is the result of our think that the bill has some merit. inability to be competitive. So the new UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL buzz words are competitiveness and The taxing of insurance fraternals is OF MUSIC, SONG AND DANCE reciprocity. We want other nations to sometimes suggested as a source of treat us as we treat them. There are a lot revenue. Would this be a wise policy ff, :ff of unfair trade practices that are oc­ decision? curring. tCflOf/ Of ЦШ In addition, the United States was the No. I have always been against taxing country that was always the one that fraternals. Institutionally^ they are an FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1989 AT 8:00 P.M. took care of the national security of the important part of America and they free world. Our ships, our planes and should not be taxed. obinHood Dell East our soldiers are in the far continents and R5 RIDGE AVE. at 33rd and Dauphin Streets seas keeping the peace in the world. We The Treasury Department study In Phlladelphla'8 Falrmount Park are not getting the contributions from currently under way is looking at the our allies as we should. As a result, we possibility of taxing only the five largest DEDICA TED TO THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE have a defense budget which calls for fraternals. What is your opinion of that U. S, CONGRESS AND THE 175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE S300 billion - larger than the defense proposal? BIRTH OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO budget of all our allies collectively. Japan does very, very little in regard to I do think that everyone should FEATURING: its own national defense. We provide receive equal treatment. Such a diffe­ OLGA BODNAR-TALYN, soprano, features in Broadways ""Phantom of the Opera/ New York the umbrella. rential encourages companies to break STEPHAN SZKAFAROWSKY, bass. City Opera of New York We provide most of the security for down into smaller companies. People HALYA MAZUROK-REY, accompanist NATO even though the Common Mar­ will be encouraged to find ways to get IGOR SZWEC, violin, soloist ket nations have more people and a around the tax laws. I don't think it's ROKSOLANA OGRODNIK-HARASYMOVYCH, accompanist larger gross national product, collec­ wise to have a policy that's going to "^SYZOKRYLr Ukrainian Dance Ensemble tively, than does the United States. Now draw the demarcation between larger ROMA PRYMA-BOHACHEVSKY, Choreographer and Artistic Director we are asking, and should be asking, companies and smaller companies in what contributions our allies are willing this particular instance. TICKETS ARE FREE! COME ONE. COME ALL! INVITE ALL YOUR to make to provide for our collective FRIENDS! ENJOY A SPECTACULAR EVENING OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE! security. Do your colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee share your views on The UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL COMMITTEE invites all Ukrainian Americans, as well as aii residents of Philadelphia, Allentown, Bethlehem, Bridgeport. Chester, Easton, McAdoo, Phoenlxvllle, There has been a great deal of dis­ this issue? Camden, Trenton, Wilmington, etc., to come and enjoy an evening of the best of Ukrainian music, cussion of increasing taxes to deal with song, and dance, performed in the beautiful setting of an outdoor theater. the deficit. In your role as a member of This issue has come up before and has Free tickeis available at Oepartmeni of Recreation Tickets Otiice, Parkside and Beimont Avenues; VisilofS-Touref HospttaNty Cooler; the House Ways and Means Commit­ been resolved satisfactorily in favor of tee, do you see any changes in indivi­ the fraternals. I have every reason to Manue^ MiMlc Co. - 224 W Qlrard Ave, (MAT 3093). FontMy ОШ віюо - 5728 N 3th 3t. (276-4719): Xtmmm Юол - ^9A4 N. Btovi 81. (4в7-9вв4); dual tax rates coming out of the 101st believe thai the sentiments of Congress THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1989 No^29

Interviews at.. (Continued from page I) 1 sensed some apprehension as to the questions I might raise. After the discussions at Chornobyl, it would have been rash to assume thai they did not know my views. Mr. Pyatak was parti­ cularly concerned to assure me of the openness of the results of the research, citmg the book I had just been present­ ed (although how open one can consi­ der people like Messrs. Romanenko and Ilyin is another matter). We soon moved on to4he topic of Narodychi, and і mentioned the videofilm, "Zapri- del," and the article in the raion news­ paper, Zhovtnevi Zori. They were well aware of the contents of both, but dismissed the idea that radiation was the chief cause (rf the problems. For the first time, і noticed a clear discrepancy between a statement and the apparent reality. Thus, it was pointed out that the center had received records of the radiation level from the raicri center only five days after the accident. Yet the civil deiense chief ш Narodychi had pointed out that the levels were recorded