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Chomovil chosen Lviv 0blast chief The Chomobyl anniversary as party, new councils square off 70,000 in Kiev demonstrate JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Former sessions in Lviv's Opera Theater in mid- political prisoner and leading national April, reported various news sources. against environmental abuses rights activist vyacheslav Chornovil Mr. Chornovil's election came as the by laroslav Trofimov The rally also greeted a speech by was elected chairman of the new Lviv new regional council, dominated by Rukh Press international Leonid Plyushch, former Ukrainian Oblast Council during its first series of representatives of the Democratic Bloc political prisoner, who is now a French and Popular Movement of Ukraine for KlEv - The city center of the citizen and an elected member of the Perebudova, or Rukh, called for the Ukrainian capital was paralyzed on the European Parliament. region to take the lead in the struggle for afternoon of Sunday, April 22, as an Long applause followed the speech an independent Ukrainian state and estimated 70,000 people marched to by ilvans Erdmans, senior official of the legalized the outlawed Ukrainian blue– commemorate the Chornobyl nuclear Latvian Popular Front, who read the and-yellow flag, reported the Ukrainian disaster's fourth anniversary. The march Latvian declaration of independence independent Publishing and informa– began after a two-hour-long rally in the adopted a day earlier. Mr. Erdmans tion Association (U1P1A) and Reuters. huge Stadium Square. said, "Latvia will always be a good in its opening session on April 10, the The day's events also marked inter- neighbor of Ukraine, and the people of council declared the Lviv Oblast is national Earth Day. Latvia hope that soon the people of "becoming a kind of island of freedom volodymyr Yavorivsky, people's Ukraine will decide their fate on their in which we must put an end to the deputy of the USSR and chairman of own, instead of listening to Moscow." totalitarian regime...a faulty economic Rukh's Kiev branch, called for criminal After the rally the protesters marched mechanism and the usurpation of power charges against President of U– through the city center, carrying hun– by the Communist Party." kraine valentyna Shevchenko and dreds of Ukrainian blue-and-yellow This statement, as well as the coun– former Minister of Health Anatoliy flags as well as several banners of cil's first resolutions, prompted harsh Romanenko for "criminal misinforma– independent Latvia, Lithuania,Estonia, criticism from the top echelons as well tion of the population in 1986, which Georgia and also Poland, Czechoslo– as the local Communist Party appara– resulted in mass irradiation." vakia and Hungary. tus. A statement by the Central Com– The march was headed by several EReuters reported from Moscow that horsemen and a choir in national mittee of the Communist Party of Pravda had observed that the people's Ukraine, the Presidium of the Supreme costumes singing the anthems of the complaints to President Shevchenko Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, (the indepen– Soviet and the republican Council of "had not received the proper under- Ministers, published on April 18, as– dent Ukrainian army defeated by Bol– standing," and that it was not a coin– shevik forces in 1920. serted that "certain political forces, cidence that she had come under criti– having secured a majority in the elec– The marchers shouted "indepen– cism.J dence," "Down with communism,"and tions to local councils in some towns Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, also a member and raions, have begun openly to "Down with Leninism"as they marched of the USSR Parliament, read out the by two monuments of Lenin and one implement their ambitious intentions," Manifesto of the Green Party of U– according to the U1P1A. Lenin museum. The demonstrators kraine, a pro-independence ecological threw books by Lenin and shouted The party leadership accused the movement, the founding congress of "Bastards" and "Shame on you."Coin– Yyacheslav Chornovil (Continued on page 11) which is to be held in October. cidentally that day was the birthday of Lenin. Several Soviet soldiers also joined in Easter services in Ukraine mark rebirth of UAOC the procession, chanting anti-Commu– SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - ing at 11 p.,. Mr. Katelnytsky reported Orthodox Church had always refused nist slogans. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– that although the church overflowed to do this for Ukrainian bandurists; The chairman of the Rukh Secreta– dox Church, banned by Stalin in 1930, with faithful, order was kept at all times. they had even refused to hold memorial ries, Mykhailo Horyn, commented on is re-emerging throughout Ukraine, as He told the Consistory that among services for Ukrainian kobzars mur– the fact that an ecological rally had evidenced by the numerous Easter these numbers were many young dered under the Communist regime of (Continued on page 11) celebrations held on Sunday, April 15. students. One young man remarked to the 1920s and 1930s. Only over the past According to new reports from the Mr. Katelnytsky: "1 heard prayers to year and a half have such organizations Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox God in my own native language; 1 heard as the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and 1N51DE: Church of the U.S.A., based in South the people pray here not for the Rus– the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– t Columbia University conference Bound Brook, N.J., Ukrainian sian state, but for Ukraine." dox Church supported the revival of on relations among Jews, Poles and Autocephalous Orthodox believers at– After the liturgy, the Rev. Yuriy deli– kobzar workshops. Ukrainians — page 4. tended holiday services of that Church vered a sermon, in which he pointed out Thus, after Easter services, groups of Ф Uke-eye: the public recalls the in such cities as Kiev, Lviv, Zhytomyr, that although the church in which the kobzars, bandurists and other musi– Chornobyl nuclear accident — page 7. Dnipropetrovske, Cherkasy. faithful had gathered to pray was not cians began to sing outside the church, a Ф Part 11 of Dr. David Marples' in a telephone interview with the theirs, the spirit oi Ukraine is festivity which lasted until evening. A fourth anniversary look at the Chor– Consistory, volodymyr Katelnytsky, a resurrecting. He then read Metropo– collection to erect a monument in nobyl disaster — page 8. spokesperson for the Ukrainian litan Mstyslav's Easter pastoral, as well memory of the persecuted kobzars was. Ф A volunteer clean-up worker Autocephalous Orthodox Church in as taster greetings irom Arcnoisnop also taken up. speaks about the Chornobyl cata– Ukraine and the chairman of the Kiev loan of Lviv, Ukraine's first Ukrainian Afterwards, the celebrations moved strophe and the Chornobyl Union — branch of St. Andriy's Brotherhood, re- Autocephalous Orthodox hierarch. to the court in front of St. Sophia's page 8. ported that not one, but two churches in Easter celebrations continued in that Cathedral, where many Ukrainians Ф Dr. James E. Mace, staff director Kiev, Ukraine's capital city, held Easter church and included the ceremonious sang Easter songs, celebrating the of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine services. blessing of Ukialiiiar. fuik instruments Resurrection oi the Lord. After the Famine, reports on his trip to Ukraine As reported in last week's Weekly, the — liras (hurdy-gurdies) and banduras. gates of St. Sophia, now a museum and and famine research there — page 9. Cathedral of Pokrova (Holy Protec– According to Mr. Katelnytsky, this is not a functioning church, were closed, в volodymyr Manyak, author of a tion; in Kiev's Podol section, held ser– an old Ukrainian tradition only the crowds moved onto the Khresh– book on the Great Famine of 1932- vices, celebrated by the Rev. Yuriy recently revived. chatyk, Kiev's main boulevard. 1933, speaks in Toronto — page 9. Boyko which began on Saturday even– He pointed out that the Russian (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 No. 17 Technical problems at Chdfnobyl More than 400 apply for training cause shut-down of two reactors to become Ukrainian Catholic priests by Bohdan Nahaylo was dispatched to the Chornobyl plant, KESTONvPQTHN , EnglanFnobnHd - MorMnrPe than P^lirrirmReligiouse ЛГ^РГordersС , xi;hinwhichb arQ reA 1stil l it transpired that pressure in one of the 400 young men have already applied to illegal in the Soviet Union, are func– pipes in the station's second reactor had Ukrainian Catholic bishops to train for tioning openly once again. The church MUN1CH - Technical problems at risen too high and that steam was the priesthood. This has underlined the and monastery of St. Onufriy in Lviv, the Chornobyl nuclear plant in nor– escaping. The problem was considered need for the opening of a central and the shrine and monastery in Hoshiv thern Ukraine last week resulted in the serious enough to shut off both the seminary in Lviv, noted Keston College. have been returned to the Basilian shut-down of two reactors and caused second and the third reactors; the first There are more than 140 candidates fathers. The Redemptorists have re- panic in a town 100 kilometers away reactor is already down for renovation. in the Archdiocese of Lviv, 251 in the gained their former centers in Dro– from the station. diocese of ivano-Frankivske and 25 in hobych and Ternopil. On March 25, the Radiation readings taken by the the diocese of Mukachiv. These figures Leonid Klymchuk, head of the Rukh Korosten representatives at the plant authorities in Lviv handed over two organization branch in Korosten, Zhy– were given by Msgr. ivan Dacko, based churches in Shevchenkivskiy Hai to the indicated that the radiation level had in Rome, to a conference in West tomyr oblast, told Radio Free Eu– not risen as a result of the latest Studite monks. rope^ Radio Liberty that rumors had Germany held by the Catholic charity problems at the station. Workers in Aid to the Church in Need. Msgr. There are now reported to be 186 been circulating April 12 that there had Korosten reportedly went back to work members of male religious orders in been another accident at the Chornobyl Dacko has just returned from a visit to on Monday only after they had been Ukraine. Ukraine, and approximately 700 sisters, nuclear power plant. Panic spread, and reassured that no new radiation leak most of them in Galicia. The majority of on the following day a large group of had occurred and after the Zhytomyr Msgr. Dacko reported that there are sisters are under the age of 40. Many workers gathered outside the local regions's party first secretary, Mr. Fedo– now more than 1,000 priests belonging wear their habits in public, especially to Communist Party headquarters. rov, had visited the town. to the Ukrainian Catholic Church. This attend the liturgy in church. Nuns are At first the local authorities reported– Coming on the eve of the fourth includes more than 350 former Russian involved in teaching religion in govern– ly denied that anything had happened; anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear Orthodox priests. The church has only ment schools or work in social institu– but after the crowd had grown to about disaster, this incident highlights both been permitted to register parishes since tions, such as hospitals and orphanages, 3,000, they acknowledged that an the authorities' continuing efforts to December 1, 1989. Keston College reported. accident had indeed occurred. hide problems and the population's A busload of representatives headed concerns about the dangers of nuclear by Rukh activists and local journalists power plants in the USSR. GLASN0ST D1ARY: Keston College reports on recording changes in the USSR 67 prisoners of conscience Business with Ukraine, Byelorussia The Parker School Bulletin of law of other republics, including the KESTON, England - As of March tary service; Columbia University recently published Russian republic, are not subject to the 5, Keston College knew of 67 religious 9 23 Jehovah's Witnesses (17 con- a news item about Byelorussia and convention, at least for the present. prisoners of conscience held in Soviet firmed), mostly conscientious objec– Ukraine adopting a United Nations Foreign firms preferring the reas– labor camps and "open prisons." Of tors; sales convention. surance provided for the convention those 67 prisoners, 32 are known to be ^ 27 Muslims (three confirmed), The item, written by E. Allan over, for example, the laws of the in detention while 35 are unconfirmed, mostly sentenced for illegal printing and Farnsworth, reported the following Russian republic, might therefore con– that is, prisoners about whose continued distribution of the Koran; information. sider making sales contracts with co- detention there is some uncertainty. 9 Yogis (all confirmed). operatives or joint ventures in Kiev or The remaining religious prisoners Service of a minimum of two years in Minsk rather than in Moscow. include: The USSR apparently intends to the Soviet armed forces is compulsory Two republics of the USSR - ^ Christians (eight confirmed cases), of almost all male Soviet citizens under accede to the convention, but the mostly conscientious objectors to mili– Byelorussia and Ukraine — have process of ratification has been delayed. the age of 26. However, on March 1 the adopted the United Nations Conven– Latvian Supreme Soviet adopted a law tion on Contracts for the international concerning a labor alternative to mili– Sale of Goods. The convention, which Breakfast for Ukraine Yavorlvsky wins tary service. The Latvian minister of was concluded at vienna in 1980 and justice declared that this will apply to General Foods of the United States- entered into force in January 1988, has which is known among other things for libel suit those who object on the grounds of their been ratified or accepted by more than religious or pacifist convictions. There its breakfast cereals — will soon build a KlEv - volodymyr !Yavorivsky, 20 states - including the United factory in Ukraine. will always be some religious prisoners States, the Federal Republic of deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the in the USSR until there is an alterna– The factory will be set up at the USSR and vice-chairman of Rukh, won Germany, France and the People's Svitanok collective farm in the Dni– tive to military service throughout the Republic of China - but it has not been a libel case against the top Communist union, Keston College noted. propetrovske region. Party newspaper in Ukraine, Pravda ratified by the USSR. According to News from Ukraine, the Ukrainy,on Monday, April 23. The large-scale release of prisoners of According to the Treaty Section of venture was made possible by "a live He accused the newspaper of slander conscience which took place in 1987 and the United Nations, Ukraine approved wire of a collective farm chairman," after series of articles calling him a liar 1988 did not continue into 1988. indeed, the convention January 3, Byelorussia ivan Parchomenko, who has already and agent of foreign intelligence ser– the amnesties which led to the release of had acceded to it October 9, 1989. organized the production of straw vices. The articles were published last many prisoners did not apply to con– international contracts governed by brooms and apple juice at the collective autumn and were signed by an old- scientious objectors, it seems likely that the law of these two republics may have farm. As a result of this and other ideas, guard Communist journalist, Mikhail most of the current prisoners will have as their governing law the convention's the farm is making a handsome profit, Derimov. to complete their sentences, rather than provisions; contracts governed by the reported News from Ukraine. The court ruled today that Pravda hope for an amnesty of some kind. Ukrainy must publish an official apo– Keston College no longer knows of logy, reported Rukh Press interna– any prisoners sentenced solely under FOUNDED 1933 tional. either of the two so-called "religious" Ukrainian Weelch articles of the Russian Criminal Code or their republican equivalent: Article An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Pavlychko elected 142 ("violation of the laws on the Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. separation of church and state and 07302. 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Most prisoners are serving sentences Mr. Pavlychko received 66 percent of in labor camps or working on compul– Postmaster, send address the vote, according to preliminary sory labor projects. The conditions for changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz prisoners on labor projects are similar results released by Rukh Press interna– Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets tional. to those in British open prisons. Keston The Ukrainian Weekly P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak Mr. Pavlychko did not run in the College knows of no confirmed cases of Jersey City, NJ. 07303 March elections. He already is a believers being held in psychiatric people's deputy of the USSR and hospitals because of their religious The Ukrainian Weekly, April 29,1990, No. 27, vol. ШІІ recently resigned from the Communist faith, but still has two unconfirmed Copyright 1990 by The Ukrainian Weekly Party. cases. No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 з

