Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association rainian Wee Vol. LIV No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 25 cents 9SS9? Demjanjuk's lawyer to leave for Israel Renewed interest in Medvid case as Mr. Demjanjuk's lawyer. Expresses optimism He stressed that he intends to conti- pressures Senate to move resolution nue representing his client and that Mr. by Roma Hadzewycz Soviet custody. Many members of Demjanjuk's defense and his family Congress and the Ukrainian commu- JERSEY CITY, N. J. — the defense "have never given up on him." attorney for John Demjanjuk, who is nity said he had been coerced into Mr. O'Connor expressed confidence leaving the United States. suspected of being a Nazi war criminal that his client would be exonerated and Times reporters Clyde H. Farns- known as "Ivan the Terrible," said he he noted that the evidence he has worth and Joel Brinkley looked into expects to be in Israel by this weekend in amassed proves the following: evidence that lends support to the "two order to represent his client in that ь Mr. Demjanjuk is not "Ivan the country. Medvids" theory and interviewed many Terrible"; of the people involved in the Medvid Mark O'Connor also said he plans to a he was never at the Treblinka death appear before the Ministry of Justice affair, checking into inconsistencies camp in any capacity; which have been raised by members of and the bar association there in order to e he was a German prisoner of war make an application to practice in Israel Congress and during Senate hearings. held by the Germans in Rivne and The main points which the Times Khoim; and reported are: a he was in the Ukrainian resistance ь Some observers have said the man forces headed by Gen. Pavlo Shandruk. who appears in surreptitious photo- The attorney also pointed out that it graphs taken by Navy Lt. James R. is unbelievable that someone as no- Geltz when Mr, Medvid was back torious as "Ivan the Terrible," someone aboard the Soviet vessel is not the man who committed war crimes on the scale who appeared in photos taken of Mr. of those perpetrated by Dr. Joseph Rep, Jack Kemp Medvid when he first jumped ship. As a Mengele, would be unknown. result of the incident, Lt. Geltz has been It is incredible, he said, that there reprimanded and is leaving the Navy. by Natalia A. Fedoschak would be no record indicating the # Discrepancies remain between identity of "Ivan the Terrible" and JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A recent doctors' reports when Mr. Medvid was noted that it is impossible that no one — first examined by U.S. authorities and other than five witnesses in Israel — New York Times article h^s fueled renewed interest in the case of Myroslav later statements at Senate hearings. would know about a criminal of such (Continued on page U) magnitude. Medvid in the national media and has Mr. O'Connor said he has witnesses increased pressure on the Senate leader- who will testify in court that Mr. ship to put to a vote a resolution that Demjanjuk is not "Ivan the Terrible." would create a special panel to Kowalchuk arrested, Among those witnesses is an Austra- thoroughly investigate the attempted lian, Chaim Sztajer, who says he knew defection of the Soviet seaman. then freed on bail the notorious Ivan and has identified Apparent discrepancies surrounding another man, a Lithuanian living in the Medvid affair have also prompted JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Serge Ko- Chicago, as the sadistic killer. Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) to announce walchuk, who is accused of being a Attorney Mark O'Connor Meanwhile, the Associated Press his intention to introduce a similar re- member of the Nazi-controlled police in reported that an 85-year-old Civil War solution in the House. western Ukraine, is free on bail after veteran in Spain who was interned in At a press conference held March 5 U.S. authorities arrested him on Unconfirmed reports Treblinka stated that he witnessed the with the Senate resolution's sponsor, February 28 at his home in Philadel- killing with a knife of Ivan the Terrible. Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.), the phia. say Yurchenko He was killed by a man named Adolfo. congressman said he would introduce Mr. Kowalchuk was released on Joaquim Garcia Irbez provided the $5,000 bail later that same day. information in an interview with a Texts of statements by Sens. Hum- On February 24, the Supreme Court was executed Spanish publication, Diario de Sada- phrey and Simpson appear on page 5. let stand a federal appellate court WASHINGTON — National Public bell. і decision stripping Mr. Kowalchuk of vadio reported that Vitaly Yurchenko, Mr. O'Connor was optimistic about a parallel legislation in the House. The his U.S. citizenship. According to The the former KGB agent who re-defected trial in Israel because he said Israelis "do congressman's office said such a resolu- New York Times, the U.S. Justice to the USSR in November 1985 after not trust Soviet evidence" and they "do tion would be introduced by the end of Department plans to try to deport Mr. giving Soviet secrets to the United not allow it in normal circumstances." the week. Kowalchuk. States, has been executed by the So- However, Laura Kam, assistant to the The New York Times front-page Mr. Kowalchuk's attorneys have 25 viets. press consul at the Israeli Consulate in story, "Was Soviet Seaman Switched days from the date of the Supreme Court NPR quoted an unidentified Reagan New York, when questioned about the for a Non-Defector," appeared on ruling to file for a re-hearing of the case, administration official as saying that he use of Soviet evidence, said she cculd Sunday, March 2. It detailed the at- reported Americans Against Defama- had received two unconfirmed reports not say if it were going to be used. She tempted defection of Seaman Medvid tion of Ukrainians. that Mr. Yurchenko had been executed would only say that evidence from a ; and his subsequent return to the Soviet The court's February 24 ruling came by a firing squad. variety of sources was being examined. Union. The article looked into allega- in a brief unsigned order declining to The Associated Press reported that Another reason for Mr. O'Connor's tions made by several members of review lower court findings. State Department spokesman Bernard optimism was that evidence that Mr. Congress and other people involved in Mr. Kowalchuk entered the United Kalb said in reference to reports of the Demjanjuk was a Nazi war criminal has the Medvid case that the man who States in 1950. He became a naturalized execution, "I don't have anything on not yet been tested in U.S. courts, and jumped ship on October 24 in Belle U.S. citizen in 1960. that." furthermore, "no court has looked Chase, La., may not have been the man The denaturalization case was filed White House deputy press secretary behind the judgements of (Judge) who later told U.S. officials that he by the Office of Special Investigations Edward Djerejian said, "We have no Frank Battisti." wanted to return to the Soviet Union. in 1977 and was tried in October 1981. independent confirmation that Yur- Mr. O'Connor did, however, voice Mr. Medvid had jumped from the His citizenship was revoked in July 1983 chenko was executed in the Soviet concern that Israel's Prime Minister Soviet freighter Marshal Koniev the when the court found that Mr. Kowal- Union. He said the NPR report was Shimon Peres has said that the purpose night of October 24 and sought political chuk had concealed his wartime activity based on information that was several of the Demjanjuk case was to teach a asylum in the United States, During the on his application to enter the United weeks old. (Continued on page 11) next few days he was twice returned to States. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 No. 10

