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Vol. LXIII No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 75 cents Ukrainian community reacts Parliament approves draft law to Canadian deniai of redress on powers of government bodies by Christopher Guly survivor of the Canadian camps. KYYIV — The Ukrainian Parliament to form a Cabinet of Ministers without Mr. Gregorovich said he thinks that if on December 28, 1994, passed the draft the approval of the Parliament, to dis­ OTTAWA - Is redress a way to the Canadian government wants to play of a bill on the division of government band the Parliament if the legislature dis­ rewrite history? One Canadian historian fair now, it should ask for the $360 mil­ powers, following a heated debate that agrees twice with a governmental plan of thinks so. lion compensation package given to the lasted two days. action, and the right to veto legislation Stella Hryniuk, a Ukrainian Canadian Japanese Canadian community. "It's On the last day of their plenary session, passed by the Parliament. history professor at the University of either equal justice for all or none." the deputies passed the "Law on State The draft law has now gone back to a Manitoba in Winnipeg, says the Canadian Power and Local Self-Government" by a special committee that will review it and government was right to deny compensa­ That's like comparing apples and oranges, suggested Dr. Hryniuk. She said vote of 220-109, with 18 abstentions. The present it again to the Parliament in early tion for the internment of as many as 6,000 law delineates the responsibilities of the January for final approval. Ukrainian Canadians during the first world the Japanese Canadian settlement was justifiable. "They were Canadian citi­ executive, legislative and judicial branches In order to pass in the first reading, war. Some 80,000 Ukrainian Canadians of government, as well as local govern­ the bill needed a simple majority. were also declared enemy aliens. zens, while, in my research I maybe found two Ukrainian Canadians who ment. However, in order for the bill to take "I don' think any injustice should be were Canadian citizens." As envisioned by President Leonid effect as law, it must pass by a two-thirds forgotten," Dr. Hryniuk explained. "But I There were about 170,000 Ukrainians Kuchma and presented on December 2, majority plus one, or 301 votes, since it don't believe in rewriting history. The 1994, the measure gives the president deals with a constitutional issue. [Canadian] government was acting in (Continued on page 3) much more power, such as the authority The special committee charged with accordance with the thinking of the day. I reviewing the legislation is composed of don't think we have that kind of wisdom one representative from each of the where a government today can impose its Parliament's nine factions: Vasyl morals on a previous government." CHRIST IS BORN Durdynets (Center), Roman Bezsmertny However, Ihor Bardyn, chairperson of (Statehood), Valentyn Nedryhaylo the Ukrainian Canadian Congress's (Independents), Serhiy Holovaty (Reforms) (UCC) redress committee, said the Viktor Omelych (Unity), Oleksander Canadian government's action is not only Lavrynovych (Rukh), Vasyl Korneliuk wrong by today's standards, but was (Agrarians), Gennadiy Dolzhenko wrong back then. "[Former Liberal Prime (Communists), and one from the Socialists, Minister] Sir Wilfrid Laurier resigned whose name was unavailable at press time. from [Conservative] Prime Minister The committee will work on various Robert Borden's wartime coalition Union sections of the law. As it now stands, the on September 17, 1917, over the issue of bill provides for a strong executive, Ukrainian internment. He said back then while the Parliament is seen as simply a that some day the government of Canada law-making body. The country is envi­ would have to atone for its decision." sioned as a strong presidential republic, On December 13, 1994, Progressive like the France of Gen. Charles DeGaulle Conservative Sen. Raynell Andreychuk and Francois Mitterand. told tlie Senate that "redressing a historical Urging the Parliament to adopt the law injustice is fundamental to the ability of the in its first reading, Presidential Chief of Ukrainian Canadian community to regain Staff Dmytro Tabachnyk presented a 15- and sustain its sense of identity and moral minute speech on behalf of Mr. Kuchma worth. Only in facing up to this tragedy, by on Wednesday morning, December 28. admitting mistakes, acknowledging hard­ ships and most of all, by educating those who come after us, can we ever hope to remove the threat of this occurring again." Ukraine receives A day later, Canada's secretary of state for muiticulturalism, Sheila Finestone, announced that the Canadian government $500 million loan would not compensate $400 million in redress claims from six Canadian ethnic from World Bank groups, including Ukrainian Canadians. JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The World Instead, Prime Minister Jean Chretien's Bank agreed on December 22, 1994, to government will establish a $24 million loan Ukraine $500 million in support of Canadian Race Relations Foundation in the country's transition to a market econo­ Toronto next spring. my. It is the single largest disbursement of Half of the funding toward that center Western assistance to Ukraine thus far. will come from a 1988 Canadian govern­ The money will be used to stabilize and ment settlement with the Japanese revitalize Ukraine's economy, specifically Canadian community over World War II to cover the cost of essential imports such internment, said John Gregorovich, as natural gas and oil. Ukraine relies heav­ chairman of the Ukrainian Canadian ily on energy imports, which have left it Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), almost $4 billion in debt and short of which he said spent close to $40,000 money needed to bankroll economic stabi­ over the past three years pressing for a lization and reform. resolution of the redress issue. The disbursement comes after the Six years ago, former Prime Minister country, which still has seen little move­ Brian Mulroney allotted $12 million ment toward a market-oriented system, toward a community development fund finally agreed to reform by way of price to the National Association of Japanese Bas-relief by Zenon V. Holubec, from a Christmas card published by St John the I Canadians, along with $21,000 to every Catholic Church, Hunter, N.Y. (Continued on page 16) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 No. 1 Nuclear power in Ukraine: a look at a troubled industry by David R. Marples switched off because of problems: one Suicides in Ukrainian military revealed deeds, in a letter sent from the couple's hometown of Kherson, Ukraine, to severe — the discovery of a defect in the KYYIV — An official from the Ukraine's energy troubles have led to cooling system at the third reactor unit; and Ukraine's Embassy in Canada on Sunday, a new emphasis on the development of Defense Ministry of Ukraine told a news December 11. Larysa Taranov, whose one minor — a spillage at the first reactor conference on December 12, 1994, that nuclear power and to a desire among the when a container was dropped by a crane. spouse, Oleksander, third engineer on the country's nuclear authorities to maintain more than 500 soldiers and officers died Allende, was rescued by the U.S. Coast On April 20, it was also reported by in the Ukrainian armed forces in the first the Chornobyl station in operation in the Deputy Premier Valeriy Shmarov that Guard after a 32-hour ordeal, expressed her face of opposition from international 11 months of 1994 — most of them by deepest gratitude to the U.S. and Canadian the covering over the destroyed fourth suicide. As reported by Interfax, the offi­ nuclear experts. reactor was in danger of collapse and governments for their critical role in the Throughout the course of the year, cial said that nearly half of those who search and rescue operation that saved her that about one-fifth of qualified person­ died were officers. He added that the Ukraine altered its position on Chornobyl nel at Chornobyl had left the station in husband. Mrs. Taranov's warmest words and eventually adopted an obdurate stance. death rate was down 13 percent from the went to the helicopter crew that plucked her 1993. At that point, Ukraine began to put previous year. (RFE/RL Daily Report) There appears to be general agreement on a substantial pricetag of $6 billion to $8 husband fromth e cold ocean waters as well this issue between the State Committee for billion on the closure of Chornobyl. Ethnic Russians also Chechnya victims as the medical staff of the Dartmouth, Nova the Safe Use of Nuclear Energy (Mykhailo Scotia, hospital where Mr. Taranov was By late May, after a visit to the station GROZNY, Chechnya — Ethnic Umanets), the Supreme Council Committee by then President Leonid Kravchuk, Mr. treated for severe injuries. (Svoboda) on the Questions of Nuclear Policies and Russians, who constitute a substantial Parashin declared that the station could portion of the population of the Chechen Ministry denounces Russian meddling Nuclear Safety (Mykhailo Pavlovsky) and operate until the year 2007. the director of the Chornobyl station (Sergei capital and its environs, are suffering the WASHINGTON — The Foreign In late September, Mr. Parashin elabo­ rigors of bombardment and blockade Parashin). In addition to the controversial rated on this theme, stating that to decom­ Ministry of Ukraine issued a statement on Chornobyl station, Ukraine's nuclear alongside the indigenous Chechen popu­ December 26, 1994, condemning the mission the Chornobyl reactors would take lation. Russian Duma Deputy Sergei authorities have had difficulties in expand­ six to 10 years, and that it was thus expedi­ remarks of Moscow Mayor Yuriy ing existing stations because of public Kovalev told RIA on December 16, 1994, Luzhkov while on a visit to Sevastopil in ent to permit all three Chornobyl reactors that "many of the outskirts of Grozny protests. to work to the end of their lifespans (2007, the Crimea. Mr. Luzhkov, according to have been destroyed." Outside Grozny, the ministry statement, called the city a Analysis 2008, and 2011, respectively). This state­ the predominately Russian-inhabited ment lent new credence to a statement last "second prefecture of Moscow" and 1994 saw a sharp decline in electricity town of Pervomayskoye has been hardest "Russia's outpost on its borders." "This February by Mr. Kravchuk that the second hit by Russian forces. Ethnic Russians output at thermal power stations of 16 reactor, out of operation since a serious fire constitutes an attempt to undermine the percent in the first nine months of the interviewed by Russian and Western territorial integrity of a friendly neighbor­ in 1991, could be returned to service. media express indignation at Moscow's year. Though nuclear-powered electricity In late October, Mr. Pavlovsky out­ ing country," said the ministry statement, also dropped because of unscheduled use of force, which puts their lives in dan­ and runs counter to the Memorandum on lined the "social problems" that would ger. Reports from the field also speak of shutdowns of reactors, the proportion of result from the proposed closure of Security Guarantees for Ukraine, signed electricity produced at atomic stations the emergence of a sense of solidarity by the U.S., the Russian Federation, Great Chornobyl, especially at the city of among the Chechens and local ethnic reached as high as 52 percent at certain Britain and Ukraine on December 5, Slavutych (population: 30,000) which Russians in the face of common adversi­ times during the year, and averaged a houses plant operatives and "about 1994, the Helsinki Final Act and U.N. ty. There are no reports of Chechen Security Council resolutions on the invio­ very high 38 percent. 100,000 workers' settlements." threats of any kind to local Russians. One Ukraine's failure to make significant In the past, there have been sugges­ lability of Ukraine's borders. Finally, the of the justifications for the Russian inva­ ministry statement allowed Ukraine may inroads into its debts for gas imports tions to build another nuclear power sion had been the presumed need to pro­ from Russia (estimated by Russian plant in the vicinity if Chornobyl is have to review its future foreign policy tect ethnic Russians in Chechnya. positions towards Russia, in light of decla­ sources at $2.6 billion in September), closed. Mr. Pavlovsky's view is that it (RFE/RL Daily Report) and continuing problems in the Donbass would be more sensible to keep the plant rations such as Mr. Luzhkov's, which run counter to Ukraine's national interests. coalfield, led to extreme pressure on in operation for the immediate future. Yet another Communist group formed hydroelectric stations, which were oper­ Also in October, the new president, (Press Office of the Embassy of Ukraine ated at peak capacity. In the long term, Leonid Kuchma, convened a meeting on KYYIV — The Organization of Soviet to the U.S.) nuclear energy attended by Prime Patriots has been established in Ukraine. however, it is clear that nuclear power AN-70 newest Ukrainian cargo plane must make up the shortfalls at thermal Minister Vitaliy Masol and Deputy Delegates to the organizational meeting power plants. This has put Chornobyl Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk. Once declared two goals for their association. In KYYIV — Friday, December 16, the into new and unexpected focus. again, the concerns of the international the short term, the Soviet Patriots will pro­ Antonov design bureau, world-renowned tect and assist the Communist Party of In the spring of 1994, the International community were recognized, but the for its line of transport planes, conducted consensus was that financial and other Ukraine. In the long term, they will help successful flight tests of the AN-70 medi­ Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared bring about a re-establishment of the Soviet that the Chornobyl plant failed to meet inter­ considerations needed to be taken into um cargo transport. The new plane, with a account before any action was taken to Union. The organization appealed to capacity of 35 tons and a cruising speed of national safety standards. In April, after talks President Leonid Kuchma to ban the activi­ with a U.S. delegation, Ukraine's nuclear close the Chornobyl station permanently. 750 to 800 kilometers per hour, will lend The other arguments used by ties of what it called "national-fascist par­ itself to a large variety of missions, leaders agreed in principle that the remaining ties," among them Rukh, the Ukrainian two reactors in operation (one and three) Ukrainians to counter requests by the including air transfer of military equip­ IAEA, the European Union and the U.S. Republican Party, the Democratic Party of ment and heavy vehicles. The AN-70 is a should be shut down as soon as possible. Ukraine and the Congress of Ukrainian One week later, both these reactors had to be Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shut short-take-off-and-landing aircraft, which down Chornobyl immediately are that Nationalists. (Respublika) may qualify it for use on rough airstrips, the plant has been rendered much safer Rescued seaman's wife thanks his saviors such as are present in many Third World David R. Marples is director of the by technical improvements and that and undeveloped areas. The eventual pro­ Stasiuk Program for the Study of Chornobyl is but one of several operating OTTAWA — The wife of one of the duction run of 500 planes will commence Contemporary Ukraine at the Canadian RBMK stations in the CIS. They have two survivors of the recent sinking of the in 1996 and will create some 27,000 new Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University Ukrainian ship Salvador Allende thanked jobs in Ukraine and over 50,000 in Russia. of Alberta. (Continued on page 15) her husband's rescuers for their brave (Svoboda)

