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Vol. LVII No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1989 50 cents National democratic movements' Ukrainian Catholic delegation representatives meet in Estonia stages hunger Strike ІП MOSCOW

NEW YORK - A meeting of 100 According to Tunne Kelam of the MOSCOW - A delegation of Ukrai­ from Ivano-Frankivske told Reuters on leaders of national democratic and Estonian National Independence Party, nian Catholic bishops and clergy will Tuesday, May 16. His group's visit was independence movements in the Soviet the fact that such a "radical"group was continue a hunger strike until it is granted timed to raise the issue prior to the Union and the Soviet-occupied Baltic not only given official permission to a meeting with the Soviet leadership to opening later this month,; of the new states was held in Estonia on April 30 to meet but also was not interfered with is discuss the legalization of the Ukrainian Congress of People's Deputies. They May 1, reported the Estonian American "a first for the Soviet Union." Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Hel­ had been told that they would be met by National Council (EANC). Seven non- The first day was spent exchanging sinki Union's press service, based in a senior government official on Wed­ Soviet flags - (Estonian, Latvian, information about recent events in the Moscow, reported on Thursday, May nesday, May 17. Lithuanian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, various occupied nations as well as the 18. For full text of the appeal to Soviet Georgian and Armenian - were flown status of the non-Russian minorities. It According to reports from Moscow, leader Mikhail Gorbachev, see page at the Loodi manor south of Viljandi. became clear that perestroika has Bishops Pavlo Vasylyk, Filemon Kur- 7. Also in attendance were Crimean brought no major improvements for chaba and Sofron Dmyterko, as well as' Tatars, an Azerbaidzhani Popular any of these. priests, the Revs. Mykola Simkailo, Wednesday passed, and no such Front representative, a correspondent The Ukrainians reported that their Volodymyr Viytyshyn and Ihor Voz- meeting occurred. It was then that the of Moscow's Glasnost magazine and a situation is as difficult as before, even niak, arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, clerics decided to stage the hunger strike Russian Youth Democratic Union repre­ tragic, without any amelioration in the May 16, with a petition to legalize the in the reception room of the Supreme sentative. About 60 of the participants language and culture situation. In fact, Church which was banned in 1946 after Soviet building. They were then pro­ came from outside of Estonia, the rest local authorities seem most concerned a "pseudo-synod" in Lviv and "reunited'' mised a meeting on Thursday morning were from Estonia. Several of the about not hurting the feelings of the with the Russian Orthodox Church. in the offices of the Presidium of the participants represented political par­ Russian-speaking population in U- "We have not come begging, only to Supreme Soviet, the highest state body. ties created as opposition to the Com­ kraine. demand the return of what was taken They left the reception area, but vowed munist Party. (Continued on page 10) away from us in 1946," Bishop Vasylyk to continue the hunger strike until they meet with either Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev or Deputy Chair­ Narodychi: a raion in distress after Cfjornoby/ disaster man of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Anatoly Lukianov. (Continued on page 16) by Dr. David Marples Mr. Lekhtarov claimed that such a in the eastern part of the raion, reported figure could not be correct, but Maka­ that in the backyard near his house the The newspaper of the Narodychi renko declared that not only had this radiation levels were changing regularly Raion Party Committee (Zhytomyr and other figures not been corrected, by entire milliroentgens. "But no one Bishop Borecky ajgain Oblast, Ukrainian SSR), a copy of they had also been delivered at that time says anything about this. What is the which was recently brought to the West to the oblast's civil defense headquarters. point of these stupid conversations that denies resignation by a Soviet visitor, has provided detail­ Such a high level of radiation clearly have been continuing for nearly three ed information about the radiation merited an evacuation of the popula­ years?" M.T. Kobernyk, an assistant JERSEY CITY, N.J. - As The contamination in the raion as a result of tion. What has incensed the local medical officer in the raion, stated Weekly was going to press, it re­ the 1986 disaster at the Chornobyl residents is that no action has been simply: "The point is that, it is not safe ceived a release from the chancery nuclear plant. taken for three years, even though the to live in the raion. So why should we office of the Ukrainian Catholic An article written by M. Ataman- situation was made known to the take risks?" Eparchy of Toronto, regarding the status of Bishop Isidore Borecky of chuk describes a packed and often authorities from the first. Other participants noted that the sick Toronto. Headlined "Bishop Isidore . raucous meeting, convoked on March Citing data from the Center for are not being hospitalized, that there is a Borecky has not resigned" and dated 30 at the House of Culture in Narodychi Radiation Medicine itself, one partici­ "bureaucratic" attitude toward the May 17, the full text of the release to discuss the latest information about pant noted that in the village of Stare medical observation of the population, follows. living conditions. People reportedly Sharne (just north of Narodychi), the that medical test results were not being came from all over the raion to attend level of cesium contamination in the soil provided, and that both the oblast and the meeting. The hall was so full that exceeds 50 curies per square kilometer republican health authorities had many had to listen to the proceedings (the level at which the soil is considered adopted a "passive" attitude to the The Chancery of the Ukrainian through loudspeakers that were placed dangerous to humans is 15 curies per situation. Catholic Eparchy (diocese) of To­ ronto and Eastern Canada today in the corridors. square kilometer). "How can children The deputy chairman of the Na­ released an authoritative statement The meeting was addressed by oblast be expected to live in such conditions?" rodychi Oblast Executive Committee, on various speculative reports in the and raion party and government offi­ asked the man. "They cannot," Mr. H.O. Hotochyts, informed the audience public press concerning the possibi­ cials, by members of the Ukrainian Lekhtarov replied. that "at the request and insistence" of lity that His Grace Bishop Isidore Hydrometerological Committee, and Another person asked why there have the raion and oblast authorities, a may retire. by I.O. Lekhtarov, head of the section been so many contradictory statements decision has been taken in Moscow to for dosimetry and radiation hygiene in the press about the radiation situa­ evacuate those villages now believed to 1. The provisions of Roman Ca­ with the All-Union Center for Radia­ tion. The scientist laid the blame on be unsafe for habitation. The criterion tholic church law regarding the tion Medicine of the USSR Academy of appraisals and prognoses by people for evacuation is that no person should retirement of bishops at the age of 75 Medical Sciences. who are incompetent. ''Well then," be permitted to accrue more than a do not apply to the Eastern Catholic shouted another onlooker, "Can one lifetime dose of 35 rems of radiation. Churches. Hence His Grace Bishop Various questions and statements live in Narodychi Raion or not?" Mr, Taken literally, and excluding those Isidore has no obligation to tender a were apparently shouted from the floor. Lekhtarov responded that in 12 involved in clean-up work or nuclear resignation because of his age. Thus the chairman of the raion's civil villages the radiation background level industry personnel, this indicates an 2. On the advice of recognized defense committee, I.P. Makarenko, presented a serious danger to the annual dose per person of 0.5 rems, church lawyers. Bishop Isidore has testified that on the morning after the population, particularly to children. assuming a 70-year lifespan. Г not tendered any such resignation. accident, April 27, 1986, the radiation 3. It is the most ancient tradition of measurements in Narodychi itself This answer evidently did not satisfy The future of the settlement of Na­ the Eastern Churches that diocesan reached as much as three roentgens per the large audience. Many described rodychi itself is being re-examined, but bishops do not resign, but when they hour, i.e, three times higher than the situations in their villages that they felt Mr. Hotochyts did not feel that the reach more advanced years they may merited more urgent attention. A col­ officially recorded peak averaged out current situation there warranted a (Continued on page 16) for the evacuated 30-kilometer zone. lective farm worker from Khrystynivka, (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989 No. 21 Portrait of a Ukrainiar^ deputy: Congressmen defend Ukrainian rights activists WASHINGTON - Ninety-seven Indiana: Dan Burton (R). writer/physician Yuriy Shcherbak members of the House of Representa­ Kansas: Jan Meyers (R), tives have signed a letter to Soviet leader Maryland: Steny Hoyer (D), Benjamin by Dr. David Marples springs to mind). Dr. Shcherbak's Mikhail Gorbachev calling for a cessa­ Cardin (D), Constance Morella (R), Roy medical career culminated in the receipt tion of punitive measures against Ukrai­ Dyson (D). EDMONTON - One of the surprise of the Order of the Toiling Red Banner, nian activists seeking democratization Massachusetts: Silvio Conte (R), Chester victors in last month's elections to the for his work in combatting cholera in Ukraine. Atkins (D), Barney Frank (D), Brian Donnelly (D). USSR Congress of People's Deputies, epidemics in Central Asia and Ukraine. The letter, sent on April 28,was Michigan: Dennis Hertel (D), William Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, arrived in Ed­ The 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster initiated by the Ukrainian Human Broomfield (R), Vin Weber (R), Paul Henry monton on May 5 as a guest of the was perceived by Dr. Shcherbak as the Rights Committee of Philadelphia and (R), Dale Kildee (D), John Conyers (D), Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Stu­ epochal event in his career. It affected co-sponsored by Reps. Lawrence David Bonior (D). dies. him intensely, provided him with a Couehlin (R-Pa.) and Steny Hoyer (D- Minnesota: Timothy Penny (DFC). Dr. Shcherbak, a physician and mission and simultaneously seems to Md.). (Its full text was published in the New Jersey: Jim Saxton (R), Dean Gallo writer, defeated six other candidates in have made him aware that the signifi­ April 9 issue of The Weekly.) (R), Robert Torricelli (D), Jim Courter (R), one of the most interesting campaigns in cance and the effects of the disaster were Bill Klein, an aide to Rep. Coughlin, Frank Pallone Jr. (D), Christopher Smith Kiev's territorial electoral district No. being, in his view, concealed from the and Orest Deychakiwsky, staff member (R), Robert Roe (D), James Florio (D), Bill Hughes (D), Jim Courter (R), Bernard 469. Soviet public. of the Helsinki Commission, of which Dwyer (D). Subsequently, Dr. Shcherbak pro­ In his book "Chernobyl," Dr. Shcher­ Rep. Hoyer is co-chairman, were instru­ vided a detailed interview for'a Kiev New York: Robert Mrazek (D), Thomas bak has written that: mental in the effort. Manton (D), Major Owens (D), Hamilton newspaper, which revealed his complex "A year isn't a particularly long span Following are the names of the co­ Fish Jr. (R), Edolphus Towns (D), Ray­ personality. Moreover, the dialogue of time even in the life of any person. signers of the letter, listed by state. mond McGrath (R), Louise Slaughter (D), also manifested what has become a But in the course of that year — no, not Bill Green (R), Ted Weiss (D), Ben Gilman distinct feature of Ukrainian society a year, but just a few months - we all (R), Tom Downey (D), James Scheuer (D). today: i.e., that among writers and suddenly matured, grew up by a whole Ohio: Mary Ann Oakar (D), Tony Hall intellectuals in particular, a growing epoch, we became harder and more Alabama: Ben Erdreich (D). (D), Douglas Applegate (D), Donald California: Tony Coehlo (D), Barbara Lukens (R), Edward Feighan (D), Paul Boxer (D), Vic Fazio (D), Mervyn Dymally Gillmor (R), Rob McEwen (R), Ralph (D), Howard Berman (D), Henry Waxman Regula (R). (D), John Lewis (R), Tom Lantos (D), Bill Oklahoma: Dave McCurdy (D), Glenn Lowers (R). English (D). Colorado: Pat Schroeder (D). Pennsylvania: Lawrence Coughlin (R), Connecticut: Bruce Morrison (D), Nancy Thomas Foglietta (D), Don Ritter (R), Curt Johnson (R). Weldon (R), William Gray (D), Joseph Delaware: Thomas Carper (D). McDade (R), Peter Kostmayer (D), William District of Columbia: Walter Fauntroy Clinger Jr. (R), Joe Kolter (D), Thomas (D). Ridge (R), Robert Borski (D), Doug Wal- Florida: Dante Fascell (D). gren (D), Joseph Gaydos (D), Bill Goodling Illinois: John Porter (R), Marty Russo (R), William Coyne (D). (D), William Lipinski (D), Terry Bruce (D), Utah: James Hansen (R). Henry Hyde (R), Richard Durbin (D), Virginia: Frank Wolf (R), Thomas Bliley Cardiss Collins (D), Robert Michel (R). (R).

