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An interesting in-depth analysis of the. Continued from #16 "Uniatism" remains thorny issue for Catholic­ elimatie events that began-in 1985 in the former Orthodox commission up to the present day. This is the one My Krayan [Countryman] hundred eleventh installment of the story from News. Emmitsburg, MD [ENI/Chris Herlinger]-A "Chase it down with this water!" joint theological commission of Roman Catholic The Crash of an Empire and Orthodox clerics and theologians has I took a drink of water, but , couldn't tell if concluded ten days of meetings at Mount St. it was cold or warm .. A Colloquial Chronicle, , 1985-1991, Part Mary's College and Seminary here July 9-19, but 111. was unable to resolve a controversy that has been "God lives in a Trinity! We've got to have The Revolution brewing between the two churches since the end of a third!" In all written accounts of the August 1991 the COld War. coup that I've read, Thursday, August 22 figures as The meeting of the Joint International "I can't, Pan'ko. Don't force me." the V-Day, a day of undiluted joy and elated Commission for the Theological Dialogue between celebration of victory over the dark forces of the the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox "I won't push any more on you. Just slug reaction. There was all that, of course, but on the Church centered on the controversy over the down this one. Supper will be ready in a minute or whole things looked much less certain and much Eastern Rite Catholic or "uniate" churches in two, anyway." more complicated on the ground that day. On the communion with the Roman See. morning of August 22, alone, we lived through Orthodoxy views these churches as a Just stop and,think, what would you have sever~\ violent swings from sheer ecstasy to dark despair and back. threat to its existence, while for centuries the done? I took that third drink too, just like anyone Roman Catholic Church viewed the Eastern A.t our post on the bridge across the of our people would do with a krayan. This one Catholic churches as a possible "bridge" between Moskva, my men and me, we were trying hard not didn't burn at all, but it seemed that my head Orthodoxy and the Latin church. However in to get carried away by the mood of celebration, not wasn't mine any more but was sitting on Pan'ko's recent years Rome has begun to modify its views. to relax our vigilance against unknown dangers, so neck and that I had Pan'ko's head. Katie set out A communique issued at the conclusion of we frisked everyone who looked suspicious in the some food on the table, but I can't tell you what I the dialogue said that agreement could not be crowd heading for the White House. Some folks had to eat. I just don't remember. I don't reached on "the basic concept of uniatism," were resentful, as they thought they'd done more remember, either, whether it tasted good or not. I prohibiting a common statement on the issue. to defend the "White House" on the distant do remember that Pan'ko salted both his and mine approaches to it than those of us who had been The theme discussed during the plenary 'til the food was all white and then peppered it 'til it closer to its walls. They boasted of their feats in was the " Ecclesiological and Canonical was black, but I couldn't taste either the salt or the brawling with the troops, and it was difficult to play Implications of Uniatism." The communique added pepper. And I don't remember how much I had to a suspicious, officious guard, so in the end I . that documents prepared for the meeting touching drink after eating. But even today I can still hear relaxed discipline a bit and even permitted the boys upon "theological aspects and practical guidelines Pan'ko's speech at the supper table. to share a bottle of vodka brought by two young were met with some reserve and even outright couples-they spent most of the night with us as a opposition, sometimes from each side." As a "It's a great pleasure and joy for us to host sort of volunteer auxilia~ies to volunteers, obviously result, "it was felt necessary to continue the my dear krayan and neighbor from the old-country. enjoying the excitement, the sight of the barricaded reflection by the Joint Commission in order to find We won't let you leave, Van'yo, for a month. A "White House," the sound of the rock music common understanding on this extremely thorny month, bah! A whole year! Even more! We would carrying across the river lit by nares, and the question." knowledge that they were in the presence of a be very happy if you would stay with us for the rest . Calling the