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New York reported swarming with Soviet spies Ontario legislator NEW YORK - According to FBI many such "sleepers" are secretly at Valuable as agents is that those accuses Soviet paper sources, the Soviet Union and its ' work in the U.S., but sources indicate 'attached to the Secretariat can travel satellites have turned New York into that many are known to the FBI and freely around the country. They are of "vicious" slander the spy capital of the world, and the are kept under quiet surveillance. immune to the restrictions imposed number of known agents and sus­ on East-bloc diplomats attached to TORONTO - In remarks made pected ones is growing at a rate that The emigre community also provi­ embassies and consulates. If they before a recent session of the Ontario has already outpaced the number of des potential recruits into the ranks should be caught, they plead diplo­ Legislature, Provincial MP Yuri U.S. counterintelligence agents as­ of the Soviet spy network, particu­ matic immunity, and the best the Shymko (P.C.-High Park-Swansea) signed to weed them out larly if they have found life in U.S. government can do is request asked the province's attorney general to America less than rewarding, or are investigate what he labelled "vicious In an article in the January 18 issue that they be sent back to their native in need of money. countries. attacks" on his character which ap­ of U.`S: News and World Report, But the new arrivals are not the peared in two issues of the Soviet William D. Hartley paints a grim That is precisesly what happened only potential targets for KGB re­ to Vladimir Zinyakin, a member of publication News from Ukraine, a picture of Soviet infiltration of the cruiters. Soviet spies routinely scour government newspaper distributed only United Nations and, in some cases, the Soviet Mission to the United the diplomatic, military or industrial Nations, when he was caught trying outside the USSj(fchat has a circulation many of the leading high-technology ranks for possible candidates who of 100,000 in Canada. corporations and financial institu­ to buy secrets to anti-submarine may have access to sensitive informa­ warfare in 1978. In his statement, Mr. Shymko re- tions which help make New York the tion. They look for weaknesses to " ferred to two articles: "The Career of a business center of the world. Communist agents go after many exploit, usually a desire for money. types of information, but according Politico," published two weeks before the federal elections in 1979 in which Attorney General William French Once contact is made, Mr. Hartley to FBI Director Webster, the "major Smith warned in a speech on Decem­ thrust" of Soviet and Soviet-bloc Mr. Shymko was a candidate, and "The reports, the recruit is provided with True Face of Mr. Shymko," that ap­ ber 18: "Over the MM dozen years, the cameras or other devices needed for agents is high-technology transfer. number of official representatives of peared after Mr. Shymko's election to his work arid, in the final stage, the provincial Parliament last March. governments with hostile intelligence communicates with his contact in­ Since embargos forbid the sale of activities in our country has in­ most highly technological equipment Both articles accuse Mr. Shymko of directly via secret "dead drops" for belonging to the "League for the Libera­ creased by 400 percent." messages, through intermediaries or, to the Soviet Union, equipment that they desperately want and need given tion of Ukraine," branding the organi­ FBI Director William H. Webster increasingly, in visits to foreign zation an offshoot of "Banderite" countries. their lag in research and develop­ was even more specific, reporting ment, Soviet spies have engaged in fascists, and its members as "Hitlerite that 35 percent of so-called diplo­ According to the author, the So­ elaborate schemes to steal and henchmen."The first piece also labelled mats from unfriendly nations are viets are not only the most active smuggle such information out of the Mr. Shymko an "anti-Semite." actually professional spies. On an spies in New York, but also the most country. It should be noted that News from ABC network telecast on January 3, numerous. More than 700 Soviet One method mentioned by Mr. Ukraine is published in both English he said there has been "a rather citizens work in the Soviet mission at Hartley is to deal through other and Ukrainian for foreign consump­ extensive increase" recently in the the United Nations, in the U.N. countries, or even through Western tion, and routinely included among the number of "foreign intelligence- Secretariat or in the Soviet Union's nationals, to buy an American item tame, propaganda articles on life in trained individuals here, mostly various civilian agencies such as the and then transship it to the Soviet Ukraine are turgid and vicious attacks under diplomatic coverage." Amtorg Trading Company, the Union through another country. on Ukrainian nationalists in the West. Aeroflot airline and the TASS news Noting that News from Ukraine lies As Mr. Hartley noted, with seme agency. About 35 percent - or more Mr. Hartley offers an example: A beyond the scope of Canadian libel 3,000 persons attached to Communist than 200 — are considered by Russian-born businessman, Anatoly laws, Mr. Shymko, who is the chair­ diplomatic establishments in the Western intelligence agencies to be (Tony) Maluta, was convicted in Los man of the Ontario Council on Multi- United States, Mr. Webster's 35 active spies. Angeles last October of exporting culturalism and Citizenship, said that percent spy rate would mean a total millions of dollars' worth of restrict­ he was raising the issue in Parliament, of more than 1.000 diplomat spies — Soviet agents in New York operate ed high-technology electronic gear "because my safety and the safety of my each of whom could be supervising under the direction of Vladimir that ostensibly was consigned to family are threatened through the several agents. Kazakov, 49, local chief of the KGB. West Germany but wound up in allegations" made in the articles. Mr. Kazakov's cover title is deputy Soviet-bloc countries. He recalled that on June 6, 1979, he According to the author, the Big permanent representative to the Apple has become such a popular spy was approached by the first secretary of United Nations under Ambassador Occasional successes are also the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and press base because many of the Kremlin's Oleg Troyanovsky. reported in nabbing spies dealing in prime targets are located here. Be­ representatives from Izvestia, Novosti military secrets. On December 15, for Press and Pravda. sides the U.N. offices, business and The Soviet's top spy in the United example, a Polish national named financial institutions, and hi-tech States, Dmitri 1. Yakushkin, also has "They told me frankly that I should Marian W. Zacharski was sentenced never run in an election in this country," industries, New York has recently a diplomatic cover - as counselor to life in prison for buying secret become home for thousands of Rus­ at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Mr. Shymko told his colleagues. "They defense documents from an Ameri­ interfered directly by dictating to me sian emigres, many of them living in He is reported planning to return to can. The American, William Holden the Brighton Beach section of Moscow soon, after a six-year Wash­ that I not become involved in the free Bell, was sentenced to eight years in electoral process." Brooklyn. ington assignment, according to Mr. prison. Hartley. But after the 1981 provincial election, Among these immigrants, the U.S. Last September, Joseph George the second article, "The True Face of New .York's Soviet spies work Helmich, Jr., pleaded guilty to con­ government believes, are some/ from the Soviet Mission to the Yuri Shymko," was published. Among "sleeper" agents being planted here spiring to sell military secrets to the United Nations in midtown Man­ other-things, the article compares Mr. to meld into American life and later Soviets. Shymko and, by association, all Ukrai­ emerge as spies. fr hattan and from a recently completed apartment house in the plush River- But even with such notable nian nationalists, with the assassins who "We know there are persons who dale section at the northern tip of the successes, the author concluded, the tried to kill Pope John Paul II and got out of Russia only on their Bronx. outlook for effectively curbing Soviet President Ronald Reagan. promise to cooperate when they get The roof of that apartment, the intelligence inroads in New York Harping on Mr. Shymko's involve­ here," the author quotes R. Jean author reports, bristles with antennae and, indeed, the United States, is ment with the "League for the Libera­ Gray, head of the local FBI section for sophisticated gear to eavesdrop bleak. As one FBI agent put it: tion of Ukraine," the article said: "Only that keeps an eye on the Soviets, as on American telephone conversa­ "What worries me is that the other through their (Banderite) efforts the saying. tions. side totally and absolutely out­ league — a legal cell of criminals and Officials refuse to estimate how One reason U.N. diplomats are so numbers us 10 to I." lawbreakers -r- was founded in 1949. . (Continued on pafe 13) X THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JANUARY 24, 1982 No. 4 \ A glimpse of Soviet reality Carter tries to dissuade two hunger-strikers MOSCOW - Former President - the Siberian Seven - who have been Jimmy Carter telephoned the U.S. occupying one room in the embassy Щгаіпіап Communist Party boss speaks Embassy in Moscow on January 15 in basement since June 1980. an effort to persuade two Siberian Reuters reported that Ms. Vash- Pentecostals taking refuge there to give chenko said Mr. Carter urged her vri the artist's role in socialist society up a three-week hunger strike, reported mother and sister to be patient and call Reuters. He failed. off their protest. However, the two '\. 5 by Dr. Roman Solchanyk views as defining the work of the hunger-strikers said later that they 4 ^ i`t` republic's creative unions! An embassy spokesman said Mr. JJ фцт/млгу.– /4f в wen/ meeting be- Soviet reality, according to the Ukrai­ Carter spoke for about 15 minutes with would continue to take only high- ttwen the Communist Party of the nian party leader, is best represented by Liuba Vashchehko, whose mother and calorie fruit juice until there were `Vktainian SSR and government leader­ "the positive hero." Indeed, from Mr. sister - Augustina, 52, and Lidia, 30, developments in their case. ship and representatives of the republi- Shcherbitsky's standpoint, "the mea­ - are staging the fast to give fresh They say embassy officials have not Яш cultural intelligentsia, both sides sure of art artist's civic position and impetus to their appeals to be allowed to done enough to press their case with expressed their views on contemporary talent is, above all, his ability to dis­ leave the Soviet Union. The women are Soviet authorities. The embassy says it developments in literature and the arts cover in life and artistically portray the among seven members of two families has done all it can. in Ukraine. The meeting, convened on positive hero and support the new and the initiative of the Ukrainian SSR progressive." The purpose of such Potttbiifo, was addressed by the first undertakings is purely utilitarian, a fact Soviet Baptists in West appeal to Brezhnev secretary of the Ukrainian Communist that Mr. Shcherbitsky in no way at­ ELKHART, Ind. - A group of 3,000 ment of stomach cancer. Party, Vladimir Shcherbitsky, and nine tempted to disguise. He pointed out that Soviet Christians now living in the West The 53-year-old Baptist was arrested representatives of the Ukrainian cultural everyone, and particularly the younger has sent an urgent appeal to Soviet on June 4, 1978, for his activities: as establishment. With a view towards the generation, is faced with such problems President Leonid Brezhnev requesting pastor of the unregistered Evangelical forthcoming celebrations of the 60th as how to Jive and what to struggle for, approval for an imprisoned Baptist Baptist Church in Dzhambul, Kazakh­ anniversary of the formation of the and that it is the duty of writers and 'preacher to undergo much-needed stan, and is currently serving a five-year USSR, the 40th anniversary of the artists,'to point the way: surgery, reported the International labor-camp term. victory over Nazi Germany, and the "We need new, good works about the Representation for the Council of 1,500th anniversary of Kiev, Mr. Sh- The gathering of the Voice of the honesty, conscience and dignity of the Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Persecuted Church marked the 20th cherbitsky outlined what the party Communist, the Soviet man and the Soviet Union based here. expects of the republic's writers and anniversary of the beginning of what citizen. They should reflect our pride for West German Chancellor Helmut artists, emphasizing the desirability of they see as the current spiritual revival what has been accomplished, our social Schmidt was asked to give the letter to in the Soviet Union. In 1961, the All- works reflecting "the positive hero" in optimism, plus a healthy Bolshevik Mr. Brezhnev when the two leaders met Soviet society and urging creative Union Council of Evangelical Christian dissatisfaction with that which has been in Bonn several weeks ago. The Soviet Baptists distributed a letter which workers to play a more active role in attained. It is very important that the dissident group, Voice of the Persecuted "the contemporary ideological struggle" confronted the Soviet practice of for­ central theme, the leitmotif of these Church, formulated the appeal at its bidding children to attend church. between East and West. works be the idea that we are duty meeting in Hamm, West Germany, on In what seems to have been still bound and are able to work more, better November 6 and 7. In 1966, Pastor Skorniakov, then an another step in a gradual rapproche­ and faster." In the letter, the group, which in­ ment between the Ukrainian active youth counselor, was arrested Such works, argued Mr. Shcherbit­ cludes many members who had been and sentenced to five years in an Communist Party and the re­ sky, are particularly important for the imprisoned in the USSR, requested that public's cultural intelligentsia, the ordinary-regimen camp. After his re­ ideological upbringing of Ukrainian Pastor Yakov Skorniakov be permitted lease, he continued his minictry until his Politburo of the Communist Party of w, youth, who, he emphasized, form a to rotsi to -" Grrmi"`y for treat­ arrest over three years ago. Ukftine invited writers, composers, sizable proportion of the republic's filmmakers, architects and other repre­ population. They are the most dynamic sentatives of the Ukrainian cultural and best-educated part of the popula­ establishment to "a meeting of the tion, but also the least experienced. Not KGB publishes bogus religious journal minds" on a variety of issues affecting having lived through the severe trials of cultural development in the republic. their fathers and grandfathers, a seg­ ORANGE, Calif. - A new samizdat Semitic while others are full of histori­ The gathering, which was convened in ment of the younger generation "often religious journal, "Mnogaya Leta," cal and theological distortions. Kiev's Republican Pavilion of Exhibits takes an attitude towards the blessings which has appeared in the Soviet Union The reviewer warned of the possible on November 4, 1981, was officially provided by socialism as something that is apparently being published and infiltration of the Christian movement called to discuss the contribution of is a given." Some young people, said distributed by the KGB in an attempt to by the KGB. Ukrainian writers and artists towards Mr. Shcherbitsky, are socially infantile discredit the Christian movement, "Inevitably...the ever growing num­ fulfilling the tasks set by the 26th and confused in their world, outlook. according to Keston News. ber of believers in God's Church will Congress of the Communist Party of "That is why it is so important," he Although no copies of the journal discover agents of the secret police, the Soviet Union and preparations'for maintained, "to give th? young person a have reached the West, Keston has disguised as defenders of Orthodoxy, the 60th anniversary of the formation of true picture of the hero for whom the learned that two contributors to the in their ranks," wrote the reviewer. the USSR, the 40th anniversary of the higher ideal of life is to serve the people journal, Felix Karelin and Vladimir defeat of Nazi Germany, and the 1,500th and the cause of communism." Prilutsky, testified against the Rev. According to Keston, a number of anniversary of the city of Kiev.1 Mr. Shcherbitsky placed primary Gleb Yakunin during his trial in August dissident religious activists were ap­ The meeting was addressed by Ukrai­ emphasis on the theme of workers in 1980. proached by Messrs. Karelin and Prilut­ nian Party First Secretary Vladimir literature and art, suggesting that Moreover, a review of the new publi­ sky with offers to contribute articles to Shcherbitsky and by nine representa­ today's Soviet worker provides the best cation has reached the West, and was the new journal, but when they saw tives of the arts and letters, including the model for portrayal of "the positive published in the Russian Paris-based what type of material was required, they head of the Ukrainian Writers' Union, hero." "An important indicator of the quarterly "Vestnik Rkhd." refused. Pavlo Zahrebelny. In a preliminary maturity of art," he states, "is how k The reviewer, identified only by the The publication of "Mnogaya Leta" speech, Mr. Shcherbitsky noted that the reveals the theme of labor and the initials "I.R.," compared the tone of the marks a new phase of the KGB's cam­ formidable tasks set by the recent character of the contemporary worker." writing in "Mnogaya Leta" to that of paign to discredit and emasculate the congress of the CPSU could best be In this connection, he mentioned that a the Soviet paper Izvestia, adding that growing Christian movement in the accomplished by "collective consulta­ recent trip to the Kharkiv Tractor Plant several of the articles are virulently anti- USSR, said Keston News. tion and good work." With this in mind, to make an award in honor of the plant's he continued, the Ukrainian Politburo -50th anniversary convinced him that decided to invite representatives of the 1 much more could be done in terms of cultural intelligentsia to sum up what utilizing the plant's "legendary history" had already been accomplished since in literature, art and film. the party congress; discuss the tasks Another aspect of the theme of confronting cultural workers in pre­ workers touched upon in Mr. Shcher­ Ukrainian WeeklV paring for the above-named anniver­ bitsky's speech concerned the need to saries; and exchange views on how the propagandize certain professions among FOUNDED 1933 Ukrainian republic's writers and artists youth entering the labor force. Specifi­ could play a more active role "in social cally, the Communist Party leader Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a and cultural life and in the work of noted the difficulties that institutes, fraternal non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. improving the ideological upbringing of technical secondary schools and voca­ (The. Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) the toilers." tional-technical schools were experienc­ The Weekly and Svoboda: In his main address, Mr. Shcherbit­ ing in attracting prospective miners, UNA: sky focused attention on three general metallurgical workers and machine (201) 434-0237, 434-0807 (201) 451-2200 areas reflecting the party's present builders. (212) 227-4125 (212) 227-5250 concerns: the artistic portrayal of Soviet Turning to the topic of the contempo­ Yearly subscription rate: J8, UNA members - 55. reality; the role of the cultural intel­ rary Ukrainian village as portrayed in ligentsia in "the contemporary ideologi­ literary works, Mr. Shcherbitsky made Postmaster, send address changes to: cal struggle"; and organizational as­ known his dissatisfaction with the way THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor: Roma Sochan Hadzewycz P0 Box 346 pects of "the creative process." These (Continued on page 13) Assistant editor: George Bohdan Zarycky Jersey City. NJ 07303 three areas in fact point to the political requirements that the party leadership I: Radianska b^`. діла; November 5, 1981. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24. .1982 3 Solzhenitsyn criticizes Voice of America Moroz leads Toronto solidarity rally NEW YORK - Speaking on a re­ aspect. The other one — you sell TORONTO - On the 10th anniver­ who only three years ago spent this day cent broadcast of WNBC's "Tomor­ yourselves on a lower level than you sary of mass arrests of Ukrainian ' on a hunger strike in. a Mordovian row" show, exiled Soviet author and really are. You - you do harm to intellectuals a manifestation took place prison. ;`.-.-' ГЛ. Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn yourselves. Thirdly, you limit even very in Toronto to commemorate the Day of Along with his new wife Vera and had some harsh words for the Voice, of ordinary information on current events. Solidarity with Ukrainian Political over SO participants, Mr. Moroz spent America, charging that the govern­ In foreign policy, you deal with sources Prisoners. 12 hours in front of the building passing ment-run station "does not provide the very gingerly, and in a very circumspect The tradition of observing the Day of out over 2,000 leaflets in support of needed spiritual help" to peoples behind manner, like Afghanistan." Solidarity, which began on January 12, Ukrainian political prisoners and their the Iron Curtain. Mr. Solzhenitsyn noted that in 1974, is annually marked with symbolic cause. The group also staged a symbolic In recent weeks the station, which Frankfurt, West Germany, an emigre hunger strikes and other actions by hunger strike. reaches millions of listeners in Eastern publication, Pasev, offers valuable data Ukrainians throughout the world. Europe, broadcast an interview with on the Afghan partisans. This January 12, in Toronto's City The crowd that had gathered at the Georgi Arbatov, a top Kremlin propa­ "But the Voice of America will never Hall, a manifestation organized by the City Hall for the manifestation was gandist, as well as an interview with lower itself and use their sources," he Council of Supporters of "Anabasis," greeted by the mayor's representative American author Studs Terkel, who said. the Association for the Liberation of and the event was covered by,both described how many impoverished "In fact, instead of giving us news Ukraine and the Free Kozak Youth, Toronto dailies. The Sun and The Globe Americans are forced to eat pet food to items, they help us towards ignorance was led by Valentyn Moroz, a dissident and Mail survive. - towards disinformation -and this is Mr. Solzhenitsyn, who was inter­ one of the basic mistakes anc short­ viewed by Rep. John LeBoutillier (R- comings of Voice of America, because N.Y.), said that such broadcasts run they are affiliated with the State De­ Philly committee marks Solidarity Day contrary to the purpose of the station, partment, and they have acted in a way, PHILADELPHIA - The Philadel­ gulag of the Soviet Union. and tend to downplay the positive as to never violate State Department phia Ukrainian Human Rights Com­ After the service, Councilwoman and aspects of Western culture. He was also policy," he added. mittee commemorated the 10th anni­ Majority Leader Joan'. jCrajewski pre­ critical of what he feels are attempts to Regarding the internal situation in versary of the mass arrests of Ukrai­ sented the committee with a resolution tone down harsh criticism of commu­ the Soviet Union, Mr. Solzhenitsyn said nian artists, writers and poets by or­ marking January. 12 as.Day of the nism arid appease the Kremlin. that Western broadcasts have "focused ganizing a candlelight vigil and moleben Ukrainian Pblitical Prisoner. A resolu­ As' an example, Mr. Solzhenitsyn on what the dissidents provide from inside City Hall courtyard. tion from Gov. pick Thrbnburgh cited noted` that when Moscow reacted an­ Moscow." During the vigil, members qf the the committee for its commitment and grily to the Voice of America broad­ He added: "If the dissidents are wiped committee passed out flyers informing dedication to human rights. casting excerpts from his best-selling out, then you wouldn't have this infor­ the American public about the plight of book "The Gulag Archipelago" in 1973, mation at all. Our people want to know Ukrainian political prisoners. Present among the'50 demonstrators the station prohibited further readings. what is the situation of labor; what is the In bone-chilling weather, the Rev. were the Rev. Boland from St. James situation of the workers in our coun­ Mitred Zenon Zloczynsky and the Rev. parish, and Sister Gloria Cpleman, "Your broadcasting does not provide try. But your broadcasts say nothing Marian Procyk celebrated a moleben, director of Urban.Ministry of the the needed spiritual help for'people," about it. What is the situation of our for the thousands of Ukrainian political Archdioceses of Philadelphia. Also the author told Rep. LeBoutillier peasantry? I have never heard a broad­ prisoners suffering in concentration present were reporters from the Bulletin, through an interpreter, "This is one cast about it." camps and prisons throughout the vast the Daily News arid from Channel' 3. Amnesty International's Madison Avenue Group adopts Krasivslcy

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - For several years now. was severely injured in an accident and declared an be released, and when he was told that Amnesty. Amnesty International's Madison Avenue Group industrial invalid. International had not received any letters for some (Group 11), based in New York, has quietly been After completing his sentence, he returned to time and was concerned about his well-being the writing letters, making phone calls and organizing Lviv, where he graduated from the university and hospital spokesman rather facetiously answered: benefit concerts for exiled Ukrainian poet Zinoviy embarked on his literary career. He published "Maybe he does not wish to write you." Krasivsky, 51, whom the group has adopted as a several bibliographical works and had prepared a When AI said that, judging by Mr. Krasivsky's prisoner of conscience. historical novel. previous letters, it seemed safe to conclude that he An update on the group's activities was provided In March 1967, just prior to the publication of his was mentally healthy, the hospital spokesman by group spokesmen Iris Akahoshi and Larry Israel novel "Bayda," Mr. Krasivsky was arrested for answered: "But you are so far away." during a recent visit to the Svoboda editorial offices being a member of the Ukrainian National Front, a When Mr. Krasivsky was finally released from here. group which openly advocated Ukrainian inde­ the hospital in 1978, his health had deteriorated. He The group is one of Amnesty International's pendence through non-violent, constitutional and was suffering from stomach ulcers as well as spinal approximately 230 chapters' in the United States. legal means. and head injuries. Since the chapter was founded in January 1972, it The activities of the group were limited to a He could not practice his profession, his has worked for 11 prisoners of conscience around memorandum sent to the first secretary of the movements were restricted and he was required to the globe, nine of whom — including three from the Ukrainian Communist Party demanding Ukrai­ remain in the care of a psychiatrist. His two sons Soviet Union — have been released. nian independence and the publication of a were treated as social pariahs. Finally, he and his ` In addition to Mr. Krasivsky, the 20 members of journal, Liberty and the Motherland. wife applied for permission to emigrate, a request the Madison Avenue Group are working on behalf Between 1964 and 1966, 15 issues of the journal that was flatly denied. of Lin Shu-Yangi a Taiwanese who has been in came out, and Mr. Krasivsky was an important In late summer of 1979, Mr. Krasivsky joined the prison since 1950, serving a life term for allegedly contributor. Some of his verses were published in Ukrainian Helsinki Group. On Maqehio, 1980, he attempting to subvert the government. He is the journal. was rearrested. believed to be in his 80s, if he is alive at all. During his trial, he received a 17-year sentence, Although no charges were brought against him, which included prison, labor camp and internal he was charged with haying simulated mental As well as writing appeals to government exile, for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" illness. Because of this, he was forced to serve the officials, the group corresponds with prisoners and and "betrayal of the motherland," Articles 62 and remainder of his previous 17-year sentence, their families whenever possible, collecting and 56, respectively, of the Ukrainian Criminal Code. consisting of 10 months in a labor camp and five sending material aid, and enlisting the aid of In 1971, a "cell case" was brought against him years' internal exile. He completed his labor camp professional organizations. while he was in prison for "manufacturing and term in November 1980. Last November, the group organized a benefit circulating", orally and in writing, verses of a Because of his'ill health, Mr. Krasivsky's case is concert dedicated to Mr. Krasivsky at the Mannes nationalist content, in particular, the poem, on AI's "urgent action" list: College of Music in New York. The concert drew a 'Apocalypse.' " Although Ms. Akahoshi admitted that Mr. capacity audience of 200, with proceeds going As a result, early in 1972, he was sent to the Krasivsky's case was an extremely difficult one, and toward financing the group's activities. It was one Serbsky Psychiatric Institute for examination and chances of gaining his release "nearly impossible," of several such benefits. was deemed mentally imcompetent. He was first she added that her group will continue to work While at Svoboda, Ms. Akahoshi produced a sent to a special psychiatriq hospital in Smolensk, arduously on his behalf. She also said that another copy of a moving Christmas letter, written in and in 1976 he was transferred to a general AI group in West Germany is also working on Mr. English, which she received from Mr. Krasivsky psychiatric hospital in Lviv. Krasivsky's case. and his wife. Olena in 1980. The most effective means of advancing the case It read in part: "We both sit now at the table of far While Mr. Krasivsky was in the Lviv hospital in of Mr. Krasivsky, Ms. Akahoshi noted, was and cold Lugovskoy but our souls and our hearts 1977, the Madison Avenue Group managed to through the media. To this end, she prepared a are by you and your table." place a telephone'call to the hospital on December program on Mr. Krasivsky that was broadcast by Mr. Krasivsky, who began a five-yearexil e term 20. Ms. Akahoshi and Mr. Israel provided Svoboda Voice of America. on December 5, 1980, was first arrested as a 17 year editors with a transcript of the conversation, which For further information on the work of the old in 1947 for attempting to escape while he and his was held in Ukrainian. Madison Avenue Group, those interested may family were being deported to Siberia. He was When asked about Mr. Krasivsky's health, the write: Yadia Zeltman, Amnesty International sentenced to five years in a labor camp and five hospital spokesman said his "health was satisfac­ USA, Madison Avenue Group, 1326 Madison years' internal exile. tory." The speaker, who may or may not have been Ave., New York, N.Y. 10028; or telephone (212) While in exile, he worked in the mines where he a doctor, refused to say when Mr. Krasivsky would 860-8215. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 No. 4 Obituan^s Resolutions and recommendations of the national community conference held in New York on December 19 Daria Emilia Stolarchuk,author MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - Daria Emi­ We, the representatives of 27 national organizations and institutions: lia Stolarchuk, famous writer and fraternal-insurance associations and community, charitable, professional, journalist, died January 13, after a brief, women's,veterans', youth, educational and other organizations, who walked but serious illness. She was 76. out of the 13th Congress of Ukrainians of America held in Philadelphia in Mrs. Stolarchuk, who wrote under October 1980 — in protest to blatant violations of the rules of order and by­ the pen name of Daria Yaroslavska, was laws of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America during the congress born April 25, 1905, in Stanislaviv, and its preparatory stages by representatives of organizations belonging to Ukraine, to the Rev. Yaroslav and the ideological-political grouping known under the name Ukrainian Ivanno (Marmorovych) Borodajkevych. Liberation Front - and who created the interim Committee for Law and She began her literary career in 1939 Order in the UCCA, as well as representatives of individual communities and when she won a contest in Lviv for her UCCA branches who are in solidarity with the Committee for Law and novel "Polyn pid nohamy" ("Worm­ Order, gathered at a national community conference in New York on woods under Foot"); The novel was so December 19 and, having heard reports and studied the situation that has successful that a second edition was come into being in our American Ukrainian community after the 13th published. Congress, as well as the goals and needs of this community, in unison state the From that time, her literary career following: soared. Her works include "Pomizh berehamy" ("Between the Shores"), a Daria Stolarchuk Whereas, all attempts to date of the Committee fo?JLaw and Order in the trilogy, "Povin" ("The Flood"), "Na tion of works, "Prapor," ("The Flag") UCCA, which were aimed at eliminating the reasons for the existing conflict krutiy dorozi" ("On the Winding will be released. and at restoring and safeguarding law and order in the future, and in this way Road"), "Pid chuzhi zori" ("Under eliminating the crisis that came into being as a result of this conflict, were Mrs. Stolarchuk was also active in Foreign Stars" and "Paporot ne tsvite" such organizations as the Association of fruitless thanks to the intransigence of the perpetrators of this crisis and the ("The Fern Does Not Bloom"). present UCCA representatives, as seen at the meetings and discussions with Workers for Ukrainian Culture, in them on December 12, 1980, January 16, August Hand October 9,1981,and She was also a popular contributing Ukrainian National Women's League because of the most recent disdainful reply of the present UCCA executive in writer to such magazines as Lysty do of America Branch 28, and was the head response to the four proposals put forth by the Committee for Law and Order Pryiateliv, Nashe Zhyttia, and Zhino- of the Ukrainian Booklovers Club at in the UCCA which were the subject of the aforementioned meetings and chvi Svit, to which she submitted short that branch. discussions; and stones, essays and articles. Her funeral was held on Saturday, The writer had a gift for blending January 16, at St. John the Baptist actual situations with warmth, love and Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark, Whereas, these fruitless meetings and discussions with the present UCCA compassion in her stories. Thus, her N.J. Burial was at the South Bound representatives must be considered an unnecessary waste of time that death comes as a great loss to friends as Brook, N.J., St. Andrew's Ukrainian hampers the continuation and further development of the various activities of well as the literary community. Shortly Orthodox