Ukrainian flags at Moscow protest LONDON - Independent Televi- independent Ukraine) were raised by tion and the British Broadcasting Corp. members of the Ukrainian People's news on April 23 showed new Soviet riot Democratic League. Four Ukrai­ police in their grey uniforms and black nians were arrested, including mem­ berets attacking a demonstration by bers of the Moscow branch of the 3,000 people in Moscow's Pushkin Ukrainian Helsinki Union, one of Square, organized by an opposition whom was Ludmyla Yefremenko, and party, the Democratic Union, to protest two members of the UPDl, Evhen the deaths of demonstrators in Georgia. Chernyshev and Petro Zuev, both of Three Ukrainian national flags were Kiev. Mr. Chernyshev had previously held by members of the Ukrainian been arrested for raising the Ukrainian People's Democratic League, a radical national flag during Mikhail M. Gorba­ pro-independence faction within the chev's visit to Kiev in February. Ukrainian Helsinki Union. In all, three busloads of demonstra­ In all, 47 people were arrested. tors were arrested, including many The demonstrators carried many women. Most of the 3,0(Ю demonstrators Georgian nationalist flags. One Russian were young people. The large number of tsarist flag also was held. Oles Shev- militia and riot police, who used Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak speaks on May 6 at a tree-planting ceremony honoring the chenko, head of the Kiev branch of the "snatch-squad" tactics to arrest the Ukrainian firefighters and first aiders who gave their lives at the time of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, said that the ring-leaders, used violent tactics to try Chornobyl nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. The tree and an accompanying riot police did not move in until the and break up the demonstration and plaque are located in Edmonton's Hawrelak park. three Ukrainian blue and yellow na­ were met with cries of "Shame!" and number of people are seriously dissatis­ exacting both toward ourselves and tional flags (the flag of 1917-1921 "Fascists!" ' ; fied with the state of affairs in politics, toward those who take responsible in the economy, and above all in the decisions, those in whose hands human ecological situation of the republic. To existence and the fate of nature rest." some extent, this is highlighted in a Although Chornobyl may no longer FOUNDED 1933 growing patriotism and feel for the be Dr. Shcherbak's primary concern, he Ulrainian Weekly native language. acknowledges that he is anxious about At the same time, Dr. Shcherbak the future of the damaged reactor block, An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National makes it abundantly clear that he is a which has not yet been resolved. As a Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. believer in the reform of Soviet society deputy, he perceives as one of his tasks 07302. from within, rather than an adherent of the resolution of this problem. political change. But his chief concern at present lies in Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. Dr. Shcherbak, 55, is a graduate of ecological questions and his chairman­ (ISSN - 0273-9348) the Kiev Medical Institute who worked ship of the ecological association linked at the Kiev Scientific Research Institute to the Ukrainian Union of Writers Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - Я0. of Epidemiology and Infectious Di­ called Zelenyi Svit (Green World). Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. seases until 1987. As the interviewer Although the "green" movement is points out, however, when he was prominent internationally, the Ukrai­ The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: defending his candidate's dissertation nian version,at least, was founded as a (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 some two decades ago, his collection of separate organization of scientilic Postmaster, send address stories "As In Wartime" was also being workers and intelligentsia which set changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz published (1966). To date. Dr. Shcher­ itself the goal of ''rescuing life on The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets bak has written nine novels. earth," and, more immediately, en­ P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak He was awarded the Yuriy Yanovsky suring that the spoliation of the Ukrai­ Jersey City, N.J. 07303 prize for novel writing in 1984, and the nian countryside Dy grandiose indus­ Dovzhenko Prize for cinematography trial and energy schemes is brought to The Ukrainian Weekly, May 21, 1989, No. 21, Vol. LVIi in 1985. Combining two careers success­ an immediate hail. Copyriglit 1989 by The Ukrainian Weekly fully (the analogy of Dr. Zhivago (Continued on page 12) No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1989 UKrainian Catholics in Was/iington Ukrainian Catholic Synod statement protest outside Vatican Embassy by Natalka Gawdiak if from a 'Tlock without a shepherd." on the retirement of bishops The letter referred to the continuing Following is the full text of a before the end of this year. Upon its WASHINGTON - Ukrainian Ca­ persecution of the Ukrainian Catholic statement issued by the Press Bureau implementation, it will be the official tholics from two local Ukrainian Ca­ Church in Ukraine, as evidenced by the of the Synodal Office of Bishops of law for all Eastern Catholic Churches. tholic parishes held a prayer vigil on recent letter from Ukrainian Catholic the Ukrainian Catholic Church based 6. All dignitaries of the Catholic April 28, Eastern rite Good Friday, at Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk, and it expressed in Rome. The statement, dissemi­ Church, even cardinals, fall under 6:30 p.m. in front of the Vatican the dismay the signers felt at the Vatican nated by Bishop Basil H. Losten, this mutual legislation. Excluded Embassy in Washington to draw atten­ call to Ukrainian Catholic Bishop contact for the press bureau, was from this provision are the holy tion to the continuing persecution of the Borecky to resign. authorized by Cardinal Myroslav father and all the Eastern Church Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine The letter ended with an appeal to the Ivan Lubachivsky, primate of the patriarchs. Since the rights of the and to express their concern over the Vatican to rescind the call for resigna­ Ukrainian Catholic Church. The office of the major archbishop of the Vatican's call for the resignation of tion and to do everything possible in the statement is titled "Clarification on Ukrainian Catholic Church are equi­ Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Isidore future to ensure that the historic rights the Retirement of Bishops." valent to a patriarch, he likewise, Borecky of Canada who had traveled to of the Ukrainian Catholic Church are Excerpts of the statement were would be excluded from this provi­ Ukraine where married candidates for respected. There were 76 signatures. quoted in The Weekly's story (May sion. the priesthood were ordained. 7) about the continuing controversy 7. It is currently the practice of the While the older members of the group Included with the letter was back­ over the retirement of Bishop Isidore Holy See to assign to a retired bishop arrived by car, the younger participants ground material, consisting of copies of Borecky of Toronto. the title of his former diocese, i.e. walked to the embassy in a procession Bishop Vasylyk's letter in Ukrainian "Former bishop of the diocese of..." that was meant to symbolize the mo­ and in English translation, as well as Misleading information on the A retired bishop is also entitled to dern Way of the Cross now traveled by copies of three articles from The Ukrai­ subject of the retirement age of reside within the diocese and is to be persecuted believers in Ukraine. nian Weekly describing the Vatican's Ukrainian Catholic bishops as un­ provided with accommodations sui­ call to Bishop Borecky to resign, one derstood by Church law have recent­ table for the position he once held as The focal point of the procession was describing the arrest and continued ly appeared in the Ukrainian press. It a large wooden cross on which was well as corresponding means of persecution of Ukrainian Catholic is these allegations which we wish to livelihood. written the phrase "The Body of Christ activist Iryna Kalynets in Lviv, and one address and clarify: in Ukraine," in addition to Biblical 8. The resignation of the Most telling of the rejection by the Ukrainian 1. The Decree of the Second Vati­ quotations from passages describing the Catholic primate. Cardinal Myroslav Reverend Isidore Borecky, bishop of tribulations believers have sometimes can Council Christus Dominus (De­ Toronto since 1948, has been greatly Ivan Lubachivsky, of Soviet overtures cree on the Pastoral Office of the undergone. Also part of the procession to Ukrainian Catholics to celebrate discussed in the press. In a letter were posters calling for freedom for the Bishop in the Church) stipulates in dated April 3, 1989, Bishop Isidore, their divine liturgies in Latin Rite Article 21 that a bishop should Churches in Ukraine, a modern-day icon churches in Ukraine - a move seen as who recently completed his 78th year (the late William Kurelek's "Nuclear submit his resignation to the Holy of life, presented the customary letter an effort to subvert the Ukrainian See due to advanced age or infirmity. Age Madonna") draped in black, and Catholic Rite. of resignation to the holy father. At an oil painting reflecting the Church's Out of respect for the dignity of the the request of Pope John Paul II, the trials. The bilingual prayer service, offered episcopal office, the council wished normal procedure for submitting above the sound of the rush-hour to make such a policy voluntary letters of resignation was postponed, Arriving at the Vatican Embassy, the instead of automatically effective by participants lined the sidewalk of the traffic, was taken from a book titled so that Bishop Borecky could be ''Called to Witness" by the Revs. law. This decree was approved and actively involved in the Millennium busy intersection. The police, who signed by the council fathers, in­ appeared to be more numerous than the Myroslav Tataryn and Taras Lozynsky celebration of Ukrainian Christia­ (published by the St. Sophia Religious cluding all Ukrainian Catholic bi­ nity and be permitted to commemo­ usual contingent guarding the em­ shops present at the council. bassy, interceded when two spokes­ Association,St. Catharines, Ontario). rate his golden jubilee of priestly women, from Holy Trinity Ukrai­ Containing a description of the Way of 2. The reasons for such a stipula­ ordination as well as his 40th anni­ nian Catholic Church and Holy Family the Cross, with prayers and jeflections, tion was practical. The council versary of episcopal consecration, Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, at­ the book gives an example after each fathers did not seek to imply that both anniversaries which occurred in tempted to deliver a letter to the Vatican station of suffering endured by a mo­ bishops, after a certain age, become 1988. officials. The police said that they dern-day martyr of the Ukrainian incapable of administering their Catholic Church in Ukraine that pa­ 9. The resignation of Bishop Bo­ would knock on the door themselves. office. The council fathers, rather, recky has no causal connection rallels the Gospel account in some way. sought to accentuate that priests There was no response at the front whatsoever with other matters or deemed capable by the Church of events which may have occurred door, despite the fact that organizers On the way home, one of the partici­ carrying out the serious demands of had informed the embassy about the pants noted the irony of the situation in during the current year, allegations the episcopal office be advanced at of which have appeared in the press. vigil and had invited its residents to Washington that week. Earlier, when an opportune age to such an office in participate in the vigil earlier in the day. protesters had a memorial service in Other Ukrainian Catholic bishops, the prime of their life when their upon completing 75 years, have Receiving no answer at the front door, front of the Soviet Embassy on the leadership skills could be best used the police went to the back door and anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, submitted their letters of resignation. by the Church. It was viewed as a The same courtesy extended by the after many minutes elapsed, a resident spokeswomen carrying a letter from detrimental policy for a diocese or priest appeared. that group were allowed to knock on the holy father to Bishop Borecky was for the Universal Church or a parti­ also extended to them on account of He accepted the letter from the two Soviet Embassy door themselves and cular Church to permit such leader­ women, but declined the invitation to were not only invited in, but were led the Millennium celebrations of U- ship skills to become obsolete or krainian Christianity. join in the prayer service because, as he into a sitting room where a Ukrainian- hindered from actualization. explained, "I was the one who said I speaking embassy official took their 3. The Motu proprio Ecclesiae 10. The Synod of Ukrainian Ca­ would come out because I was on riiy letter in person and listened to their Sanctae, issued by Pope Paul VI on tholic Bishops, in accordance with way to a wedding rehearsal anyway." concerns at length. August 6, 1966, had as its primary the law in force presently for the After briefly listening to the concerns of At the Vatican Embassy, only the purpose the implementation of some Eastern Catholic Churches, could those assembled, the priest went on his persistent knocking by the police on two of the council's decrees. This decree directly elect or appoint new bishops way. different doors resulted in the rather specifies in Article 11 the completion within the traditional territory of our The letter, from "Concerned Ukrai­ fleeting, offhand attention given the of the 75th year of age as the time Church in Ukraine, for any sees nian Catholics of Metropolitan Wash­ Ukrainians, albeit members of the same when a bishop shall voluntarily vacant due to resignations. Such ington," was addressed to the Vatican as universal Catholic Church. submit his resignation. Such a policy appointments for our Church in the became legally applicable to the diaspora, however, are reserved to Latin Rite fully with the promulga­ the holy father. Since 1980, Pope Canadian MP recalls Chornobyl tion of its Code of Canon Law in John Paul II has appointed only Ukrainian Catholic bishops from a OTTAWA - Progressive Conserva­ The fallout of this accident reminds 1983. 4. Although this provision legally list of candidates submitted to him by tive Member of Parliament for Calgary us of the atomic explosion in Hiro­ the Synod of Ukrainian Bishops. Northeast Alex Kindy made a state­ shima. Recent reports indicate that 25 does not apply to the Eastern Catho­ ment regarding the Chornobyl disaster, villages around Chornobyl have had to lic Churches, these Churches none­ 11. The presidium of the Synod of in the House of Commons on May 1. be evacuated because of the nuclear fall­ theless considered it worthy of appli­ Ukrainian Bishops, under the chair­ The text below was released by the out. There has been significant increase cation to them as well. Since then, manship of His Beatitude Myroslav Ukrainian Information Bureau. in illness, including anemia and break­ bishops of the Eastern Catholic Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky, at its down of the immune system, since that Churches, including those of the most recent meeting of April 13, accident. Ukrainian Catholic Church, have 1989, has formally submitted a re­ voluntarily presented their letter of quest to the Holy Father to grant His Mr. Speaker, three years ago in April Some 200,000 babies were born in the resignation to the holy father when blessing for the convocation of the of 1986 a major disaster occurred in vicinity of Chornobyl. We should urge they completed their 75th year of age. next Synod of Ukrainian Bishops in Ukraine. The first hint of a nuclear the Soviet government to be open about 5. The present draft of the Code of September or October of 1989 in nightmare reached Scandinavia on a the medical follow-up of those children Canon Law for the Eastern Catholic Rome. An important item on the southeast wind. Swedish monitoring so that we know really what effect this Churches states in Canon 208, Article agenda of the synod will be the devices began to detect abnormally high explosion has had on their develop­ 1 that a bishop who has completed evaluation of candidates to the levels of radiation. Only two days later ment. his 75th year of age is requested to episocopal office as well as the the Soviet government admitted that a This nuclear disaster should remind submit his resignation from his submission of their names to any nuclear accident had occurred in Chor­ the world that we need international office. This draft is expected to be previous list of names already in the nobyl in Ukraine some 100 kilometers cooperation and controls on the prolife­ promulgated soon, perhaps even hands of the supreme pontiff. north of Kiev. ration of nuclear devices. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989 No. 21 Montreal Ukrainians recall Chornobyl with church services, demonstration

by Dr. Roman Serbyn Sunday according to the Eastern rite. In the morning, Ukrainian Orthodox MONTREAL - Under the auspices and Catholic churches conducted pa^ of the local branch of the Ukrainian nakhydy (memorial services) for the Canadian Committee, the third anni­ victims of the nuclear catastrophe versary of the Chornobyl nuclear whose true numbers are still to be disaster was marked by Montreal's revealed. Ukrainian community with church That afternoon, over 650 people services, a mass demonstration and gathered in front of McGill University briefs to the municipal and provincial to condemn the continued proliferation governments. of unsafe nuclear power plants in The activities took place on April 23, Ukraine. Under a black banner on in spite of the fact that it was Palm which prominent white letters (in UCC statement on nuclear-free Ukraine We have gathered here today to nuclear power. declare our solidarity with the Ukrai­ 9 4. Develop a plan for the.gra­ nian nation in its demand for a dual elimination of all existing ato­ nuclear-safe Ukraine. We support mic power stations in Ukraine and the call against nuclear proliferation their replacement by alternative Demonstrators gather on Sherbrooke Street, in front of the main entrance to the in Ukraine expressed by the writers sources of electricity. McGill University (Roddick Gates). The police allowed the marchers to take up Oles Honchar, Dmytro Pavlychko, ^ 5. Make public all the existing half of the street (a major artery in Montreal). Ivan Drach and Yuriy Shcherbak; information on the Chornobyl dis­ the Ukrainian ecological group aster (the debriefing of reactor per­ Green World; the Ukrainian Hel­ sonnel and transcripts of the closed French, Ukrainian and English) en­ Montreal Chornobyl Committee and sinki Association; the Kiev students' trial in July 1987). joined the people to: "Remember Chor­ read in French and English. These organization Hromada. Their de­ ^ 6. Establish an international nobyl," the demonstration proceeded in demands echoed those heard in U- mands are our demands: "Chornobyl Forum'' as suggested by an orderly manner to the Soviet Consu­ kraine: a halt to all construction of new Oles Honchar of the Ukrainian late. nuclear plants (Crimea, Chyhyryn); ^ 1. Halt the construction of all Writers' Union. In front of the consulate, the demon­ shut down the existing plants (particu­ new nuclear power plants in Ukraine, ^ 7. Undertake a mass educa­ strators voiced their solidarity with the larly Chornobyl); provide medical aid namely in Crimea and Chyhyryn. tional campaign to inform the people anti-nuclear demands currently made in and education to the victims, and to this ^ 2. Stop all work on new reactors who lived in the nuclear-infested Ukraine. The organizers of the demon­ end set up a "Chornobyl Fund"; con­ in the already existing power plants. zone of the true state of their health, stration reminded the gathering that the vene an international ''Chornobyl ^ 3. Halt the operation of the and allow Western medical aid to threat of nuclear holocaust in Ukraine, Forum." Chornobyl atomic power station and Chornobyl victims. where the authorities have concentrated Although these demands were read lo transform the site into an interna­ 50 percent of all the Soviet nuclear the gathering in front of the Soviet tional preserve set aside as a warning Ukrainian Canadian Committee power production, is ever present. Consulate and given to the media, they to humanity against the misuse of Montreal, April 23 The gathering then proclaimed the were not passed on to the Soviet autho- list of seven demands prepared by the (Continued on page 11)