discussions "far-rea~hing, of your life." grand event. Intense and thorough" and touching upon "many Once RF Prime Minister Ivan Silayev rode theological and canonical questions connected with by in a limousine toward the "White House," Pan'ko hugged and kissed me again. the existence and the activities of the Eastern waving a friendly hand from behind a submachine Catholic Churches," the commission opted "for gun-toting bodyguard. It was getting colder and "Katie! Give our dear krayan a kiss! You further study of the theological, pastoral, historical colder toward dawn, but we stuck to our post like too, Mary, give him a hug and a kiss!" some forgotten sentinels. In the end, I let all the and canonical aspects related to this issue." Despite all the difficulties the' commission boys go, and only one sturdy chap from Tver stuck Mary was Pan'ko Shkwarok's daughter, hopes that through this process it will be able to with me to the end. somewhat of an old maid already. They both develop further its quest for full communion At about six, when the crowd started kissed me and fixed. me a place to sleep. Why between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox ebbing away from the "White House, " we should I be in a hurry to leave? They feaste(i me churches." dismantled the barricade across the steps leading another day, and another. On the fourth day I At a news conference after the meeting - to the bridge and went back to look for our overheard the following conversation. Hundred. The last tanks were preparing to leave the commission's first North American gathering - the scene, there were festive crowds, flowers in His Eminence, Archbishop Stylianos of Australia "He just sits there and sleeps, and eats, [Ecumenical Patriarchate], Orthodox co-chair, said gun muzzles, smiles, tricolors and TV crews and drinks. Who can tell if anything will come of everywhere. Walking in the sunshine, we felt as if the leaders were a "little saddened" that they had this." we'd won a long and bloody campaign, not just been unable to create a common document but stood around for a few days and nights in one did feel they had "achieved a common knowl~dge 'Why shouldn't it turn out alright? I'll just place. of each other." give him a hint today." There were even more solid human chains 'We have come to a certain point where in the daytime than at night around the "White we can state some points commonly. We now ''You can hint all you want, but he doesn't House," and we had to banter with them for a have to wait a while to breathe," Archbishop warm up to the girl at all. She hugs and kisses while, telling them we only wanted to join our Stylianos told reporters. him, and he acts as if she was made of wood. It Hundred, not blow up the "White House" or Cardinal Edward Cassidy, Roman Catholic anything like that. A comely Joan of Arc who seemed to be the CO at that point decided to let us Continued on Page 4, Column 1 Continued on Page 3, Column 1 Continued on Page 2, Column 1 PAGE 2 CARPATHO--RUS FRIDAY,AUGUST 18. 2000

Continued from Page 1, Column 1 wept helplessly. Communist Party of the Soviet Union "in view of I also missed one of the most symbolic through after frisking us. This she proceeded to do the fact that the Party's secretariat and politburo events of those days-the dismantling of the huge but quickly gave up the idea, as I proved only too had failed to oppose the coup d'etat and to monument to Dzerzhinsky in front of the menacing cooperative and even eagerly tried to make the mobilize the Communists to fight against the KGB building on Lubyanka Square. It was a truly search less of a one-sided process. We were let trampling down of constitutional legality." The revolutionary moment, signifying the end of the fear through'with no more hindrance than a giggle, a captain abandoned his sinking ship-though he was in which several generations of had blush, and a poke in the ribs. by no means the last to do so, as is thecustom lived-fear of the all-powerful secret police founded At the barricade, Sanya gripped my hand among captains. like I was a long lost brother, repeating "Thank you, by Dzerzh!nsky and of its adjunct, the What was I doing on that momentous day? thank you," and I was too happy to ask what sort of system. Amid tremendous cheers, a steel cabte Oh, plenty. I was among those who made the thanks were due me. There were plenty was neatly tied round Iron Felix's neck, he was August Revolution-or thought we did. Me and a replacements, wo we old hands agreed to disperse gently lifted, swung around, then lowered onto a bunch of like-minded individuals, with bandages and meet