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Clandestine chronicle in : an analysis 100 young Catholics by Ivan Hvat Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists. served with the German Army and was The Chronicle describes the activities of arrested by Soviet counterintelligence protest demolition At the beginning of 1984, Ukrainian these believers in Ukraine, gives in 1945, Mr. Wallenberg was Catholics (Uniates) in accounts of repressive measures taken transferred from a camp in the Norilsk began their own samvydav publication, against them, and names the camps or area to a Kazan psychiatric hospital after of Ukrainian monastery the Chronicle of the Catholic in psychiatric hospitals in which Stalin's death. The last time Bogdanas JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Some 100 the Ukraine. individual believers are confined. saw Wallenberg was in 1962. young Ukrainian Catholic believers The first three issues have appeared in The journal devotes considerable The Chronicle reports an marched to protest the demolition of a the Arkhiv Samizdata series of Radio attention to the socio-political situation intensification of the campaign to former monastery in Borynia in the Liberty, while the texts of issues Nos. 7 in Ukraine. Thus, in the second issue extend the study of the Russian Carpathian mountain region, according and 8 are in the hands of the Glaube in there is a report on the situation of language in the schools of to U.S. government sources. der zweiten Welt Institute in Rumanians in the Transcarpathian Transcarpathian Ukraine and also Although details of the incident Switzerland. They have been published Oblast. If a Rumanian born in the mentions the arrests of Ukrainian remain very sketchy, the sources said in Ukrainian in the journal Visti z Transcarpathian Ukraine moves to officers in the Transcarpathian Military that the demonstration, which took Rymu. Moldavia, "they alter his pass­ District for alleged participation in an place in June, apparently caused local The Chronicle is published by the port and write in 'Moldavian.' " attempt on the life of the late USSR authorities to temporarily stop razing Action Group for the Defense of the The text is also given of a joint of Defense Dmitri Ustinov. the structure. Rights of Believers and the Church, declaration of a Rumanian revival The third issue of the Chronicle The monastery had been closed for which was set up on September 9, 1982. group and the Ukrainian National contains the text of a letter from Yosyf some time, the sources said, and all the In view of the systematic destruction Front declaring that they will "together Terelia to Lech Walesa in which he religious objects and icons had been of the human-rights movement in wrest our freedom from under the heel praises "the steadfastness and courage removed. There was no information Ukraine over the last 12 years, it might of Moscow." of the leaders of the workers' movement about arrests or other actions during the be thought that the appearance of the The second issue of the Chronicle and the in ." He actual protest. Chronicle of the Catholic Church in the also describes;the wretched conditions goes on to write Sources also reported that a former Ukraine in Ukrainian samvydav carrie under which gypsies live in "^ftce"we have chosen to fight, it monastery in the oblast had been as something of a surprise, but this is Transcarpathian Ukraine, where the means that we have chosen the good. To converted to a museum of , but not really' so. Of late, the religious and police refer to them derisively as "the do good is no easy thing; first, it means no other information such as when or in human-Zights activities of Catholics in Red Indians of Transcarpathia." overcoming the egoism in oneself and what town this occurred was provided. western Ukraine have been stepped up following the teachings of Jesus — love Wallenberg case Of late, more information has be­ considerably. As early as 1982, everybody and respect and defend one's come available about thecontinued spokesmen for this movement made it One interesting item concerns the own. Second, it means the solidarity of persecution of the Ukrainian Catholic known that samvydav materials about Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, all Christians. A solidarity that the Church, which has been functioning the situation of the Catholic Church in who disappeared during the occupation present rulers in Moscow fear so much." underground since 1946. when it was the Ukraine were being prepared for of Budapest by the Red Army in Most of the information contained in illegally united with the Russian Ortho­ . transmission to the West. January 1945. According to A. the Chronicle relates to the lives of dox Church by an unsanctioned synod Years of abortive demands by Bogdanas, a Lithuanian Catholic who (Continued on page 2) staged by Communist authorities. ""believers that the authorities in Ukraine legalize the activities of the Ukrainian НИШШ Catholic Church in western Ukraine ^L-`brpught about the emergence of an | organized human-rights movement 146-unit seniors' residence opened in Warren О among believers. It was probably in WARREN, Mich. - The 146-unit the activities center on Saturday Ukrainian music and carols, guests were early 1982 that the Central Committee senior citizens residence known as the evening. Such remarks as "country club treated to a delightful hospitality table of Ukrainian Catholics was formed and Ukrainian Village was officially opened setting," "looks like a Ukrainian prepared by chapters 58,80, and 5 of the Yosyf Terelia was elected its chairman. here with a gala grand opening at the Hilton" and "classy" reflected the Ukrainian National Womens League of On September 9, 1982, the Action complex's activities center on Saturday. atmosphere of incoming guests. Christ­ America, Detroit Regional Council. At Group for the Defense of the Rights of December 15, and with a blessing and mas trees and yuletide adornments 7 p.m., the lobby doors were opened to Believers and the Church was set up. open house reception the following day. tastefully embellished the spacious the Activities Center and guests had An enthusiastic capacity throng of lobby, and a spirit of brotherhood and their first glimpse of a stylish banquet Response to repression more than 200 people provided the joy dominated the scene. With Andrew hall. backdrop for a grand opening held at Stasiw at the keyboards providing (Continued on page 10) In a statement about the formation of the Action Group addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, Mr. Terelia wrote: "This was the response of Ukrainian Catholics to increasing repression against our Church. From now on all information about the Ukrainian Catholic Church will be passed on for scrutiny by the world public. The Catholics of the world should know and remember in what conditions we exist." Against this background, the appearance of the Chronicle of the Ukrainian Catholic Church comes as no surprise but represents a logical development in the circumstances. The contents of the first three issues of the Chronicle are very varied. Most of the material deals with the life of believers - Catholics, Orthodox, , Pentecostals, Jehovah's The Ukrainian VMage seniors' residence in Warren^ Mfch. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985 No. 3

Repentants (pokutnyky), or "Neo- Details revealed of case Clandestine Catholic...Uniates. " The Uniate Repentants (Continued from page 1) believe that they do "for members of the banned Ukrainian the misfortunes of Ukraine, refuse to against Vladimir Poresh Catholic Church. Official Soviet work for the slate if that state is not sources do not conceal the fact that the Ukrainian, throw away their MUNICH - Details have emerged activity of this Church has not ceased in documents, and so forth." about the case of Russian Orthodox the western oblasts of Ukraine. Indeed, The Uniate Repentants movement activist Vladimir Poresh, who last it has gained strength,, and the campaign came into being at the end of 1954 in the October became the first known of the state authorities against village of Seredneye in the Kalush political prisoner to have his sentence Ukrainian Catholics has also been Raion of the lvano-Frankivske Oblast. extended under a new Soviet law, stepped up, particularly since the The Repentants claim that the reported USSR News Brief here. election of Polish Cardinal Wojtyla as Mary appeared near the village on Mr. Poresh, a 34-year-old historian, head of the Roman Catholic Church. December 20, 1954. (It should be re­ was just one day short of completing a called that on December 22. 1954 the five-year labor camp term and begin Increased resistance Catholic Church observed the cen­ serving three years in exile when he waj tenary of the proclamation of the dogma arrested last September in labor camp On the basis of the contents of the Chronicle, it can be stated without of the of the No. 35 near Perm. He was moved to Virgin Mary.) Chistopol Prison and charged with exaggeration that the resistance of the Article 188-3 of the Russian SFSR Ukrainian Catholics to persecution has Leaving aside the views of Catholic Criminal Code, "malicious violation of stiffened and taken some unusual on this question, it should be the regime of detention in a corrective forms. The first issue of the Chronicle, borne in mind that during the Soviet labor institution." for example, reports: period rumors of various mircales had circulated among believers in Ukraine The law, which was adopted in "520 Ukrainian Catholics burned their passports and refused to have any even earlier, particularly in the 1920s. October 1983, gives camp authorities As a reaction to the effects of the what amounts to arbitrary power to contacts with the authorities. Considering the regime to be hostile to revolution and the civil war and to the extend the terms of prisoners (Continued on page 12) considered troublesome, and appears and evil in the eyes of . intended to discourage dissidents from they resolved to accept all the torments carrying on their activities in penal Vladimir Poresh of the persecuted just to avoid having institutions. anything to do with atheists. For two months the authorities did not know Repentants' leader dies According to USSR News Brief, Mr. half-hour trial, insisted that he never what to do, but at the end of February Poresh was charged with four specific violated the camp regimen and that (1984) the repressions began." JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Rev. counts. Hewasaccused of tossinganote camp officials were pressured into Anton Potochniak, a leader of a from one exercise yard to another, but bringing a case against him by outside This form of protest against persecution is continuing. The third little-known Ukrainian Catholic the contents of the note were never authorities. (Uniate) sect called "pokutnyky" presented in court. He was also accused issue of the Chronicle, dated May, 1984, He said Article 188-3 represented a reports: (repentants), died in a Soviet labor of refusing to go to work to protest the return to Stalinist times. camp last May 29, according to "In the Transcarpathian Oblast beating of political prisoner Sergei The procurator asked that the court recent information from the Soviet Grigoriants. alone, more than 290 persons have Union. sentence Mr. Poresh to four years in a surrendered their passports...In western The other two counts involved labor camp, but the judge handed down Ukraine as a whole, about 920 passports The 72-year-old priest had been allegedly insulting the administration a three-year term. Under the law, Mr. have been given up since January 2 of arrested, reportedly for the fifth time, and falsely claiming that a fellow Poresh could have been sentenced to this year." in October 1983. Sources did not give prisoner had been beaten by camp five years. In addition, he was ordered a cause of death or where the Rev. authorities. Mr. Terelia is of the opinion that this Potochniak was imprisoned. to serve out the one day in a labor camp spontaneous movement will continue. Mr. Poresh, who maintained his left from his previous term and the three He writes: Not much is known in the West innocence throughout the two-and-a- years in internal exile. "We are persecuted and deprived of about the "pokutnyky," also called our rights. They have taken everything the Uniate Repentants. According to from us: our Church and our the underground Chronicle of the Russian Orthodox to stand trial educational establishments. We are Catholic Church in Ukraine, constantly hounded; we exist for the copies of which have only recently especially popular with the faithful. He state only as a work force in reached the West, the "pokutnyky" LONDON - A Russian Orthodox believe that they must do penance monk from Ukraine was due to go on was eventually banished to the town of concentration camps. In this situation, what are the use of Soviet passports to "for the misfortunes of Ukraine," trial last month in Moscow on charges Kimry in the Kalinin region some 85 and they "refuse to work for the state he violated "internal passport miles north of Moscow. us? After all, people are put in Soviet concentration camps without if that state is not Ukrainian, throw regulations," according to K,eston The Rev. Lysakh was arrested on one away their documents and so forth." College, which monitors abuses of of his frequent visits to the Soviet passports." around the globe. capital, K,eston reported. The movement reportedly began The Rev. Pavlo Lysakh, who was According to information received by Uniate Repentants in 1954 in the village of Seredneye in arrested August 9, faced a maximum Keston, the priest has been arrested at the Kalush Raion of the lvano- In reporting the arrests and Frankivske Olbast. The "pokutnyky" penalty of one year's imprisonment. He least once before, but the date and claim that the Virgin Mary appeared was being held in Moscow's Butyrskaya outcome of that case are not known. convictions of two Ukrainian Catholic priests, the 71-year-old Anton near the village on December 20. Prison. 1954. Born in Ukraine, the Rev. Lysakh Potochniak (arrested in October 1983) studied theology at the Odessa and and the 69-year-old Ignatiy Soltis According to Soviet sources, by the Zagorsk Orthodox seminaries after Soviets change (arrested in January 1981), and the 1960s the activities of the sect spread completing school and a tour in the confinement of the priest Semen to three oblasts in western Ukraine, military. Assigned to Moscow, he soon Skalich, the Chronicle touches on a but thereis no reliable estimate as to fighting tactics movement among Ukrainian Catholics how many "pokutnyky" there really ran afoul of officials because he was are. LONDON - The has in western Ukraine of which little is sent home about one-fourth of the known in the West: the Uniate Peace group member estimated 100,04)0 men it sent into Afghanistan in 1979 and has changed its detained by police fighting tactics to avoid a Vietnam-style war, Jane's Defence Weekly reported MOSCOW - Alexander Rub- on Tuesday, January 8. chenko, a member of an unofficial Even so, the report said, Soviet Ukrainian Weekly Soviet peace group, was detained for soldiers, including some 52,000 combat three hours by police in Moscow last troops, face "many more Afghan FOUNDED 1933 month, according to dissident sources. winters" fighting an estimated 90,000 Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a USSR News Brief, published in Afghan insurgents. non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Munich, reported that Mr. Rubchenko, Soviet operations have been (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) a member of the Group to Establish hampered by poorly trained soldiers, Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Trust Between the U.S.A. and the disease, low morale, and drug and USSR, was searched, and police alcohol abuse, the report said. confiscated notes with names and Meanwhile, the Washington Post The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: addresses of foreign peace activists as reported on January 13 that the Central (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 well as information on activities of the Intelligence Agency's aid to insurgents group. fighting the Soviet occupation has Yearly subscription rate: J8, UNA members - S5. The group was formed in June 1982 increased to S250 million. in order to promote better Soviet-U.S. The Post said the expenditure, triple Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor Roma Hadzewycz relations and to work for nuclear the amount initially requested by the THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Associate editor George Bohdan Zarycky