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Winds of change across Ukraine JERSEY CITY, N. J. — The winds of Liquor restrictions, the farm bosses change are blowing across Ukraine. say, have helped to improve labor An overview: 27th Congress Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms are productivity and have put less toll on setting a new tempo for the work the workers' families. routines of everybody from regional In related news, a group of farmers in of Communist Party of Ukraine party bosses to Ukrainian blue collar Lokhvytsia was recently told that workers, who are being pressed to find wheat imports from Canada will be by Roman Solchanyk "shortcomings and omissions," main- ways to improve agricultural and labor discontinued within five to 10 years. tained Mr. Shcherbytsky, "are miscal- production quotas. Instead, Canadian farm equipment The defining characteristic of the culations in planning, imbalances in the The first sign of "the most profound now being duplicated by Soviet fac- 27th Congress of the Communist Party volume of production and resources in changes in a generation or more" in tories will be used to replace Canadian of Ukraine, which was held in Kiev certain branches, violation of technolo- Ukraine arrived "like thunder" in with Soviet wheat. February 6-8, was criticism of higher gical and labor discipline and a rhyth- Ukraine when the local Communist According to The Globe and Mail, party and government organs in the mic approach to work, and also compli- Party boss told about 400 locals in the Soviets had to purchase $2 billion republic for a variety of shortcomings cations of the conditions for extracting Poltava to follow examples being set by worth of Canadian grain in 1984, and in over the five-year period since the valuable minerals." entrepreneurs in the West, according to December they signed another five-year previous congress. Moreover, the republic's Council of Globe and Mail Moscow correspondent contract for Canadian wheat. Beginning with the Central Commit- Ministers "did not exercise sufficient Lawrence Martin. But improvements in agricultural tee report delivered by Ukrainian party influence." "Many of its subunits," technology and methods — most of leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, one One boss recently tried to fire up a asserted Mr. Shcherbytsky, "arerestruc- battalion of Ukrainian workers by which were adopted from Canadian speaker after another reminded the turing their work slowly." Finally, "it farmers — have resulted in modest assembled delegates that the ultimate explaining how a group of American must be said bluntly that the secretaries entrepreneurs had developed a new increases in grain production. In parts responsibility for success or failure lies of the Central Committee and its of the Russian republic and in Kazakh- with the Party Secretariat, the Central wood stove. "Look at how the Ameri- departments have not yet done every- can entrepreneurs had developed a new stan — where farmers are using a new Committee departments, and the Coun- thing to raise the efficiency of the technology involving cultivation me- cil of Ministers. In the process, the wood stove. "Look at how the Ameri- economy and guarantee the stability cans did it," he said. "They are enter- thods wherein the top level of soil is not individuals who make up these party and rhythmic work of its branches." overturned — grain production levels and government organs were referred to prising, they are thinking, they are The same critical tone punctuated acting. That's how we should do it." are ahead of other Soviet regions. by name, as a matter of course. Indeed, Mr. Shcherbytsky's remarks about the Indeed, things are changing for the the frequency with which leading party According to Western news reports state of housing construction in the out of Ukraine, the administrators of better, Mr. Morgun tells his audiences. functionaries and government ministers republic, consumer services and health "There is going to be an explosion of were named in connection with pro- collective farms and factories are being care. A long list of city and oblast party this (western) technology here," he said, blems or shortcomings of one kind or given more freedom to determine their committees and their secretaries were "no matter how much we have to fight another is unprecedented in the recent own production quotas. "Additional taken to task for poor performance in against the conservative forces." history of the Communist Party of "the style of party leadership and work economic and financial levers are at our Ukraine (CPU). with cadres." Mr. Shcherbytsky re- disposal" rather than in the hands of The proceedings, therefore, were very ferred specifically to the former first Moscow bureaucrats, boasted the ma- much in "the Gorbachev style." Mr. secretary of theTernopil Oblast Party nager of a Poltava-based electric motor Shcherbytsky began his address with an Committee, I. M. Yarkovy, as having company. Citizen Shevchenko oblique criticism of the Brezhnev years, been removed from his post by the F.T. Morgun, a member of the Soviet stating that "the CPSU Politburo and Central Committee for "serious omis- Union's Central Committee, praised the WASHINGTON — Comrade Shev- Secretariat are purposefully and per- sions in work." push by Moscow towards decentraliza- chenko is now Citizen Shevchenko. sistently dealing with the longstanding The Ukrainian party leader also had tion, saying that it is "really worth it" On Friday, February 28, Arkady N. problems of the life of the country, the some advice for those of his colleagues and that "you cannot plan everything Shevchenko, 56, the highest-ranking solutions of which were earlier fre- who, like himself, intended to keep their from above." Soviet official ever to defect, became a quently set aside for a variety of rea- jobs under the new administration of "Our plan is to untie the hands of U.S. citizen. sons." Mikhail Gorbachev: local management," Mr. Morgun told He took the oath of citizenship before The main problems in Ukraine, as in "Knowing how to organize a practi- the people. "Now, we give him the a group of distinguished friends, in- the Soviet Union as a whole, are largely cal undertaking, bring it to its conclu- production quota and how he goes cluding senators, congressmen and FBI of an economic nature, and this was sion, personal responsibility, initiative, about filming it is his own business." Director William Webster, at the May- reflected in the amount of attention that a feel for what is new — this is what is Another change brought about by flower Hotel in Washington. was devoted to economic issues in Mr. needed now more than ever before. This Mr. Gorbachev's reforms, according to Mr. Shevchenko said the occasion Shcherbytsky's Central Committee kind of style of work has to be learned The Globe and Mail, is a decrease in the was "one of the finest moments of my report. But this is by no means a novel and, for some, relearned... It is ex- availability of alcohol. But, the news- life." phenomenon. Given the important tremely important to feel the pulse of paper also reports that there seems to "I must say that I have a pang of contribution that the Ukrainian republic the times, not to yield to the temptation have been much more opposition to the sadness in remembering my native makes to the all-union economy, econo- of 'а quiet life.' In this regard, a funda- campaign against alcoholism in U- land," he said. "I was more than glad to mic problems have always been in the mental knowledge of the real state of kraine. break with the Soviet regime, but not forefront of the CPU's concerns. More- affairs; timely, objective and relevant The Globe reported that the collec- with the Soviet people, who suffer over, the kinds of economic pro- information; and the ability to foresee tive farm boss in the town of Lokhvytsia under Communist oppression." blems that were discussed by Mr. the development of events and possible had a "near rebellion" on his hands Mr. Shevchenko, a Ukrainian, is the Shcherbytsky and others may well be tendencies are of primary significance." from workers who were accustomed to former Soviet undersecretary to the qualified as "traditional" — i.e., they Reflecting the "Gorbachev style," staggering into work bleary-eyed each United Nations and is now a lecturer, have been addressed at a variety of Mr. Shcherbytsky urged his listeners morning. The workers were dismissed essayist and author of "Breaking with forums over and over again. At the top "to consolidate everywhere the kind of after it became clear to the farm boss Moscow." He defected in 1978 after of the list are the republic's coal and atmosphere that would open up a broad that they did not want anything to do spending several years working as an ferrous metallurgy industries, neither of scope for criticism and self-criticism, with the Gorbachev