Cemetery. She is survived by our community, activities that affect that community itself as well as the after her untimely death, her last соїіес– her husband Roman and close fami'y. entire Ukrainian nation; and Whereas, these very same powers of the Ukrainian Liberation Front, who, through their disregard for law and order, have brought about the present Archpriest Basil Ostas, Rochester pastor crisis in the UCCA, had already established their arbitrary control over ROCHESTER, N.Y... - Archpriest several institutions by using similar methods, and who now direct their Basil Ostas died Saturday, January 16, actions at taking over other institutions, especially the Ukrainian National at the Rochester Medical Center where Association; and he was hospitalized after a stroke which Whereas, the present UCCA under the exclusive control of persons from he suffered recently. one ideological-political grouping cannot be considered the central Father Basil was born April 11, 1910, representative body of all Ukrainians in America because it is not such a in Pomoniste, county of Rohatyn, near body; Lviv, Ukraine. He was the son of Hryhorij Ostas and Anna Therefore, we direct the executive of the Committee for Law and Order in Hryhorczuk. After four years the UCCA and the committees elected at the national community conference:. of elementary schooling in Pokrivitsi, he received his secondary education at 1. To immediately take all steps necessary to prepare, convene and conduct the classical gymnasium in Stryi and in 1982 a national Ukrainian convention, as a result of which an appropriate completed it at the Minor Seminary in representative Ukrainian national coordinating center in America will be Lviv. established with goals determined by the convention; In 1928, having joined the Studite Monks founded by Metropolitan An- drey Sheptytsky, he prepared himself 2. In preparing for this convention, to open an office in New York City and to hire persons to man this office; for the priesthood at the Theological Academy in Lviv. 3. In order to cover the essential expenses connected with running this office The Most Rev. Ivan Buchko, then Archpriest Basil Ostas and preparing for the convention, to establish a budget of S50.000 auxiliary bishop in Lviv, ordained him a and to raise these monies through voluntary contributions from communities priest on February 15, 1936. He was at Britain, Conn?, where, during his pasto­ and individuals; once sent as principal of the Vocational rate, the mortgage was paid off, and School to Dorat and was concurrently then to New Haven, Conn., where he 4. In order to conduct and bolster work in communities, to strengthen the also teacher of religion in the schools of embarked on decorating the interior of existing local branches and organize new ones in locations where there are Dora and Yaremcha. the church with a beautiful iconostasis. none. When the Communists occupied In 1971 he was sent to the Epiphany western Ukraine in 1939, the priests of of Our Lord Church in Rochester, N.Y, 5. The executive of the Committee for Law and Order in the UCCA and its the monastery fled to the Basilian his last pastorate. local branches should cooperate closely with all national and local Monastery of Mariapoch in Hungary, There he found a new church and a institutions, support and take an active part in all constructive national and from which Father Ostas was called to large debt, which was paid off before his local actions, and stay clear of any quarrels, while at the same time taking a the United States by Bishop Consta`n- death. After demolishing the old church decisive stand against all attempts of the aforementioned ideological-political tine Bohachevsky. and purchasing a residence for the grouping at establishing its arbitrary control over our institutions, especially He served in the Philadelphia Arche- ` rectory, an iconostasis was installed in the Ukrainian National Association. parchy in a number of churches: the the church. At the same time he initiated cathedral in Philadelphia; Chester, Pa., such activities as bingo, educational 6. Until such time as the coordinating center of Ukrainians in America is where under his pastorate the parish events for youth and other under­ formed, the executive of the Committee for Law and Order in the UCCA acquired a public school building for its takings. should see to it that it is duly represented in the World Congress of Free use; Reiser, Pa., where a priest's re­ For his dedication to his priestly Ukrainians and its executive bodies. sidence was built, and the school was duties and his readiness to take on any enlarged. task assigned him by the bishop, Father After 15 months in Centralia, Pa., 7. While acting on these directives of the conference, the executive of the Ostas was honored in 1979 by Bishop Father Ostas was transferred to Au­ Committee for Law and Order in the UCCA may continue its attempts at Basil H. Losten of Stamford, Conn., burn, N.Y. where he worked for 23 restoring law and order in the UCCA and liquidating the present crisis in-the with the dignity of archpriest. years (1945-67). Under his pastorate the community if the present UCCA representatives manifest their good will in The funeral rites for Archpriest Ostas school was enlarged; a new convent for this regard. were conducted by Bishop Losten in- the sisters was built; grounds for park­ Rochester, N.Y., on Wednesday, Ja­ ing, a playground and picnics were nuary 20. The body was then trans­ New York, December 19, 1981 purchased. The church was also com­ ferred to Auburn, N.Y., for another Presidium of the national community conference pletely renovated. Finally a new school funeral liturgy on January 21 which was was erected. followed by interment at Ss. Peter and Father Ostas then went to New Paul Cemetery in Auburn. No. 4 - THf UKRAINIAN ЩЩ SUNDAY, JANUARY 24,1982 ..^J5

Delegates' credentials mailed to UNA branches Weekly welcomes new staffer Addresses published of branches with under 75 voting members Together with the monthly assessments for January 1982, the UNA home office has mailed to all branches the convention credentials for as many delegates as they are entitled to, according to the total number of voting members in the branch as of December 31, 1981, i.e., all those members listed on the January 1982 assessment list whose premiums include payments to the Fraternal Fund. For each delegate and alternate, the secretary received two copies of credentials, one completed copy of which the branch must return to the home office within 10 days after the election. The election must take place at a meeting held before March 3,1982. In the January 20, 1982, issue of Svoboda, the home office has published a list of addresses of all secretaries of branches having less than 75 voting members and has mailed this list to each of these secretaries. According to UNA By-Laws, a candidate for election as delegate must be over 18 years of age, of Ukrainian nationality or descent, a member in good standing of the UNA for a period of not less than one year, and of the branch which he is to represent and to which he pays dues to the Fraternal Fund for a period of not less than six months, and must possess all qualifications of an officer of a branch, and who shall have manifested active participation in organizational and promotional work for the UNA. Fraternal office slates workshop JERSEY CITY, N.J.. - "Looking mant Community,"; George Schuter Ahead" will be the theme of the up­ — "Getting the Point Across — Audio- coming Sharing and Communicating Visual Techniques." Workshop scheduled to take place at Last fall, a similar UNA-sponsored Soyuzivka, during the weekend of weekend was held. Participants ex­ February 5, 6 and 7. pressed a need for more communication Marta Kolomayets on the job. The UNA's Fraternal Activities within the Ukrainian community. Some Office has invited young Ukrainians have organized similar workshops in JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Marta Ss. Volodyrhyr arid Olha Ukrainian who are active in their local Ukrainian their local communities. Kolomayets, 22, a native Chicagoan, Catholic Church in Chicago. She is a communities to take part. The weekend's events will begin on joined The Weekly staff as editorial member of Plast and has been active Friday evening at 8 p.m. with a wine and assistant on Monday, January 18. as a youth counselor for a number of The weekend will be composed of a cheese reception, and will end on Ms. Kolomayets, several of whose years. articles had previously been pub­ series of group discussions focusing on Sunday afternoon. Ms. Kolomayets Was employed as lished in The Weekly, holds a B. A. in various means of increasing youth Persons interested in taking part in an advertising assistant at Ms`. maga­ English and an M.S. in journalism participation in the Ukrainian commu­ this workshop, or in organizing a zine and was a co-host on one of from the University of Illinois. Her nity. similar weekend in their community, Chicago's Ukrainian radio pro­ master's project was an article on the Featured will be three guest speakers should contact Marta Korduba, Fra­ grams. from Binghamton, N.Y.: Lubomyr ternal Activities Office, Ukrainian Illinois chapters of Amnesty Interna­ tional, a worldwide human-rights Zobniw — "Developing Valuable Con­ National Association, 30 Montgomery She fills a position on The Weekly organization. tacts with the Media"; Wolodymyr St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302; (201) 451- staff which was vacated by Ika Korchynsky — "Reawakening a Dor­ 2200,(212)227-5250. Ms. Kolomayets was active in the Koznarska Casanova, an assistant Ss. Borys and Hlib Brotherhood at editor. ШІІИІІІІ1ПІШІІП!1І1ІІІІ!ІІІІ1ІІІІІ1І!І!ШШШ1ІШ!ІШІШІІІШІ!ШІІІІІІ!ІШІІІІІП!ІІІІІІШ1ПІІІ1ІІШ11ІШІІІШШШШІШПШІІШ І UNA district committees meet I Chicago bowlers help orphans it. Ї.Г– У f - Г " - ,'S" -. ЗііиіШиШШПІІІІІ1ІІІНІ!!1ШІШІ11ІІШШ11Іі:іНІІІШІ!ІІ1ІІИ1ИІНІІІІІППІІіІі1ИІІІИ1ІІ1ШШІІІІІІІ1ІІІІШШШ!ІІІІ!!ІІ!11ШЙ YoUnOStOWf) I" ner rePort- Mrs. Diachuk spoke on І. , \ I r^ -` \jM is- " the financial and overall health of the YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Twenty- UNA, noting that the most successful тШШш і ІГ^^Ж. `-`l(B(Pi one representatives from nine UNA month in terms of organizing was branches took part in the annual fall November, when 333 new members meeting of the Youngstown UNA Dis­ were enrolled. The figure brought the ШшШ 1 trict Committee held here in the parish year's total to 1,919. This was offset, hall of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian however, by the fact that during the Orthodox Church on December 12. The same time period, the UNA lost 1,500 branches represent over 871 members. members, she added. Also present at the meeting, which As of the end of November, UNA was chaired by District Chairman assets stood at 546,664,000, an increase Estelle Woloshyn, were Ularia Diachuk, of 51,475,787 over the same time period UNA supreme treasurer, and Taras in 1980, she said. Membership dues Szmagala, supreme advisor. accounted for 52, 750, 405, an increase The chairman noted that this year's of 549,800 over .the same period in 1980. organizing campaign had not gone well, Unfortunately, due to inflation and a (Left to right ) Paul Bojko, Helen B. OIek, Phyllis Kolesnik and Joseph Olinyk noting that the district had enrolled 16 general economic slowdown, there were preparing checks to be presented to Ukrainian orphanages. new members as of the end of Novem­ more cash surrenders on member's ber, i.e. 24 shy of its quota. certificates and requests for loans on the by Helen OIek at St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Mrs. Woloshyn reported that Secre­ certificates, Mrs. Diachuk added. Church in Chicago. This check repre­ tary Petro Lishchak of Branch 230 had The supreme treasurer also reported CHICAGO - Five years ago, the sented the proceeds from the 1981 enlisted nine new members; Branch 274, on the UNA-sponsored Ukrainian Ukrainian American Bowling League dinner-dance which is to be forwarded three; Branch 386, two; while Branches opera concert held at New York's of Chicago, which consists mostly of to the Rev. Theodore Weneck in Argen­ 119 and 348 enrolled one member each. Carnegie Hall on November 15, the UNA Branch 22 members, sponsored a tina, and another check to the Basilian She asked all branch secretaries to UNA-HURl-sponsored book by Prof. dinner-dance for the benefit of orphans. Sisters in Brazil for orphanages. intensify their organizing efforts in an Robert Conquest on the Ukrainian fa­ This, was such a huge success that the The 1982 dinner-dance will be held on attempt to fill the quota by the end of mine in the 1930s, the reissuance of the bowlers decided to sponsor this event Saturday, February 6, at the Venice 1981. section of the Ukrainian annually in February. Banquet Halls, 5636 W. Fullerton Ave., Mrs. Woloshyn then reported on the Encyclopedia dealing with religion as The proceeds of each event are then Chicago, with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and recent conference on senior citizens and part of the UNA's commemoration oi forwarded to different Ukrainian or­ dinner at 7:30 p.m. Music will be by aging in Washington, which she attend­ the millennium of the Christianization phanages throughout the United States, Mike Kozlenko. ed as a delegate from Ohio. During the of Ukraine, and Slavko Nowytski`s Argentina and Brazil in time for the The committee consists of Joseph conference, Mrs. Woloshyn was an progress on two films about Ukrainians Christmas holidays. Olinyk, chairman, Dan Bardygula, outspoken advocate of the needs of in America and the UNA. On December 5, 1981, a check was Paul Bojko, Diane Jun, Phyllis Koles­ ethnic senior citizens in the United presented to the Rev. Leonard Kor­ nik, Nick Kowal, Helen B. OIek, Ken States. (Continued on page 13) chynsky at the annual Mission Day held Oplinger and Roger Weingart. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 No. 4

News and views і і - Re: revision of canon law rainian Wee by Archrrmndrite Victor J. Pospishil Code of Eastern Catholic Canon Law У had been promulgated as law. The The need for Church law Ecumenical Council of Vatican II recognized the need to revise all Church Help Ukrainians in Poland In conversation with parishioners, norms more thoroughly. This was more the name of a young priest was mention­ a necessity for the Latin rite Church, During the heady days following Poland's courageous Gdansk ed. He had just been appointed to which had received its firstcod e in 1917, - summer of 1980, there was a lot of talk among Solidarity leaders and temporarily administer a parish, and while the law of the Eastern Catholic such influential intellectuals as KOR's Jacek Kuron about redressing the question was raised how such an Churches had only recently been re­ the long list of injustices endured by that country's long-suffering obviously inexperienced priest could worked. Ukrainian minority. Although somewhat tinged with traditional carry out the manifold duties of a Polish paternalism, the concern seemed genuine enough, as Solidarity pastor. Revision of Eastern Catholic canon law publications and an emboldened uncensored press began to gingerly It was not difficult to answer this touch on such issues as the problems facing the Ukrainian Catholic question. He will follow the detailed Nevertheless, Pope Paul VI esta­ Church, and the rights of Poland's 500,000 Ukrainians. Some norms and rules developed by the blished in 1972 a special Commission publications risked government displeasure by raising the irksome Church over nearly 2,000 years, which for the Revision of the Eastern Code of in its entirety is called the canon law or Canon Law. The work of the commis­ subject of the Polish government's historic maltreatment of law of the Church. The priest has been sion started at once. The commission is Ukrainians, particularly during and just after World WarTI. instructed in canon law in his theologi­ composed of the Eastern Catholic Clearly, there were a host of injustices to address. In 1944, for cal studies for the priesthood, and has patriarchs and major archbishops, until example, countless numbers of Lemkos were forcibly repatriated to the been shown where to find the sources they have reached the age of 80, Ukrainian SSR on the basis of an agreement reached that year from which he could refresh his me­ and a number of bishops as represen­ between Poland and the USSR, even though the agreement said that mory. He will still need advice in the tatives of the various Eastern Churches, such an exchange would be carried out on a voluntary basis. application of the law of the Church, as well as some Latin ritecardinal s and and this he will receive from his bishop, bishops. The commission works Three years later, Poland's Communist government launched the from specialists in. the study of church through some 65 consultors, bishops, notorious "Operation Vistula," during which Ukrainians were thrown law, the canonists, and from older priests and laymen learned in canon off their traditional lands in the Carpathian region of southeastern priests who have more experience in law. Poland and forced at bayonet-point to resettle in Poland's newly applying canonical norms to problems Members of the commission from the acquired territories in the north and west. It was a brutal, anti- encountered daily in their pastoral United States and Canada are Arch­ Ukrainian pogrom carried out under the pretext that those Ukrainians work. bishop Maxim Hermaniuk, Ukrainian were members or sympathizers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army The la w of the Church is based on the Metropolitan of Winnipeg, and Arch­ (UPA). Many Ukrainians lost all their possessions, scores were locked teaching of Our Lord, as it was pre­ bishop Stephen J. Kocisko, metropoli­ up in detention centers. served, understood and transmitted by tan of the. Byzantine, Catholic (Ruthe- Moreover, Polish residents of these regions, many of whom also the apostles. The assemblies of