Ukrainian Catholic leader in Lviv Russian Orthodox hierarch in Kiev protests work of quadripartite group fears spiritual Chornobyl in Ukraine by Cindy Wooden functioning underground, said he did by Cindy Wooden prayers, while Ukrainian Catholics Catholic News Service not understand why the vatican-ap– pointed representatives on the commis– Catholic News Service stand on the church steps with a Lviv - The Catholic-Russian Or– sion did not support his demands crucifix propped against the doors to thodox commission on the Ukrainian throughout the commission's March KlEv - Tensions between Ortho– celebrate their services. Catholic Church has perpetuated the sessions in the Soviet Union. dox and Eastern-rite Catholics in The two groups pray simulta– repression of the Church, said a Ukrai– "it is very difficult for me to say what western Ukraine could turn into a neously, drowning out each others' nian Catholic archbishop who protest– the opinion of the vatican is," he said, "spiritual Chornobyl," said a leading voices. A Ukrainian Catholic man ed the panel's work. "it seems to me that they were willing to Ukrainian Orthodox bishop. with a black and blue bump on his The vatican, which is the main give away our churches." "Western Ukraine can turn into a forehead claimed to have been hit Catholic partner in the talks, seemed "1 could not stand for this, so І Ukrainian (Northern) ireland" with with a cane by an Orthodox woman. willing to "give away our churches," walked away," Archbishop Sterniuk a religious war breaking out over the The six Soviet police stationed at the said Archbishop volodymyr Sterniuk said. ownership of church buildings and cathedral said April 9 that the two of Lviv. "1 abandoned the talks because there properties, said Bishop loanaf, se– groups have been peaceful and every– The ecumenical dialogue with the was really nothing in them for us," he cretary of the Synod of the Ukrainian thing is calm. Russian Orthodox has been "harmful" said. Orthodox Church. The synod is Bishop loanaf said the cathedral and has impeded the return of all the The commission's duties were out- based in Kiev, about 100 miles from was closed because "there has been a Catholic property confiscated and lined during a meeting in January the site of the Chornobyl nuclear blockade of warriors of the (Ukrai– transferred to the Orthodox in 1946 by between representatives of the vatican accident. nian) Greek Catholic Church." Joseph Stalin's regime, said the arch- and the Russian Orthodox Moscow During an April 11 meeting in Bishop loanaf is also an assistant bishop. Partriarchatc. Kiev with journalists, Bishop loanaf to Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, One member of the Ukrainian Catho– it was agreed that the commission's read a synod declaration protesting whose jurisdiction includes all of the lic hierarchy said that once the pro– most urgent task was to assist in the the April 6 decision of the Lviv City Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. perties are returned, the Church might normalization of the Ukrainian Catho– Council to return St. George Cathed– The Orthodox metropolitan was cede some to the Orthodox for their use. lic Church by settling disputes between ral to Ukrainian Catholics. Catholics scheduled to meet reporters in Kiev The 83-year-old archbishop talked to Orthodox and Catholics claiming rights built the cathedral in the 1700s and April 11, but canceled to attend a reporters April 9 at the Church of the to the same church buildings. worshipped there until their Church meeting of the Synod of the Moscow Transfiguration in Lviv. The church is But Archbishop Sterniuk and the was outlawed in 1946 by the regime Patriarchate. one of almost 1,000 in Ukraine which nine other clandestinely ordained of Joseph Stalin. "if we have a problem in Ukraine, І have been reclaimed by Ukrainian bishops in the Ukraine believe any The declaration, which called the think the synod is dealing with it," Catholics over the protests of the agreement short of full restoration of all Lviv decision "a gross violation of Bishop loanaf said of the meeting in Orthodox and, in all but seven cases, former Catholic churches is unjust. the rights of Orthodox believers," Moscow. The bishop said the Orthodox without government permission. "Without a doubt it is easier to was signed by all the bishops in the fully support the work of a Catholic- Archbishop Sterniuk, who was discuss the matter of the Ukrainian newly formed Ukrainian Orthodox Orthodox commission formed by the secretly ordained while his Church was Catholic Church with civic authorities Synod, which is part of the Russian vatican and Moscow Patriarchate to than with the Orthodox because the Orthodox Church. settle practical matters relating to the Russian Orthodox hierarchy refuses to The controversy over the owner- Cindy Wooden from Catholic News normalization of the Ukrainian return the property they have stolen," ship of church property has been Service traveled to the Soviet Union Catholic Church. Archbishop Sterniuk said. building for months. with a group of 23 journalists for an Bishop loanaf said the fact that the The main task of the commission, orientation tour on the current religious The government of the Ukrainian City Council's action came only nine which met in the Ukraine in March, situation in Ukraine, organized by the republic has officially registered seven days before Easter was a "deliberate was to assign the use of disputed Ukrainian Catholic Press Bureau basedUkrainia n Catholic parishes, and the provocation." church buildings. The meetings broke in Rome. Lviv City Council voted April 6 that the "Time has passed," he said, "and in off when Ukrainian Catholic Arch- The trip, held in mid–April, enabled Orthodox should vacate the former the place of Catholics you see Ortho– bishop volodymyr Sterniuk walked the journalists to meet with representa– Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of St. dox faithful who are deprived of out in protest. tives of both the Ukrainian Catholic George in time for the Catholics to praying in their churches." The commission had agreed that in Church in Lviv, the Ukrainian Ortho– celebrate Easter there. Government officials, who in the places where only one church build– dox Church under the jurisdiction of "1 ask myself why should we be Soviet Union assign use of church ing was open, a community vote the Moscow Patriarchate, as well as discussing the division of our churches buildings, closed the cathedral earlier would decide the future of church officials from the Council of Religious with those who are not the owners," the this year. use. Affairs. archbishop said. All day long every day in Lviv, Bishop loanaf said that in some The two articles appearing here are The vatican has been attempting to Orthodox believers gather in the situations this has led to a call for reprinted with permission of the Catho– diffuse tensions in the dispute, provide cathedral courtyard for liturgy and (Continued on page 15) lie News Service. Copyright 1990 CNS. (Continued on page 11) lengths to ensure that the Easter services Easter... of the UAOC took place in the Church Two new bishops of UAOC (Continued from page 1) of the Nativity of the Blessed virgin, a SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. was Metropolitan Mstyslav, primate Those Ukrainian Autocephalous Russian Orthodox Church after the — The Ukrainian Autocephalous of the UAOC in diaspora, with Arch- Orthodox faithful who did not celebrate Russian Orthodox concluded their Orthodox Church in Ukraine recent– bishop Constantine and Bishops in Kiev's Pokrova did so in the church services. The Ukrainian Autocephalous ly consecrated two new bishops for Antony and Paisiy in attendance. of St. MykhaiL the Archangel. This Orthodox liturgy was celebrated by the its Church in Ukraine, bringing the in his keynote address, which dealt small wooden Kozak-style church Rev. vitaliy Boyko. hierarchy of that Church in Ukraine mainly with the ongoing process of hosted thousands of faithful, reported After the services, the brotherhood to a total of three, reported the the renewal of the UAOC in Ukraine, Mr. Katelnytsky. Here services were and members of the Association of in- Consistory of the Ukrainian Ortho– Metropolitan Mstyslav elaborated celebrated by the Rev. Metodiy and the dependent Ukrainian Youth (Spilka dox Church of the U.S.A. on the great opposition which this Rev. Oleksander istomin from Kher– Nezalezhnoyi Ukrainskoyi Molodi) or– The Church in Ukraine to date was process has encountered primarily son. This church is not yet consecrated ganized a celebration in the center of the headed by Archbishop loan of from the Soviet government, the and is part of the complex that is the city. Oleksander Zaychenko, a people's Halych and volyn. He left the hie– Russian Orthodox Church, its Mos– Museum of Architecture and Folk Arts. deputy of the city council and a leader of rarchy of the Russian Orthodox cow Patriarchate and particularly its SNUM, as well as PetroBahnatiuk,also Church late last year and is now Exarchate in Ukraine. "All of them," in Zhytomyr, the faithful of the of the youth organization, carried joined by the newly consecrated said the metropolitan, "take extra- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox posters with three slogans: "Christ has Bishop vasyly of Ternopil and ordinary measures to bring this Church celebrated an outdoor service Risen," "God is Love" and "Ukraine Buchach, and Bishop Andriy of process to a halt." As evidenced by a near the Church of the Elevation of the will resurrect." The two men were ivano-Frankivske and Kolomyia. number of facts, among the most Cross. The Rev. viacheslav Miskov arrested, but due to the insistence of the The bishops were consecrated by commonly used measures are disin– from the village of Krasnostavtsi in the crowds soon released. Archbishop loan and a retired formation and provocations. oblast of ivano-Frankivske celebrated in Lviv, the faithful of the Ukrainian bishop, who consecrated the two the liturgy, and the faithful issued a Autocephalous Orthodox Church held At the conclusion of the meeting a petition to claim the Church of the hierarchs with the condition that he greeting was sent to the new arch- their Easter services on the already would keep his anonymity, during Elevation of the Cross, which is current– blessed land they have marked for pastors in the Sobor of Bishops of the ly a nature museum. ceremonies, held on March 30-31 UAOC. Following is the text of the building their new church. Archbishop and April 6-7. greeting in its English translation. in Dnipropetrovske, the Rev. loan delivered a sermon in which he On Monday, April 23, St. An– Mykyta Chudynovets from the village noted that only the Ukrainian drew's Ukrainian Autocephalous of Bashtanka, Mykolayiv Oblast, Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and Orthodox Center in South Bound celebrated the Easter liturgy outside, not the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Brook, N.J., was the site of an extra- Your Grace, dearly beloved Bro– near the Church of the Transfiguration. under the Moscow Patriarchate, can ordinary meeting of the Sobor of thers in Christ: Although militia surrounded the priest give the impetus for the rebirth and Bishops of the Ukrainian Autoce– Gathered at this extraordinary and the faithful, it did not break up the development of our nation and our phalous Orthodox Church of the session, the members of the Sobor of service. spiritual life. U.S.A. Presiding over the meeting (Continued on page 11) The All-Ukrainian Orthodox Bro– Lviv television broadcast Archbishop therhood in Cherkasy went to great loan's Easter greetings. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 No. 17 Conference on "Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in Their Historical Encounter" examines relations by Marta Kolomayets and 'Goyim' in the Novels of Julian tion; the people must return to their Ukrainian leaders with Jewish organi– Strykowski," Dr. Grol-Prokopczyk own language, history and culture. zations and reported that inter-ethnic NEW YORK - The roles of three explained that the works Mr. Strykow– ^6. The historic ambitions of Ukrai– relations in Ukraine at this juncture are religious peoples, three distinct cul– ski are not at all sensational or porno- nians, Poles and Jews during these much better than in other areas of the tures, three national forces that have graphic, yet the idea of relationships historic times are closely interwoven Soviet Union. interacted - rejecting and accepting - between Jews and Poles or Ukrainians and demand not only good will from all Mr. Dzyuba, however, did add that assimilating over the centuries, were did send shock waves between the parties, but also mutual cooperation there are groups that want to harm examined during the inaugural confe– communities. The relationships ex– and support. relations between Ukrainians and Jews, rence of the "international Seminar for plored in this literature attest to the Prof. Jaroslav Rozumnyi of the often instigating provocations between the study of Jews, Poles and Ukrai– secret desire to engage in "love that University of Manitoba in Winnipeg them. This is not to say that everything nians in Their Historical Encounter" breaks the law," and although the delivered concise conclusions of the is fine in Ukraine, he added, but he held at Columbia University on Mon– speaker concentrated on one author, morning's panel, stating that the papers stated that there are people willing to day, March 26. she stated that these conclusions can be have illustrated reality, myths and work out harmonious ties, overcoming The conference, sponsored by the applied to other literature by other attitudes governing and underlying the unsolved problems of the last decade. Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian writers. complexity of Ukrainian, Polish and He added that Ukrainians have often Association for the Study of Nationali– The second speaker was David G. Jewish relations in times of both na– been scapegoats, often having unplea– ties (USSR and Eastern Europe) and Roskies, a professor of literature at the tional freedom and national subjuga– sant experiences blamed on them, and the Division of Humanities, The City Jewish Theological Seminary in Ame– tion. He added that the papers present– he noted that many stereotypes of College of New York, was hosted by the nca. ed also began to explore the political, national minorities in Ukraine still Nationality and Siberian Studies Pro- His paper, titled "Ukrainians and cultural, psychological undercurrents exist. of mutual tolerance and intolerance gram of the W. Averell Harriman Poles in Jewish Collective Memory," Mr. Dzyuba, however, also pointed institute for Advanced Study of the described the Jewish countryside settle– among the Jewish, Polish and Ukrai– nian people. out that it is important to face histo– Soviet Union at Columbia University. ments called "shtetls."This shtetl fiction rical facts about relations between U– The conference goals, as outlined by points out that the Jews were an integral During the luncheon session, Mr. krainians, Poles and Jews, for only by Henry R. Huttenbach, chairman of the part of the Ukrainian landscape, as Dzyuba explained the role of Rukh facing even the darkest pages of history, conference and editor of Nationalities evidence in the works of such authors as today and its relationship with national only by telling the whole truth about the Sholom Aleichem. Mr. Roskies stated Papers, which will publish the confe– minorities in Ukraine. Mr. Dzyuba past, can we proceed to the future. that such fiction, which still enjoys rence proceedings in full, were to begin pointed out the close cooperation of (Continued on page 11) a process of exploration, examining popularity among various sectors of the historic moments in order to enrich the population in Ukraine points out that understanding of the complex relation- the sterotypic image of the Jew still exists ships between Jews, Poles and Ukrai– today. Mr. Roskies said that the life of nians. the Jewish masses, the shtetl, can be By the conclusion of the eight-hour examined in both the sociological and conference, it was clear that only a small abstract sense, where the settlements dent had been made in a subject that is become a symbol of Jewish vulnerabi– worthy of volumes of academic re- lity. search. By the end of the day, the The last speaker of the morning distinguished scholars who had traveled session was Dr. Pohribny, who asked from as far away as Kiev to participate the question, "Will Goliath be van– in this first encounter, had concluded quished?" and posed six solutions to that indeed this was a topic worth further achieve this goal: study and agreed to continue to dis– 9 1. The current thinking on the agree, planning an agenda for the problems of Ukrainian-Jewish-Polish future. relations must be rid of its outdated Among the highlights of the confe– guidelines, stereotypes and preconcep– rence was the participation of two tions. scholars from Ukraine, both affiliated ^2. in studying these complex rela– with Kiev University: ivan Dzyuba, tions between the three groups, a literary critic and expert on nationali– contemporary historian, whether he be ties, repressed for his 1960s book Ukrainian, Jewish or