restrictions. American spy. . which met the planned annual produc- especially criticism from below, and to tion targets. question more severely the concealment In general, asserted the CPU first of shortcomings and omissions." secretary, the republic's economy "took The section on ideology and political FOUNDED 1933 a great step forward." But further into upbringing in the Central Committee Ukrainian Weekly his report it became clear that economic report produced neither any surprises performance in Ukraine during the past nor any innovations. Once again, the An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National five years can hardly be described as work of Ukrainian social scientists was Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. successful. The leadership of some reproached for "scholastic reflection, 07302. ministries, economic organs, enter- passive registration of facts and fre- prises and organizations, said Mr. quent lack of appropriate generaliza- Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J., 07302. Shcherbytsky, had to be "strengthened" tions, conclusions and practical recom- (ISSN - 0273-9348) because they could not fulfill the plan. mendations." What the раї‡ў is inte- This is simply another way of saying rested in is "applied social science" — . Yearly subscription rate: $8; for UNA members — $5. that officials were sacked. i.e., the elaboration of useful social and Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. "However, the measures that were economic prognoses for "managing" taken proved insufficient. In several the society, In this connection, Mr. The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: branches of the national economy and Shcherbytsky urged the necessity of (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 in some oblasts of the republic, not all of improving the quality and practical the possibilities for accelerating the yield of sociological research. "The task Postmaster, send address changes to: intensification of production were of deepening criticism of bourgeois and The Ukrainian Weekly Editor: Roma Hadzewycz utilized. As a result, the tasks of the five- especially bourgeois nationalist ideo- P.O. Box 346 Assistant Editor (Canada): Michael B. Bociurkiw year plan with regard to the increase of logy remains topical," he asserted. Jersey City, NJ.07303 Assistant Editor Natalia A. Feduschak production of some important types of On the national question, the Ukrai- industrial and agricultural production nian party leader let it be known that The Ukrainian Weekly, March 9,1986, No. 10, Vol. LIV were not accomplished," he said. "there is every basis for stating that Copyright 1986 by The Weekly The fundamental reasons for these (Continued on page 12) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 3 Speaker comments on response to U.S.- Soviet exchanges Statements on Medvid case Sen. Gordon H. Humphrey by Yaro Bihun

WASHINGTON — How should Following is the text of remarks in Mr. President, a lengthy article the Ukrainian American community the Senate on March 3 by Sen. appeared recently in The New York respond to President Ronald Rea- Gordon H. Humphrey (R-N.H.) as Times which raises even more ques- gan's exchange initiative with the published in the Congressional Re- tions about this case. In the article we Soviet Union? cord. learn that there are several pieces of The issue was raised recently at a Mr. President, over 100 days have information that support the thesis public forum held here by Dr. Marta passed since the Soviet freighter that the Mr. Medvid who was inter- Bohachevsky-Chomiak. She feels Koniev departed the United States viewed by United States officials, -ongly that Ukrainians should "get for the Soviet Union. In spite of the first aboard the ship, then aboard a m the ground floor." passage of almost four months, we Coast Guard vessel, and even later at "I certainly would be very un- know little more about the case than a naval station ashore, was not the happy if we missed the boat again, as we did on November 9, 1985. How- same individual who jumped from we missed the boat in the 1960s," she ever, we do have a great many the Soviet freighter. said. "And we really missed the boat questions about the case today, more The New York Times article points in the 1960s in terms of cultural than we had several months ago. to a series of inconsistencies on this exchanges with the Soviet Union." We do know that last October a point. Dr. Bohachevsky-Chomiak, pro- young man desperately attempted to From the article we learn that the fessor of history at Johns Hopkins reach asylum in the United States operator of the launch which return- University, has participated in scho- and twice jumped into the waters of ed Medvid to the ship observed "wild lastic research exchanges in Ukraine the Mississippi River in darkness to fighting, kicking and punching" and elsewhere in the Soviet Union avoid returning to the Soviet Union. when Medvid was apprehended on and Eastern Europe. She has also Yet, for some reason, he was return- shore. A little background, perhaps, tried to maintain "person-to person" Marta Bohachevsky-Chomiak ed to the Soviet Union, quite possibly is in order. We were told that Mr. contacts with Ukrainians who visit against his will. Medvid jumped off the ship initially, the United States or participate in lated from the outside world than the It is clear to this senator and to swam to shore, came into contact various international conferences. Russians, she continued, "it's very many of my colleagues that our with one Joe Wyman, who turned Her first encounter was at the important for the Ukrainians to government did not take all of the him over to local police, who, in turn, Helsinki Youth Festival in 1962; her know that there are other people steps which seemed prudent to ascer- took him to New Orleans and he was most recent was a member of the outside who are interested, even if no tain Mr. Medvid's true wishes before ultimately placed in the hands of the World Federation of Ukrainian politics is mentioned...interested in allowing him to return to his ship. U.S. Border Patrol who interviewed Women's Organizations delegation the culture and fate of Ukraine." The American people were given him. attending the International Women's "It is also important to find out assurances that Mr. Medvid was Then, for some inexplicable rea- Conference in Nairobi in 1985. what it is that people are talking thoroughly examined in an inter- son because he asked for asylum, he Past opportunities were stymied, about in Ukraine," she said. view. However, important medical was turned over to agents of the she told The Washington Group's "So just as the Soviet Ukrainian documents which were later released shipping company who returned him Friday Evening Forum on February citizens have been robbed of their make it clear that no such thorough to the Soviet grain carrier. 21, by certain elements in the Ukrai- own history and of their own heritage, examination was undertaken. {Continued on page 12) nian American community that em- so in a sense, we're robbing ourselves ployed scare tactics against any by not discussing these issues and by Sen, Alan K. Simpson exchanges and contacts, labeling not making full use of the opportuni- those who took part in them as ties that we have," she said. Used correctly, Dr. Bohachevsky- Below is the statement by Sen. ashore, particularly those who had "traitors." Afraid of the gauntlet, too Alan Simpson (R- Wyo.