bishops, nian) Church of the United States. moved from the former eastern territories, despised the Ukrainians, the councils and synods, continued to Bishop Imre Timko of Hungary and branding them UPA bandits. Anyone speaking Ukrainian was develop these norms. Over the centu­ Bishop Augustine Hornyak of Great Britain also belong to the commission. castigated. Ukrainians became an easy targets for local gangs and Po­ ries, these laws had to be revised from time to time, which means that the rules lish security forces.. Among consultors from the Byzan­ had to be adapted to changed circum­ tine Churches represented in North , The goyernment,instituted a policy that no more than 10 percent of a stances. America we count Bishops Jerome I. given settlement could be Ukrainian. Traditional Ukrainian villages The latest such revision of the laws of Chimy of New Westminster, B.C.; had their names Polonized. In short, the Ukrainians were shoved the Eastern Catholic Churches was Michael J. Dudick of Passaic, N.J.; down a notch — from second- to third-class citizens. begun in 1935 in Rome. From 1948 till Joachim Herbut of Yugoslavia; An- So, what of today? Clearly, with the imposition of martial law in 1957 four most important parts of a (Contfnued on page 10) Poland by Gen. Jaruzelski, any hopes of rapprochement have been all but dashed. Most of the advocates of reassessing Poland's relations with its national minorities are in hiding or in government custody. By Prayers for patriarch's 90th birthday temporarily muzzling Solidarity, the Jaruzelski juggernaut has On February 17, we will celebrate selves spiritually with Ukrainians all effectively silenced those in Polish society who want to see an end to all the 90th birthday of His Beatitude over the world — especially with the forms of discrimination and officially sanctioned social injustice. Josyf Cardinal Slipyj, head of our pilgrims in the eternal city who, Poland's Ukrainian Social-Cultural Society (USKT), the only "Pomisna" Ukrainian Catholic together with our clergy and bishops, officially recognized organization representing Poland's oppressed Church. will be gathered with His Beatitude Ukrainian minority, which took a "cautious" approach to the His Beatitude is for Ukrainian - lift our hearts in prayer, and storm Polish renewal, will now be under excrutiating political pressure to toe Catholics a symbol of unwavering heaven as with one voice, begging the government line or face dire consequences which may threaten its steadfastness in the faith and of God grant our Father Josyf "mno- existence. staunch loyalty to the Catholic haya lita." What's more, due to years of Communist mismanagement and the Church and to the Ukrainian people. Also, we direct that a collection be In his divine wisdom, Our Lord has made as a gift of love (dar liubovy) on domestic repercussions of popular loathing of the new junta, the brought him back, as it were, from that day for His Beatitude to support Polish economy has all but stopped functioning completely. This the very bowels of atheistic Commu­ the projects he initiated: the Ukrai­ breakdown, coupled with the economic sanctions-imposed by an nist hell where he had suffered as nian Catholic University of Pope St. outraged U.S. government, means severe shortages of essential food, confessor of the faith and has given Clement in Rome, the education of clothing, fuel and other goods in Poland. him to us to be our leader and our seminarians, for the poor in the As third-class citizens, Ukrainians in Poland are sure to feel the inspiration. eparchies in South America, the brunt of the squeeze. For these and other humanitarian reasons, the It is only proper that we remember cause for the beatification of the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church have issued an urgent plea Cardinal Josyf on his birthday, Servant of God Metropolitan An- to Ukrainians in the West to help their kinsmen in Poland by donating imploring God in our prayers to bless drey Sheptytsky, the needs of the to a special relief fund. him and to give him the. grace and the underground Church in Ukraine, strength to live to see his plans for among others. The UNA has shown the way by donating 810,000 from its our Church become a reality. In the hope that all our faithful will Emergency Fund in response to the call. We urge all Ukrainians and The reverend fathers are directed be spiritually one on the birthday of Ukrainian organizations to give what they can for this worthy cause. with ensuring that the observance of His Beatitude Josyf, praying in a In some cases, it just might very well be a life or death situation. this event be conducted after suitable spirit of unity and love for God's Generations of Ukrainians have suffered under the gauntleted,fist of preparation with appropriate dignity, blessings on our primate and од our Polish Communist rule. They have been abused as a nation, their giving all our faithful an opportunity Church, we bestow our episcopal rights have been mercilessly flouted, their culture severely threatened. to participate. The theme for the blessing. Now, many of them risk economic privation — hunger, cold, celebration is the following: let us inadequate clothing and shelter. After all they have endured, it is our emulate the arduous work, the total Stephen moral duty to help lighten their burden. - ' dedication and cheerful readiness for Archbishop-Metropolitan of Phila­ self-denial and sacrifice so gallantly delphia displayed by His Beatitude in his Basil lifetime. Bishop of Stamford Remember our brothers in need We ask that all priests of our Innocent Hove you contributed toward the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs' fund to help diocese celebrate a divine liturgy for Bishop of St. Nicholas in Chicago our needy fellow Ukrainians in Poland? the intention of His Beatitude on Robert You may forward your donation to your pastor, to the Philadelphia Ukrainian Sunday, February 21. May we here Auxiliary Bishop of the archbishop Catholic Archoparchy, 815 N. Franklin St., Philadelphia, Po, 19123; or to the in the United States, joining our­ . of Philadelphia ,-. Ukrainian National Association, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. ЦоА THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24. 1982 7 Art review |. Atmosphere of artistic universality marks four-woman exhibit in Ohio by Myroslava M. Mudrak alabaster and adjusts her composition to accommodate the pronounced irre­ Four young and talented Ukrainian gularity in the stone. In this way, .she women artists made an impressive creates a marked feature in the torso showing in Parma, Ohio, during the itself, one which adds character to the recent Thanksgiving Day weeJcend. body as though a birthmark. Thanks to Branch 8 of the Ukrainian The same holds true in the third of National Women's League of America, Ms. Farion's sculptures, another tender which sponsored the combined exhibi­ rendering of the female torso. While tion of art works by Oksana Cehelsky, Ms. Farion's sculptures are, generally Anya Farion, Ulana Salewycz and speaking, highly sophisticated works, Iryna Wolosiansky, the Ukrainian "Emerging Figure" does present tone community of Greater Cleveland had bothersome problem. It is a problem an opportunity to once again come into which arises out of indecision in the contact with modern art as created by rendering of the highly polished section members of its own nationality. of hair. Here, there is some confusion as This was, by no means, a debut for to the artist's intention, and this spoils these artists, nor was it the first time the harmony between the stone and the they had exhibited together. Seeing figure being sculpted. - ' their combined work was, however, a v каш From another vanjage point, Ulana first for this community. The exhibition "Transformation" by Anya Farion. Salewycz's "Seashells" is one of the itself was not overwhelming—a total of most successful of the paintings put on 19 works was displayed - but the Ms. Cehelsky does not let the viewer beforehand what form her stone should display in the exhibition. The. work not works' shown provided a fair cross- forget the raw material from which elicit. The delicate and tender female only points to the originality of;the section of the midstream development these forms emerge. Just as the clay torso interned in the stone already artist, but, since the canvas is left of the artists on their way to illustrious undergoes several permutations from emerges with .the first strike of the untampered by superfluous strokes due careers.' its raw state to an elegant art object, she chisel. It is Ms. Farion's creative eye to indecisiveness or afterthought, one is The character of the show was one of allows it to mutate under her careful . which helps to recognize the soft and allowed to revel in the subtle nuances of a mixed-media event: paintings, draw­ eye. A transparent glaze, applied sub­ tender form contained in the inanimate the color without'diversions or distrac­ ings, porcelain and sculpture. By di­ tly, is graduated softly and imper­ material. By subtracting the unneces­ tions. This, unfortunately, is hot the verging from the more typical art ceptibly as if bearing witness to the sary parts of the stone, she forces the case with all of her other works which exhibition seen in the Ukrainian com­ work's separate phases of evolution. image outward, and thus, frees it. will be seen later. munity — usually "fine art on folk The textural features are incongruent It is at this point that Ms. Farion's Ms. Salewycz is a highly skilled themes" - this show, with the excep­ with the title "porcelain" which suggests work is complete. She need not go on colorist. She abandons herself to color, tion of one work, Ms. Salewycz's "Ethnic a thin, highly polished surface, for here, and finish the figure in the round, for to its pervasive allure. With coior, she Idealism," was of a different character. we have an uneven surface, rough and that is not the task which Ms. Farion transports the viewer, inviting him to The mark of this four-woman exhibi­ highly textural. sets for herself. It is the mere suggestion take a color-enriched journey into an tion was an atmosphere of artistic of the stone's potential which is the abyss, into painted reveries which she Ms. Cehelsky creates art objects calls "voids." Within these phantas­ universality. The universality was at­ which express a union with the natural primary concern of this sculptress. tained neither by an underlying theme, magoric realms, the entire color spec­ world — an organic unity with the earth There is another feature at work in trum is employed in its richest satura­ nor by the introduction of Ukrainian which bore the material from which Ms. Farion's sculptures. She not only subject matter, but was dictated, in­ tion. Her canvases Strike tone as being a they are made. adheres to classical motifs, but creates a rich panoply of rainbow colors. stead, by purely artistic pursuits, i.e., All of this points to the sensitive classical mood. The female torso is one the artist struggling with her material in relationship between the artist and her of her favorite subjects, and, in this Meanwhile, the thin application of order to express herself. material. The aspect of "material" also show, she delights the viewer with two the paint on the surface makes one sense "Material" is the key artistic element plays a significant role in the works of views of the nude, allowing us to wallow the fragility and delicacy of that void to in the porcelain works of Oksana Anya Farion. Ms. Farion brings this not so much in sensuous lines as in the which she beckons us; the paint serves Cehelsky. By employing the most an­ aspect to the fore even more poignantly unblemished female form. as a mystic veil that invites us temptingly into the unknown. cient means of operating in clay — the by not totally absorbing her material Partly because of her classical ap­ "coil method" — Ms. Cehelsky pro­ into the rendered artistic form, but by proach to sculpture and partly because Ms. Salewycz is a powerful and duces neither a figure, nor a functional exposing the natural element from of the material with which she works, highly gifted painter and most of her object, but rather, an object which is which her sculptural figures emerge (in Ms. Farion's art reflects a careful and works are, indeed, successful and inspir­ intriguing in its form, shape and sur­ this case, alabaster and black steatite). systematic sculptural method. Hers is ing. They are energetic, making bold statements. She takes great risks in her face texture. While for Ms. Cehelsky, the main obviously a slow-process approach, art, and thus, continuously challenges For the superficial viewer, Ms. Cehel- driving artistic force was a modification demanding confidence and complete herself and the viewer as well. Paintings sky`s five porcelain pieces, displayed in of material, for Ms. Farion, material surrender to a decision which must be such as "Untitled," are perfect examples a static configuration, might induce becomes the "process" and "method" of made before she even attempts to cut of how` Ms. Salewycz involves the monotony. The basic feature in all of her art. Ms. Farion's process-oriented into the stone. Such control reveals a viewer in the content and technique of these works is a fundamental structure art is carried out in her subject matter. command of her craft and points to her her works. In a profoundly philosophi­ which appears in every individual piece: Her sculptures (represented here by artistic maturity. cal approach to her work (evident in the a tripartite construction which un­ three dynamic works) dwell on queries Unlike many works of contemporary themes which she chooses to develop, wittingly conjures up the mystical of transformation and mutation. art in which, all too frequently, one number "three." e.g., "Void," "Suburban Paradise"), she Ms. Farion plays the role of magician finds the artist wishing to jolt the is an artist who is bent on abstraction — In a continuously coiling manner, she in her sculptures. From a wedge of spectator into some understanding or to truly, her strongest point. creates a panoply of similar inter­ severed alabaster or steatite, she envi­ shock him, there's no attempt on Ms. connected shapes which are set into sions and materializes the elegant Farion's part to trick or tease the All of the above mentioned are motion by the counter-action of swirl­ profile of a goddess or idealized nudes. viewer. Yet, although no surprises are excellent renderings and complete ing forms. Three of the swirls go one The impact of Ms. Farion's magic trick forced upon us, the element of discovery works, except for a few disturbing way, three another. The gentle tension comes about in the black-and-white does, on the other hand, play a consi­ elements. As if frightened to abandon which is created is contrasted against . starkness of the emerging form, and the derable role. herself totally to those unknown regions the staid solidity of the form itself. This elegant shapes that come forth are of her mind and artistic feelings, there Some discoveries are quiet, 'unper- are instances in Ms. Salewycz's paint­ interaction between movement and commensurate and coincident with the turbing, but pleasing in their subtlety staticity is a hallmark of the forces refinement and sophistication of the ings when she frustrates and sometimes and gentleness. Such is the case of the spoils the total effect by creating dis­ which Ms. Cehelsky wishes to reconcile stone. The sharp and ragged edges of liquid hair in the black "Transforma­ in her porcelain forms. The moment of the unprimed stone are literally trans­ tracting barriers to those wonderful, tion" piece. In this case, it almost seems purely aesthetic spheres. Hence, the resolution and the moment which formed into smooth-edged, rounded as if the flowing hair sculpted out by creates the point of organic totality is contours. total artistic experience is stopped Ms. Farion had previously been petri­ short. As if by afterthought, in a quick, the top of each work where the swirls of Among the works displayed, "Emerg­ fied and imbedded ages ago in the stone; each of the three sections come together almost dry brushwork movement, the ing Figure," rendered in white alabaster, the artist merely brings it out into the ^ artist disturbs the possibility of being in a quiet point. The rest of the work serves as testimony to how carefully the visible world again. Thus, the effect is seems to breathe gently in its organicity. transported fully into an aesthetic realm stone was studied and how sensitively it one of the hair creeping out as it blends by separating us from these areas by a There is a strong metamorphosic was felt by the artist, who, in emphasiz­ and interfuses with the stone which has element at play here. criss-cross surface covering, design. It is ing the veins of the stone, adds life to the overcome it. Now the artist has revealed as if Ms. Salewycz is uncertain at which Out of the five works displayed," two stretched, soft skin of the figure. The the figure to us, and, by the same token, point to let her painting be. of the forms emerge as if out of conch­ work gives off the effect of a body which discloses the secret forces of the stone like stalagmitic growths. The shape of is throbbing with life. itself, the material. It is no wonder that It is this element of indecisiveness these two porcelains conjures up images All three of Ms. Farion's works are Ms. Farion titled her work, "Transfor­ which spoils the high level of abstrac­ of the slow and steady process of a snail successful, albeit in varying degrees. mation." tion in her painting. Because of her wavering, we are confronted by an making its shell. The three remaining Their apparent success is largerly due to In "Emerging Figure" (mentioned artifical wall, a nasty web whiph makes forms are bottomless, as if having been the artist's foresight. Before striking the previously), Ms. Fariorr-again takes л sliced off larger growths. first blow, Ms. Farion seems to see advantage of