disarmament, but since its inception Reagan administration, represents , wS?u, П7,ло Assistant editor: Natalia Dmytrijuk members have been either arrested, more than 80 percent of the CIA's Jersey City, N.J. 07303 harassed or expelled from the country. annual payments for covert operations. - ' ' ` - -Ш ^ No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20,1985 3 Reagan remembers Solidarity Day; APPEAL TUSM members hold demonstrations for the release of human-rights activists Mykola Horbai and Yosyf Zisels NEW YORK - On January 12, commemorating this Day of Solidarity President Ronald Reagan joined in with Ukrainian Political Prisoners. commemorating the Day of Solidarity "This occasion is a reminder of the The increase in repression, the persecution of Ukrainian human-rights with Ukrai nian Political Prisoners. In a activists in Ukraine and the tragic circumstances under which Ukrainian Ukrainian prisoners' of conscience telegram to the Ukrairlian Student devotion to the noblest aspirations of patriots die in large numbers in Soviet prisons and concentration camps, Association of Mykola Michnowsky, compels the Ukrainian Canadian Committee to appeal to the Ukrainian the human spirit: the desire for free­ he expressed his support for the cause of dom and the resistance to the imposi­ community in Canada to join the "Appeal of Human Rights Committee" of the Ukrainian prisoners, such as Yuriy World Congress of Free in its action that the Soviet authorities tion of inhumane political ideas and Shukhevych, who languish in Soviet systems. The valor, dignity and dedica­ release two human-rights activists in Ukraine — Mykola Horbai and Yosyf prisons and concentration camps. Zisels. tion Ukrainian prisoners havedisplayed in the pursuit of freedom, prisoners The campaign for the release of these two political prisoners was begun by The Ukrainian Student Association of Mykola Michnowsky (TUSM) such as Yuriy Shukhevych, reaffirm our Pavlo Stokotelnyj, a recent immigrant from Ukraine and the husband of the confidence in the ultimate triumph of well-known Ukrainian human-rights activist Nadia Svitlychna. undertook a series of protest actions nationwide to focus on the plight of the free human spirit over tyranny. The On November 1, 1984, Pavlo Stokotelyj began a hunger-strike in front of brave political prisoners of the Ukraine the United Nations in New York to protest against the Soviet authorities' Ukrainian political prisoners. In New York City, six TUSM mem­ will remain a source of inspiration for refusal to release his friends: Ukrainian political prisoner, member of the generations to come." Ukrainian Helsinki Group Mykola Horbai, who is still detained, even though bers who sang the Ukrainian national he has completed his sentence, and the arrest of another member of the anthem outside the Soviet Mission to Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Yosyf Zisels. the United Nations were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and Connecticut AHRU Pavlo Stokotelnyj started his hunger-strike with the intention of carrying^ unnecessary noise after Soviet authori­ on as long as possible, or until there were positive results for his comrades. ties filed an official complaint. The six After a few days of fasting the doctors diagnosing the condition of his health are to appear in court on February 15. protests deaths found that his organism could not withstand the strain and thatthechanges taking' place in his body would result in his death. To stop the physical In Cleveland, TUSM members con­ NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Upon deterioration he was advised to enter a hospital. At that time the United ducted a 24-hour silent vigil and hunger receiving news of the death of States representative to the United Nations intervened, assuring him that he strike. The city's mayor, George Voino- Ukrainian prisoner of conscious Valeriy would do everything possible for the release of the two human-rights activists, vich, proclaimed the Day of Solidarity Marchenko, the Connecticut branch of also assuring him that the Ukrainian community of America would join in the with Ukrainian Political Prisoners. Americans for Human Rights in release activity. In his telegram message to TUSM Ukraine (AHRU) sent appropriate national president Peter Shmigel, Presi­ The action for the release of Mykola Horbai and Yosyf Zisels begun by letters of protest to Soviet Ambassador dent Ronald Reagan stated the follow­ Anatoly Dobrynin and Soviet Stokotelnyj was joined by Amnesty International, Freedom, House and ing: Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine. Chairman Konstanlin Chernenko. For the information of the Canadian community, we provide the following "I am pleased tojoin with members of Copies of Rep. Bruce Morrison's (D- brief biographical sketches of Mykola Horbai and Yosyf Zisels: the Ukrainian Student Association in (Continued on page 6) " Mykola Horbai, Ukrainian poet and composer, was first arrested for writing the poem "Thought" in 1970. He was charged with and sentenced for "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism." After serving seven years of Eugene Lyons, journalist among first incarceration he returned to Ukraine, married and established his residence in Kiev. Mr. Horbai was forbidden to pursue his profession, he was under to report Great Famine, dies constant KGB surveillance, hounded and victimized. In 1979 he became a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and in a short while was rearrested. NEW YORK - Eugene Lyons, one affairs, including a biography of Stalin Having no legal grounds for his arrest, false charges were laid against him. He of the first Western journalists to report and "The Red Decade: The Stalinist was sentenced to five years' incarceration, which he completed in October accurately on the Great Famine in Penetration of America." 1984. H owever, two days before his release, additional accusations were made Ukraine (1932-33), died here at his In 1939, he became editor of The against him, and, is still awaiting the results of the investigation for evidence. home in Manhattan on January 7. He American Mercury, remaining in that One realizes that the fate awaiting Mr. Horbai is similar to that of other was 86. position until 1944. Under his "permanent" prisoners like Yuriy Shukhevych, and now deceased Oleksiy Born in Uzlian, , Mr. Lyons editorship, The American Mercury Tykhy and Valeriy Marchenko, as well as Yuriy Lytvyn and dozens of other came with his family to the United took a strongly anti-Soviet stance and Ukrainian prisoners of conscience whom the Soviet authorities decided to States as a child and settled on New criticized America's alliance with the exterminate through constant physical abuse and maltreatment in prisons, York's Lower East Side. As a young Soviet Union during World War II. concentration camps and psychiatric institutions. man, he was an ardent supporter of the With the end of the war, Mr. Lyons Bolshevik Revolution, serving as the became a roving editor at Reader's " Yosyf Zis'els, numan-rights activist from Chernivtsi, member of the United States correspondent of the Digest, and in 1953 was appointed a Ukrainian Helsinki Group, was collecting evidence on theabuse of psychiatry official Soviet news agency TASS from senior editor at the magazine, a post he in. western Ukraine and the committing of human-rights activists to 1923 to 1927. held until his retirement in the mid- psychiatric institutions for abusive treatment. Zisels was arrested in 1976 In 1928, he went to Moscow as a 1970s. and sentenced to three years'incarceration. Upon completion of the term he correspondent for United Press and in Mr. Lyons is survived by three sisters returned to Chernivtsi to his wife and young son. On October 19, 1984, Mr. 1930 became the first foreign and two grandchildren. Zisels was arrested a second time without any charges being proferred against correspondent to obtain an interview him. On the day of his arrest searches were made of the residences in the with Stalin after his rise to power. district, including the Zisels residence. Outside of confiscating some books But the six years Mr. Lyons spent in nothing else was taken. Mr. Zisels`s wife, Irene, is expecting their second the Soviet Union led to his Wall Street Journal child. disillusionment with comjnunism, and on his return to the United States in The Ukrainian Canadian Committee appeals to the Ukrainian Canadian 1934 he wrote a ringmgjdenunciation of recalls 1932-33 famine community to participate in the action started by Pavlo Stokotelnyj for the the Soviet system in`y. the book NEW YORK - The Kremlin's release of Mykola Horbai and Yosyf Zisels. "Assignment in Utopia." complicity in the Great Famine in 1. First, write a letter to your member of Parliament, if possible speak to The book contained several Ukraine (1932-33), which killed an him personally and ask him to speak to Minister for Foreign Affairs Joe references to the Ukrainian famine, estimated 7 million people, was cited Clark. which resulted from Moscow's decision as an example of hunger as a political 2. If you cannot do it yourself, get someone to write a letter to the editor of to confiscate grain and foodstuffs from weapon in a January 10 editorial in your local newspaper. the rural population in order to end the Wall Street Journal titled 3. Write a letter to Mr. Joe Clark, the secretary of state for external affairs, peasant resistance to collectivization, "Murder by Hunger." the House of Commons. check Ukrainian nationalism and raise The editorial, which focused on` 4. Send copies of your letters or write individual letters to: The Rt. Hon. capital for Stalin's rapid industrializa­ famine as a weapon in Ethiopian, Brian Mulroney, Minister of Canada, House of Commons, Ottawa, tion policies. Marxist government's war against Ont.; The Rt. Hon. John Turner, Leader of the Opposition, House of In all, an estimated 7 million people rebellions, said the use of starvation Commons, Ottawa, Ont.; and Mr. Ed Broadbent, Leader of NDParty, died during the famine. as a means of repression can be, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont.; "Years after the event," wrote Mr. traced to Stalin's policies in Soviet- Remember that the person nearest to you is your member of Parliament Lyons in 1937, "when no Russian occupied eastern Ukraine, . і and you should make it a point to contact him/her first. Your member of Communist in his senses any longer "We've seen the RSUern in. Parliament must listen to you — he is supposed to look after your interests concealed the magnitude of the famine, Afghanistan and СатЬбщ^ Jhe and concerns. me question of whether there had been a Journal said. "One can 'trjiqerit'jjfa (No postage is required on letters mailed to the House of Commons in famine at all was still being disputed in Stalin's man-made Ufctfainjan famine Ottawa.) the outside world." in 1932-33. Ifthe-So` Ukrainian Canadian Committee Although Mr. Lyons never returned trol a people, theyft National Headquarters to the Soviet Union, it dominated his starve, helping Jig!.efgjBeer^lJy`l^ Winnipeg work during most of the rest of his bombing crops, -artrigtі пдиКеі-aad' career. He published several more books on Soviet and Communist I II I 'irftiii 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985 NoJ

Chicdgo marks Ukrainian millennium with religious concert

The Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky Combined of Chicago with members of the millennium committee.

CHICAGO - The Ukrainian tion of the sacred program. His speech newly elected State Sen. Walter Gabro and Father Breen councils. Catholics of Chicago, headed by Bishop marked the beginning of the Dudycz. The head of the Chicago Ukrainian Innocent Lotocky, presented a Concert presentation of a series of religious Members-of the combined choir were Millennium Committee is the Rt. Rev. of Sacred Music in Holy Name events. He invited all Ukrainians and from St. Nicholas Cathedral, St. Butrynsky; the co-chairperson is Cathedral to introduce the observance Christians to join him in marking the Joseph's Church, Ss. Volodymyr and Iwanna Gorchynska; the special events of the millennium of Ukrainian millennium of Ukrainian Christianity Olha Church, Nativity of the Blessed director and organizer of the Concert of Christianity, which occurs in 1988. This in Chicago and environs. He concluded: Virgin Mary Church and Immaculate Sacred Music is the Rev. Peter Galadza. initial event also commemorated the "I hope that our music and song will be Conception Church. The ushers for the The committee is planning the next centennial of the Ukrainian Catholic an inspiration to the community." event were members of the 4th Degree Chicago celebration of the Ukrainian Church in America, the 40th Christina Lypeckyj, mezzo-soprano Knights of Columbus from the Bishop millennium. anniversary of the death of the saintly with the Michigan Lyric Opera, sang Metropolitan- Andrey three songs. Her first moving selection Sheptytsky of Lviv, Ukraine, and the was "Bohprodytse Divo"(Hail, Virgin) Obituary 40th anniversary of the episcopal of Ukrainian composer Andriy ministry of his successor, the late Major Hnatyschyn from Vienna. She then Archbishop . sang the composition "" by Ihor William Chupa, UNA and community activist Over 3,500 people jammed the Sonevytsky. Her concluding rendition NEW YORK - William Chupa. rite Holy Name Cathedral in downtown was "Odarka's Aria" from the Ukrainian community activist, long­ Chicago to participate in this solemn Ukrainian opera "Kupalo." Her piano time secretary of Ukrainian National religious concert. Sponsor of the accompanist was Nadia Sawyn. Association Branch 325 and treasurer commemorative presentation was Prof. Roman Andrushko, choir of the New York District Committee, Bishop Innocent Lotocky. Ukrainian director of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha died here on January 8, following a long rite bishop of Chicago; the host was , led the Symphony String illness. He was 69. Bishop Timothy Lyne, rector of the Ensemble in the beautiful composition Mr. Chupa was born on January 10, Holy Nam? Cathedral, representing "Praise the-Lord. You Children" by 1915, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and during his Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the Roman Borys Kudryk. youth was active in the Ukrainian rite archbishop of Chicago. The finale brought together the Youth League of North America and The program was prepared and Symphony String Ensemble and the Ukrainian National Home in presented by the Chicago Ukrainian Metropolitan She"ptytsky Choir under Brooklyn, as well as the local Christian Millennium Committee made the direction of Prof. Andrushko in organization called Moloda Ukraina up of representatives of all the presenting Kudryk`s composition .(Young Ukraine). He served the latter Ukrainian parishes in Chicagoland and "Great is God." two organizations as president. headed by the R't. Rev. Marian During the program. State Rep. He served in the U.S. Army in Europe Butrynsky. Myron Kulas read a proclamation of during World War II, and later became The concert opened with a glorious the Illinois House of Representatives a member of the Ukrainian American tribute to God as the Metropolitan noting the celebration of the centennial Veterans, serving as national treasurer Andrew Sheptytsky Choir, made up of of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in and local post commander. He was also 200 singers from Chicagoland America. a member of the American Legion and Ukrainian Catholic churches, sang the A large number of religious and civic treasurer of the Ukrainian Democratic stirring concerto "Sey Den" (This is the dignitaries participated in the religious Club of Brooklyn. William Chupa Day) composed by Dmytro concert. Introduced were Bishops Mr. Chupa was an active participant recognized for his organizing Bortniansky. Julian Pozniak, choir Timothy Lyne and Placido Rodriguez in the cultural life of the Ukrainian achievements by being named several director at St. Joseph's Church, of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop community in the late 1940s and 1950s. times to the UNA Champions Club. He directed the singers through the Vladimir Tarasevitch of the He sang with the metropolitan choir was also a delegate to several UNA numerous movements. Byelorussian Catholic Church, the Rev. directed by the late Stephen conventions. Immediately afterwards the choir Orest Kulyk of the Ukrainian Orthodox Marusevich, and appeared as both a Surviving are his wife, Dorothy; rendered a second Bortniansky Church, and representatives from the dancer and actor in the mammoth stage daughters, Barbara and Joyce; and concer"` "Blazhenni" (Blessed are Ukrainian Baptist Church, the Greek presentations of Homin Ukrainy (Echo sons. William Jr. and Gregory. Those), under the baton of Juriy Orthodox Church, Orthodox. ol Ukraine). The funeral was held January 11 at Jarymowycz, director of the Slavuta Episcopal. Lutheran and Presbyterian In the 1950s Mr. Chupa became the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Choir at St. Nicholas Cathedral. Churches in the Chicago community. active in the UNA. He was secretary of Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in In his welcome address. Bishop Also introduced were Ukrainian Branch 325 for over 30 years, and he Flushing MeadoWSj N.Y.; burial was at Lotocky greeted the throng of people community leaders Dr. Myron Kuropas enrolled many new members into the Holy Ghost Cemetery in Hampton- and noted the threefold commemora­ and Dr. Mvroslav Charkewycz, and fraternal organization. He was burgh. N.Y. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985 5