again at 4 pm, with a good supply of platform and carted away to some refuse heap of round our heads to set us apart from crowds of vodka this time, strictly for medicinal purposes-we history-never to return, one hoped then. The onlookers, we marched in a column from one solemnly decided there was too much sneezing revolution was on. venue to another, chanting in time with our echoing and backache around after those cold nights. Soon after his return from Foros, Mikhail tread the old rallying slogans, Dolo; Oah-Peh-eS­ So I marched off, nearly out on my feet. It Gorbachev let fall his oft-quoted admission: -I eSt "Down with the CPSU!" or, as we passed the was such a beautiful morning, quiet and sunny, came from Foros to a different country, and I KGB building on Lubyanka, Dolo; Kah-Geh-8ef7! with all those lovable smiling faces around, and the myself am not the man I was - a different man." "Down with the KGB!", with solo interpolations from yell of "Alarm!" fell into this peaceful scene like a That night he gave a press conference that showed myself, like "Kryuchkov a fa fanternel" bombshell. The whole place erupted in frantic that he did not quite realize how different the First we marched to 38 Petrovka to movement and shouting, a young chap with bulging country really was, and that he himself hadn't organize a rally in support of the new boss of mad eyes ran past, waving a big tricolor and yelling changed all that much. Moscow police appointed instead of the one who V mzhyo!"To arms!", although we didn't have any His performance was absolutely infuriating. had disgraced himself by supporting the junta. arms, of course. As I ran back to my barricade, I He said arrogantly that he would not tell the That task achieved, we moved to Staraya thought desperately, Well, they have caught us audience everything in any case-which was Ploshchad, where a whole block was occupied by with our pants down, after all. Waiting all those immediately interpreted by some as partial the Central Committee of the Communist Party. It hours until we decided it was all over. admission that he himself was behind the behavior became known that the Party apparatchiks were of the Party whose general secretary he was, in The place soon solidified in human feverishly destroying all sorts of incriminating the face of overwhelming evidence that the Party breastworks, line upon line. Locking arms with secret documents, so we rushed in to stop all that, bureaucrats were body and soul behind the coup, other men, I felt momentary relief, but the overall to smoke out the hated bureaucrats from their In general, he treated the Russian journalists in a feeling was, This is it. There were no jokes this plush offices and organize "corridors of disgrace" more high-handed manner than the putschists time, and the voices were mostly angry or for them as they left. There we witnessed a themselves had done at their ill-fated press subdued. A cry came from up front, "Medics!" and spectacle that made us feel ashamed for the conference, preferring to answer questions from soon we had to part for a lifeless body in battle­ former masters of our lives, lugging huge bags­ foreign newspapermen and ignoring those same dress to be carried through the line at a trot by apparently with the last of the sausages from their several men. I later learned that the man had people who had spent the last three days and exclusive canteens. It turned out, however, that nights putting their lives on the line-for his own smashed his head in slipping off the parapet, but at they were not above stealing computers, curtains, the moment we were convinced there had been safety and well-being, among other things. ornaments-anything they could carry. Indeed, the foul play. Angry silence and filthy swearing. The Gorbachev obviously needed a few object world of these petty servants of the Communist lessons to bring home to him the true import of his man of the crane was crawling to the tip of the jib regime ended not with a bang but with an obscene again, shouting something I couldn't make out, own words, and the lessons were not long in giggle. pointing down and shaking his fist at somebody. coming. -On the following day he arrived at the Later someone carne running with the Whispers came that several truckloads of Interior "White House" to attend the session of the RF news that the Committee was holding, or preparing Troops had moved into the neighborhood and were Supreme Soviet. The arrival was a trademark to hold, a session in a quiet alley on the other side Go~bachev event, with smiles and handshakes and of the square, and I joined a detachment