Polish, should put "internationalism or Russification?," at the center of his attention what Luncheon keynote speaker ivan Dzyuba (right) discusses national minorities in who delivered the keynote luncheon unifies, not disunites these groups. Ukraine. His interpreter, Prof. Taras Hunczak, is at left. address on Rukh and the national ^3. it is always important to keep in minorities in Ukraine today; and Prof. mind that the questions of current Obituary Anatoliy Pohribny, the head of the Ukrainian-Polish relations is a civilized, literature chair at Kiev University, and serious matter for two close Slavic the secretary of the Kiev Branch of the people, each of which has its own state- Leonid Poltava, journalist and author USSR Writers' Union. hood. The question of Ukrainian- Jewish relations should also find a NEW YORK - Leonid Poltava, New York, and burial followed at St. The morning session, chaired by author and journalist, died here after a Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Ceme– Prof. Leo Rudnytzky of LaSalle Uni– harmonious, humanistic solution with– in the framework of the Ukrainian state. prolonged illness on Thursday, April tery in South Bound Brook, N.J. versity, who was also on the planning 19. He was 68. Surviving are his wife, Halyna; dau– committee of the conference, was de- 94. A basis for the full satisfaction of Mr. Poltava was from the Poltava ghter, Daria, and son, ivan, with his voted to encounters of these three the national and cultural needs of Jews region of Ukraine. From 1942 he lived wife, Susan. national groups in literature. and Poles who live within the boun– in Germany, then in France, and since Prof. Grol-Prokopczyk from State daries of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet 1958 in the United States. University of New York, Buffalo fo– Republic is today's national rebirth of He was a contributor to many Ukrai– cused her lecture on the work of Polish- Ukraine. nian-language newspapers, and for Jewish writer Julian Strykowski. in a ^5. The Jewish question in Ukraine several years was an editor at Svoboda, provocatively titled paper, "Forbidden today, as with other national minorities the Ukrainian-language daily news- Fruit: illicit Love Affairs Between Jews is not solved by processes of assimila– paper published by the Ukrainian National Association. Most recently he was editor-in-chief of Natsionalna Trybuna (National Tribune). Among the publications he edited were the magazines Krylati and Nash Svit, and the newspaper Narodna volya. He authored many works, including poetry, novels and children's literature. Among collections of his poetry are "Behind the Berlin Wall," "White Grass," "Yellow Carousels" and "Pro- files." He wrote the novel "Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow?," the historical novel "1709" and the libretto to the opera "Anna Yaroslavna." His children's works included "The Bell Ringer of Konotop." Requiem services were offered on April 23 and 24. The funeral took place Among participants at the Columbia University conference were: (from left) Leo April 25. Liturgy was offered at All Rudnytzky, David Roskies and Anatoliy Pohribny. Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Leonid Poltava No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 5 тшшттьштттшішіїттттяіт DISTRICT MEETINGS Young Wilkes-Barre husband and upon extending greetings were less due to the use of the 1980 to the members of the district commit– mortality tables (CSO) which the UNA UNA'ers EDWARDSviLLE, Pa. - A meet– tee on behalf of the Supreme Executive adopted in 1987, he explained. ing of representatives of UNA branches Committee, Mr. Flis reviewed the He itemized successes of the UNA in belonging to the Wilkes-Barre District organizing achievements of the district its fraternal work, including sponsor- was held on Sunday, March 18, in the for the past year and then gave a general ship of various groups and concerts. Church Hall of St. volodymyr Ukrai– report on various spheres of UNA in mentioning the amount spent for nian Catholic Church here. activity in 1989. UNA publications, he asked "How Tymko Butrej was requested to act as Mr. Flis stated that although 1,410 much did other companies, in which chairman of the meeting. A quorum was new members were signed up in 1989 you hold insurance policies, donate for verified and a minute of silence and who were insured for the amount of Ukrainian causes?" He also mentioned prayer were observed in memory of 58,987,000, the UNA had a net loss in the valuable work conducted by the vasyl Stefuryn, past chairman, and all membership of 1,914. The Wilkes-Barre UNA's Washington Office. other departed members of the district. UNA District had organized 12 new Mr. Butrej thanked Mr. Flis for his The election of district officers was members insured for a total of 549,000. detailed report and asked for comments placed first on the agenda. After being The district quota was fulfilled to the and questions addressed to Mr. Flis. nominated, the following district offi– extend of 60 percent. He extended After discussion of plans for the pre– cers were elected: Mr. Butrej, chairman; congratulations to individual organi– convention organizing effort, Mr. Demetrius Ostapiw, vice-chairman; zers, including Mrs. Stefuryn, who Butrej, on behalf of the Wilkes-Barre Giselle Stefuryn, vice-chairperson; Ann organized seven new members. District, stated that the maximum or– Zinich, secretary; and Henry Bolosky, Mr. Flis then proceeded to give a ganizing effort shall be exerted prior to treasurer. Auditing Committee mem– short report on the success of UNA in its the UNA convention, which is to be bers are John Hrencecin, chairman, financial and fraternal endeavors. He held May 28 to June 2 in Baltimore. Eugene Yankowski and Walter Bober– stated that UNA assets amounted to sky. 564,319,000 as of the end of 1989, and Upon asking the delegates to coope– Mr. Butrej then called upon John O. for the first time in the UNA history, rate in this organizing effort, the meet– Matthew James Tobin, son of Jean Flis, UNA supreme president, to deliver dues collected were less than 53 million. ing was adjourned and all were invited Balutanski Tobin and James Tobin, is a report on the progress being made by This was due to the fact that over 1,900 to partake in the reception prepared by the youngest member of UNA Branch the UNA. After extending condolences members were lost by the UNA and the Mrs. Stefuryn and the ladies of the 286 in Jersey City, N.J. He was enrolled to Mrs. Stefuryn on the death of her fact that dues collected from members district. by his grandmother Olga Balutanski.

future events such as a trip to the gains and other achievements of the Woonsocket Garden State Ukrainian Festival with a Ukrainian National Association. Mr. WOONSOCKET, R.l. - The Woon– visit to Soyuzivka, trips to New York Chudolij, being a member of the UNA socket District Ukrainian National and Washington, and the 80th anniver– Scholarship Committee, stressed the Association meeting was held Sunday, sary of Branch 206 in the fall. importance of this program and how it is helping the younger generation. March 18, in the St. Michael's Ukrai– At this point the district chairman, nian Orthodox Church Parish Hall. Leon Hardink, presented "Certificates Raymond Susla and Peter Furman, The Revs. Mykola Krywonos and ivan of Honor for 100 Percent Membership in officers of the Ukrainian National Kaszcak opened the meeting with a the Ukrainian National Association" to Home Corp. of Blackstone, Mass., were prayer. A moment of silence was ob– all branches present. Each branch pre– introduced to the body of members. served for deceased members of the sented certificates to members present These men were instrumental in pre– UNA. with the assistance of Mrs. Paschen, senting a scholarship fund of 535,000 to UNA vice-Presidentess Gloria Pas– who congratulated each member. the Ukrainian National Association in chen was the special guest and main the fall of 1989. This fund is expected to speaker, and Supreme Advisor Alex Officers were then elected and the endow three individuals with 5 1,000 Chudolij, who is also vice-chairman of following will continue for the next awards. the Woonsocket District, was the se– year: Mr. Hardink, chairman; Mr. cond speaker. Chudolij, first vice-chairman; Michael During the discussion, the members Helen Trinkler togk minutes of Popowych, second vice-chairman; Ms. voted to donate 5100 to the Children of meeting in Ukrainian and Janet Bardell Trinkler, Ukrainian secretary; Theodor Chornobyl Relief Fund. Discussions did so in the English language. The Klowan, English secretary; Ms. Bardell, also centered on assisting Ukrainians treasurer's report was given by Ms. treasurer; John Laba, Dmytro Wasylyk, emigrating to the United States. Bardell. Andrew Kun, controllers; and Dmytro After the meeting, refreshments were Dmytro Sarachmon, activities coor– Sarachmon, activities coordinator. served by Eugenia Hardink, irene dinator, reported on past affairs and Mrs. Paschen spoke of the financial Sarachmon and Stephanie Medynski. Matthew D. Clifford, shown here at the bers. The largest number of new mem– plaque of merit and thanks. age of 4 months, son of Dr. Bradley and Anthracite region bers — 10 — was organized by Branch Mrs. Diachuk thanked all organizers Dr. Sonia Clifford of Chicago, was SHENANDOAH, Pa. -Theannual 305 secretary, Mrs. Hentosh. Mr. for the 48 new members who joined the enrolled in UNA Branch 183 of Detroit meeting of the Pennsylvania Anthra– Chabon organized nine members, UNA in 1989 and for 24 new applica– by his grandparents Dr. and Mrs. cite Region was held on Saturday, whereas Helen Slovik of Branch 7 tions the Home Office had already Zenobius Stelmach. March lO,here in the newly erected St. organized seven members; Walter Salak received in 1990. Special thanks were Michael's Church Hall. Representatives of Branch 9, six members; Mike accorded to Mrs. Hentosh, the 1989 of the UNA branches present at that Chomyn of Branch 389, four members; champion organizer of the district. She meeting re-elected the full slate of George Pollyniak of Branch 1 and has already organized 14 new members officers from the prior year: Joseph Kathryn Harbest of Branch 382, two in 1990. Mr. Chabon has five new Chabon, chairman; Joseph Petruncio each; Monika Pesarchik of Branch 2 members, and Mrs. Slovik three mem– and Marguerite Hentosh, vice chair- and Marcie Bobersky of Branch 333, bers,the supreme treasurer observed. persons; Helen Slovik, secretary; and one member each. Mrs. Diachuk further reported that Adolph Slovik, treasurer. Michael Cho– Mr. Chabon explained what in– the organizing quota for the UNA was myn is the head of the Auditing Com– surance plans are easy for him to sell attained to the extent of 71.5 percent — mittee. and offered a helping hand to anyone in considerably better than in the prior Prior to the meeting the participants need of his expertise in insurance year. The amount of insurance in force attended a divine liturgy at the church. matters. Also, he reminded all present increased by 52,196,886, nonetheless The meeting was opened by Mr. Cha– that the deadline for submitting scholar- membership dropped by 1,914 mem- bon with a prayer. He welcomed Ulana ship applications is March 31. The be rs. The average amount of the new Diachuk, UNA supreme treasurer, and district has always had many scholar- policies being written increases steadily. all branch representatives and delegates ship applications and recipients, he The UNA has a very solid financial and proposed an agenda for the even– noted. base, she continued. During 1989 assets ing. After the election of officers, Mr. increased by 51,066,406. Dues were The minutes of the prior meeting, Chabon asked Mrs. Diachuk for her collected for a total of 52,702,157, held on November 5, 1989, were read by report. She stated that in Branch 382 the and 51,476,000 was paid back to the Mrs. Slovik. No changes were intro– long-time secretary, Mrs. Harbest, members as dividends, in 1989 the UNA duced and the minutes were approved retired and Julia Cresina has assumed granted 214 scholarships in the sum of Michael Peter MacGregor Jaremko, as read. her duties. She thanked Mrs. Harbest 5118,200; in the past five years the grandson of Dmytro and Elsie Jaremko, Mr. Chabon reported on the organiz– for the 22 years of her devoted work to scholarships granted to needy students and son of the William and Laurel ing activities of the local branches. the UNA and its branch membership, amount to 5540,000. Many donations Jaremko, is one of the youngest mem– During 1989 nyj^, Jyunch.es were active and, as a, token of appreciation Mrs. were made to religious, scholarly^ ypjutti^ h^of UNA, Brunch 304 in Buffalo, in recruiting and signing up new mem– Diachuk presented to her a special (Continued on page І2) N.Y. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRII 29,1990 No. 17

A proposal for discussion Ukrainian WeeHy What needs to be done Month of WCFU in 1967 Ukrainians from to help Ukraine now around the world gathered in New by Bohdan vitvitsky tended by representatives of govern– York at the founding conclave of ment agencies, service organizations the World Congress of Free U– Changes in Ukraine's political land- and foundations, was entirely devoted krainians. That First World scape have been rapid and dramatic. As to the topic of aid for Poland and Hun– Congress of Free Ukrainians recently as a year ago, no one in his right gary. affirmed that the newly created mind would have bet a nickel that any What can we in the diaspora do to international organization's pri– candidate backed by the then recently help? We must create or adapt one or mary goals are to give all launched and fledgling Rukh, the more organizational structures to: assistance possible to the Ukrai– Popular Movement of Ukraine for ^ identify, analyze and prioritize nian nation in its struggle for Perebudova, would even have been existing needs; freedom and independent state- allowed to run for office, much less that ^ identify and mobilize each and hood, and to work for the reali– a year later Rukh-backed candidates every resource available both within the zation of the rights of the would win over a third of the seats in a community and outside the community; Ukrainian nation in accordance newly reconstituted Ukrainian Parlia– and with the principles of the Uni– ment, attain a majority in Kiev's City ^ develop means and methods of versal Declaration of Human Council and even do well in Kharkiv. stretching, multiplying and in general Rights. Ща ^ YEAR OF To be sure, changes in, for example, maximizing all accessible resources to The World Congress of Free UKRAINIAN East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the fullest extent possible. Ukrainians has united organized UNITY Lithuania, have been even more drama- Ukrainian communities around ТРАВЕНЬ - МІСЯЦЬ СКВУ tic, but that should not distract us from Children of Chornobyl Fund the globe - in Europe, North and ПОМІЧ ДЛЯ СКВУ ЦЕ ПОМІЧ УКРАЇНІ appreciating and taking full stock of the South America, Australia - tremendous changes that have taken The best way to reach these objectives communities of Ukrainians in Пожертви просимо слати на адресу: place in Ukraine. may well be through the utilization of what is known as the free world. WORLD CONGRESS OF FREE UKRA1N1ANS 2118-ABloor Street West in the period between Rukh's con– three legally independent but, in prac– This year, in recognition of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6S 1M8 gress in September 1989 and the recent tice, complementary entities. One of the monumental changes taking place elections in March, our diaspora or– three already exists, it is the Children of in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the WCFU has called on Ukrainians ganized on an ad hoc basis to provide Chornobyl Relief Fund that was incor– worldwide, not just in the free world, to observe 1990 as the "Year of whatever short-term assistance was porated in November 1989 as a non- Ukrainian Unity." its Presidium has called on all Ukrainians to stand united, possible. Upon returning from his profit corporation. shoulder to shoulder, regardless of political or religious beliefs, or special attendance at Rukh's founding congress As stated in its articles of incorpora– interests, and to work toward the realization of its founding goals at a time in September, Prof. Taras Hunczak tion, its purpose is "to aid children and when these goals seem more attainable than ever before. initiated a fund-raising campaign that other individuals in Ukraine who, The World Congress of Free Ukrainians has just initiated its annual fund shortly thereafter received a tremendous having been exposed to the Chornobyl drive, proclaiming May the "Month of the WCFU." During the month, the boost from the charismatic appearances disaster or to other environmentatyeco– WCFU hopes Ukrainians in the free world will take the time out to think of volodymyr Yavorivsky, who visited logical disasters now or in the future about all the worthwhile activity in which it is engaged and will give the U.S. in November. shall suffer from a lack of proper generously to support it. it was Mr. Yavorivsky who made a medical care, as well as to aid children it bears repeating that the WCFU maintains contacts among Ukrainian special appeal on behalf of the victims and other individuals in Ukraine who communities throughout