Bishops' message NEWS AND VIEWS Right to life is for everyone Recollections of a visit with Brazil's aainians by Dr. Anthony T. Wachna whole, in Brazil," she said later. Basilio Cembalisia, who is director of A message from Ukrainian Catholic On Monday we took the plane to see many organizations, was our guide. As 1 bishops on the right to life. As the excitement mounted before magnificent lguassu Falls. There were walked into the bus. 1 was received by a the departure of our group of 15 via many tourists from various parts of the 17-year-old Japanese boy and I asked The United Nations has proclaimed Varig 747 for Sao Paulo, we were told world visiting the falls for the first time. him if this was the Ukrainian bus and he 1985 the "Year of Youth." People of all by the Kobasniuk Travel Agency of The boardwalk on the mountainside' answered in Ukrainian, "Oh. yes. my nations are being encouraged to initiate New York, that we were officially facing the falls extends for 1.2 miles, name is Cesar Ito, and my mother is and improve programs that meet the the first Ukrainian group to go to Brazil Ukrainian, and her name is Sophia special needs of young people. which is most exciting, to say the least. for two weeks, leaving October 18. Eventually, we arrived in Curitiba, Boiko Ito." John Paul 11 has chosen the Actually, we met our people in Sao and were invited to visit the Rev. Efraim The boy's family owns a restaurant in slogan "Peace and Youth Go Forward Paulo. Curitiba. Prudentopolis and Krevey, bishop of the Ukrainian Prudentopolis and the children all Together." also the colonies, in addition to a few Catholics in Brazil. This was a most speak Ukrainian and Portuguese, Youth are the future of our Church isolated areas where some of the rela­ welcome visit and considerable besides some Japanese. and our country. Young people should tives of the group lived. discussion took place. The author was become aware of the many happenings The able and trilingual tour director, wondering why so few Brazilians knew Poverty is rampant in present-day society, especially the Peter Bokalo of Metuchen. N.J., was so little or nothing about our people, as rights of all persons. most helpful, and because he was born in evident in our travel talks. We discussed Then we visited the colonies, six in Brazil, had his bearings and knew this communication and public relations succession, and saw the real poverty, Tuesday. January 22, is set aside to giant South American country with a and the importance of having with poor roads, poor buildings and a remind us of the menace to the right to population of 120 million and rich representation in all forms of small church in each little village. But life of human beings. The legislation of resources of coffee, cocoa, sugar, government, especially since the there was a bright and beautiful side to an increasing number of nations now rubber and diamonds. population of Ukrainians is over some of these colonies, and that was the permits abortion of the unborn at will. Our first visit was to the industrial 200,000 in Brazil. small schoolhouse, with sisters as Even in our own country, the decision city of Sao Paulo, and on Sunday we The next morning we reached Ponta teachers. The children, dressed very of the U.S. Supreme Court on January visited the Ukrainian Catholic church Grossa, where we stopped at the neatly in white, welcomed us by singing 22, 1972, denied to unborn human where we found many parishioners both hospital, operated totally by Ukrainian so inspiringly, "Slava Isusu Khrystu." beings the right to life and the status of young and old with beautiful children sisters, who admitted as a patient one This perhaps was the most moving personhood. As each succeeding year neatly dressed. Some parents were of of our ladies in the group because of a moment of our trip, one 1 will never goes by, it becomes increasingly urgent mixed marriages. The church was at­ previous injury at the airport in Rio. On forget. that concerned people speak out and tractive and so was the Ukrainian inspection 1 found the hospital to be The Ukrainian farmers generally are take effective action on behalf of these Orthodox church nearby, skillfully well operated, with many modern facili­ poor because successful agriculture most defenseless members of society painted in light grey with blue ties, including X-rays. The staff was requires a large investment of capital. In whose lives can be ended legally and trimmings. most polite, all dressed in white uni­ one area a farmer was spreading without any more reason than simple That evening there was a Ukrainian forms and, of course, the hospital itself fertilizer with his hand and on another desire. "Rada" meeting in the national hall, and was immaculate. farm, the horses were so weak and some of us went under the leadership of The next morning in Prudentopolis, emaciated they could hardly pull a The Right to Life for the unborn Maria Oksana Bachynsky ofNutley,N.J. we enthusiastically prepared for the single plow. Because this was spring, movement now includes among its "It was interesting and informative biggest event of our trip, the colonies farmers were planting soybeans, corn, advocates a large segment of the concerning the Ukrainian people, as a and the two seminaries. The Rev. (Continued on page 15) American population which cannot be accused of being under the influence of the teaching of the Catholic Church. So, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Catholics are joined by Orthodox as well as by Protestants of many denominations, the churched and unchurched, including also men and Still more on from the villages of Repid, Karlikova Fifth anniversary women of non-Christian and of other and other local villages, who in 1918 religious persuations. were going to build, not Rossiya or Rusyns and roots Ruskyi krai, but Ukraina. They were of Afghan invasion We Ukrainians see the Right to Life Dear Editor: attacked by a well-equipped Polish Dear Editor: movement in a wider context, In reference to all the statements in army on a mountain near Komancha, This is the fifth anniversary of the encompassing the entire world, The Ukrainian Weekly on the subject of and that ended their fight for Ukraine. USSR's invasion of Afghanistan. The especially our dear brethren in Ukraine. Ukrainian-Rusyn, or, Rusyn- In 1938-39, with my own eyes I Afghan freedom fighters have been They are still being denied human rights Ukrainian roots I also would like to watched as young men from nearby fighting and dying against our hated of a political nature, and such basic express my feelings on the subject. villages were going to Zakarpattia to common enemy. We Ukrainians are rights as that of freely worshipping First, I must state that I am not a fight, not for Karpatska Rossiya, but enjoying the good life in America doing God; raising their children according to "Vysokopovazhanyi Pan Professor," for an independent Ukraina. relatively nothing to help these brave what conscience tells them is their but one who learned about his roots In the years 1939-44 came German people. sacred duty as parents; preserving the from life, not only books. occupation. Germans referred to us as Have we forgotten how we bonds with their kin in the free world; Ukranien, not Russen. In 1944 came Ukrainianscriticized the world for not My education began when 1 was born liberation by, not Russian brothers, but aiding the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and particularly, the right to be mem­ in the coalfields of Pennsylvania to bers of their own Ukrainian Catholic Great Russian brothers. Russians did (UPA) in its fight against the Soviet parents who were Rusyn/Ukrainian or not refer to us as Russians but as Union during the World War II? Church. However, their very lives, too, Ukrainian/Rusyn. After my birth and are in danger. How many of them have Ukrainians; they even deported For countless number of years, those the death of my father, my mother thousands of our people to the new of us wKo still hav?any feelings about never felt secure against the arbitrary returned to the old country with her seizure of their persons and possessions, geopolitical Ukraine because of the our proud Ukrainian heritage, have young family and settled in a village stupid Yalta Treaty. Our Lemkivsh­ contributed to our various national of exile, forced labor, unjust called Vysochany, in the Carpathian incarceration that leads to death, chyna was given to Poland, and organizations with very little results. Mountains, the area referred to as Ukrainians were not welcome in Finally, we now have the opportunity to shameless confinement and forceful Lemkivshchyna. As I recall my youth in mismedication under the pretext of Poland. If we were Carpatho-Russians strike a blow against the USSR by the Carpathians and try to understand they probably would have shipped us to supporting the Afghans in their struggle mental illness, and other abuses of a polemics going on here in the United tyrannical government? Great Russia. From 1945 to 1947, when for freedom. States on who's a Carpatho-Russian. the Polish government was -pillaging, Why haven't our political and How`many of our brothers and sisters Carpat ho-R usy n, Rusnak or burning and murdering us, they referred religious organizations coordinated a have lost their lives in the past at the Ukrainian, more and more I feel these to us as Ukraintsi, not as Russians. To Ukrainian fund for this noble cause? hands of Communist oppressors, how people don't know what they're talking them we were Ukrainians, not There is still time to show the world that many are awaiting execution or about. Carpatho-Russians. When pur people the Ukrainians are joining the war maltreatment that will inexorably lead While residing in the Carpathians started to defend themselves they against the USSR.. We must act as to death, how many will still have to lay from 1938 to the end of 1947, 1 would created a Ukrainian insurgent "Army quickly as possible to help save down their lives as witnesses to the listen to the tales of the old folks. They and not a Carpatho-Russian Insurgent Afghanistan and at the same time help unquenchable desire of every human would always refer to "nash," "nashi z Army. Ukraine. being, created by God, to live free and hir," "nashi z Zakarpattia," "nashi z The slogan "for all the enemies of In the meantime, we can continue to with dignity? Ukrainy." The others were always Ukrainians-is "UEnune never existed, send contributions to an organization We, your shepherds appointed by Austriyaky, Poliaky, Moskali or .does not exist:and never will exist." If that was previously mentioned in The God, ask all our pastors to inform you Rossiyany. Our people always referred they are right?-then how come they're Ukrainian Weekly - ADies Assistance, of the issues involved in the Right to to themselves as Ukraintsi or always fighting Ukrainians? How come ) Box 2734, Manassas, Va. 22110. Life movement, and to urge you to join Rusnaky/Rusyny; only Moskali were if Шг people do sometb.iiig.gpod, we're ` forces with your bishops in securing Rossiyany (Russian). Russians. But if we do something bad, Markian Solonynko protection for all human lives. I heard" stories about the young men (CostmuwTon page 13) Bayonne, N.J. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20,1985 No3

Effective Media Relations Ukrainian Weekly by Andrij Bilyk P.O. Box 9653, Alexandria, Va. 22304 Thoughts on January 22 A World War II reunion in Poltava On January 22, 1918, the Ukrainian Central Rada issued the Fourth "Poltava, the battlefield where Peter were repatriated to the Soviet Union Universal, which dramatically proclaimed Ukraine's independence or, more the Great destroyed the Swedish Army against their will. For some, including accurately, the re-establishment of a free Ukrainian state. Just one year later, in June 1709, was the only place in the those from western Ukraine or the on January 22, 1919, the Act of Union unified, if only briefly, all Ukrainian USSR from which Soviets and Balkans, it was the first time they had lands in one state. Americans conducted joint combat even been in the Soviet Union. That's For Ukrainians in the diaspora, January 22 has become an important operations: 18 (World War II) shuttle- because until World War II, their national holiday. Yet some have said, and with good reason, that the scores of bombing missions that made history at nations were either independent or had municipal observances and proclamations that have marked the day over the the time but have become footnotes some measure of autonomy within years tend perhaps to trivialize a truly momentous and revolutionary chapter since..." Poland. Then there is the current of our history. So writes Sen. Charles Mathias (R- situation in Ukraine, the cultural But by far a bigger concern than the efficacy of proclamation-signing Md.) in last Sunday's Washington Post. genocide by Russification. ceremonies is the community's own understanding of the events of January 22 The story was headlined "Let's Hail Our You can conclude your letter to the and their meaning. Over the years, as the passage of time inevitably separates Russian Allies: Our Joint Victory in `45 senator or to anyone else on this topic, the Ukrainian immigration from Ukraine and its living history, Ukraine's Can Inspire Peace Efforts Now." by suggesting that, yes, by all means, the immediate and distant past takes on the air of popular mythology forever According to the senator, "an effort United States and the Soviet Union frozen in time and memory. should be made to assemble and print should relive World War II together- Thus locked in the inertia that so often distorts and fixes history firmly in first-person recollections of this but only if all of the issues surrounding the past, historical events take precedence over historical continuity. Nearly extraordinary time of cooperation. Ukraine are on the table. In fact, why 1,000 years of a rich and fascinating history become compressed and "There should be reunions, not just not get a little publicity for the newly oversimplified, reduced to a series of anniversaries. on the Elbe, but in Murmansk and funded (but still not created) This January 22, then, we must all do our best to see to it that Ukrainian Poltava... congressional commission on the history is seen as a living and not a static thing. That the impulse for freedom "In a true telling of our common famine in Ukraine by asking that any that existed from the times of Kievan Rus` to the periods of the Galician- history of war, we may find some rapprochement with Soviet Ukraine and Kozak states, finds voice today in the Ukrainian dissident helpful guidance toward a common be tied to a commission fact- movement. We must avoid the knee-jerk tendency to believe in our own future of peace." finding tour of Ukraine. After all, if we mythologies, and to propagate them to our children and our neighbors. We We сапЧ blame the senator, and other can go to Poltava to relive World War must beware not to see Ukraine today as quaint country populated by humble fellow Americans for wanting peace. II, shouldn4 we be able to go to peasants in embroidered shirts and boots, living in thatched cottages, reciting We want peace, too. But we have the interview famine victims? Shevchenko and dancing the hopak at every turn. We must see it as a complex right to ask the senator and others who Postscript: The Battle of Poltava, and highly industrialized nation, an evolving society of some 50 million facing will write on this topic — and believe circa 1709, will get some exposure later a plethora of modern problems and contingencies, as well as Russification me,- stories like this will be appearing this year when N BC broadcasts its mini- and ethnocide. with regularity as the year progresses - series on Peter and Great. (Already, the The events of January 22 were a direct outgrowth of historical tradition and what good is it to recall American- latest rewrite by Soviet historians omits revolutionary ardor. To`fully appreciate them, and to have a realistic view of Soviet cooperation in World War II if any reference to Mazepa who fought Ukraine's'future, it is essential that we in the diaspora look closely at events that recollection ignores the tragic side by side with Sweden in the today and tommorrow, while keeping the past in a healthy perspective. history of Ukraine? unsuccessful effort to topple Peter I - The senator quotes a former Moscow see: The Ukrainian Weekly, September correspondent of the Christian Science 9, 1984, "Soviet Account of Battle of Monitor as saying that the "Russian Poltava Omits Any Reference to Meese and the OSI people don't forget..." Ukrainians"). It will be interesting to see Ukrainian people don't forget either. how the NBC series treats Mazepa. If Last year during his hearings, Edwin Meese. President That's why in 1983 and again in 1984, the book on which the series is based is Ronald Reagan's attorney general-designate, promised that if he was we marched in our cities and in the any guide ("Peter the Great: His Life confirmed he would reassess the use of Soviet-supplied evidence by the Office streets of the nation's capital to and World"), Mazepa will get a bum of Special Investigations, the Justice Department branch charged with commemorate ... but you know the rap. Next week we'll discuss if and how investigating and bringing to trial former Nazi collaborators living in the story. we can influence NBC's portrayal of Mazepa. United States. Mr. Meese was responding to questions from Sen. Dennis The point is, knowing the story isn't DeConcini (D-Ariz.), who expressed reservations about the government's use enough anymore. All of us should sit of materials and testimony provided by the Soviet procuracy and the KGB in down and write a short five- or six- proceedings against American citizens, particularly those of East European paragraph letter to Sen. Mathias Connecticut AHRU... origin. (particularly if you live in Maryland). The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings on the Meese His address is Sen. Charles McC. (Continued from page 3) confirmation for January 29, and it is critically important that Ukrainians let Mathias, Russell Senate Office Conn.) statement in the Congressional their lawmakers know that the issue of the OSl's use of Soviet evidence must Building, Washington, D.C.. 20510. Record of July 30, 1984, concerning the be brought up again. We must continue to remind Sen. DeConcini and others Bring to his attention the recent plight of Mr. Marchenko and his letters on the committee that the seminal issue is not one of individual guilt or (January 10) lead editorial in the Wall to Ambassador Dobrynin and innocence but the larger matter of safeguarding the American judicial system Street Journal which discusses "Murder Chairman Chernenko were enclosed as from the intrusion of a foreign, totalitarian and antagonistic Soviet judicial by Hunger" and equates the case of the reminders. apparatus, while at the same time protecting the right to due process for U.S. Eritreans in Ethiopia with the 7 million Letters were also sent to the six- citizens. Ukrainians who died of starvation in member Connecticut delegation in the In their letters and telegrams, Ukrainian Americans can also point out that Stalin's 1932-33 man-made famine in House of Representatives, requesting trying an East European or Baltic expatriate based on testimony videotaped Ukraine. Ask him to explain to you how that a statement be issued concerning in the Soviet Union or on documentary evidence provided by the world's most any meeting in Poltava to relive World Mr. Marchenko's death. Letters were sophisticated practitioners of disinformation would be akin to using evidence War II will help those in Poltava who mailed as well to Rep. Marcy Kaptur supplied by the Ku Klux Klan at a trial of a Black Panther. survived this holocaust? (D-Ohio), who was instrumental in Ukrainian community involvement at this juncture is crucial. Already there Tell him about the Ukrainian scheduling House hearings on the has been indirect pressure on Sen. DeConcini and others who have voiced partisans who took on the impossible Ukrainian famine bill, and Rep. Dante similar reservations to drop the matter. On January 14, columnist Jack job of fighting both Hitler and Stalin Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Andersen — without once mentioning that the key concern of the lawmakers and about the irony that, immediately Affairs Committee and the Helsinki is the dire legal ramifications of using KGB evidence in U.S. courts:— seemed after the war, many of these partisans Commission. to imply that Sen. DeConcini, as well as Sens. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), Pete Domenici(R-N.M.), outgoing Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy (R-Ill.), and others, were unduly influenced into supporting NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS Nazi war criminals by emigre lobbying groups. Citing the case of Estonian-born Karl Linnas, currently facing deportation, Mr. Andersen took the OSI`s case at face value, bluntly called Mr. Linnas "a AND AUTHORS former Nazi officer," and suggested that any opposition to the OSI was misguided. It is The Ukrainian Weekly's policy to run news items and/or reviews Mr. Andersen also said that Sen. DeConcini implied that he might hold of newly published books, booklets and reprints, as well as records hearings on alleged abuses by the OSI. and premiere issues of periodicals, only after receipt by the editorial So, in addition to insisting that the issue of OSI abuses be raised at the offices of a copy of the material in question. Meese confirmation hearings, Ukrainian Americans should also contact Sen. News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be DeConcini and urge him to hold hearings to investigate OSI practices. We published. must demonstrate our support at a time when the senator and others are being Send new releases and information (where publication may be pur­ pressed to abandon their concern. chased, cost, etc.) to: The Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgo­ mery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20,1985 7 Metropolitan Sheptytsky: great ecumenist of 20th century