the 'natural veinsі of the (Cbrrtfnued on page 14) Profile: Sviatoslav Makarenko, iconographer and free spirit by Marta Korduba renowned Ukrainian artist and iconographer born in Kiev - who immigrated to the United States where he Having parked his 1978 blue Toyota on Canal has continued his work. Street, New York City's unsurpassed marketplace (or "Through him and his experiences, I can hope to auto parts, kitchen hardware and art supplies, continue the thread of the Ukrainian spirit in a natural Sviatoslav Makarenko perused seemingly endless manner. Without him, that would be impossible, or at shelves of paint, carefully screening a pinwheel of very best, superficial. I prefer, however, to concentrate colors for a designated tone of red. on perfecting my work rather than being overly Clad in his characteristically understated blue jeans concerned with my role as an artist or as a Ukrainian and jacket, Sviatoslav seemed somewhat out of league. artist... I do not perceive myself as a bearer of in this haven of artists where outlandish attire abounds, Byzantine church art for Ukrainian American and violation of conservative codes of color and style emigres. If it wasn't me; it'd be someone else. is the norm. Therefore, I feel no pressure or obligation to continue Twenty-eight year old Sviatoslav is an artist/painter the art simply for the sake of propagating it. If I did, I'd of Ukrainian church interiors - a profession . have to sacrifice integrity and enjoyment." The most dominated by European-born masters of preceeding important thing, he repeated emphatically, is to do generations. good work. Sviatoslav and his father Boris Makarenko operate Studying the delicate precision and deceiving a full-time business, Makarenko Studios, in Yonkers, uniformity of the icons strewn about the studio, one NY. Perched on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, might conclude that iconography allows little room the airy, three-story studio is the realization of a 30- for self-expression on the part of the artist. Sviatoslav year-old dream brought to America by Sviatoslav's pointed out that the work of the artist must meet the father. Here, Byzantine church art comes alive as one^ preferences of the parish as well as the direction of eyes meet those of freshly painted angels and saints church tradition. Byzantine church art nas very rendered in the tradition of the Eastern church. particular and significant rules regarding color, Reclining in a leather chair against a rich back­ placement, symbolism and the personal and divine ground of a mahogany and maroon office, Sviatoslav characteristics which images of saints must convey. reflected upon his career and lifestyle, between which "In order to successfully find freedom within these only a fine line, if any, exists. rules," said Sviatoslav "one must first have mastered "Many used to semi-jokingly ask me when I would Sviatoslav Makarenko them. An artist, however, shouldn4 fear losing his get a real job," said Sviatoslav, a graduate of the "For example, before I could design stained-glass identity in his work; no matter how strict the rules, his University of Pennsylvania where he majored in art, 1 had to work with glass for three years, acquiring character is imately reflected in his work. I doubt, for architecture and environmental studies. Some remain skills such as measuring, cutting, soldering the lead, example, that an atheist could paint an icon as well as a skeptical that the business has survived financially and glazing (assembling the stained glass window with lead believer..." The question, then, arises, how is the organizationally. "One certainly can't expect to channels), installation, and —from the business angle artist's spiritually integrated with his work? Shifting to become a Rockefeller in this profession," he chuckled. — ordering materials and organizing the work." ` a more pensive tenor, Sviatoslav searched for words to Although days spent in church basements and Preparing colors and applying initial layers of color describe the most fundamental aspects of his pro­ nights on pews in choir lofts may not make for a to the canvas are the preliminary steps to eventually fession. glamorous profession, Sviat countered that church art being able to design an icon. In preparing and applying "Spirituality, of course, is an integral aspect of provides an exceptional opportunity to meet and colors, one familiarizes himself with the symbolism iconography and church art, however church painting befriend a wide array of people. Sviatoslav and his involved in iconography. For example, the red paint takes place on various planes: spiritual, cultural/artis­ father have undertaken church projects (Ukrainian purchased on Canal Street, noted Sviatoslav, will be tic and business," he said. "In my experience, they have and non-Ukrainian alike) throughout the United used for the Virgin Mary's cloak - the red symbolizes all meshed into one, making it difficult to isolate and States and Canada, and most recently in Australia. her mortality. to define and role of any one of those components. "Typically, a contract might plant me in a particular "In our studio, my father or another one of our Each occupies vital time in the cycle of work." community four to five months. The circumstances artists, Myron Dilynsky, design icons for church use. "My work is an ever-changing, ongoing learning and the length of the stay enable me to cut through For the artist, designing is the most serious pinnacle to process. It continues to be a challenge to me. Each superficial socializing. Despite the fact that work can be reached," said Sviatoslav. plane presents its particular hurdles. The first step was consume seven days a week, it offers a freedom and Sviatoslav himself is now in the process of designing to begin to master the art. Now the challenge lies in flexibility unattainable in most professions," he said. three large (11 feet by 11 feet) mosaics for St. Michael's surviving within the system as a business, while Although Sviatoslav is young in comparison to his Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Hammond, Ind. continuously upgrading the quality of our work." colleagues, he is by no means a novice in his "The technique that will be used in creating these The Makarenkos seem to have met that challenge profession. At 14, Sviatoslav began working as an mosaics will be the same one used 1 ,OOO years ago. It's successfully. Their studio employs 12 full-or part-time apprentice for his father. "It was more out of our elaborate, time-consuming and costly, but it promises workers. Sviatoslav's father, a gregarious man with a family's financial necessity than my own artistic the greatest longevity. The full-scale design uses smalti bellowing voice, imbues his employees with the same inclination," Sviatoslav mused. (colored stone chips imported from Italy). The process enthusiasm that propelled his dream into a flourishing Sviatoslav's fascination with and love for church art can best be described as painting with stone, as the business, years ago. started to crescendo only after many a bemoaned smalti is applied to sections of paper which are then set Classical music and the scent of fresh coffee set the summer was spent cleaning brushes, mixing paint and in a freshly made cement wall. Good technique and serene tone to which artists of various ages and eventually assisting his father with ornamentation. "I fine material are irreplaceable in church art," said temperaments work intently in harmonious oblivion. wasn4 born with a predisposition to become an artist. Sviatoslav, who has traveled many times to Italy in A mustached artist stands face to face with a life-size I don4 believe that 'born artists' exist. Two qualities, pursuit of quality material. St. John (on canvas) as he applies brilliant hues of blue curiosity and love, determine an artist," said Sviato­ Having lived his entire life in the United States, and green to his robes, while a curly-headed woman slav. "When I began to see marked improvement in my Sviatoslav pointed out that he is in a rather unique shares sketches of an ornamented arch (to be rendered work — that I was accomplishing more with less situation, having professionally espoused an art from this summer) with the elder Makarenko. trouble, my interest and desire to make greater strides alien to the culture and environment in which he was "We've achieved something quite unique in this in my work peaked. Church art is a monumental, reared. "If art reflects life, history and people, it is studio — sincere communication," and Sviatoslav. "A multi-faceted endeavor. essential for the artist to be able to Up his own spirit colleague's criticism is valued here. It's not seen as a To be able to do it all well and to make a living at the via the people and culture he or she chooses to threat. Individual egos don't obliterate our goal: to same time became an appealing challenge to me." participate in." produce good work. That's a great strength which лІп order to master each from of Church art "I am a Ukrainian church artist who has never lived results in quality." (including mosaics, iconography and stained-glass art) in Ukraine. Therefore it is crucial that I maintain a link Curiosity and love of church art obviously flourish one must work in the various stages of its production," to the culture via my work. ^Fortunately, I have the in the Makarenko studio; so does enjoyment. And in it explained Sviatoslav. opportunity to study with a master, Petro Cholodny, lies the secret of its artists' success.

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There are few things on earth that can Department were sincere in wanting to match the beauty of a traditional liturgy recognize the Eastern Orthodox in a Ukrainian church. The scene Church's celebration of Christmas, a combines majesty and mysticism, spiri­ small communications gap occurred tuality, age-old rituals and sacraments. somewhere in the Big Apple network Flickering candlelight reflects from brass and the only tree that remained lit standards and polished woodwork, and through January 19 was the one outside casts a warm glow over icons and Staten Island's borough hall. murals, on parishioners bowing their Once the Mayor's press office and the heads or making the sign of the cross. Parks Department were contacted by The aromatic smell of incense, the The Weekly, response was quick. Sher­ intonations of the priests, and the man Jackson, press secretary for the melodious responses of the choir fill the Parks Department, phoned me on church. Tuesday, January 19, with the news that A setting such as this greeted pa­ the City Hall tree would be lit all that rishioners and visitors who arrived at day. He said that in the future all 40 St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas trees would remain de­ Cathedral in Manhattan on the morn­ corated and lit until January 19. ing of January 10. Because it was a Calling this year's incident "an unfor­ special occasion - the elevation of the tunate oversight" on the part of some pastor, the Very Rev. Volodymyr Bazy- Parks Department crews, Mr. Jackson levsky, to the rank of right reverend -- pointed out that Staten Island's official the throngs of parishioners included Christmas tree bad remained lit and many notable persons and community that the tree outside, Brooklyn's bo­ leaders. rough hall was still decorated. For the Christmas season, two small Norm Zarncheck, who spoke to me Christmas trees with winking lights and from the office of Herbert Rickman, the a cluster of vivid red poinsettia plants mayor's special assistant who sent out a added brilliance to the rich hues and Christmas tree bulletin in early January, splendor of the cathedral. stressed the fact that "the trees were Bishop Mark of Carteret, N.J., and lighted way past their usual deadline." Father Bazylevsky celebrated (he liturgy "People (here) did take it very together, assisted by members of Father seriously, and this establishes a pre­ Bazylevsky's family - his son, sub- cedent," he reported, assuring me that deacon George Bazylevsky, and grand­ in 1983 there would be no errors. sons Bohdan Bazylevsky and Terence Brian Morris, public relations officer Solomon, who served as altar boys. for Staten Island's borough president Throughout the service, the church Joseph M. Curran, informed me that choir under the direction of Prof. Vasyl і Staten Jsla,nd, noj: pnly, kfipt .its, Christy , Zavitnevych provided responses, with mas tree lit through January 19 but also the deep bass voice of Deacon Volo­ hosted a carol sing beside the tree on dymyr Pottsbchuk at times filling the January 7. Organized by Lesia Pechko- cathedral. Toward the end of the liturgy, Hewka of Staten Island and her daugh­ Bishop Mark placed a miter on Father Roma Sosenko in Jerome Robbins's "The Four Seasons." ter-in-law, Orysia Styn-Hewka of Phila­ Bazylevsky's head as a symbol of his delphia, the songfest was attended by new rank. Among the honored guests at the great poise as one of the principal the borough's deputy president, Ralph Acknowledging the honor bestowed event, in addition to the liturgical dancers in Part I of "The Goldberg J. LambertJ, Stepban Chandoha led the on him by the Ukrainian Orthodox celebrants, were the Very Rev. Lu- Variations," the only work of Bach's in choir and parishioners of Holy Trinity Sobor, headed by Metropolitan Msty- bomyr Mudry, pastor of St. Mary's the structure of a Theme and Varia­ Ukrainian Catholic Church in singing carols, which included solos by Helena slav, Father Bazylevsky noted that in Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ozone tions. (The name of Johann Gottlieb Park, Queens; the Very Rev. Artemy Goldberg became attached to the work Heimur to accompaniment by Tania actuality it had been earned by his Terser on an electric organ. Mrs. Styn- father, the Rev. Ivan Bazylevsky, ar­ Selepyna, pastor of Holy Trinity Ukrai­ because he happened to be the private nian Orthodox Church in Manhattan; harpsichordist to Count Keyserling who Hewka, serving as emcee, invited the rested in his church in Ukraine in 1937 public to join in the closing carol, and later murdered in a concentration John Kurawsky, president of the cathe­ commissioned the music.) During the City Ballet's current season, Miss So­ "Holy Night." camp; by his cousin, the Rev. Mykola dral's board of trustees; Ivan Bazarko, president of the World Congress of Free senko is also seen in "Souvenir de Flo­ Mr. Morris guessed that next year's Bazylevsky, who was killed in Мугію– rence" (choreographed by John Taras), rod during the Lenten season, and by Ukrainians; Dr. Boris Lototsky of Ukrainian Christmas get-together be­ Switzerland; Gen. Petro Grigorenko; "The Four Seasons," "Interplay" and side the tree would be a "little bigger and St. Volodymyr's parishioners, who had "Eight Easy Pieces." worked so diligently to acquire and Kernel Wasylyk, Ukrainian American better," since borough executives have furnish the cathedral. Youth Association (SUM-A); Nadia Tidings, of good cheer learned that it is traditional for house­ At the close of the liturgy, the wor­ Sawczuk, Ukrainian National Women's holders to offer some "spirits" to shippers remained in their seats to listen League of America; Dr. Nina Strokata carolers. to a concert from the choir loft by the Karavansky; Petro Baybak, Organiza­ On the twelfth day of Christmas Mrs. Pechko-Hewka, who is some 70 Dumka Chorus. Directed by Semen tion of National Rebirth of Ukraine; The Parks Department sent to me years old, started the Christmas ball Komirnvj, the chorus gave an impressive Nick Czorny, administrative director of A message bright and cheery rolling two years ago. She sent letters to a capella performance, blending voices the New York School of Bandura; Orest Concerning City Hall's Yule tree. Mayor Koch, Gov. Hugh Carey, City beautifully in a program of Christmas Glut, Self-Reliance Committee; Va- Councilwoman Carol Bellamy, Bishop and New Year carols that included lentyn Polywko, president, Ukrainian 'Twill be lighted all day Tuesday Basil Losten, Archbishop Mstyslav, "God Eternal," "On the River Jordan," Orthodox Federal Credit Union; Dr. O. And we hope you will agree and a host of senators, congressmen and "What Wonder is This," "Do .Not Mantyka, president of Holy Trinity That we meant no harm to anyone Ukrainian organizations and indivi­ Weep, Rachel," and "Shchedrivka" board of trustees; Anthony Shumeyko By keeping dark the tree. duals. Her efforts finally found fruit ("Carol of the Bells"). Soloists for two and Vera Kobasniuk Shumeyko. after, the Rev. Ivan Dawydowych, of the selections were Petro Hankewych Staten Island's got a beauty, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, assisted of the Dumka Chorus and Zirka Derly- A standout performer Brooklyn's tree is trimmed, you see, in collecting 300 signatures from pa­ rishioners for a letter that was sent to cia, a member of the Andrey Sheptytsky And next January -i truly - r the borough president. Choir of St. George's Ukrainian Catho­ Roma Sosenko was a "gracious We will light up ALL for-ty. lic Church. newcomer" as one of the soloists in In Manhattan, the campaign was The performance, which marked the Jerome Robbins's "The Goldberg Varia­ What's this poem about? Well, it has picked up by the United'. Ukrainian first time in its 30-year history that the tions," presented on January 17 by the to do with Mayor Koch's declaration American Organizations of New York Dumka. Chorus sang in an Orthodox New York City Ballet at the New York that the official Christmas tree in front (the UCCA Branch), and president church, set the ambience for lively State Theatre. This praise was bestowed of New York City Hall would remain Michael Spontak mailed a letter to conversation during the dinner ip the on Miss Sosenko by Jack Anderson of decorated and lit until Tuesday, Ja­ Mayor Koch last December 4, pointing church hall immediately afterwards. The New York Times in his review of nuary 19 (the 12th day of Christmas by out that Ukrainians and other members Over 200 parishioners and guests en­ January 18. In my view, Miss Sosenko the Julian calendar) and the Parks and of the Eastern Church - Bulgarians, joyed a turkey dinner, prepared by was a standout performer in this monu­ Recreation Department's resolve to Serbs, Slovaks, Russians and Egyptians ladies of the parish, and appropriately mental Bach ballet, which demands follow suit with the Christmas trees of the Coptic faith - observe Christmas opened by the Dumka Chorus with the precision and factual clarity of steps. which stood at 39 locations throughout in accordance with the Julian calendar. hearty singing of "Dobriy vechir, tobi,, Miss Sosenko, graceful, light as a the five boroughs. pane hospodariu." feather, moved with assurance and Although Mayor Koch and the Parks (Continued on page 15) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 No. 4