the world and tries to help those in need of of Chornobyl. This appeal also suffer or in the future shall suffer assistance. Thus, for example, the WCFU has announced its intentions to prompted the active involvement of Dr, nutritional or educational deprivation." help Ukrainians in Brazil anrf Argentina in view of those countries' current Zenon and Nadia Matkiwsky, who This fund is eligible to apply for tax- economic crises. arranged to have a shipment of medical exempt status, which application either As well, the WCFU sees its role as an expanding one,now that Ukrainian supplies accompany Mr. Yavorivsky has already been filed or should be filed minorities in Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia have awakened, taking back to Ukraine. The subsequent culmi– in the nearest future. This fund already advantage of opportunities provided by the new freedom in their countries. nation of that campaign was the deli- has a board of trustees and a manage– These minorities, too, are in need of our assistance. To that end, the WCFU very of a planeload of medical and ment-executive committee of which Presidium had announced that a special plenary session of the organization related supplies to Ukraine in February, Prof. Hunczak is president. The fund will be held during the first weekend in May to discuss the changes in Eastern which delivery has widely been reported needs to elect a chairperson of the board Europe, especially Ukraine, and how Ukrainians in the free world can and upon in our press. and adopt a set of by-laws; otherwise, it should react. The task that confronts us today in would do well to continue the work it All of this, of course, is in addition to the regular work of the World the post-Ukrainian-election era is, has begun. Congress of Free Ukrainians, accomplished through its subordinate bodies, however, vastly different from the one The Children of Chornobyl Relief including commissions on human rights, social services and ecology, that confronted us prior to March. For Fund is the only fund that has a legal councils on education and culture, as well as special committees created to the foreseeable future, Rukh and the existence — although money has been deal with the Chornobyl nuclear accident and other current issues of concern Democratic Bloc are going to partici– raised for a "Rukh Fund," much of to Ukrainians worldwide. pate in the governing of Ukraine, a which is being held in reserve. Clearly, then, the WCFU is an organization deserving of our support. And, Ukraine that has been devastated eco– the amount of our support will determine the extent of its success and the nomically, ecologically and politically. Fund to Foster Democracy reach of its helping hand to Ukrainians around the globe. Whereas prior to the elections our focus could afford to be narrow — i.e., on The second entity that needs to be how to contribute to the legitimization created could be named The Fund to and success of Ukraine's pro-democra– Foster Democracy in Ukraine and tic forces — we must now address an would be based in the New York area, agenda immeasurably larger and more it, too, would be incorporated ac a non- Turning the pages back... complicated — i.e., the monumental profit corporation and its purpose and task of helping Ukraine help itself activities would be such as also U make achieve economic, ecological and politi– it eligible for tax-exempt status. Four years ago, on the 10th day after disaster struck at the cal rebirth and normalization. its goals and activities would n some Chornobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Unfortunately, our numbers and respects resemble those of the National SSR Minister of Health Anatoliy Romanenko finally resources in the diaspora are not large Endowment for Democracy, it would appeared on republican television to address the people. either in absolute terms or in relation to seek foundation and government grants "After April 26, the radioactive storm blew across Ukraine for nine days," wrote the magnitude of the task at hand. to advance political and economic Stepan Kolesnyk in the January 4, 1990, issue of Literaturna Ukraina, in the first Furthermore, a down-side of the parallel democracy in Ukraine, it could help part of his two-part series titled "Damocles' Sword of Radiation." political and economic developments in fund, sponsor and organize some of the He continued: Eastern Europe is that Ukrainians' projects that Rukh now most urgently "For nine days the people breathed into their lungs air filled with radioactive needs will simultaneously be competing requests: internships and training in the particles. Produce was sold; greens (vegetables) that are so much wanted in the for resources with the needs of Poland, United States for Ukrainian econo– springtime, were consumed. The populace then received the maximum possible Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltic mists, managers, entrepreneurs and dose of radiation. republics and even Russia itself. lawyers; programs for intensive En– "And it was only on the 10th day that Minister of Health Romanenko appeared in fact, Ukraine is already behind in glish-language training in Ukraine,etc. on republican television. He advised: spend less time outdoors, do not walk under competing in the West for resources This fund would also sponsor and the trees, do not take nature trips, and close up apartments. against these other Eastern European organize conferences and symposia in "Lovers of humor entertained themselves: The minister wants us to shut our countries as regards recruiting expert Ukraine on subjects such as safeguard– apartments... so that everything that has flown in cannot fly out.' advisors (e.g., economists, investment ing the ecology, democratic reform and "Trust in the ministry was hopelessly lost. All that was spoken by this bankers and legal, technical and mana– on the mechanics of changing over to a government department had but one goal: to prove that the accident would not gerial advisors), lining up capital invest– market economy. affect the health of the people." ment and lining up foundation support. in addition, such a fund could also it was this attitude toward the people that was the most criminal aspect of the To cite just one example, a recent sponsor election administration activi– post-Chornobyl cover-up. Only today is this being revealed to the ailing public. special White House conference, at– (Continued on page 14) No. 17 r THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990

Uke-eye LETTER TO THE ED1TOR

by Anisa Handzia Sawyckyj the intoxicating lesson that freedom is Righteous outrage contagious. Unfortunately, so is repression. The Soviets may already must be expressed have learned their lesson from our Recalling the Chernobyl accident apathy. As the chess champion and How do you recall the Chornobyl accident of April 26,1986? What concerns do Dear Editor: human rights advocate Gary Kas– At one time or another, every Ameri– you have about its consequences? What do you think of the Ukrainian diaspora's 4 porov pointed out in a recent response to the crisis? can schoolchild is taught that 4he price commentary (March 29) in The Wall of liberty is eternal vigilance." Too Street Journal: "Why not use force in Olya Czerkas, them more aware of the Chornobyl often, this Jeffersonian principle is lost Lithuania? People were killed in teacher, St. Pe– accident and its aftereffects. Most on the Ukrainian American commu– Georgia one year ago, and there was no tersburg, Fla.: Americans don't realize the dangers of a nity. We have barely seen the first reaction in the West. When people were stirrings of religious tolerance in our nuclear world, with the exception of the killed in Tiananmen Square, there was a homeland, and already we are letting І am worried hard-core anti-nuclear activists. reaction, but it passed, it was forgiven." about the conse– down our guard, assuming that freedom will somehow take care of itself under Quite simply, Mr. Kasparov tells us, our quencesofChor– iwanna Kaczor, silence kills, because it emboldens the nobyl, the ill– housewife, New the watchful eye of Kremlin "re- formers." killers. nesses, the increased cancers, and most York: І am not sure why news of the frightening of all to contemplate, the Consider our response to the recent mugging of Mr. Gel and the Rev. potential genetic mutations in future Chornobyl is beating of ivan Gel and Father Ze– Zeleniukh fell on such deaf ears. І am generations of Ukrainians. a disastrous leniukh. (The Ukrainian Weekly, Fe– sure that my Black and Jewish friends І remember being in total shock that situation, with bruary 11). This was a brutal, unpro– would not have reacted to such an the accident had taken place in my genetic muta– voked attack, in broad daylight, on two affront to their ethnic dignity with such homeland. І was concerned about the tions and terrible consequences for of the most courageous and prominent an even temper. world impact of the accident, but my its victims. Ukraine is even now sitting leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic Why does our righteous outrage go greatest worry was for the Ukrainian on an atomic bomb, because the Chor– Church. How did the emigre commu– unexpressed? Perhaps too many of us, people. І remember watching ТУ to see nobyl tragedy is not over, it is con– nity react? For the most part, we didn't. aspiring to the yuppie upper crust, dread in which direction the radioactive winds tinuing. We may try to justify our silence by the thought of being labelled a "bleed– would blow. І was also angry. Why, of І remember how frightened 1 was at arguing that under the circumstances, ing heart" or a "knee-jerk" activist. The all the countries in the world, did this the news. І waited for every bit of new restraint was called for. This attack was more 1 look at the personal advance– have to happen to us? information that might emerge from the clearly calculated to inflame the pas– ment and the political clout of other І think the Ukrainian community has ТУ screen. Now that the initial shock is sions of Ukrainian Catholics, to con- vocal minorities, the more 1 am con– responded well, then and now. While gone, the situation is even worse, since firm the slanderous claims of Russian vinced that Ukrainian interests are not the initial shock of the accident has the radioactivity is still there and the chauvinists who have tried to portray us well-served by a lot of meek and genteel worn off, there are now many organiza– health consequences are starting to as reactionaries and fanatics with a professionals who are too concerned tions and individuals working together appear. propensity for violence. The fact that with their self-image to make a prin– in the Ukrainian community to send aid Unfortunately, the Chornobyl story Ukrainians refused to retaliate and cipled defense of human rights. to victims of the disaster. This has doesn't hold the attention of the world. stoop to the level of their antagonists brought together the community, be– Americans are good people, but to them speaks well of the collective wisdom and As a card-carrying member of the cause disasters make you realize what Ukraine is a country that's far away, discipline of the Rukh and its various American Civil Liberties Union, and the important things in life are. and most people are not particularly constituencies. the less-maligned Amnesty interna– it's unfortunate that Ukraine, for– interested, it's considered old news, in Still, there is a big difference between tional, 1 firmly believe that liberty merly a bountiful breadbasket, will be Ukraine, some people are very much the non-violent stoicism of our country- cannot be defended in the abstract. forever associated with the disaster at interested, but the government there is men, and the lack of audible indigna– Racist, ethnic and religious violence Chornobyl. We've gotten the world's not cooperating, it's covering up the tion on the part of Rukh supporters in must be challenged zealously and pain– attention and sympathy, but for a problems, rather than trying to solve the West. stakingly and, yes, sometimes loudly. terrible reason, i'd rather we didn't them. We don't have to look far to see how The tedium of letter-writing and phone have that attention, and that Chornobyl As for aid from the diaspora, it's good other nationalities respond to attacks calls and protest is a discipline we need had never happened. that funds are being raised, but there's a on their civil liberties. When white to learn and practice and teach our But 1 think the accident stimulated limit to what an emigre community can punks murdered a black man in Ho– children until it becomes second nature people in Ukraine to take matters into do. We can only give help in the ward Beach, the Black community did — until our response becomes as vis– their own hands and to force their thousands of dollars. What is needed in not take long to mobilize. When syna– ceral as the reflex that makes us recoil government to take measures to protect Ukraine is aid for victims and clean-up gogues are burned or swastikas painted from a blow to the head, or a spit in the them against future environmental operations that cost in the billions of on school buildings, Jewish organiza– face. disasters. dollars. And that is only possible if their tions are quick to demand that the The current crisis in Lithuania under– government gets involved. vandals and arsonists be brought to scores the vulnerability of our cham– Alexander Pry– justice. pions in Rukh. Each and every assault shlak, mechani– Michael Pylyp– Granted, these are examples of civil on the movement for freedom is a test of cal engineer (re- czuk, fine arts rights violations that occur within the our vigilance and our resolve. Needless tired), Hartford, educator, Peek- United States. We would expect a to say, in the early test case of the Rev. Conn.: skill, N.Y.: strong reaction from local communities Zeleniukh and Mr. Gel, we failed badly. which are directly affected by such As for the highbrows among us, who The Chornobyl The first І violence. Yet many decent Americans leave it to the "activists" to do all the accident was a heard of the are sensitive to abuses and atrocities necessary hell-raising, let us take heed big shock to me, and 1 think the conse– Chornobyl acci– that occur overseas. of Dante's warning: the inferno is not quences of it are very serious. While it's dent was when an American friend When Father Popeliuszko was mur– reserved exclusively for sadistic friends hard to know the long-term effects of called me up to tell me to turn on the dered in Poland, Polish Americans like the hooligans of Staryava. The First this nuclear accident, 1 think if people news. My first concern was for my rallied forcefully and vocally. When Circle of Hell is also populated by well- had more statistical data on the health relatives in Ukraine. priests and nuns are shot and tortured meaning, seemingly harmless sinners consequences, they might not even want Chornobyl is a tragedy in the by right-wing death squads in El Salva– who are guilty of nothing more than to live in Ukraine. Not enough scientific broadest sense of the word, vast regions dor, thousands of human rights acti– "tepidezza in ben far messo" — an and technical work has been published. of Ukraine are uninhabitable, and will vists (mostly of non-Hispanic origin) italian expression for "too much luke– There should be a methodical scientific, be closed for hundreds of years. That is make it their business to make their warmness in doing the right thing." academic research program instituted, a frightening thought. outrage known to the authorities re– So let's not equate the Rukh's non- so people in Ukraine would have more After the initial Soviet reluctance to sponsible. violent action with the West's torpor. information on which to base their disclose information, there has recently Yet when Catholic leaders are as– Lukewarmth and reticence in the face of decisions. been more openness, with more data saulted in Ukraine, we remain silent and blatant injustice are neither civilized nor immediately after the accident, the being revealed. Because of the expect someone else to do the protest– morally appropriate. Ukrainian community here couldn't do seriousness of the accident, everyone, ing for us. The hooligan elements that much about it except sympathize. We including the Soviets, are trying to attacked Mr. Gel and the Rev. Zele– Alexander B. Kuzma weren't allowed to help in more specific resolve it, even to the point of inviting niukh are part of the same Neanderthal Hartford, Conn. ways. But now because of political American scientists to come over and ilk that bludgeoned to death volo– changes in Ukraine, the community investigate. dymyr ivasiuk and Alia Horska. Are we P.S. it is still not too late to protest here has responded very positively to As tragic as it was, Chornobyl might waiting for these goon squads to start the beatings of Father Zeleniukh and fund-raising efforts. The amount of serve as a turning point in the USSR's operating as freely as they did under ivan Gel. The Campaign for the Le– material help we send over to Ukraine is attitude toward environmental pollu– Brezhnev and Andropov? Or as galization of the Ukrainian Churches just a drop in the bucket compared to tion. it was always assumed that sickeningly as the priest-killers of San urges concerned citizens to write the their total needs, but is a great source of Western capitalist countries were bad Salvador? Are we waiting for another White House, Congress and the Soviet moral support for Ukrainians there and polluters. Now more and more Soviet-style lynching before we spring government, asking that the attack be is very much appreciated for that information is coming out about serious into action? Or are we waiting for a full- investigated, and that those respon– reason. environmental crises in the USSR and blown massacre like Tiananmen sible be brought to justice. The address We should get more non-Ukrainians Eastern Europe. Square? of the Soviet Embassy is 1125 16th St. involved in this aid effort and make (Continued on page 12) Last year, the world began learning NW, Washington, D.C 20036. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 No. 17 CHORNOBYL'S 4th ANNimtSARY: CHORNOBYL EXPER1ENCE: volunteer The question of the cover-up speaks on fate of clean-up veterans by Dr. David Marples "heap of lies" about the accident in the by Roma Hadzewycz 109,000. Both newspapers are published Western media, and the indirect sup- in the Russian-language. For the past four years, the subject of port given by the disaster to his avowed NEWARK, N.J. - Yuriy Zyliuk, 35, it was his Ukrainian roots that led Chornobyl has been one of increasing policy of removing all nuclear weapons is one of the hundreds of thousands of Mr. Zyliuk to volunteer for work on the concern to citizens of the Soviet Union, from earth by the year 2000. Chornobyl clean-up workers still seek– "liquidation of the consequences" of the particularly those living in the southern ing acknowledgement from the Soviet Chornobyl accident. regions of Byelorussia, northern U– in turn, the Ukrainian party leaders in Kiev played almost no role in the government that their illnesses are He recalled: "Soon after the accident kraine and the Briansk Oblast of the related to their hazardous duty at the at Chornobyl, 1 arrived as a journalist in Russian republic. The biggest source of accident's aftermath, and appeared to regard it as a matter of either all-union nuclear power plant and its environs. Kharkiv on May 10, 1986, to write anxiety has been an alleged failure of He is also one of the members of the about the first transport of a hydrotur– the authorities to provide accurate and or oblast jurisdiction. Thus, the most frequent Ukrainian party official on the Chornobyl Union, founded last year in bine aboard the world's largest (at that full information about the consequen– Kiev on the third anniversary of the time) cargo plane, the Ruslan. ...This ces of the disaster. spot was the Kiev Oblast party leader, Hryhoriy Revenko. Chornobyl nuclear accident to en- was the first time that 1 met 'Chorno– Similar accusations were made compass all those who, in one way or byltsi' (Chornobyl veterans). There against the British government after the By October 1986, an All-Union Center of Radiation Medicine had been another, are connected with that ca– were many of them in Kharkiv because 1957 accident at the Windscale nuclear tastrophe. the helicopters that had been dropping plant in Cumbria and against the U.S. established in Kiev, nominally under Dr. Romanenko, but in reality under Although the union's members are sand, lead,etc., on the stricken reactor government (to a lesser extent) follow– primarily the "liquidators," as the had been flying out of Kharkiv. This ing the radiation leakage at the Three the jurisdiction of Dr. ilyin, as a section of the Academy of Medical Sciences. disaster's clean-up workers are called, it was my first encounter with these Mile island plant in Pennsylvania in also includes firemen who formed part people and 1 was very upset by the 1979. Clearly, Chornobyl was the most Ostensibly established to monitor the effects of radiation on the affected of the emergency crew at the plant in the stories they relayed." serious accident of the three, however, first days of the accident, evacuees from Another reason he volunteered for and from the perspective of four years, population, the center, or a higher authority, then proceeded to classify the Chornobyl zone, families of Chor– work at Chornobyl, he said, was "1 the question remains: Was there indeed nobyl veterans and anyone with an wanted to write about the accident as a concealment of information at the very most of the information about the disaster, confining its statements to interest in the accident and its conse– journalist, to see from the inside all that time that the official policy of glasnost quences. was happening." was coming into effect? „ platitudes. Requests by more "acceptable" Wes– Mr. Zyliuk, a journalist who works as "As a journalist," he continued, "1 We will deal here only with the could not go there — perhaps only for a 1 tern medical experts to visit the center limitations of officia information and week - but 1 wanted to work there. І the official inquiry into Chornobyl, - by Dr. Gale for example - were rejected. The center created a register of had to join the army to do so, and as a leaving aside the subsequent political result 1 spent three months in the zone." repercussions in Byelorussia and U– those affected by the accident which was later revealed to be very incomplete and At first, he recalled, he and others kraine. From the outset, there were were taken to the Khoiniki raion near attempts to control the amount of today contains less than 25 percent of the population now officially acknow– the Ukrainian-Byelorussian border. information released. As an accident at Since Mr. Zyliuk had served in the a station under all-union control, the ledged to have been affected. Within the center, the institute of Clinical Radio- Soviet Army as commander of a bri– initial inquiry was restricted to the gade engaged in radiation and chemical USSR ministries of power, health and logy led by Dr. B.G. Bebeshko, which is monitoring the first radiation victims, monitoring, and was familiar with the medium machine building and to the equipment used in such work, almost Academy of Medical Sciences of the has been considered the most secretive department of all. from the first days he was sent to USSR, led by vice-President Leonid measure the radioactivity on the ground ilyin. in May 1988, in Kiev, an interna– tional conference was held on the and in the air. Foreign offers of medical and mate- He spent some two to three weeks in rial help were initially refused, with the medical effects of the disaster. Western experts at that time appeared to accept that region and later worked in the town exception of that of Dr. Robert P. Gale, of Chornobyl, about 15 kilometers from who was permitted to fly to Moscow to at face value many of the statements released by the center, ^nd the conse– the nuclear plant, where he was in– undertake bone marrow transplants on volved in decontamination of buildings the first victims, who had suffered quent book publication was notable for its omissions and one-sided account of and territory. radiation exposure at levels of around From that town workers were also 600 to 800 rems. the subject matter. Further, many of the papers published in the book were too driven to the power station to work on There then followed a bewildering technical for the average citizen. the clean-up there. "When the call went number of reassuring statements that out for volunteers to go on the roof of the effects of Chornobyl would be At this same time, because of the increasing number of journalistic in– the third reactor to clean up the radio- considerably less serious than initially active debris that had fallen there when feared by Dr. ilyin, Ukrainian Mi– quiries into the effects of Chornobyl, the center began to react against what iv the fourth reactor exploded, 1 was nister of Health Anatoliy Romanenko, among those who volunteered," he and others. called "emotional" press accounts which did not take into consideration said. This was in late November and After May 1986, decontamination "expert" opinion. On several occasions, early December. work in the zone was undertaken largely the comments of Western scientists The level of radiation was unbe– by military reservists, it has been were used to support official state– lievably high on the roof. According to established that no official record was ments, while Westerners who predicted Mr. Zyliuk, "Our group was in areas kept of which young soldiers were high future casualties from the accident where the level was 800 to 2,000 roent– present in the zone, and thus it has not were swiftly and roundly denounced. gens per hour, whereas the norm for a been possible to monitor health pro– Yet, if information was systematically person is 50 roentgens for the entire blems among them. Yet incidence of year." illness among the reservists today is said concealed, as seems evident today, why Yuriy Zyliuk to be exceptionally high. would this have happened in a period of "The medics studied us and gave us glasnost? Some critics, such as the news editor at Sovietskaya Kirghizia in pills. І don't know what kind of pills, The 30-kilometer zone, from which Ukrainian physician Yuriy Shcherbak, that republic's capital city of Frunze, the population was removed, was a very they didn't tell us," he added. "They have maintained that certain groups in himself worked on the Chornobyl were red pills that were supposed to help arbitrary sort of delineation, but little or Soviet society had remained immune to clean-up in September through Decem– no attention was paid to neighboring us. Now 1 know they didn't help." the effects of perestroika: armchair ber of 1986. The clothing worn by these workers regions, which were also assured that bureaucrats in Moscow ministries who Unlike many of the clean-up workers, they were not in any danger. during their extremely hazardous duty were unaccustomed to public inquiries however, he was not a draftee, but a included no special suits. "We wore lead The Soviet Politburo sent two repre– and a demand for accurate information volunteer. And he believes he is the only sentatives to Chornobyl on May 2, vests covered with rubber aprons, in Byelorussia, in the spring of 1989, journalist to have actually worked on surgical masks on our faces, berets on 1986, Yegor Ligachev and Nikolai when the radioactive fallout was de– the nuclear disaster's clean-up. Ryzhkov. it was reported that on their our heads, and rubber boots and gloves clared to be much more extensive than Mr. Zyliuk, who recently visited - nothing more," Mr. Zyliuk recount– orders, a 10-kilometer zone of evacua– hitherto reported, the blame was laid on tion was extended to 30. relatives in the United States, gave an ea. "Even robots stopped working in the slow progress of perestroika in the those conditions. And they had to be General Secretary Mikhail Gorba– interview to The Ukrainian Weekly republic. specially adapted to withstand such chev made only one television ap– concerning his experiences at Chor– levels of radiation. And here we humans pearance specifically on the ramifica– But it might equally well be main– nobyl and the grievances of Chornobyl cleaned all this (debris) with regular tions of Chornobyl, on May 14, 1986, tained that nuclear power, glasnost or veterans. shovels, filling up containers and all the and confined his remarks largely to the not, had remained a secretive state Born in Zvynache, Horokhiv region industry. The extensive accounts of of Yolhynia, western Ukraine, Mr. while running as fast as we could for 10 The article above, the second of a three- heroism and bravery in the clean-up Zyliuk has been living in the republic of minutes at a time." part series written on the fourth anni– campaign had served to conceal the Kirghizia for the past eight years. At He continued: "We had individual versary of the Chornobyl nuclear dis– deeper, underlying question, of how far first he was employed by the republic's dosimeters. And went up to the roof aster, is reprinted with permission from afield the radiation had spread and the Komsomol newspaper, Komsomolets with these. When we came down, army Report on the USSR,a weekly report on already manifest health effects on the Kirghiziyi, and for the past year at specialists immediately took them away current Soviet affairs published by population. Sovietskaya Kirghizia, a larger general- and calculated something. І decided to Radio Free Europe f Radio Liberty inc. (Continued on page 13) interest newspaper with a circulation of (Continued on page 15) No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 9 Trip to Ukraine reveals latest developments in famine research

by Dr. James E. Mace part of the world 1 had never seen, but (hard currency). This is followed in a independence. Tourists get six rubles PART1 had spent my entire adult life studying. much lower voice with the only other and change for a dollar in their hotels, Two years ago, when the Ukrainian My feelings on my first visit to English phrases most of them know: any taxi driver will offer you nine, and Famine of 1932-1933 first became Ukraine were probably little different "You want exchange money? І give the black market rate is 14 or 15 to one. mentionable in the official Ukrainian from those of first– or second-genera– good exchange, bfetter than bank." Being a guest: and a former "enemy of Soviet press, the commission officially tion Ukrainian Americans: a mixture of The official exchange, according to the people," 1 decided to stick to the offered to extend any appropriate eagerness and apprehension. Of course, which the ruble is worth Si.75, seems to official six-to-oiie rate, which still gives assistance to those in the Ukrainian І was eager to see the country 1 knew be in effect only in the government-run an illusion of tremendous wealth in a SSR who were sincerely interested in only from the printed word and from hard-currency clip joints and in cal– society where there are war veterans studying the famine, instead, attacks those whom circumstances had forced culating the price tag for Lithuanian (Continued on page 10) continued on what official spokesmen to leave. І was also eager to try to get called the "irrational thesis" that a access to the historical sources available genocide had been committed against only there, as well as to meet Soviet the Ukrainian nation. News from U– colleagues and friends whom 1 had met kraine even reprinted excerpts from a on their trips here. village voice article attacking Western My limited command of the spoken scholarly work on the famine as part of language was a source of some appre– a conspiracy by alleged Ukrainian war hension, but 1 also feared that 1 would criminals to cover up their unsavory somehow fail to measure up when 1 met pasts, using me as their mouthpiece. those Soviet Ukrainians whom 1 knew But things gradually changed. "Un– only by reputation and for whom 1 have official" (self-organized) groups like long had tremendous respect, it is one Rukh, the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian thing to work for "ukrayinska sprava" Language Society, and Memorial in the West, surrounded by a supportive helped pressure the authorities by and appreciative community, quite providing channels through which another to do it as a member of a society people could communicate their ideas where one is always aware that the and desires independent from the offi– vicissitudes of Soviet reality can have an cially controlled media. The result was a immediate and deleterious effect on gradual broadening of the range of what one's personal well-being. What could 1, was permissible, and some things that coming from the security and affluence long had been impermissible even of the West, have to say to such people? became obligatory. And so it was with Would 1 be just another bothersome the famine. tourist, unable to comprehend the real in December 1 received a Russian- country on which 1 was a so-called language invitation from the Ukraina expert? Could 1 actually accomplish Society, stating that they would be anything worthwhile? willing to accept me for a two or three After a supposedly direct Pan-Am week stay in Ukraine. After checking flight that included a six-hour stop-over with the commission's chairman, Rep. in Frankfurt, 1 arrived at Moscow's Dennis Hertel, 1 accepted. And on Sheremetevo airport, went through January 28 1 left for my first visit to a customs, and found no one from the society to meet me. The first sound that Dr. James E. Mace is staff director of greets any visitor to Moscow is "taksi, the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine taksi," the ubiquitous mating call of the Stanislav Kulchytsky speaks with James E. Mace at the institute of History, Famine. gypsy taxi driver in search of valuta Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. Уоіовутуг Manyak, chronicler of 7933 famine, calls it genocide by Oksana Zakydalsky The volume contains 579 pages and publisher's (Radianskyi Pysmennyk), now acknowledged in Ukraine that includes photographs; it was published but the inevitable "lack of paper" is famine took place, we have nothing to TORONTO - The chronicler of the by the Politekhnichna Literatura U– holding up its printing. do here in the West since everything will famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, volo– krainy. Only 10,000 copies were print– Together with his wife, Mr. Manyak be done in Ukraine, Mr. Manyak said dymyr Manyak, who participated in a ed, because of "lack of paper" and it has began gathering accounts of the famine that several decades will be needed to conference on "Ukraine Under Stalin," already become a rare book. in 1984 and collected over 8,000. These change attitudes. held at the University of Toronto on Mr. Manyak has now prepared are interviews with pensioners — ac– Although some people are able to March 2-4, maintains that the Stalin- another memorial book, on the famine tually with "the children of the famine" change quickly (he cited the Canadian- directed starvation of Ukrainians was in Ukraine in 1933, called "Famine: The as the witnesses were children at the Ukrainian Communist Petro Kraw– genocide. 