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This further through its beer interests, a history of expansion links our existing territories of more than 200 years in the local beverage Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz Slovakia, Hungary and Belarus via industry. The new joint venture company changes to: Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets (Kyyiv) Ukraine." will initially produce all of CCA's soft The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew CCA's wholly owned sales and distri­ drink requirements for the western part P.O. Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Andrij Kudia Wynnyckyj bution operation initially is supplying of Ukraine. The production company will Kyyiv, to be followed very soon by the have capital of $11.5 million (U.S.) with The Ukrainian Weekly, JANUARY 1,1995, No. 1, Vol. LXIII western part of Ukraine, including Lviv, initial ownership of 57 percent for CCA Copyright © 1995 The Ukrainian Weekly where a new production facility is close and 43 percent for Kolos. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 Canadian news media divided on redress issue by Christopher Guly queue for similar treatment." ed that "the internment of Ukrainians was TIMELINE: He suggests that other groups, including particularly ignorant. They were targeted OTTAWA - If the Ukrainian Canadian the "deported" Acadians, the "interned" because many were citizens of Austria- Internment community is divided over settling the Irish, the "defeated" Metis, the Hungary, which held Ukraine in its empire; decade-long struggle for redress over "deprived" Francophones, the "discrimi­ few had any sympathy for it." It also called World War I internment, so is Canada's nated" Catholics, the "cheated" aborigi­ for the return of all monies confiscated. operations mainstream media. Even within some pub­ nals and the "resented" Newfoundlanders, Similarly, Gazette columnist Jean- lications. by Christopher Guly could all join the redress bandwagon. Claude LeClerc, in a December 29, 1994, In a December 19, 1994, editorial, The But Mr. Simpson got some of his facts column, wrote that the proposed Race OTTAWA - Eighty years after Globe and Mail, Canada's only national wrong. He claimed the Ukrainian Relations Foundation, to be established in the internment of close to 6,000 daily newspaper, argued that Canadians Canadian Congress (UCC) is seeking Toronto next spring, "is no substitute for Ukrainian Canadians the communi­ should not "deny" their past. In light of the $402 million in compensation. redressing wrongs so long as their soul, as ty has yet to receive some compen­ Canadian government's decision to ignore flior Bardyn, chairperson of the UCC's is said in some cultures, has not been sation for what many believe to be a the redress requests from six Canadian eth­ redress committee, said that no price has repealed." Mr. LeClerc adds: "There lies a historic injustice. nic groups, the newspaper suggests an been affixed to the claim, pending the much broader challenge than the fight Following is a timeline of salient alternative. The editorial reads: "A person "government of Canada opening its against racism or even education about tol­ events during that period: with claims for losses should be able to books" to the amount confiscated from erance. It should be at the heart of the new July 27, 1914: Canada's first seek redress through negotiation or the Ukrainian Canadians during the period of much talked-about Canadian citizenship. Ukrainian Catholic bishop, Nicetas courts, which is a better solution than seek­ 1914 to 1920. As 1992 Price Waterhouse More than pluralism, what is needed is Budka, issues a pastoral letter ing a blanket settlement from Ottawa." report estimated that amount to be as high openness and compassion." encouraging Ukrainian Canadians A day later, Globe and Mail columnist as $33 million (in 1991 dollars). The largest cry for redress support, how­ to support their homeland, a day Jeffrey Simpson applauded Secretary of In a response to Mr. Simpson's column, ever, came for the Chinese Canadian com­ before the start of World War I. State for Multiculturalism Sheila Mr. Bardyn also wrote in a December 21, munity, which is seeking the return of $23 August 4, 1914: Canada declares Finestone for showing that her Liberal 1994, letter to The Globe and Mail that the million collected from Chinese Canadian war on Germany and Austria- government "might have some spine after Acadians have in fact begun court action immigrants between 1885 and 1923. Alan Hungary. all." Criticizing the short-sightedness of against the British crown over their forced Li, president of the Chinese-Canadian August 8, 1914: Following con­ the Mulroney government, which awarded resettlement 250 years ago. Council, said that the community is even demnation from the Manitoba Free the Japanese Canadian community a $360 Montreal's The Gazette, meanwhile, was willing to relieve Ottawa from paying any Press, Bishop Budka issues a fol­ million redress settlement in 1988, Mr. more favorable to the Ukrainian Canadian interest on the confiscated sum. low-up that reminds Ukrainian Simpson argued that to "compensate one redress question across the board. Canadians of their new loyalties. group and others would quickly form a A December 16,1994, editorial suggest­ (Continued on page 13) August 15, 1914: The Canadian government invokes the War Measures Act and issues a proclama­ Ukrainian community... more equitable society now and a better Canadian communities, plan to hold Mr. tion "respecting immigrants of future for generations to come." Chretien to a broken promise. German or Austro-Hungarian nation­ (Continued from page 1) Still, the UCC is pressing the Canadian In a June 8, 1993, letter to Mr. Bardyn, ality." It is estimated that about living in Canada in 1914; most of them government to rectify the confiscation of Mr. Chretien, then Canada's opposition 170,000 Ukrainians live in Canada; came from western Ukraine and held either assets from internees as identified in the leader, said the Ukrainian Canadian com­ most are Austro-Hungarian citizens. Austrian or Austro-Hungarian citizenship. 1992 Price Waterhouse Report, "Economic munity "can be assured that we will con­ August 1914: The first of 26 The Winnipeg historian, who teaches Losses of Ukrainian Canadians Resulting tinue to monitor the situation closely and Ukrainian Canadian internment in the Slavic studies and history depart­ from Internment During World War I." seek to ensure that the government hon­ camps opens at Fort Henry, near ments at the University of Manitoba, has The report estimated that Ukrainian ors its promise." Kingston, Ontario. written extensively about Canada's first Canadian community lost close to $33 mil­ What's more, Mr. Bardyn said that Mr. October 28, 1914: The Canadian Ukrainian Catholic bishop, Nicetas lion (in 1991 dollars). Chretien's letter to the community was government orders the registration Budka, who was threatened with intern­ But Dr. Hryniuk contended that the unsolicited. "We did not ask him for it." of all "enemy aliens." Those who ment during the first world war over Canadian government made the right The UCC chairperson says that the fail to report face internment. allegedly treasonous remarks he made. decision. "If there's money to be spent, it alliance plans to ask the prime minister to June 26, 1915: The Canadian Dr. Hryniuk said she believes that should be spent on education," she said. strike a special Cabinet committee to government orders the arrest and most of the Ukrainian Canadians interned "I don't want it tied to redress." resolve the redress issue once and for all. detention of enemy aliens perceived had probably "stepped outside the law" The UCCLA is somewhere in the mid­ One person Mr. Bardyn doesn't want on to be a threat to national security. and had "been given warnings." dle. Although its recent submission to the that group is Ms. Finestone. September 17, 1917: Former But Mr. Bardyn disagreed, suggesting Canadian government, prepared in the "She has already insulted the Italian and Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid that the majority of interned Ukrainian fall, sought financial support for public Chinese communities by being very dis­ Laurier resigns from Conservative Canadians were at the very least innocent, awareness projects, Mr. Gregorovich missive," he explained. Following her Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden's legal residents of the country. "Once noted that Ottawa has an obligation to recent announcement, the secretary of state coalition Union government over the [Canada] accepts you, you're legal." offer some funding. allegedly appeared on an Italian cable-TV Ukrainian Canadian internment issue. program and referred to the Italian fascist Anna Pawliw Daviau of Montreal, "Every person in Newfoundland gets July 1920: The Canadian govern­ whose 80-year-old mother, Stephania about $5,000 in [provincial] transfer pay­ support for Hitler's genocide against the Jews. Ms. Finestone is Jewish. ment holds about $94,000 in trust Mielniczuk Pawliw, was interned as an ments from Ottawa every year. Every from former Ukrainian Canadian infant with her family at the Spirit Lake First Nations person gets more, about "Finestone also lied about discussing internees. By 1939, $33,900 claims facility in Quebec, said that her family $6,000 from the federal government, the redress question with [the Liberal] remain outstanding. "was cheated" by the Canadian govern­ annually. One group is singled out to get caucus," said Mr. Bardyn, who stopped ment. "My grandparents came to Canada nothing: the so-called ethnic group." short of calling for the junior cabinet September 22, 1988: Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian and worked hard, and this is what hap­ He explained that the Canadian govern­ minister's resignation. "We found that Mulroney announces a $360 million pened to them?" ment should be cutting wasteful spending out through [Liberal member of Mr. Gregorovich noted that the Parliament for Toronto-The Beaches] compensation package to the instead of targeting groups like the Japanese Canadian community over UCCLA will continue with its public Maria Minna, who said the issue was Ukrainian Canadians. "If they miss a World War II internment and promis- awareness campaign, with or without never raised." Ms. Minna is a former comma in a document, they spend millions es to establish a Race Relations Canadian government support. of dollars to fix it. It's very much like a president of the National Congress of Italian Canadians. Foundation. Not the UCC, however. In a December company that fires a $200-a-week office The same year, the Ukrainian While Mr. Bardyn awaits a date to 15, 1994, statement UCC President Oleh boy instead of firing a $2,000-a-week vice- Canadian Congress' (UCC's) Romaniw expressed disappointment president to save money." meet with Prime Minister Chretien some Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties "and in some sense betrayal, when an However, the UCCLA's chairman time in the new year, Mr. Gregorovich Commission (UCCLC) submits "The important issue like the internment of blamed the Chretien government's recent has already turned his attention else­ Ukrainian Case for Acknowledgment Ukrainian Canadians receives such a decision on civil servants. "Most of them where. "Maybe we will remind people and Redress" to Multiculturalism poor response from the present-day gov­ come from small towns in Ontario and how helpful the Liberals were during the Minister Gerry Weiner. Commission ernment." In a news release issued on Quebec where they haven't had much next election," he suggested. "Maybe we researcher Lubomyr Luciuk authors December 15, 1994, the UCC rejected exposure to ethnics on the loose out of will try someone else." the first book on Ukrainian Canadian Ms. Finestone's "contention that it is best their cages." He adds that, unlike the The options could be interesting. internment, "A Time for Atonement: to forget the past and to concentrate fully Jewish or native communities in Canada Today's Canadian Parliament is com­ Canada's First National Internment on the future." who "punish their enemies," Messrs. posed of two regional parties: the right- Operations and the Ukrainian In a December 14 letter to the eight Romaniw and Bardyn "made much of wing Reform Party, which has tradition­ Canadians." organizations representing the ethnic their ties to the Liberals." ally opposed multiculturalism, and the October 7, 1988: UCC president groups seeking redress, Ms. Finestone Mr. Gregorovich added "Before he got official Opposition, the Bloc Quebecois, Dmytro Cipywnyk sends Mr. wrote: "We can and we must learn from his head chopped off, Thomas a Becket for which Quebec's sovereignty is the Weiner a letter circumscribing the the past. We must assure that future gener­ said, 'Place not your trust in monarchs.' " main issue. UCCLC s authority to speak on ations do not repeat the errors of the past." Mr. Bardyn, who ran unsuccessfully on Mr. Gregorovich thinks the Bloc behalf of the UCC. However, she added: "The issue is whether two occasions for the Ontario Liberals, Quebecois could be the more sympathet­ November 1990: Prime Minister the best way to do this is to attempt to appears to have learned a lesson. In fact, ic of the two in the future. "They're sen­ Mulroney tells the House of address the past or to invest in the future. he and other members of the National sitive to losing their rights, having expe­ We believe our only choice lies in using Redress Alliance, which includes mem­ rienced the [invocation of the now-dead] (Continued on page 13) limited government resources to create a bers of the Chinese, Italian and Japanese War Measures Act in 1970." THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 No. 1 CBS refuses Rabbi Bleichs Ukraine s deputies attend British seminar by Tony Leliw there have been some good and bad things. Everything we have good we requests for fair portrayal LONDON - A group of young by Andrij Wynnyckyj things about Ukraine, "since there are need to conserve. The British people Ukrainian people's deputies sampled have proved this in my opinion, that we many more positive aspects to life in the democracy British-style when they visit­ NEW YORK — In a face-to-face country than what they showed," Rabbi cannot just copy somebody. We should meeting with Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, ed the country for a two-week seminar take into consideration the mentality of Bleich reported that Morley Safer said: called "Making Democracy Work." chief rabbi of Ukraine, Morley Safer and "Right now we have no interest." the people and their traditions." Jeffrey Fager of CBS's "60 Minutes" Organized by Foundations for Taras Protsevyat, 32, Congress of Rabbi Bleich also brought up the issue of Freedom (FFF), the deputies were able to refused to air a fair portrayal of ethnic the false pretexts under which the inter­ Ukrainian Nationalists, Lviv, gave a relations in the country and his statement see everything from the workings of the short account of Ukraine's historic strug­ views were conducted in Ukraine. Cardinal British Parliament to a day's program in decrying the misuse of his testimony. Lubachivsky had been told