}as recorded few Ukrainian Americans applied for Chomiak explained, both protests an opportunity to personally see in the Congressional Record for academic or research exchanges, and and contacts should be used, when Medvid. Over a period of six days, March 3. too few got through to look at the appropriate, in the Ukrainian Ameri- the chief counsel interviewed most of archives, which have since been can relationship with the Soviet the people who had important pre- destroyed, and to meet with the Union. On the whole, she said, "the Mr. President, The New York vious contact with Medvid. During activists, who have since been si- more cultural exchanges, the better Times, in a front page article yester- those interviews the witnesses who lenced, she said. for us, and the more complex life will day asked "Was Soviet seaman had come into contact with Medvid "What I'm worried about is that be for the Soviet Union." switched for a non-defector?" on his first time ashore were shown now, if indeed we do manage to push The Soviet regime would prefer This afternoon, the senior senator the pictures taken by the Navy through some type of an expanded protest demonstrations. "They can from New Hampshire stated on the photographers during Medvid's se- exchange agreement, if we do ma- deal with that," she said, "that simply floor that, "we know little more cond trip ashore. Those witnesses nage to make it possible for college reinforces the basic fear the Soviet about the case today than we did on who had come into contact with kids, or for more graduate students, people are taught, the basic fear of November 9, 1985." That is not quite Medvid during his second time ashore or for citizen-to-citizen exchange foreigners" and of "bourgeois na- so. were shown a picture of Medvid as programs — if we do manage to push tionalist Ukrainians." The fact is that the Subcommittee taken by Border Patrol agents the such legislation through or get the Fear of the outside world has on Immigration and Refugee Policy first time he was ashore. Nineteen of Soviets interested in it, that Ukrai- always been an important element in — which I chair — has conducted a the 22 persons interviewed positively nians will again cut off our noses to Soviet thinking, she said. "So the continuing investigation of the case identified Medvid as being the per- spite our faces," Dr. Bohachevsky- first barrier that you have to break of Myroslav Medvid, since we do son who was portrayed in the pic- Chomiak said. when you're dealing with the average indeed have a great deal more infor- tures. The witnesses were also asked "We won't go either under some Soviet is to get beyond that aspect of mation about the case today than we to estimate the height and weight of misguided notion about our own fear. If we combine their fear with did on November 9,1985, the day the Myroslav Medvid, and the estimates ;^portance, that...it will be dangerous our fear of them, then it's really very Marshal Koniev sailed out from ranged from 5'8" to 6' and from 160 nost of us," she said, or "we wont difficult to establish some type of American waters, with this confused lbs. to 180 lbs. That range of height jecause we'll say that it's a Soviet^ contact." young man aboard. and weight estimates fits well with the actual height and. weight of ploy." In fact, Mr. President, the sub- Medvid as recorded by the Border "Sure, it's a Soviet ploy, but it's a committee has held three hearings on Patrol: 540", 174 lbs. Soviet ploy that ought to be used the Medvid case and a fourth one is effectively and much more efficiently Dr. Bohachevsky-Chomiak `8 ap- scheduled for this Friday, March 7. Mr. President, we do know a great than we're doing." Such contacts pearance marked the first anniver- In addition, during the Lincoln Day deal more about the case now than benefit Ukrainian communities on sary of the Friday evening Forum, a recess. I dispatched the chief counsel we did in November, particularly both sides of the Iron Curtain, Dr. monthly lecture series sponsored by of the subcommittee, Richard W. regarding the possibility of there Bohachevsky-Chomiak said. The Washington Group, an associa- Day, to New Orleans with instruc- being "two Medvids." We will know "It's extremely important for us to tion of Ukrainian American profes- tions to make a full investigation of even more after our hearing this have some type of a. lifeline with the sionals. what occurred in New Orleans Friday, The subcommittee will con- people in Ukraine — regardless of The series has brought before the between October 24, 1985, the day tinue its investigation and I invite any what the system is there, regardless of Washington audience 10 prominent that Myroslav Medvid jumped ship, of my colleagues to submit to the how awful the system is. If we con- guest lecturers, all experts in some until October 29, 1985, the day that subcommittee any evidence they sider ourselves Ukrainian, I think we area of interest and importance to the Medvid returned to his ship after may have or issues they may wish us ought to have at least some contact Ukrainian community, dealing with being interviewed over a period of to examine or information about any with at least some Ukrainians," she such topics as national security, two days by U.S. officials. persons they may wish to subpoena. I said. foreign policy, religion, demography, Included in my instructions was a intend to hold further hearings and "I also feel very strongly that it's music and investments. request that Mr. Day interview any to continue this investigation until important to make certain that that The series was inaugurated in and all persons who had significant we have all of the answers. That is my contact continues and that the people February 1985 by Eugene Iwanciw,a contact with Medvid when he was pledge. in Ukraine know about our exis- staff member of the Senate Select tence," she added.' Being more'iso: ' ` (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 No. 20

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to be comply '`'`й in April KEP40NKSOK ї Senior :пІ7ег " -using at tiv ` -.a resort of the l : -ainisr Na^r , ociation w:ii be ирІе†.Л bv ' April, and de, , :tion ceremoi чpeeled tc be 1 `` in Ji-ne. The v asing. m а і" i! . situated between the Chernivtsi ..Ha and the chapel on the estate grounds, includes 10 rooms — two for married couples and eight for single seniors — as well as a large community room with kitchen facilities. The groundbreaking for the building was held on August 10, 1985, when UNA Supreme President John O. Flis turned the first shovelful of earth on the site. The building is the first phrase of UNA seniors housing at and near the resort. Plans calls for the construction of 20 additional units of housing for seniors on land purchased by the UNA near Soyuzivka. Seniors homing at Soyuzivka between the Chernivtsi villa and the chapel. Fraternal Corner Feduschak joins Weekly staff by Mary Ann Sakalosh Fraternal Activities Coordinator

How about a UNA blood bank?

As fraternalists, our first duty is to leukemia, teenage accident victims, fellow members. In a very real sense we adults on dialysis treatment and vic- are "our brother's keepers." A fraternal tims of natural disasters which leave act that all branches should be involved thousands in distress and in need of with is the duty to tend, in one way or blood. All these events drain and another, to the sick and needy of our threaten existing blood supplies. As a fraternal society. An obvious way is to result, blood banks are established to visit them, bringing cheer and a spiritual prepare for such emergencies. uplifting. Another is to donate our blood, giving them a life-sustaining The availability of skilled medical substance when they need it. treatment and blood products for Membership in a fraternal society transfusion restores the health and demands some effort to aid humanity. saves the lives of many of these indivi- What better way than to, literally, give duals. Every time you give blood you of one?s self. Blood, however, is a can help the blood supply. Lie down for precious commodity which is highly eight minutes on a blood donor cot and perishable and often unavailable when you will help three people get up for a lifetime. Why not make "these people" accidents occur or illness strikes. Blood our people? Don't we have accidents, Natalia A. Feduschak is needed every day for the millions illnesses and emergencies as well? hospitalized each year because of illness JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Natalia A. ducer at the Voice of America. She also Ukrainians are not immune to such Feduschak, 23, of New York City, has or injury. For example: children with tragedies. The whole idea is to build a worked as a researcher-intern for the joined The Ukrainian Weekly staff as local NBC affiliate in Washington, and private UNA blood bank that our assistant editor. members can draw upon whenever they as a news aide for the sports section of need it. While helping the whole world Ms. Feduschak holds a B.A. from The Washington Post. is a nice idea, helping ourselves is more George Washington University in While at G WU, she was on the sta realistic and much more effective. Other Washington, where she majored in The GW Hatchet. fraternals have successfully