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STUDENT 1979 June-July-August Canadians hear Moroz for first time Moroz visits four Canadian cities on whirlwind tour Dave Lupul Valentyn Moroz, the Ukrai- status in Canada if he so nian dissident who became a desired. "I will consider very symbol of resistance to seriously the proposal that I live Russification in Ukraine during in Canada," stated Moroz. the series of hunger strikes However, he has been offered a organized on his behalf in 1974 post as a lecturer in Ukrainian and 1975, paid his first visit to history at Harvard University in Canada in June, one month the United States. after being released in the Before members of the historic prisoner exchange con- press and television media at cluded on 27 April between the the National Press Building, Soviets and the Americans. Moroz claimed that the Kremlin As one of the leading Ukrai- could be brought to its knees nian dissidents from Western through a halt in wheat sales to Ukraine, Moroz met with the Soviet Union. (Canadian Canada's new prime minister, wheat sales to the U.S. S R. Joe Clark, on 7 June in Ottawa. exceeded $300 million last year Moroz expressed his gratitude according to Statistics for the efforts which the Cana- Canada.) dian government undertook in "If Canada and the U.S. seeking his release from prison. understood the powerthey hold He called upon Clark to take (with wheat] as well as the stronger measures in the future Arabs understand the power against the Soviet Union to they hold [with oil], they would have great power in the world," pressure it into releasing more As one conservative to another — Moroz meets Clark. L to prisoners. Moroz said. "The comic side of political R: Boris Potapenko (translator), Valentyn Moroz, P.M. In particular, Moroz it all is that the wheat never Joe Ctark. appealed for the release of two reaches the Soviet people, but of his colleagues, Yuriy Ottawa's Ukrainian community East to obtain concessions from rather goes to Third World Shukhevych and Lev at a luncheon, attended the the industrialized nations. nations. The Kremlin uses the Lukianenko, who remain in- parliamentary swearing-in of In a statement following a wheat it buys from North carcerated in Soviet labour former prime minister John twenty minute meeting with America as a means of camps. Moroz addressed a rally Diefenbaker, placed a wreath, Clark, Moroz said that he did promoting anti-Western Shukhevych and Lukianenko. policies organized on behalf of in honour of Ukrainian political not raise the issue of a trade in other countries." Moroz called for Ukrainian Shukhevych and Lukianenko in prisoners, at the Eternal Flame embargo on wheat with the Moroz advanced his Canadians to set aside their Toronto on 9 June. Speaking in on Parliament Hill, and met with Soviets. Instead, Moroz believ- prediction of a violent political and religious Nathan Philips Square to an Joe Clark and members of the ed that his public statements nationalist revolution - in differences and unite towards estimated crowd of over 10,000 new government. should be sufficient to impress Ukraine in terms which have freeing Ukraine from the Moroz made a strong plea for Prior to his meeting with upon the prime minister the become familiar to those who U.S.S.R. the release of the thousands of Clark, Moroz called upon the strategic importance of wheat have followed his statements However, certain elements Ukrainians, Latvians, Canadian government to cut off in dealing with the Soviet Un- since his arrival in North present at the demonstration Lithuanians, Estonians and wheat sales to the Soviet Union ion. America. were not quite prepared to Jews still imprisoned in the as a means of pressuring the During the meeting, Clark "I do not call for the drop- tolerate political differences Soviet Union's "Gulag Soviet government into releas- apparently promised Moroz aid ping of bombs on Moscow. We among those who support the give Archipelago." ing more dissidents. Moroz in obtaining the release of his should not such easy principle of a free, independent During his Ottawa visit, believes that wheat could be wife and son, whom the Soviets arguments which play into the Ukraine. In particular, several of of the ... Moroz held a press conference used as an instrument of Cana- had promised to allow to join hands Communists But the rally's organizers tried to to publicize the plight of Ukrai- the ultimate action might well dian foreign policy in the same him in the West. Moroz also prevent members of the Com- see the Ukrainians going out nian political prisoners. He also way that oil is used by the oil- received assurances that he mittee in Defence of Soviet into the streets with guns." met with several members of producing states of the Middle could obtain landed immigrant Political Prisoners (CDSPP) He predicted the activities from taking part in the The way forward? of the "Ukrainian Liberation demonstration. Members of the Movement" within