CBS was doing gles culminating in its winning indepen­ Rabbi Bleich came to New York while Liverpool, which included a tour of the dence, and gave a pessimistic view of a story on religion in post-Soviet Ukraine, city, reception given by the lord mayor, on a recent visit to the U.S. that coincided while Rabbi Bleich expected to speak about relations between Ukraine and Russia in with Ukrainian President Leonid and presentation of local initiatives for the near future. "We have very compli­ 'the help American organizations were pro­ inner city regeneration. Kuchma's official sojourn. Rabbi Bleich viding for rebuilding in Ukraine." cated economic problems and the reason met with the two individuals primarily The deputies represented divergent for that is the neo-colonial economic The rabbi challenged the newsmen, strands of political opinion coming from responsible for the defamatory portrait of saying, "why did you say this to me if structure of Ukraine," he said. Ukraine drawn in the now notorious pro­ different regions of Ukraine. Ivan Speaking after the meeting, Mikhailo those were not your intentions?" He was Popesku, 30, Independent, is a teacher gram tided "The Ugly Face of Freedom." told "Well, we were planning on doing Churuta, Communist Party, Luhanske Contacted by telephone in Kyyiv on from Chernivtsi and the first deputy of seemed unmoved by his visit. "In that type of report, but while we were Romanian descent to be elected to the December 14, 1994, Rabbi Bleich spoke there we chanced on this other story, Ukraine the number of members of the to The Weekly about his encounter with new Ukrainian Parliament. Sergei Communist Party supersede all of the which we thought was much better." Aksenenko, 27, Communist Party, the news program's co-editor, Mr. Safer, As to the question of his words having other 37 parties put together. The party and the segment's producer, Mr. Fager. Luhanske, is a member of the parliamen­ program is to build a socialist society as been taken completely out of context, tary commission on mass media. Rabbi Bleich said the trio met "on Rabbi Bleich said he protested specifi­ before, though we understand that we neutral ground" because he feared the cally about the reference to the renaming The purpose of the seminar, which could not build a society of people who pressure that would be exerted upon him of streets. "When you asked me about ended on November 26, was to show the are equal, but this is an ideal for which if he went to CBS headquarters on New the naming of streets after Petliura and deputies the values, institutions and rela­ people should strive. The goal is to York's Fifth Avenue. Khmelnytsky, I said that it doesn't both­ tionships needed to develop a true democra­ restore the Soviet Union, but we do not During the meeting, Rabbi Bleich er me," he related, explaining that "it cy. British society was used as a case study know what shape it will take." requested an on-air reading of his was when I was talking about something in what democracy can be, and the chal­ Edward Peters, project coordinator of October 31,1994, statement, in which he completely different that they used the lenges facing Ukraine at the present time. FFF, said: "It has been an extraordinary faulted the program for having quoted part they quoted me on." The deputies gave their thoughts on privilege to see our country through their his words "out of the context that they Rabbi Bleich said Mr. Safer replied: what their British hosts had shown them eyes and come to love their country were said" and that "the broadcast did "Well, the truth is that we heard it from at their final reception at Westminster more. I am very grateful for that experi­ not convey the true state of affairs in people, we heard this from the locals, so Theater. Yurij Syzenko, a 38-year-old ence. We have glimpsed the magnitude Ukraine." Rabbi Bleich said he would that's why we put it in there." Communist Party deputy from of the problems that Ukraine faces." consider this gesture a retraction of sorts. Rabbi Bleich said a correspondent from Zaporizhzhia, said: "The visit was inter­ Foundations for Freedom is an initia­ In reply, he was told: "We already the Ukrainian television network UT-2 esting because it allowed me to meet peo­ tive of Moral Re-Armament, registered read off the Cardinal's [Myroslav interviewed him on December 13, 1994, ple from all layers of British society. in the UK as a charity. Its aim is to nur­ Lubachivsky's] letter and we won't read and asked about CBS's motive in airing Ukraine today is looking for its own place ture fresh leadership in a younger gener­ yours." "The Ugly Face" program. "I told him," on the political map of Europe. It is not a ation in Central and Eastern Europe. The When the Jewish religious letter sug­ said Rabbi Bleich, " 'Look, you journalists surprise that quite a lot of people know lit­ foundation's patrons include the prime gested that "60 Minutes" make another are all the same anyway, if you don't have tle about the existence of it as a state." minister and leaders of all the other par­ segment, and this time show the positive a story, you create one.' " Mr. Syzenko added: "In our history ties in Parliament. CORRECTIONS OBITUARY: Rev. Joseph Chupil, 72, pastor in Arizona California and CBS PHOENIX, Ariz. - The Rev. Joseph Phoenix and Tucson for both services. In The Weekly's editorial of December Chupil, pastor of the Assumption of the Father Chupil's remains were then flown 11,1994, it was reported on the basis of an Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic to Los Angeles where that evening a priest­ e-mail transmission that the Ukrainian Church in Phoenix and St. Michael's ly parastas was held at the Nativity of the American community in southern Ukrainian Catholic Mission in Tucson, died Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic California had met on November 25 with on Sunday afternoon, November 20, 1994. Church. A divine liturgy for the departed representatives of the Simon Wiesenthal Father Chupil, 72, died in Casa Grande, was offered Friday morning, after which Center. The e-mail report, written by Maria Ariz., during his return from Tucson, where Bishop Michael Wiwchar, reciting ancient Oharenko, an officer of the California he had celebrated a divine liturgy. Old Slavonic prayers of priestly farewell, Association to Aid Ukraine, noted that "all The Rev. Chupil was born in Ukraine on anointed Father Joseph's remains with oil. agreed the '60 Minutes' report was inaccu­ August 28, 1922. After immigrating to The Right Rev. Mitred Archpriest Peter rate," that the Wiesenthal Center had Canada, he moved to the Los Angeles area Leskiw then, in the tradition of a priest's offered to "host an exhibit" on the famine where he and his wife, Irene, raised three funeral, placed a veil (aer) over Father and that it would "help finance a trip to Los children: Olha, Natalie and Mark. While Joseph's face, symbolizing the veiled mys­ Angeles by Rabbi Yaakov Bleich." working full-time as a tailor, he completed tery of our faith. From the church a large The Weekly was notified by В ohdan his theological studies and was ordained to procession proceeded to a local cemetery Futala, media officer of theCAAU, that, rmedeacpnate by the late Bishop Jaroslaw where a panahyda was conducted, and this report was inaccurate; According to: Gabro in 1976. After his wife passed away, Bishop Wiwchar sealed the tomb. Mr. Futala, "There was no explicit consen­ he was ordained to the priesthood by Father Chupil's final resting place is sus reached" in regard to the accuracy of Bishop Innocent Lotocky OSBM in 1988. with his departed wife and son iii a the "60 Minutes" report. "A Jewish Since ordination he had served as adminis­ California cemetery.. > American activist suggested that thfe trator to bothArizonaxommunities. Suriving are two daughters, Olha Hirka The Rev. Joseph Chupil Holocaust Museum in L.A. host an exhibit The priestly parastas was held in and Natalie Chupil of California. D»eepest on the Great Famine and the director: of the Phoenix on Wednesday evening, condolences and sorrow were expressed to Clergy ^articipatmg Ід/Los^ Angeles museum agreed Ьо-Ь^щШ^щЩі^Щ-іоТ' November^ 23, after the holy rosary was both of them and to their families. services included: the Rt Rev/Leskiw, consideration by the boards of ^directors." jecited by the parish and the Sodality of the Presiding at all services in Arizona and \ the Rt. Rev. Mykyta, the Rev, Deacon, There was no commitment to finance a trip Blessqd Virgin Mary. Following services, California was Bishop Wiwchar CSsR, of J Theodore Wroblicky (administrator, by Rabbi Bleich, however, "a representa­ the parish sisterhood prepared a light meal the St. Nicholas Eparchy. Twelve members Northern California parishes), and the tive of the center expressed an interest in and refreshments in the parish hall where of the clergy participated during services in Rev. Deacon Myron Mykyta. Also pre­ organizing a meeting for Rabbi Bleich with clergy, individuals from Phoenix and Phoenix including: the Rt. Rev. Leskiw sent were clergy from the Ukrainian the Jewish community in southern Tucson, as well as family members, reflect­ (Western Diocesan Dean and Pastor, Los Orthodox community, the Very Rev. California." ed on Father Chupil's life. Angeles), the Rt. Rev. Mitred Archpriest Joseph Ridella from Palm Springs and A divine liturgy for the departed and a Afidrew Mykyta (San Diego), the Rt. Rev. the Rev. Diaz, a Navy chaplain. panakhyda were offered on Thanksgiving Mitred Archpriest Myroslav Oleshko Eulogies were given during funeral ser­ Ukrainian explorer Day, Thursday, November 24. For two (emeritus), the Rev. Nicholas Zachariadis vices by Bishop Wiwchar, Father Leskiw, In the story "Ukraine renews Antarctic days the Rev. Chupil's remains, robed in (resident priest, Northern California parish­ and Deacon Mykyta. The bishop spoke research" (December 25, 1994) by Petro gold vestments, lay in state in the church. es), the Rev. Deacon Ewhen Wasylyna about the sacrament of Holy Orders and Matiaszek, the name of the Ukrainian On the tetrapod, next to the funeral bier, (Phoenix) and the Rev. Deacon Myron Father Joseph's role as a priest. Father explorer who sailed the southern Pacific lay the Holy Gospel, chalice, and epitrakhil Mykyta (Phoenix). Also present were Leskiw described his long-term relationship was given as Makukh-Makhlay. The cor­ as reminders of the Rev. Chupil's priest­ priests from the local Ukrainian Orthodox, with Father Joseph. Deacon Mykyta reflect­ rect name, according to the Encyclopedia hood. The church was filled to capacity Byzantine Catholic and Roman Catholic ed on Father Joseph's life and tenure as pas­ of Ukraine, is Nikolai Miklukho-Maklai. with parishioners, and friends arrived from parishes. tor of the Phoenix and Tucson parishes. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 Northern Californians seek to bridge the Ukrainian professional community by R. Orest Kulewicz role of art in building a new Ukraine. Having earned the Dr. Iwach said he believes Ukraine's medical prob­ distinguished Taras Shevchenko Prize in Art - the high­ lems are concentrated in two different areas: medical SAN FRANCISCO - With the aim of building an est in Ukraine - Mr. Lopata stressed the need to incor­ resources and undertrained doctors. To remedy this situ­ active networking community for the 1990s, the recent­ porate the true spirit of Ukrainian culture in the coun­ ation, he is working with members of the American ly established Ukrainian Professionals of Northern try's future. Ukraine's history spans thousands of years, Academy of Opthalmologists to offer training to California hosted an interactive forum titled "Bridging said Mr. Lopata. "Without an understanding of its histo­ Ukrainian physicians that would enable them to better the Professional Ukrainian Community" at the Hotel St. ry and culture, our country is in danger of becoming a serve their patients. Claire in San Jose, Calif., on November 5. hollow nation," he said. Medical equipment and supplies also are desperately Participants traveled from as far away as Colorado Many of Mr. Lopata's works were featured at the needed in hospitals, said Dr. Iwach, adding that and Pennsylvania to hear presentations on a wide array forum, and he drew attention to the subtleties of Ukrainian children unfortunately are bearing the brunt of topics ranging from contemporary Ukrainian art to Ukrainian life he had so painstakingly recreated within of much of the disparities in the country's medical sys­ the state of current medical practice in Ukraine. Among them. After pointing to a landscape of one sun-drenched tem because they are particularly sensitive to eye prob­ the speakers, which included international doctors, busi­ Ukrainian farm, Mr. Lopata commented, "I don't want lems. "If a child's eyes don't receive appropriate care at nessmen and scientists, was Vasyl Lopata, a noted to see events like Chornobyl make a beautiful Ukraine an early age they can be blinded for life," he said. Ukrainian artist and designer of the new Ukrainian cur­ something seen only in paintings." rency, the hryvnia. On a positive note, Dr. Iwach offered several exam­ Mr. Lopata's latest project includes the design of First to speak was Oleh Weres, a chemist who ven­ ples of the successes American opthamologists have Ukraine's yet to be released currency, the hryvnia. The tured to Ukraine just over two years ago in hope of achieved in Ukraine. He displayed a picture of a young artist said Ukraine's new money will be graced with developing a high-technology start-up company there. boy who was the fortunate recipient of a corneal trans­ portraits of some of the most influential figures in its Mr. Weres said it didn't take long to discover that many plant that enabled him to see his mother for the first history, like Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrainian cities had high concentrations of well-trained time in his life. Said Dr. Iwach, "I'm optimistic that if Ukrainka. By incorporating these key figures in a medi­ scientists and engineers. He added that from the stand­ we work together we can make a difference." um that will one day be exchanged throughout the point of expertise, many Ukrainian research agencies R. Orest Kulewicz delivered the final presentation world, Mr. Lopata hopes that more will come to recog­ are "on par with Westinghouse and Toshiba." Mr. titled "Modern Information Systems and Sources on nize Ukraine's unique identity. Weres said, "With 70 years of isolation, scientists have Ukraine," which focused on the availability of accurate Dr. Andrew Iwach, a San Francisco-based ophthal­ got to come up with something." and timely information on Ukraine's economic, political mologist, followed Mr. Lopata's presentation with an On his second visit to Ukraine, Mr. Weres found a and cultural spheres. Having spent nearly a year in in-depth report on the state of Ukraine's eye care, research facility in Kharkiv that had come up with a Kyyiv as a journalist for a local news agency and televi­ appropriately titled "A Vision for Ukraine's Future." clever way to improve the efficiency of power plants. sion broadcasting company, Mr. Kulewicz shared his Having witnessed the outdated and poorly equipped He calculated that if U.S. power companies applied the first-hand experience with several alternative sources of medical facilities during his first visit to Ukraine two Ukrainian technology they could save more than $1 bil­ information on Ukraine and touched on how the global years ago, Dr. Iwach joined in an effort with other lion. Furthermore, the investment required by U.S. com­ Ukrainian community