that went getting set for an attack I sort of froze within. backslapping and jokes, only this time it was all a Curiously, there was so"" self -pity in me then, at there. We blocked the entrance to an iri'nocetit~ bit subdued and not a little strained, probably looking building without any signs. The Committee last. Apparently it's one tiling to prepare to exit at because of more graffiti tly the entrance, right dead of night and quite Inother, on such a fine, members began arriving and tried to enter the where he couldn't miss them: Sk;nemsya· na building, but after some earnest discussion round delicious morning. obratny; biet Gorbachevu "Boys, let's chip in for a An angry and al',dous half-hour passed, the corner thought better of it and departed. We return ticket for Gorbachev" and, on an angrier and stayed there until evening, when we were replaced and they sounded off I've read several more derisive note, M;shka G. pomn; chei flag explanations of this episode since, but they are too t1y'the police who had pledged allegiance to Mayor tebya spas "Mishka G. r~member whose flag contradictory, and it wouMt be too much bother to Popov and President Yeltsin. saved you." "Mishka" is a familiar, derogatory form The week of the coup ended with a try to find out what exacfly happened-after all, it of Mikhail, and, worse still, the letter g as an was just a small daub in the picture of those days, poignantly sad occasion, the funeral on Saturday of abbreviation has some really unsavory the three boys who had died in the underpass. I although it may have cost me and the others a few connotations in Russian. There was no mistake dray hairs. saw Gorbachev break down during the ceremony about the mood of the people then-they were not in Manege Square-I guess because he had to face Anyway, it was a relief when it was over. taking any nonsense from the man they believed We stoked our fires again and had some tea. I the big portraits of the boys as he spoke, and they they had saved. If he wanted to be the country's looked so heart-rendingly young and nice. From would have thought that even the best of our leader, fine, only he would have to heed the jokesters would have run out of their supply' of Manege Square the human tide moved to the people's voice, not boss them around in general­ "White House," where Yeltsin, in his ham-fisted jokes, clean and otherwise, but it appeared that secretary style as if nothing had happened. their stock was good for a year-long seige. I'd way, found the only words to say to the dead: slept about three hours in as many days, and so Luckily for Gorbachev, he is sensitive to "Forgive me, your president, for being unable to could only chuckle weakly, but the master wags arguments like that when they are yelled to his protect you. " could apparently go on indefinitely even on a ration face-and there was plenty of yelling that day at the I didn't go to the cemetery. I just of sleep like mine. Supreme Soviet session. The deputies 'Were wandered round the ""White House" awhile, We paraded once again, but this was a letting off steam at the president, after the days thinking all sorts of thoughts and copying the graffiti distinctly pleasant ceremony: Each member of the and nights of horror which some of them had spent on the walls for posterity. One struck me as Hundred was handed a thank you note signed by in the bunker and for which they rightly held him particularly apt and prophetic: Strana ob;/naya­ President Yeltsin himself. I still have that responsible, if only partly. Gorbachev has later khunta ne poslednyaya "This country has all things document. Just a few lines of pompous complained that he was treated abominably at that in abundance-this junta was not the last." Officialese, and all the same I cherish that piece of session while, in his inimitable fashion, he does not Sergei Roy-Moscow News paper, whatever I may feel and think now of the breathe a single word of repentance or the mildest man whose funny, clerk-like signature is there at self -criticism about his actions and inaction that the bottom, over the date and time scrawled in brought the nation to such a pass. Press Fund Contributions long-hand: "22 August, 1991, 5 o'clock in the Moreover, he tried to lecture the audience on the country's "socialist choice and Communist morning." Marie Kann $80. After a while, we decided it was safe to perspective, " trotting out these rotten shibboleths MIM Guy Cohen 75. I~ave the barricade in the hands of the new whose absolute falsity had been clear to all but the Marilyn B. Kann & Neil J. McElroy 40. most moss-brained of the people for years