Preview of events The Ukrainian Museum schedules Sunday, January 24 to 19th Centuries" at the Ukrainian folk art workshops and courses Academy of Arts and Sciences, 206 SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N J.: St. E. 100th St., at 2 p.m. NEW YORK - The Ukrainian different types of woods suitable for Andrew's Brotherhood, the Holy Museum has become a center known carving. Final projects will include Protectress Sisterhood, the Ukrai­ Sunday, January 51 , for introducing the public to the rich crosses, album covers or elaborate nian Orthodox League and ODUM Ukrainian culture and at the same line rules. branches are sponsoring a concert in NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Music time gaining recognition and respect The course will be supervised by commemoration of Ukraine's inde­ institute will hold a concert at 2:30 in museum circles. The education Mr. Czereszniowskyj and taught by pendence proclamation and the p.m. at the St. George School audi­ department has contributed in his former student, Ivan Symczyk. Battle of Kruty at 12:30 p.m. at St. torium, 215 E. Sixth St., The concert furthering crafts by scheduling Embroidery has a long history in Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cen­ performers include students of the courses and workshops in popular Ukrainian culture, and it has deve­ ter. Liturgical services will also be music institute, the Lidia Krushel- Ukrainian folk arts. loped into a sophisticated art. Wo­ held today at St. Andrew's Memorial nytsky Drama Studio,.the Young This year Trie Ukrainian Museum's men have embroidered on textiles Church. Verkhovyntsi dance ensemble; the spring calendar of events will include intended for secular, special occa­ Svitlychkalof Branch 83 of the embroidery and woodcarving courses sions as well as for daily use. Dowries IRVINGTON, NJ.: A Ukrainian Ukrainian National Women's League during the spring season, as well as of embroidered "rushnyky" (ritual Independence Day concert will be of America. Following the concert, popular one-day sessions of pysanka- cloths), pillows and tablecloth- held at the Ukrainian National art students of Prof. Lubomyr Ukrainian Easter egg decorating ` runners were started by girls in their Home, 140 Prospect Ave., at 4 p.m. Kuzma will exhibit their Works. workshops. :- youth. The dowries of embroidered The concert is sponsored by the Mychajlo Czereszniowskyj, a well- textiles testified to the skills of the UCCA branch. It will include per­ Saturday, February 13 known sculptor, is working with the brides. formances by the local Catholic museum's educational department. The wealth in Ukrainian em­ church choir, local Orthodox Church He has, as. many before him, de­ broidery lies not only in the. highly choirs, the Ukrainian Music Institute NEW YORK: The Dumka Chorus will hold its annual "Vechornytsi"at veloped a style of low-relief wood- developed techniques, but also in the and area students. Keynote speaker carving, particularly his own, based variety of motifs and color schemes will be George Nesterczuk. the Ukrainian National Home, 142 Second Ave.', at 9 p.m. Tickets are on the most traditional elements produced within the many regions of NEW YORK: Prof. Mark Raeff of SIO, and they may be purchased at from the Ukrainian Carpathian Ukraine. Columbia University will speak on the Arka, EkO and Surma shops. Mountains. Lubow Wolynetz, an expert em­ "Ukrainian-Russian Encounters in Music will be provided by the Cher- To continue the traditional ele­ broiderer, has planned a course that the Realm of Political Culture, 17th vona Kalyna orchestra. ments of Ukrainian woodcarving, allows participants to explore the швтштаттвшшштяттшшшшттшвтт The Ukrainian Museum has applied various aspects of traditional Ukrai­ and received funding in part from the nian embroidery. Beginners through New York State Council on the Arts advanced students will complete Schreyer becomes honorary patron to develop a course under the super­ samplers involving stitches of their vision of a master Ukrainian wood- particular levels. Examples of stitches of bilingual education foundation carver. include .the basic cross stitch, "hlad" Mr. Czereszniowskyj himself has (satin stitch), cutwork and drawn- WINNIPEG - Edward Schreyer, culturalism Directorate and by the practiced this art from early child­ work. Embroidery patterns adapt­ governor-general of Canada, has ac­ province's Department of Cultural hood and today, in his 70s, is pro­ able to various textiles will be made cepted an invitation to become an Affairs and Historical Resources. This ducing the first traditional works. An available as well. honorary patron of the recently incor­ three-year funding term was intended to eight-session course will introduce Other topics will include the his­ porated Osvita Foundation. provide MPUE with an opportunity to the student to the wonderful world of tory and aesthetics of Ukrainian Appointed together with the gover­ stabilize its own activities and to deve­ woodcarving. The tools Mr. Czeresz­ embroidery, supplies available to the nor-general are Pearl McGonigal, lop an independent source of funding. niowskyj developed to achieve the embroiderer and the selection of lieutenant-governor of Manitoba; Arch­ MPUE expends substantial funds in many intricate ornamental designs appropriate threads, fabrics and bishop Maxim Hermaniuk, metropoli­ order to promote Ukrainian language particular to his style were produced motifs. Final projects may include tan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of education in Manitoba. In addition to by The Ukrainian^ Museum espe­ larger doilies, blouses and pillows. Canada; and Metropolitan Andrey, maintaining a full-time office and cially for this course. Students will head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church employing a full-time executive direc­ learn carving from the basic line to For information on the courses of Canada. tor, MPUE conducts an annual recruit­ the more intricate star and leaf call The Ukrainian Museum at (212) The Osvita Foundation was formed ment campaign to increase the number patterns. They will also learn the 228-0110. in November by Manitoba Parents for of students and schools involved in the Ukrainian Education. MPUEwas bilingual program. At the beginning of founded in June 1980 to coordinate the 1981, over 60,000 pamphlets were development of the English-Ukrainian delivered to selected areas in Manitoba, Re: revision.,. Churches or rites, will belong, and bilingual program in Manitoba's public newspaper and radio advertising was similar inter-ritual questions. schools. purchased,and work commenced on the (Continued from page 6) The foundation was created in order production of a promotional film about While it is not known when the future to provide MPUE with a permanent the bilingual program. MPUE's total drew Sapelak of Argentina; Msgrs. CICO will be finished and then promul­ and firm financial base to support its annual expenditures are approximately Elias El-Hayek of the Maronite Church; gated as the new law, the task of writing activities promoting the teaching of 550,000. Walter Paska, rector of St. Josaphat`s a commentary or explanation of the Ukrainian in Manitoba. From the time The board of trustees of the Osvita Seminary in Washington; Robert Se- future code can and should be started of its inception until the end of March Foundation has designated 5500,000 as netsky, vicar judicial of Passaic; the now. The CICO will be promul­ 1983, MPUE is being funded by grants the fund-raising goal for the next three Very Revs. Roman Danvlak, chancel­ gated in Latin, employed in law for from the federal government's Multi- years. lor of Toronto; Sophronius Mudryj. close to 3,000 years since the ancient OSBM, rector of the Papal Seminary of Romans, and which has to be studied by St. Josaphat in Rome; Bernard Siegle lawyers all over the world. Inasmuch as Student hromada news TOR, vicar judicial of Pittsburgh. The the knowledge of Latin is now diminish­ executive vice president of the commis­ ing even among Catholic priests, it is TUSM reports on winter events sion is Bishop Myroslav Marusynof the necessary to translate the code into Ukrainian Church, ordaining prelate of English. The Eastern Catholic bishops NEW YORK - The Ukrainian stu­ included a traditional "yalynka,"a the Byzantine rite in Rome. of the United States have therefore dent organization TUSM held various bonfire, ice skating, motorized tobog­ appointed at their meeting held in activities during the holiday season, ganing and a New Year's dance. The codification progress Washington, on November 12, 1981, including seminars, caroling and obser­ a On January 12, the Day of Soli­ Archimandrite Victor J. Pospishil of the vances of the Day of Solidarity with darity with Ukrainian Political Pri­ Sixty percent of,fhe planned 1,523 Ukrainian Archdiocese of Philadelphia Ukrainian Political Prisoners. soners, TUSM students distributed j canons of the future CICO, which are as director of code translation and о On December 24, some 40 students leaflets concerning the current situation the initials of the Latin name of the commentary, instructing him to or­ sang Ukrainian Christmas carols on the in Ukraine. The day's activities also future Code of Eastern Catholic Canon ganize, competent canonists in this steps of New York's famous St. Pa­ included a candlelight vigil and the Law, have been sent to the Eastern undertaking. . . trick^ Cathedral of Fifth Avenue. The burning of a Soviet flag in front of the bishops for their comments. The rest group also distributed brochures on Soviet Mission to the United Nations. also has been published by the Com­ Msgr. Pospishil has called the first Ukrainian Christmas traditions and the Thirty students took part in the protest. mission in Nuntia, of which there and inaugural meeting of Eastern current plight of Ukraine, and organi­ appeared 12 volumes, in a provisional canonists for January 20-21: They will zers say that TUSM plans to make the In the near future, the New York form and can be studied by canonists. assemble at the gracious invitation of event an annual one. branch of TUSM will take part in a The commission is now engaged in Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk, Ukrai­ " On December 26-31, TUSM held its national meeting of all TUSM chapters coordinating the work of the com­ nian archbishop of Philadelphia, at St. annual seminars at the SUM-A resort in to coordinate upcoming weeklong mission of the future Latin rite code Josaphat`s Seminary in Washington. upstate New York. About 50 students actions in defense of Ukrainian political with those parts of the CICO that The work of the American canonists from across the country took part in the prisoner Yuriy Shukhevych, which are legislate on matters common to all will require several years. It will be forums, which dealt with, past and scheduled to take place, in March, the Churches, such as to which Church the , cenjere.4;at- St. Basil's Seminary in current Ukrainian issues. Activities month of the dissident's birth. child of parents who are of different Stamford, Conn. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 11

Valentyn Moroz ties knot University of Manitoba in January 1981. It is the only institution in Canada TORONTO - Valentyn Moroz, 45, Notes on people offering a program leading to a the Ukrainian dissident who spent 14 bachelor of arts degree with a major/mi­ years in Soviet concentration camps, nor in Ukrainian Canadian heritage married a 19-year-old Ukrainian wo­ Professor translates plays To direct Ukrainian studies studies. The center offers 17 courses in man from Nottingham, England, on this interdisciplinary program in the November 14, 1981, the Toronto Sun BELOIT, Wise. - Nicholas M. fields of language, literature, history, reported. Paiey, professor of modern languages geography, political science, religion Mr. Moroz, who now lives in Toron­ and literatures at Beloit College, re­ and fine arts. In addition to the acade­ to, divorced his first wife following his cently translated three Spanish plays mic program, which is its main under­ release from the "gulag archipelago" in into Ukrainian. taking, the center assists and promotes 1979. Although his first wife, Raisa, Soon to appear in print are Mr. research in Ukrainian Canadian studies fought for his release from the camp, Paley's translations of Alejandro Ca- and serves as a resource center for Mr. Moroz said that the years of sona's "La dama del alba" ("Lady of the persons in the community who are imprisonment caused too many strains Dawn"), Antonio Buero Vallejo's "His- interested in preserving the Ukrainian on the marriage and "we became stran­ torio de una escalera" ("Story of a heritage in Canada. gers." Stairway"), Alfonso Sastre's "Escuadra After the wedding, held in a hacia la muerte" ("Squadron against Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Mr. Death"). Kohut promoted by bank Moroz had said that he would rather Prof. Paley has also written two "honeymoon in Ukraine, but that is scholarly books in Spanish:"Tesis impossible now." Instead, the couple Professionales," ("On Professional planned a December honeymoon in the Dissertations"), 1969 and "Dos novelas Bahamas, the Sun reported. de la tierra," ("Two Novels Dealing with Mr. Moroz plans to make Toronto Land Problems"), 1972 which were home for himself and his new bride, published by the Mexican University Vera. He also said he has applied for Press. Dr. Natalia Aponiuk landed immigrant status. His credits also include Ukrainian He said his freedom was "a very translations of renowned Spanish works WINNIPEG - The University of strange psychological experience, like by such authors as Pedor A. de Alarcon, Manitoba has appointed Dr. Natalia moving from one planet to another. and Don Manuel Tamayo у Baus,and Aponiuk, currently assistant professor Prison taught me only a person himself collections of short stories by both of Slavic studies, the first director of the can help himself." Spanish and Latin American authors. Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at St. Andrew's College. Dr. Aponiuk assumed her new post Iryna Twerdochlib exhibits art works in Ontario on January 1 for a term of four and one- HAMILTON, Ont. - Iryna Twer­ and overshadowed by the red star of the half years. The directorship is a part- dochlib, a Canadian artist, exhibited Kremlin. "Vinnytsia," another dra­ time position. Dr. Aponiuk will conti­ her paintings at St. Volodymyr Church matic work, shows the massacred men nue to teach, with a reduced teaching here in early in December. and women crying out for vengeance load, in the department of Slavic The exhibit, organized by the Com­ underneath apple trees blossoming over studies. mittee of Ukrainian Canadians, in­ their mass grave. Dr. Aponiuk received a bachelor of cluded paintings of various Ukrainian Ms. Twerdochlib was born in Vyn- arts (honors) degree from the Univer­ churches and thematic works on the nyky, western Ukraine, and studied at sity of Saskatchewan in 1962, a Stephen Kohut Russification of Ukraine. the State Institute of Plastic Arts in Lviv master of arts degree from the Univer­ : щ In a painting titled"Ukrairie Today," and at the Institute of Technology in sity Of Toronto in' 1963, 'and'a doctor HAMTRAM(X МїсИ.'– Stephen Ms. Twerdochlib incorporates 31 рог– Rochester, N.Y. In addition to her of philosophy degree from the Univer­ Kohut, of Warren, Mich., was recently taits of Ukrainian dissidents, among painting, the artist has experimented sity of Toronto in 1974. promoted to vice president by the Bank them Vasyl Stus and Lev Lukianenko. with ceramics, enamels and batik. She is She was an exchange student at of Commerce of Hamtramck, Mich. These portraits are presented on a map also an authority on the Ukrainian art Moscow State University in 1965-66 The announcement was made by of Ukraine encircled with barbed wire form of "vybiyky." and also spent a year at Harvard doing Carl R. Weinert, president, following research on her doctoral dissertation. the December meeting of the bank's She was a teaching fellow at the Univer­ board of directors. sity of Toronto and taught at the Mr. Kohut has been employed by the University of Saskatchewan, Reed bank since 1970 and currently heads the College, and at the University of Al­ bank's marketing department. His berta prior to assuming her present banking career began in 1965 at the position at the University of Manitoba Michigan National Bank, where he in 1977. served as regional sales manager for Dr. Aponiuk has received numerous Bank Americard. Mr. Kohut`s first awards and grants, the most recent of duties at Bank of Commerce involved which include a University of Manitoba the expansion of the bank's credit card Research Grant, the Finnish Ministry services. Mr. Kohut was instrumental in of Education Research Fellowship and developing the formal business develop­ a Canadian Plains Research Travel ment program at the bank and became Award. She was twice selected by the an officer of the bank in December Social Sciences and Humanities Re­ 1972. search Council for the academic ex­ Mr. Kohut was born in Europe, but change program with the USSR. She his family moved to the United States in has presented papers at a number of 1949. After settling in the Detroit area conferences and has published articles in 1951, he attended Hamtramck`s in such journals as the University of Immaculate Conception School and Toronto Quarterly and Canadian Eth­ Detroit's Pershing High School. nic Studies. Following his graduation, he attended At the University of Manitoba, Dr. classes at the Detroit Institute of Aponiuk has served on a number of Technology and the American Institute committees and has chaired the Soviet of Banking. He has been active in and East European Studies Committee Junior Achievement, is a past president since 1979. She is president of the and active member of the Ukrainian Conference on Ukrainian Studies and Sport Club, a director and past presi­ has been a member of,the executive of dent of the Hamtramck Chamber of the Canadian Association of Slavists Commerce and currently serves as a for the last two years. She is on the director of the Ukrainian Cultural executive of the Ukrainian Academy of Center in Warren. Arts and Sciences in Canada, chair­ Mr. Kohut and his wife Roma are person of the Senior High Ukrainian members of the Ukrainian National Curriculum Committee (Manitoba De­ Association, reside in Warren and have partment of Education), and a member one daughter and one son. of the board of directors of the Ukrai­ The Bank of Commerce, established nian Cultural and Educational Centre, in 1924now has nine offices in Wayne, of which she was vice-president in 1980- Macomb and Oakland counties. As of 81. December 31, 1981, reported assets The Centre for Ukrainian Canadian were more than S284 million. Bank of Studies was established with the affilia­ Commerce ranks 24th in size among the "УІвпуМі" by Iryna Twerdochlib: tion of St. Andrew's College and the more than 370 banks in Michigan. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 NQ.4 400 attend Chicago farewell banquet for St. Joseph's founding pastor Pastor named city treasurer Completes medical school CHICAGO - On Sundav. Decem­ nue today he would be the top banana. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Bohdan ber 13, over 400 parishioners of St. But I would want to know him only as Martynec, son of Wolodymyr and Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church in my good friend. Papa Joe." Sophie Martynec of Rochester, N.Y., Chicago bid a tearful farewell to the The children of the Project Christian successfully completed his studies in the Very Rev. Canon Joseph Shary, their Growth Classes and the "Ridna Sh- spring of 1981, receiving a medical pastor for over 25 years. Father Shary kola" had brief recitations and beautiful degree. has been assigned as pastor of St. John prayers for the future success of the Dr. Martynec attended St. Josaphat's the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church priest that they grew .to know and love. Ukrainian Catholic School and West in Detroit. Christine Presslak, first communion lrondequoit High School in Rochester. Father Shary offered a solemn divine instructor, read some of the beautiful Completing his secondary schooling, he of thanksgiving at 11 a.m. tributes her children composed as thank- enrolled in the Oswego State College, and asked all the parishioners you cards for Father Shary and then where he majored in chemistry. to participate in singing the Ukrainian presented these cards to the priest: After graduation he attended St. plain chant ("samoyilka"). During his Geprge^s University School of Medicine homily the pastor focused his thoughts St. Joseph's dancers performed a in Grenada, the West Indies. He gra­ on the words of our Lord: "One sows, series of delightful Ukrainian folk duated with honors on May 24, 1981. another reaps." He explained that "the dancers. Then they presented their priest with a beautiful gift of ceramic Dj. Martynec,lives in Brooklyn, work of a priest is to sow the word of Ukrainian dance figurines. - N.Y., where he is-completing his first God among the people so that God year of residency in internal medicine at could be glorified in all things. I was St. Joseph's Choir, under the direc­ Methodist Hospital. privileged to work among you wonder­ tion of Julian Pozniak, sang two beauti­ The Rev. John I. Kulish ful Ukrainian songs on the occasion. Dr. Martynec, his parents, brother ful people of St. Joseph's for over 25 HUDSON, N.Y. - The Rev. John I. and sister are members of UNA Branch years. And now I am called to serve in Nicholas Tychyj, active parishioner Kulish, pastor of St. Michael's Ukrai­ 367. ' `u `'.` another part of Christ's vineyard. My from Immaculate Conception Ukrai­ nian Orthodox Church here, was elected successor here at St. Joseph's will be nian Catholic Church in Palatine, 111., city treasurer in the race held November Msgr. Bilinsky. Give him your heart, made the observation: "Father Shary 3, and assumed his responsibilities in your hands and your talents in the same organized three parishes: St. Joseph's in that post on January I. way you did for me so that God's work Chicago, St. Josaphat's in Hammond, The Republican Party candidate, the could prosper." Ind., and Immaculate Conception in Rev. Kulish won a majority of the votes Palatine, 111. We Ukrainian Catholics of After the divine liturgy committee Chicagoland have much to be grateful and was supported by both the Republi­ members escorted Father Shary to the cans and the independent party, Try- to him for. God grant that we have other church hall. A boutonniere was fastened priests like him." zub, which he helped organize. on his new cassock piped in red over The Rev. Kulish is no stranger to the which the pastor wore his pectoral cross, Before Father Shary spoke, another business world, having worked as head the mark of a canon of the Ukrainian speaker was introduced: a 24-year-old accountant at X-Tile Company in Catholic Church. During the cocktail Ukrainian Catholic gentleman, Thomas Hudson and in the banking business. hour that ensued, he mingled among Kozak. This successful young executive Before entering St. Andrew's Seminary the crowd of parishioners and friends spoke in behalf of the young people of in Winnipeg, he studied business at who came to pay tribute to him during St. Joseph's. Father Shary had baptized Long Island University for two years. what was billed as the "Thank You, him, prepared him for first communion, After being ordained by Archbishop Father Shary, for 25 Years Banquet." taught him catechism, Ukrainian, how Mark, the Rev. Kulish was moved to the to serve as altar boy, and recently parish in Troy, NY., where he con­ Rudolph Presslak, parish trustee and officiated at his nuptial liturgy. Mr. tinued his education in night school. He chairman of the dinner, asked the Kozak`s straightforward, heartfelt was later transferred to Hudson. The people to be seated as Virginia Elnen remarks touched the priest very deeply. Rev. Kulish is married to the former and Paul Bardygula, in radiant Ukrai­ Tears welled in his eyes. Mr. Kozak Ariadna Forosty, daughter of the Rt. nian attire, presented their pastor with a finished his brief remarks saying: "We Rev. Theodore and Anna. bouquet of red roses. thank you, father, for the powerful influence you exerted on our lives. We Walter Bardygula, long-time active will not forget you. Please do not forget parishioner and former chairman of the us. May God bless you."Then, in behalf Gural exhibits marionnettes annual Acres of Fun Festival, offered a of all the parishioners he presented Dr. Bohdan Martynec toast in Ukrainian: "To our pastor of 25 Father Shary with a beautiful plaque in. years, may God grant him a long life gratitude for his devoted work among and many fruitful years in God's vine­ them for 25 years. Featured in art show yard. Mnohaya Lita." The parishioners echoed his sentiments and sang a Father Shary then wiped his eyes and WINDHAM, N.Y. - The Kaatskills rousing Mnohaya Lita. came to the microphone and thanked all Exhibition, an art show at the Albany After the invocation, 24 young ladies the parishioners and friends who had Plaza featuring the work of 40 area of the parish served a tasty family-style come to express gratitude to him. "Your artists and craftspeople, including Ukrainian dinner prepared by the ladies kind words, sentiments and tributes, I Taras Schumylowych of Tannersville, of the parish headed by the Altar and am sure, were directed to Almighty N.Y., was held here in late November Rosary Society president, Mary Turek. God. And I, His priest, was the one and early December. The master of ceremonies, Mr. Press­ through whom these accolades had The exhibit was made possible with lak introduced a most unusual array of passed. I thank you from the bottom of the generous help of many volunteers, guests, all of whom expressed sincere ray heart. It was my privilege to work the New York State Museum, the state gratitude to the priest who touched their among you. The work I began 25 years archives, the Office of General Services lives in one way or another as a priest ago will be carried on by a very fine and with funding in part from the state's over the past 25 years. priest in the person of Msgr. Bilinsky. Council on the Arts and the Greene Stephen Kuropas, a 25-year pari­ Please give him the same support and County legislature. shioner of St. Joseph and noted publi­ help that you gave me. May God bless cist, engineer and Ukrainian patriot, you and please pray for me." Lyktey family featured announced a` unique grading system After the benediction, one of the whereby, he said, "Father Shary in his parishioners noted: "Being together at UTICA, N.Y. - The Lyktey family pastoral work over the past 25 years this thank-ybu dinner for Father Shary Sonya Gural was featured on the December 15 front deserves straight A s from all of us." helped us to recapture the old family page of this city's major daily paper, Prominent radio and television per­ spirit we came to know and love at St. LAVAL, Que. — Canadian puppe­ The Observer-Dispatch. sonality Bill Hamilton, a long-time Joseph's. Twenty-five years ago, when teer Sonya Gural performed the The article described Ukrainian friend of Father Shary , portrayed a the parish was being established, Father "Vertep," the Ukrainian traditional customs and traditions as observed by behind-the-scenes picture of the priest. Shary said that St. Joseph, the patron of puppet theater, at the cultural center the Lyktey family. It was part of a series "I knew him as a PR man par ex­ our parish, would take care of us as a iiere on December 20. on ethnic Christmas traditions in the cellence. If he were on Michigan Ave­ family. He sure did." The special request performance Mohawk Valley area, which is a com­ closed the artist's three-week exhibit of munity rich in ethnic diversity. the "Art ef the Marionnette" which ran The feature story included an accu­ from December 1 to 20. rate description of some Ukrainian Because of the success of this exhibit, Christmas traditions including the 12- Insure and be sure the director of the Maison Andre courses meal and the decorated Christ­ Benjamin Papineau Institute has sche­ mas tree, and was accompanied by a duled on Easter exhibit of animals and photo of the Lyktey family dressed in JOIN THE UNA "hahilke" puppets in the spring. traditional embroidered shirts. No. 4 THE,UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JANUARY 24. 1982 13 I cularly with regard to such leading Ukrainian Communist Party; T. V. graduates would be awarded certified Ukrainian Communist... themes as Leniniana, historical-revolu­ Levchuk, head of the Ukrainian Cine­ diplomas.on the level of secondary (Continued from pate Z) tionary and party topics, the friendship matographers' Union, called for the specialized education. of peoples of the USSR, and military- creation of an Institute of Cinema and Mr. Shcherbitsky closed the session certain authors have interpreted demo­ . patriotic and international subjects. All with a concluding speech in which he graphic problems in Ukraine. Alluding Television to train new cadres in the of this, according to Mr. Shcherbitsky. film industry and complained of the stressed the usefulness of such meetings, to the high rates of rural migration from requires new books, plays, films and asserting that they "provide an opportu­ the countryside to the urban areas, Mr. poor equipment in the republic's film competitions for the creation of monu­ studios; M. Yu. Stefyuk of the Kiev nity to exchange views, discuss urgent Shcherbitsky argued that the situation ments. Mr. Shcherbitsky himself pro­ problems and outline plans for the was being "dramatized"and that indivi­ Opera and Ballet cited the need for posed that a Library of the Friendship more works in the genre of opera; Ye. F. future." "No doubt," he intoned, "we dual writers seemed not to recognize the of Peoples be established on the basis of learned many interesting things." With decline in the rural labor force as "an Stankovych, deputy head of the Ukrai­ one of Kiev's existing libraries in order nian Composers' Union, said that he regard to those questions that need to be objective and, on the whole, a pro­ to mark the 60th anniversary of the examined by party and state organs, gressive process." He admitted that this supported the idea of creating a chil­ formation of the USSR. Clearly, pro­ dren's musical theater in Kiev and Mr. Shcherbitsky assured the assembled was a complicated issue involving blems would arise that would have to be participants that they would be dealt problems of social and economic and maintained.that it would be quite nice if overcome. In this connection, he drew a Ukraine finally had its own factory with "conscientiously." In terms of the cultural construction, but maintained parallel with existing difficulties in the future, he proposed that the solution of that the gap in "essential discrepancies" for pressing records; the poet Vitaliy Ukrainian economy, specifically with Korotych stated that no artist "can all such problems lay in the direction of between the city and the village had the ongoing problems in the coal and more initiative and business-like con­ been bridged. The implication is clear work to his fullest capacity without metallurgical industries, the third conse­ systematic contacts not only with the tacts between the creative unions and — i.e., writers should avoid searching cutive year of poor harvests and food the responsible party, government, for the roots of rural migration only in life that surrounds him but also.with shortages. Nonetheless, Mr. Shcherbit­ other artists" - in other words, that trade-union, and Komsomol organs on the stagnation of the Ukrainian country­ sky was optimistic: both the republican and local levels. side. Ukrainian writers would perhaps ap­ "We have had difficulties in the past, preciate more trips abroad; I. M. Sedak, The second major area of concern in head of the Ukrainian Architects' The proceedings of the Kiev meeting if one recalls history. But when the party between the party and the intelligentsia Mr. Shcherbitsky`s speech was the role mobilized its forces and mobilized the Union, focused attention on the need of the cultural worker as an ideological for improving the training of young reminds one of a .marketplace where people, those difficulties were over­ goods are exchangee for services. There campaigner. It is significant that in the come. We have the forces, possibilities, architects in the .republic's institutions speech relatively little attention was of higher education; and, finally, A. T. is, of course, nothing new in this and reserves. They have to be utilized to "methodology" of cultural politics in devoted to Ukrainian "bourgeois na­ the utmost." Avdiyevsky, artistic director of the tionalists," "international Zionism," Veriovka Folk Choir, proposed that the the Soviet Union. What is significant, and the like. Rather, the Ukrainian This is true for the cultural intelli­ however, is the increasing evidence of gentsia as well, argued the Ukrainian existing study groups within the re­ Party first secretary concentrated pri­ publican Bandura Choir and the Ve­ the willingness of the party and the marily on the international situation, Communist Party leader: "You un­ cultural elites in Ukraine to come to doubtedly have ypur own 'reserves' as riovka Folk Choir be transformed into singling out the arms race, the decision affiliates of a school "f music whose some sort of understanding - each for of the United States to proceed with well." his own purposes. production of the neutron weapon, and Mr. Shcherbitsky balanced his pre­ President Ronald Reagan's sentation by emphasizing at the very Ontario legislator... He added that he believed the attacks remarks about the possiblity beginning that the Central Committee against him stem in part from a publica­ of a limited nuclear war in of the Ukrainian Party views "the (Continued from page 1) tion he prepared and delivered to the overall situation of the artistic process Europe. Referring to "today's troubled True adherents of fascism, the league U.N. General Assembly in 1978 titled planet," Mr. Shcherbitsky urged his in the republic positively and has great "A Resolution Concerning the De­ respect for' the work of the creative members are trying to tram `worthy listeners "to activate the propaganda of replacement (sic) for themselves' out of colonization of the Union of Soviet the peace-loving foreign policy course intelligentsia." According to Mr. Sh­ Socialist Republics." cherbitsky: Ukrainian Canadians. And Yuri of our party and state," noting that Mr. Shymko grew up a"fhong such people." In his parliamentary address, Mr. Brezhnev's recent interview in Der "We have every reason for stating Because 20,000 copies of News from Shymko also referred to the U.S: State Spiegel could serve as a good guide in that the writers, artists, workers in the Ukraine are available in southern Department's 1981 document describ­ such matters. Ukrainian dramaturgists theater and cinema, and musicians in Ontario, particularly in large city ing the Soviet Union's "active mea­ were criticized for not