can use Internet, the vast comput­ American doctors to distribute critical medical aid to panies to reap the savings is rather small, on the order of er network, as a powerful tool to receive and distribute the country. $250,000 per facility. information on Ukraine. "Physicians are truly under extreme limitations in Despite these potential benefits, Mr. Weres is yet to "Although Ukraine has been deprived of reliable and Ukraine," said Dr. Iwach, who cited his grandmother's finalize the sale of the Ukrainian technology to the accurate news coverage, things are changing," said Mr. cataracts as an example of the country's inability to American interests that he has lined up. Among the dif­ Kulewicz. As examples of recent changes in the availabil­ address medical problems easily remedied in the West. ficulties he cited was the Ukrainian partner's fear of ity of Ukrainian news sources, he cited several relatively "When my grandmother went to the eye doctor there somehow getting shortchanged by American partners in they said she was too old to receive any treatment." (Continued on page 11) the deal. "Many Ukrainians believe capitalism is simply a legal form of stealing," he commented. Next to speak was Vera Babiak, a graduate student adviser at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who has been focusing attention on the development of a Pittsburgh society honors editor of Forum scholarship fund for Ukrainians interested in applying PITTSBURGH - Andrew S. Gregorovich, editor of their sponsored education in their homeland. The chal­ Forum: A Ukrainian Review, was honored as the 1994 lenge, said Ms. Babiak, is to find candidates who will Ukrainian of the Year by the Ukrainian Technological return to Ukraine after their education. "Many want to Society of Pittsburgh at its 25th annual dinner-dance on stay here," she explained. November 26 at The University Club in the Oakland Ms. Babiak said she will continue to develop the district of Pittsburgh. scholarship fund, as interest to develop such a program Members and guests were welcomed by President has been surprisingly high. After placing a simple ad in Deborah Alexa Sirko, Executive Board Member Marta a local newspaper requesting responses from those Pisetska Farley introduced Mr. Gregorovich, and First interested in developing a Ukrainian community group Vice-President Halya S. Polatajko read the citation and in Boulder, Ms. Babiak was surprised to receive a flurry presented the award plaque, with calligraphy by Ukrainian of phone calls. "We're in the woodwork out here, but artist Kathy Boykowycz. people want to network throughout the entire Mr. Gregorovich was honored for his editorship of Southwest," she said. Forum since its inception in 1967, for his professional The focus later shifted back to the business sector, career as a bibliographer and librarian with the specifically with regard to Ukraine's medical industry. University of Toronto, for his collection of many rare Entrepreneur Oleh Steciw delivered a synopsis of the Ukrainian maps (including the very first map to bear the efforts of his company, Global Biomarketing Group Inc., name "Ukraine",) and other rare documents dealing to break into the Ukrainian pharmaceutical industry. with Ukraine, and for his participation in many organi­ Having been among the initial wave of foreign busi­ zations in the Ukrainian Canadian community. ness interests to venture into the Ukrainian market on Forum, which is published by the Ukrainian Fraternal the eve of independence in 1991, Mr. Steciw's aim was Association, is a colorfully illustrated, quarterly maga­ to sell medical goods and supplies vital to the first phase zine presenting Ukrainian art, history and culture in of medical care, predominantly instruments and special­ Ukraine, Canada and the United States. ized chemicals used in patient diagnoses. After seeing Watching the presentation were Mr. Gregorovich's first-hand the primitive state of Ukraine's medical sys­ wife, Patricia; his brother, John; his sister, Hanya Sirka, Andrew S. Gregorovich tem, Mr. Steciw said he knew his company's efforts and his aunt, Olga Pawliuk. Congratulatory letters were were much-needed. "Ukraine needs absolutely every­ read by Ms. Farley from Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk, presi­ and photographed the Ukrainian Nationality Room in thing. Raw materials, wood, machinery," he said. He dent, and Yaroslaw Sokolyk, general secretary, of the the Cathedral of Learning at the University of added that resources are so constrained in Ukraine today Ukrainian World Congress, and from Ivan Oleksyn, Pittsburgh, which he hopes to write about in Forum. that "people in Ukraine look at Russia as successful." president of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association. The Ukrainian Technological Society is an associa­ Mr. Steciw characterized the business style in In his acceptance remarks, Mr. Gregorovich noted that tion of Ukrainian professionals and businesspersons Ukraine to be very different from that in the West. "It's Ukrainian heritage in Ukraine is under attack from founded on February 8, 1970. Recently, it was a found­ very personal there," he commented, "people need to Americanization; he urged those present to continue to ing member-organization of the Federation of Ukrainian know you before they work with you." preserve their Ukrainian heritage. He added that he is now American Business and Professional Associations. Like many foreign interests seeking to penetrate the on sabbatical from the University of Toronto in order to In marking its 25th anniversary, founders Dr. Ukrainian market, Mr. Steciw* s company has encoun­ complete his forthcoming book on Ukrainian heritage, a Michael Kotyk and Michael Korchynsky looked back tered its share of challenges related to the country's book he said would be profusely illustrated and would on the society's programs: the Ukrainian of the Year undefined legal system, poor accounting practices and portray the essence of Ukraine's history, culture and Award with 25 awards including the first award to corrupt business activity. But Mr. Steciw maintains that achievements, and provide basic facts about Ukraine. Stepan Chemych and awards to Metropolitan Mstyslav, an honest, profitable business is nonetheless possible in Mr. Gregorovich brought two publications to Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, Nadia Svitlychna and Leonid M. Ukraine. The trick to doing business in Ukraine, he said, Pittsburgh, published by him just for the occasion. The Kravchuk; the Scholarship Program with more than 200 is to first establish a plan of action that defines the first was "Jews and Ukrainians: Analysis of the CBS 60 scholarships totaling $76,800 presented to 152 students; scope of your efforts there and to stick to it. Minutes Program, The Ugly Face of Freedom' " and the and its publications, including the UTS Newsletter, The After hearing about the various obstacles facing the second was "Jewish-Ukrainian Bibliography; a Brief Pittsburgh Ukrainian Bulletin and the Ukrainian business sector in Ukraine, forum participants were selected Bibliography of Resources in English." The latter Directory of Greater Pittsburgh. privy to a special presentation by one of Ukraine's most work will be republished in an upcoming issue of Forum. Following the award presentation and dinner, there noted contemporary artists, Vasyl Lopata, regarding the While Mr. Gregorovich was in Pittsburgh, he visited was dancing to the music of Lviviany. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 No. 1 CHRISTMAS PASTORAL: Christ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY has come down from the heavens In the spirit of Christmas Archpastoral encyclical of the Council The feast of the Nativity of the Son of of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox God, beautified with inspirational liturgi­ In the recently Church of the United States of America, cal services, instructional liturgical released movie and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in hymns and moving carols, invites us to "Little Women," the Diaspora. witness to a world which today has lost its sense of morality and personal the four March sis­ To the venerable clergy, monastics ters, Meg, Jo, Beth responsibility, that Christ the Son of and devout faithful: May the peace, God, born in Bethlehem, is the only one and Amy, look for­ grace and the blessing of our Lord, God ward to a Christ­ in whom we can find the fullness of life, and Savior Jesus Christ, born for our sal­ the only one in whom human beings can mas Day feast com­ vation, descend upon all of you. plete with butter, realize their full potential. Christmas Christ is born! Christ has come from challenges us, who on the feast verbally fresh-baked bread the heavens - welcome Him! and oranges — deli- proclaim that we "have been baptized Once again, as it is every year, in a into Christ and have put on Christ" to ask cacies the family world which witnesses a decline in spiri­ has had to do with­ ourselves if we indeed have put on tuality, in a world in which mankind Christ, or just nominally, when conve­ out because of hard seeks out paths leading to God, Divine times during the nient? Today there are many who do not Love leads all of us to the joyful celebra­ comprehend the transforming essence of Civil War. tion of a great mystery - the nativity of When they real­ this feast. Many are those who narrow Light from Light, and True God from the meaning of the feast to only its ritual ize that there are True God - the Lord Jesus Christ, people who are and cultural manifestations, and forget, Savior, Deliverer and Teacher, who for or even worse, seek not to enter into the worse off than they us and for our salvation came down from are, they hesitate, depths of its mystical significance. the heavens, was incarnate of the Holy However there are those who receive but only for a mo­ Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became ment, and turn their Christ the Son of God, as did those sin­ man, so that we might be reborn in cere shepherds of old who were favored goodies over to a Divine Grace and live as free and poor German fami­ with knowing Christ, those who can be responsible people and reflect that compared to the learned Magi from the ly mat lives nearby. Divine image and likeness according to East, who, guided by the Lord's star, Perhaps this is which we were created. found Christ the Source of all wisdom, just a simple story Once again, after days set aside for spiri­ worshipped Him and presented to Him but it does convey tual preparation and renewal, our parish their best gifts. the true meaning of churches in independent and sovereign Christmas, a spirit Ukraine, and in the countries of the The feast of Christ's Nativity is for all often forgotten in Ukrainian Orthodox diaspora will be the of us a bright signpost, pointing out the these days of mass scenes of solemn Nativity liturgies. path leading to Christ and to the fullness consumerism and Echoing joyfully will be not only Nativity of life in Him. It teaches us that we who high technology. liturgical hymns, written for the sake of our live in times which put to the test our In a subsequent spiritual rebirth and edification, but togeth­ faithfulness to Christ and His Good News scene in the movie, er with them our traditional Ukrainian (Gospel), can be the shepherds of our based on the American children's classic, the girls rejoice that they are together Nativity carols - meaningful songs of faith own acts, thoughts and feelings, and that for Christmas. They gather with their mother to read a letter from their father which have their genesis in the creative we can intently look into the firmament and in unison pray for his well-being, hoping that they will soon be together as genius of our devout and Christ-loving of our life and in it find the never-erring a family. ancestors, and which sprang directly from star of the Lord, and following it, come, These, thoughts come to mind because in this day and age, few people have the believing hearts of those who embraced as free and mature Orthodox Ukrainians, little time to think about their loved ones. Although gift-giving is a pleasant the.Son of God, fashioned a cave (pechera) to the Lord, Who is in us and with us. gesture to show that someone is thought of, is it not more meaningful to spend for the Savior in their own hearts, accepted In bestowing upon all of you our arch- some "quality time" with loved ones, to ask what they wish for in the New his saving Good News and made Him the pastoral Nativity benediction, we com­ Year, to inquire about their Christmas wishes, their future plans, their dreams? center of their every activity. mend you to the love of Him Who hum­ In his Christmas homily this year, Bishop Basil Losten of Stamford tells us Christ is born! He leads all people who bled Himself and became poor so that He to welcome Christ into our hearts. He eulogizes: "We must not organize our accept Him to a new and blessed Life. He, might appear to us as the God-man, so lives by what we have; what matters is what we are. External 'success' fades having heard our fervent prayers, and hav­ that we might hear and accept His words, away so quickly; what matters are values that will last." ing tested our steadfastness in the faith and become rich through His wise and saving "Do not expect happiness from things that vanish even faster than we expect our faithfulness, brought Ukraine to a new teachings, and bring to Him, our sure and them to," adds the Catholic hierarch. life, to full freedom and statehood, and tranquil haven, others who seek Him and But do expect this joy to come from within during this holiday season, do entrusted its religious and political destiny aspire not to temporal goods, but to last­ expect a light-heartedness from the spirit of sharing, of giving, of hoping. not to foreigners, but to native sons and ing blessings which come from Him, Experience the joy that comes from hoping for better times, for you, your daughters upon whom will depend her who grants spiritual peace to men of family and friends, your loved ones near and far. Pray that those in Ukraine — future in this and in the impending 21st good will. many of whom for decades had been deprived of Christmases, robbed of moral century. May the grace of our Lord Jesus and spiritual values — may feel the warmth of Christ's love during this holi­ "Christ has come from the heavens - Christ, born in Bethlehem for our salva­ day season. greet Him!" proclaims our Holy Church. tion, be with all of you. And pray that these holidays bring together families and friends who do not How are we to greet Him? The answer is Christ is Born! spend Christmas comparing the size of their pocketbooks or the weight of their simple! We greet Christ when we gener­ Let us glorify Him in word and deed. professional titles, but examine the depth of their spirits, the generosity of their ously sow justice, truth, love and joy Your devoted servants in the Lord, hearts. around us; we greet Christ when we open f Constantine, Metropolitan Khrystos Rodyvsia — SlavimYoho! our hearts to Him, when we make our­ f Anatolij, Metropolitan selves accessible to His transfiguring grace t Antony, Archbishop and when we become His instruments here tPaisij, Bishop on earth. Born is He, who enlightens every f loan, Bishop person born into this world. Born in us is f Jeremiah, Bishop He who said of Himself: "I am the light of the world," "I am the Way, the Truth and Issued on the feast of Christ's Nativity, the Life...," "I am with you until the end of January 7, in St. Andrew the First-Called time." Apostle Center, South Bound Brook, NJ.