Grabowicz appointed director of H Ukrainian Research Institute CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Dean Yale University and ah A.M. and a and symposia with the Ukrainian Aca­ and documentation ensured the survi­ of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts Ph.D. in comparative literature from demy of Sciences in Kiev. val of the "roots" of Ukrainian studies, and Sciences, A, Michael Spence, in Harvard. He organized the first Soviet-Ameri­ so now there is the need to tend to other consultation with the University's In 1975, upon receiving his doctorate, can symposium on Ukrainian literature branches. Standing Committee on Ukrainian he was appointed assistant professor in that was held at Harvard in January Specifically, he said, this is a question Studies, has appointed Dr. George G. the department of Slavic languages and 1987 and headed the delegation of of the hewer period, the 19th and 20th Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevskyj Profes­ literatures and in 1980 promoted to American Ukrainianists that visited centuries, which coincides with the sor of Ukrainian Literature, as next associate professor. Kiev and Lviv in June 1988 for the formation of the modern Ukrainian director of the Ukrainian Research In 1983 he was named professor and second symposium. At present, he is nation, where much work remains to be Institute. first holder of the Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj preparing the third such meeting, which done, and where there is ample oppor­ He will succeed Prof. Omeljan Prit- Chair of Ukrainian Literature. is scheduled to be held at Harvard in the tunity to draw in American Slavists, sak, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevskyj Prof. Grabowicz's work in Ukrainian fall of this year. historians of Eastern Europe and so on Professor of Ukrainian History, who literature has been focused on the Prof. Grabowicz has also been acti­ into collaborative efforts, and generally has been director since the institute's Baroque period, with his most recent vely involved in Slavic studies on the to have a significant impact on the study inception in 1972. research there being on Ivan Vyshen- international level. He is a member of and teaching of these disciplines. Prof: Grabowicz, who was chairman sky, on the 19th century, with a parti­ the executive council of the American A significant component of the insti­ of the department of Slavic languages cular emphasis on Shevchenko and Committee for the Study and Dissemi­ tute's future work will necessarily be the and literatures at Harvard from 1983 to Ukrainian Romanticism, and on the nation of Slavic Cultures (MAIRSK), further development of contacts and 1988, will assume his duties beginning 20th century, especially Soviet and and in December of last year he was exchanges with Soviet Ukrainian scho­ July 1, 1989. emigre poetry. elected chairman of the American lars and scholarly institutions. Prof. Prof. Grabowicz, who has been His 1982 book on Shevchenko, "The Comn^ittee of Slavists. Grabowicz noted. On the one hand this involved in the Ukrainian program at Poet as Mythmaker," has been genera- Commenting on his appointment as is simply an academic requirement: in Harvard since its beginnings in the late rally acclaimed by academic critics as a director. Prof. Grabowicz noted that order to develop normally, Ukrainian 1960s, received a B.A. in English from major new statement on the leading for the immediate future he envisions a studies need to have access to the Ukrainian poet. Chapters of the book twofold strategy for the Harvard Ukrai­ resources, both human and material, of have already appeared in Ukrainian nian Research Institute. On the one Ukraine. On the other hand, given the translation in Soviet Ukrainian publica­ hand this will be the continuation and stagnation and indeed repression of tions and a full translation is now strengthening of the various long-range Ukrainian scholarship in the Soviet completed and scheduled for publica­ programs undertaken by the institute. Union in the past, it is incumbenl upon tion in Kiev in 1989 or 1990. This involves not only Harvard Ukrai­ the Ukrainiaa Research Iristil^e to do Prof. Grabowicz is now at work on a nian Studies, the institute's interna­ whatever it can to Ші^е the pires^nt book comparing the reception of Shev­ tionally respected journal, and its climate of reform to help develop th^t chenko in Ukrainian society and Adam many-faceted monograph series, but scholarship in its homeland. Mickiewicz in Polish society, as well as most specifically the ongoing work on a collection of essays devoted to Shev- the Harvard Millennium Project, parti­ There is no doubt that in its great chenkoY seif-depiction. cularly the publication of the texts as majority the Ukrainian community in Prof. Grabowicz^ published work well as translations of the Harvard the diaspora supports this. Prof. Gra­ has appeared not only in the West, but Library of Early Ukrainian Literature. bowicz noted. The formal establish­ also in Poland, for example the presti­ At the same time he noted the need ment, later this spring, of an Interna­ gious Pamietnik Literacki, and in for new initiatives. The great intellec­ tional Asspdation of Ukrainian Stu­ Soviet Ukraine (Radianske Literatu- tual and scholarly capital that has been dies, one in which the institute will play roznavstvo, Vsesvit and other publica­ accumulated by Ukrainian studies at a crucial role, will be a major step tions). Harvard can now be put to highly toward ensuring the continued expan­ While chairman of the Slavic depart­ effective use in further strengthening the sion and vitality of Ukrainian studies. ment at Harvard, Prof. Grabowicz various Ukrainian disciplines - in the This is a chr' Cxge not only to the initiated, in conjunction with I REX and U.S and internationally, he said. Just academic but also to the broader Ukrai­ the American Council of Learned Socie­ as the initial, well-conceived emphasis nian community, the new director of the Prof. George G. Grabowicz ties, a program oi academic exchanges oil liic cany рспосіЬз on archivat work HURl pointed put, , . No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989 Two-day conference examines positives and negatives of trade with Ш\ш

by Chrystyna N. Lapychak opened up the previously limited right to engage in foreign trade to all Soviet PARTI enterprises, as^sociations and coopera­ tives. EAST HANOVER, NJ. - In light As a result of such reforms, American of an ongoing increase of economic ties and Western businesses in general have between U.S. and Soviet business that undertaken a wide range of initiatives, has come as a result of Soviet economic including conferences and symposia in reform and decentralization, the Ukrai­ the United States and in the Soviet nian American Professionals and Union, some of which have resulted in Business Persons Association of New trade agreements, joint ventures etc., York and New Jersey sponsored a two- said Mr. Smorodsky. "It appears that day forum on April 15-16 focused on American commercial relations with ''Doing Business with Ukraine." the USSR and Ukraine will expand," The conference, held at the Ramada and therefore, it is as good a time as any Hotel here, drew some 160 Ukrainian for Ukrainian Americans to discuss if or and non-Ukrainian businesspersons, what their role could be within that professionals, political activists and context. others interested in an examination by "Ukraine is the second largest re­ 13 different speakers of a range of public within the USSR. It also has the aspects of economic trade with the second largest diaspora outside its Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. borders. Needless to say these recent The conference program was de­ economic developments will have a signed by members of the Ps and Bs "to direct and substantial impact on the Mykola Rudenko offers a political dissident's viewpoint of trade witii Ukraine. view doing business with Ukraine from historical development of Ukraine. For Also pictured: Myroslaw Smorodsky, standing, and Roman Kupchinsky. various dimensions, from the political these, and other reasons, such as our to the practical,'' said Myroslaw Smo- ancestry, we have decided to focus this rodsky, Ps and Bs president, during his conference on Ukraine," said Mr. the case of Ukraine where the leader­ Following Mr. Kupchinsky, Ivan S. opening remarks. This was reflected by Smorodsky. ship, and not only the top leadership, Koropeckyj, professor of economics at the range of speakers, who hailed from Although perebudova was launched are remnants from the past, this is like Temple University in Philadelphia, the worlds of banking and finance, the for primarily economic reasons, chan­ having the wolf guard the hen house. spoke about the effect of Soviet Pre­ ges have occurred in the social, cultural sident Gorbachev's reforms on the federal government, law, as well as "At the same time, Mr. Gorbachev and political spheres of life in the Soviet economic prerogatives of the Ukrai­ representatives from the Ukrainian understands the linkage between po­ Union, he said, and all these aspects are nian SSR. SSR Mission to the United Nations and litical democratization, not democracy linked. According to the professor, the the external representation of a dis­ in the classic sense, and economic "Real economic reform is impos­ Soviet leader faces two fundamental sident group in Ukraine. "In our opi­ decentralization. Some of his less sible without substantial political re­ problems in his effort of decentralize nion only a multi-faceted approach can englightened comrades would prefer to form," said Roman Kupchinsky, presi­ economic decision-making, manage­ serve as an adequate basis for analyzing see Mr. Gorbachev in jail and not in dent of Prolog Research Corp. and the ment and planning in order to make the this issue," said Mr. Smorodsky, a New power," he said. Yet, he added, "Mr. forum's first speaker. Mr. Kupchin­ ailing Soviet economy more efficient: Jersey attorney. Gorbachev is not about to see the sky offered his own observations on 1.) division of decision-making pre­ The Soviet policy of economic pere- (Communist) Party go belly up. The recent political developments in U- rogatives between the central govern­ budova or restructuring began with recent enacted laws on the overthrow or kraine, linking economic questions to ment and individual enterprises, a topic Moscow's "acknowledgement that old alteration of the Soviet political or political biies. of concern to Western businesses, and; centralized economic concepts did not social order, carrying stiff prison terms 2.) determining at which level of fulfill the daily economic requirements "The reforms proposed by Mr. for those found guilty of agitating for government economic decisions should of the population," said Mr. Smorod­ Mikhail Gorbachev and his team, as change are very reminiscent of laws be made, specifically the relationship sky. intelligent in many ways as they may passed during the former regime. It is no between the republican and central A number of recent changes in Soviet seem, are being entrusted to the same secret that these laws are intended to governments. economic policy and law have distri­ people who in the past were responsible combat the national aspirations of the buted more economic prerogatives for almost wrecking the economy, for non-Russians. How they will be im­ In his speech. Prof. Koropeckyj controlled by the central government in repressing legitimate political discus­ plemented remains to be seen, but concerned himself primarily with the Moscow to the republican level and new sion and for Russification of non- judging from the, shall we say, strict latter, the division of economic preroga­ legislation, effective since April 1, Russians," said Mr. Kupchinsky.. "In interpretations of the law we are used to tives between the union government in seeing on Kiev and Lviv, I'm afraid the Moscow and the government of the future is not rosy for the concept of Ukrainian SSR in Kiev. pluralism. According to official Soviet sources, said Prof. Koropeckyj, "the Kiev go­ "Mr. Gorbachev is making all the vernment was responsible for 63 percent classic mistakes - he is responding to of all industrial output in 1986, while 37 political demands by use of force. The percent was under union jurisdiction." Polish events of the 1980s should have That year, 85 percent of all those taught him a lesson," said Mr. Kup­ employed in the republic were the chinsky. "We, as Ukrainian Americans, responsibility of the Kiev government. are caught in the middle of this dilem­ ma. On the one hand most of us would "Expansion of economic decision- like to help the land of our ancestors, making or prerogatives of the repub­ our parents, we would like to see lican governments is usually a prere­ Ukraine revert again to a normal status, quisite to expansion in other spheres to take its nightful place among nations, such as politics, culture and society," for its culture, its economy to thrive and said Prof. Koropeckyj, citing Ukraine our people to prosper. To live in peace in the 1920s as an example. with its neighbors. On the other we Among the industries under republi­ cannot by any means agriee to see a can control are construction, consumer large-scale repression take place in goods, tourism and light industry, while Ukraine again." those left under union jurisdiction "We do not want to dictate to the include, transportation, heavy industry Ukrainian people what they should or or metallurgy, and energy, including should not be doing. We have the fight nuclear energy and coal. to coftiment on eventis and give our suggestions; but let our concerns be Since legislation was enacted in July noted and not misread. Those Ukrai­ 1987 on the formation of a new econo­ nians in the business community jn this mic structure "the enterprise was chosen country are not blindly chasing the as the basis for all reforms," said the buck, are not willing to abandon every­ professor. "From now on it (the enter­ thing in order to cut a deal. If we see that prise) is going to become the main pluralism is merely a slogan we well do element of economic decision-making." everything in our power to bring this to . Since then the most recent April I law the attention of the U.S. Congress, to has given virtually all Soviet enter­ the Department of Commerce and to prises, associations, and cooperatives the U.S. business community and press the right to conduct direct foreign trade Ivan Koropeckyj discusses economic Victor Rud, an attorney and organizer for some type of linkage between and set up joint ventures and has decentralization in the USSR and its of th^ fofifer^rijce, Де8сгіЬе8 Soviet pluralisrn and trade," concluded Mr. loosened the tight regulations on such effects on Ukraine. cooperative law: Kupchinskv. " - ^ "^ partnerships. ч, -- - . ^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989 No. 21