by Archmandrite Victor J. Pospishil was carried to the church by seminarians on a chair Over the years, Lambert Beauduin, a Belgian fastened to a platform. Emulating Christ, Sheptytsky Benedictine, had arrived at the conviction of the lad the opportunity to extend his hospitality in his urgency of ecumenical endeavors toward the Eastern CONCLUSION residence in Lviv to Evlogy and to other former jailers Orthodox. After World War I, he met Metropolitan Sheptytsky and the vhen they later lied from the Bolsheviks. Andrew in Belgium when the latter took part in the Freed at the outbreak of the March 1917 Unity Week Conference in Brussels (1925), where he Metropolitan Andrews ecumenical interests had no Revolution, he was able to travel to Kiev and spoke on the psychology of church union. Beauduin theoretical limitations, but it was more practical to Petrograd (Leningrad), where he organized the visited Galicia and the Studite Monastery. After his stay within the boundaries of the possible. He knew Russian Catholic Church, which gathered a number of return, he founded the renowned monastery of that if he was to have any impact on the union of the small congregations into an exarchate. The existence Chevetogne, where today the Latin rite Churches, he would have to direct his endeavors to the of this small Church was important for two reasons. celebrate in the and in the . people of the former Ruthenian (Ukrainian- First, the Orthodox could see for themselves that World War I had left millions of Orthodox Byelorussian) Catholic Church, which, territorially nothing that was dear to them in the daily life of their Ukrainians and Byelorussians within the boundaries speaking, referred to Ukraine and Russia. Church would have to be abandoned in case of union of a resurrected Poland. The desire of the government As a student, he traveled several times in the tsarist with . The second reason, directed toward the to have them converted to Catholicism in the . He met representatives of the intelligentsia as Catholics, was aimed at confirming that one can be rite was rejected by the . The Polish well as the reigning aristocracy. He was accepted in fully Catholic and faithfully Oriental at the same time government rejected the suggestion that the Ukrainian these circles because of his background. As without any compromise in either respect. Catholic priests of Galicia be permitted to work archbishop, he continued his visits to Russia and This last claim was denied by the Latin active pastorally among these Orthodox refugees. Byelorussia. With papal permission he organized the within tsarist Russia. They maintained in theory and Instead, in 1931, an apostolic visitor of the first Russian Catholic Church communities. practice that Oriental Catholicism is a contradiction in Byzantine rite was appointed for them in the person His expectations for Russia received a welcome itself. Their aim was — the conversion of of Nicholas Charnetsky, a Ukrainian Redemptorist boost when Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree of individuals to Catholicism, but in the Latin rite. priest. He was not to have any connection with the religious tolerance in 1905. However, along with other Sheptytsky decided that it was time to make use of Catholic Ukrainians in Galicia. He organized his well-meaning Catholics, he was greatly disappointed the powers conferred upon him by Pius X. That pope church as an outpost of Eastern Catholicism with the when Catholics of the Byzantine Rite were excluded had signed documents in which he granted him the active help of the Russian rite Jesuits and Ukrainian from this decree. This forced some 300,000 same jurisdiction which the Maronite Basilians. It was to serve as an example of the selfless aims of true Catholic . Especially by Byelorussians, who were allowed to leave the enjoyed in his (1908). However, the pope sending some of his priests for work among the Orthodox Church to which they had been subjected 80 did not inform his secretary of state of his decree. The Orthodox faithful. Metropolitan Andrew was years earlier, to join the Latin Rite Catholic Church activity of Servant of God Andrew in respect to Russia instrumental in the creation of this ecclesiastical unit and abandon their ancestral Byzantine Rite. was resented by members of the , who whose mission he supported morally, financially and In his hopes for Russia he recruited a number of were ignorant of the pope's concessions. pastorally. capaole and dedicated collaborators, of whom one Therefore, Pius X asked Sheptytsky in 1909 to shall be mentioned. return to him the three original documents, assuring In the 1900s. Metropolitan Andrew made the him that he would retain all powers granted to him. In defense of the persecuted acquaintance of a young French priest, who in later `Later, Pope Benedict XIV reconfirmed the same years had asignificant influenceonthedevelopment of powers on February 24, 1921. Since the former During the misnamed "pacification" in 1938 when C`atholic ecumenism toward the East. His name was Ruthenian Catholic metropolitan of Kiev-Halych had the Polish government decided to promote in a Joseph Charon, and he had been ordained in 1902 ac­ no jurisdiction over Russia , the pope forceful way the Polonization of the Ukrainian and cording to the Byzantine Rite by the Melkite patriarch appointed Metropolitan Andrew bishop of Kamenets Byelorussian Orthodox still residing within the of Antioch. Finding that his work as historian could be Podilsky and apostolic delegate for Russia. Eastern border of Poland. Sheptytsky had an carried out better in Rome, he moved to the Eternal Based on the concessions," Metropolitan opportunity to manifest his love and respect for the Orthodox. The pacification actually meant a bloody City. There he changed his name to Cyrill Korolevsky, Sheptytsky convened a synod of the exarchate that assault on the Ukrainian political, fraternal, cultural under which name he became well-known. Over the adopted some noteworthy statutes. He appointed and religious organizations and institutions in Galicia years, the metropolitan employed him to do research Leonid Fedorov as the first exarch of the Russian and elsewhere. Further, the Polish claimed ownership in the rich archives of the Holy See. Catholic Church. He was a Russian who had visited of those churches which had at one time belonged to In Rome the Rev. Korolevsky became a part of the Sheptytsky for the first time in 1902. The metropolitan the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Byelorussian) Uniate small group of Catholic priests, who in the spirit of had arranged that Fedorov study theology in Italy. To Church, taking theproperty for the Latin rite Polish obviate any political interpretation of Fedorov's tolerance and respect, an attitude wholly new in the Catholic Church. It is true that these churches were Catholic Church of that day. promoted ecumenism relationship with Sheptytsky. the metropolitan erected during the time of the . It is also toward the Christian East. His writings, his sarcasm arranged to have him ordained by the Bulgarian irue that they were brutally annexed to the Orthodox and wit, did much to dispel the triumphalistic Catholic bishop of the Byzantine rite. The Rev. Church by the Russian tsars, but if anyone should intolerance that was rampant in the offices of the Fedorov became a Studite monk. His activity as head have vindicated them, it should have been the Roman Curia toward non-Catholic Eastern of the Russian Catholic Church was of short duration Wkrainian Catholics and not the Latin rite Polish Christians. In 1919. together with the later Cardinal because, soon after his consecration, he was arrested Catholics. Eugene Tisserant (1884-1972), he .vent to the collapsed by the Soviets, put on trial, imprisoned and then Russian empire as a member of the papal commission exiled. He died as a confessor of the in 1935. The extent of persecution which the Orthodox which brought food and medicines for the starving Church underwent was great. The Polish Catholics population. The Russian theological books and Forerunner of Vatican II simply razed or burned 189 churches and transformed periodicals which they purchased became the 149 churches into Polish Roman Catholic ones. foundation of the library of the Oriental Institute in During World War I and in its aftermath, large Metropolitan Andrew's public protests to the Polish Rome, the most prestigious center of Eastern eccle­ groups of Orthodox refugees remained in Galicia. hierarchy and his disavowal and apology addressed to siastical studies and ecumenical endeavors of our Some were prisoners of war, and others were evacuees the Orthodox bishops aroused the wrath of the Poles. limes. from various areas. Sheptytsky directed his clergy to They were however a welcome witness to a new The Rev. Korolevsky was supported as the administer the upon request to the non- ecumenical spirit which could transcend old rivalries metropolitan's representative in Rome until World Catholic Orthodox, expressly not limiting this and enmities. Hitler's blitzkrieg in September 1939 War II. He assisted the servant of God by compiling privilege to the rare instances of danger of death as brought an end to the Polish state as well as to this the Typikon or Rule of the Studite . Upon his then permitted by canon law but to provide spiritual senseless "pacification." death in 1959 in Rome, he bequeathed his fortune to care for these victims of war who found themselves There are numerous anecdotes told about the Ukrainian Studite Fathers for the establishment of spiritually wanting. Metropolitan Sheptytsky and the consideration which a monastery, now the Studion in Castelgandolfo. To the theologians who might object against this he showed to the Jews with whom he came into After the death of the Rev. Korolevsky, Cardinal communicatio in sacris with schismatics, he answered contact, especially on his pastoral visits to the towns Tisserant wrote a moving biography of his life and that one could safely presume that they were in good and villages of his archdiocese. One must know that works. faith' and well-disposed toward the unity of the Galicia had a large Jewish population, which alone When World War I broke out in September of 1914 Church. Fifty years later, Vatican II confirmed and was at times more numerous than either the Ukrainian and the Russian armies advanced into Austria- sanctioned his pioneering, farsighted decision. or the Polish population in those cities and towns. It Hungary, Metropolitan Andrew stayed with his flock. The collapse and disintegration of the Austro- became the custom that the rabbi and the elders Soon after the occupation of Galicia, the warnings of Hungarian monarchy and of tsarist Russia profoundly greeted Metropolitan Andrew on his approach to the his friends were justified, for almost immediately, at changed the scenario for Sheptytsky`s ecumenical town or city, holding up the torah for him to kiss. He the instigation of the Orthodox Archbishop Evlogy, activity. As soon as the political circumstances would then give a short allocution in Hebrew and who had accompanied the Russian army, Sheptytsky permitted it, he resumed his travels and contacts. The Yiddish, thereby underlining the esteem which the was arrested. Their intention was to accuse him of Velehrad congresses were reconvened, and the religion of their Jewish co-citizens deserved from his political intrigues against the Russian empire. recently founded Papal Institute for Oriental faithful also. In a society permeated with anti- Having found nothing to justify their charge, the Ecclesiastical Studies in Rome invited him several Semitism, such a dispflay of sympathy and respect authorities confined him in various places in Russia. times for talks. from a high Catholic churchman and a member of the Among these was the monastery of Suzdal that served In the last address he held there in 1933, he aristocracy was greatly valued by the Jewish as a prison for misbehaving ecclesiastics of the Russian formulated his conviction in respect to the Christian population. Orthodox Church. In addition to the indignities, the East that "Catholics see the extension of the Church When the German occupiers in 1941 began their deprivations to which he was subjected are believed to and the members of the faithful; the Orthodox see the deportations and extermination of Jews, be the cause of the paralysis of his legs after the war. depth of the Church and the quality of its members. Metropolitan Sheptytsky publicly condemned these This condition prevented him from walking for the Historical arguments will never the acts of inhumanity in a pastoral letter titled "Thou last 15 years of his life. When his attendance at Orthodox; the exterior, social, quantitative or Shalt Not Kill."Moreover, he was instrumental in that episcopal functions in his cathedral was necessary, he statistical facts are of little importance to them." (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20,1985 No. 3