set up blood journalism and Russian culture and Ms. Feduschak was born in Sault Ste. banks for themselves through local literature, and minored in history. She Marie, Ont., and was raised in. Denver. hospitals, central blood banks or the graduated in 1984. She is a former member of Plast and Red Cross. Why can't we? Members Ms. Feduschak is currently taking of the Ukrainian dance group in Den- could go to one of these establishments, courses in Soviet studies at Columbia ver. She worked at the UNA resort So- donate a unit of blood in the name of the University.' yuzivka, during two summer seasons. UNA, thereby, establishing a reserve for She worked as a reporter for The themselves, a family member, or any- Patent Trader, a suburban Westchester She was the recipient of a UNAjour- one else. newspaper in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Pre- nalism scholarship and is a member of viously she was employed as a pro-, UNA Branch 88 in Kerhonkson, N.Y. We need to know how our readers feel and what they think about this idea. Once we get adequate feedback, more The UNA: information will be posted as to the The Weekly Press Fund details and technicalities of actually a fraternal benefit establishing a private blood bank. Waldimir Semenyna, Hampton, NJ. 25.00 Please, let us know what you think by Charles Draskovics, Boonton, NJ 2200 society helping you writing to the Ukrainian National George Stepaniuk, London, Ont. ....,., 10.00 Association, Fraternal Activities Co- Stephen M. Nykorchuk, Pittsfield, Ma. 5.00 and your community. ordinator, 30 Montgomery St. jersey Roman Bobiak, Yonkers, N.Y. ..„. = 2.00 City, N.J. 07302. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986

Recalling 40th anniversary of "liquidation" of Ukrainian Catholic Church In the midst of our intensified preparations to celebrate the millennium of never will be a 4miate' Church in Ukraine." The Orthodox hierarchy, the Baptism of Ukraine, we pause to mark a tragic event in the history of the however, does not take into consideration that the spirit is invincible and that Ukrainian Catholic Church, the fortieth anniversary of its forced liquidation chains cannot shackle it. by the Communist occupation forces. The Soviet government in conjunction with the Russian Orthodox Church At the pseudo-synod of Lviv, which convened March 8-Ю, 1946, at the destroyed the external form of the Ukrainian Catholic Church four decades command of the security forces of the atheistic Soviet regime, the Union of ago. The fact of the matter is that the Catholic Church is very much alive and Brest (1596) was nullified and, by this fact, the Red forces outlawed the continues to function and grow in Ukraine. It has its hierarchy with bishops, Ukrainian Catholic Church. It was evident that this so-called "synod" was an priests, monks, nuns and great number of faithful whose lifestyle, because of action which trampled one of the most basic of all human rights, viz., freedom the presence of an atheistic tyrant, is like the first Christians in the catacombs. of religion. For years the Ukrainian Catholic bishops in the free world have The voice of this "Silent Church" is loud and continues to make itself heard. It voiced their objection^ to the illegality and invalidity of the "Synod of Lviv." even demands from its persecutors recognition and legal status so that it can When our hierarchy gathered at the 1980 Synod in Rome, they once again publicly and freely function. reiterated their protestation and said "the gathering in Lviv, forced by an The yellowed pages of the history of the Catholic Church have time and atheistic and secular government in 1946, was not and in no way can be time again documented that witnessing to the faith has often demanded that justified as a true synod of our Church; no bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic believers shed their blood. At different points in history, divine providence Church took part in it and the presence of some apostate priests and laymen has chosen various Christian nations to experience martyrdom. And this has does not suffice for the legality or legitimacy of a true synod, especially since been the fate of the Ukrainian nation which, since the Union of Brest, has their presence was affected by terror. Canonically, the Synod of Lviv could in been called by God to witness in a heroic manner to the unity of the Church of no way nullify the Union of Brest. Its true object was to give the Soviet regime Christ and to make real the command of Christ, "that there be one fold and a reason to declare that the Ukrainian Catholic Church was an illegal one Shepherd" (John 10:16). St. Josaphat fully understood the divine mission jurisdiction, and thus grant to the regime a pretext to initiate the persecution of our Church and did not hesitate to witness to the Church's unity by and destruction of the Church. Unfortunately, the Soviet regime has the shedding his blood. And, without doubt, the Lord accepted the sowing of his assistance at times of the Russian Orthodox Church in the bloody work of the blood for, as Tertullian writes, "the blood of martyrs is the seed of the external liquidation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. The Russian Church." And, after the martyr-death of St. Josaphat, the union took root in Orthodox Church triumphantly and joyfully continues to mark this tragic Ukraine and the Ukrainian Catholic Church began to flourish. anniversary of the 'Synod of Lviv' as the Triumph of Orthodoxy.'" The Servant of God, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky deeply understood As recently as the beginning of this year, Metropolitan Filaret, the Russian the role of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and twice petitioned Pope Pius XII Orthodox exarch of all Ukraine, wrote in Visti z Ukrainy (January 1), "in this for his blessing so that the great Metropolitan could be granted an New Year of 1986 the solemn celebration of the 40th anniversary of the union opportunity to offer his life for the faith. Let us beseech her with the words of of Greek Catholics in the Holy Faith and the Church of Christ." Although he our sacred song, sanctified by the ages, "our nation perishes, help us, help us, did not die a martyr's death, the Servant of God Andrey prophesied: "our Mother of God." Church will experience horrible persecution and complete destruction but, in During this season of the Great Fast, let us unite with both the suffering of time, it will be reborn and flourish." It is necessary for us to view the our Lord, Jesus Christ, and with our suffering brethren in Ukraine and pray persecution and martyrdom of the Ukrainian Catholic Church by the to our heavenly Father for those who are crucifying our Church with the Communists from this same perspective. words of the Savior on the Cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not It is with deep sorrow that we mark the 40th anniversary of the persecution what they do" (Luke 23:34). St. Stephen, the first martyr, prayed for those of our suffering Church in western Ukraine. Our bishops, priests, monks, who stoned him. The Lord heard his prayer, and Saul, the infamous nuns and hundred of thousands of God's people risk their lives as they give persecutor of the Church, was converted on the road to Damascus and witness to the faith that there is only "one, holy catholic and apostolic became Paul, the great apostle to the gentiles. Let us follow his example and Church" built on the Rock (Peter) and that "the gates of hell shall not pray for those who stone the Church today, "Lord, do not hold this sin against overcome it" (Matthew 16:18). Therefore, as our Divine Savior once prayed them" (Acts 7:60). that St. Peter's faith would not be weakened (Luke 22:32), so today we pray May the Lord God, the "God of mercy and every comfort" (2 Corinthians that the Lord strengthen and make firm the faith of our persecuted brothers 1:3), comfort us in our sorrow so that we, in turn, may comfort by our prayers, and sisters that they "stand firm in an evil time" (Ephesians 6:13). our fidelity to the Ukrainian Catholic Church and our steadfast confession of Let us pray sincerely. Let us pray fervently that the Golgotha of our Church the faith our brothers and sisters in the midst of their persecution and will soon pass and that "with one mind and with one heart,"our brothers and encourage them in their