33rd" (Holod: 33-yi). it includes 1,000 time of the famine. People volunteered chuk), the institute of History in U– Mr. Manyak is co-chairman with eyewitness accounts of the famine and to provide the accounts, some as the kraine will not be able to change so writer and theater director Les Taniuk, also contains 167 photographs as a result of announcements in the press. easily. For decades its staffers have of the Memorial Society of Ukraine, an record of the times as no photos depict– Mr. Manyak was not aware of famine spouted one line — their life's work is organization whose aim is to collect and ing the famine or of actual cases of research being done in the West until based on it. They would have to nullify document information on repressions starvation were located. The book after 1985. all their past "achievements"and admit in Ukraine — both Stalinist and "neo– includes documentary evidence from When asked to react to the idea that to not having done work, he said. Stalinist." "secret archives" and is currently at the "some people think that because it is They would have to admit that: the A journalist by profession, he gra– state was involved in criminal activity to ; duated from the University of Lviv in which they provided justifications; that 1956. He has worked as a journalist in the famine was organized; that the newspaper, radio and publishing, and repressions they justified killed people, has been a member of the Writers' he added. Union since 1967. He has published 23 Even on the world level it will take books, mostly prose, although his first more than a few years to change people's publication was a book of poetry. He attitudes. Mr. Manyak said that he lives in Kiev with his wife and colleague, noticed at the conference, where the Lydia Kovalenko, also a journalist. topic of the famine was discussed, that Mr. Manyak is editor of the book Western scholars still are not com– "Wreath of immortality" (vinok Bezs– fortable with the new evidence and the mertia), published in 1988. He calls it a new documentation. "memorial book"; it documents, He said that there is no doubt that through eyewitness reports the Nazi what happened in Ukraine in 1932-33 destruction of 714 villages in Ukraine in was genocide in the name of the totali– the years 1941-1943. tarian system and the empire. The it was a practice of the Nazi occupiers Ukrainian nation is by nature indocile to burn, together with all its inhabi– and rebellious, it did not fit into the tants, any village where a German was empire; it would not accept it. Stalin killed by partisans. Eyewitness accounts kr?^w that peaceful coexistence was not of these crimes, by village, are featured possible, thus, the nation had to be put in the book. The villages were located on its knees. mostly in eastern Ukraine, although The demoralizing effects of a famine some were in western Ukraine (parti– volodymyr Manyak with lroida Wynnyckyj, director of the Ukrainian Research were already demonstrated in 1921. cularly volyn). and Documentation Center in Toronto. (Continued on page 13) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 No. 17

was unable to do so. Mr. Manyak was Trip to Ukraine... also present at my invitation and took (Continued from page 9) the opportunity to talk about the 6,000 written eyewitness accounts of the living on pensions of 50 rubles (S7) a famine which he has collected (1,000 of month and the most a person can even them will be published), immediately dream of legally making is perhaps afterward, 1 was briefly interviewed (at 1,000 rubles (S180) a month. One their insistence in English) by local quickly learns that gratuitous displays radio for domestic consumption, and І of wealth in such a society are not stressed that my role was to try to add appreciated. Ukrainians there are just my own modest experience as a scholar as proud as Ukrainians here. They know to the forces of scholarship in the they are paupers in comparison with Ukrainian SSR. their American cousins, and do not appreciate having their noses rubbed in Prof. Kulchytsky said that a number it. of the younger scholars were reading by book on Ukrainian communism in the І presented myself at the Ukraina 1920s, which had been taken out of the Society, my official host, after an closed reserve about six months ago, overnight train from Moscow on the and asked if 1 would speak at the Young morning of January 30. The train was Historians Forum, which of course І my introduction to the pervasive sense did. І decided to speak on the nationa– of decay of things being run down, that lity problem and hcjw the Communist one encounters virtually everywhere, Party of Ukraine faced it in the 1920s, and the exterior of the building housing and emphasized the role of early official the society could also use some sprucing ivan Slynko at the podium at the institute of History of the Ukrainian SSR party histories as a reflection of the up. І was introduced to the vice-chair- Academy of Sciences. party's self-image. man of the society, Stanislav Lazebnyk, The topic is less esoteric than it who informed me that access to ar– Western scholars and foreign visitors when one is better off learning history sounds because the historian 1 concen– chives was impossible because of the were already in Kiev. І found myself from the newspapers and literary jour– trated upon, M. Rayich-Cherkassy has haste with which the trip had been acting as a sort of neutral mediator, nals than from historical journals,which never been rehabilitated and is only arranged. However, 1 was to be free to attending several meetings in order to is the case in Ukraine today. І concluded mentioned in order to be criticized. І meet anyone and do just about anything help work out a time between the two by telling them that how they chose to used the old indiana Jones line that all else that 1 chose. And they kept their events. interpret history was their own affair, historians care about are facts and that word. The Ukraina Society was un– The first of several lectures which І but one at least had to attempt to create truth is a matter for philosophy, in a failingly courteous and helpful, if 1 told delivered was at the institute of History a usuable past for one's society, and a society where basic facts about the past them that 1 wanted to go somewhere, of the Academy of Sciences of the usable past has to be consistent with the have been forbidden for so long, just they saw to it that 1 received the Ukrainian SSR, where 1 was introduced known facts. getting historians to confront historical appropriate visa. І cannot be other than by ihor Khvorostianyi, the institute's There were four responses, mainly facts seemed to me the highest priority grateful for the Society's hospitality. vice-director, who once referred to me in terms of scholarship. in the journal Kyiv as a "patent Ukrai– from the more progressive historians, І had earlier arranged to meet Tanya who seemed to view my statement as an D'Avignon of Boston, who was in Kiev nian-lover." І was told that the meeting The name of Ravich-Cherkassky, was to be informal, but, when 1 saw a affirmation of what they had been at the time, because 1 thought it pru– arguing in-house. The first was ivan actually a former member of the Jewish dent to have someone 1 knew and hundred or so faces, it was obvious that Bund whose real name was Moshe some remarks were compulsory. І ivanovych Slynko, whose excellent and trusted in these unfamiliar surround– courageous work in the early 1960s, on Rabinovich, has been identified offi– ings and someone who had contacts extemporized about the origins and cially with "Ukrainian bourgeois na– work of the commission very briefly and the brutal conduct of the 1932 grain with local figures. Tanya fit the bill procurements campaign is analyzed in tionalism" since 1927. His "crime" was admirably. She has housed a number of spent the bulk of my remarks analyzing the commission "Report to Congress" to write the first official history of the Ukrainian guests of the Harvard Ukrai– an article in the November issue of the (pp. 38-46). Mr. Slynko stopped pub– Communist Party of Ukraine in 1923, nian Research institute and has been to journal Komunist Ukrainy, the month– the thesis of which was that the CPU Ukraine a number of times after an ly journal of the Ukrainian Central lishing with the fall of Khrushchev and is now a pensioner. When 1 had earlier had two roots, one from the Russian initial trip with National Geographic. Committee. revolutionary movement through the As shall be seen, these contacts proved This particular article was an attempt asked about him, people had told me that they thought he was dead. Mr. Bolsheviks, and the other from the invaluable. to survey the politically correct history Ukrainian revolutionary movement Slynko gave a very strong statement of post-revolutionary Ukraine, and І through the Borotbists, a left-wing in addition, the society assigned one about just how horrible things were in of their workers as an assistant, Andriy pointed out how 1 found the treatment offshoot of the Ukrainian socialists that of the revolution, the 1920s and the 1933 and about the need for serious came out in favor of the Soviet system in Mynko, grandson of the author of "Red work on this topic. He was very pleased Parnassus," one of the more interesting famine were plainly inadequate to the 1918 and merged with the Bolsheviks needs of a time when Kiev sees at least when 1 told him that 1 considered his two years later. memoirs of Ukrainian literary life in the work on the 1932 grain procurements 1920s. Mr. Mynko was extremely help– one mass rally a week with blue-and– My point was that 1 neither know nor yellow banners flying. І was inten– campaign a starting point for serious ful, a joy to work with, and the society work on the topic and recommended it care whether this particular view of could do far worse than to give him the tionally undiplomatic and made it clear party history is correct, but its existence that 1 was speaking as a scholar rather to those present as the starting point opportunity to represent it in the West. for further inquiry. as the only official textbook of CPU My first official meeting was at the than as commission staff director. І history up to its condemnation in 1927, Union of Writers of Ukraine, where І told them that it seemed to me that the Second to speak was Yuriy Hamret– the study of which was obligatory for met ivan Drach, who turned out to be first obligation of a historian was to give sky, a historian of the revolutionary party members, is in itself a historical an old friend of Tanya, and volodymyr the society a usable past, and the way period whose attempt to rehabilitate the fact. What it means is that this was the Manyak, one of four co-chairmen of the this particular article treated history national communist vasyl Shakhray way the party wanted to view itself in Ukrainian Memorial Society and editor was totally useless. For example, about about a year ago was personally and those years, and his work is thus a of a memorial volume, now in press, on the only thing this said about the publicly rebuked by the late First reflection of the official spirit of the the famine. We all know Mr. Drach, the Central Rada was that it had been Secretary volodymyr Shcherbytsky time. The discussion was a good one, writer and head of Rukh, but Mr. created by the local bourgeoisie to Mr. Hamretsky explained that, yes, with the exception of some old Stali– Drach the person is something else oppose the Bolsheviks. І pointed out there were attempts to portray the nists who evidently came to do ideologi– again. He has the gift of putting anyone that, for one thing, the local bourgeoisie revolution more objectively. І told him cal battle, in general, Soviet historians at ease, and his embrace was like a at that time were Russian. For another, that 1 knew this and later sent him one are a very conservative lot, but the passport to politically non-conformist one sees the flag of that government at of Shakhray's works to which he had younger ones are relatively uncorrupted and literary circles. From that moment demonstrations every weekend. previously not had access. and really want to do scholarship on 1 had no trouble in meeting anyone The Ukrainization policy of the Third was M. v. Koval, editor in honestly. They just don't know how, from the cultural intelligentsia, which is 1920s, which more than anything else chief of Ukrainskyi istorychnyi Zhur– and 1 spent quite a bit of time dis–. to say the opposition to the current defined that period, was simply absent nal, who presented me with a set of the cussing the methods of Western So– party leadership. except for a brief mention of the fact most recent issues containing docu– vietology. І had earlier been invited to serve as a that the number of newspapers publish– ments on the famine. Mr. Koval ex- Meanwhile, 1 had a more practical member of the organizing committee of ed in Ukrainian increased. The famine plained that he was quite aware of his problem to face: in my excitement, 1 had an international conference on the of 1933 was portrayed as "partially journal's,shortcomings^ but nothing left my coat at the airport, and the famine to be held in Kiev on September artificial," which is rather like being better was being submitted. He asked weather Was turning cold. Mr. Mynko 4-6 (the other Western representative is sort-of pregnanj; one either is or one me to subnet an article, which І agreed mylassistant suggested that 1 try to buy a ^^larco Carynnyk), which 1 accepted as isn't. Either the crop was so bad that to do. coat for rubles, and we set out for an individual, stressing that the commis– millions would have starved to death Last was Stanislav Kulchytsky, who Univermah, also known as TsUM, the sion will cea se to exist on June 21,1990. had the crop not been seized by the said that 1 had only read his old articles Central Universal Store. There we My business with Messrs. Drach and authorities, or the people starved to of six months ago and that now his found row upon row of identical grey Manyak was the proposed conference, death because the food they had har– estimate of the number of victims of the greatcoats, which meant that the only which Mr. Drach was thinking of post– vested was taken from them. famine of Ukraine (4.5 million) is close problem was finding the right size. ponirig 4)ecause of possible conflicts According to a several hundred to Robert Conquest's. Later, a friend loaned me a knit hat with the international Conference of eyewitnesses in the West and 6,000 Afterwards, ivan Khmil, former which looked like 1 had come straight Ukrainian Studies and the Festival of whose ?iccou:l ЇИІ. Manyav bo^ ^-n– Ukrainian ambassador to the United from the village, making my external Ukrainian Poetry. І urged them not to piled in Ukraine, the latter was clearly Nations who in 1983 called the famine Sovietization complete. І must admit postpone it, on the grounds that the the case, it was rather unkind of me to "a lie made up by Nazi collaborators," that 1 looked a strange conglomeration best time to have it would be when say so, but it is an abnormal situation asked me to stop by for a cup of coffee. І of town and country. No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 11