NEWS AND VIEWS ul(rainianWeey Ї The USIA and deja vu USIA language policy: a follow-up In 1987, the United States Information Agency sent a cultural exchange by Dr. Frank Sysyn whether the USIA would once again exhibition to the USSR as part of a U.S.-USSR agreement signed in Geneva resort to transferring a few Ukrainian in November 1985. Dubbed "Information U.S.A.," the exhibit was the first On May 10, I accompanied Eugene speakers from its staff to make up for official exhibition exchanged between the two countries since 1979. It Iwanciw of the Ukrainian National the failure to recruit Ukrainian speak­ traveled in the span of '8 months to various parts on the USSR, including Association Washington Office and ing guides. No statement was made that Kiev, capital of Ukraine. Irena Chalupa of the UCCA Ukrainian even the token figure of four sent on the A USIA press release then boasted that "an important element of National Information Service to a last exhibit would be increased. 'Information U.S.A.,' will be the 24 Russian-speaking American guides who meeting in the office of Michael Schnei­ 9 2. Grouping of cities: The USIA come from a variety of backgrounds, and who have been recruited from der, deputy associate director, pro­ finds it most efficient to send guides for across the United States." grams of the United States Information three-month periods to three cities. The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute protested, "...we are greatly Agency. The meeting was organized in Therefore it argues that it is too costly to troubled by the plans of the United States Information Agency to conduct its response to the Ukrainian community's send non-Russian speakers in for just new cultural exchange exhibit in Kiev primarily in the Russian language. We concern that the upcoming USIA Exhi­ one city and that only interpreters fluent have been informed that only three out of 25 guides will be Ukrainian bit "Design USA"will employ primarily in Russian can be hired. Since two speakers and that the major catalogue will be in Russian. ...We believe that it Russian-speaking guides and informa­ Ukrainian cities are included on the is contrary to the interests of the United States for the USIA to promote tion materials in Ukrainian cities. current tour, the USIA should have Russification in Ukraine. How else is the assignment of Russian-language Among the nine cities that the exhibit is been able to decrease costs by ensuring translators to the Ukrainian capital to be understood?" The institute went on scheduled to visit are Odessa and Do­ that Odessa and Donetske were placed to offer its services in locating Ukrainian guides and translators. netske. in the same segment and by assigning all William K. Jones, director of the interpreters who speak Ukrainian in Ultimately, four of the 27 guides who traveled with the exhibit were this segment. The placement of Odessa assigned by the USIA to Kiev. Exhibit Service, Gregory Guroff, Presi­ dent's U.S.-Soviet Exchange Institution in the first three cities to be visited (No. Two years later, it appears that we will be experiencing deja vu. 3) and Donetske in the second (No. 4) The USIA continues to insist that 24 Russian-speaking guides for nine coordinator, Katherine Guroff, pro­ gram specialist. Exhibit Service, and indicates that the planners were not cities throughout the USSR, including Odessa and Donetske in Ukraine with searching for ways to increase the use of only token use of Ukrainian-language speakers - will suffice. Edward Salazar of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, State Department, were Ukrainian more economically and more As Dr. Frank Sysyn, an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research efficiently. Institute, has written in articles published in this issue and last week's issue of among those attending the meeting. Al­ The Weekly, once again it will appear that the USIA is an agent of though the language to be used during ^ 3. Catalogue: Even though two Russification - and this at a time when the nations of the USSR have been the upcoming exhibit was the major Ukrainian cities will be visited on this calling for recognition of their native languages as the official languages in topic of discussion, the general issue of tour, Ukrainian-language materials will their republics. language policy in the USIA's contacts be relegated to the subordinate position Dr. Sysyn's article this week provides concrete steps that we, members of with Ukraine was addressed. of an insert in the Russian-language the Ukrainian community and leaders of its organizations, can take in an What follows is my understanding of catalogue. effort to change the USIA's misguided language policy. the situation and discussion. (I assume Despite the disappointing record in We urge our readers to read and to act upon his recommendations so that, that Mr. Iwanciw and Ms. Chalupa will planning for use of Ukrainian in the indeed, the U.S. government adopts a policy that guarantees the Ukrainian issue their own statements.) I am also exhibit, the organizers assured us that language will be the principal language in all dealings with Ukraine. sending this account to the USIA parti­ they would ideally wish that all guides in cipants in the meeting so that they might Ukrainian cities would be able to speak correct any errors in fact and offer their Ukrainian and that only budgetary own views on the questions discussed. considerations prevent this. They pre­ My first concern was whether the sented considerable evidence that the USIA had taken into,account its expe­ use of languages other than Russian rience in mounting the USIA Exhibit greatly increases the cost of the exhibit. Turning the pages back... "Information USIA" in 1987, which In essence, however, they have chosen after a major campaign by the Ukrai­ to give low priority in their allocation of nian community added four Ukrainian- funds to use of non-Russian languages speaking guides (USIA employees) to so as to increase the numbers of cities to Taras Shevchenko's body reached its finalrestin g place in its 23 Russian speakers during the be visited. While one can sympathize Kaniv on May 22, 1861, after a long and tedious journey exhibit's stay in Kiev and included a with their goal to use their funds to go to from St. Petersburg. The great Ukrainian bard died on Ukrainian-language insert in the main as many cities as possible, one need not March 10 and on that same day, the Hromada, a organization of students, painters Russian-language catalogue. One would approve their decision to slight the non- and writers, passed a resolution calling for the transfer of his last remains to have hoped that after this experience Russian languages (a quantity verses Ukraine, in accordance with Shevchenko's wishes. the organizers of the exhibit would have quality quandary). After numerous efforts by Ukrainian community leaders in St. Petersburg, the ensured that a considerable number of Whatever the reasons for its decision, poet's body was exhumed from Smolensk cemetery and the procession to Ukraine Ukrainian speakers would be hired as the USIA Exhibit will be using Russian began at the end of April. The coffin was escorted by two members of Hromada, guides for the next exhibit and funds as its primary means of communicating close personal friends of Shevchenko, and made its journey from St. Petersburg to would be allocated for a Ukrainian in Ukraine and will be indicating that it Moscow and Kiev. version of the main catalogue. Even assigns Ukrainian merely token, sym­ In Pavlo Zaitsev's book, "Taras Shevchenko, A Life,"an extensive description of though the cities to be visited are not bolic use. the procession is given. He writes: known until relatively late in the or­ Although the USIA's practices and "The place of burial had not yet been chosen. Discussions took place between ganizing process, it is certain that given policies must be protested, every effort Ukrainians in St. Petersburg and in Kiev as to a possible location, but no decision the size of the Ukrainian SSR and the must be made to cooperate v/ith the was taken. Several proposals were put forward: that Shevchenko be buried at considerable numbers of large Ukrai­ USIA in changing them in the short- Askold's Grave (Askoldova Mohyla), at the cemetery in the Vydubytsky nian cities, at least one Ukrainian city and long-term. Mr. Schneider s ugges- Monastery, or on a cliff, Shchekavytsia, on the Dnieper. The latter site was the will be visited by every exhibit. tion that he meet with the Ul rainian most spectacular and would have accommodated Shevchenko's wish to be buried After discussions with the USIA group again in a month holds out the on the Dnieper. When Lazarevsky and Chestakhivsky Cthe Hromada escortsj staff, I was disappointed to find that hope of an ongoing dialogue that will reached Kiev, great pressure was put upon them to select Shchekavytsia as the site, little had been dore to increase the use incrementally improve policies. What yet they resisted and argued that instead the poet should be buried on Chernecha of Ukrainian in the current exhibit. are the best goals and actions that those Hora near Kaniv, where he had wished to buy a cottage on the banks of the ^ \, Guides: The USIA once again interested in changing the present Dnieper. A real controversy erupted, with the students from Kiev insisting that the sought Russian-language interpreters. situaUon may employ? poet should be buried near the Ukrainian capital. The argument was finally settled No advertisements specifically men­ ^ A response should be obtained when Chestakhivsky declared that Chernecha Hora near Kaniv was Shevchenko's tioned the need for Ukrainian-language from the USIA as to how many Ukrai­ own choice before he died. Everyone agreed on Chernecha Hora, though guide-interpreters. No advertisement nian speakers it will send to Odessa and Chestakhivsky had not been present during the final days of Shevchenko's life and stated that applicants who knew lan­ Donetske. Suggestions should be made could have invented the story. It was decided that the coffin should be taken to guages of the Soviet Union in addition that by shifting the groupings so that the Kaniv, but first the Kiev Ukrainians gathered for a final farewell in the city. to Russian would be given preference. third and fourth cities (Odessa and The funeral services in Kiev were monumental. When the body was transferred to Given these procedures, it is difficult Donetske) fall in the same grouping, the Kaniv, news of the funeral services spread quickly, and thousands hastened to to see how the organizers planned to numbers of Ukrainian speakers can be attend. have trained Ukrainian speakers, with maximized. Certainly the number of the Mr. Zaitsev writes: security clearances, ready for the Ukrai­ Ukrainian speakers should be consi­ "The Rev. Matskevych, ended his patriotic eulogy with these words: 'Here, on one nian cities on the tour this fall. At the derably greater than the four sent to of the tallest hills on the Dnieper, Shevchenko's ashes will be laid to rest and, as on meeting, no indication was given of how Kiev on the last exhibit. Golgotha, which may be seen throughout Jerusalem and Judea, and like our many Ukrainian-speaking guides were ^ 2. The major catalogue should be Savior's crucifix, a cross will be raised here and will be seen on both sides of our available for the Ukrainian cities or translated into Ukrainian. glorious Dnieper.' ^ 3. Every effort should be made to "After the service, thousands of peasants, some of them serfs, spread out in a Dr. Frank Sysyn is an associate oj the find Ukrainian-speaking specialists, colorful human ayalanche from hill to riverside. The spring sun shone on this Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, architects, and graphic and product moving farewell of the:ykrainiari4Je?ople to their prophet. Towards evenm^s^a t 1 who is currently ^ at' І he Keht^ designers to take-part in t,he exhibit in fU^m^k t^ i:^\^dv^^(IQ -^'''- '-^''' luie, wb'idfm^ ШШ'^'Шег! (Continued on page 15) No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21.1989

Religious literature for Ukraine A view from Co no do Appeal of His Beatitude Myroslav-Ivan to the most reverend bishops, reverend clergy, venerable religious and to all the dear faithful of the by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Ukrainian Catholic Particular Church. K Peace in the Lord and Our Episcopal Blessing Christ is Risen! - Truly He is Risen!. We hereby notify all the faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic Church that the About those lyrics... Presidium of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, at its by Orysia Paszczak Tracz barely any mention of fathers (such as meeting in Rome on April 12, has formed a committee for the dissemination "Kazav meni batko" - and in this one of Ukrainian religious literature among Ukrainians, especially where it is A while ago I attended a 25th wedding also, ... ''De divchynu chuyu, tam most needed. anniversary reception. Late in the nichku nochuyu, a de molodychky, 1. This committee will have its headquarters in Rome and funcion under evening, a group of all generations got tam ya і dvi nichky -" where I hear a the direction of the Synod. together and sang Ukrainian folk songs girl, there I spend the night, and where 2. On behalf of the Synod, I hereby appeal to all bishops, priests and - the old ones, the ones the grand­ there are young matrons, there two faithful with a fervent plea for the moral and financial support of this mothers as well as the grandchildren nights), but the lyrics are full of songs important and beneficial endeavor. For decades some of our brothers and knew. And the newer immigrants knew mentioning mothers (and often sisters). sisters have been deprived of any and all religious literature. They are them as well as those who were fourth- There is asking mother permission to experiencing great spiritual hunger. We must come to their aid, providing and fifth-generation Canadians. go dancing - and most of the time she them with Bibles, prayer books, catechisms and other religious literature. Maybe this text should be X-rated, at says "No" ("Na vulytsi skrypka hraye, This is our sacred duty. least the songs should be, because as I mene maty ne puskaye" - the fiddle is 3. We hereby appeal to our bishops, clergy and Church organizations to sang along, I realized how so many of playing in the street, my mother won't collect funds for the realization of this goal. The collected monies should be the most popular ones talk about quite let me go outside). In a rare case mama transmitted through the local bishop to the Chancery of the Major naughty behavior. I wonder if the gives her permission - "Poslala mene Archbishop. All funds will be deposited in a separate account. A detailed incidents originally got mentioned in maty, z khloptsiamy pohuliaty ... pohu- report of the disposition of funds will be submitted to the Synod of Bishops of songs, and became repeated over the liay sobi doniu, ya tobi ne boroniu" - the Ukrainian Catholic Church. centuries because they were unusual, or Mother sent me to dance with the 4. We thank one and all in advance for ever^ aid and support for this because they weren't so out of the boys... go dance daughter, I don't forbid worthwhile endeavor of our Church. It is imperative than we begin this great ordinary at all. you to go. Christian project immediately and without any procrastination. So here it goes. "Kolo mlyna yavo- Mother refuses permission to go visit ryna" talks about the girl who spends all the young man or woman ("Letyt halka t Myroslav I. Cardinal Lubachivsky night in the orchard with the Kozaks, cherez balku... ne puskaye mene maty Given in Rome, at the Church of the Zhyrovytska Icon of the Mother of and tells her mother to call her only vrantsi do krynytsi" — mother won't let God and the Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus, April 17. when the rooster crows at daybreak. me go to the well in the morning) ...; "Oy, khmeliu, miy khmeliu" is about mother scolding or hitting for staying the young man who spends his nights at out too late ("Chas dodomu chas... the widow's house. ''Oi u poli try bude mene maty byty, ta і nikomu Catholics' appeal to Gorbachev krynychenky" talks about the young boronyty" — time to go home... mother man who is in love with three girls at will beat me, and there will be no one to Following is the text of a petition the legalization of the Ukrainian once, the blond, brunette and the defend me); and denying permission to to the head of the Presidium of the Catholic Church is a large one. Life redhead. marry ("Zhe tvoya staraya maty ne proves that the article ''Pastors Supreme Soviet of the USSR and There's the infamous "Zatsvyla rozha khoche mene uziaty - your old mother Without a Flock" which appeared in General Secretary of the Communist troyaka," about the drunken husband. does not want to take me for a daughter- Izvestia, December 23, 1988, was Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail "Oy ne khody Hrytsiu," a classic, is in-law... "Cherez svoyu nenku, nezho- false. This and other similar publica­ Gorbachev, from the Ukrainian about the jilted girl who poisons her natyi khodzhu" - because of my tions in the republics and oblasts are Catholic Church in Ukraine. lover - describing in detail how she mother I am still walking around un­ holdovers from the totalitarian methodically gathers the plants and married.) Mothers really ruled the We the undersigned representa­ mentality. The constitutional right to prepares the poison and does him in roost. tives of the episcopate and faithful of freedom of conscience is simply a within a week. And "Hrytsiu" is not the Combine this with the analogy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church again decoration to show to the outside only song with that theme. "Sadom, digging a well or asking for and getting a turn to you, honorable Mikhail world. sadom, kumasenko" is about the taboo Sergeyevich, and ask you to take a drink of water - which symbolizes The stereotypical propaganda on carrying on with your kum or kuma personal, active interest in the rene­ making love, and you have a young man against the Ukrainian Catholic (co-godparent). So are other humorous wal of the legal status of our Church. asking mother's permission for even Church is to accuse it of collal?ora- songs such as "Oi, kum do kumy zalyt- that - "Pozvol meni, maty, krynytsiu At the so-called Lviv "Sobor" of tion with the fascists during the time siavsia" - the kum courted the kuma, kopaty" - Mother, let me dig a well. 1946, inspired by the Stalin regime, of the war (World War II). This is a and "Ocheret trishchyt ... kum do Combine this with the kalyna as a the Greek (Ukrainian) Catholic conscious lie without foundation. The kumy sudaka tashchyt" - the kum is symbol of virginity, and all the other Church was once more 'Voluntarily" facts show something else: The then- lugging a perce to the kuma. flowers, trees and birds which each reunited to the Russian Orthodox head of the Ukrainian Catholic "Oy, hylia, hylia, husonky na stav" symbolize particular aspects and phases Church. The same tactic was used by Church, Metropolitan Andrey She- talks about the Kozak who finagles his of life, and the songs really do tell the tsars of imperial Russia in the ptytsky, still at the beginning of the way in for supper and stays until interesting stories. 18th and 19th centuries. They, even war, filed with the representatives of morning. In "Oy, chyi to kin stoyit... Not all songs have as their theme the then, announced the "self-liquida­ the Third Reich a protest against the kokhannia z vechora do rannia..." there spicier side of love. There are so many tion" and "unification" of the Greek persecution of the Jews. In his pas­ is loving from evening 4il morning. Ukrainian folk songs, in so many cate­ (Ukrainian) Catholic Church with toral letter "Thou Shall Not Kill," he The songs also moralize about the gories, that their subject matter is the Russian Orthodox. Stalin did the called on our faithful to remember price to be paid for all that loving. "Oy u practically infinite: there are songs for same. that in brotherly love they must help luzi, tay shche pry berezi" tells about the each stage of the life cycle - birth, Little more than 200 forcibly the persecuted. marriage, death, and for each season of gathered persons at the "Sobor" baby born to the unmarried girl. She The Ukrainian Catholic Church is the year with its holy days - koliadky, determined the fate of over 5 million gives him beautiful eyes and eyebrows not a separate Church. She is a living shchedrivky, hahilky, kupalski, ob- faithful and more than 3,500 clergy but no shchastia (luck or well-being) link in the chain of the Universal zhynkovi, children's songs, historical and religious. Those who did not for life. Other songs tell of the widow Catholic Church which is headed by songs (from the times of the Kozaks, the recognize this non-canonical deci­ giving birth to a handsome son, again, the representative of Peter, the pope Tatar invasions, serfdom, chumaky - sion of the "Sobor" were subjected to without a good future. "Za richkoyu, za of Rome. Our principles are the salt traders, burlaky - vagabonds, terrible repression. One-third of the Dunayem" tells about the seduction of a same. The difference is only in the girl, and the Kozak's refusal to take the rekruty - recruits, etc.) priests and nearly 1 million faith­ rite and language. The rite is Byzan­ blame — "Daysia, divcha, na pidmovu There are love songs in infinite ful died in the sobor, thousands of tine, the language Ukrainian. Thanks kozakovi molodomu... Ne ya z tebe variety (infatuation, love, parental churches were ruined, monasteries to this, our Church became truly the vinok izniav ... zniala z tebe okhotonka, interference, parting, betrayal, mar­ and holy shrines were destroyed. But, people's. kozakova rozmovonka... Divka syna riage), songs depicting family life regardless of the persecution that It is a strong means of preserving porodyla... ne idit divky po kalynu, ne (unhappy life together, extramarital began in 1946 - terrorization, ar­ Ukrainian language and culture. Our zbudit meni dytynu..."- Let this young affairs, parents, in-laws - especially the rests, disruption of gatherings of Church successfully resisted, over Kozak persuade [i.e., seducej you, girl... relationship between daughter-and faithful, beatings - our Church lived several centuries, colonizers' efforts I did not remove your wreath [i.e., mother-in-law , orphans, widows, long^ on in the underground. Now it can be to assimilate our people. virginityj... your desire and this Kozak's ing for one's family, other relatives, said with certainty that the Ukrai­ The Catholic Church is not a conversation did... the girl gave birth to work songs, bemoaning a bad dolia - nian Catholic Church not only exists political organization which is lead­ a son... girls, don't go picking the fate), humorous songs, dancing songs, through its self-legalization by its ing a fight against the government. kalyna, don't wake my baby... The more and others. Many songs are devasta- bishops, clergy and faithful, but it Catholic priests are still forbidden to has also been uplifted. things change, the more they remain the t^ingly sad, because of the singer's fate as participate in political activities. same. The kalyna (guelder rose or high- Tens of thousands of signatures of an orphan, widow, serf, poor peasant, However the constitution does not bush cranberry) and the vinok (wreath) faithful asking for the legalization of or abandoned wife. Life in the old days forbid these activities. 1 herefore it is are symbols of virginity and appear in their Church, and also asking the was not always that much fun. impossible lor the Ukrainian Catno- many songs. government to register their churches, lic Church to be a viivci lui u political The beliefs, customs, dress and the Then there are the songs that tell us prove that this movement calling for (CoiptiQued on page 10) everyday way of life of past centuries are that the matriarchate lives. There is (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989 No. 21