Irom the outset. How was this conceivable? Rather than Among the patients at the Center for Radiation Medicine are operator Symonenko, who is recuperating, and fireman Vasyi respond to this, the three doctors Pryshchepa,who fought the fire at the Chornobyl plant in the first hours after the accident and today remains too sick to work. commented that if radiation levels on April 26, 1986, had been as reported, this, that Dr. Blix, one of the world's three rems per hour, then today they major proponents of nuclear power, would be 10 times higher than officially should be planting trees in memory of recorded. What about hotspots, I its victims? I also was shown a monu­ asked? Hotspots could have fallen from ment to the Chornobyl victims erected the tires of trucks, it was acknowledged, on the grounds by Italians from Flo­ but would not account for the lower rence. At the end of the morning, we le\els today either. (I was soon to hear a returned to Kiev in the institute's different ac';ount on this question.) ambulance. We continued for about an hour. It After a short break, Mr. Ingulsky re­ was clear that there was a lack of middle turned to the hotel. Evidently his task for ground between the staff at the center, the week was to escort me around be­ and the bulk of Ukrainian writers and cause he had even suggested lunch to­ journalists investigating the issue. Over gether. We walked down the Khresh- and over, it was stressed — particularly chatyk to the offices of Radio Kiev, and by radiation specialist Dr. Los — that went down a maze of corridors to the critics were not experts, the intima­ another, more dingy meeting room, tion being that they should not be where Dmitrii Markov, editor-inn^hief interfering in this sphere. Thus the of Radio Kiev, awaited us. There were Narodychi raion authorities were des­ some five staff members present. Al­ cribed as well-meaning but essentially though I was warmly welcomed, I did not ignorant people when it came to radia­ get the impression that Mr. Markov was tion fallout. We discussed radiophobia anxious to respond to all my questions. and the psychological effects of the On the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, for accident. Again, a very long and detail­ example, he said that it was so insignifi­ ed response was provided. cant that it would be a waste of time to The tour of the center was more discuss it. My queries were getting comprehensive than 1 had imagined nowhere, so I asked the staff members would be possible. I was shown thera­ what they would like to discuss. peutic rooms, a laboratory, showers, a meeting room, and then, to my asto­ One suggested a radio bridge between nishment, two of the patients were Radio Kiev and the Canadian Institute brusquely awakened so that I could see of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) in Edmon­ ihem. Both had been witnesses to the ton, the costs to be shared. However, we initial events at Chornobyl. One, named did not get beyond the basics of such an Symonenko, recalled the blast and his idea. I was as':ed to explain the activi­ friends suffering radiation burns. He ties of CIUS and did so as thoroughly still has burn marks on his neck. The and carefully as possible. Finally, the Oles Pyatak and O.P. Los during an interview at the Center for Radiation other was the well-known fireman, International Service of Radio Kiev Medicine. Vasyl Pryshchepa, who looked deathly held an interview with me, during which pale, and announced that he is sick and I brought up the Narodychi issue, unable to work. 1 was asked if I wanted although whether it was actually aired to question them, and even today in full I do not know. wonder whether I should have request­ Although the evening was ostensibly ed a private interview. As it was, Mr. set aside for recreation, what transpired Pyatak and a nurse were hovering by hardly falls into that category. We were the bedside, along with Mr. Ingulsky and now joined by Andriy Fialko, third Yuriyv Quite clearly it was very difficult secretary of the Ukrainian Ministry of for them to say much. I told Mr. Prysh­ Foreign Affairs, a man in his 20s. Yuriy, chepa about the monument to Chor- Mr. Fialko and I took the metro to the nobyLfiremen just erected in Edmon­ stadium to watch Dynamo Kiev play ton, but he appeared disinterested. My Leningrad. Along the way, Mr. Fialko impression was that he was simply too began to take issue with some very ill to respond. specific points in my new book. Had he been assigned the task of reading it The patients brought home to me before I arrived, I wondered? In any more than ever the horror of the event. 1 event, his opinion was favorable, but felt somewhat queasy as we walked the I was surprised by how carefully he had grounds. I was shown individual trees read it. It had been much more than a planted by various well-known scien­ casual glance through. In the stadium, tists. The names of Dr. Ilyin and sitting in a section reserved for VIPs, International Atomic Energy Agency Mr. Ingulsky was surveying the crowd for director Hans Blix were included. \yas acquamtances and asked me whether 1 there not something рагяНохісаІ about (Coniinntu on ^^^ A laboratory at the Institute of ПіпісаГ Radiology. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1989