From the Shores of the Great Lakes Author Malarek compiled by Chytalnia 2000 - Ukrainian Information Processing Group honored in Toronto TORONTO A special evening was This is the first in a scries of columns medical, financial (i.e. credit Cleveland cooperatives unions), and cultural held on December 13 to honor Victor dedicated to highlighting activities Malarek. author of the recent Cana­ ' The Kashtan Ukrainian dance- spheres. pertinent to the Ukrainian community dian besi seller "Hey Malarek!" ensemble celebrated its fifth In the group discussion that followed. flourishing on the shores ot the Great Mr. Malarek w:is introduced by anniversary with a dance concert on Prof. Himka noted that, historically, І akes and vicinity. Keith Norton, minister of health for the December 9. 1984. Also featured was the Ukrainians' biggest problem has province of Ontario. Mr. Norton praised the Echo of the Steppes bandurist been that they never were allowed to Chicago the author's journalistic persistence and ensemble of New York City. An organize, due to the repressive policies introspect. Excerpts were read from the " The Ukrainian Village here was audience of over 1,000 delighted in this of their more powerful adversaries. evening of fine performances. Those interested in the history of book, and the evening concluded with a listed as a wise real estate investment in u,ucstion-and-answer session. the "Up-and-Coming Neighborhoods" " January 12, marked the close of Chytalni should consult Prof. Himka`s "Hey Malarek! - The true story of a column in the October 1984, issue of "Dimensional Portraits," an exhibition upcoming book on the subject. kid who made it" is Mr. Malarek`s first Metropolitan Home magazine. of small sculptured heads featuring the Also speaking was Christia Chomiak, book. While it may be described as an work of Ukraine's own Alexander Prof. Himka`s spouse, who presented an " The Thanksgiving weekend dance autobiography, the book is in fact a in "Chicagoland" sponsored by Plast Archipenko. The exhibition was held at exciting overview of Ukrainian- powerful and chilling statement about was rivaled in numbers attending only the "North Coast City's" Cleveland Canadian life in Edmonton. With its the life of a child placed in the hands of by Ridna Shkola's dance and Center for Contemporary Art. one-and-a-half-hour Ukrainian radio the juvenile care system. presentation of graduates in Cleveland broadcasts, the availability of that same weekend. Especially Detroit Ukrainian instruction in public and In school the author is put down by heartening, was the largeturn-out of the parochial schools, the Canadian teachers as a result of his ethnicity and 16 to 35 age group, i.e. "molod." " On December 1, 1984, Valentyn Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the social status. In his group home he Мого/, presented a historical survey University of Alberta, the centrally suffers humiliation, terror and neglect. titled "Ukraine Before and After World located monument commemorating the As a result, he turns his anger against 1932-33 famine in Ukraine, a Ukrainian Chytalnia is composed of young and War II" at the Immaculate Conception the system. A life of rebellion and cooperative residential condominium middle-aged adults of Ukrainian des­ School hall. Afterwards Mr. Moroz belligerence ended with his arrest at age project, an open-air museum devoted to cent. It is open to students, workers, held a discussion session with college- 17 on two counts of armed robbery. A recreating pioneer Ukrainian professionals and others who feel that age students from the area, during judge let him go believing that he would which he cited the importance of settlements in western Canada, and the go straight. The years since are a they could benefit and contribute by many Ukrainian food stands in regional their participation. The concept of Ukrainians in the diaspora personally testimony that the judgement was visiting Ukraine and the importance of shopping malls, Edmonton seems truly correct. Chytalnia is over a century old and had entitled to be called "Little Ukraine." its origins in the village life of western the participation of Ukrainians in the "Hey Malarek!" is a crusade against Ukraine. Chytalnia (reading club) world's educational, political and media e On January 7, the Windsor, Ont., the child "saving industry. The author meetings were held at local churches or sectors. ^ CBC network affiliate (CBET) makes his readers aware that social in private homes and served as an " Dr. John Paul Himka of the broadcast a half-hour television special workers, in the cause of righteousness, opportunity to exchange and analyze University of Alberta, Edmonton, was titled "A Ukrainian " undertake to help. In their determina­ information. Illiterate peasants listened the inaugural guest speaker at the featuring the Ukrainian Bandurist tion to help they destroy the child. Mr. as newspapers and other printed matter December 20 Chytalnia meeting held in Chorus of Detroit. The evening special Malarek suggests that a way to avoid had a potential viewing audience of were read aloud; later, the facts and Hamtramck. Prof. Himka presented an this problem is to have a healthy and several million people residing along the issues presented were discussed. over-all history of chytalni (reading united family. clubs) in western Ukraine — Galicia, Detroif-Windsor border. Mr. Malarek. born of Ukrainian Today, the open forum format for from I860 to 1914. Hestressed their role parents in Lachinc, Que., is presently a group study and exchange of informa­ in enlightening the mostly illiterate Minneapolis/St. Paul senior reporter on social policy issues tion remains a valid and useful means of U krainian populace, and informing it of with the Globe and Mail. Canada's promoting awareness of things Ukrai­ avenues available for organized ' The December issue of Friendly national newspaper. He has covered nian. participation in political, agricultural. (Continued on page 13) (Continued on page 13) An actor's tale of a memorable London debut

by William Shust a balcony ticket to see Alec head usherette was so jumpy, why the next bit of drama occurred. McCowen in "St. Mark's " on voice wanted' everyone seated, why The head usherette, now smiling, a night 1 wasn't performing. That people were standing and sidled up to me and said: "We don't Two years ago, while appearing in evening, a memorable of applauding. For, into the box to my expect any trouble tonight, do we?" tondon in my one-man show events took place. left above me, the Queen Mother and "Chekhov On The Lawn," in which I It all started when the balcony a party of guests had entered. I suddenly realized that she now portray Anton Chekhov, 1 purchased usherette told me that they had So, I too rose, faced her and took me to be a service agent "overbooked" and my seat was politely applauded. guarding the Queen Mother. To her, occupied. But. as recompense, they The Queen Mother graciously it all added up: the dark blue suit, the had given me an orchestra seat. I acknowledged the cheers with a smile "serious" tie, the folded umbrella hurried down, for the theatre's and a regal wave of her right hand. which I held before me like a loudspeaker was urging: "Please take And, as she glanced over the truncheon, the last-minute arrival, the "special instructions" for my your seats " audience, she saw me. 1 must have orchestra seat, the acknowledgement Everyone was seated as I entered looked familiar for. so help me, she of my presence by the Queen Mother - the orchestra section and spoke to murmcrcd a sound of recognition herself, even my perfunctory peep up the usherette. Suddenly, a very and gave me a special little wave. the stairway to the box seat. annoyed head usherette rushed over. On cue, as if I had rehearsed it, I I started to explain that I had been stopped applauding and gave her a So, again, as if on cue. I replied in sent from the balcony. On the word low bow of courtly thanks. my best West End accent: "No, it "sent," she demanded to know if the Soon, the applauding and cheering seems a very civili/ed audience." She usherette had "instructions."The girl stopped and everyone resumed his chattered on a bit more and I said she did and produced a paper seat. And. many heads turned in my nodded, smiled and said little. After with my orchestra seat number. I was direction. all, I was "on duty" - sun eying the hurried to the seat and. to my The play began and I settled back, audience for potential trouble. surprise, found myself fifth row, delighted with this turn ol events. center. Al! thev nile. the loudspeaker But. there was more to come. As I resumed my seat for the kept insisting: "Take your seats, During the intermission, 1 walked second act, whispers and nods told please." from my seat to the edge of theslage me that my impersonation was a Here 1 must add some pertinent to survey the theatre from the actor's success. facts. It was August. 1 was ".caring a perspective. I passed a little curtained dark blue suit, a ^serious" tie, and no alcove below the box seat and peeped After the final cu; Lain, I cc mpleted my performance by moving rapidly topcoat. Also, I had my short, black inside; a stairway led up to the now up the aisle and out of the theatre collapsible umbrelia. empty box. The Queen Mother and while those around me -miled, As I sat in this wonderful location, her party had temporarily gone to knowing that I wa; off to my next William Shust is an American a ripple of applause began around me some private rooms. As I stood close 1 `si. actor of Ukrainian descent. The and started to spread. Soon the to the stage, beneath the be above article appeared first in the whole theatre was applauding. `Oh, admiring the theatre's architect ihat'^ `v ! - dc my acting December 1984 issue of Playbill - oh. What now?"J thought. and decor dreaming `! the day і the Globe. Theatre -on- The National Theatre Magazine. I Iooked4ip'and realized why the when 1 would act on this st;` ` Slia,.euourv Avenue in London. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985

Panorama of Ukrainian Culture in the Big Apple

by Helen Perozak Smindak

Seasonal festivities rounds ol `'Mnohaya Lita." then did some caroling of their own. in both " Members of Statcn Island's Ukrainian and English. The buffet Ukrainian community assembled supper of traditional Christmas Eve beside the Boiough Hall Christmas tree dishes, with various breads baked by on January 6 for their annual Christmas Mrs. Mills, featured a special birthday tree lighting and carol sing. The Rev. cake - a huge salmon-filled Kievskyi Alexis i-lorkii, pastor of Holy pyrih with the words `'Mnohaya Lita, Ukrainian Catholic Church in Staten Tatu" in Ukrainian script baked into the Island, described Ukrainian Christmas top crust. Niki Mills had the task of customs. Greetings from Borough throwing a spoonful of kutia to the President Ralph J. Lamberti, who was ceiling (perhaps a variation of the air- out of the country at the time, were brushing technique he uses to decorate conveyed by an assistant, who invited restaurant walls). Inspecting the everyone to come indoors for coffee and number of grains that stuck to the sweets prepared by the Ukrainian ceiling, Mr. Surmach solemnly ladies. Mary Sawicki coordinated the proclaimed that "this will be a very event, which was initiated three years prosperous year — for everyone." ago by senior citizen Lesia Hewka. " With the Iskra band playing for Around town dancing, the Young Ukrainian Professionals of New York held their ' A story in Dance magazine's Christmas party at the Ukrainian December issue about the li'tle girls Institute of America on December 29. chosen to play Clara in George Silver bows and garlands dressed up Balanchine`s "Nutcracker" over the evergreen boughs and wreaths for the years includes several paragraphs about informal occasion, and the tree in the Nina Bachinska, who spent two seasons main foyer glistened with strings of as Clara. Nina told interviewer Barbara silver beads and silver bows centered Gifford that for sheer gorgeousness. with clusters of red berries. Among Куга Nicholas was her favorite Sugar those greeting scores of guests from the Plum Fairy. Also a hit with Nina were tri-state area as well as visitors from Los Heather Watts, because of her general Angeles and Canada were Roma air of sociability, and Francisco Pashkowsky, general coordinator, Moncion. "the only Drosselmeyer who Ulana Shumsky, buffet chairman, picked me up and hugged me in the Marta Tyshynsky, decor, George party scene." Martynuk and Lada Sochynsky. e Laryssa Magun Huryn was the Members and friends of the Ukrainian featured soloist at the Ukrainian Artist Institute gathered for the institute's Association's evening honoring writer New Year's Eve gala on December 31. and poet Hanna Cherin. The Friday " Star entertainer at a surprise soiree was just one of the club's Friday birthday party for Myron Surmach Sr. night series of meetings held at 136 on Ukrainian Christmas eve, held at the Second Avenue. A gathering of Romans, and one Roma, on their name day. home of his daughter, artist Yaroslava " Plaudits to WQXR-FM, which Surmach Mills in West Nyack, N.Y., recently aired Beethoven's "Variations and Adam Gregor in the December 16 Pidhorodecky, owner of the former was the guest of honor. Mr. Surmach, on a Ukrainian Theme," and WNYC- episode of the CBS series "Murder, She Orchidia Restaurant, interviewed by an who became 92 two days later - on FM, which presented Leos Janacek`s Wrote," starring Angela Lansbury; NBC reporter during a community January 8 - strummed a bandura and "Taras Bulba" symphony. In his John Hodiak, in the 1955 film"Trial, " a protest of the gentrification of the East sang carols and whimsical Ukrainian introduction, the WNYC commentator strong, sizzling melodrama of the Village, December 29; Holly Palance, in ditties for the guests, including his explained that the symphony portrayed exploitation trial of a Mexican boy, co- ABC's repeat showing of the mini- children and grandchildren and friends "the Slavonic people's struggle for starring Glenn Ford and Dorothy series, "Thorn Birds," starring Richard and neighbors of Mrs. Mills. On their independence from the Poles." McGuire, on the Showtime Network Chamberlain and Barbara Stanwyck, part;-the guests chceretHrinr with two " Seen on TV - George de la Pena cable television on December 19; Maria on January 6, and Jack Palance, in a live appearance and a film clip from the movie which started his movie career. "Shane," on ABC's "The Morning Show," on January 7.

Roman holiday

When Roman Wasylyk celebrates his name day. he does it in style, in the company of other Romans. Back in 1983. Mr. Wasylyk convened a gathering of several friends named Roman for a gala name day party, and last December the Romans assembled again this time with two additional members, one a Roman, the other a Roma (which is short for Romana). Meeting in John's Restaurant on Easi llth Street, the Roman congregation feasted on Italian food as they conversed in Ukrainian and English and sang a `'Mnohaya Lita" for everyone's health in Ukrainian.