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

vehemently denying that it is unscrupu­ play when it is clear earlier in the article cument, was unanimously approved by A response lously dominated and controlled by the who did submit the press release, the council fathers. An interesting Ukrainian Liberation Front. How does namely the Secretariat of the Presidium footnote is that Bishop Borecky's to Lozynskyj the UCCA hope to represent all the inte­ of the Ukrainian Catholic Synod of signature, as a council participant, Dear Editor: rests in our communitv (should unitv be Bishops. appears on this council document. Askold Lozynskyj's letter to the accomplished) with the Ukrainian Libe­ For the purpose of your readers' ration Front looming over it? knowledge, the Secretariat, or Pre­ Since Vatican II, a new Code of editor (The Ukrainian Weekly, May 14) Canon Law for the Roman Rite has contains a few flaws that tend to 7. Mr. Lozynskyj's allegation about sidium, is the executive, governing body the "abysmal failure" of the UACCoun­ of the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic been promulgated making this principle misinform readers. I would like to set "de facto" law for that Church. When the record straight and present the cil with a lack of "minimal ОГЙК^ mnu Bishops. Its present membership was the promulgation of the new Code of following explanations and clarifica­ support" is belied by the fact that the duly elected by the last full Synod of Canon Law for all the Eastern Cath­ tions of his misleading half truths or UACCounciPs dues obligation to World Bishops which met in Rome in the fall of olic Churches is eventually promul­ vaguely worded assertions. Congress of Free Ukrainians has been 1987. Its current members are His gated, this same principle, currently 1. UCCA representatives at the met each year since the inception of the Beatitude Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, existing in spirit, will also become "de negotiations with the U ACCouncil and UACCouncil, whereas the UCCA, with chairman; Most Rev. Metropolitan facto" law. neutral organizations at every meeting its many branches (most productive, it Maxim Hermaniuk CSsR of Canada; came up with new demands intended to is claimed) is in arrears tens of thou­ Most Rev. Bishop Innocent Lotocky assure an absolute majority for the sands of dollars. OSBM of the U.S.; Most Rev. Michael Very Rev. Archpriest John Terlecky Ukrainian Liberation Front on the 8. The letter to the editor by Taras Hrynchyshyn CSsR of France, secre­ Vice-Chancellor governing organs of a united UCCA. Kuzio (The Ukrainian Weekly, May 14) tary. Diocese of Stamford 2. The U ACCouncil agreed to count­ is the best proof of the strategy and aims Stamford, Conn. The Presidium's most recent meeting less compromises in order to create a of the Ukrainian Liberation Front to took place April 12-13, 1989, in Rome. united UCCA. These compromises, take over the control of UCCA and the Following its deliberations, a statement showing the good will of the U ACCoun­ Ukrainian American community just as of clarification on the principle of the cil, included, among many others, an the Ukrainian Liberation Front did EDITOR'S NO ТЕ: The statement in agreement to retain the name "UCCA" much earlier in Great Britain. When the resignation of bishops of the Ukrainian question was dated April 27 and did not instead of the name Ukrainian Ameri­ plans of such a takeover of the UCCA Catholic Church was prepared. This bear any signatures, ft appeared on the can Congress which was proposed by were discussed among the leaders of the statement was authorized by the Chan­ letterhead of the Secretariat of the the neutral organizations and agreed to Ukrainian Liberation Front prior to the cery Office of His Beatitude and for­ Synod of Bishops, yet came to^The by the UACCouncil. takeover attempt, there were strong warded to our Stamford Diocesan Weekly via fax from the Stamford advocates of the takeover who assured 3. There was no settlement reached at Office of Communications via fax. Eparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic the head of the Ukrainian Liberation the negotiating table on September I, We, in turn, have distributed this release Church. Since official statements are Front that the Ukrainian American 1988. Proposals of all sides were always to the Ukrainian Catholic and secular usually signed by the responsible community, the Ukrainian National referred to and were subject to ratifica­ press in the United States. parties, The Weekly felt compelled to Association included, would not protest tion by the respective executive bodies. inform its readers of these facts. the takeover and could never leave the The decision not to print the entire At the meeting of September 1,1988, the "liberated," by the Ukrainian Libera­ statement in its entirety does not service representatives of the Ukrainian Ameri­ For the record, the full text of the tion front, UCCA. That is where they the Ukrainian Catholic community in can Coordinating Council, seeing the statement (which was to have been miscalculated. Our patriotic and demo­ the U.S. well. It only leaves the door impossibility of coming to unanimity published last week, as Bishop Basil cratic Ukrainian American community open for further aggression and in­ with the UCCA, agreed to take the dis- Los ten of the Stamford Eparchy is well refused to buckle under their thumb. nuendoes to be raised and circulated. uted matters to the Executive Committee aware, but was removed at the very last They learned too late. While Ms. Kolomayets chose to quote of the UACCouncil. The Executive Com­ moment from the layout pages due to the Toronto chancery of the bishop in mittee at its meeting did not agree to go developing news stories) appears in this Wolodymyr Procyk its statement that "the Ukrainian along with the demands of the UCCA Astoria, N.Y. issue of The Weekly. crowd. There was no "reasonable abro­ Catholic Church is a^^articular Church gation," as claimed by Mr. Lozyn­ with full rights guaranteed by the skyj. To abrogate, means to do away A reaction to Second Vatican Council," she chose not The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters with something existing. What existed to quote the first paragraph of the to the editor. Letters should be typed to be abrogated? Secretariat's statement which states that (double-spaced) and signed; they must Bo reeky story the question of the resignation of The Executive Committee of be originals, not photocopies. The bishops due to age or ill health was UACCouncil refused to have its repre­ Dear Editor: daytime phone number and address of raised first and adopted in principle by sentatives continue to make all the the letter-writer must be given for the Second Vatican Council in its concessions to the UCCA. It was not the It is indeed a shame when such a fine verification purposes. Anonymous Document on the Pastoral Office of the UACCounciPs "intransigent unwilling­ newspaper as The Ukrainian Weekly letters or letters signed by fictitious Bishop of the Church. This general ness" to make concessions. In fact, as a loses its objective sense of news re­ persons will not be published. Please negotiator, I can't remember one con­ porting in favor of an occasional, principle, as a paragraph of the do­ keep letters concise and to the point. cession made by UCCA negotiators, subjective analysis of the news. I am especially by Mr. Lozynskyj. referring specifically to comments made -Г We can appreciate the UCCA's desire by your reporter and associate editor, WASHINGTON UPDATE to be in a position to announce an Marta Kolomayets, in the May 7 front­ agreenient to unify our Ukrainian page lead story titled "Borecky denies community at their 15th Congress in reports he resigned." from the UNA Washington Office 1988. But the UCCA negotiators surely In her article, Ms. Kolomayets men­ did not show any willingness to com­ tions a press release issued by the |l іВиШ. promise on any pertinent points. They Secretariat of the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Catholics added to the insisted that the UACCounciPs repre­ Synod of Bishops that was received by Legislative alert two bills before either one is enacted by sentatives give in on all matters. The Ukrainian Weekly through the the Congress. 4. The resolution of the National courtesy of the Office of Communica­ Legislation introduced in the House Individuals interested in writing to Council of the UCCA to break off all tions of the Ukrainian Catholic Diocese and the Senate would establish certain members of Congress about these bills negotiations until the 1992 UCCA of Stamford. I was personally quite categories of nationals of the Soviet should point out that the Ukrainian convention is the best proof of the disturbed that Ms. Kolomayets, in her Union and Indochina to be presumed to Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox intentions of UCCA. article, freely quotes passages from that be subject to persecution and, there­ Churches are the only Churches out­ 5. The thinly veiled statements by Mr. press release while The Ukrainian fore, qualified for refugee status. Cur­ lawed in the Soviet Union and both are Lozynskyj that only the Ukrainian Weekly chose not to print that same rently, each individual must prove that heavily persecuted. The congressmen Liberation Front is a true defender of release in its entirety. he or she was subject to persecution. should be urged to legislatively designate Ukraine's independence shows clearly The bills, H.R. 2022 introduced in the the members of the Ukrainian Ortho- However, what I found quite of­ his intentions to picture all other House by Rep. Bruce Morrison CD- dox and the Ukrainian Catholic fensive and accusatory was the next-to- political groups as promoters of federa­ Conn.) and S. 893 introduced in the Churches in the Soviet Union as cate­ last paragraph of her article, which I lism or confederation. Nothing is Senate by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D- gories of aliens subject to persecution. quote in its entirety: "What is inte­ further from the truth. The Ukrainian N.J.), give the attorney general the The key individuals in the Senate to resting about the press release, however, Liberation Front does not have any authority to designate the groups "sub­ be contacted about S. 893 are Sens. is the fact that it was sent out on the right to claim monopoly for this idea, ject to persecution." However, both Joseph Biden, Strom Thurmond and letterhead of the Synod of Bishops, yet defended by our Ukrainian ancestors bills already designate two groups from Frank Lautenberg and the mailing ad­ the last time the Synod met as such was and crystallized in the 1918 Fourth the Soviet Union — Jews and Evangeli­ dress is: The Honorable , United in the fall of 1987. All legislative Universal of the Ukrainian National cal Christians - as "targets of perse­ States Senate, Washington, D.C. decisions can be made only by the Republic, as heir of the Ukrainian states cution" which may put other groups 20510. Synod of Bishops. Any minor decisions of Kiev, Halych and the Kozak era. seeking such status at a disadvantage. The key individuals in the House to can be made by the governing body of If the legislation passes in its current be contacted about H.R. 2022are Reps. 6. Then again, Mr. Lozynskyj admits bishops, or at least five bishops. Thus it form other groups, such as Ukrainian Jack Brooks, Hamilton Fish and Bruce that the Ukrainian Liberation Front has is not clear who issued the press release Catholics and Orthodox, will have to rely Morrison, and the mailing address is: been, for the past 40 years, "the major about the clarification on the retire­ on the attorney general to designate them The Honorable , U.S. House of underpinning of the UCCA," and yet for ment of bishops." Such a subjective as "targets of persecution." It would be Representatives, Washington, D.C. the past nine years the UCCA has been statement suggests some odor of foul preferable to have Ukrainian Orthodox 20515. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989 9

BACK IN THE USSR At a U.S.-SovJet forum On a fact-finding tour on life with liuman riglits with journalists, scholars by Maria Demtschuk Ukrainian participants by Roma Hadzewycz On the Neva River

National problems in Ukraine have The U.S. delegation consisted of 32 PARTI Once in Leningrad we headed for recently been featured on the front Americans - including three Ukrai­ our hotel located directly across the pages of The Washington Post and The nian Americans: Chrystyna Lapychak, It took me nearly 33 years to get to winding Neva River from the historic New York Times and the weekly maga­ associate editor of The Ukrainian Ukraine, but in the second half of 19881 battleship Aurora of October Revolu­ zine U.S. News and World Report. Weekly; Danylo Horodysky, co-chair­ traveled there twice: first in August for a tion fame, from which the signal to Artists and speakers from the Ukrai­ man of VISA; and this writer, who is monthlong visit as a tourist, and then in storm the Winter Palace was fired. nian SSR have made appearances executive secretary of AHRU. November as part of a 59-member fact- During the next three days, we saw before Canadian and American au­ Two groups from the United States finding delegation of journalists and the usual tourist sights, such as the diences in unprecedented numbers. met in Helsinki for an orientation scholars traveling under the aegis of the Hermitage and St. Isaac's Cathedral, Feelers for trade have been sent out for meeting chaired by the U.S. coordina­ World Media Association. traveled to the Summer Palace in joint ventures between Americans and tor. Rabbi Sheldon Moss of San Diego. Because I was traveling in the capa­ Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoye Selo), and Ukrainians in the USSR. All kinds of He stated that numerous attempts were city of a journalist, it is the second trip enjoyed an evening at the Kirov Ballet conferences have been taking place made in pre-conference meetings to upon which I will focus this article. featuring "Don Quixote." both in America and the USSR. invite unofficial human rights groups Between November 10 and 20, our On our final day in Leningrad we Something is happening in Ukraine from the Soviet Union to the confe­ group visited Leningrad, Kiev and attended a briefing at the city's Union of that bears our scrutiny. rence. However, the Soviet Peace Moscow (in that order), where we met Journalists with representatives of four The much-heralded policies of glas- Committee was chosen to serve as our with Soviet officials and journalists at of Leningrad's major newspapers and nost and perestroika promulgated by counterpart for this conference. It was scheduled meetings, took in the sights TASS. Mikhail Gorbachev have caused some agreed however, that the dissident and met with Soviet citizens on our The format for the meeting, actually public figures to declare that the cold groups would be allowed observer own. more like a dialogue, was that one side war is over. Others have their doubts status and would be able to make This trip has resulted in several news was allowed to ask two questions, and about the sincerity of the Soviets and comments and present the issues of their stories published in The Weekly. As then the other; thus alternating until the the veracity of their statements. organizations. promised in the year-end issue of The time allotted for the briefing was ex­ It is recognized that the Soviet Weekly, this article will attempt to hausted. In their discussions prior to the Union's centralized government in summarize the trip and offer some high­ Among the topics broached by our Moscow conference, some of the mem­ Moscow wants dialogue to improve the lights of our group's experiences as well group were: the new laws limiting public bers of the American delegation viewed economy. Military superiority is not as the roles played on the trip by Dr. demonstrations, sources of resistance to the Soviet Peace Committee as an enough; their economic system has David Marples of the Canadian Insti­ perestroika and pre-publication cen­ official public relations arm of the failed and a 71-year-old time bomb is tute of Ukrainian Studies (well-known sorship. The Soviet journalists asked Soviet regime. Many thought this exploding. to readers of this newspaper for his about President-elect George Bush, conference would be used by the Soviets In hopes of stemming the tide, the articles and analyses on current affairs Americans' attitudes toward perestroika, for propaganda purposes. Soviets are seeking remedies by new in the USSR), and this writer. whether it is true that there is a street or On the other hand, some of the economic reforms. Though one of the It was thanks to Dr. Marples, in fact, plaza in Washington named after An­ Americans who had lobbied the U.S. remedies for economic reform is the that I was invited, as editor of The drei Sakharov; and reactions to the Congress on various human rights right for individuals to commence their Ukrainian Weekly, to participate in the work of poet Joseph Brodsky. issues saw this conference as an exten­ own cooperatives, they are reaching out 1988 fact-finding tour of the USSR. Dr. One of the more interesting responses sion of their lobbying efforts, providing to foreign investors to aid them in Marples had been part of the 1987 was elicited by a question about the role an opportunity to speak directly with restructuring their economy and to help delegation that journeyed to the USSR of the Soviet press. the Soviets. Still others thought this to improve the standard of living by (he had described some of his expe­ "I would accept the role of 'socialist be a mission of peace, and still others forming joint ventures. They have also riences in an article published in The opposition' for the press. And it plays were seeking ways of promoting demo­ placed orders with other foreign coun­ Weekly), and he suggested my name to this role, because, more than any other cracy in the Soviet Union. tries for long-needed consumer the sponsors of the 1988 tour. body or organization in this country, it The conference in Moscow began goods. Thus I found myself in the company can widely describe certain arguments with a candelight ceremony. Five Ameri­ 1 attended some of the initial confe­ of a diverse group of people: journalists and criticize various things, such as cans expressed their expectations for rences on U.S.