strong doubts whether my Ukrainian the Narodychi region two days earlier, Interviews at... would stand up to the test of full-length and that they had discovered radiation (Continued from page 12) interviews. In fact, I had begun speak­ levels in the forests that were up to 80 wanted to be introduced to the Dyna­ ing to Mr. Ingulsky in French, because I times the natural background. (Their mo coach. I declined this honor, al­ was struggling so with Ukrainian. His story was published as "The Truth though I later met the top goalscorer. French was smooth and evidently one About Narodychi" on June 22. In a Back at the hotel, the three of us sat of his previous commissions was in related story on the same day, an article down to supper. After a vodka toast, I Paris. Thus I paid 40 rubles and hired in Radianska Ukraina by V. Skoro- was suddenly plied with questions in a the servies of Tanya, who accompanied padska and Volodymyr Kolinko con­ most unsubtle manner, and from both Mr. ingulsky and myself to the office of tained photographs of a geiger counter side^ Such an interrogation was not Literaturna Ukraina in a taxicab. Once showing levels in Narodychi of more altogether unexpected, but we had been at the newspaper, we were greeted by than 200 times backgound.) in each other's company for so long that Vitold Kyryliuk, chief editor of the The discussion at the newspaper I thought the time may have passed. section for international connections, a ranged over a wide series of topics, What did Ї know about the World thin, balding, extremely alert man in his including the children affected with Congress of Free Ukrainians, Petro 50s. What looked like the entire staff of alopecia (loss of hair) at Chernivtsi — Savaryn, the Banderivtsi in Canada? I the newspaper attended the interview. Literaturna Ukraina reporter Anatoliy pleaded ignorance in all cases, although Mr. Kyryliuk began with Chornobyl, Krym is continuing to send accounts Peter Savaryn, Mr. Savaryn's son, is a explaining that his newspaper was the about the affair — ecological questions. good friend. Andriy asked me in his first to cover the Soviet nuclear industry The responses were long and always slow, quizzical manner how do the in a critical manner. He made reference detailed. Banderivtsi react to glasnost? 1 am not to the publication of the article by Finally, I asked them whether they in the habit of attending meetings of the Liubov Kovalevska about the problems had ever pondered the fact that whereas Banderivtsi, Ї responded. But if you of constructing the fifth Chornobyl anyone associated in any way with were, then how do you think they would reactor, which had been published in a Hitler's regime was considered a poten­ respond? Well, 1 decided, if I had been prophetic manner one month before the tial war criminal in the West, in the complaining of the evils of Stalinism for explosion at the fourth reactor. Soviet Union, historians such as Roy 40 years, and then the Soviet media His colleagues were at once interested Medvedev were continuing to insist that began to agree with everything I had where I had been in Kiev. Upon hearing Stalin alone was responsible for all the been saying, I imagine that 1 would feel that I had visited the Center for Radia­ crimes of the 1930s and 1940s. This vindicated. Andriy stated that he had tion Medicine, several present assured makes little sense to me, I added. not considered such an angle. me that I would be wise to discount Virtually everyone present made a The next morning, a Friday, we were everything I had been told there. response. joined by a guide, Tanya. Here I have to With Mr. Ingulsky bearing a pained Mr. Kyryliuk's was especially notable. expression, I was informed that Litera­ He referred to a well-known criminal confess my sins: namely that in spite of David Marples poses by the monument my years in Ukrainian studies, I had turna Ukraina had sent two reporters to who had carried out heinous crimes in Ukraine but was living as a very old, free to the Chornobyl victims erected out­ man in Moscow - Lazar Kaganovich. side the Center for Radiation Medicine Our newspaper would like to bring by the Italians. UKRAINIAN BIBLES TO UKRAINE people like Kaganovich to justice, he told me that it was easier to write articles Praise The Lord! God opened the door through "Voice of America" and "Radio Liberty" for declared. Then there are others, some­ having talked with just a few people. direct maihng of the Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine. what less clearcut, like the case of Nikita The more persons one talks to in Kiev, The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking for a generous gift of S25, S50, SlOO, or Khrushchev. Khrushchev, in his view, he added, the more confused one be­ however God leads you, to help direct mailing to our believers in Ukraine, of