already. arrivals; after all. I sauntered again past the walls M/M Orestes Mihaly 30. of the "White House," on which yet another fresh Yeltsin did not miss his chance to rub Gorbachev's graffito caught my eye: Spas;!Jo part;; rodno;l!Za face in it, signing, in a gesture that Gorbachev .Iy E. Kovalycsik 28. nash trekhdnevny; vykhodno; "fhank you, dearest called "sadistic,· a decree on suspending the Helen & Bernadette Barry 20. activities of the Communist Party there and then, to Party,//For our three~ay holiday.", On the Metro, M/M James Stamm 20. I fell asleep and rode past Valya's station, and an ovation from the delighted audience. when I eventually got to her place, I simply This must have been the turning point for Total $293. collapsed, I must have reached the limit of my Gorbachev. He knew he'd been beaten, that he'd physiological endurance or something, so I slept only make matters worse if he refused to recognize through the morning and couldn't even get up to go the fact, and so he threw in the towel. That very to Victory Rally. I just watched the Russian tricolor night, the news was broadcast to the nation that he being hoisted over the "White House" on TV and had resigned his post as general secretary of the PAGE 3 CARPATHO--RUS FRIDAY,AUGUST 18. 2000

Continued from Page 1, Column 3 would be a shame if all we spent and all the trouble Letters to the Editor we've had should go for nothing. It just isn't right Dear Editor, to stay so long and eat and drink for nothing. All Dear Fellow Immigrants from Lemkovina, the people in your village are like that." This contribution is given in the names of I, Ivan .8emenovich Chelak, was born in Svetlana Ledevieva and Kem Philips, who have Now I realized what these friends were 1942 in the village of Zawadka Romaniwska requested donations from their friends to your cause instead of wedding presents. about. Pan'ko again brought out some more of his (Abramova) in Sanok County. In 1945, we were moonshine, but not a full bottle. this time. Katie still deported to Ukraine. I now live in the city of Marilyn Kann and Neil McElroy gave me something to eat, but there was no urging L'wow, where the Universal Lemkivshchina Society, the principal center for reasearch on anymore. And Pan'ko didn't force me to drink, ...... either. Just the same, I ate and I drank, even Lemkovina, is located. The L'wow branch of the though they didn't do any urging, for I had a long Lemkovshchina Society has built a Lemko church Dear Editor, way to go. I got up and spoke my piece. in the historic and scenic Znesinnia Park, and is working on establishing museums and publishing In honor of the marriage of Svetlana "Dear friends and neighbors," I said. "I books on Lemkovina. We have many writers, Ledenieva and Kern Philips of Ringoes, New thank you very, very much for your kindness and poets, musicians, artists, sculptors, and other Jersey, we would like to donate $75, to your your hospitality. I'll never forget it as long as llive. outstanding emigrants from Lemkovina. organization. I won't forget you, Pan'ko! I won't forget you either, missus! And Mary, I'll never forget you! I am curious about my family, which is very Sincerely, You've become like a sister to me." large. My great grandfather, Semen Ivanovich Jerri and-Guy Cohen Chelak, was born in 1845 and married his second

As I was talking, Pan'ko filled a shot glass cousin Anna Mikolaiwna Chelak, who was born in ...... and pus~ed it over to me, and his wife brought out 1857. They had six children, among which my a cake and set it on the table. grandfather Ivan, born in 1881. Two of his brothers, Fedor (died in 1932) and Wasil (died in We are very grateful and thank Svetlana, "I would like to stay with you a whole 1968), lived in the U.S. with their families. I don't our former Assistant IEditor for five years, and her Kern. They generously hinted to month, or even more," I continued, "but I have know anything about the~ My great grandmother husband-t~be, stayed too long already, and I'm afraid what my also had two brothe in the U.S.