The Romans came together from Philadelphia. Kerhonkson, N.Y., various New Jersey towns and New York City boroughs. Mr. Wasylyk, who juggles two jobs he's a bartender a; John's Restaurant and works as a part- time administratee aide lor the Xerox compan\ in Connecticut, says he is Members of the Staten Island Ukrainian community gather by the Borough Hall Christmas tree to celebrate Christmas building up a Roman fraternity. according to the Julian calendar on January 7. (Continued on page 14) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985 No. 3

told the reporter: "in 1912 I left my 146-unit... S^mS? V village in Ukraine and here 1 am in my 'РЗГІМШН^ jdg (Continued from page 1) little village again." Marie E. Wentela, Lr""S With people still making their way to vice-chairman of the Republican Party , ^"-чц^ \ the tables, Justine Nelligan, general of Michigan representing senior citizen chairperson of the two-day event, problems, addressed the audience Шт Г-3" 4^^fc officially opened the banquet briefly. ceremonies and welcomed all Marvin Rubin, one of the owners of a participants. Ms. Nelligan then called leading building firm, called Cranbrook on Stephen Wichar to assume the duties Wayne Cooperative, introduced his of master of ceremonies. staff and emphasized the'fine working Mr. Wichar expressed regrets for relationship his company had Rep. Dennis Hertel's absence but experienced with the Ukrainian Village \ introduced Michael Thomas from Sen. board of directors. He also called on Donald Riegle's office and Rhea Slavik. Harvey Wolf and associates who have V general interior decorator for the directed and controlled the many Village, both of whom could not remain intricacies of processing applications and other managerial services. T і for the banquet. After congratulating Ms. Nelligan for an outstanding The emcee then introduced Nicholas leadership role during this event, the Pastor, artist and architect, the person Ukrainian National Association representatives at the Ukrainian Village opening emcee extended a profound thanks to who intellectually and emotionally are: (from left), Stephen Wichar, Wasyl Papiz, Yaroslaw Baziuk and Roman the people, parishes and organizations molded a Ukrainian Village to become Tatarsky. who made the Village a reality. "As you an aesthetically pleasing development see," Mr. Wichar added, "the in the Warren community. In his committee did not grace this hall with a opening remarks, Mr. Pastor, a head table. Tonight, each of us is Croatian by ethnic background, equally important and each of us are revealed his total immersion in this sitting at a head table." project. He emphasized many times The Very Rev. Bernard Panczuk was over the friendship and understanding called for the invocation. Dinner was which grew from his relationship with served under the professional Mrs. Volker, and the roomful of guests stewardship of Anna Hundich, rose in a standing ovation in tribute to manager of Stephenson Haus Mrs. Volker. Restaurant and Banquet Enterprises. M rs. Volker stated, "This evening is a As the audience sipped coffee and climax to many, many years of blood enjoyed fresh strawberry-topped and sweat, but has been a great victory cheesecake, Mr. Wichar" began his against many odds." In. her reflections, introductions with the clergy. He she described its past history as a acknowledged the Very Rev. Panczuk. concept for the elderly emanating from and pastor of the Immaculate the Detroit Regional Council of the Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church UNWLA. She counted the traumatic in Hamtramck; the Very Rev. John La- experiences of delays with Housing and zar, dean of the Detroit Deanery and Urban Development officials, the pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help bureaucratic bunglingsand morass, and the many times she had to rely on the тшшь. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Dear­ UNWLA Branch 58 hospitality committee. born Heights; the Very Rev. Mitred assistance of Mayor Randlett. In the final hour, persistence and Archpriest Nestor Stolarchuk, pastor of determination was the winning St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox combination, she said. Cathedral in Southfield; and the Rev. Constantine Wysochansky, pastor of One of the more memorable St. Josaphat`s Ukrainian ` Catholic moments of this evening came when Church in Warren. Mr. Wichar introduced a Ukrainian "The culmination of many years of bandurists quartet composed of Petro laborious dedication is very much in Kytasty, director, Petro Paholiuk, evidence this evening," said Mr. Michael Serdiuk and Pawlo Pysarenko. Wichar, "and major credits should be Mr. Wasylkevych, chairman of the given to the people who studied, Ukrainian Village board of directors, planned and fully implemented this was asked to address the audience in the magnificent building." , and he succinctly With this testimonial, the following and effectively provided a people were introduced: Anastasia chronological history of the origin and Volker, president; Zenon Wasylkevych, ultimate development of the Ukrainian board chairman; Mr. Wichar, vice- village project. presldent"and public relations officer, Gratitudes and special acknow­ Walter Tomyn, vice-president and ledgments received by the Ukrainian building consultant; Irene Hulyk, Village were cited by the master of Anastasia Volker addresses the public after the blessing of the Ukrainian Village. corresponding secretary; Romana ceremonies. Official congratulatory Dyhdalo, recording secretary; Roman greetings came from the Ukrainian- The Very Rev. Stolarchuk offered the placed on four inside walls, and the Tatarsky, treasurer; Nicholas American Coordinating Council of benediction. priests faced eastward. Guides from the Prychitko, financial secretary and Metropolitan Detroit, Detroit Regional On the following day, Sunday, Ukrainian Village staff assisted the building manager; Olga Adamek, Council of the UNWLA, Ukrainian December 16, more than 500 people priests in blessing the interior of the membership director; John Dodson, National Association Branch 175, attended the blessing and open house building and residents who wished such acting financial secretary and director; Chernyk Sports Club, the Ukrainian ceremonies. Mr. Wasylkevych opened a blessing. Before the services ended, the Pauline Budzol, Lida Kolodchin, Ms. American Center and the Ukrainian the celebration with a warm welcome Rev. Panczuk presented a short sermon Women's Organization Prosvita. The Nelligan and Maria Zubal, directors. and introductory remarks. He in both Ukrainian and English Rev. Panczuk conveyed a personal introduced the members of the clergy languages, blessing all inhabitants and Mayor James Randlett of Warren, congratulatory message from the third largest city in Michigan, was and breifly described the services to others who had made this dream come Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Innocent non-Ukrainians. the only political figure to stand behind Lotocky of Chicago. true. the Ukrainian Village from its inception All responses during the services was and was always visible during milestone Special thanks were offered to Louise The religious services were directed performed by members of St. dedications. Upon being called to the Saks and the Dodsons for all the floral by the Very Rev. Panczuk; his co- Josaphat`s Ukrainian Catholic Church dais, Mayor Randlett -once again contributions. A surprise announce­ celebrants were the Very Rev. Lazar, Choir under the directorship of pledged full support and announced an ment revealed that S5,000 was donated the Very Rev. Stolarchuk, the Very Wolodymyr Litynskyj. Hundreds of open-door policy to members of the by the Olena Teliha Branch 58 the Rev. Mitered Archpriest Alexander guests joined the in singing Ukrainian community. UNWLA, already a donor of more than Bykowetz of Hamtramck, the Rev. "Mnohaya Lita`` and "Bozhe Velykyi." Other guests who were presented by S26,0O0. Ms. Nelligan, president, Wysochansky, the Rev. Myron After the services, Mrs. Volker the emcee included Maria Kwitkowsky, confirmed that a part of this sum would Bezkrownyj, a visiting Ukrainian thanked the clergy and people for president of the World Federation of pay for an art commission already Orthodox priest from Fort Wayne, participating in this historic event. Ukrainian Womens Organizations; Dr. granted to artist George Kozak. A4-by- Ind., the Revs. Abraham Miller, Sergius Along with holiday wishes, Ms. Volker Mary V. Beck, political activist and lady 6-foot recessed alcove in the outer lobby Fcdynich and Walter Rybicky of issued instructions for the open house of many firsts in Metropolitan Detroit will have a multi-media mosaic Hamtramck, and the Rev. Demetrius reception. She invited participants to depicting a Poltava maiden offering the in both Ukrainian and American Wysochansky of Warren. inspect all facilities and visit with the sectors; Maria Maliniak, a 92-year-old traditional welcome with bread and The blessing of the new building salt. Before the evening ended, close to residents. Hostingxhe hospitality table resident of the Ukrainian Village whose SI0.000 was received by the Ukrainian included an anointment or consecration was Ms. Nelligen and members of picture and interview appeared in a Village Fund. through the application of holy oil. UNWLA Branch 58, assisted by ladies feature story of the Macoeib-Daily. She Four specially designed crosses were from branches 5 and 80. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985 11

Church wins award the board of trustees and chairman of Notes on people the finance committee. Mr. OTTAWA - Architect IhorStecura Tyshovnytsky became one of The was recently named co-winner of the Ukrainian Museum's major benefactors Canadian Wood Council's first prize for cost-effective means of construction. as well as a master of business when he donated a Xerox computer excellence in the non-residential The church, situated in the 160-acre administration degree from the system as a memorial gift in honor of division for the design of the wooden Ukrainian Park near Saskatoon was Rochester Institute of Technology. In the late Olenka Savyckyj. St. Volodymyr's Church in Pike Lake, built at a cost of S90.000 largely by addition, he completed a post-graduate Alex is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sask. volunteer labor. It's 1,310 pewless certificate of advanced study in Roman Tyshovnytsky of Rochester. He Operated with the support of the square feet have a standing room corporate finance from Pace University is married to Oksana Danielle .Royal Architectural Institute of capacity of 120. in New York. Horodecky, daughter of Jaroslawa Canada, these awards are the first in a "Unfortunately," noted Mr. Stecura Mr. Tyshovnytsky is a member of the Horodecky and the late Hnat series the council plans to grant every "there still are some people whose ideas Financial Executive's Institute, Horodecky from Los Angeles. Mrs. two years. This year, they received 135 regarding log or wooden churches are American Management Association Tyshovnytsky is also an avid supporter submissions - all from Canadian very primitive. Unbelievably they still and the North American Society of of The Ukrainian Museum and is a architects practicing in Canada whose regard such churches as a 'poor man's Corporate Planners. member of the Ukrainian National projects built in the past five years, church.' The aspect of character, mood Despite a busy business schedule, M r. Women's League of America, Branch incorporated wood in a significant way, or esthetic value does not seem to have Tyshovnytsky is a strong Ukrainian 15, in Stamford. The Tyshovnytskys either in construction or in finishing. impact." community activist, especially in have one son, Danylo, and live in the Mr. Stecura won one of 14 awards Mr. Stecura became interested in support of The Ukrainian Museum in Riverside borough of Greenwich, presented by the council. Ukrainian wooden structures while an New York City, where he is a member of Conn. A native of Lviv, the Missisauga, undergraduate at the University of Ont., architect said the church was Toronto School of Architecture. He is designed to reflect traditional forms of presently designing two more log Weightlifter wins gold don't know what it would be like if I village churches in the Hutsul region churches and has plans for an open-air weren4." and to commemorate the millennium of chapel at a home for the aged. It took JERSEY CITY. N.J. - Weightlifter In preparation for the Olympic Christianity there as well as the four years to design and build the prized Arn Kritsky, who placed ninth in his games, the 22-year-old reduced his centennial of the Ukrainian pioneers in church. division during the XXIII Olympiad, college course load to six credits. Now Saskatchewan. recently won a gold medal in the United he is taking 16 hours at George Mason According to Mr. Stecura, wood was Mr. Stecura designed the El Prado States Weightlifting Federation's College near his home in Vienna, Va. chosen for the prize-winning church in Reception Hall and Restaurant, the America's Cup IV international meet in "But I'm just now beginning to be order to maintain the character of Mississauga Atrium office/retail build­ Allentown, Pa. good," said Mr. Kritsky. He he Ukrainian village churches, because its ing, the Ivan Franko Home for the has not yet developed his full potential, appearance was well suited for the Aged and senior citizens'apartments in The American weightlifting team mostly because he does not devote his environment and it was an easy and Mississauga. consisted of 10 men; one from each life to the sport as many successful weight class, starting at 114 pounds weightlifters. through 242 pounds. Mr. Kritsky plans to follow a family Mr. Kritsky, whose team finished tradition and enter the business world second to Canada, won with a 125 kg after graduation. "The quest of different snatch and a 172.5 clean-and-jerk in the simultaneous goals sometimes results in 82.5 kg (181.75 lbs.) class, a bit of a struggle in maintaining a class. balance," he said. "I don't know what it would be like He is uncertain about the possibilities not to lift," he was noted as saying. "I've of competing in the 1988 Olympics. "I'm spent most of my adult life lifting. It's just taking it one day at a time. I can't been such a big part of my routine that I say definitely now."

St. Volodymyr's Church in Pike Lake, Sask., the design of architect Ihor Stecura.

of prefabricated storage buildings with Appointed vice-president manufacturing facilities in New Jersey, Illinois and California. POMPTON PLAINS, N.J. - As chief financial officer, Mr. Arrow Group Industries here recently Tyshovnytsky will direct all corporate announced the appointment of Alex G. finance operations including Tyshovnytsky as vice-president and accounting, treasury, tax, management chief financial officer, Arrow Group information systems and strategic Industries is the world's leading maker planning. In addition, he will be responsible for corporate merger and acquisition activities in support of Arrow's planned diversification into new business areas. In his new position, Mr. Tyshovnytsky will report to A. Richard Scala, president and chief executive officer. Mr. Tyshovnytsky joined Arrow from the Xerox Corp. after 14 years of service, during which he held several senior management positions within both the domestic and international operating divisions. Most recently, Mr. Tyshovnytsky directed corporate planning at Xerox's headquarters in Stamford, Conn. to this assignment, Mr. Tyshovnytsky was financial manager for Latin American operations, and had Qb db a major role in restructuring Xerox's business investments in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Mr. Tyshovnytsky graduated with a B.S. from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. He also received an Alex G. Tyshovnytsky M.A. from the University of Rochester. Arn Kritsky lifts 135 kg at the America's Cup international meet. ` 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1985 No. 3

Metropolitan Sheptytsky... Servant of God Andrew's death Servant of God Andrew of Lviv has focused (Continued from page 7) exclusively on his ecumenical activity, which numerous Jews, especially children, found refuge in In 1944, the Soviet Army occupied Galicia again, constituted a small part of the work of this this second time to stay until today. The metropolitan indefatigable apostle of unity. Nothing was said about monasteries. Rabbi David Kahane estimated that 300 and the Ukrainian Church were left unmolested for the tn--.,400 children were hidden and rescued. his personal virtues, his limitless kindness to the many time being, probably because of the great veneration in who knocked on his door, his humility, his patience, Metropolitan Andrew himself had a number of Jews which he was held by the entire population. He had in disguise hidden at his palace. One of them. Rabbi his ascetic lifestyle and the willingness to suffer shown taken care to have the pope appoint as his coadjutor in the paralysis of his legs for nearly two decades. Dr. David Kahane, a witness in the canonization with the right of succession Msgr. Josyf Slipyj, whom process of Metropolitan Andrew, in moving terms he consecrated bishop in secret during the first Soviet Those who met him in person, and the faithful at described his experience of being the guest of occupation in 1939. large, had no doubt that they had been in the presence Metropolitan Andrew in these trying circumstances. of a , who was also very human. At the request of Some of the Jews who were saved by Metropolitan Surrounded by a few persons, among whom was his the Ukrainian bishops in the free world, the process of Sheptytsky, and who became aware of this fact much Clement, the archma'ndrite of the Studites, he canonization was begun in Rome in I955,and after the later only by coincidence when they met in freedom, died on November I, I944. The next spring, the entire prescribed investigation had been completed, the first submitted a request to the authorities of Israel to Ukrainian Catholic hierarchy, numerous priests, step toward the public recognition as a saint was. confer upon him the title of "Righteous One." religious and laity were arrested, tried, condemned reached when the title of "servant of God" was Metropolitan Sheptytsky`s genuine, all- and deported. conferred upon him. encompassing love and Christian charily made a deep In I963. at the intervention of Pope John XXIII and impression upon the Ukrainian Orthodox President John F. Kennedy. Metropolitan Slipyj. by Msgr. Basil Meeking of the Papal Secretariat for intelligentsia who had an opportunity to meet him then 7I `years old, was permitted to leave the Soviet the Unity of Christians in Rome was present at the when he was freed from confinement in Russia. When Union after 18 years of incarceration and Soviet hard assembly of the worldwide Ecumenical Council of in 1918 the Orthodox of Ukraine decided to separate labor. He took up residence in Rome and became the Churches held in Vancouver, B.C., in July-August from the Russian Patriarchate and form their own father and head of the autonomous Ukrainian 1983. In a press interview, he summarized the way in Church, some influential men suggested that he be Catholic Major Archepiscopate. He spent his years of which the Catholic Church of Rome now views the elected first patriarch. He could only accept this freedom striving to attain from the Holy See the goal of ecumenical endeavors. The Catholic Church, responsibility if the Orthodox Church would have recognition of a patriarchate in the Ukrainian he said, does not see the unity of Christians in terms of declared itself for union with the Holy See of Rome. Catholic Church. These expectations were not realized a "return into the fold of the Catholic Church" but in The same proposal was revived after the Germans had at the time of his death on September 6, 1984. terms of "a convergence of all Christians in Christ." forced the Russian Communists out of Ukraine in The future St. Andrew Sheptytsky can rejoice in the 1942, but Sheptytsky assured the alarmed Orthodox Sheptytsky`s canonization bliss of heaven in the knowledge that the Church has bishops that he had no intention of becoming a officially accepted his rationale and model of candidate for patriarch in Kiev. This short enumeration of the undertakings of ecumenism.