the Ukrainian Bibles was without doubt an accomplice of comes about the real situation. He of their Faith. It is permitted now to send by direct mail two Bibles per parcel. The Russian Stalin, but one who had realized and warned me that many people do not ad­ Orthodox Church is NOT included in this God-given project. tried to rectify his mistakes. here to the views of Literaturna Ukraina. Praise The Lord! Another door God opened to provide "UKRAINIAN CHILDREN BIBLE" to In my view, there would generally be I asked Mr. Ingulsky whether he the Ukrainian Family. Our Cliildren area heritage of the Lord and are the life and future of the little difference between the views of the wanted to be like the Israeli tourist who Ukrainian Nation. For the first time in the history of the USSR, the Soviet authorities'frave given newspaper's staff and those of Western left Tel Aviv on Friday, arrived in Mos­ permission for the import of "150,000 Ukrainian Children Bibles" to Ukraine, which observers, but for one. They maintained cow on Saturday, and took a plane will be printed in Stockholm, Sweden. that under Lenin, the correct course had home on Sunday, before writing a book Please help us in getting God's Word to these little ones and send a generous contribution been taken, but that under Stalin, many called "The USSR: Yesterday, Today to the Ukrainian Family Bible Association. UEBA is a non-profit and non-denomination of Lenin's associates also followed a and Tomorrow." He grimaced — but association. devious path. All the same, the state­ later he told this same story to Dr. Yuriy Thank you and God Bless You All. ment that many of those persecuted by Shcherbak so he must have appreciated Stalin had themselves committed crimes it. holds more than an element of truth. Mr. Kyryliuk himself had said tnat he UKRAINIAN FA'MILY BIBLE ASSOCIATION I had felt very comfortable during was pleased that I had enjoyed m visit P.O. Box 3723, Palm Desert, CA. 92261-3723. (619) 345-4913 this meeting. Mr. Ingulsky clearly was because he noted, "We don4 ofit hear less so. When we left the premises, he nice things said about us in Kiev '

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DISBURSEMENTS FOR APRIL 1989 RECORDING DEPARTMENT Paid To Or For Members: Cash Surrenders 541,107.86 MEMBERSHIP REPORT Endowments Matured 90,569.00 Death Benefits 64,293.00 Interest On Death Benefits 32.16 Reinsurance Premiums Paid 862.06 Juv. Adults ADD Totals Dues From Members Returned 199.79 TOTAL AS OF MARCH 1989 18.185 47.252 -TJW 1ТШ Indigent Benefits Disbursed 1,100.00 GAINS IN AfftIL 1S89 New member? "1Г 92 Trust Fund Disbursed 1,022.19 "ir Scholarships 200.00 Reinstated 22 89 63 Transferred in 3 11 7 Total ;i99,386.0g Change class in 1 4 3 Transferred from Juv. Dept.. Operating Expenses: Washington Office 510,006.83 TOTAL GAINS: 59 125 "Ж Real Estate 150,076.59 Losses IN APRIL Svoboda Operation 93,850.12 Official Publlcation-Svoboda 80,000.00 Suspended 6 10 27 43 Organizing Expenses: Transferred out 1 7 1 9 Advertising..... 51,890.50 Change of class out 1 3 4 Medical I'^spections 433.67 Transferred to adults - ' Reward To Special Organizers 1,346.16 Died ; 66 66 Reward To Branch Secretaries 88,854.36 Cash surrender 26 49 75 — Reward To Organizers 14,153.03 Endowment matured 25 57 82 - Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 141.40 Fully paid-up ..... 16 58 74 Supreme Medical Examiner's Fee 375.00 Reduced paid-up - Field Conferences 3,610.90 Extended insurance Cert, terminated 1 20 21 - Total 5110,805.02 TOTAL LOSSES: 75 251 48 374 INACTIVE II4EMBERSHIP: Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: GAINS IN APRIL Salary Of Executive Officers 514,233.34 Salary Of Office Employee 37,325.86 Paid-up 16 57 73 Employee Benefit Plan 25,690.06 - Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 48,963.91 Extended insurance 3 3 Canadian Corporation Premium Tax 2,398.00 TOTAL GAINS: 16 60 76 LOSSES IN APRIL - Total - ШШІЛІ General Expenses: Died 32 - Actuarial And Statistical Expenses 51,912.95 Cash surrender... 19 15 Bank Charges For Custodian Account 2,759.70 Reinstated 1 5 Books And Periodicals 570.19 Lapsed 5 5 Dues To Fraternal Congresses 210.00 TOTAL LOSSES: 25 57 - 82 General Office Maintenance 2,138.88 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP Insurance Department Fees 710.00 AS OF APRIL 30, 1989 18,160 47,129 6,112 71,401 Legal Expenses-General 1,545.00 Operating Expense Of Canadian Office 248.81 Postage 1,271.00 WALTER SOCHAN Printing And Stationery 3,033.09 Rental Of Equipment And Services 538.62 Supreme Secretary Telephone, Telegraph 1,746.58 Traveling Expenses^"General 3,545.25 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Total 520,230.07 INCOME FOR APRIL 1989 Miscellaneous: Loss On Bonds 7.51 Ukrainian Publications 57,414.00 Dues From Members 5201,720.92 Youth Sports Activities 350.00 Income From "Svoboda" Operation 95,212.17 Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund Disbursements 4,000.00 Investment Income: Fraternal Activities 399.02 Bonds S359,928.42 Donations 2,849.60 Certificate Loans 7,180.24 Professional Fees 3,000.00 Mortgage Loans 46,144.43 Transfer Account 1,064,704.93 Banks 6,014.91 Stocks 11,106.84 Total ІШУІЬЖ Real Estate 118,486.91 Investments: T^tal ^548,86175 Bonds 553,410.86 Mortgages 100,000.00 Re unds: Stock... 