Mykola Arkas, the popular composer and amateur historian, was born on January 7, 1853. A graduate of Odessa University, UNR Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine he worked at the Mykolayiv Naval Office in 1875-1899, then settled on his estate in the Kherson gubernia, where he established a Ukrainian lan­ YUND л* The Home Office °f the Ukrainian National guage school. jfcu Association reports that, as of December 21, the One of the founders of the Prosvita society in Mykolayiv, he served as its president fraternal organization's Fund for the Rebirth of until his death. He also recorded and arranged Ukrainian folk songs. In 1891, he pub­ Ukraine has received 18,624 checks from its mem­ lished his major musical work, the opera "Kateryna" (based on Taras Shevchenko's bers with donations totalling $473,117.30 The con­ poem). It was first staged in Moscow in 1899 by Mykhailo Kropyvnytsky. tributions include individual members' donations, Arkas wrote a popular "Istoria Ukrainy" (History of Ukraine, 1908) that was pub­ as well as returns of members' dividend checks lished in St. Petersburg. He died in March 1909 in Mykolayiv. and interest payments on promissory notes. Please make checks payable to: Source: "Arkas, Mykola" Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol 1 (Toronto: University of Toronto UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine. Press, 1984). No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995

NEWS AND VIEWS faces ancC^Caces National minorities in Ukraine: by Myron B. Kuropas an emerging success story by Orest Deychakiwsky Fourth Christmas in "free" Ukraine The now-infamous "60 Minutes" broadcast on "The Ugly Face of Freedom" in Ukraine has raised numerous questions about Ukrainian- The last time I wrote about Christmas in With President Kuchma on the dais and many Jewish relations, many of which have been addressed on the pages of The Ukraine I wrote that Ukraine was still a "cap­ Ukrainian Canadians in the audience, Mr. Ukrainian Weekly and other newspapers. One of the most egregious fea­ tive nation." Kozyrev declared that "there is no G-7 but a tures of the broadcast is that it completely ignored the positive aspects not That was a year ago. Has anything really G-8 in political issues." After reminding every­ only of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, but of Ukraine's favorable policies changed? Yes and no. one that Ukraine owed his country almost $3 towards its minorities. The "60 Minutes" report raises a number of ques­ Leonid Kravchuk, a do-nothing, bureaucrat­ billion, he indicated that Russia expected to tions concerning Ukrainian government policy towards its minorities and ic, former Communist toadie heavy into sym­ receive a share of the West's financial assis­ their current treatment. bolism but little else, is no longer president. tance to Ukraine. The subject of national minorities in present-day Ukraine has to date not This is a blessing. In November Mr. Kozyrev shocked NATO received the attention it deserves, perhaps making it easier for those so Unlike his predecessor, Leonid Kuchma, officials by vetoing inclusion of Poland, inclined to put their own negative twists on the issue. Ukraine's record has Ukraine's new president, is not backing away Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia been objectively, and, for the most part, favorably assessed by the U.S. gov­ from painful change. With the appointment of into the Western defense system. A surprise ernment, Congress, international organizations and, on occasion, by the free marketer Victor Pynzenyk as first deputy supporter of this Russian contravention was media. National minorities in Ukraine is an important issue not only on its prime minister, it appears that Mr. Kuchma is our old friend Patrick Buchanan. "Yeltsin and own merits, but because it serves as a useful barometer of independent serious about economic reform. Mr. Kuchma Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev are Ukraine's efforts to overcome the Soviet legacy and become a genuinely made a good impression at the White House, among the best friends the U.S. ever had in democratic, full-fledged member of the international community. and is moving decisively to take advantage of Moscow," wrote Mr. Buchanan just two weeks To cover all of the facets of national minorities issues in Ukraine would the economic assistance available from the ago. Why get them upset by expanding go well beyond the scope of this overview. Instead, this article attempts to United States and the G-7 states. Privatization NATO? "For us to intrude U.S. military power merely provide a broader context to the question of the treatment of Jews is still to be fully implemented, but a start has into Russia's sphere of influence," he argued, in Ukraine by focusing on the policies pertaining to all of Ukraine's been made. Recent public opinion polls from "to give war guarantees to her next-door neigh­ national minorities and providing a few illustrative examples of treatment Ukraine show a favorable approval rating for bors, is certain to be taken as a provocation, an of individual minority groups. Mr. Kuchma, and his 301 to 8 vote in arrogant American attempt to deny Russia her First, in the way of background, while Ukraine has approximately 110 dif­ Ukraine's Parliament to accept the Nuclear legitimate rights as a great power." ferent ethnic groups on its territory, except for the Russians, they make up a Non-Proliferation Treaty demonstrates support Poor Pat just doesn't get it. America has no relatively small proportion of the population of 52 million. According to the in the legislative branch. friends in Moscow. Never did. Never will. As 1989 census, 72.7 percent are Ukrainians and 22.1 percent are Russians, Relations between the United States and Ronald Reagan understood so well, the best leaving only about 5 percent belonging to other groups. With respect to Ukraine have improved dramatically. "The kind of Russia for the United States is a down­ Russians, some observers believe that their actual number is smaller than 22 United States has shown itself to be Ukraine's sized Russia. percent and a future census would reflect that. Among the reasons: some most ardent supporter in the G-7," wrote Ian Mr. Buchanan is just the latest member of mixed marriage and Russified Ukrainians earlier tended to identity, or felt Brzezinski in November. A member of the the American "give-Russia-what-it-wants- compelled to identify, with the dominant and more "prestigious" Russian American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee, Mr. club." A founding member of the club is nationality. Brzezinski believes that improved American Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott who From a historical perspective, it is worthwhile to note that until 1800 over Ukrainian relations are "geopolitically signifi­ in the words of Malcolm Forbes "sometimes 90 percent of Ukraine was ethnically Ukrainian. During the 19th century, cant" because they "reflect growing awareness seems more a Russian nationalist than does with the expansion of the Russian empire, the percentage of minorities grew in the United States that promoting the consoli­ Boris Yeltsin." significantly. The devastation and aftermath of World War II, however, dation of Ukraine's independence is a critical Not surprisingly, American academics are greatly reduced the numbers of many minorities such as the Poles and Jews component of any effective policy designed to also joining the Russia-first club. Perhaps the who had played important roles in the history of Ukraine. Instead, the ensure both Russia's post-imperial transforma­ most egregrious member is Eugene B. Rumer, Russians were left as by far the most numerous and significant minority. tion and stability in Eastern Europe." a senior staff member in the International Legal framework and policies In February, Ukraine became a member of Policy Department of the RAND Corp. and a the Partnership for Peace, a NATO program part-time consultant for the Carnegie Center in Independent Ukraine has pursued a liberal policy toward ethnic minori­ viewed by many as the first step towards full Moscow. In an article titled "Will Ukraine ties. Despite problems - and severe economic constraints - Ukraine's NATO membership. As a result of the pro­ Return to Russia?" which appeared in the fall treatment of its minorities has been positive and encouraging. Unlike gram, Ukrainian and U.S. military forces have issue of Foreign Policy, Rumer argued that the many other former Soviet republics, Ukraine has been largely untouched participated in peacekeeping exercises in the views of Ukrainian leaders such as Mykhailo by ethnic conflict and violence. According to the U.S. State Department Black Sea, in Poland and in Holland. Horyn who believe that Ukraine's "historical Annual Human Rights Country Report for 1993: "...Ukraine has been The Crimea is also less of a problem. The mission is to be the doctor who will cure remarkably free of interethnic antagonism and conflict." Crimea's president Yuriy Meshkov has been Russia of its imperial ambition" are "unrealis­ Ukraine's favorable record has been noted in various reports of U.S. gov­ stripped of all real power and the new Crimean tic and dangerous" because they place Ukraine ernmental entities, such as the State Department and Helsinki Commission, prime minister, Anatoly Franchuk, is Mr. in a vulnerable position. "The Ukrainian politi­ as well as by international organizations, such as the Conference on Security Kuchma's son-in-law's father. With Mr. cal and intellectual elite's failure to recognize and Cooperation in Europe (including the CSCE's High Commissioner on Kuchma's election, eastern Ukraine also seems the organic link of their people to Russia," National Minorities, former Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel.) to be talking less about secession. At least for continues Mr. Rumer, "is fraught with poten­ Ukraine's recent history with respect to national minorities had been one of now. tially catastrophic consequences for the inde­ tolerance and inclusivity. Indeed, Ukraine's legal framework and policies pendence, sovereignty and territorial integrity reflected the positive attitude towards minorities even prior to Ukrainian inde­ But little else has changed. Far too many of Ukraine." Why? Because the political and pendence. Importantly, they set the stage for minority support for the historic Ukrainian government leaders are still economic situation in Ukraine may become December 1991 independence referendum. The legal framework included: unscrupulous and corrupt. Even democrats and such that Russian "intervention in Ukrainian the July 1990 declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine; the Declaration former dissidents have joined the "gimme internal affairs is the only alternative to chaos of the Rights of Nationalities in Ukraine adopted on November 1, 1991; the mine" crowd in the belief, I suppose, that on its key border." October 1989 Law on Languages; and the October 1991 Law on Citizenship. Ukraine's days of independence are limited Greasing the skids for a future Russian inva­ All of these were significant not only in signaling that Ukraine's minorities and one had better start a Swiss bank account would have nothing to fear in an independent Ukraine, but also indicated to before it's too late. sion, our Carnegie Russian expert concludes: the world that nationalism and democracy need not be mutually exclusive. And the Russians are and will remain a "Russian intervention would probably lead to Ukraine's re-integration into the greater Russian Thanks in large part to Rukh, the leading force for Ukrainian indepen­ problem for a very long time. As late as state. Given the dangers associated with pro­ dence which at that time actively promoted the rights of minorities, October Alexander Solzhenitsyn was in tracted internal instability in Ukraine and its Ukraine showed the world that the struggle for independence could be Moscow inveighing against what he considers peaceful, democratic, and ethnically tolerant and inclusive. to be the Kremlin's neglect of some 25 million spillover into the neighboring countries, re­ incorporation into greater Russia might be the The October 1991 citizenship law was especially vital. The law makes Russians who have suddenly become minori­ only realistic option...Ukraine's disintegration no distinction on the basis of ethnic group and underscores Ukrainian ties in foreign lands. He repeated his earlier adherence to the idea that Ukraine be based on a territorial principle rather demands that Russia re-incorporate Ukraine would be a tragedy. But it would not necessarily than on ethnicity. This reduced concerns about an exclusive Ukrainian and Belarus into its federation. As Malcolm mark the closing chapter in the transformation nationalism (i.e., "Ukraine for the Ukrainians"). Forbes wrote on December 5, "most Russians of Eastern Europe. It would underscore the fact Favorable policies and a positive legal framework have continued since viscerally cannot accept the idea of an inde­ that Ukraine's collapse could not have been independence: A law on national minorities, containing strong guarantees pendent Ukraine, comparing the loss to the avoided in any case. Meanwhile, the key to along the lines of the November 1991 declaration, was passed by the U.S. giving up Florida or California." European stability would remain in Russia." Ukrainian Parliament in June 1992. It has been recognized for its progres­ Russian outrage is being translated into As we discovered with the CBS scourging, sive nature by various international actors. The law, inter alia, promises Russian sabotage. While in Winnipeg in the Russian KGB is still alive and well and October, for example, Russian Foreign supplying its agents of influence with disinfor­ (Continued on page 14) Minister Andrei Kozyrev made an unexpected mation that undermines the Ukrainian cause. appearance at a conference of representatives This Christmas Ukrainians are further ahead Orest Deychakiwsky is a staff advisor at the Commission on Security from the G-7 industrialized democracies and than they were last Christmas. But then so are and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission). major international lending organizations. the Russians! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 No. 1 Ukrainian American Bar Association's fall meeting focuses on CBS controversy WASHINGTON - The Ukrainian Ukrainian Constitution. The 41-person American Bar Association held its annu­ committee consists of Ukrainian judges, al fall meeting during the weekend of and political and government leaders. December 9-11, 1994, at the J.W. Judge Futey noted that one of the pri­ Marriott Hotel in Washington. mary difficulties in formulating a UABA President Walter M. Lupan Constitution at this stage of Ukraine's opened the Saturday morning session, political and legal development is the which began with several organizational lack of a political consensus as to the reports, as well as a report on the Second type of government Ukraine will have, a World Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers presidential republic or parliamentary that took place in Kyyiv in October 1994. system. While the latest draft of the The American representative to the Ukrainian Constitution provides for International Organizing Committee, numerous "positive" rights, such as the UABA Vice-President Orest Jejna, report­ right to work, education and a safe envi­ ed that the Second World Congress of ronment, Judge Futey noted the severe Ukrainian Lawyers was an unprecedented potential problems of actually enforcing event, which also saw the opening of the such positive rights. legal year in Ukraine. The beginning of Saturday's afternoon session began with the legal year in Ukraine was commemo­ a viewing of the controversial "60 Minutes" rated by a liturgy in St. Sophia Cathedral segment, "The Ugly Face of Freedom." that was attended by President Leonid Following the viewing of the CBS report, Kuchma and some 100 lawyers and jurists the audience heard a panel discussion titled from throughout the world. "Journalistic Responsibility: A Case Study Mr. Jejna also reported that the World of CBS's '60 Minutes' 'The Ugly Face of Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers elected a Freedom.' " The panel was moderated by new president, Volodymyr Stretovych, a UABA member Nestor Olesnycky, and member of the Ukrainian Parliament and included UABA members Arthur chairman of the Committee on Legal Policy Belendiuk, Olha Rybakoff and Bohdan Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S. Yuriy Shcherbak presents UABA President and Law Reform. Among Mr. Stretovych's Vitvitsky. Additional contributors to the Walter Lupan with a copy of the first Constitution of Ukraine drafted in 1710 by objectives as president of the World panel discussion included UABA Treasurer Hetman Pylyp Orlyk. Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers are: pub­ Bohdanna Pochoday and Volodymyr stressed that the primary problem with standards to which consumers can hold the lishing a directory of law firms that practice Vysotsky, an attorney from Toronto. the case was that standing became a cen­ media. Mr. Vitvitsky noted that the recent in Kyyiv, selecting candidates for intern­ After the viewing of the program, Mr. tral issue, as there was no proper plaintiff "60 Minutes" report is not an isolated inci­ ships abroad, and developing a code of Olesnycky began the panel discussion by on whose behalf the lawsuit could or dent but a continuous pattern of attacks by ethics for government workers in Ukraine. informing the audience that shortly after should have been brought. the media against Ukrainians, as demon­ The next World Congress of Ukrainian the initial broadcast of the program on She pointed out that not only was the strated by the 1968 NBC miniseries Lawyers is scheduled to take place in October 23, the Ukrainian National suit dismissed by the court, but that CBS "Holocaust," CBS's 1987 broadcast of 1996. Association reactivated the Ukrainian also sought sanctions against the UCCA "Escape from Sobibor," then most recent­ Participants in the morning session also Heritage Defense Committee. The and the attorneys who brought the lawsuit, ly this CBS broadcast of the "The Ugly heard from two members of the Ukrainian UHDC has an open invitation for all which fortunately were denied by the Face of Freedom." judiciary, Dmytro Prytyka and Yuriy Ukrainian organizations throughout the court. In dismissing the Sobibor lawsuit, Previously, such episodes saw the Levandovsky. Judge Prytyka is chief judge United States to join the committee, the the court found that the case involved an Ukrainian American community demon­ of the Ukrainian Arbitrage Court in Kyyiv, purpose of which is to formulate a strate­ organization formed to litigate the special strate an ostrich-like attitude, hoping that the highest economics court adjudicating gy to firmly deal with the issues raised in interests of a broad, indefinite class of citi­ the issues would quietly go away. This commercial issues for business entities. the program, as well as similar incidents zens. The organization had no formal time, the "60 Minutes" program pro­ Judge Levandovsky is chief judge of the that are anticipated in the future. Mr. members and did not legally exist at the voked the Ukrainian American commu­ Arbitrage Court in the Ternopil Oblast. Olesnycky went on to inform the audi­ time of the activity alleged to injure its nity into a concerted effort to react, Both judges informed the audience ence of meetings that took place between members. Accordingly, the court conclud­ which Mr. Vitvitsky said he views as a about the general organizational structure representatives of the Ukrainian ed that the plaintiff, the Delaware Chapter positive and necessary response. of the Ukrainian judiciary, as well as American community and CBS, and the of the Ukrainian Congress Committee Mr. Belendiuk, an expert in communi­ some of the intrinsic merits of the total lack of responsiveness on the part Inc., failed to clearly "allege facts demon­ cations law, characterized CBS as a crea­ Ukrainian judiciary system currently in of CBS. As Mr. Olesnycky put it, "CBS strating that it is a proper party to invoke ture of "fear and greed." He pointed out existence. They conceded, however, that informed us that it stands by its story." judicial resolution of the dispute and the that CBS operates by the grace of the fed­ judicial reform efforts in Ukraine contin­ Ms. Rybakoff then spoke about her exercise of the court's remedial powers." eral government and relies upon its adver­ ue at a slower than desired pace in light experience as one of the several attor­ Mr. Vitvitsky in his presentation tisers. Working from that premise, he gave of fiscal and political limitations. neys who brought suit in 1987 on behalf addressed what he viewed to be the "cre­ a pointed overview to the audience of The meeting also heard from Bohdan of the Delaware Chapter of the Ukrainian ative editing," historical inaccuracies, and what could be done by the Ukrainian Futey of the U.S. Court of Claims. Judge Congress Committee Inc. against CBS in quotes and pictures "totally out of context American community to get the attention Futey spoke about the Constitutional connection with its portrayal of within the '60 Minutes' broadcast." He of CBS in this matter. Only then might it Committee of Ukraine that is currently Ukrainians in the April 12, 1987, presen­ questioned whether this program was jour­ lead to a constructive dialogue and per­ working on the latest draft of the proposed tation of "Escape from Sobibor." She nalism at all and whether there are any haps mitigate the possibility of another such attack on Ukrainians in the future. He also offered specific strategies that could be pursued by the Ukrainian community. Ms. Pochoday informed the audience that the UABA has formed a committee to investigate potential legal and other actions in response to the "60 Minutes" broadcast. She noted the various actions in which the UABA and its members could participate, and encouraged Ukrainian American lawyers to take the initiative in their respective communities. Finally, Mr. Vysotsky spoke to the audi­ ence regarding the Canadian efforts to date in response to the "60 Minutes" broadcast. He also discussed the Canadian desire to form a North American liaison to exchange information in this regard and to possibly coordinate the efforts of Ukrainians in the United States and in Canada. It also should be noted that the United States Information Agency television program, "Windows on America," videotaped a portion of the UABA meet­ ing on the "60 Minutes" piece for future broadcast in Ukraine. The UABA meeting concluded with an evening banquet, the keynote speaker at which was Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, ambas- Seen during the reception are: (from left) Dmytro Prytyka, Maria Shcherbak, Bohdanna Pochoday, Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, Yuriy Levandovsky and Volodymyr Vysotsky. 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TRADITIONS: Koliady — the other kind All creatures by Orysia Paszczak Tracz played musical instruments. But when they sang a koli­ adka for the dead, there was no instrumental accompa­ We are all familiar with the koliady (carols) and niment. In fact, this type of koliadka was called "umer- great and small shchedrivky (new year's songs) sung every year at la" (dead, i.e., for the dead). Christmas: "Boh Predvichnyi" (God Eternal), "Nova In the two-volume "Koliadky і Shchedrivky," com­ by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Radist Stala" (A New Joy Has Come), "Vo Vefleyemi" piled by Volodymyr Hnatiuk (Etnografichnyi Zbirnyk. (In Bethlehem), "Dobryi Vechir, Tobi" (Good Evening to Even though most of us now live in an urban Lviv, Naukove Tovarystvo im. Shevchenka, 1914), environment, every Ukrainian child knows about You), among many. All except the last one sing about the there is a section "Koliadky Umerlym" (Koliadky for birth of the Christ Child and are similar to the regular farm animals and how special they are at Christmas. the Dead): for the husband, the wife, and for children. Maybe, to a child's mind, it's only Ukrainian farm English and other European carols we know and love. In one koliadka, from Stari Kuty, Kosiv county, But every once in a while, a strange theme sneaks in. For animals that behave differently at Christmas, not the recorded (i.e., written down) in 1910, brother Petro asks ones down the county or provincial road in North example, "The Holly and the Ivy," with some Christmas God to extend his life, at least for an hour, "so that I elements, is about two plants important to the pre- America. But that could be because the local farmer could call my family together, that I may bid farewell, does not treat them the same way as the Ukrainian Christians of Britain. "Dobryi Vechir, Tobi," while men­ without sin." The koliadka describes how Petro has just tioning the three Christian holy days of Christmas and hav­ "hospodar" and "hospodynia" did in the old days. gotten his wish about being taken to Jerusalem and In our comfortable city apartments or suburban ing as a refrain "Syn Bozhyi narodyvsia" (the Son of God gives his soul to God. After a big procession he arrives was born), is about the earlier pre-Christian feast of Koliada homes, we have kept a good part of the special in Jerusalem/heaven, where he is accepted. "Brother Sviat Vechir (Christmas Eve) traditions, but many (the winter solstice) and refers to setting the table for guests. Petro, rest with God, where all the saints rest, where the The Christmas elements are a later, Christian addition. have fallen away because of impossibility or angels sing, where the Apostles read books... Rest with impracticality. "Shchedryk," a new year's song about the swallow God, brother Petro, and for us, the living, bliss (shchas- In ancient, pre-Christian times, animals were con­ returning in the spring (and just as popular as "Carol of tia), health for many years, from now until forever, sidered a part of the family, of the clan. They were the Bells") really is a most ancient song, proving to us 'hey, dai Bozhe' (hey, grant us, God)." that the earliest new year in Ukraine was celebrated in the respected, and even though hunted for food, cloth­ These verses tell us what people longed for — a ing, and shelter, they were spoken to and thanked for spring, when Mother Earth and all of nature was reborn. "good" death, whereby you did not die alone but were Ukrainian koliadky and shchedrivky are the earliest their support. Later, during the Neolithic period, with surrounded by family and friends, you asked all for for­ the domestication of certain animals such as horses, human songs continuously in existence. These ritual giveness for any transgressions, said farewell properly songs tell us about the mind-frame of the earliest humans cattle, sheep, pigs and fowl, these were still consid­ and died with a candle in your hands. ered family. in Ukraine, about their world view, about everyday life A koliadka from Yaseniv Horishnyi, Kosiv county, back then, and how they explained to themselves what Let's go back a century or two, to the traditional about a deceased wife is a real tear-jerker. She has heard Ukrainian Sviat Vechir, the way we remember it was around them. We learn from the many verses of each the angels calling her, and instructs her husband now to koliadka and shchedrivka how our ancestors believed the from stories. Very clear indications of the close rela­ build her new "house" (i.e., coffin) with no windows and tionship between humans and animals is seen in our earth and heavens were created, about the celestial bod­ no doors (this particular description of a coffin appears ies, the first tree of life, the first waters, the first bird, the Christmas traditions. Every Ukrainian child knows often in folk songs). He is also to comb and dress her a that even before the family sat down to Sviata first animals, the first human, the first family, the first certain way, and prepare three beeswax candles. With the plants and grains, and the first fire. Vecheria (Holy Supper), a portion of each of the 12 first candle, the body is dressed; with the second, the soul dishes was collected and taken to the stable to share Later ritual songs sing about medieval times, and some leaves and the orphans weep for their mother; with the with the animals. Bees were also fed and greeted can actually be traced to particular historical people and third candle the body is taken by the angels. The orphans with the sviata (holy days). events. There are songs for and about family members, cry that they gave their mother to God, and now there is individually or as a group (the hospodar and hospodynia no one to comb their hair and dress them in white shirts. In some regions, among the Hutsuls of the Carpathian Mountains, for example, the husband and — husband and wife, the children, the grandparents), For some reason, the two koliadky for departed chil­ about the divchyna or parubok (young adults of courting wife went outside before supper, and thrice recited an dren have vineyards and wine as a theme. The grapes invitation to the winds, the storms, the frosts, all foul and marriageable age) — in fact, many romantic koliadky are tended, gathered, mashed and made into wine, about engagements and weddings, even one for a young weather, as well as to the wolves, bears, and other which is transported to Kyyiv, to the monastery, where predatory animals, to come to supper. Each time, the woman who lost her virginity (you couldn't hide a thing in it is blessed and distributed to the people. the village), about the village priest and his family, about couple waited for a reply. Then they said, "And if The koliadky, both from Zhabie, Kosiv county, sing you're not coming now, don't bother us the rest of the those recently departed (i.e., deceased), about the widow about the young souls who pray for those on earth who and her children, koliady sung outside the house before year!" This was a ritual,magica l act, a wish-fulfilling have not forgotten them. One ends, "the heavenly king­ gesture to ensure safety in the new year. entering or after the regular koliada — "to thank the table," dom for the little dead souls, and on this earth many It was believed that on this night, the animals koliady for leaving the house ("pokoliad" — literally, after years — mnohaya lita — for us, the living." What at the koliada), koliady for dancing — "pliasanky," among first may seem morbid was probably a psychologically spoke human language. The god of the animals the Hutsuls, and parodies and humorous koliady. cathartic ritual for the mourning family. visited them to see if they were well treated. Along And, the koliadnyky did not just sing one song and go with the special food of this evening, the animals The whole feast of Sviat Vechir (Christmas Eve) is were given new hay and fresh straw, everything to on to the next house. Each member of the family had a koli­ about ancestors, and those departed who return to cele­ ada sung for him or her, with a particular, relevant theme. make them comfortable. Baby animals were brate with the living members of the family. The empty brought into the house to play with the children in There are some, for us, very unusual themes, which place setting at the table and the food left there all night to our ancestors many centuries ago were quite normal the straw under the table. The symbolic family of are for the departed. If the death happened within the nature was together on this night. and ordinary. The theme of death, not something usual­ year, a koliada for the dead let the mourners remember The reason meat and dairy products are not eaten ly associated with the happy Christmas season, appears that person, allowing the grieving to take place openly, on Sviat Vechir dates back to our most ancient histo­ quite often in koliady. If a family member had died dur­ with the community. In Ukrainian tradition, the whole ing the past year, the koliadnyky would sing especially family consisted of the departed, the living and those ry. Because most of the traditions of our Rizdvo for that person. Among the Hutsuls of the Carpathian yet to be born. Thus, on Sviat Vechir we still celebrate (Christmas) have their origins in the Paleolithic peri­ Mountains, the koliadnyky danced special dances and that togetherness. od (beginning around 22,000 B.C.), in the hunter/gatherer stage of human life, how could Some koliadky for widows end with a wish that the humans eat the flesh of the members of their extend­ widow may remarry (three gifts for her include a silk ed clan on this special evening celebrating the winter kerchief, a metal-worked belt and a gold ring for her solstice? The foods were all gathered, collected, fair finger). Others are really sad, describing the dried. Only the fish was fresh. There were no dairy widow's poverty and grief. Some ritual songs have products then, because there were no domesticated become folk songs, and their origin is lost to us. One such song, recorded so movingly a few years ago by animals from which to obtain milk, butter and cheese. Nina Matviyenko, seems to be a bittersweet folk love- The animals are even part of the vinchuvannia song about a separated couple. (recited greetings) and in the koliadky. After greet­ ings to the husband, wife and children, the farm Surprisingly, what it really is is a widow's koliadka. animals are included in the next line, as is the field "V lisi, v lisi, pid dubynoyu" (In the forest, under the oak tree) tells about two doves who loved each other. A and its harvest: young hunter shoots an arrow towards the oak and kills And with this word we ring the bells; and bow the male dove, taking the female home to his orchard. to you, renowned master of the house, our lord She neither eats nor drinks, only beats her wings and Ivanko; we bow to you, we honor you, we wish weeps under an oak. The hunter asks why she is crying, you a good and long life, for you and your wife, and the dove replies that the one she loved is gone. "I your family, your animals, your horned animals, have 40 doves here, go pick one you can love," the and with the entire home and holy field..." hunter tells her. She replies, "He may have the same Another koliadka wishes a full, satisfied home, kind of feathers, but not the same down, he may sing and bees with hives... and as many cows, sheep, the same song, but it's not the same voice..." and horses as there are crumbs on the table. A Hutsul "podiaka stolovy" (thanks to the table, after Not all the koliadky were so sad and morbid. The all the koliady are sung) wishes to the family, romantic ones sing about love, matchmaking and wed­ ding festivities — all wish-fulfilling prophecies. The among other good things, that when the cattle are humorous ones and the parodies are downright silly, in the barns, and the sheep are on the way to the sometimes even blasphemous or raunchy. But there was polonyna (the highland meadows), that the Blessed a time and place for each koliadka. A story was told, a Mother of God cross their path, to bless them. lesson taught, a wish hoped for, a moral reinforced. If a hospodar had beehives, Hutsul koliadnyky, Today, with our limited repertoire of koliady, we (Continued on page 16) 'Ukrainian Christmas" by V. Bednarsky. (©Chwyli Dnistra, 1988) have so much to learn from our past. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 No. 1