(Young^ Communist League) member- rightful ownership of churches, the 70,000 in Kiev... ship cards in the city's central Lenin Ukrainian Catholic... Ukrainian Catholics "can cede some for (Continued from page 1) Square. On Sunday morning a few (Continued from page 3) their use," the bishop said. turned into a pro-independence move– hundred people gathered near the for the well-being of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Bishop Pavlo vasylyk of ment. "The demonstration today proves Kostopil Cemetery to commemorate Catholic Church and maintain its ivano-Frankivske said that after the that the ecological and independence 28 Sich Riflemen killed by Bolsheviks in ecumenical relations with the Russian commission left Ukraine, incidents of movements are closely intertwined." 1919. Orthodox, Archbishop Edward 1. Cas– violence against Ukrainian Catholic "The message from the Ukrainian There was major tension on Sunday sidy, president of the Pontifical Coun– escalated. people is that independence and self- morning, April 22, as a seven-meter- cil for Promoting Christian Unity, has He said Catholics have not returned determination are the only lasting high flagpole with the blue-and-yellow said. the violence. "We only suffer." answers to the problems that the Soviet flag was destroyed by unidentified The commission's work "was not Union has inflicted on us," he said. persons. More than 5,000 people But Archbishop Sterniuk said, "We only senseless but in some ways absurd, Smaller rallies and demonstrations gathered near the flagpole, blaming the cannot find an ecumenical solution for because it is impossible for the perse– were held in other major cities through- militia and KGB. Only after a speech by the problem until our Church is treated cuted to dialogue with the persecutors," out Ukraine, notably in Kharkiv, Lviv, Oleksa Novak, a Rukh activist, did the on an equal footing with the Russian Bishop vasylyk said. Orthodox Church." Chernihiv and Mykolayiv. protesters calm down. The flagpole was "The Russian Orthodox Church in the southern Ukrainian city of stored. Militia, meanwhile, denied any "Ecumenism does not mean that І continues to refuse to acknowledge all Odessa several hundred Rukh and connection with the flagpole's destruc– must abdicate my faith or the places the injustices committed since 1946," he Green World activists on Sunday,April tion. where 1 practice my faith," he said. said. 22, picketed the port, protesting against in Zhytomyr, unknown persons tried "Justice demands that what was "They took our churches. We cele– the pollution. to raise the Ukrainian blue-and-yellow taken be returned," said Auxiliary brated liturgy in the forests, in houses, After the protest, the demonstrators flag on the roof of the local council. The Bishop Filemon Kurchaba of Lviv. in all that time, they did not give us one marched to the central Primorski Bou– flag flew there for 15 minutes and was After the Orthodox acknowledge the church," he said. levard where a 2,000 strong rally was held destroyed by the militia. despite heavy rain. The protesters Uzhhorod, a few miles from the will scholars inevitably re-assess the waved blue-and-yellow flags of inde– Hungarian border, a pro-independence Conference... interpretation of Polish national history pendent Ukraine and placards directed rally was dispersed by the militia. The (Continued from page 4) For history, as documented in Polish whom they blamed for the Chornobyl original pretext of the rally was to Prof. Taras Hunczak of Rutgers archives, which followed Soviet guide- disaster. honor the Ukrainian poet Taras Shev– University, who was also on the lines as of 1944, omits the diversity and The rally also adopted a declaration chenko. planning committee of this conference, plurality of Poland's past and skirts of solidarity with Lithuania's recent in Donetske, militia for three hours translated Dr. Dzyuba's remarks into controversial issues. The official view of move for independence. detained leaders of the local Rukh, English. history was politically imposed, and no in the western Ukrainian city of iryna Ratnikova and viktor Tsymba– The afternoon session chaired by Dr. attempt was made to justify it by Rivne, commemorative events began luk. They were accused of organizing Huttenbach included two speakers on identifying its intellectual roots. Saturday, April 21, as more than 1,000 the distribution of underground news- historical encounters between Ukrai– Prof. Hunczak provided brief com– youths, threw away their Komsomol papers. nians, Poles and Jews. Dr. Andrzej ments about the historical session of the Kaminski of Georgetown University conference. department, the printing and publish– ChornoviL. spoke on "The Historical Encounter ing department, local economy-related after the Union of Lublin." A questiom and answer– period (Continued from page 1) departments as well as the regional concluded the sessions. councils of the Lviv, Ternopil and newspapers. in his paper Dr. Kaminski lamented The conference ended with thanks ivano-Frankivske Oblast Councils of why the Ukrainians pay so much atten– extended to all participants and or– "speculation on people's national and The U1P1A reported that the top tion to their Kozak period. Although he ganizers, among them Prof. Alexander religious feelings," and "disrespect for positions at the Lviv television and did not supply answers to this question, Motyl of Columbia University and Dr. the USSR and Ukrainian SSR Consti– radio department would be subject to he did underscore the glorious past of Jaroslaw Padoch of the Shevchenko tutions and for Soviet laws." republican-level ministry approval, the Kievan Rus' state, and such leaders Scientific Society, who had just return– while the Lviv Oblast party committee as volodymyr the Great, Christianizer ed from Lviv, from the founding con– The local party apparatus in Lviv was debating whether to give the re– of Kievan Rus'. Oblast also laid the blame on the gress of the Shevchenko Scientific gional council one of two oblast news- The last speaker at the conference Society in that western Ukrainian city. recently removed regional party chief, papers, if any at all. was Dr. Stephen velychenko from the the reformist Yakiv Pohrebniak, for the University of Toronto, who presented a Gratitude was also extended to the population's loss of faith in the Com– When the Lviv Oblast Council re- paper titled: "Jews and Ukrainians in planning committee, which included munist Party which resulted in its convened after Easter, much of its the Official versions of Poland's pre– Michael Rywkin, president of the election defeat in many councils, report– session was devoted to responding to 1918 Past." Association for the Study of Nationa– ed U1P1A correspondents Hanna the party apparatus' accusations, He stated that only now, after the fall lities, who is affiliated with City College Stetsiv and Serhiy Herman. threats and actions. Many deputies of the Communist regime in Poland, of New York. During his first public address, stressed that the oblast, city, raion and broadcast on Lviv television on April republican committees were only party 14, the new party first secretary for Lviv structures, which do not have the Oblast, viacheslav Sekretariuk, who mandated authority of the elected Q: What investment offers replaced Mr. Pohrebniak, asserted that councils and were out of line in claim– the local population, who voted the ing jurisdiction of departments belong– W com petitive rates party apparatus out of many councils ing to those bodies, the U1P1A report– Wgreat tax advantages "with downright ingratitude desires to ed. compromise the party, branding today's During these sessions the council also W complete safety generation of Communists with brutal elected as its deputy chairman another A: u.s. SAVINGS BONDS labels and responsibility for the bloody former political prisoner and leading crimes of Stalinism." Ukrainian Catholic activist ivan Gel. THE GREAT AMERICAN INVESTMENT Stepan Davymuka, director of the Mi– 1-800-US-BONDS The local and republican party appa– croprylad production association in ratus have also moved to take control Lviv, was elected chairman of the oblast from the local councils of local militia executive committee, reported the organs, the local television and radio U1P1A. who are so direly needed by the long- The Ukrainian National Association: Two new bishops... suffering Ukrainian people during (Continued from page 3) these crucial times in the life of the useful phone numbers, addresses Bishops of the UAOC - a Church world in general and Ukraine in which has existed and been active particular. 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The greeting was signed by Metro– Jersey City, NJ. 07302 politan Mstyslav, Archbishop Con– (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 We greet you as envoys and stantine, Aicnoishop Anatoliy, bi– heralds of Divine Providence — you snop Antony, Bishop Paisiy. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 No. 17 Washington school children pay tribute to Shevchenko Recalling... (Continued from page 7) ^ Second grade: 1. Larisa Woloshyn, The Chornobyl accident was not 2. E. Bulawka, 3. Roman Garber. selective in terms of its victims. The ^ Third grade: 1. Andrij Garber, 2. entire international community is afraid victor Sulzynsky, 3. Maya Powch. of a repetition of this event. Ukrainians ^ Fifth grade and bilingual grade: 1. in the U.S. should join in supporting the Orysia Lonchyna, 2. Marusia Sonevyt– movement for the responsible mainte– ska, 3. John Heltsley. nance and supervision of nuclear plants. Receiving exceptional recognition Since 1 live less than three miles from for their presentations were Lubomyr the lndian Point nuclear power plant, І Myraschyk of the pre-school class and am especially sensitive to this need. Dmytro Myraschyk of the fifth grade The medical aid being given to vic– and bilingual class. tims through the Children of Chornobyl campaign is good and should continue. in addition to the special prizes Hopefully, it can be broadened beyond awarded to the competition winners, the Ukrainian community to encom– students participating on stage in the pass the many people who are con– competition received a medallion for cerned about nuclear issues, and who their efforts. might be willing to help. Following the poetry contest, stu– dents, teachers and parents traveled to Alexandra Odu– the Taras Shevchenko monument near lak9 publishing Dupont Circle in Washington for cere- company em– monies to further honor Shevchenko. ployee New The Rev. Hryhory Podhurec, pastor of York: St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the Rev. Joseph Denis– Chornobyl was chuk, assistant pastor of the Ukrainian a big blow to the Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Ukrainian nation. My first thought was: Family, led the participants with open– "Oh, God, 1 hope none of my relatives ing and closing prayers, respectively. live near there." Ukraine was always Students winning the morning school considered such a breadbasket, it's competition then delivered their verses depressing to think about it now, with of Shevchenko once again. entire villages evacuated and so many Parents of the school children were people sick and dying. also busy during the morning hours in І think the consequences are much selecting new officers for the school's worse than we can imagine. Ukraine is parent association. Elected were Dr. still a country under Soviet rule, so inia Yevich, president; Hanya Powch, there is a lot that is covered up, because vice-president; irene llchyshyn, secre– the government clamps down on infor– tary; and John Kun, treasurer. mation. Also, 1 think people there are School director Marijka Jurach was preoccupied with their daily needs, like congratulated by the parents for her food, housing and schools. І don't think outstanding performance during the that environmental issues are their first current school year. priority, it's not their fault. We can Washington's Ridna Shkola is con- afford to have lofty ideas about larger Students of Washington's School of Ukrainian Studies during a program at the ducted in Montgomery County's Colo– environmental issues, they can't. Taras Shevchenko monument. nel Brooke Lee intermediate School There is a global environmental by John A. Kun director of the Ukrainian National located in Silver Spring, Md. Appro– consciousness, but as far as the speci– information Service Office, and Dr. ximately 80 children attend the Satur– fics of the Chornobyl case, 1 don't think WASHINGTON - On satiffday, ihor Masnyk, a former teacher of the day sessions. there is that much concern. People March 10, the students of the Taras school, had the difficult task of select– might think "Oh, what a shame," but Shevchenko Ridna Shkola (School of ing the best presentations of the young Anthracite... that's about where it ends. Their con– Ukrainian Studies) honored the bard of scholars. (Continued from page 5) cern stops there. The only people who Ukraine with a poetry competition and The judges determined the following and cultural organizations. really care about Chornobyl are the people who are directly affected by it, ceremonies at the Taras Shevchenko students as winners of the competition At the end of the meeting, during the and have to deal with it on a daily basis. Monument. because of their exemplary presenta– question and answer period many other in the late morning, the school tions: subject matters were covered, such as І hope Гт wrong about all this. І children participated in a Shevchenko 9 Pre-school class: 1. Stefan Yevich, reward payments, scholarship eligibility hope there's more concern and atten– poetry recitation contest. Three inde– 2. inia Yevich, 3. Andrew Barnaj. requirements, brochures about the tion to Chornobyl's consequences than pendent judges, Mykola Francuzenko, ^ First grade: 1. Marko Sonevytsky, UNA, Soyuzivka bus trips, and the І give people credit for. As for the director of the Ukrainian Branch of 2. Markian Dobczanskyj, 3. Christine coming convention. The next meeting Ukrainian diaspora's efforts to help, І Yoice of America, irene Chalupa, Terkun. was set for October 7. 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volodymyr Manyak... crisy?" bia," there has been at the same time a But, Mr. Manyak said, "although The question... notable lack of regard for the human (Continued from page 9) history can be rewritten — once, twice, (Continued from page 8) predicament. "The famine was organized against the numerous times to satisfy the dictator in fairness, it should also be acknow– The average rural dweller in an Ukrainians and the Ukrainian nation. or a petty ideological idol, you cannot ledged that, like the Western scientific affected territory simply has no re- The famine found Ukrainians every– erase a nation's memory. National community, the Soviet authorities were course to sources of reliable informa– where." According to Mr. Manyak, the memory is the most truthful and rea– also horrified by the initial media tion other than the press. While not all areas outside Ukraine affected by the liable historical source. The unshackled reaction to Chornobyl in the West. At illnesses are attributable to radiation, famine were areas where Ukrainians national consciousness is the most just some point, it was decided to withhold it is difficult for the average person to lived: Kuban, Krasnoarmiyske on the historian of the Stalinist holocaust." most of the salient facts about the determine the difference between volga. Also north Kazakhstan, an area "The spectre of the famine has haunt– disaster. The consequence, however, radiation and non-radiation-related settled not by the Kazakhs but by ed Ukraine for decades — it crept was a lamentable psychological onus sicknesses. Official secrecy unfortu– Ukrainians at the time of Stolypin. through sometimes in whispers, some- upon the affected population, which nately has given the impression that the it was Stalin's terrible revenge against times stealthily but did not disappear now began to reject official sources of effects of Chornobyl are practically all- the Ukrainian peasant for his resistance from the people's consciousness. How it information. encompassing. The Red Cross reported to Stalin's policies, Mr. Manyak conti– was burst in was evidenced when thou– The Radiation Center was again at also that medical expertise on the effects nued, "it was genocide, its organizers sands responded to an appeal to provide the heart of the problem, in the summer of high-level radiation in these affected are known: the inspiration and theory ' accounts for the memorial book — and of 1989, several patients in a Moscow areas remains primitive. the questions did not die: Who was as by Stalin; conductor-manager was hospital, all of whom had been involved The events of the past four years have 4olotov and the bureaucratic appara– responsible? Whose hand sent the fa- in the clean-up, complained that their mine on the Ukrainian nation? The time proven one thing to the populace: that tus. The directives came from the center illnesses had not been attributed to the inquiry into a tragedy of this nature has come to name the guilty." radiation sickness; a similar complaint and on the spot there was always a cannot simply be left to the "experts," sufficient number of people ready to put Mr. Manyak said that cooperation was registered by 18 hunger strikers at with the Toronto-based Research and the center in February. The population but rather requires a more general it into practice — people sucked in by dissemination of simple information circumstance, convinced 'fighters Documentation Center on famine re- evidently concluded that the health search is desirable. For example, the authorities are not to be trusted, so that and warnings. The Soviet authorities against the class enemy,' all kinds of failed from the very outset to alert the people, undisciplined, arrogant and Memorial Book is based on documen– even accurate information is rarely tary evidence provided by Ukrainians believed. population as to the scale of the acci– cruel." dent. only. Foreign documentation was not Under such circumstances the burden There is no doubt, Mr. Manyak said, Western experts, in turn, have that the directives came from the center. used. Thus documentation from non- of disseminating reliable information Ukrainian sources and its publication has fallen on Western organizations, appeared to overlook the fact that in the Although the famine took place in Soviet rural regions there is not the different regions, the techniques and the could be a fruitful area of cooperation. speficially the international Red Cross, Such projects could be discussed at the the World Health Organization, Green- same level of knowledge about nuclear technology were the same. Everything power and effects of radiation that was planned beforehand; the strategy conference on the famine, being or– peace and others. But such groups are ganized by the