11,106.84 Taxes Federal, State A City On Employee Wages 547,405.98 Certificate Loans 13,100.24 Taxes Held In Escrow 1,500.00 Real Estate 132,548.00 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 1,312.74 Official Publication "Svoboda" 34,615.17 Motal 5310Д65.94 Telephone Ret'd 11.64 Disbursements For April, 1989 52,235,856.8^ Washington Office Exp. Ret'd 10.00 BALANCE 5 S:4.85533 ASSLfS Liabilities „ Cash 51,404,237.39 Life Insurance 562,462,045.35 IV laneous Bonds 48,019,035.84 Accidental f).D , 1,720.651.81 lonatiops To Fraternal Fund 52,974 17 4orb^^^- cans 5,213,126.57 Fraternal (111,943.85) rofit On Bonds Sold Or Matured 2 15414 c pfr/^ Loarb 635,050.84 Orinai^s ^8624101 aie Of "iikrainian Encvciopedia" ^ICIOO ^^:i - ^tr \4d2^':' - "ic ^I'e Hone. 4^V546'0- iansfer \ccM' і : ^)f^^^ 'Ч 93

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prisoners? applying to join the society. Is this Chornovil's... You remember in the past how diffi­ Shevchenko... possible? (Continued from page 2) cult it was for democratic countries to (Continued from page 2) demand some kind of progress in terms firm position, swaying between libera­ that a group of Bulgarian writers here Initially, there was a clause in our lism and conservatism. Evidence of this of human rights from the conservative program permitting individual foreign regime in the USSR. Today there are — with 25 members — have organized is found in the reactionary decrees their own society. Many Russians have members or groups to be members of approved or even signed by him. They different conditions of instability, and the society. Today, however, we have in order to create a new political system, joined our society. We are far from changed our minds. Instead, we think concern basic human rights about being a "one-nation" affair. meetings and demonstrations, about Soviet leaders continuously look at the that those of Ukrainian origin in other West, they take into account your countries should form their own society the electoral system and so called state I have observed in newspapers like crimes. criticism and attempt to copy some as a sort of sister-organization. models of the democratic worid. Robitnycha Hazeta various letters In the USSR, basic legal guarantees As far as Canada is concerned, we opposing the society, some on the plan to officially advise Canadian which would safeguard human rights For this reason I believe that the best grounds that it would make these have not yet been established: there are Ukrainians to form their own society help for the democratization of the writers second-class citizens in the named after Taras Shevchenko. It no democratic courts and the right to USSR and also for the national demo­ republic. Such opposition appeared to a defense is fiction. Despite so4:alled should have its own rules and oiganiza- cratic movements of the people today have been organized very soon after tion and resolve Ukrainian-Canadian glasnost, even part of the truth about can be not of the first steps of the infant your inaugural conference. What infor­ political repressions, the victims and problems. We have no authority here to democracy, but a well organized and mation do you have about such opposi­ say what Ukrainians should be doing in those who have been released (but not calm criticism of the reactionary Soviet tion? all — Klymchak, Kampov, Babych, Canada. legislative process (as well as Gorba­ If wealthy people would like to Baranov) and not rehabilitated during chev), of the increasing use of admi­ It is true that, at first, there was some the Brezhnev years, has not been told. contribute funds to our society, perhaps nistrative terror, which is felt parti­ opposition to us. However, today, our as a "tax break," then this is fine. But as The KGB has not been liquidated - cularly in the non-Russian republics, goals are better understood. Many it has not even been reorganized. It is an a rule, such money should renlain in the and also demands that the Soviet oppose the Popular Movement, but we country of origin. evil organization on whose account government keep to its international believe that in the future this opposi­ millions of innocent victims perished In the United States this fall, the obligations in terms of human rights tion also will decline. As I explained in American Ukrainians are holding the since Lenin's day. The executors of agreed upon in Helsinki and Vienna. an interview last month in Radianska terror during the recent past are today founding conference of a U.S. society I'm convinced that the representatives Ukraina, our society supports pere- named in honor of Taras Shevchenko. I living comfortably on pensions (at a of the democratic countries taking part stroika. Those who are not behind time when the people are living in plan to attend this conference. We