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І Г\ II TEL: (714> 523-3969 Performing and Fine Arts, the only such Mr. Rudnytsky is a member of the piano "J-LJI FAX: (714) 739-7106 school in all of Asia. Mr. Rudnytsky will faculty of Youngstown State University. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 VIDEO VIEW: "Memories from Mittenwald, 1946-1949" "Memories from Mittenwald: 1946-1949," video produced by Dr. Ostap Wynnyckyj, 1994. fully the Ukrainian DPs established their Fortunately, Dr. Ostap Wynnyckyj has administration, schools, churches, youth produced a video that recaptures the by Prof. Orest Subtelny three to four years they spent in the and sports organizations, and cultural physical setting, the scope of activities, camps were a unique and often pleasant When World War II ended, Germany groups. And this entire infrastructure, the organizations, the people and, most experience. The DP republics had a sur­ equal to that of a middle-sized European importantly, the spirit that made the teemed with millions of foreign workers feit of young, energetic and educated and refugees from Soviet occupation. town, was created with practically no Ukrainian camp in Mittenwald what it people. Although simple food and shelter material resources. Indeed, it is striking was. "Memories from Mittenwald: 1946- Most of these people eventually returned (terribly overcrowded) were available, to their homes. But about 2.5 million how relatively little material concerns 1949" is a valuable historical document jobs in the shattered German economy monopolized the attention of the DPs. because we have no such record about East Europeans, including about 220,000 were practically impossible to find. Ukrainians, refused to return to their Especially for the youth, the years in any other Ukrainian DP camp. Therefore, partly in response to pressing Mittenwald seem to have been a wonder­ Firstly, Dr. Wynnyckyj has compiled a Soviet-occupied homelands. These were needs, partly to express what had been the DPs (displaced persons). ful time. Freed from the pressure of jobs, vast amount of rare and useful informa­ long repressed and partly to avoid bore­ careers, material accumulation, they tion about the camp. And secondly, he To care for the masses of homeless dom, the DPs generated an extraordinary could devote themselves to their talents, has presented it in a most attractive for­ refugees, the United Nations Relief and amount of organizational, cultural, edu- interests and just simply to the joy of mat, that of the video film. This novel Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) was cationals, and political activity. Most of being young in the midst of the beautiful approach is especially significant because formed in 1945. Two years later, the the major Ukrainian-inhabited camps, Alps. Thus, Mittenwald and the other it is a very effective way of transmitting International Relief Organization (IRO) which, on the average, had between Ukrainian DP camps were unique incu­ to the TV generations, that is, the children took over this role. Basically, these organi­ 2,000 and 4,000 inhabitants, were locat­ bators in which not only individuals but and grandchildren of those who were at zations sought to provide the DPs with ed in American-occupied Bavaria, an entire, very important, segment of the Mittenwald, an attractive, visual represen­ food and shelter until they could be perma­ specifically in Munich, Regensburg, Ukrainian diaspora was formed. And tation of their life in the camp. nently resettled. Often grouped by nation­ Berchstesgaden and Mittenwald. what was experienced, learned and creat­ In the history of Ukrainian diaspora, ality, the refugees were concentrated in Situated in the of Bavarian Alps, ed in camps like Mittenwald would have we have very few visual documents of "camps" (tabory), that is, requisitioned beside the swift-flowing lsar River, a great impact on Ukrainian communities this type. For creating it, not only the army barracks, schools and public build­ Mittenwald was probably the most sceni- throughout the world. inhabitants of the Ukrainian camp at ings. Because they were allowed to elect cally located of all the Ukrainian DP Almost half a century has passed since Mittenwald, but Ukrainian historians, their own leadership to look after adminis­ camps. And the beauty of these surround­ the establishment of the Mittenwald camp. owe Dr. Ostap Wynnyckyj a sincere vote tration of the camps as well as education ings probably contributed to the energy, It is difficult to believe that vibrant, pul­ of thanks. and cultural affairs, these camps, which verve and variety of activities for which sating Ukrainian life amidst the Alps is The video, which includes a transcript, were located in the American, British, this camp was famous. It certainly pro­ now receding into an increasingly murky is priced at $30 (U.S.), $35 (Canadian). French zones of Germany, were often vided a perfect setting for the Ukrainian past. Most of the camp elders have passed It may by ordered in the U.S. by contact­ referred to as "DP republics." refugees to recuperate from the horrors of away. Its inhabitants are scattered around ing: Jaroslaw Duzey, 26657 Haverhill, For many of the camp inhabitants, the the war and to prepare for the next stage the world (although they still gather peri­ Warren, MI 48091, (810) 759-3152; and in their lives, a stage that would scatter odically to reminisce about their beloved in Canada by contacting: Dr. Ostap Orest Subtelny is professor of history them to all corners of the world. Mittenwald). Those who were young in Wynnyckyj, 35 Warrender Ave., Apt. at York University, North York, Ontario. It is astonishing how quickly and skill- the camp are now aging. There is a danger 601, Etobicoke, Ontario M9B 5Z5. The that the unique years Ukrainians, both as video is available in VHS, PAL or individuals and as a community, experi­ SEC AM (for Ukraine); please specify Art by Trofimenko on view in Toronto enced in Mittenwald might be forgotten. system when ordering. by Nestor Gula by his son in Delaware. What made Klym's career in art unusual is that he started paint­ £§!&/ 9PMA€P of 6/ii/jfs/mj TORONTO - Even though Klym ing at a relatively late age, 45. Wishing Trofimenko, known in the art world sim­ Klym was born in 1898 in the town of ply as Klym, started painting late in life, Pekarshchyna in the Zhytomyr Oblast in his work is a part of important collections. central Ukraine. He was a teacher until The Ukrainian Weekly Editors His paintings make up a part of the World War I when he joined Symon OCEAN BATHING, CONVENIENT TO SHOPPING, world renowned Barnes Collection. After Petliura's army in the fight for Ukrainian RESTAURANTS AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS. visiting one of Klym's first art exhibits a prosperous New Year MODERN, COMFORTABLE, EFFICIENCY independence. As the Bolsheviks were APARTMENTS OVERLOOKING ATLANTIC OCEAN and buying several works, the founder of gaining the upper hand in the war, the Riptide Patio the Barnes Foundation, famed art collec­ army crossed the Zbruch River into west­ 2300 North Surf Rd. tor Dr. Albert C. Barnes, promised the From your co-workers ern Ukraine, then held by the newly creat­ AwiIda and Sid Hollywood Beach, FL 33019 Ukrainian American painter that he ed Polish state. After a period of intern­ phone (305) 921-7667 would visit his studio and buy some ment by the Polish government, Mr. additional works. Unfortunately, the Trofimenko was released and settled in American philanthropist and art collector Lviv. There, he worked as a businessman, was killed in a car accident before he owning a cosmetics store. It was in Lviv ШУІШ№Ш$Ш$ШіШШ£ШШШШЬ. could make good on his promise. that Mr. Trofimenko became interested in In Toronto, where the Barnes art, buying many paintings of local artists. Collection is on exhibit, approximately Due to the advance of the Soviet 80 people showed up on Sunday, Army into western Ukraine in 1939, Mr. |Христос Родився! І November 6, to the gallery of the Trofimenko and his family fled west­ Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation to ward and settled in Krakow. In Krakow, ^3 нагоди Різдва Христового і Нового Року ] see over 50 of Klym (Clement) at the age of 45, he started to paint. Trofimenko's works. Present at the show However, the second world war's end Щ всім теперішнім і майбутнім клієнтам was Klym's surviving family: his only forced Mr. Trofimenko and his family to £ Веселих та Щасливих Свят ~ бажає son Swiatoslaw and his wife, Martha, flee again, first to Germany in 1945, then their daughter and Klym's granddaugh­ to the United States in 1950. Mr. Українська Друкарня ] ter, Zoya, and her husband Christopher. Trofimenko settled in Philadelphia. Ж TRIDENT Mr. Trofimenko was a prolific painter There he was the curator of the Zoology „ТРИЗУБ" who produced around 1,000 paintings. He department at the University of ^Associates Printing ІІІ has been shown in Philadelphia, New York, Pennsylvania, but devoted most of his Toronto and Munich. Approximately 200 efforts and time to his painting. Klym А Вшгонусмо Всякі passed away in 1979 at the age of 81. to 300 of his paintings are still being stored 5 Щрумтрські Роботи also sending information throughout the Northern Californians... world. He cited estimates indicating that х LHrainian Printers (Continued from page 5) some 25 million users around the world now access the vast computer network, a S Personal and Commercial new publications that focus exclusively on resource the Ukrainian community may щ Printing providing English-language coverage on find successful due to its flexibility and rel­ Ukraine: Intelnews, Eastern Economist atively inexpensive user fees. 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Alliance, composed of representatives from Internment... Canada's Ukrainian, Italian, Chinese and (Continued from page 3) Japanese communities, prepares a brief to Commons that he will apologize to the the United Nation's Human Rights Chinese Canadian community for the Commission in Geneva, which accuses imposition of a racist turn-of-the-century Canada of violating international human head tax on Chinese immigrants, and to rights. About 700 Japanese Canadians have the Ukrainian and Italian Canadian com­ yet to receive compensation; 17,000 have. munities over wartime internment. October 25, 1993: Liberal leader Jean 1991: The House of Commons unani­ Chretien defeats Ms. Campbell in a fed­ mously passes a resolution from Liberal eral election and becomes Canada's 20th MP Peter Milliken calling for Ukrainian prime minister. Canadian redress. May 27, 1994: Montreal filmmaker October 10, 1992: Prime Minister Yurij Luhovy's controversial documen­ Mulroney tells delegates attending the tary "Freedom Had a Price" premieres in 17th triennial UCC meeting in Winnipeg Toronto. that his government "remains commit­ August 4, 1994: The first plaque com­ ted" to resolving the redress issue. memorating the first internment camp October 11, 1992: Winnipegger Oleh site at Fort Henry is unveiled by the Romaniw is elected UCC president, UCCLA. defeating UCCLC chair John Gregorovich. October 1, 1994: The UCCLA, in con­ Almost immediately, Mr. Romaniw orders junction with the Calgary branch of the At the NCW dinner are: (from left) Ludmyla Kryzhanivsky, Mary Tomorug, the commission to disband. Mr. UCC, holds a redress symposium in Banff. Donna Giuliani and Iryna Kurowyckyj. Gregorovich forms another group, the Representatives of all five major Canadian Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties political parties express their support for Association (UCCLA). resolving the 80-year-old issue. March 29, 1993: Mary Manko October 9, 1994: An unofficial UCC- Haskett, 84, internment survivor and UCCLA brief is submitted to Parks honorary chair of the UCCLA's redress Canada and the Banff National Park council, joins a delegation on Parliament administration seeking the placing of his­ ' iKRAINE Hill that calls for a settlement of the torical plaques at each of the 26 intern­ -ACONC'ISF ENCYCLOPEDIA Ukrainian Canadian internment issue by ment camp sites, including the one at KRAINE the Canadian government. Banff's Castle Mountain. May 1993: The UCC's redress com­ November 1994: The UCCLA issues a ^. -A CONCISE mittee releases the results of a 1992 Price 15-point redress claim to Canadian MPs UNIVERSITY OF Waterhouse study on economic losses and senators, calling for a massive public TORONTO PRESS suffered by Ukrainian Canadian awareness campaign. ENCYCLOPEDIA internees. It finds that almost 6,000 peo­ December 14, 1994: Secretary of State ple were held and lost as much as $33 for Multiculturalism Sheila Finestone million (in 1991 dollars). turns down the redress requests from the May 5, 1993: Rukh chairman Ukrainian Canadian and five other Vyacheslav Chornovil and Christian- Canadian ethnic communities. 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Exclusion Act, which forced Chinese immi­ Enclosed is (a check, M.O.) for the amount $ June 25,1993: Prime Minister Mulroney grants to pay as much as $500 - the equiva­ Please send the book (s) to the following address: leaves office. lent of two years' wages - to enter Canada. June 26, 1993: Mr. Bardyn sends Mr. However, Mr. Simpson said he Mulroney a letter accusing the former prime believes that "retrospective demands also minister of failing to resolve the redress transplant today's social understanding Street issue before leaving office. Newly elected to a different social and political context No7 Tory leader Kim Campbell becomes prime when people made decisions based on City" State Zip Code minister. assumptions they considered valid but October 1993: The National Redress which we might now question." 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1995 No. 1

rioration of Ukraine's economic situation National minorities... has made it difficult for the government to (Continued from page 7) fulfill all its commitments of financial sup­ port for minorities (the same, of course co-equal status with Ukrainian to lan­ 17.5 million could be said for the Ukrainian majority). guages of minorities residing compactly, and guarantees the rights of nationalities There is a shortage of teachers quali­ households viewed the to use their languages in all aspects of fied to teach many minority languages, social life, and the right to schools and with the obvious exception of Russian. CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast cultural facilities. Some minorities lack the financial There have been follow-up laws as well; resources to publish materials in their defaming Ukrainians. the creation of a fund for Cultural native languages and don't always Development of Ethnic Minorities; and the receive cooperation from officials at the setting up of a Ministry of Nationalities and local level. One problem, for instance, is Despite our vigorous response, Migration in 1993. a lack of paper for publishing. Another It might be useful to highlight a number difficulty is the lack of premises previ­ CBS "stands by its program". of other factors in Ukrainian political life ously owned by groups. While some are that underscore Ukraine's positive atti­ being returned, this process is by no tudes towards national minorities: means complete. This latest attack da Ukraine and Ukrainians will continue • Both of independent Ukraine's presi­ Illustrative minorities dents and other highranking politicians to affect щ, our children, and our grandchildren^ have condemned xenophobia and anti- What is the reality for various individual Semitism, and advocated the principle of minorities in today's Ukraine? Obviously, equal citizenship regardless of ethnic each minority is different and has its own WE MUST COOTNU! TO FIGHT MSINFORMATION background. specific characteristics. The largest minori­ • Significantly, along with the govern­ ty, ethnic Russians, generally have not "' ' WITHTHETIUJTH.