Ukraine Committee were carrying could lead to "some type of banners reading "Free All explosion in the 1980s. The Soviet Political Prisoners," "De- Valentyn Moroz: unrest will be felt throughout fend the Independent Soviet the world." He carefully avoided Trade Union Movement," and commenting on whether "Free Lukianenko — Hands Off Lupul Dave Quebec would be included the Helsinki Monitoring a among these nationalist up- commentary Group," as well as circulating risings, in responding to a leaflets and a petition in support alentyn Moroz's to a nuclear holocaust. nationality, to freedom of question from a French- of the Klebanov trade union whirlwind tour of four Canadian Therefore, we must seek speech, freedom of association language Radio Canada group in the Soviet Union. cities has provoked a variety of different and other weapons with which to basic freedoms. reporter. Organizers from the widely differing reactions, rang- work for a free and independent These rights are not national in According to Moroz, the League for the Liberation of the ing from adulation to exaspera- Ukraine. reject character and should apply We must those growth of social unrest in the Ukraine sought the assistance tion. Among many students, political strategies which would euqally to Ukrainians and non- 1980s will result in a renewed of the police in attempting to one senses a general feeling lead us into association Ukrainians. These rights with can period of radicalism in America stop members of the Committee that Valentyn Moroz is deser- regimes best be advanced which systematically by supporting similar to that experienced from handing out their ving of respect for holding firm violate fundamental the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitor- human during the 1960s. Moroz refus- literature, on the grounds that to his principles under con- rights. ing We must also reject Group — which includes ed to predict what form the certain members were "known ditions of extreme suffering and those strategies based Grigorenko, Plyushch on the and radicalism of the 1980s might socialists." The police refused pressure to conform to the expectation that military Svitlychna in the well a con- West, as take, but hoped that the new to accede to their request as the Soviet world view. However, it is frontation between as Lukianenko, the super- Rudenko and radicalism would be based members of the Committee difficult to applaud his highly- others still imprisoned powers would allow the in- in the upon "a strong patriotic foun- were peacefully carrying out charged nationalistic rhetoric, tervention Soviet It of an external Union. is unfortunate dation." He criticized the their activities at the expressed in the same style liberation force, that as composed of Moroz has closen to launch radicalism of the 1960s for demonstration. There were a that used by the Cold Warriors Ukrainians in the diaspora, what appears to a personal to be being anti-national (i.e. anti- few attempts to intimidate cer- of the 1950s, because it has little create an independent Ukraine. crusade to unite the Ukrainian American) in its opposition to tain members of the committee, place in a world entering the The militaristic road community under his political to the Vietnam War and, therefore, and legal action has been 1980s. independence, which Valentyn banner, while ignoring the other destructive. contemplated by the CDSPP To many in this generation, Moroz appears to advocate, members of the is Ukrainian dissi- While in Toronto. Moroz against those who initiated the it sounds very as if Moroz doomed to failure, for it is in much based dent community exile. addressed a $50 per plate harassment. However, the vast wishes to rekindle the battles of upon a hopelessly primitive Moroz is correct in asser- dinner at the Royal York Hotel majority of the people at the their parents' generation, in approach to the problem. ting that those One seeking an on Friday, 8 June. The following demonstration appeared to which those living in the "Free does not win a revolution independent Ukraine cannot by morning, he addressed a agree with Moroz that all World" were expected to give guns alone, but rather afford to by the continue squandering gathering of Ukrainians from political and religious groups their lives, if necessary, to appeal of one's their meager in- program and resources on various organizations, in- should have the right to be oppose the expansion of the- ideals to the ternal populace one bickering. However, one cluding the youth groups SUM, heard. Communist monolith wishes to win over. It is cannot expect to build doubtful a Plast and ODUM, at the Univer- The unfortunate incident throughout the world. Today we whether monolithic many Ukrainians in movement on the sity of Toronto's Convocation reached the height of absurdity live in a different era, one in Ukraine basis of the would unite under the program of one Hall.
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