in the Paris conference think the same. perestroika are also not well disposed think that a similar event should take poverty) or still sit in their offices. towards our society. Here is a recent example; the order to place in Canada - i.e., a separate Once again, I think all of you who organization, but with the same goal: to send me to prison at the same time as the wanted to see me as a guest at the There are a number of groups in preserve the Ukrainian language and Paris conference and the Congress of conference. Unless the uncertain demo­ culture. People's Deputies in Moscow were cratization of the Soviet Union grinds Canada of Ukrainian origin that are in session was given by the Lviv procura­ to a halt, I hope to be able to come to tor, S. Kryklyvets. He was the one who, your meeting next year in Copenhagen. The Weekly: Ukrainian perspective on the news 22 years ago, as he was embarking on a With best wishes in your work. career at the Lviv procurator's office, fabricated against me a criminal case for Vyacheslav Chornovil preparing a human rights document Laureate of the Tomalin Journalism called "The Chornovil Papers." Can Prize and member of the executive СОЮЗІЄКА there be any doubt that this reactionary committee of the Ukrainian Helsinki will demand not 15 days but 15 years' Union imprisonment for Ukrainian political July 6, 1989 SOYUZIVKA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The Washington Group, an association of Ukrainian American Professionals in Greater Washington, is opening its third annual competition THE MANAGEMENT OF for awards to be made through its Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to assist young people of Ukrainian descent SOYUZIVKA in pursuing prestigious careers as well as to encourage people of any ethnic origin or nationality to conduct educational or work projects that further cordially invites you to participate in the Ukrainian American interests. Applicants must be either currently enrolled in an accredited undergra­ duate college or university or be a graduate thereof at the time of application. SUMMER 1989 Fellowship applications and further information are available from the address below. Completed applications are due by September 15, 1989. ENTERTAINMENT The Washington Group Fellowship Program P.O. Box 11248 at SOYUZIVKA Washington, D.C. 20008 Master of Ceremony MARICHKA HLIBOWYCH, Toronto WCFU SCHOLARSHIP Saturday, July 15 - 8:30 p.m. Friday, August 18 "Kazka" - Ukrainian Songs 8^ Dances "Akula" Band DANCE - 10:00 p.m. World Commission for the Decade of the Ukrainian Family on the occasion of the end of the decade in Saturday, August 19 - 8:30 p.m. 1990, has made available a STIPEND in the amount of S5000 (Canadian) for a doctoral or postdoctoral work "Zelene Zhyto" Band Roma Prima Bohachewsky Ensemble which would satisfy university requirements. DANCE - 10:00 p.m. The thesis - "Ukrainian Family in Diaspora" should deal with family units where both parents are of Saturday, July 22 - 8:30 p.m. "Akula" Band Ukrainian origin and Ukrainian is spoken, those which use other languages, as well as those composed of Bandurystky "Homin Stepiw" Sunday, August 20 - UNWLA DAY mixed marriages. It could encompass all generations of diaspora Ukrainians, their involvement in Ukrainian DANCE - 10:00 p.m. community and church life, the participation of their children in youth organizations, Ukrainian schools, "Khioptsi zi Lvova" Band their knowledge of Ukrainian etc. as well as prognostications for the future. Saturday, August 26 - 8:30 p.m. Choir "Vesnivka" from Toronto Saturday, July 29 - 8:30 p.m. DANCE - 10:00 p.m. "Troyanda" - Trio from Toronto "Raging Hutzuls" Band DANCE - 10:00 p.m. "Alex 8i Dorko" Band Conditions of award: Friday, September 1 1. The applicant should be a Doctoral Candidate or hold a Doctorate from the recognized university. Saturday, August 5 - 8:30 p.m. "Nowy Chasy" Band 2. Preferably is or was active in a Ukrainian Student's Club, youth organization, or a church or Lilea Volanska - Soprano Saturday, September 2 community organization. B. Vasylyshyn, Bass, Edmonton "Tempo" Band 3. Applies not later than 30 September 1989 and provides a curriculum vitae. DANCE - 10:00 p.m. "Nowy Chasy" Band 4. Promises to complete work on the above topic by the end of 1990. "Zelene Zhyto" Band Program will appear in the upcoming 5. Agrees to have the work published by the WCFU which will retain sole property and distribution issue rights. Sunday, September 3 - 8:30 p.m. 6. If the work is in language other than Ukrainian, the candidate will also undertake to translate the into Saturday, August 12 - 8:30 p.m. Ukrainian. "Verhovyna" - Trio, Toronto Baiet of Roma Prima Bohachewsky - DANCE - 10:00 p.m. "Syzokryli", New York If you are Interested please contact: "Khioptsi zi Lvova" Band DANCE - 10:00 p.m. "Tempo" Band

Oksana Sokolyk - president World Commission of the Ukrainian Famiiy World Congress of Free Ukrainians иКг(:Я!пі^п |\|(5itlori6^l /\яяос\аі'\оп t;:!^^^^^ 2118-A BloorSt W. PoorJmore R0..J Ke^onk.on, New York 12446 Toronto. Ontario M6S \m ді4-ч6'2б-5б4і vyvy\vm^л^лvлл^?л?лfл^m^w^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16,1989 No. 29