-Soviet face-to-face from Forbes magazine. The Washing­ world matters," said one of our hosts. this conference; the Soviets followed dialogue held in Chautauqua, N.Y., ton Times, and numerous smaller news­ Another journalist responded: "Our suit, among them Igor Blishenko, an Virginia, San Francisco and Moscow. papers and radio stations across the press now just gathers and registers academician and member of the Soviet Americans for Human Rights in U- U.S., free-lance correspondents, a public opinion. It also forms public Peace Committee who stated "I am kraine served as a counterbalance syndicated columnist, scholars from opinion, to a certain extent, because it proud to be a Ukrainian and represent a throughout these conferences. These Hebrew University in Jerusalem and gives people a chance to discuss and minority of 40 million." forums gave some indications about UCLA, journalism/ communications hold a variety of opinions, unlike a few To ensure that everyone understood the value of discussing human rights professors from Boston University, the years ago.... I think the main task of the each others' concerns and could move in issues with those living under the Soviet University of Maryland and Louisiana press is to extract ideas from wherever the same direction at the conference, system. State University, as well as publishers, they appear and make them available "clearing" caucuses were held prior to The conference in Virginia, for in­ businesspersons and elected officials, for nationwide discussion." each session. Following the general stance, formed a variety of task forces among them North Carolina state Following up on this discussion assembly, the groups entered their on issues such as business and trade, representatives and the mayor of about the role of the Soviet press, after seminars. human rights, ecology, religion, educa­ Bloomfield, Iowa. the conclusion of the formal question- tion, computers, space and media. The and-answer session I approached one of idea of this dialogue session was to The group hailed from 19 states, Burning issues Canada, Japan, Israel, Great Britain the Soviet journalists. I asked Nikolai identify the problems that concern both Sivach, an editor at the newspaper and Honduras. A few knew the Russian countries and together find innovative Smena, if the press in Leningrad and Sessions commenced with each dele­ language; none other than Dr. Marples joint solutions for them. elsewhere in the Russian republic had gate conveying a "burning issue" to the and this writer knew any Ukrainian. written about the much slower pace of assembled. Our burning issue concern­ Most of our group left from New perestroika in Ukraine and whether it National rights on agenda ed cultural, economic, political and York's JFK Airport bound for Hel­ had attempted to analyze the reasons national rights and the Soviets acted sinki, Finland; other group members for this. I asked also whether the press What goes on in these dialogues? I defensively on this issue. Responding to joined us there. The next leg of our trip had reported on the brutal response by will take the Moscow conference as an my question on how the Soviets viewed was to be a five-hour bus trip to the authorities in Lviv to a public example of what went on. Conceived at national problems that occurred in the Leningrad with a stop for lunch at the meeting there on August 4. Mr. Sivach the conference in Virginia, the task force Baltic states last November, a delegate Russian border town of Vyborg. on human rights formed an unprece­ described the surfacing secessionist replied simply that he had been out of dented exchange initiative dubbed demands by the Baits as being nothing At the border we had to disembark, Leningrad at the time and did not know U.S./Soviet Forum for Life with Hu­ new, although another stated that they take ail our luggage and proceed the answer. man Rights, this forum became a reality were completely taken by surprise. One through border control. Most of us Unfortunately, at this point our in Moscow. In a pre-conference meeting wanted to know how the Americans passed through without incident, conversation was cut short by other in San Francisco, I had placed the would feel about returning some Cali­ though one of our group who had a new eager questioners - with us outnum­ ''national rights'' issue on the agenda; it fornia territory to the Mexicans. Ano­ molded-type suitcase, watched as So­ bering the Soviet journalists by about was accepted and the seminar was ther speculated on how the United viet border guards took it apart with a eight to one, it was a less than ideal subsequently titled "National Ethnic States would react if Chinatown in screwdriver and examined it carefully. situation. Self-Expression." New York expressed its desire to be­ Another, who was carrying a laptop Other issues on the agenda included: come a part of China. computer, was scrutinized as well. The On to Kiev "Freedom of Religion," "Society and Although the Soviets presented the two buses also were thoroughly in­ Human Rights,""Education on Human Americans with a picture of democratic spected under the glare of spotlights. Kiev was our next stop - but only for Rights," "Ecology," "Immigration and disagreement among themselves, they In the snow, the trip took twice as two days. Thus, I was anxious to arrive Emigration." (Continued on page 13) long as expected. (Continued on page 14) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1989 No. 21

closed and ballot boxes stuffed with National... falsified ballots. A similar blatantly Honorable Mikhail Sergeyevich, Catholics' appeal... we turn to you as to a wise kindly (Continued from page 1) falsified raising of voter narticination percentages took place in Azerbaidzhan. disposed, and far-seeing government (Continued from page 7) In Byelorussia, things have actually In light of subsequent events, in­ activist who should understand that gotten worse - on March 30, the enemy. There is no fact that could this continued illegal status of our cluding the new repressive Soviet decree prove that our underground Church Byelorussian Supreme Soviet passed a of April 8, the consensus remained that Church is by far not a good alterna­ new decree making the display of stood against the Soviet government. tive. The consolidation and streng­ participation in the elections was in­ And this even though we have been national symbols and the dissemination appropriate and counterproductive. thening of our Church through 40 of unofficial information criminal acts. terribly persecuted for over 40 years. years of underground life, destroys The EANC reported that those pre­ Because Ukrainian activists defend­ The Tatars agreed that their situation sent at the meeting agreed that what are the dreams of bureaucrats and chau­ ed their rights and revealed the vinism that she will cease to exist. is as bad if not worse than before. being portrayed in Moscow as local unlawful persecution of Ukrainian Immigration to Crimea is blocked by conflicts between different nationalities Legalization of our Church will Catholics, they were accused of benefit the state. People without an administrative and other means. De­ are, instead, clearly centrally provoked ''agitation against the social and monstrations are repressed by the and even planned. The participants ideal cannot be active members of the political order." Today and always, state and patriots. If believers are levying of very high fines. decided that this Soviet "divide and we support the rights and freedoms The Armenian representative claimed conquer" strategy should be exposed. looked upon as people of a different which are guaranteed by the Soviet sort, this instills in them a feeling of that searches and detentions take place The Armenians and Azerbaidzhanis at­ constitution. That support streng­ night and day. tending this meeting were able to sit at unfulfillment. It makes them unable thens our loyalty to the Soviet go­ to take an active role in creating The Azerbaidzhanis reported that the the same table, to have friendly discus­ vernment. local populace is totally repressed by sions, to treat each other with respect, social and economic life. showing again that it is the Soviet We and our faithful bless the social the party apparatus. Attempts to orga­ change which you have begun. We With deep respect. nize a popular front have met with government which is waging war The clergy of the against its own people. "This is the only pray for you and for the intelligent harassment, questioning by the KGB, government officials who are helping Ukrainian Catholic Church, Lviv expulsion from the party and firings conclusion that can be drawn when a government uses tanks and chemical you build a more just and more free from jobs. state. In perestroika we see the Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk Georgian events were the most dra­ weapons against peaceful citizens," Bishop Filemon Kurchaba stated Mr. Kelam. guarantee of democratic change in matic. The Georgians presented a one- our mutual home, our state. That Bishop Sofron Dmyterko and-a-half-hour-long video production Sergei Grigoryants said he felt that home we should have not on paper Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk which showed Soviet use of tanks and four years of democratization has but in reality. There should be free­ Rev. Mykola Simkailo gas against their people. shown that the only power left to the dom of conscience equally for be­ Rev. Hryhory Simhailo There were differing reports on the regime is power in the form of tanks. lievers and for atheists. And a gua­ Rev. Volodymyr Viytyshyn recent elections in various areas. The The participants agreed that such shows rantee of freedom, is guaranteed Rev. Ivan Senkiv Latvians were the only ones who felt of force have served only to radicalize the specifically to every nation and Rev. Taras Senkiv that participating in the elections had opposition movements. The forceful makes true friends among peoples. A Rev. Petro Prybyla achieved certain positive ends, mostly in suppression of demands for self-deter­ guarantee to respect people's indivi­ Rev. Yosyf Moroz the area of publicity. mination and independence has result­ duality ensures greater understand­ Rev. Ihor Vozniak All of the other groups had support­ ed in more such demands being made. ing among all in Christian love and Rev. Mykhailo Kosylo ed, out of principle, an election boycott. The peoples in the Soviet Union are forgiveness. Hieromonk Mykhailo Havryliv Completely opposed to any participa­ realizing that without political freedom tion were the Armenians and Geor­ and independence, solutions to cultural pated, for example, that in Gomel gians. and economic problems are not pos­ NarodychL. Oblast the total number of excess As it turned out, the election results sible. (Continued from page 1) thyroid gland cancers over the next 30 had been falsified the most in these There was also agreement that the removal of its population of 6,000. years would be 60, and the number of republics. Voter turnout in Ar­ Soviet Union, as a totalitarian regime, The table below indicates the fatal cases of cancer and leukemia in menia had been around 27 to 31 percent will not be able to turn back the tide of villages that are being evacuated at. this same region would be ;64. until shortly before the end of the history, that there cannot be a complete present, and their location in the raion. 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power plants, and reiterated the sugges­ Montreal Ukrainians... tion of a Chornobyl Forum and a UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP (Continued from page 4) Chornobyl Fund. Summer 1989 rities. The Ukrainian community in In connection with the Chornobyl Montreal is still divided over the issue of anniversary, the Montreal branch of the UKRAINIAN DANCE WORKSHOP AND DANCE CAMP whether such demands should be hand­ Ukrainian Canadian Committee sent at Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, N.Y. ed to the Soviet representatives in briefs to the mayor of Montreal and the Roma Pryma Bohachevska, Artistic Director Canada. premier of Quebec. Montreal was The Chornobyl explosion took place congratulated for becoming a nuclear- I DANCE WORKSHOP - advanced dancers from 16 yrs. of age on April 26, but the demonstration was free city and asked to organize an June 25--July 16 intentionally planned for April 23. The exhibit on Chornobyl, similar to the one I DANCE CAMP - from 8-16 yrs of age reason for this was not only that one can it is planning on Hiroshima and Naga­ July 23 - August 5 expect a better turnout on a weekend saki. The government of Quebec was I Teaching staff: VALENTINA PEREYASLAVETS. ROMA PRYMA, ШВА WOLYNEC than on a weekday. It was important asked to include the Chornobyl disaster that the diaspora have its demonstra­ in the school curriculum. I Ukrainian folk dance, character, mime, ballet and choreography classes tions first, so that the news of this event On the whole, the Chornobyl remem­ I Lectures on the origin and ethnographical history of Ukrainian customs and costumes could be conveyed to Kiev and Lviv brance in Montreal attained the or­ For information and registration write or call before the commemorations began in ganizers'objectives. The Ukrainian UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP ft WORKSHOP Ukraine (they are always held on April community was mobilized and made 26). In this way the diaspora can sensitive to the real danger of another c/o Roma Pryma Bohachevsky encourage and influence the processes national genocide. The presence at the 523 East 14th Street, apt. 3B, New York, N.Y. 10009 m (212) 677-7187 now taking place in Ukraine, organizers demonstration of five priests, many Deadrme - June 15th, 1989 noted. children and young people is a living During the demonstration, the parti­ testimony to this new awareness. One cipants received a trilingual brochure outlying community (Lachine) even specially prepared for the occasion. It hired a special bus to bring its children l| UKRAINIAN SAVINGS contained the list of demands for a to Montreal. nuclear-free Ukraine and the highlights Montrealers were informed of the \іШі '^^^ ^^'^^ ASSOCIATION of a telephone conversation with Ivan events by the local CBC-TV station and Drach held several days earlier. Mr. a photograph of the demonstration in Drach expressed the concern in Ukraine the tabloid newspaper. The Montreal over the Chyhyryn and other nuclear Daily News. ESTABLISHE^^D 1918 MAC . . . SIMPLY CONVENIENT. SIMPLY FREE! We Are Here For You! Branch Office 1321 West LindleyAve. Philadelphia, PA 19141 (215) 3297080

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liberation of Ukraine," he concluded. Shcherbak, in one sense, is only advo­ Two-day conference... Mr. Rudenko's speech was followed Portrait... cating the onset of perestroika in bv a video oresentation. featuring (Continued from page 2) Ukraine. Further, he has imposed his Although the same 1987 law assigned Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, who heads his Zclenxi Svit IS compatible with own limits very carefully: important responsibilities to the re­ own consulting firm on trade with Mikhail Gorbachev's demand for a "It is no secret that under the blanket publican level, "the republics have in Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland. In his more democratic society, but at the of democratization and glasnost, some practice, very limited decision-making video Mr. Hawrylyshyn focused on his same time, many of its goals have the people are profiteering from the trust powers, because for any republic all own experiences in trade with the effect - whether direct or indirect - of and inexperience of their listeners, and decisions have to be approved by Soviets and offered some tips to slowing down the progress of pere- are permitting irresponsible attacks on Moscow," said Prof. Koropeckyj. "If businesses interested in the prospects of stroika. Thus in Ukraine, although socialism. They are trying to push there is any conflict of interest between doing business in Ukraine. nuclear power was to have been respon­ people on an illegal path. We all have to the governments, there is no doubt Ukraine has been isolated politically, sible for up to 60 percent of electricity learn to live in democratic conditions, ^ about who wins." culturally, socially and economically for generation by the year 2000, Dr. to educate ourselves in a high political Ukraine suffers from an outdated decades, except for limited contacts Shcherbak has pushed Zelenyi Svit culture. Democracy is incompatible economic structure also because a large with some socialist countries and U.N. strongly against it. He impatiently with irresponsibility in word and deed.'' percent, over 14 percent in the 1960s, of groups, he said. "Foreign trade contacts rebuffs the rhetorical question that the In short, a radical reform of society its national income is transfered from were virtually nonexistent." Soviet Union lacks alternatives to should not be translated into the down­ Ukraine to other republics of the One of the greatest benefits of eco­ nuclear power, noting that the power of fall or overthrow of that society. USSR, and in return union investment nomic trade is "the socializing dimen­ wind and sun are underused there; the On the other hand. Dr. Shcherbak in Ukraine is very low, he said. These sion," said Mr. Hawrylyshyn, and these country, he points out, ranks 67th in the can hardly be called a conformist on points have been brought up in the Ukrainians are "yearning to interact world in the use of such resources. many issues. Currently he is working on recently published draft of the program with outsiders." Dr. Shcherbak denies that he and his a book about the Great Famine in of the Popular Movement or Rukh, for The general economic potential of peers seek a return to the "dark ages" Ukraine of 1932-1933 and his estimated Restructuring in