center and planned for only effective insofar as they operate exists in the West. More simply, there is originated in the Kremlin. a wider gap between those rather Mr. Manyak was particularly critical October 28-29 in Toronto. Mr. Manyak independently of Soviet "host" organi– plans to attend with his wife and zations, such as the Center for Radia– misleadingly termed as "experts" and of the intellectuals who served Stalin's the average rural resident. regime, those who specialized in fabri– colleague, Ms. Kovalenko. tion Medicine. cations, achieving status, careers and Mr. Manyak's next project is a study Aside from the authentic medical The long-term tradition of official positions by serving the interests of the of the repressions of the 1930s. He sees effects of the accident (see part three of secrecy in the realm of nuclear power party and the state apparatus. They had the famine as a form of repression, the this series), the unfortunate truth is that therefore served to destroy the credibi– no concern for the nation as both the repression of a nation, he said. Mr. the public has no confidence in domestic lity of the health officials in the public creator and victim of history. They Manyak will analyze newly available health authorities and experts. Dr. ilyin mind, and also offset the progress made pretended the famine did not exist, he documents about that period. incurred further disapproval by defend– by glasnost in developing a more open noted. This strategy of silence has been His wife will consider the moral ing a new norm for radiation exposure Soviet society. part of Ukrainian historiography for 50 consequences of the famine: how the of 35 rems over a lifetime, effective in 'ears; a good example is the 10-volume repressions killed the deeply rooted the country from January 1990 and Join the UNA iistory of the Ukrainian SSR" pub– religiosity of the people, forced them to used to determine whether new villages ,ished in Kiev in 1984. break the Ten Commandments and should be subject to an evacuation. Following Stalinist tradition, even made people do evil consciously; what it The bibliography on Chornobyl has UKRAINIAN after Stalinism was discredited, the meant to have evil sanctioned from been extensive, both within and outside TYPEWRITERS historians stubbornly kept quite, in above by the authorities; what were the the Soviet Union. Yet the affected also other languages complete 1983 when the rest of the world was consequences when the laws of the state population has lacked pamphlets that line of office machines A marking the 50th anniversary of the forced people into immorality, and provide basic information about living equipment. famine, the official Soviet version was encouraged the citizens to be informers JACOB SACHS conditions and environment, symptoms 251 W. 98th St. "there was no famine." "The historians and to commit criminal acts. of radiation sickness, and other funda– New York. N. 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handedly; the^expectation is that this ed volunteer effort on the part of us all, Board of trustees What needs... person would work alongside teams of a core professional component is both (Continued from page 6) volunteers and; or other organizations necessary and desirable. The boards of trustees of the two ties such as voter registration and poll on a project-specific basis. if an aggressive and well qualified funds that would still have to be incor– watching. Lastly, this fund would also initial start-up funding for The Fund person who may have to be paid S30,000 porated, each of which would have 15 to be responsible for disseminating infor– to Foster Democracy in Ukraine could or S40,000 a year can then turn around 19 members, should consist of three mation on democracy-related develop– be allocated from already collected and raise three or four times that categories of people: representatives of ments in Ukraine to the New York funds. A three-year administrative amount in grant money for projects to major community organizations; a bloc media and for establishing some type of budget could be funded by seeking aid Ukraine, the funds spent on such a of board members selected by branch or coordination with pro-democracy-in– within the community one-time contri– salary would be a much better invest– affiliate organizations; and, individuals Ukraine efforts being organized in butions of, for example, SlO,OOO, ment than if these same funds were who, thanks to their training or back- Canada, Australia and elsewhere. 520,000 or 550,000 and; or by seeking 50 directly spent on such projects. ground in business, law or politics, have it is essential that The Fund to Foster persons who would commit to donating the political skills, organizational The Fund to Foster Democracy in experience, contacts and general know- Democracy in Ukraine employ on a S100 a month for three years. Ukraine should be governed by a board full-time professional basis at least one Although there has often been oppo– how to make such funds as successful as of trustees under an appropriate set of we and Ukraine need them to be. highly qualified individual who would sition within the community towards by-laws. be in charge of soliciting foundation professionalizing any community acti– The rationale for having persons with organizational or business experience and government funding, and planning vity, it is essential that we adapt our– Rukh Fund and administering the programs for selves to what is now the late 20th on the boards is obvious, as is th which funding would be obtained. century and recognize that, whereas The third fund, the Rukh Fund, desirability of having a bloc of, foi Obviously, no person could perform all each of these funds will require not only should also be incorporated as a non- example four or five high-ranking of the projects listed above single- a continued but in fact a much-expand– profit corporation, although it would representatives of community organiza– not seek tax-exempt status so that its tions on each of the two boards. activities would not be restricted by What is also very important, how– laws governing tax-exempt entities, it ever, is direct board representation by FIVE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD would be best if it were based in the persons leading the fund-raising efforts Washington area, it should likewise be in the funds' branches or affiliates. SUPPORT JOHN DEMJANJUK governed by a board of trustees under Leaders of fund-raising efforts in, for an appropriate set of by-laws. example, Chicago or Detroit, must have 1. "1 must say 1 am more than ever convinced that the decision of the judges in a participatory role in deciding on the israel was unjust.." The Rukh Fund, relying on funds plans and operations of the funds both - Rt Hoa Lord Thomas Denning already collected and on continued for the obvious reason that such repre– fund-raising, should employ one well- 2. "1 know of no other case in which so many deviations from procedures sentatives may have valuable ideas to qualified professional to work in con- contribute and because such representa– internationally accepted as desirable occured" cert with a Rukh journalist to be - Professor Willem Wagenaar, author of identifying ivan: A Case Study in tion will encourage further board-based stationed in Washington in order to fund-raising. Legal Psychology, Harvard Press 1988. help establish a Rukh presence there. 3. "if John Demjanjuk - whom 1 believe to be an utterly innocent man - hangs The dissemination of current and accu– on Eichmann's gallows, it will be israel that will one day be in the dock" rate information about developments in - Patrick J. Buchanan Ukraine to Congress, the executive The proposal set forth above repre– branch, the international community sents only the views of its author. The 4. "1 believe this case stinks...І am asking for an investigation into the John and the Washington-based media would impetus to draft a proposal for struc– Demjanjuk American citizen case, and also into the actions of the Special be the chief focus of this fund's activi– turing our community's effort to assist Office of investigation in this country." ties. 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stalled, "it became clear to me that no quences of the Chornobyl accident. To suddenly reporting the creation of this volunteer speaks... one had any intentions of publishing it." this end, the union has set up bank Moscow-based Chornobyl Union," he (Continued from page 8) He oraised the documentary book accounts and the public has been said. see for myself what was going on." titled "Chornobyl" by Dr. Yuriy Shcher– contributing money to support its work. But these are two different groups, "1 checked my dosimeter twice: the bak, chairman of the Zelenyi Svit As well, Mr. Zyliuk reported, the Mr. Zyliuk stressed. "The people who readings were 39 and 18 — a total of 57 (Green World) ecological association, Chornobyl Union has set up a coopera– gathered for our conference emphasized roentgens in one day, while 50 is the but he commented that the well-known tive business whose profits go to the that our union should be based in Kiev. limit for the entire year," he said. "1 later play "Sarcophagus" by viadimir Gu– union's fund. And what is this union in Moscow? We learned that 50 roentgens in 10 minutes baryev is "a fantasy." He noted that Mr. in accordance with its charter, the do not know. But since they have access is much worse than 50 in the course of Gubaryev had spent several days in Chornobyl Union's fund is used to to the central newspapers, while we do a year, because it is a concentrated dose. Chornobyl and quickly penned the provide legal and medical assistance to not, it was loudly announced that this That is why 1 think those boys are now drama, which has been seen around the Chornobyl victims. "Many of the clean- union is active in Moscow. ...They have ill and some are dying." world. The play "has very many aspects up workers do not even receive pen– collected a considerable amount of Mr. Zyliuk's unit of 40 men spent 10 about it that elicit disbelief," Mr. Zyliuk sions, not even those who today are money, and they even started to do days on the roof and in the immediate said. invalids. Many of them have big con– some good work. But, you have to vicinity of the reactor. "1 still believe 1 am the only profes– flicts at work because they find them– understand, that this is the way things Of his group, he says he saw nota– sional journalist to have worked on the selves unable to work, but yet they are done, very often it happens that tions of cumulative doses of 21, 22, 23 clean-up," Mr. Zyliuk said, adding that receive no compensation from the something is done to counter an initia– rems. For some reason, he said, his dose he still hopes to have his documentary government," Mr. Zyliuk said. tive, or to lead to its liquidation." was noted as 24.5 rems. "No one's dose account published somewhere. "But our principal goal, of course, is The head of the Kiev-based Chor– was ever noted as more than 25 rems Since 1986, Mr. Zyliuk said he has to get the government's acknowledge– nobyl Union, Mr. Zyliuk pointed out, is (the maximum dose officially allowed) experienced significant memory loss, as ment that, yes, people are ill as a result Prof. Heorhiy Lepin, a Byelorussian — otherwise, the government would well as other symptoms generally seen of Chornobyl. At our last conference physicist, while his deputy is Oleksan– have to pay large sums of money if a in Chornobyl veterans: headaches, pain (1989) we focused on precisely this der Yurchenko, a Ukrainian radiolo– person became ill and would have to in the legs, and damage to internal aspect of our work." gist. take care of him." organs. Still, he considers himself lucky Mr. Zyliuk added that at the Chor– The union has several thousand "And no one talked about this, no compared to others in his group who are nobyl Union's conference this year, members, Mr. Zyliuk noted, though it is one wrote about this. І pledged to very sick, including one who at age 30 is which is to be held sometime after the not clear exactly how many. This will myself that when 1 returned 1 would an invalid due to a tumor. fourth anniversary commemorations in become evident at the upcoming confe– write the truth. So 1 returned home, and Army medics, Mr. Zyliuk said, have Kiev of the Chornobyl catastrophe, "we rence. But inKharkiv alone, he said the wrote up a documentary description of told him not to have children — at least will continue to press this issue." union has more than 20,000 members, what 1 had observed." for the first five years after his stint at most of them draftees who worked as That account was based on a diary Chornobyl. if, however, the government does not "liquidators," and there are branches that Mr. Zyliuk had kept while working Mr. Zyliuk, who received an award respond, he said, "We will take the throughout the USSR. on the clean-up, making entries at nignt for his service in the zone, is under the Ministry of Nuclear Power to court." By January 1991, the union hopes to by the light of a flashlight. care of official Soviet doctors. He said As regards the Ukrainian SSR Ministry have its own newspaper, published in At first, Mr. Zyliuk decided to give it he is one of the Chornobyl veterans of Health, Mr. Zyliuk said he did not Kiev and disseminated throughout the to his newspaper, but there was much being studied, and has been told to take know whether the union would sue that USSR in a bilingual (Ukrainian-Rus– censorship then. "1 was immediately certain vitamins and to watch his food ministry, because "right now there is a sian) edition. And Mr. Zyliuk, who now told to delete certain portions because intake. new minister, but Anatoliy Roma– lives in Frunze, Kirghizia, with his wife, they said no one would allow this. So І The Chornobyl Union nenko (minister at the time of the valentyna, and their 13-year-old twin nuclear accident) did not much harm — felt compelled to do so and left in what І He has become active in promoting daughters, hopes that his future in– probably half as much as Chornobyl could to at least tell the story of how it the concerns of Chornobyl veterans and cludes returning to his native Ukraine alone. He lied. People were becoming was in the zone. This the paper (Kom– is one of approximately 50 members of and working for that newspaper. Thus, ill and dying, and he said everything somolets Kirghiziyi) published. After the council of the Chornobyl Union, he will continue his efforts to tell the was fine." it is ironic that this very same October 1, 1987, the entire topic was founded a year ago in Kiev. The organi– story of Chornobyl. Dr. Romanenko now heads the Center closed — the censors told me the topic zation adopted a charter in May or June for Radiation Medicine in Kiev. was off limits and that 1 was lucky to get of last year and has set up an office in S1NCE 1928 He continued,"There are many pro– it through before then." the town of Chornobyl, though the SENKO FUNERAL HOMES blems of this nature. You see, when we Mr. Zyliuk noted that he also wrote group would like to have its headquar– New York's only Ukrainian family owned ft created our union, literally a month an extended account— some 120 pages ters in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, operated funeral homes later, we suddenly heard about the in length - and took it to a publisher, where it would be more accessible to the creation in Moscow of the same type of ' Traditional Ukrainian services personally "but there it lay for a year." Though no public. union. And that union copied our conducted one rejected the manuscript outright, The union has two main goals: to help charter - this is an attempt to quickly ^ Funerals arranged throughout Bklyh, Bronx, Mr. Zyliuk said he repeatedly inquired New York, Queens, Long island, etc. those affected by Chornobyl and to do something similar to seize control. about it and saw that it was being inform the public about the conse– ^ Holy Spirit, St. Andrews Cem. 6 all others Members of that union include those international shipping Sulyk of Philadelphia, a vatican– actually responsible for the accident, ^ Pre-need arrangements appointed member of the commis– including representatives of ministries Russian... Senko Funeral Home Hempstwd Funeral Home (Continued from page 3) sion. and generals." 213 Mfori Avt. 19 Peninsula Blvd. parishioners to vote by "standing on Although the majority of western "This union has the same name (as BroofeJvn, N.Y. 11211 Hempstari, N.Y. 11550 the right or the left, like at the last Ukrainians were Catholic before the ours); they have access to the central 1-71І-Ш441Є 1-51МІ1-7460 judgement. The people are confused. persecution began in 1939, Bishop press. And thus, here we had izvestia 24HOUKS7DAYSAWEEK This is the result of this kind of vote." loanaf said it was "absurd" to think шшшттт The bishop also claimed that that after 40 years of worshipping as "mobile groups of Ukrainian Catho– Russian Orthodox and with an ex– lic warriors" would travel to villages panded ethnic Russian population СОЮЗІЄКА Ф SOYUZIVKA where the commission was meeting the same percentage would be Ukrai– community members to assign nian Catholic. "We now have two A Year Kound Resort churches. Their presence inflated the Christian confessions in western number of Catholics, he said. Ukraine," he said. 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