noble defense of the faith. May the words of Paul the sisters in western Ukraine glorify the Lord in freedom and that our Ukrainian Apostle be in their and our hearts, "we know, that just as you take part in the Catholic Church renew and expand its life and work. Let us pray, too, to our sufferings of Christ, so too shall you take part in His joy" (2 Corinthians 1:7). heavenly Mother, the queen of Ukraine; let us pray to her who so often wept over the misfortunes of our enslaved nation that she intercede for our martyrs Stephen and confessors of the liquidation of the Union of Brest in 1596 will take place Metropolitan-Archbishop in Lviv." Philadelphia This is blatant propaganda to form world opinion that "there is not and February 24 Days of infamy in annals "ffjp of Ukrainian Catholic Church by Bishop Basil Losten Orthodoxy under the jurisdiction of the Moscow patriarch. By 1875 these three March 8-10 will always remain as managed to make all Catholic dioceses "days of infamy" in the annals of the in eastern Ukraine subservient to the Ukrainian Catholic Church. On those Russian patriarch. days in 1946 the patriarch of Moscow, But, when given freedom to choose supported by the Communist regime, their Church, the persecuted opted for seemingly liquidated the visible Ukrai- the Catholic Church. When faithful in -`-`п Catholic Church by forcibly and the diocese of Cholm were given a ntly assimilating its members into a choice in 1905, over 200,000 people jn with the Russian Orthodox returned to the Catholic Church. Simi- Church. ТЋѓеє unauthorized and self- larily in recent memory in 1968 when appointed priests, unlike their bishops, Premier Alexander Dubcek of Czecho- confessors who chose prison and even slovakta gave the Catholics forced into death rather than betray their sacred Orthodoxy an option to choose their convenant with the Lord, Jesus Christ Church, approximately 90 percent and His Church, illegally acted in the returned to the Ruthenian Catholic name of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Church. The so-called "liquidation" of to enter into a non-canonical union with the Ukrainian Catholic Church pro- the Russian Orthodox Church. claimed by the Russian Orthodox March 8-Ю mark the culmination of patriarch will prove to be another a diabolical obsession of Russian in- hibernation awaiting a new spring. perialists to assimilate the Catholic The days of infamy reached a climax Church in Western Ukraine under the after a series of patterned events came to control of the patriarch-of Moscow and pass. In April 1945, the Communists, the Communist government. It was after annexing Western Ukraine to its Catherine II (1762-1796) who initiated empire during the previous year, ini- aggression to dominate the Ukrainian tiated what it considered the last chap- Catholic Church. Tsars Nicholas I ter of conquering the Catholic Church (1828-1855) and Alexander II (1855- in Ukraine, the NKVD first arrested all 1881) also adopted coercive measures to the bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic compel the clergy and people to leave Church. They also arrested the many St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral towers above the MetropoP^ris the Catholic Church and to go over to (Continued on page 14) Palace. The complex was the site in 1946 of the illegal ";Syno d of l^' " 6 . THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 ЖІР

Faces and Places ramian WeeH У by Myron B. Kuropas Taras Shevchenko In search of a lioness Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), the poet laureate of Ukraine, is I first met Avital Shcharansky in went from place to place, from day to traditionally recalled on the anniversaries of his birth and death in 1977, while I was a legislative assistant day, from person to person, on a real or March by Ukrainians around the world. That we continue to pay to Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas) and she an imaginary opportunity to continue tribute to this man and his works attests to the everlasting genius of his was in Washington to lobby members of her fight." poetry and the universality and timelessness of his ideas. Congress on behalf of her husband Avital, of course, didn't effect h Shevchenko's poetry made a tremendous impression on all classes Anatoly, a Jewish refusenik. husband's release singlehandedly. Shcha- of Ukrainian society primarily because of its high quality as poetry. Sen. Dole met with Avital and ransky's liberation was also a But, this beautiful poetry also bore a powerful message. Referring to following the obligatory photos for the triumph for the Jewish community that Ukraine as "that land of ours that is not ours," Shevchenko called on Jewish press in Kansas, he sat down to supported him and agitated for his his contemporaries to rise up and break the chains of serfdom imposed listen to her plea. Avital was impressive. release for a period of nine years. His by the tsarist Russian regime. A small, soft-spoken woman with arrival in the free world reminds me of flashing black eyes, she delivered her the Ukrainian community's efforts on Not all, however, understood fully what the poet and political message with fiery conviction, pathos behalf of Valentyn Moroz. Initiated thinker sought to convey, and even today in our hasty readings of and great urgency, describing in some largely by a handful of Ukrainian Shevchenko we often fail to realize just how great his vision was. detail what Jewish life in the Soviet students, the Free Moroz campaign Shevchenko delineated a national program; he expressed his vision of Union was really like. eventually encompassed our entire Ukraine as a completely independent historical and political entity; he I could see that Sen. Dole was moved community. When Moroz was freed, it outlined his concept of the historical and social unity of the Ukrainian by Avital's story. At the time, Anatoly was a victory for all of us. people. Shcharansky was a member of the Mr. Shcharansky's liberty walk was And, all this, we might add parenthetically, came from the pen of a Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, helpful to Ukrainians because it re- poet who was once referred to as the non-existent poet of a non- an unofficial Soviet citizen's group minded the world of the thousands of existent nation, a non-existent literature and non-existent language by created to monitor Soviet compliance other dissidents languishing in Soviet the noted Russian critic Vissarion Belinsky. with the human-rights provisions of the prisons. "Shcharansky's compassion 1975 Helsinki Accords. Sen. Dole had for other persecuted ethnic and religious Shevchenko has become immortal, and his immortality, to some recently been appointed a member of groups in the Soviet Union is strong," degree,guarantees the Ukrainian nation's survival. But, though he has the U.S. Helsinki Commission and was wrote Time magazine on February 24. become the symbol of the Ukrainian national movement, his words anxious to learn all that he could about "He shared cells during his years in pri- know no national boundaries. They are an inspiration to all men who human-rights violations in the USSR. son with Russian Orthodox believers, fight or hunger for justice, and social and political freedom. Soon after Avital left his office, Sen. Lithuanian, Estonian and Ukrainian Dole asked that letters be sent on behalf nationalists." of Mr. Shcharansky to the Soviet "But the KGB wasn't through with ambassador and to Soviet leader Leonid e him," wrote Newsweek on February 24. Illegal synod Brezhnev. "Its agents were at work in the prisons, Avital's efforts in support of her trying to stir up the Jews against husband seemed only to harden Soviet Ukrainians or the Ukrainians against Forty years almost to this day, the Ukrainian Catholic Church was determination to keep him in the USSR. the Jews and get them to work against forcibly merged into the Russian Orthodox Church by an unsanc- Alarmed by the growing tide of negative one another." Unlike some Jews in the tioned synod. The three-day non-canonical gathering, organized by publicity generated by the various United States and Canada, Mr. Shcha- agencies of the Soviet government hostile to the Church was intended Soviet Helsinki watch committees ransky and his Ukrainian compatriots to smother nationalist sentiments in Ukraine. (committees were also formed in U- didn't