Ukraine. Ukraine is high and it could offer a when writers will once again have to total of victims of that famine — 6 to 8 Mykola Rudenko, chairman of the. number of desired products, including, work by candlelight. The key problem, million - by far exceeds the totals External Representation of the Ukra- specialty agricultural products, crafts­ he declares, is the excessive wastage of reached by even the most pessimistic of nian Helsinki Union, offered a political men's products, light industrial pro­ electricity and the fact that the authori­ Western scholars. dissident's viewpoint on the issue of ducts (although the quality would have ties in the Soviet power industry, On both Chernobyl and the famine. trade with Ukraine following Dr. Ko- to improve), and good quality marble, blinkered; have perceived no alterna­ Dr. Shcherbak takes the position of a ropeckyj's discussion. he said. The Ukrainian economy would tives to extensive nuclear power deve­ profound Ukrainian patriot. A person "Liberation begins with the question do well to move away from heavy lopment. What is required is the exten­ without a nationality, he maintains, is of an independent economy," said the industry and energy and focus on high sive introduction of energy-saving akin to a nomad, sometone who has lost former political prisoner and longtime technology, tourism and the service technology, he says, to reduce the huge the struggle of life. Therefore, the Taras national rights activist. "Now is a good industry. losses in energy transfer to consuming Shevchenko Ukrainian Language So­ time to begin trade with Ukraine Mr. Hawrylyshyn also offered a list regions. ciety, founded in February, must assist because Ukraine has greater economic of trade organizations and contacts in If one were to try to summarize his the development of the Ukrainian independence. Kiev for businesspeople interested in political standpoint, then it would be language and national culture, it must "There are two approaches to trade surveying the prospects of conducting that of a reformer or populist, backed preserve the traditions of the Ukrainian with Ukraine. The first is: we have to business in Ukraine, including, UK- by a strong patriotism and belief in the people. trade with Ukraine in general, with the RIMPEX, the Ukrainian SSRChamber future of the Soviet system. Finally, Dr. Shcherbak manifests things the Ukrainian people are pro­ of Commerce and Industry, BusNex In November 1988, Dr. Shcherbak what might appear to be a naive identi­ ducing. When Western capital begins and the Ukraina Society. found himself on the same platform in fication with "the people.'Mt is remi­ investing in Ukraine it will be doing a central Kiev with a much more radical niscent somewhat of the romantic great service for the country," said Mr. The Saturday afternoon and Sunday ecologist. Academician Fadei Shi- revolutionary sentiment of the 19th Rudenko through an interpreter. sessions mil be covered next week in punov from Moscow, and more century, but since it lacks Utopian goals, "The second approach is to deal not Part 11. nationalistic activists, such as Ivan it becomes a more practical pheno­ with government enterprises, but to Makar. menon. Perhaps it may be described trade exclusively with cooperatives, and It would be misleading, however, to most succinctly as a rejection of the to support the cooperative movement. 1 associate him closely with such diverse "ivory towef intellectual, or the physi­ favor this idea," he said, "because it is BUY personalities. Indeed, the question cian totally engrossed in his work. truly a people's capital, and they can arises as to why Dr. Shcherbak would Instead, Dr. Shcherbak perceives the liberate themselves." UNITED be permitted to make his speech in full, real value of his work to date, and and receive extensive coverage in the doubtless his future as a deputy, in But among the thousands of co­ SfATES Soviet press, whereas those of Mr. getting to know people, sensing their operative throughout Ukraine there Makar and, to a lesser extent. Dr. feelings, their joys and their problems. are many that are run by families and SAVINGS Shipunov, were largely ignored. "One must be among the people, and are not capable of entering into foreign BONDS The answer lies in the degree of share with them equally in both happi­ trade, said Mr. Rudenko. recalcitrance. To date, while the Ukrai­ ness and grief He professes himself "We should give the first priority to For the current nian Communist Party leadership has delighted that, whereas in the past his cooperatives and make the capital rate call... not been affected substantially by the readers would be cautious and guarded available to the Ukrainian people, but 1 I-800.US-BONDS changes introduced under Mr. Gorba­ in conversations with him, today they know we cannot limit ourselves to this," chev, intellectuals such as Dr. Shcher­ will speak out on issues that concern he said. "The laws of nature do not bak have helped to fill an ever-growing them. allow capital to be subordinated only to void. Notably, when Mr. Gorbachev As a populist and as an ecologist. Dr. ideas. Business has its o\yn laws. visited Kiev last February, he spent a Shcherbak has gained a considerable "We have to encourage Western considerable amount of time with following in Kiev. He notes that he businessmen to invest capital in U- leading writers, some of whom — receives large delegations from far-off kraine. Western capital, American including Dr. Shcherbak - openly villages that are concerned with the capital, and also Ukrainian American called for the removal of Volodymyr construction of potentially contami­ capital will play a large role in the Shcherbytsky as Ukrainian party chief. nating factories in the vicinity. To the authorities in Moscow, such "One feels responsible," he states, voices may not be unwelcome. Dr. "for what is happening on earth.'' 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concerns. A friend of Sergei Grigor- was not in the lead to be picked. Some At a U.S.-Soviet... USSR. There was no comment from the yants (editor of the magazine Glasnost) expressed a desire for a democracy in (Continued from page 9) Soviets on his statement. informed one American that Mr. iJri- Ukraine that resembled Sweden's. were, however, united in their answers Being that the right of self-expression goryants had just been rearrested and on national rights which reflected a was denied to unofficial public groups, asked him to intervene for his release. To participate or not? Brezhnev-era policy. one dissident observer brought to light We met a Ukrainian engineer and a the problem of trying to register groups party member who had openly voiced Whether or not the Ukrainian com- When our colleagues saw that the munity supports U.S.-USSR ex­ Soviets were eager to quickly dispose of such as his in the Soviet Union. Ame­ his opinion against the regime that had ricans commented that no group in the cost him his job and now was seeking a changes, there is a great deal of interest the thorny issue of self4letermination, in the United States in its favor. They their well-intentioned, if not rosy, views U.S. was reauired to be registered with way out of the Soviet Union. the government, except for tax pur­ are a form of dialogue that will continue of the Soviets diminished. The Soviets - with or without Ukrainian partici­ said there were more pressing issues at poses. ^ Reaction in Ukraine A Soviet delegate retorted that there pation. With Ukrainian participation, hand and that we should move on to Touring Moscow left me with a we can serve as a counterbalance, something that both groups could agree was no need to register this group be­ cause of the same work being accom­ startling impression: it was not the raising the real issues in Ukraine. These on, and stated they would return to the cosmopolitan city that I had imagined. exchanges can be utilized to help issue of national rights later. Apparent­ plished by an existing official group, thus a duplication of efforts would not The residents of this city lived in their promote the idea of democracy and ly, this sensitive issue had hit a nerve own communities — including a Ukrai­ establish professional contact that which indicated inflexibility on dis­ be in the best interest of the Soviet Union. The Americans stated that in the U.S. nian section in Moscow. Soviet attempts would be in Ukraine's best interest. cussing more freedom for Ukrainian to assimilate its population were not In recent appearances in the U.S. and and other national groups in the USSR. many groups can be formed for the same cause. evident in this capital city. Canada, Ivan Dzyuba, author of "Inter­ Questions were raised about guaran­ As the conference ended and our nationalism or Russification?" and tees for Jews who wanted to remain in Human rights task force American colleagues were returning to literary critic, asserted his most recent the Soviet Union and wanted to be able the U.S., we three Ukrainians continued position concerning language, political to learn Hebrew and practice their faith. As this Moscow conference drew to a our journey to the Ukrainian city of and cultural self-determination for Danylo Horodysky's concern was close, a proposal in our seminar by Lviv. There we met and spoke to some Ukraine. His colleague Raisa Ivan- family visits. Jonathan Freedman to establish a non­ of the members of Ukrainian dissi­ chenko charmed her audience when she A concern of the Soviet delegation governmental human rights task force dent groups. We were interested in how highlighted parts of Ukrainian history was the American reaction to the was adopted. The Soviets felt that the they viewed these Soviet/American being researched to fill in the "blank scheduled CSCE(Commission on Secu­ plethora of human rights issues could exchanges and asked them if they feel spots" and told us that street names in rity and Cooperation in Europe) human not be addressed immediately, but they we should continue to participate in Ukraine were being restored to their rights conference to be hosted by the were willing to begin with several. The these U.S.-USSR dialogue sessions. original Ukrainian names. Mykola USSR in 1991. Another Soviet delegate human rights concerns they were willing They encouraged us to take advan­ Zhulynsky addressed the issue of reli­ stated that he had asked Sen. Alfonse to address were the following: freedom tage of every opportunity available to gion. All of the visiting Ukrainians D'Amato about the prevailing anti- for national minorities, freedom of conduct dialogue directly with the reassured us that in the very near future, Semitism in the U.S. and that the religion, immigration and emigration, Soviets on the national rights issue. Ukrainian will be the official language senator was unable or unwilling to reply and family visits. The commission Forums such as these are unavailable to of Ukraine. to his question. would also investigate systematic viola­ them. They remarked that these forums Questions arise about the sudden­ The session on freedom of religion tions of human rights and recommend are an extension of their message to the ness of all of these exchanges and produced a heated dialogue concerning remedies for them. Soviets on this issue. appearances of people from the Soviet the legalization of the Ukrainian Ca­ Since this was set up to be a non­ There was a great deal of excitement Union? What is the significance of these tholic Chuch by the Soviet government. governmental commission, it will be in Ukraine at that time. Choirs were overtures? Are democratization and Archimandrite Feofan of the Russian interesting to see what recommenda­ singing more patriotic songs at con­ Union? Are glasnost and perestroika a Orthodox Church presented a subjec­ tions the Soviets have in mind present­ certs. Some people were busy obtaining lasting policy, or are they a last gasp by tive history of the Church by explaining ing candidates for this commission. the words of the Ukrainian national Mr. Gorbachev, an attempt to save the that legalization presented a problem For many in the American delegation anthem and learning its melody from empire? because of the anti-Soviet role that it this was the first direct citizens' dialo­ each other. ^ , Why the new severe punitive laws?; had played in World War II. gue with the Soviets, and indeed a new Others were involved discussing Are the Soviet authofitiesi hoping tb The statements made by the clergy­ experience. Most of the Americans democracy, as if it were already granted stem the tide of the tiational movement? men caused a reaction not only from the want to continue to talk and meet again. but implementation was waiting for a Is internationalism Gorbachev's way of American delegation but from Soviet (Currently, arrangements are being model of democracy to be chosen solving the national problem, or will his members as well. made to reconvene this forum in the fall before it could be asserted. Meetings method of resolving unrest in Ukraine Ms. Lapychak explained Ukrainian in San Diego.) Throughout the confe­ discussed which form of democracy be similar to the type used in recent Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's role rence, the Soviets listened very carefully would best suit Ukraine's needs. Al­ protests in Georgia, i.e., military might, during World War II and his impor­ and noted the concerns of the Ame­ though many enjoy emulating Ame­ poison gas, shootings and beatings? tance to Ukrainian Catholics in western ricans. ricans in many ways, our democracy Everyone is waiting for the answer. Ukraine. An interesting sidelight was ^ rally in In addition, Soviet delegate Jurij Moscow's Gorky Park whose theme Rozenbaum stated the the Soviets were was perestroika and glasnost. A fea­ presently giving consideration to le­ tured speaker was the outspoken editor WAS IT A CRIME galizing the Ukrainian Catholic Church. of the magazine Ogonyok, Vitaliv Koro- tych, who later became a candidate for to repatriate 2,000,000 Ukrainians from Western The conference in Moscow involved the new Congress of People's Deputies. meetings both during the day and Soviet troops and militia were seen in Europe to Soviet Russia to be murdered by evening. The days were long and tiring, abundance; trucks were standing by Stalin or die in his concentration camps? and the evenings were consumed with prepared to haul away demonstrators. review meetings and reassessing the There was a war-like atmosphere. events at the conference table. At one of Thousands of Soviets gathered and these meetings an American colleague listened to speeches from the platform Lord Aldington says "NO" became excited over the national issue condemning Stalin's atrocities. Nikolai Tolstoy says "YES" due to the uprisings that were occurring Once the presence of Americans in in the republics and suggested that the the crowd became known, local people idea of establishing a commonwealth of sought them out with their individual nations be proposed to the Soviets. An English court will decide if it was a crime at the Dissident factions from the Soviet RESTAURANT trial of Aldington V. Tolstoy if the 5600,000 for the Union were given limited time to be heard. It was stated that non-govern­ WENDY'S Now Hiring defence can be raised. mental groups had great difficulties in Crew Positions receiving permits to hold public meet­ ings, with the exception of anti-Semitic Full or Part Time groups. One of the Americans suggested Day or Night Shifts that these groups perhajps had closer Up to S6.00 to start. If you believe it was a crime, send your contribution to connection to the right-wing donserva- 3 annual salary feview^. tive group in the Soviet goverhment. Apply in person at: ''Forced Repatriation Defence Fund" A doctoral student from a group WEhibrs c/o J. B. Gregorovich, Trustee called "Humanitarian'' expressed his 301 us. Route 10 (telephone: 416 767 1350) concern for national minorities and Roxbury. N.J. 28 Riverview Gardens suggested that the Soviets consider his (201)9271886 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6S 4E5 group to function in an advisory capa­ Equal opportunity employer M/F city. 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ments in Ukraine. denouncing the Ukrainian party first Our final stop in Kiev was another On a fact-finding... When we expressed an interest in see­ secretary. meeting with local journalists at the (Continued from page 9) ing the News from Ukraine operation Significantly, a petition at the rally headquarters of the Ukrainian Society in Kiev, but, as luck would have it, a (which we thought was in the same addressed to the governments of the for Friendship and Cultural Relations snowstorm delayed our flight. For a building as the society), a car was again USSR and Ukrainian SSR, demanded with Foreign Countries. The meeting while it looked as if we would be provided to drive us there. At the an immediate halt to construction of was chaired by Georgi Tikholaz, vice- spending another night in Leningrad, editorial offices we spoke briefly with new nuclear plants and new reactors at president of the society, known in but finally we took off. We arrived in Viktor Stelmakh, editor-in-chief, and existing stations, as well as the suspen­ shorthand form as the Druzhba So­ Kiev late at night, and the dinner we Volodimir Kanash, deputy editor-in- sion of operations at Chornobyl and the ciety. It was conducted in Russian. were to have at the Rus Hotel turned chief. Among the topics broached was eventual shutdown of all nuclear power First Mr. Tikholaz told us about the into a midnight snack. There was the Great Famine of 1932-1933 about facilities in the republic. work of the Friendship Society, in­ obviously no time for any activity that which the newspaper had written. It was clear that behind the dissatisac- cluding a recent visit to New Jersey. He evening. Later that evening we rejoined the tion over ecological issues lies a pro­ asked if any of us were from New Jersey. The next day was to be the most group for a panel presentation by found resentment about who in fact I immediately spoke up - in Ukrainian hectic during the entire trip. Dr. Mar- several members of our tour on various controls Ukraine and determines its fate - telling him that I was aware of the pies and 1 had an agenda of our own, aspects of developments in the USSR. in all spheres of activity. delegation's visit and that a group of us while the group members went off to see Dr. Marples spoke specifically on Mr. Shevchenko was asked: What is Ukrainians in that state had wanted to the city's sites, including the Percherska Ukraine, highlighting topics such as the your goal for Ukraine? "The goal of meet its members, but, unfortunately, Lavra complex where they spoke with a Millennium of Christianity, the famine every nation is to have its own govern­ there was no time on their busy sche­ monk. Brother Jonathan. Later, when of 1932-1933, Russification and the ment and to be its own master. Within a dule. some members of our group spoke Ukrainian language issue, the Chor- free and independent nation, there can As I spoke in Ukrainian, there was a excitedly about how wonderful it was nobyl accident, attempts to form a be an independent republic with sove­ murmur in the room, our master of that the Soviets had returned this popular front and other current topics. I reignty," he replied. "We should have ceremonies was caught off guard and, monastery to the Russian Orthodox later heard from tour group members our own ministries, foreign relations, according to one columnist who wrote Church, we had to provide a few facts that his talk was elucidating and extre­ military, and we should not need to ask about the incident, "his eyes narrowed about banned Ukrainian Churches not mely useful. Moscow to have our native language as noted by the good brother. into slits." Mr. Tikholaz appeared em^ I myself was not able to be at the the state language." barrassed and switched to Ukrainian, Dr. Marples and I, meanwhile, paid entire presentation as 1 had earlier Mr. Shevchenko spoke also about the but then quickly resumed speaking in several visits. First to the Institute for planned to speak with a Kiev contact. many mass meetings that had been held Russian after explaining that the in­ Social and Economic Problems of — or had been attempted - in Ukraine terpreter, our Intourist guide, Victoria Foreign Countries, affiliated with the Interview with Oles Shevchenlco during the past year. After such public Dudenko from Leningrad, did not Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, gatherings in Lviv began to draw at first know Ukrainian. then to the Association for Cultural That same evening, a group of us had thousands and then tens of thousands Getting back to the dialogue, our Relations with Ukrainians Abroad the opportunity to interview Oles - one meeting attracted 50,0(Ю persons group members asked about the be­ (Ukraina Society) and finally to the Shevchenko of the Kiev branch of the on June 21 - and a Democratic Front ginnings of a popular front in Ukraine, newspaper News from Ukraine. Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the to Promote Perestroika was about to be the Chornobyl accident, and about the At the institute we learned from Ukrainian Cuhurological Club. founded, the authorities in Ukraine language in which television broadcasts Leonid Leshchenko, head of the De­ Mr. Shevchenko told five members of took action. They began to overzea- in Kiev are aired. partment of Foreign Policy Concepts, our group - Bill Gertz of The Wash­ lously apply a new series of laws on and his colleagues that, as a result of My personal favorite, however, and ington Times, Richard Grenier, a co­ public demonstrations announced by incidentally the first question raised, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's lumnist for The Washington Times and the USSR Supreme Soviet on July 29 "new thinking," a scholarly work about was about the view from the Dnieper other publications, nationally syndi­ which severely limit marches, rallies and River. the Ukrainian diaspora was to be cated columnist Georgie Ann Geyer, public meetings. prepared. We also found out about the "I was shocked to see those monu­ Dr. Marples and this writer, who served As an example, Mr. Shevchenko ments (the "Motherland" monument latest developments in the case of as interpreter - that in Ukraine the cited the August 4 public meeting in Chernivtsi children who had developed and another marking the "reunifica­ entire Brezhnev apparatus still is in Lviv called by the Initiative Group of tion" of Ukraine with Russia) on the a mysterious illness (here, we learned place. He added that First Secretary of the Democratic Front to Promote Pere­ for the first time that a metal called right bank of the river. I think the Communist Party of Ukraine Volo- stroika. People were beaten with trun­ one of the loveliest panoramas in all of thallium appeared to be the cause of the dymyr Shcherbytsky "is the warden of cheons, dragged intp waiting police sickness); and about the latest work of the Soviet Union has been ruined." The this Brezhnev preserve." vehicles, dogs were set loose on the Tulsa, Okla., journalist then asked: the Ukrainian Writers' Union in regard In a wide-ranging two-and-a-half- to making Ukrainian the state language crowd, and more than 40 persons were "Was there any discussion about build­ hour interview at our hotel, a session detained and sentenced to 15-day terms ing these monuments... Would they be of the republic, as well as their demands that in all likelihood was bugged (our that more works be published in the of "administrative arrest." The day has constructed there today under the Ukrainian language. guest had to register as he entered the become known as "Bloody Thursday." policies of perestroika and glasnost?" hotel, his ID papers were examined and What then are the prospects for the The answer supplied noted that, no, While at the institute, we met Sta- the number of the room he was visiting future? Mr. Shevchenko responded, nislav Lazebnyk, first deputy chairman there had been no public discussion. But was duly noted), Mr. Shevchenko "Shcherbytsky, like Brezhnev, is not it was added that a similar monument of the board of the Ukraina Society, described what he said is a "catas­ eternal." Gorbachev "was not prepared which we had been planning to visit was to go up in Moscow a few years ago, trophe" in all areas of life in the for the nationalities question," he but public opinion was so negative that later that day. We were told a car could Ukrainian SSR - the largest non- continued. This was evident in his pick us up at our hotel in the afternoon the project has yet to be built. Russian republic in terms of popula­ reaction to the issue of Nagorno- Our hosts, meanwhile, also asked and bring us to the society's offices. tion. The Chornobyl nuclear disaster, Karabakh and that is why he keeps There Mr. Lazebnyk emphasized that some pertinent questions. The editor he explained, may have been an ecologi­ postponing the party plenum on na­ of the literary magazine Vsesvit, Oleh the Ukraina Society is "prepared to cal catastrophe, but it also is a symbol of cooperate with all Ukrainians regard­ tionality questions, he said. Mikitenko, asked which books we the catastrophic state of culture, the But there is a positive side. Mr. Americans would recommend and less of their political or religious convic­ economy, politics and spiritual life. tions," and we discussed recent deveiop- Shevchenko noted, "Gorbachev does asked us to write down the titles of five Mr. Shevchenko, 48, who served not have a definitive opinion on any­ books. (For the record, my list included seven years in labor camp and exile for thing. He is willing to let his opinions "Palimpsests," a collection of poetry by ''anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ evolve." the late Vasyl Stus, "Orlova Balka" by ganda," told our group about the first As Mr. Shevchenko left the Rus' Mykola Rudenko, "Zhovtyi Kniaz" by ecological meeting held in Kiev on April Hotel accompanied by two of our group Vasyl Barka, and "The Social Impact of 26, 1988, the second anniversary of the (Mr. Gertz and this writer) who decided the Chernobyl Diaster"by Dr. Marples. Chornobyl accident. The public meet­ to escort him home, there were plenty of Dr. Marples added "Anthology of ing was brutally broken up by police, uniformed and plainclothes police Ukrainian Poetry in Canada" edited by some 50 persons were detained. He milling about outside, apparently for Jars Balan to the list.) was given a 15-day sentence. intimidation purposes. As we got into a Mr. Tikholaz asked: "Why do so A second ecological meeting, held cab summoned down the street from the many Americans who come to Ukraine November 13, 1988, just two days hotel a uniformed policeman reported regard the Soviet Union as Russia, or at before our interview, took place with our movements over a radio. Having least call it Russia?" Our group mem­ official permission and was attended by left Mr Shevchenko near his apartment bers' response, in a nutshell: ignorance 10,(Ю0 persons. The slogans to be used complex across the Dnieper River, we and laziness. I thank Mr. Tikholaz for at the rally had to be submitted for returned to the hotel, where we were posing that question. approval by the authorities, Mr. Shev­ scrutinized by the doorman as several At the end of the session I found that chenko related. Among those allowed: burly men looked on. A thorough check many of the Kiev journalists wanted to ''All the truth about Chornobyl," was made of our hotel passes, a proce­ speak with me, and I with them, in "Complete glasnost in ecology," "Save dure that took much longer than one Ukrainian. In the brief time left, (we the land from atomic energy stations would reasonably expect. We, too, were were on our way to the airport) I spoke and bureaucrats." Prohibited were: to be intimidated. with them about the Millennium cele­ "Glasnost without a veil of secrecy," The next day security was especially brations - official and unofficial, "For a nuclear-free Ukraine" and tight at the hotel as every person perestroika's slow pace in Ukraine and "Greens unite." entering was asked to show a pass, while the fate of the Ukrainian Catholic and The meeting, though slated to last before the Shevchenko visit we came Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. four hours, was cut short after two and a and went as we pleased. Also, a small As I was leaving, a News from half, when speakers began to address group of us that had set out for a walk to Ukraine reporter asked me whether I issues other than ecology and nuclear the Bessarabsky Rynok (Bessarabian support perestroika. 1 replied: "Of I Snow-covered monument to Taras power, broaching the subject of forming Marketplace) found that we were being course, I only wish it would progress Shevchenko in Kiev. a democratic front in Ukraine and tailed, and quite obviously at that. much more quickly in Ukraine." No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21,1989

policies should be balanced by praise for director of the USIA, on this isstie. munity displayed its effectiveness in liSIA language... the exhibit s program and tor expanded The long-term goal should be a policy mobilizing to protest. It did not, how­ (Continued from page 6) contacts with Ukraine and all the decision by the Congress, the State ever, show that farsightedness to pursue Odessa and Donetske. republics of the Soviet Union. I suggest Department, and the USIA that Ukrai­ its action to its logical conclusion. In a ^ 4. Ukrainian organizations should that the community should seek con­ nian will be the principal language used period of expanding contacts between serve as private sponsors for a seminar gressional support for mandating in­ in dealing with Ukraine and with Ukraine and the U.S., the Ukrainian program of topics related to exhibits creased use of Ukrainian on the current visitors from Ukraine. The Ukrainian American community must found new that the USIA plans during the exhibit exhibit and primary use of Ukrainian in American community should use all its organizations and programs to deal in Donetske and Odessa. The USIA is Ukraine during future exhibits. I leave it resources to ensure that this new policy with these contacts. searching for private sponsors for all to my colleagues in the Washington is effected efficiently. All efforts should This time, protest of the USIA's cities on the tour. information offices to plan strategies at be made to assist the USIA in planning actions should be part of a broader plan Tactics in securing these goals should Congress. I would suggest three poten­ contacts with Ukraine and in expanding to ensure greater contacts with Ukraine be in the nature of constructive and tially effective activities. exchange. and increased use of Ukrainian in these cooperative confrontation. Although ^ I. Protests of the USIA language Two years ago, the Ukrainian com­ contacts. disapproval of the way the USIA has policy by official and unofficial groups planned staffing the exhibit, allocated in Ukraine should be organized. The De Robertjs Pastry Shoppe, UKRAINIAN its funds, and decided its priorities must Ukrainian Helsinki Union should 176 First Ave. (Between 10th 8t 11th St's), address the question. 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Yugoslavia tour announced for youths PREVIEW OF EVENTS JERSEY CITY, N.J. - It's a place tion and who is of Ukrainian descent, to May 19-21 May 23 that time has forgotten. And this guide the tourists through various summer, the Pershi Stezhi Plast Group settlements and provide commentary NEW YORK: St. George Ukrainian IRVINGTON, N.J.: An Evening of is offering youth, ages 18 and older, an on the various cultures of Yugoslavia, Catholic Church is holding its annual Songs and Duets sponsored by opportunity to visit the villages and including ancient Greek, Roman and Ukrainian Festival on Seventh Branch 28 of the Ukrainian National towns of Yugoslavia, which Ukrainians Turkish ruins. Street. Among the features: Ukrai­ Women's League of America will have called home for over 100 years. The tour will depart from New York nian dancing, music and singing; feature sopranos Maria Wolansky From August 7 through 23, the Plast on August 7. Once in Yugoslavia, the Ukrainian crafts and foods. 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ordered it to merge with the Russian NEW YORK - For the first time in that his works and behavior were Ukrainian Catholic... Orthodox Church in 1946. the United States, the extraordinary unacceptable according to existing (Continued from page 1) "There is nothing in the law for us," paintings of Feodosiy Humeniuk will be standards. Represssions were levied On Thursday, the delegation did meet said Bishop Vasylyk. "Our strength is in exhibited at The Ukrainian Museum in against the artist. His permit to live in with a Mr. Koleshnikov, the chairman numbers. We have collected more than New York City, June 3 through 25. Mr. Leningrad was revoked and he was of the complaint department of the 35,100 signatures so far demanding re- Humeniuk is one of the leading con­ confined to Dnipropetrovske, an indus­ Supreme Soviet. He told the delegation legalization." temporary artists in Ukraine and a trial city closed to foreigners and with that the matter is a republican one and The Ukrainian Catholic Press Bureau prominent member of the non-confor­ minimal artistic interaction. The lease does not apply to the Supreme Soviet in Rome reported that a preliminary mist art movement of the 1970s in the on his studio was taken away and he was because the republics of the Soviet meeting between two presidium offi­ Soviet Union. publicly ridiculed in the local press. Union are sovereign, reported the UHU cials, Victor Zabazov and Volodymyr The exhibit consists of 17 large can­ press service. Kolesnyk and the Ukrainian Catholic vasses on which the artist's unique From 1985 glasnost brought hope to The Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs delegation was also held on Thursday, talent, as well as his mastery of the the repressed career of Mr. Humeniuk, and clergy, not satisfied with this May 18. During this time the Soviet painting technique is effectively wed to which since then has catapulted into answer, said that they had lost hope that officials promised a meeting with Mr. the themes he employs, which are drawn international prominence. 1988 saw the a new law on religion to be published Lukianov on Friday, May 19, at 9 a.m. exclusively from the Ukrainian histori­ opening of two major prestigious exhi­ this year would give back their Church No news about this meeting was cal past and culture. bits featuring the artist's work - one in the legal status it lost when Stalin available at press time. the Ethnographic Museum in Lviv, Mr. Hrmeniuk is not a chronicler but sponsored by the Academy of Sciences ceeded Bishop Neil on the older an interpreter of his native history, folk of the Ukrainian SSR; the second in the Bishop Borecky... bishop's death in 1984. art, religious customs and traditions. State Museum of Decorative and Ap­ Symbolism is highly prominent in his (Continued from page 1) 4. In view of these considerations. plied Art in Kiev and sponsored by the paintings, as is an over-all degree of recently formed Ukrainian Cultural eventually request and accept an His Grace Bishop Isidore has req- quested the church authorities to romanticism. It is the genius of the Fund. The exhibits received maximum assistant bishop, who gradually artists that allows the deep feelings of publicity through the print and visual assumes the government of the dio­ assign him an assistant bishop in the customary manner. nostalgia and unabashed love for his media and were massively attended by cese. This was recently seen here in country 'to project through a highly the public. Canada in the case of the late Bishop 5. The Holy Synod of Ukrainian stylized, geometric, and decorative style Neil of Edmonton, who never re­ Catholic Bishops is scheduled to of painting. signed his position but received an meet this autumn, and we presume A number of works by the artist have assistant bishop in the person of His that Bishop Isidore's request for an The ideologically oriented, restrictive been included in state collections, Grace Bishop Demetrius, who suc­ assistant will be on the agenda. and narrow confines of ''socialist rea­ among them a series of tempera compo­ lism'' permeated the educational at­ sitions dedicated to Ukrainian folk mosphere in which the young artist customs, which is on display at the grew and developed. However, quite History Museum in Pereyaslav-Khmel- May 22 demonstrations slated nytsky. At the Children's Hospital and OTTAWA - The National Execu­ ^ repeal the new Soviet anti-glas- early in his career Mr. Humeniuk opted for creative freedom and individual Ukraina. Hotel in Dnipropetrovske, tive of the Ukrainian Canadian Com­ nost laws passed on April 8 that include Mr. Humeniuk's stained-glass windows mittee has called for a public manifesta­ expression. Like many of his peers, he prison terms for anyone who publicly searched for new themes and styles and murals grace the interiors. tion of solidarity with Ukrainian acti­ insults a government body; vists in Soviet-occupied Ukraine for more in line with his personal convic­ tions and ideals. For Mr, Humeniuk, Last year a collection of 17 paintings Monday, May 22, in all major cities of 9 legalize all Churches in Ukraine, by Mr. Humeniuk were exhibited in Canada. This international campaign, including the Ukrainian Catholic and his Ukrainian heritage became his inspiration. Canada through the courtesy of the which includes demonstrations in Ukrainian Orthodox; Ukrainian Society of Friendship and Washington and Kiev, Ukraine, will ^ elevate the Ukrainian language to As an artist, Mr. Humeniuk came to Cultural Relations with Foreigners, culminate with a major demonstration the status of the official state language prominence when he was one of tl)jr'''"'"^a5ed-kL.Kiev. The first exhibit was held in Toronto at 7 p.m. at Nathan Philips of Ukraine. organizers of two private exhibits of at the National Archives of Canada in Square. non-conformist art in 1975 and 1976 in Ottawa in the fall. A second exhibit The Canadian campaign pledges full A national action committee will Moscow. The Soviet authorities took a opened in January 1989at the Samuel J. endorsement of the national rights initiate a summerlong campaign to dim view of Mr. Humeniuk's non-confor- Zacks Gallery at York University in movement in Ukraine to: gather petitions with these demands. mism and stated through their actions Toronto.