\ ment, most major political parties have faced discrimination (with some exceptions adopted a liberal approach on minorities, in western Ukraine). On the contrary, they with the exception of a very small num­ are well represented politically and even We need funds to place ads in the media. ber of extreme nationalist parties. culturally dominant in many parts. As a • Since independence, ethnic Russians, practical matter, because the Russian lan­ The TRUTH most be read by MILLIONS. Jews and others have held prominent guage was the main medium of communi­ positions in the Ukrainian government. cation in the Soviet Union, ethnic Russians There is no evidence of discrimination in Ukraine have ample opportunities to against minorities in official positions. read Russian-language publications, attend FIGHT DEFAMATION. Furthermore, minorities appear to be fair­ Russian cultural events, send their children ly and evenly represented politically. In to Russian-language schools and listen to Please send your contribution to: looking at the 1994 parliamentary elec­ Russian radio broadcasts. tions, national minorities (Russians, Furthermore, laws and decrees are pub­ UNA-Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee Jews, Romanians, Poles, Hungarians and lished both in Ukrainian and Russian, and 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ 07303 others) are well represented with respect in the east and south, Russian is permitted to their proportion of the total popula­ as a language of official correspondence tion. alongside Ukrainian. Even with indepen­ • Good bilateral relations with countries dence, Russian still predominates in much such as Hungary, Poland and Israel, whose of Ukraine. In fact, one can argue that the NORTH PORT, WARM MINERAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA co-nationals/co-religionists are important Russian minority is privileged in this A community in Southwest Florida. Retire or relocate to a friendly area minorities in Ukraine. 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A considerable amount of cultural life of many national groups, sti­ space in The Ukrainian Weekly recently fled by the policies of forced Russification has been devoted to the Jewish minority, (as were Ukrainians themselves) has focusing both on the positive features of expanded significantly as the government the Jewish reality in independent Ukraine has provided a broad spectrum of possibil­ (i.e. the renewal and development of ities for cultural development. Jewish cultural and religious life) as well Many have organized national-cultural as the negative (continuing, albeit limited, associations, held conferences or con­ manifestations of anti-Semitism). gresses, and are publishing newspapers Both the Ukrainian government and and books. Some have opened schools in democratic opposition have condemned their own languages, and several oblasts anti-Semitism and have worked success­ have introduced TV and radio program­ fully to improve Ukrainian-Jewish rela­ ming in minority languages, notably the tions. President Leonid Kuchma's recent Crimea, the Transcarpathian Oblast visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial (Hungarian, Romanian, German); Odessa Museum in Washington and meetings (Romanian, Bulgarian, Gagauz); with American Jewish groups are only Chernivtsi (Romanian, Jewish); Donetske the latest examples of these efforts. (Greek, Jewish) and Zhytomyr (Polish). The government has encouraged the According to recent statistics of development of Jewish culture, and there is Ukraine's Ministry of Nationalities, there official support for Jewish newspapers, day are currently some 235 national-cultural schools, and other educational and cultural associations in Ukraine that publish 42 institutions. There has been a mushrooming newspapers and four journals. of Jewish cultural and educational institu­ tions, as well as synagogues. There are, for Despite this tangible progress and a posi­ example, Jewish associations in 89 tive governmental attitude and legislation, the picture is not completely rosy. The dete­ (Continued on page 15)

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Clearly, some present practical and polit­ of any new nuclear plants in the immedi­ National minorities... ical demands to the Ukrainian govern­ Nuclear power... ate future. The consensus is that Ukraine (Continued from page 14) ment that will need to be handled skill­ (Continued from page 2) must build on existing sites which could Ukrainian cities, a dozen Jewish newspa­ fully and in a balanced way. stated repeatedly that the plants at St. optimally yield the commissioning of pers in Ukraine, two Jewish TV programs Ukraine's record on the national Petersburg, Smolensk, Kursk and partic­ five new VVER-1000 reactors. on Ukrainian TV and services televised on minority question, considering it is still a ularly Ignalina (Lithuania) are equally, if The industry must first deal with public major religious holidays, as well as a pri­ very young democracy, is impressive. On not more, dangerous yet receive little opposition. Moreover, the international vate university in Kyyiv. the other hand, it would be foolhardy to international or media attention. bodies that have offered financial aid to At the same time, however, manifesta­ suggest that all problems have been eradi­ At present, none of the Chornobyl reac­ Ukraine to commission new stations are tions of nationalist extremism, including cated, or that there is no room for tors are in operation: on October 8, reactor unlikely to do so without some firm com­ anti-Semitism, have not disappeared, improvement. The existence of small sec­ one was shut down for maintenance, and mitment to the eventual closure of although the fringe groups that propagate tors of Ukrainian society who display a on October 13, the third reactor was Chornobyl. The reality is that the Ukrainian hatred against Jews and others represent frightening intolerance to members of cer­ removed from the grid after a crack was nuclear authorities have moved in the only a small minority and have not made tain minorities gives cause for concern, as detected in a pipe. These minor ailments opposite direction and intend to continue a significant inroads in the general popula­ does the still underdeveloped political and have been echoed throughout the Ukrainian policy that ideally would result in the tion. Nevertheless, incidents such as the civil culture. Hopefully, with eventual nuclear industry. On October 25, for exam­ receipt of European and U.S. assistance for setting on fire earlier this year of a syna­ improvements in Ukraine's economic sit­ ple, the first unit at the Zaporizhzhia station the commissioning of new reactors while gogue in Kremenchuk as well as attacks uation, extremist groups will become fur­ was shut down for a week because of a procrastinating on the Chornobyl question. on Jews in some Ukrainian newspapers ther marginalized and tolerance will fault in the generator's feedwater pipeline. Their main argument in defense of such certainly give cause for concern. increasingly become the norm. a policy is one of economic expediency: Other, smaller minorities also have To be sure, the process of developing a Perspectives that nuclear power at the present time rep­ their specific features and issues, genuine democratic state based on the rule In theory, the closure of Chornobyl resents the only viable form of short-tsrm depending on history, location, demo­ of law is still incomplete. As we have three RBMK-1000 reactors could be com­ energy development in Ukraine. graphics, and the role and influence of seen during the first three years of pensated by the startup of three new Such reasoning conceals basic dilem­ interested foreign governments. Who are Ukraine's independence, the devastating VVER reactors: Zaporizhzhia-6; mas: that the fourth reactor building some of these minorities? legacy of Soviet rule has left its mark, and Khmelnytsky-2; and Rivne-4. Together requires a new cover and there is a very The nearly 200,000-strong Hungarian the process of transition will not be a they would cost an estimated $195 million real danger of a significant release of minority, residing primarily in speedy or easy one. However, Ukraine is to bring into operation. In June, however, radioactive dust from the fall of the old Transcarpathia, enjoys a great degree of making progress, and the treatment of referenda held among the population in reactor lid into the reactor shaft; that cultural and other freedoms. A bilateral national minorities, even recognizing the vicinity of Zaporizhzhia voted 61 per­ Chornobyl and other Ukrainian plants agreement signed in 1991 between shortcomings, is a testament to this cent to 31 percent not to bring the sixth have been beset by a spate of minor acci­ Hungary and Ukraine and a Hungarian- progress. reactor on-line. At the city of Nikopil, the dents over the past three years, including Ukrainian joint committee on nationali­ Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, chief rabbi of only major urban center within the area, casualties; and that the fundamental flaw ties has played a constructive role, and Kyyiv and Ukraine, said it best in his the figurewa s 96 percent. Equally signifi­ of this reactor type — its instability when high-level Hungarian officials have recent statement on the "60 Minutes" cant, 63 percent of those polled rejected a operated at low power — has not been described Ukrainian-Hungarian coopera­ broadcast: "The present government of proposal to construct a nuclear waste dis­ eliminated (it has been acknowledged, tion on the minority issue as a model for Ukraine, continuing the policies of the posal site near the station. however, that the increased enrichment the rest of Europe. previous government, has an excellent Ukraine is littered with temporary dis­ of uranium used at the RBMKs has had Poles in Ukraine, as well as the Polish record in human rights respecting the posal sites. Waste disposal is one of the little impact). In addition, the loss of government, have also given generally rights of national minorities in deeds and major problems facing the industry. skilled operators at the station and the high marks to Ukraine's treatment of its actions and not only on paper." Another is the failure to develop local sup­ woefully small number of regulators for 200,000 member Polish minority. Even a cursory glance at Ukraine's plies of uranium, and the usage of fuel this industry (factors that can be applied Romanians in Ukraine, residing most­ legal framework and policies with originally used at nuclear weapons' sites. to all Ukrainian nuclear power plants) ly in Chernivtsi Oblast, are making sig­ respect to national minorities, as well as Currently the nuclear industry uses urani­ make the fundamental change of direc­ nificant progress in their cultural and their actual treatment (the reality on the um imported from Russia, which is hardly tion in policy in Ukraine since the lifting political development, although allega­ ground, if you will), reveals a sharp con­ practical given Ukraine's debt problems. of the moratorium on the construction of tions about restriction to Romania of ter­ trast to the image that the " 60 Minutes" Further, even the most optimistic new reactors in October 1993 very dan­ ritories lost under the Ribbentrop- report on Ukraine would seek to portray. observers do not foresee the construction gerous indeed. 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origin, may have been encouraged by the National Council... presence of several members of the PREVIEW OF EVENTS (Continued from page 13) Ukrainian community. Among the guests were Ludmyla Kryzhanivsky, wife of in the bottom line," he declared. Friday, January 6 and Jefferson Road. The evening will Consul General Victor Kryzhanivsky; include a performance by the children of Mr. Smith was introduced by Dr. PARMA, Ohio.: St. Vladimir Ukrainian Mary Lesawyer, a former president of SUM-A and a traditional Ukrainian Mary D. Murphree, regional administra­ Orthodox Cathedral's eighth annual UNWLA Branch 72 and longtime NCW Christmas Eve dinner. For more informa­ tor for the U.S. Department of Labor's Christmas radio program for the sick and tion, contact Christine Bytz, (201) 989- Women's Bureau, Region II. member; Mrs. Kurowyckyj's husband, shut-in parishioners will be aired on radio Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj; her son, Jaroslaw, 4035. Everyone is welcome. Mistress of ceremonies Lynn Sherr, station WRMR - AM 850, 10-11 p.m. The and his wife, Ezia. program will consist of a Christmas mes­ Tuesday, January 17 ABC-TV news correspondent on Donna Hanover Giuliani read a letter sage by Archbishop Antony and greetings "20/20," noted with a smile that "there's NEW YORK: The Harriman Institute at from the parish clergy, as well as tradition­ a bit of a Ukrainian theme this evening" of greeting from her husband, New York Columbia University invites the public to a al carols. Services on Christmas Eve will as she introduced two performing artists Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who com­ benefit lecture by Leonid Kravchuk, former be at 8 p.m., preceded by a parish Holy mended the National Council of Women president of Ukraine, to be held at Low for the musical interlude: soprano Supper (Sviata Vechera) at 6 p.m. The for its work in promoting equal opportu­ Library Rotunda at 7 p.m. A reception will Oksana Krovytska and pianist Holy Supper is sponsored by the Senior follow the lecture. Proceeds from the event, Volodymyr Vynnytsky. nity for women at both the national and Ukrainian Orthodox League for those who co-sponsored by the Ukrainian American Ms. Krovytska sang arias from international level. are unable to prepare the traditional 12- Professionals and Businesspersons Puccini's "La Rondine" and "Gianni One of the oldest organizations in the course meal. Association of New York and New Jersey, Schicchi" and a sprightly Ukrainian folk U.S., the National Council of Women Saturday, January 14 will benefit the institute's Ukrainian Studies song. She was accompanied at the piano was founded in 1888 by America's Program and the Foundation for an YONKERS, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Youth by Mr. Vynnytsky, who later performed famous suffragettes. It is a non-partisan, Independent and Democratic Ukraine. For Chopin's resounding "Revolutions" non-profit, non-sectarian coalition of 33 Center invites everyone to their annual further information, please call the Harriman Etude. "Malanka." The evening will feature danc­ Institute, (212) 854-4623. women's voluntary organizations and ing to the scorching music of Kryshtal of Ms. Sherr's reference to a Ukrainian individual members of all races, creeds New Jersey as well as a hot buffet and Friday, January 27 - Sunday, February 12 theme, prompted by the soloists' national and national origins. champagne toast to bring in the New Year. NEW YORK: The Yara Arts Group pre­ Tickets are $25 ($15 for students). The sents its newest theater piece, "Waterfall / buffet starts at 8 p.m. To reserve tables or the loan agreement Ukraine committed Reflections," an exploration of notions of elicit further information, call (914) 969- Ukraine receives... identity in our changing world, to be held itself to sell 8,000 medium and large enter­ 4200 (daytime) or (914) 476-6781. at La Mama Experimental theater, 74 E. (Continued from page 1) prises and 90 percent of small enterprises. PARMA, Ohio.: The Brotherhood of St. Fourth St. For performance schedules and liberalization, privatization and energy The effort is to begin with pilot auctions Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral other information, please call La Mama, and agriculture sector revamping. on February 1. Citizens were to start will sponsor its 31st annual "Malanka" (212)475-7710. The World Bank decision follows the receiving their vouchers on January 2. dinner/dance in the parish center, immedi­ Saturday, January 28 International Monetary Fund endorse­ Talks also will continue next month ately following the 6 p.m. vespers in between the bank and the Ukrainian gov­ church. A Ukrainian orchestra will provide WILMINGTON, Del.: Ss. Peter and Paul ment of President Leonid Kuchma's ernment on a $1.5 billion stand-by loan traditional music following the dinner. Ukrainian Orthodox Church invites the reform initiative, which released $371 Tickets are $15 and may be obtained by community to its annual "Malanka" to be million to Ukraine in October. with disbursement possible as early as calling the rectory, (216) 886-1528. held at the Brandy wine Terrace, 3416 Ukraine's Ambassador to the United February. Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, Del. The fes­ Aid officials have expressed some Sunday, January 15 States Yuriy Shcherbak signed the agree­ tivities start with a buffet at 7 p.m., fol­ ment in Washington with World Bank concern about implementation of reforms WHIPPANY, N.J.: The Ukrainian lowed by dancing to the spirited tunes of Vice-President Wilfred Talwitz. Ambassa­ and how aid money will be used. As part American Youth Association (SUM-A) Paul Kauriga's Orchestra. Donation: $15 dor Shcherbak said the loan will allow of the IMF agreement, Ukraine had Whippany Branch, will host its fourth per person. For further information and Ukraine to "proceed more quickly with agreed to pay Turkmenistan debt arrears annual "Yalynka" at 4 p.m., at St. John's reservations, call John Cramer, (302) 994- Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, Route 10 6445. needed structural changes in the economy, for natural gas, money that Turkmenistan without marked social upheaval and cata­ did not receive until President Kuchma clysm." fired a top energy official for improperly PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open The Financial Times reported that under diverting the funds. to the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.) keeper setting up a new hive, and how he — typed and in the English language — along with the phone number of a All creatures... goes about it. 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