referred to as "a formation of a most pronounced form, it is claimed, anti-religious journal printed excerpts Clandestine Catholic...sectaria n type." this combination expresses itself in the from a letter written by an atheist (Continued from page 2) One Soviet author speaks of the "Neo-Uniate faith," the so-called propagandist in Ukraine: anti-religious campaigns of the Uniate Repentants as "a mere handful" Repentants movement. "If you knew how difficult it is for us Bolsheviks, an "eschatological mood" of believers, but the situation is The Chronicle points out that the atheists in Ukraine, і have been engaged and a craving for religious revival apparently not as simple as that. Ukrainian Catholic Church is still very in grassroots propaganda of Soviet rites manifested themselves among a certain According to other Soviet sources, in strongly entrenched in Transcarpathian for many years, I have turned over section of believers. took ^ the early 1960s the activities of the Ukraine: mountains of literature; 1 think a great place to "holy places," where miracles Repentants spread to at least three "In the last three years alone, 81 deal and I observe a great deal; I have were said to have taken place (for oblasts in western Ukraine — the Ivano- Catholic priests have been ordained in spent hours where religious rites are example, in the village of Kalinovka Frankivske, the Transcarpathian and the Carpathian region, nine of them performed in churches. How far the near in 1923). the Lviv oblasts. In 1973, an anti- having a secondary technical education, official figures diverge from the rea­ Ten years ago, the journal Liudyna і religious journal triumphantly the rest a higher education. In lity." Svittook up the subject of rumors of the announced that "about 100 people have Transcarpathia there exists an The increase in religious observance "revival of icons" in certain villages in left the Repentants sect." In September underground three-year monastery among, the population of Western the western Ukraine. People were ready 1984, however, G. Bondarovsky, the school at which young men and girls are Ukraine can to some extent be to take sick relations and friends to first secretary of the Transcarpathian taught the basics of Christian doctrine." attributed to the effect on Soviet society places where there were said to have Oblast Party Committee, considered it The Russian religious writer Anatoliy of events in Poland. An indication of been appearances. The top Church worth mentioning that just one woman Levitin-Krasnov claimed in 1974 that this is to be found in the first issue of the authority (the office of the in a village in his oblast "had broken "in Lviv alone 80 Uniate priests are Chronicle. The commandant of Metropolitan of Lviv) drew up a report with the Repentants sect." According to functioning almost openly, conducting concentration camp No. VL-315/30 in on the subject. the Chronicle, the KGB has begun to services and religious rite? in their own Lviv, Col. V. Povshenko, is quoted as It is very difficult to decide whether circulate rumors that the Repentants homes." From Soviet sources it is telling the imprisoned Catholic priest, the Repentants are a sect in the sense are "a new sect" with the object of known that between 1975 and 1980 the Rev. Potochniak, that "there are that they constitute a religious "discrediting the Ukrainian Catholic frontier troops in the Transcarpathian orders how to deal with Ukrainian organization that is in opposition to the Church." Oblast confiscated 10,367 copies of Catholics...We are authorized to place "dominant" (in this case, the Ukrainian religious publications religious objects, in punishment cells all Catholics up to Catholic) Church, because there are Millennium preparations religious tape recordings and other the age of 90 for failure to fulfill norms," insufficient data on them and no socio­ items. and adding: "We are not going to toler­ logical studies have been made that There can be no doubt that national Since the Transcarpathian Oblast ate a Poland here." According to the would enable this religious movement and religious questions pose a was from 1918 until 1945 a part of Chronicle, the camp in question houses to be classified. particular problem for Soviet Czechoslovakia and there are at the 300 Catholics, 39 Orthodox, 29 The Soviet media pay considerable ideologists in connection with the present time some tens of thousands of Baptists, 15 Jehovah's Witnesses, and attention to the Uniate Repentants. A preparations for the celebration of the Ukrainians living in eastern Slovakia, five Seventh Day Adventists. number of articles about them have 1,000th anniversary of the adoption of the links, including family links, are The possibility of the Polish example appeared in the journals Nauka і Christianity in Rus`. Expressions of dis­ fairly strong. There can be no doubt of fighting for human and national Religiya and Liudyna і Svit, they have satisfaction with the present situation that the legalization of the Greek rights spreading to neighboring been dealt with at some length in are frequently to be heard: Catholic (Uniate) Church in Ukraine alarms Soviet ideologists. The various anti-religious publications, and "Resolution of the national question Czechoslovakia in 1968 (it had been Ukrainian media frequently link there have even been monographs on in our country requires, on the one dissolved in 1950) has had a very the events in Poland with the activities the subject. In publications designed for hand, thorough scientific studies of positive influence on the Catholic of Pope John Paul II and with political the mass reader, the Uniate Repentants national processes in order to draw up a Church in western Ukraine. It is circles in the Ukrainian emigration. are portrayed as a sect. They are correct party and state policy in the field probably for this very reason that there Criticizing the pope's "tactics," one claimed to be fanatics whose religious of relations between peoples at a is close collaboration on questions of Soviet author asserts that the Catholic prejudices are tightly bound up with specific period and, on the other, critical atheist education between the Church leadership is seeking "to nationalism and who try to hold assessment of anti-scientific concepts of department of Marxism-Leninism of strengthen clerical positions in the themselves up as the sole defenders of nations and national relations." Uzhhorod University and the countries of socialism" and trying "to Ukrainian national traditions. In There is anxiety that, particularly in department of scientific atheism of Catholicize the Slav peoples." It is also studies not intended for a wide Ukraine, religious arid national Kosice University. claimed that a certain role was played in readership, the Uniate Repentants are sentiments are closely intertwined. In its events in Poland by "Ukrainian bour­ Believers in Ukraine geois nationalists" in the West, who Soviet sources state that Ukraine is tried to enlist "the Ukrainian ethnic the part of the Soviet Union with the group fin Poland! which numbers largest proportion of believers in its about 300,000, in counterrevolutionary population, and in the western oblasts attacks on socialism in the Polish The Ukrainian Weekly: the proportion is twice that in the rest of People's Republic." the republic. Almost half of all the A study of the first three issues of the a 50-year tradition of news and features sectarian associations in the Soviet Chronicle of the Catholic Church in the Union are in Ukraine. The number of Ukraine testifies to a revitalization of Baptist and Advenlist congregations the human-rights movement in Ukraine there is also growing. Recently, a Soviet inspired by Ukrainian Catholics. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 20,1985 13

ways foreigners. Still more. In conclusion. I would like to ask all (Continued from page 5) Carpatho-Russians and Ruthenians to THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY we become Ukrainians. go and visit the land of your In the old Country we were all grandparents, instead of visiting We cover it all. Ukrainians. When I returned to the England, France, Italy and Israel - United States. I found out that I really there's nothing there for you but Can you afford not to subscribe? am a Ukrainian or a Rusnak, a Russian ignorance. But the land of your parents or aCarpatho-Russian. or a Ruthenian. and grandparents holds an endless I would like to subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly What really used to tick me off in my source of self-enlightenment. Do not for year(s).(Subscription rates S5 per year for UNA`memberb S8 early days back in the United States was allow the politicians and bishops to tell for non-members). that when 1 would run into Russians. 1 you who you are. If it wasn't for our My name is would ask them if they spoke Russian; two-bit politicians and bishops in the I belong to UNA Branch: their answer would be yes. My next service of foreigners, we would have our Address -„ „ words would be: "ochen kharosho. own and independent nation right now. City , 1 budiem gavaril pa Rusky." Invariably instead of all this di\i::ivcness. Rt. State: JZ. their response would be that they spoke member. a song is a people's history. Zip code: low Russian or Carpatho-Russian. I Recall the songs your "dido and babtsia" would begin, "dobri. budeme used to sing? They were about poor GIFT SUBSCRIPTION people and rich "pans": about Ko/aks, besiduvaty tak yak nashi rodychi In addition I would like to give a friend one year's subscription to Kozachenky and Ukraina; about our bestduyit?" Now that language they The Ukrainian Weekly voung people serving the tsisar. etc. In understood, which would lead us into His-'her name is: . -. our churches we sing "Bo/he Vcjykyi" our ethnic discussions. Two ot my Address , , friends one a Carpatho-Russian. the and our motto is "Boh z N'amy."When I attend Ruthenian-Zakarpatska-Car- City: . , . other a Slovak - went to visit their State folks' villages near Medzilaborci and patho-Russian church services and socials 1 am one of them and they're my Zip code. the Humenne area of Czechoslovakia, I enclose a check tor S . another area of Ukraine given to a kind. We can sing those old country foreign people by the Yalta Treaty; songs that our forefathers brought with When they returned, they did admit that them from the old country. Should THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY their relatives claimed to be Ukrainians, someone call me a Carpatho-Russian. 30 Montgomery Street " Jersey City. N J 07302 but my friends still remain Carpatho- that person receives a friendly rebuttal Russian and Slovak, respectively. But And when we part company we part as when an argument arises on the subject "nashi" friends - I as a Ukrainian and of Russia and Carpatho-Russia, they do they as what they wish. But next time we not hesitate to point out that people meet it's always "yak tarn kolo vas?" there are Ukrainian and that's Followed by some "horivka" and back Ukrainian land. to some good old country singing. UKRAINE: Also, back in Pennsylvania, when our old folks would get together and So to all of you perfect Ukrainians, conversation would center on our Rusnaks and Ruthenians: I'm "vash." A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA people, we would always be "nashi z and you're "nashi." hir," or "nashi z Ukrainy." But others Alex Kachmar were, as I have mentioned before, al­ Sacramento, Calif. Volume I and II The First Volume: General Information, Physical region, your feedback and input are From the Shores... indispensable. Please send questions, Geography and Natural History, Population, Ethno­ (Continued from page 8) comments, contributions, and graphy, Ukrainian Language, History of Ukraine, Exchange magazine, published by the suggestions to: Chytalnia, P.O. Box Ukrainian Culture, and Ukrainian Literature. Farmer's Insurance Group, features a 3232, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106. w e-11 - re search є й' beau t"iTu П у Price: S75.00 photographed article titled "A Ukrainian Christmas" by Janice Kelley. Author Malarek... 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S 10.00 Ukrainian educational institutions in World" festivity held at the Ukrainian The only truly beginners Grammar published so far. the United States continue to hold Institute in December, Lydia Savoyka If it is not available in your local Ukrainian store, send Sll 50 (Canadian — S12.00 in American scholarly meetings, host conferences, headed the planning committee, which Funds) (price includes postage and packing envelope) to: and publish books and pamphlets. 1 included Marvin Schrank, Christina Martha Wichorek, 13814 Vassar Dr.. Detroit. Mich. 48235 refer to the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, located at 206 W. 100th Baranetsky, Lubomyr Kuzmak and St.. and the Shevchenko Scientific Juliana Osinchuk. The evening's Society, well established in its new Ukrainian program was coordinated by FUNNY TEARS quarters at 64 Fourth Ave., one block Oksana Kuzmak, with Miss Osinchuk north of the Cooper Union. and Eric Kuzmuk serving as emcees. a collection of short stories The academy, headed by president " That dramatic shot of the setting by MYKOLA PONEDILOK George Shevelov is continuing its series sun and a bird with outstretched wings of lectures on Ukraine's historic cities against the Manhattan skyline shown in with a cycle of talks on , and the January 6 Panorama, symbolized in English translation from the original Ukrainian. peace on earth to New York (lustrations by EKO (Edward Kozak) and Halyna Mazepa. recently hosted a Sunday afternoon seminar featuring reminiscences of life photographer Roman Iwasiwka. The To order send Я0.0О plus Я.0О postage to: in Kharkiv by Lubov Drashevska and photo was taken from Roosevelt Island Oksana Solovey. as the sun went down behind the Svoboda Book Store Chrysler building in mid-Manhattan, 30 Montgomery St. The Shevchenko Society, with Dr. creating a burst of light resembling a Jaroslaw Padoch at the helm, held a huge star. The bird happened to be Jersey City, N. J. 07302 meeting of its Terminological (New Jersey residents add 6" sales tit) flying nearby and Mr. Iwasiwska waited Commission on December 1. Papers for it to get into picture range before were presented by Maria Owcharenko, snapping the shutter. Anatole Wowk and Mykhailo Pezansky. 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March dates Wolodymyr Stojko of Manhattan will spotlight soprano Marta Kokolska- College discussed papers presented by Musijtchuk and the I Trii trio of Joseph (201) 451-2200 Ihor Kamenetsky, Central Michigan University, Orest Subtelny, York Barwinsky, Mr. Hrynkiw and Mr. University, and Taras Hunczak, Cybriwsky. Rutgers University. Stephen M. Horak " Two debutante presentations come of Eastern Illinois University chaired up in February. Chervona Kalyna's the session, which was sponsored by the Vechernytsi, held for many years in ADVERTISING RATES Shevchenko Society. An exhibit of Manhattan, is slated this year for Ukrainian" and English-language February 16 at the Loew's Glenpointe SVOBODA UKRAINIAN-LANGUAGE DAILY books published by the Shevchenko Hotel in Teaneck, N.J.,a hop and a skip Society was on display for the from the George Washington Bridge. convention's 2,000 registrants to Chicago Lyric Opera bass Stefan AND THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY examine. 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was of Italian origin and had a Recollections... Ukrainian wife. He promised to attend (Continued from page 5) to the roads in the colonies and rye, buckwheat, mint, sunflowers, castor welcomed us back again, but to be sure УКРАЇНСЬКЕ БЮРО bush, as well as coffee and cocoa. Some to inform the Parana government ПОДОРОЖЕЙ settlers have made beekeeping popular before our arrival. Марійки Гепьбіґ in Brazil and have also developed a new The Rev. Cembalista was the emcee, species of fruit trees by grafting and and the Rev. Pedro Baltzar was the cross-breeding. Other farmers afso raise main speaker and reviewed the past and 1985 ТУРИ В УКРАЇНУ 1985 cattle, poultry and hogs for their own present life of Ukrainians in the use and for sale at the local market. province of Parana. He was familiar Unfortunately, this year, there was no with Canada and the United States and rain in the colonies for the last two extended greetings to his many friends. months. Other speakers on the program were: At present, about 8 percent of the Peter Bokalo of New Jersey, Maria Ukrainian population have received a Komarnycky of Toronto, Daria Husar higher education after getting out of the of Weston, Ont., and Dr. AT. Wachna jungle and became engineers, doctors, of Windsor. pharmacists, optometrists and In thanking them for the warm agronomists, as well as businessmen and welcome and hospitality, we realized small manufacturers. Gradually, some that all the many packages and are getting government jobs at federal, monetary help Was put to good use. We state and municipal levels. This is very promised to continue to provide the encouraging, as there are really too candles, while they provide the "light," many government restrictions, such as and educate the boys and girls in not allowing a Ukrainian radio Ukrainian religion and culture. program on Sunday. When 1 presented a few books on the "Wachna Story" in English, "Look Visiting seminaries Who's Coming." illustrated by William Kurelek (whom they knew), they all After having lunch at the College of wanted another copy the next day. They St. Olga, we were off again to the senior were impressed with Kurelek`s pictures seminary 20 miles south of and wanted to practice reading English. Prudentopolis. Here we found the finest religious establishment with modern buildings and acres of well-kept Early immigration gardens, beautiful flowers, rare trees, colorful parrots, and a distant farm with Early Ukrainian immigration to 50 pigs and 12 cows attended to by a Brazil dates back to 1895 when Prof. married couple. Joseph Oleskow, an agronomist from The student seminarians - 120 in all Lviv, son of a priest, made his maiden - were healthy-looking, polite and voyage to Brazil, the United States and hospitable. They enjoyed this interlude Canada. On his return, he told the talking to the ladies. The mountainous U krainian peasants under the tsarist op­ background and beautiful valley was pression that Brazil offered free lands, awe-inspiring and as lovely as any in the United States had work in the coal North America. mines, while Canada provided a home­ That evening we attended a liturgy in stead, 160 acres, for SI0. our honor at the impressive St. Prof. Oleskow knew about the yellow Josaphat Church, which the teachers fever at that time and the snakes in the call "our iialka." jungle plateau in Parana. He also Sleeping at Hotel Lopes in warned them about the cold winters in Prudentopolis wasn't bad,except for the Canada at times and the hard labor in early morning awakening by the America. Many Ukrainians in Brazil crowing roosters, barking dogs and living in the jungle called it "The mosquitos. - Grave.`""Some who could not tolerate The next day we visited the junior such a life went back home to Europe, seminary and the new school for both or to the United States and Canada. Portuguese and Ukrainian orphans, Those who refused to work were shot, which was a great tribute to the according to Prof. Oleskow. Ukrainians in Prudentopolis. By this time Olga Korczagin, principal of the As the years went by. many left the teachers, located the relatives of Charlie colonies in search of a better life Bihayko' of Buffalo and took him to of endeavor. One of these distinguished visit them. Miss Korczagin had just individuals is Dr. Alphonso Antoniuk. returned from Munich, and was most who is a reputable neurosurgeon, and informative and knowledgeable about has two assistants trained in the Univer­ current world situations. sity Hospital in London, Ont. After lunch there was time for taking At the same time we are indebted to pictures and 1 had the pleasure of taking Methodius Groxho, who used to live in a picture of two young students, who the colonies but now works for the were recipients of the scholarship Department of Agriculture, has a car stipends to further their education and also a bee colony. sponsored by the Canadian Ukrainian ,ln the end, the departure was sad. Business and Professional Association especially when so many of the priests of Windsor. The two boys amazed me and the students came to the airport to with their personalities, and how bid us farewell. We were given a recent sharply they were dressed in their blue publication of the weekly paper, called suits. Their supervisor was the Rev. Pratsia (Work), and I was reminded of Dionisio Lachovicz. what Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese pool. The community reception was next said about work, which was so on the busy schedule, with a banquet at applicable to the nice people we met, the new national home. The special with their accomplishments and their guest was the minister of highways, who love: "Work is love made visible."