devoting enough our republic stand solidly on the posi­ libraries and on college campuses, and sures" in spreading disinformation. attention to international themes in tions of Socialist Realism and on the may be read by his constituents, Mr. Leninist principles of classmindedness In response to Mr. Shymko's request their work. Mr. Shcherbitsky men­ Shymko said that he had no recourse for assistance, Attorney General Roy tioned, for example, that at a recent and `narodnost' that have been verified but to raise the issue in Parliament and by life." McMurty called the issue "legitimate review of theatrical productions in Kiev contact the attorney general, the office and important," promising to meet with incorporating international issues not As evidence of the party's concern of Premier Bill Davis and the minister Mr. Shymko and to take the issue up one contemporary Ukrainian author for Ukrainian cultural development, of culture and recreation. with "appropriate federal authorities." was represented. Nor was the situation Mr. Shcherbitsky listed the numerous any better in "the development of the theaters, musical ensembles, dance contemporary political song." groups, choirs and the like that have cashed in, said Mrs.Diachuk. been formed during the past five years. Youngs/own Events in Poland during the past 16 Inflation has also had an impact On He also noted that decisions had been (Continued from page 5) the value of insurance and the type of months also seem to have found their taken to establish a Republican Literary way into Mr. Shcherbitsky`s speech, In addition, Mrs. Diachuk said that insurance being purchased, the supreme Museum and a Museum of the History merger talks between the UNA and the treasurer said. In ,light of this, she albeit only by implication. The Ukrai­ of Kiev. "A sensible proposal and nian Communist Party leader said Ukrainian Fraternal Association are continued, there is a great need for well- initiative," he assured his listeners, continuing, with the aim of drafting a trained insurance salesmen, and new analysis had shown that Western pro­ "always has found and will continue to paganda is now in the process of being concrete proposal which may be pre­ insurance policies to suit the needs of find support." Indeed, he recalled how sented at the the UNA Regular Conven­ young, potential UNA members. revised, with increasingly greater atten­ on one occasion it was suggested that tion being devoted to the working-class tion to be held in Rochester in May. In his report, Mr. Szmagala discussed more attention be devoted to the musical his efforts in the planning of senior audience. At the same time, neither the training of children: Noting that expenses of holding the intelligentsia nor youth are being for­ convention are expected to be high, and citizens' condominiums at the UNA gotten. The ideological enemy, he said, "Is this a good proposal? Absolutely. that, determining the exact number of resort, Soyuzivka. An initial plan, is "thoroughly, one might say micro­ When it was being examined the task delegates at this time is difficult, Mrs. drawn up by the firm of John Voinovich scopically, analyzing Soviet publica­ was brought forth on a larger scale — Diachuk said that attempts should be and Co., forsees 128 condominium tions, the press, radio broadcasts, and concerning the musical training of the made to limit its duration in an effort to apartments of one to three bedrooms. especially critical statements" for pur­ entire younger generation and all of our hold down the cost. poses of conducting anti-Soviet propa­ youth," he said. For the past two years, Mrs.Diachuk Since the beginning of 1981, the ganda. Mr. Shcherbitsky declared that The party's willingness to court the went on, the UNA has been working on supreme advisor continued, Svoboda such circumstances require a careful intelligentsia, which has been apparent a new system of paying dividends, a has been running a poll to determine look at what has already been accom­ for several years and was clearly evident plan that was scheduled to be completed how many families would be interested in plished and what needs to be done in in Mr. Sh,cherbitsky's presentation, by the end of 1981. the proposed condominiums,, and the order to successfully conduct the ideor In concluding her remarks, Mrs. desired size of the dwelling. . `-v; logical struggle. "Our literature and could hardly have been lost on the participants in the meeting on Novem­ Diachuk discussed certain demographic After the supreme officers' reports, a art," he maintained, "is a sharp offen­ trends which will have an important discussion insued on a variety of UNA sive weapon. Thus, the responsibility of ber 4, 1981. One speaker after another got up to plead the case of his or her impact on the UNA's future. She noted matters. Among the topics discussed the artist is growing as never before." that the traditional definition of the special-interest group. Mr. Zahrebelny were mobilizing young people for average nuclear family — a working organizing efforts, relations between In the concluding part of his address, suggested to the party leadership that father, mother and two children - Mr. Shcherbitsky concentrated on "the the upcoming 1,500th anniversary of the Supreme Executive Committee and today only applies to 7 percent of local branches and district committees organization of the creative process." Kiev would be a fine occasion for American families. Many more women Currently, the Ukrainian creative transforming the literary almanac Kyiv and the yearly seniors' meeting at are now working,.and insurance .com­ Soyuzivka. unions — writers, artists, composers, into a regular periodical; O. P. Sko- panies should be sensitive to the chang­ architects and cinematographers - blykov, head of the Kiev organization Following adjournment of the meet­ ing insurance needs of young families, ing, informal discussion continued comprise 6,500 individuals, one-third of of the Ukrainian Artists' Union, re­ emphasizing policies that can easily be whom are party members. It is the minded the participants that Mr. Scher- during a repast. latter, "the organizers of the creative bitsky had spoken of the need to process," who bear the greatest responsi­ establish cultural-artistic centers in bility for seeing that the cultural intelli­ every raion center in the republic in his gentsia is harnessed to"its tasks, parti­ report to the 26th Congress of the THE UKRAINIAN.WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24,1982 No. 4

deceased in Paris, but - „ no into her subject matter. There are Atmosphere..: copying. Ms. Salewycz goes off in her universal feelings which flow out of her (Continued from page 7) own direction which is fresh and in­ drawings. Ms. Wolosiansky seems to EDUCATIONAL viting. have been inspired by the same bio- one retreat, regretting almost for having Although abstraction is Ms. Sale­ morphic entities which were so close to LOANS attempted a journey into recesses of the wycz's forte, her more recent works Arp and Masson, the famous surrealists. A fraternal service mind or sensitivity. Why should the diverge from abstract painting in pure She seems to be intrigued by cells, by artist disorient her viewer and weaken color, as she introduces the figurative internal biological structures, thin to UNA members her art by such after-decisions? Why element. Of the two figurative works membranes, and pulsating, squirming destroy the mystery and excitement of a put on display, "Ethnic Idealism" and living bodies. sheer color experience by the affected "Figures," the latter is more provoca­ placement of textural items for the sake tive to observe in that the artist has still The most successful along these lines of texture? Perhaps a. certain lack of not departed from what she has mastered are two large drawings on white paper, confidence forces her to overwork her well, i.e., color. In this painting, color dated 1975 (misdated in the labels). paintings beyond the point of comple­ serves as the main compositional ele­ Each of these represents a painstaking, tion. Superfluous afterstrokes Of black, ment, outlining the space, and still not methodological approach. Each draw­ grey paint, or even the addition of strips departing completely from abstraction. ing is well-conceived and composed, of wood painted to the surface of the "Ethnic Idealism," on the other hand, is and each stands powerfully on its own, canvas, create disturbing sections in the an artistic compromise. This can be as do abstract works when, as works in painting, and, ultimately, spoil the classified as a sentimental work, per­ their own right, they remind the viewer artistic unity in which theme and haps to appease the tastes of the buying of experiences which are close to him. technique fuse harmoniously. While it is public. understood that an artist must experi­ It is surprising that Ms. Wolosiansky While Ms. Salewycz excels in ab­ ment, such experimentation shpuld created such obtuse and strange titles stract painting, her colleague, lryna demonstrate a conviction, one which is such as "Lungs" or "Cells," for neither Wolosiansky is most adept at a difficult lacking here. of these works are reminiscent of either medium - abstract drawing. Ms. subject. "Lungs," for example, has The affected moments in Ms. Wolosiansky's technique coincides with elements of an Oriental landscape or the Salewycz's work comes about when she the tensile mood which she wishes to crevices of a grassy knoll. dabbles in collage effects as has been create. Her works evoke an introspec­ done beginning with the early years of tive, internalized, and, in many in­ -. Titles and theme aside, however, this century. The use of cdllage for the stances, a surrealist atmosphere: a there is no denying that her technique is sake of collage mars the inherent talent brooding environment.generated by supert). The small, short strokes with The loan wilt bear a which Ms. Salewycz displays all along. dark colors. Repetitive, amoeba-like colored pencil are extremely fine, and modest interest rate Being inspired by the experiments of shapes also evoke an aura related to well-arranged. There is variety in,,the of ЗУо a year only on others is the prerogative of the artist. surrealist-inspired works. strokes which gives the work a very high Nonetheless, originality ought not be loans made. Interest Ms. Wolosiansky's images are odd; degree of success. sacrificed. For example, there is a her titles more so. In some works, will accumulate "Simultanist" quality in her works redundancy in the motifs reveals the Other works, different in character, during the period of reminiscent of another Ukrainian wo­ mesmerized abandon with which she such as "Black Scratch," where dark, schooling and be paid man artist, Sonia Delaunay, recently works and the artist's total immersion indecripherable forms are repeated in during repayment the work, are less thrilling, and' even prove to be somewhat tedious. Al­ period. though similarly suggestive, these works YOUR FAMILY... are not as provocative as the two larger As of November 1, children up drawings. In the latter, the subterfugian 4o AYi years of age who enroll for mood produced by the drawings is most 515,000 of insurance will be awesome. guaranteed a 55,000 educa­ tional loan. Should they enroll If one were to judge Ms. Wolosian­ for 525,000 of insurance, they sky's development on the basis of the will be guaranteed a loan of drawings contributed to the show, one 57,500. would have to admit that her earlier works were more pedantic, and, in this, Juvenile members ages 5 to 10 more sophisticated, free and un­ enrolled for 515,000 of NEW hampered. The pencil technique aided insurance will be guaranteed a considerably in emphasizing this. Later, 54,000 Educational Loan. If when working with charcoal arid even enrolled for 525,00 of protec­ with soil (e.g., "Human"), the fine tion, they will be guaranteed a technique is obscured. An impressive loan of 56,000. detailed drawing is superseded by a The protection herein referred mundane overall design. Obviously, the to must be under UNA P-20 large-scale works, by their sheer magni­ Certificate. tude, were difficult to deal with, espe­ A formal notice that loan is cially in terms of composition, but the guaranteed will be sent with artist handles the size deftly. The Certificate of Protection when it smaller works, on the other hand, aside is issued after November 1, frbm the perplexing "Humans," tend to 1980. bore the viewer'in their monotony an'! Certificate must remain in good redundancy of shapes, strokes and standing with all assessments patterning. and dues paid until Educational Loan is granted and throughout This exhibition has provided us the repayment period. opportunity to learn more about the Certificate must be assigned to activities ef four highly gifted Ukrai­ UNA during the period of the nian women artists. It is also obvious loan and its repayment Either that, Oksana Cehelsky, Anya Farion, parents or guardian must gua­ Ulana Salewycz and lryna Wolosian­ rantee repayment of loan if sky, are still in an evolutionary phase in juvenile is under age 21 when their art, working their way toward loan is granted. It was important to us then - bright artistic futures. We wish them Educational Loans will be made well and it is hoped that there wijl be over a four-year period only for It's important to us TODAY. more exhibitions of this kind in the tuition to the college or institu­ join the Ukrainian National Association, and become a member of the largest coming months and years. tion of higher learning. Ukrainian family in the free world. Repayment of loan begins three months following graduation of Become eligible for u loans " scholarships " financial protection BRANCH MEETING applicant and must be fully Write for information today to: repaid over a maximum of UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SHARON. Pa. 20 equal quarterly install­ ments. 30 Montgomery Street, 3rd Fl., Jersey City, N J. 07302 SUNDAY. JANUARY 24, 1982 MEETING NOTICE Should period of education for Yearly meeting and election of officers which loan was secured be Branch 386, Ukrainian National Association, reduced or terminated the to be held Sunday, January 24, 1982 at 12 repayment period will begin o'clock noon in St. John's Ukrainian Church immediately. Meeting Room. Clark Street. Sharon Pa. Katharine Joho, Secretary 30 Hazcn Rd., Sharpsville, Pa. 16150 No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 15 ' I the spotlight in the presentation of the Panorama.. 17th century "Vertep," or traveling (Continued from pafe 9) Christmas, play at the Ukrainian Insti­ tute of America on December 20. A-caroling we go Ancient Ukrainian carols, including the 1670 version of "Came Three Kings," " The Dumka Chorus gave a perfor­ were sung by a chorus consisting of mances of its concert of carols at St. sopranos Laryssa Magun-Huryn and George's Ukrainian Catholic Church on Zirka Derlycia; mezzo-sopranos Ju­ January 17. The chorus is performing liana Osinchuk, Kalyna Cholhan and this weekend at St. Michael's Ukrainian Marta Iwanczyszyn; tenors Ed Evanko, Orthodox Center in Yardville, N.J. Volodymyr Slyz and Orest Pobihushka; (January 23), and will sing in New and basses Stefan Szkafarowsky and Andriy Dobriansky. York's Ukrainian Independence Day program at Washington Irving High Messrs. Evanko, Slyz and Dobriansky School this afternoon. and Stephanie Nazarkewycz read the " The choir of Holy Trinity Ukrai­ dialogue as Mr. Dobriansky and Ms. nian Orthodox Church in Manhattan Nazarkewycz operated the puppets.` presented a 45-minute program of The afternoon's program, the first in carols following the divine liturgy on this season's Ukrainian Composers January 17. Directed by Valii Chyi- Series, included a repeat performance Nalywajko at their customary station in of Lysenko's one-act play "Nocturne." the choir loft, the choristers sang with fine spirit" and discipline. They per­ " A group of 40 students from the formed Bortniansky's "The Lord Is Ukrainian Students Association of M. With Us" and "At Thy Birth, О Lord Michnowsky in New York sang Ukrai­ Jesus," Leontovych's "Shchedryk," nian Christmas carols on the Fifth ^n i,.."-- Uda Sochynsky Avenue steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral A scene from the "Vertep" presented at the Ukrainian Institute of America on Strokina's "Glory to God in the High­ December 20. est," Maciuk's "Do Not Weep, Rachel" on December 24. Holding a star on a pole and a banner that read "Christmas and Ukrainian versions of "Silenf Night" affairs representative for the branch, Christmas traditions. The group was and "O Holy Night." Soloists were is Banned in Ukraine," the carolers distributed brochures to passers-by in which is headed by John Lesbchuk, said invited to sing in the parish house for Vasyl Yakimchuk, soprano Kateryna that the brochure included a map of church administrators after the outdoor Nalywajko and mezzo-soprano Chris­ an effort, to inform the public of U- kraine's plight. Michael Halatyn, public Ukraine and a synopsis of Ukrainian caroling ended. tina Karpevych. For the occasion, the 20-voice choir was augmented by several tenors from St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ozone Park. The TUNE IN TO Rev. Serfaiy Kindzeriavvy, filling in that The Other Side NATIVE MELODY day for Holy Trinity's hospitalized pastor, the Very Rev. Artemy Selepyna, A UKRAINIAN RADIO PROGRAM spoke about the meaning of carols and Of ON WP0W - 1330 AM noted that many Ukrainian carols are based on the scriptures. FROM NEW YORK - '" Some 20 puppets created by І!опа EVERY SUNDAY AT 5:30 P.M. Sochyosky-Shyprykewycfa and a creche made by Stephanie Dobriansky took Holocaust THE 'SILENT' VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM : COUNTLESS MILUOKS 'ENEMIES HELP WANTED OFTHEPH?LE'LIQUIDATED... HISTORICAL EVIDENCE REAL ESTATE SALES IN WORDS AND PICTURES DALTIC STATES - POLAND - UKRAINE Seeking agressive men and women. January 19. 1982 Full or part time. Flexible hours. 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