-Fedor guests for their forthcoming wedding, that wife and children will think." Mikolaowich Chelak, wh had seven daughters, monetary gifts to our Press Fund would be a nice gesture. Ed. and Pawlo. Wasil Chelak also had two daughters, It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck Hanna and Paraska, who lived in the U.S., and a the place. Pan'ko looked stunned; so did his wife. son Mikola in Canada. Mary went pale as a ghost. Pan'ko was the first to find his voice. My grandfather Ivan married Anna Grigorivna Gulik, who was born in 1886. She had ''You're married?!" a brother, Teodor Grigorovich Gulik, born in 1892, who came to the Soviet Union in 1967. He had six ''Ten years already." children, and there are now 16 grandchildren. I would very much like to learn something about "Married?" screeched Mrs. Pan'ko. Angry them. The oldest was Andrey, who lived in Detroit In Memoriam now! and had two daughters, Marta and Mariana. I don't know anything about Grigori, Mikola, Pawlo, Alexis "Lou" Penkoff Mary didn't say a word, just ran out of the Pawlina, or Volodimir. room, weeping. Alexis Penkoff, age 81, of Trumbull, My grandmother on my mother's side was Connecticut passed away in his home on Tuesday, Pan'ko yanked the glass of whiskey away Payza Grigorivna Kawochko; she married Wasil September 5,2000. He was the husband of the from me and with trembling hands poured it back Timofeyowich Turko. She had two brothers who late Nadine Hardy Penkoff. Born in Bridgeport, he into the bottle. About half of it spilled on the table. lived in the U.S. - Fedor (Mikhailo) and Ivan had been a Trumbull resident for more than 50 His wife grabbed the cake. Kawochko. I don't have any information about years. Alexis was a World War II veteran, having Fedor. Ivan had three sons - Wasil, Fedor, and "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" she Petro, who moved to Canada. ' served with the U.S. Army Air Force. He was snarled. "You, a married man, to bother honest employed for more than 50 years as executive vice folks for such a long time, to eat and drink and fool There are also other relatives about whom president of Peerless Aluminum Foundry Co. The a poor girl like that?" I know nothing. The names Gonos, Dobrianski, Company was founded by his late father-in-law, Gliwa, Radko, Fedak, Gavriliak, Staranko, and Peter S. Hardy, a long-time active participant and "Don't be surprised, woman," said Pan'ko. many others occur among my relatives. I am strong supporter of Lemko Association. He had ''That's the kind of people he comes from. His late asking people from Zawadka and neighboring previously been employed with Sikorsky Aircraft father would stay and drink with strangers for villages, who are relatives of mine or know and Republic Aviation. months at a time. It runs in the family. They don't something about my relatives to contact me. give a damn about anything, as long as they have An active member of Holy Ghost Russian some whiskey to drink." My address is: m. L'viv, wul,. Khwil'owoho, Orthodox Church for many years, Alexis formerly kw. 93, Ukraine. served as vice president of the church. He was They both looked at me with hate-filled Chelak Ivan Semenovich, also a member of the Orthodox Square Club of eyes. I picked up my hat. Connecticut, a member of Washington Lodge 19, '* '* '* '* '* Lafayette Consistory, 32nd degree Mason, the Pyramid Temple Shrine and the "Jesters." An Well then, fare you well, my friends. I active man all his life, Alexis was an avid fly thank you for your hospitality, and please don't Dear Editor, fisherman and photographer who enjoyed cooking, think bad of me that I don't know the proper way to act here in America." Thanks for your assistance in our skiing and golf. He and his late wife, Nadine, research. Especially thanks for keeping the traveled extensively. "And now, you even make fun of us, you Carpath~R.us so interesting. Enclosed is $SO •. for drunkard!" my renewal, my sister's subscription and a Press He is survived by his three beloved Fund contribution. children and their spouses, Greg Penkoff and his wife, Leslie; Stasia Penkoff Lidbeck and her Pan'ko brought up his fists. I thought this husband, Glenn; and Peter Penkoff and his wife, just wouldn't do, there were three of them and I Yours, Kari; eight grandchildren; Alexis Penkoff, Harrison was alone. I hurried out the door. Behind me I Jim Stamm heard, Penkoff, Madeline Penkoff, Kyra Elliott, Anastasia ...... Elliott, Nadia Penkoff Udbeck, Wyatt Penkoff and Magnolia Penkoff. "Brownie, get 'im, get 'im. Go get 'im, Brownie." Dear Editor, Services were held on September 9 at Holy Ghost Russian Orthodox Church, with the But Brownie just wagged his tail. It I am pleased to send you the enclosed Rev. Vadim Pismenny officiating, followed by seemed that he could tell I came from the same contribution, as suggested by Svetlana Ledenieva internment in St. John's Cemetery, Stratford. village as his master. He recognized the smell and and Kern Philips on the occasion of their took me for one of them. . forthcoming wedding. V~hnaya Pamyat Vanyo Hunyanka Sincerely, Translated by Dimitri Gallik Marie Kann

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