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January 27. by county legislators in the Ukrainian Independence Day legislative chambers. Ukrainian American Veterans Post Manville, NJ. 19 in Spring Valley is organizing the PREVIEW OF EVENTS commemorative events. Monday, January 21 Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will hold MANV1LLE. NJ. - The Ukrainian its second annual winter dance Ц National Women's League of America. JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior. at St. George's Greek Social Center, | Branch 92, together with the local Rochester, N.Y. College will hold a Computer Fair at 301 W. Main St. A performance by f community, will commemorate the 67th ROCHESTER. N.Y. - The Ukrai­ 1 -4 p.m. and again at 6:30-9:30 p.m. the Zoria dancers, beginning at 8:30 1 anniversary of Ukrainian Independence nian American community in Rochester The afternoon session will include a p.m., will be followed by dancing to I Day at 9 a.m. on January 22. with a flag- will commemorate the 67th anniversary free demonstration of the latest the music of The Enchanting Eyes g raising ceremonv at Manville Town of Ukraine's independence on three computer equipment. The evening until 1 a.m. For tickets or g Hall. separate occasions. session will include a demonstration information contact Mike Wowk at I On Friday, January 25, a reading of and workshop led by J. Scott (203) 827-8600. the Ukrainian Day Proclamation will O'Gorman of Pilgrim's Pride, Binghamton, N.Y. take place at City Hall. Hatboro, Pa. Registration and a S10 Sunday, January 27 I B1NGHAMTON, N.Y. - Bing­ On Saturday, January 26, the ope­ fee for the evening program may be WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian in 1 hamton area residents will commemo­ retta "Zaporozhian Ko`zaks" will be mailed to Manor Junior College, English Series Committee will і rate Ukrainian independence Day on presented by the Dnipro choir of Sud- Office of Continuing Education, Fox sponsor a lecture titled "Christianity | January 22 with flag-raising ceremonies bury, Ont., and the Veselka dance Chase Road and Forrest Avenue, in Contemporary Ukraine" by Prof. in Johnson City at 9 a.m. and at ensemble at 7 p.m. in the Eastridge High Jenkintown, Pa. 19046. For more Bohdan Bociurkiw at 11 a.m. in the Binghamton City Hall at 10 a.m. A School auditorium. information, call (215) 884-2218 or Parish Center of the Ukrainian cultural program will follow the Bing­ On Sunday, January 27, area churches 884-2219. Catholic Shrine of the , hamton ceremony. will celebrate masses in honor of the 4250 Harewood Road, NE. Prof. A concert will take place at St. John's Ukrainian nation. Tuesday, January 22 Bociurkiw, a political scientist from Ukrainian Memorial Center in Johnson Carleton University in Ottawa, is City at 6:30 p.m., featuring the St. John New Britain, Conn. JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior currently a Fellow at the Woodrow the Baptist Ukrainian Orthodox Church College will hold a mini-workshop Wilson International Center for Choir and the Nezabudky Dancers of NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - The New for adults who have never attended Scholars in Washington. The the Ukrainian Catholic Britain Ukrainian community will mark college or are thinking about presentation is free and open to the Church. Dr. James Mace of the Har­ the 67th anniversary of Ukrainian enrolling, at 6-9 p.m. Sharon public. For more information, please vard Ukrainian Research Institute will independence with a concert featuring Marion, continuing, education call Marta Pereyma at (703) 528- be the keynote speaker. the combined choirs of St. Mary's representative at Manor, will lead 3075. Ukrainian Orthodox Church and St. discussions on topics such as financial aid, how to get the most for RIVERHEAD, N.Y.: The public is Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Church invited to attend the annual meeting Spring Valley, N.Y. at the American Ukrainian Citizens your money, easing the transition, learning the ropes, and will explore and turkey dinner of Branch 256 of SPRING VALLEY. N.Y. - The Club, 35 Oak St., at 3 p.m. on Sunday, the Ukrainian National Association. January 27. the issues that are unique to adult Ukrainian community in Rockland college students. Registration for the The annual meeting" will be held at County, N.Y., will commemorate the New Britain Mayor William McNa- workshop may be done by writing or 3:30 p.m. in the hall of St. John the 67th anniversary of Ukrainian indepen­ mara will read an independence day visiting the Office of Continuing Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church dence with a flag-raising ceremony at proclamation and the public is cordially Education at Fox Chase Road and on Franklin Street. A turkey dinner the county court complex on Tuesday, invited. Forrest Avenue. Fee: S5. For more will follow at 5 p.m. Tickets for the January 22. For more information, please contact information, call (215) 884-2218 or dinner are S4.50 for adult UNA The proclamation designating Michael Mowchan at 50 Hawley St., 884-2219. members; S5 for non-members; S3.50 January 22 as Ukrainian Independence Newington, Conn. 06111: (203) 666- for teenagers; free for children age 12 Day will be read at noon on Sunday, 2068. and under. Tickets must be Friday through Sunday, January 25- purchased by January 25; call (516) 27 298-8063. Syracuse U. students plan fund-raiser HAMTRAMCK, Mich.: A winter PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing carnival featuring Ukrainian foods of Ukrainian community events open Ц SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Luke Admission is S7 for adults, S6 for to the public, is a service provided I Myshuha Ukrainian Students Club at students. and entertainment will be held at the Immaculate Conception Ukrainian free of charge by The Weekly to the Ц Syracuse University will sponsor a Students who live in the area will take Ukrainian community. To have an 6 dance to help raise money to support care of overnight stays for guests from Catholic High School, McDougal at Commor. More than 150 dolls in event listed in this column, please |f the Ukrainian studies program at the beyond Syracuse. With respect to send information (type of event, 1 university. overnight stays, or any other questions Ukrainian costumes will be given away during the carnival, which is date, time, place, admission, spon- | The program, which is celebrating its concerning the dance, please write to sor, etc.), along with the phone І 25th year, includes beginning, Theodore Kusio, 735 Ostrom Ave., sponsored by several local parishes and school groups. There will be number of a person who may be Ц intermediate and advanced-level Syracuse, N.Y. 13210, or call (315)425- reached during daytime hours for : courses in Ukrainian languages and 6273. dancing, games of chance, gambling, raffles and a white elephant sale. additional information, to: PRE- Щ literatures. Prof. Jacob P. Hursky has VIEW OF EVENTS, The Ukrainian 1 taught these courses since their Entertainment will be provided by Oregon Ukrainians the Echoes of Ukraine Orchestra, the Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey a conception back in 1959. To help the City, NJ. 07302. program grow and keep its high Halychany Orchestra, the Friendly academic standards, financial help is to hold meeting Persuasion, the Coachmen and PLEASE NOTE: Preview items I needed. For this reason, all profits from SALEM, Ore. - The Oregon Ukrai­ Blackgold the Magician. Carnival must be received one week before І the dance will benefit the program of nian Association will hold a meeting in hours: Friday, 6-11 p.m.; Saturday, desired date of publication. No Ц Ukrainian studies. February and is currently contacting 3-11 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 10 p.m. information will be taken over the ч Also, this year the Ukrainian Club is past members and recruiting new mem­ For more information, call (313) 977- phone. Preview items will be publish" g celebrating its 30th year as a club for bers. Although the date, time and place 8582. ed only once (please note desired date Ц Ukrainian students attending Syracuse have not yet been determined, the asso­ of publication). All items are publish" й Un:\ersity and other nearby schools. ciation has begun a letter-writing cam­ ed at the discretion of the editorial I The dance will be held at the paign to organize the meeting for the staff and in accordance with available 1 Uk ainian National Home, 1317 W. election of new officers. space. Fa\-tte St., Syracuse, N.Y., on Anyone interested inattendingshould Saturday, February 2, at 9 p.m. The contact Steve Franco in Portland, Ore., local band Chervona Ruta will play at (503) 230-9090 or 255-5322. HURI seminar schedule announced CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Har­ Closer Look." vard Ukrainian seminar series, held e February 21: James W. Crowl, NOTICE Thursdays at 4 p.m. at the Ukrainian assistant professor of history and Research Institute has announced a government, Longwood College - THE SVOBODA PRESS ADMINISTRATION schedule of speakers and the topics to be "Concealing the Famine of 1932-33: delivered through February 28. The The Role of Walter Duranty, Louis hereby informs all organizations and individuals that the administration lectures are free of charge and the public Fischer and the Foreign Press in Mos­ will not accept any advertisements is cordially invited. cow." ' January 31: Volodymyr Mezcntzev, " February 28: Peter Fedynsky, HURI post-doctoral fellow - "The international radio broadcaster. Voice Early History of Rus` in Light of of America - "information Media in if previous bills are not paid. Archcoiogical Research." the USSR and Soviet Ukraine: Л ' February 7: Patricia Grimsted, Journalist's Impressions." HURI research associate - "Archival Dr. James Mace, a HURI research ш Individuals letters concerning unpaid bills will not be sent. Resources in the Ukrainian SSR." associate, will preside at each seminar. m All bills must be paid within 15 days after the publication of an advertisement e February 14: Maxim Tarnawsky, Updated information on the seminar graduate student in comparative litera­ schedule may be obtained by calling ture - "Pidmohylnyj's 'Vanya`: A Brenda Sens at (617) 495-4053.