fall into the KGB trap. kraine, Lithuania, Georgia and Ar- It's time for the Ukrainian commu- At about the same time as the Lviv synod, scores of bishops and menia) the Kremlin moved to destroy priests were arrested by the Soviets; several bishops died in prison or in nity to divest itself of its post-Moroz all of them. In 1978 Mr. Shcharansky disillusionment syndrome and to re- exile, and two died shortly after their release. was sentenced to 13 years of prisons and kindle its fiery committment to its own The events of 1945-46 signaled the culmination of the "liquidation" hard labor on charges of treason, living freedom fighters. We must re- of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and the beginning of an espionage and anti-Soviet agitation. member that Ukraine, too, has a Hel- agonizing subterranean existence for its estimated 4 million adherents. sinki watch group and that many of its Since after World War II, the Catholic Church in Ukraine carries But Avital was not discouraged. The members — including Ivan Kandyba, the tag of being the largest religious denomination that has not been harder the Soviets pushed, the more Lev Lukianenko, Mykola Horbal, allowed to exist in the Soviet Union. determined she became to win her Yosyf Zisels and Vasyl Ovsienko —are But, despite the seemingly permanent imprint of the Soviet paw on husband's freedom. She made five trips now deep in the Soviet gulag. Our to the United States during the next 16 religious life, the underground Church in Ukraine continues to battles with the Soviets are far harder months. She appeared at countless than those of the Jews because our goal function. To the chagrin of the authorities, bishops and other clergy Jewish functions, on radio and TV talk is not the emigration of thousands but are consecrated in furtive ceremonies, and there is news of the shows, in the halls of Congress, in the liberation of millions. appearance of a clandestine journal that carries candid accounts of the newspaper offices. Yes, our struggle will be long and plight of the illegal Ukrainian Catholic Church in western Ukraine. The outside world, however, quickly difficult, but we can't let up. Let's learn But, at the same time, the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in grew tired of Avital Shcharansky and from the dedication of Avital and her Ukraine, disseminated by the initiative Group for Defense of the her story. Chicago Tribune columnist community. Let's stop making excuses Rights of Believers and the Church, provides several descriptions of Roger Simon recalls an article titled for our lack of human-rights succesc disarmingly brutal cases of suffering and persecution. We read of the "Avital Shcharansky and the Politics of with the Reagan administration — ill treatment of men and women sentenced for religious activities and Sorrow." Claiming that she could cry Ukrainian dissidents have been fret can't help but grimace. And our yearning for better relations with the on cue, the article questioned her since the Ford and Carter administra- Soviet Union is chilled when we hear that the Bible regularly turns up sincerity and her efforts to "package tions — and admit that part of the martyrdom." As Avital's "familiar among the "subversive" publications seized in KGB raids. problem is our own recent apathy spieF' became less and less newsy, her regarding dissidents. Let's not be The Soviet Constitution has pledged freedom of speech, of the media appearances became less and less deterred by Moscow's current defama- press, of assembly and of religion. Those are among the assurances frequent. tion campaign against Ukrainian na- given at Helsinki 10 years ago. In Principle VII of the Helsinki Final Avital never gave up. She remained tionalism and remember that if we Act, for instance, the participating states pledged themselves to active to the end. Last summer she expect to be heard we've got to tell our "recognize and respect the freedom of the individual to profess and could be seen at the Geneva Summit story over and over and over again, practice, alone and in community with others, religion or belief acting walking around with petitions on behalf succinctly, accurately and persuasively. in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience." of her husband. It's not enough that Americans for The gap between what the Soviet leadership says and what it does in Avital's reward for years of loyalty, Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) the field of human rights is indicative of its unwillingness to live up to devotion, and indefatigable effort continue our struggle on our behalf finally paid off a few weeks ago. Speak- while we watch on the sidelines. More of its most solemn commitments. us have to become involved, and being Indeed, the persecution of religious activists in the Soviet Union — ing at the ceremony welcoming Anatoly Shcharansky to Israel, Prime Minister involved for the long pull that lies ahead among them the faithful of the illegal Ukrainian Catholic Church Shimon Peres said: "Avital fought like a requires unwearying dedication. whose "liquidation" we recall this weekend — is a problem of Soviet lioness. No place was too far away for The first thing we need to do, per- redibility, as well as an international moral concern. her, no person was a stranger to her, no haps, is to find a Ukrainian lioness. opportunity was too small for her. No Given the tenacity of Ukrainian women, declaration ever depressed her. She that shouldn't be all that hard to do. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 For the record: president's semiannual report on Helsinki Accords

CONCLUSION of them, Akverdy Eshkulov, was re- minimize their contact with foreigners. was twice scheduled at obscure loca- portedly arrested in Samarkand region Soviet authorities took steps to ensure tions outside official courthouses and Following are excerpts of the newly during the review period and sentenced that dissidents would not meet youth suddenly cancelled without explanation released 19th Semiannual Report by the to two years in a labor camp for serving festival delegates. Vladimir Ryabakon before finally taking place on August 15 President to the Commission on Se- as a mullah without official sanction. was placed in a guarded psychiatric after the festival concluded. Brodsky curity and Cooperation in Europe re- was sentenced to three years in a labor garding the implementation of the camp for malicious hooliganism. Helsinki Final Act, The report covers Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group member Another peace group member, Nikolai the period of April I, 1985, through Khramov, was placed in a hospital for October 1, 1985. The section excerpted Vasyl Stus died September 4 in a labor camp after venereal diseases during the youth below refers to the USSR's implementa- years of brutal treatment at the hands of Soviet festival although he had obtained a tion of Principle VII of the Helsinki clean bill of health from a doctor only Accords' Basket I Principle VII deals authorities. He was the fourth Ukrainian humah- days earlier. with respect for human rights and ТЋе charges against Brodsky stemmed fundamental freedoms. rights activist to die from mistreatment or neglect in from an attempted peace demonstra- a Soviet labor camp in the past 18 months. These tion May 16, prevented by a police Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, whose round-up of about 20 group members. forced annexation by the Soviet Union deaths leave little doubt that Ukrainian political Khramov was held then for 15 days. The in 1944 has never been recognized by the day before, two group members, Olga United States, have long been characte- prisoners are singled out for particularly brutal Kabanova and Natalya Akulenok, were rized by resistance to assimilation into treatment. taken by police to a psychiatric hospital; Russian language and culture. During they were held two to three weeks, and the reporting period, human-rights and Akulenok reportedly was given injec- religious activists in the Baltic states Even tiny religious groups are not hospital during and after the festival tions of the drug Sulfazin. On June 11 continued to endure Soviet repression. immune to severe pressure. In a trial and given drugs causing physical dis- several group members were arrested, On June 16, Vladimir Frenkel of Riga ending