?^t^K^t^^c^^c^x^?v.^^4?^c^^v^x^x^, PREVIEW OF EVENTS Af Soyuzivka July 17 at Ukrainian parish offices, organi­ Weekend of July 22-23 zations and businesses around Phila­ NEWPORT, R.L: Metropolitan delphia. KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Ap­ to the music of Khloptsi zi Lvova. Opera bass Paul Plishka will appear pearing at the upstate New York The dance begins at approxima­ in concert at the Newport Festival at NEW YORK: The New York Group resort of the Ukrainian National tely 10 p.m. 9 p.m. here at the Breakers. He will and the Ukrainian Institute of Ame­ Association on July 22 will be the For additional information be accompanied by pianist Thomas rica will host an evening with Kiev Echo of the Steppes (Homin Ste- about Soyuzivka accommoda­ Hrynkiw and will perform a cycle of poet Pavlo Movchan at 7:30 p.m. piv) bandura ensemble. tions or programs, please call the songs by contemporary composer The poet will speak about the current The program begins in the resort at (914) 626-5641. (UNA Ihor Sonevytsky, set to the words of situation in Ukraine the role of Veselka auditorium of Soyuzivka members are entitled to a 10 Ivano Franko's "Withered Leaves." language as a world view, and will at 8:30 p.m. percent discount on accommoda­ also read his own poetry. A question Afterwards there will be dancing tions at Soyuzivka.) July 19 and answer period and a discussion will follow. The institute is located at JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior 2 E. 79th St., New York. For more Turning the pages back... College will hold a "Careers of the information please call (212) 288- 90's" open house, 1-8 p.m., at the 8660. (Continued from page 6) college campus on Fox Chase Road train Ukrainian officer cadres, and released a number of Ukrainian political and Forrest Avenue. The open house July 22 prisoners. A military administration was created to conduct recruitment, assist is designed to aid high school juniors families of volunteers and organize cultural/educational activities for the soldiers. and seniors as well as recent high JEWETT, N.Y.: The Music and Art There were more than 80,000 candidates for the division, 42,000 enlisted, 27,000 school graduates and parents who Center of Greene County will open were called up, but only about half of that were accepted. are seeking information on college its season with a concert featuring The division fought a series of defensive engagements against the advancing Red and current career trends. Partici­ soprano Lilea Wolansky, with Army during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. The Soviet forces began pants will be able to speak with George Cybriwsky accompanying their offensive against Lviv with advances in the direction of Ternopil-Zolochiv to admissions counselors, financial her. The concert, held at the Grazhda the south and Radekhiv-Busk to the north of the town of Brody. During the battle, aid representatives and faculty. For hall, next to St. John the Baptist individual regiments of the division were dispatched to the heaviest areas of more information call the MJC Church, will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets fighting. admissions office, (215) 884-2216 or are S5 for members and senior citi­ On July 18, Soviet forces surrounded the soldiers and destroyed the division. Of (215) 885-2360. zens, and S7 for all others. 11,000 soldiers, 3,000 returned from Brody and regrouped in Serednie, Transcarpathia. Some division members joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army; July 21 July 29 many were taken as prisoners of war. Later, in March 1945, the division was formally attached to the Ukrainian PHILADELPHIA: The Depart­ SAN FRANCISCO: The Verkhovyna National Army as its 1st Division. ment of Recreation of the city of Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Philadelphia in conjunction with the Choir from Edmonton will perform In addition to the specific personal Ukrainian Festival Committee of the at 7:30 p.m. at the Lindland Theatre Krysa... reasons given by Mr. Krysa for his Ukrainian Community of Metropo­ (Riordan High School) on 175 Phe- (Continued from page 3) decision to sign a contract with the litan Philadelphia will sponsor lan Ave. (across from San Francisco UIA, he discussed some general "Echoes of Ukraine," a Ukrainian City College). Advance-sale tickets Other concerts will include a thoughts about the notion of free­ festival of song and dance at 8 p.m. at are available for SI2.50 from BASS program at the UIA featuring the dom to travel, especially for artists. Robin Hood Dell East, Ridge Ticket Master, (415) 762-BASS, or two artists with their sons, who have "1 must emphasize that a person Avenue at 33rd and Dauphin streets can be purchased at the door for SI5. followed their fathers' footsteps into should see a lot. A person should in Fairmount Park. Dedicated to the the world of music and play the same travel. A person should collect many 200th anniversary of the U.S. Con­ August 13 instruments; a February 5 concert at new impressions. He should socialize gress and the 175th anniversary of Lincoln Center's Merkin Hall in New with people, with many people of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, the WOODSTOCK, БІ.: The 16th An­ York; and a March 24 concert at varying opinion, to discuss, to agree festival will feature performances by: nual Ukrainian National Association Alice Tully Hall in New York, which and disagree with. soprano Olga Bodnar-Talyn, star of Golf Outing of the greater Chicago- will be part of a weeklong festival of "An artist, especially an artist, Broadway's "Phantom of the Opera"; land area will be held at the Crystal contemporary Ukrainian classical needs impressions from museums. bass Stephan Szkafarowsky of the Woods Golf Course on Route 47 music based in Toronto. The world is so beautiful. So much City Opera of New York; accompa­ (just north of Route 62). Tee-off time Organized by Ukrainian American was created throughout human nist Halya Mazurok-Rey; violinist is 12:15 p.m. with dinner being served composer Virko Baley, who is known histc;y, which is not concentrated in Igor Szwec; accompanist Roksolana at 6:30 p.m. Trophies and prizes will as an "ambassador of contemporary one place, but is scattered through­ Ogrodnik-Harasymovych; the Sy- be awarded after dinner. Cost of Ukrainian music," as part of the out the world. This spiritual enrich­ zokyli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, golf and dinner is S40. Tickets can be "Music at the Institute" series, this ment is absolutely necessary, espe­ directed by Roma Pryma-Bohachev- purchased by calling George My- "serious" festival will feature artists cially for artists. I think the possibi­ sky. Tickets are free and are available chalczuk, (312)952-0530. and composers from Ukraine and the lity to see new museums, to go to Soviet Union, in general, as well as concerts, to listen to different per­ Canadian composers and perfor­ formers and concerts, different A closer look at Soyuzivka's mers, said Mr. Krysa. trends, and generally to be in the In addition to the series, Mr. Krysa center of today's events is extraor­ 1989 Representative said he will also, hold a number of dinarily important for an artist that master classes in affiliation with wants to develop. Because an artist Hanusya Legedza universities and colleges throughout who can say that і have seen every­ the United States and Canada, and thing', 'I know everything', і need і was both pleasantly surprised and honored concertize in Europe and the Soviet nothing else', 'I am ready', well, it's to have been chosen as the representative of Union, within this two-year period, the end for him..." the UNA and Soyuzivka for 1989. Every summer while being based in America, most Mr. Krysa expressed his gratitude when I was a child, my family found the time to likely in New York. All of this is to the UIA for the opportunity they visit Soyuzivka. I remember these vacations possible due to a two-year work visa, have provided him, and thanked the fondly. allowing multiple entry and re-entry Ukrainian community in the United I attended the grade school run by the parish States and Canada, who supported of St. John the Baptist In Newark, New Jersey, in and out of the country, he said. to which my family still belongs. I sang In the ''Soviet artists now strive to him during his concert tour through­ choir "Moloda Dumka," belonged to Plast, as achieve the opportunity to travel on out communities in both countries. well as studied the violin at the Ukrainian Music an open visa, there is a struggle for With the help of Mr. Baley, a Institute. Later on. I graduated with honors this now," said Mr. Krysa. "Thus compact disc or CD recording of Mr. from both Ridna Shkola and Oak Knoll School of Alexander and I have truly achieved Krysa is due to be recorded on an the Holy Child. something in this direction. I believe American label and released in the Now, I am a third-year student of mathe­ this will help other artists." fall. matics at Princeton University. Besides that, I also enjoy playing the violin In the symphony orchestra and competing on the varsity fencing team. Recently, I joined the Piast sorority BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS 'lisovi Mavky," which has as its goals the perservation of Ukrainian culture as well as the For the current rote coll... I -вОО-IIS-BONDS counselling of Plast youths, uuring several summers, I worked with Plast scouts at camp. HUCULKA ATTENTION: EARN MONEY The past two summers, however, I have worked Icon 8L Souvenir S Distribution at Soyuzivka. I am a member of UNA Branch 88. 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R READING BOOKS! Bronx, NY 10461 S32,000Zyear income potential. Soyuzivka UNA Estate REPRESENTATIVE and WHOLESALER of EMBROIDERED BLOUSES Details. for ADULTS and CHILDREN Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 (914) 626-5641 (1) 602-838-8885, Ext. 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