July 3, five members of the Hare comfort. Inna and Boris Begun, wife and Khramov was taken by seven was sentenced to 18 months in a labor Krishna sect, Vladimir A. Kustrya, and son of imprisoned Hebrew teacher civilian police auxiliaries to a wooded camp for anti-Soviet slander. A Jewish Sergei A. Priporov, Yuriy A. Fed- Iosif Begun, were given a rare opportu- area and beaten. Other group members refusenik who converted to Christianity, chenko, Aleksei M. Baida and Valen- nity to meet briefly with him, but had to were detained and questioned. Alek- Frenkel was charged with contributing tina P. Samoilova were sentenced wait a week at the labor camp — a week sandr Shatravka, already a prisoner, to an underground Jewish cultural to terms of from two to five years in a which coincided with the youth festival. was moved from a general-regimen to a journal and with publishing articles on labor camp for "encroaching on the Mikhail Shipov was detained outside strict-regimen camp. Orthodox Christianity in the West. In individuality and rights of citizens Moscow during the festival and was another case, a Soviet citizen of a Baltic under the guise of conducting religious threatened with further imprisonment. Nobel prize laureate Andrei Sakha- nationality was fired from his job for rov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, evi- simply visiting a Western embassy in dently remained in exile in the closed Moscow, lonas Maturlonas, a Lithua- The difficult circumstances of Ukrainian human- city of Gorky throughout the review nian priest, continued serving a three- period, although a further decrease in year term for disrupting public order. rights activists are reflected in the fact that al- already scanty information about them Father Vaclovas Stakenas, a member of contributed to increasing doubts and the Catholic Committee to Defend the though Ukrainians account for only 20 percent of uncertainty about their location and Rights of Believers, was violently the Soviet population, they account for 40 percent condition. Soviet authorities have held attacked by two unknown assailants the couple under virtual house arrest. and then thrown into a pond on August of all Soviet political prisoners. During the reporting period, telephone 22. In Estonia, Lutheran Pastor Garri contact with them was prohibited, and Mytsnik was sentenced to a three-year rites." The trial took place in the north Many other persons reportedly left they were permitted to send only cen- term for "anti-Soviet agitation and Caucasus village of Kurdzhinovo. town or stayed home during the youth sored telegrams and postcards. Just propaganda4' for his sermons and open Jehovah's Witnesses also continue to festival because of warnings or heavy before the August 1 commemoration of letters to Bishop Hark and the Estonian encounter serious obstacles to the free surveillance. the signing of the Final Act in Helsinki, KGB. Imprisoned Estonian activist and exercise of their religion. Members of the Group to Establish Soviet authorities released to a West noted scientist Johannes Hint died in a An international youth festival held Trust Between the USSR and the U.S., German news organization film pur- prison hospital in Tallinn; Hint suffered in Moscow in early August was the an independent group of concerned portedly showing glimpses of Sakharov from a heart condition. occasion for preventive repression and Soviet citizens whose non-partisan, moving inside a hospital window. The Soviet authorities are exerting control by the Soviet authorities. The non-polemical approach to the discus- Otherwise Sakharov and Bonner re- steady pressure to encourage Muslim festival itself was channelled as much as sion of arms control and confidence- main almost completely isolated, even inhabitants of Central Asia and Azer- possible along the lines of Soviet building stands in sharp contrast to the from close family members. Rumors of baijan to abandon their religion and use propaganda, and delegates from statements of the officially sanctioned their possible transfer to another loca- the Russian language Very few mos- Western countries were strongly dis- Soviet peace committee, were particu- tion cannot be confirmed.. ques in these reg; as are open for use, couraged or prevented from expressing larly affected by the youth festival Anatoly Shcharansky, a founding and there in? few officially recognized opinions critical of Soviet policy in crackdown. The arrest of group mem- member of the Moscow Helsinki Moni- clergymen MusѓЖ clergy not sanc- Afghanistan or elsewhere. Movement ber Dr. Vladimir Brodsky on July 17 toring Group, was confined during tioned by ibt: authorities are attacked in of Soviet citizens into and within appeared timed to take him out of much of the current review period to the the official oress as "vagabonds." One Moscow was severely restricted to circulation during the festival. His trial (Continued on page 15)

Lady Liberty weeps in New York harbor by Kris Pavlak harbor for as long as she could remember? He was from Ukraine, a land crushed by Communist It all began one chilly October morning. The lady overlords, the ones who hated her the most. His in New York harbor was standing in her usual name was MyroslavMedvid, and he believed in her, place, hand uplifted, though empty now. The torch loved her and was a seeker of her truths and virtues. of freedom that had burned for so many years was Why was he being prevented from coming to her? gone for repairs. The lady looked out onto the harbor, All seemed as it should be, gulls soaring and Some of her servants, evil men, unbeknownst to calling overhead, boats passing and blowing their her, had made a pact with her enemies; were horns, sounding messages of salutation to the stopping him. They dragged the young sailor, harbor and the sea. kicking and screaming, back to the ‚clutches of his jailors. Myrosiav would never see her, never Yet she, the glorious Goddess of Liberty, felt personally pay homage to her great goodness and vaguely uneasy. Something was a uss in her realm beauty. For his loyalty to her, he would be beaten, of freedom and liberty. There seemed to be a tortured and destroyed. strange quickening in her great golden heart. She . knew what it was. She had felt it a few times before. Lady Liberty's great heart broke at that moment. Somewhere in her great land a seeker of liberty, a The seagulls' cries seemed to become more mourn- loyal subject who with all his heart believed in ner ful, the boat whistles more distant and sad. A young goodness, was being betrayed. He was being man's love and trust had been betrayed, a great lady betrayed by her own servants, the guardians of the had been mocked. goldendoor where she stood to welcome "the tired, Huge crystal tears rolled out of those great the poor, the huddled masses yearning to Dreathe copper eyes that had looked out on her beloved free." land for so long and dropped into the sea, to be He was young — a sailor. She loved the men of carried by the ocean currents to the land of the sea. Had not she welcomed them into her Myroslav's birth — Ukraine. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 No. IP

Student news Ukrainian Student Outreach Liberty City a hive of activity continues to grow J^l^{^LjJt^^ Сї'^^Г;::^ Also on tu aa.KL зі ihc і -‚rvun'4 f lh `і І І'МПНі`і l(4e?coKf.4re СІ: І І`Ѓ гч чМичі m 192' afid Vr hu; j^- o.eUing was the ге` Лзііл^ілп ^ -e 4 NEWBRUNSWK it, N.! - Severji I ederot-on ої Ukгат'ѓи Siuoem Oiga urc. . Pm'ndeipLL . Л i.' tS I 0 U ^Jt 00 Л ^ f}in- .` TiC `^"ч r. of ? паіпкт ггл^Ю( T f. .?_, Ukrainian ^udem dun pcsid^nts ano iM.'atiom oi Аг.іеяса ^Sl'^T^) i.hs Ir, labs - located at tut Ьп`лггмл t representatives have met here fwice in now-dehmtt national netwe-rl oi І`- oi Pennsylvania, Drexe", Temple and Villanova univcisiues — noid {omt Momst iilm 'Arsenal" will be pie entej the past three weeks to discuss flie kraiman students' clubs The sl^desh- n future oi Ukrainian Smdent Outreach discussions centered on a proposed cvvHu ^r a iegular b sb чдсп ЦІ` the .м^р.т The 1929 iihn іч defied Ю the A group of about ! і student leaders agenda ior a SUSTA congress whicn Jaguar. 22 piotest of the Sovic? occu- revolutionary evenn in kiev u: J918. who held a meeting here on February 16 was presented by Ronya Stojko-Lozyn- pat ion of Ukraine. This bcreenir.g w)U be held .n the agreed to replace the three-member skvj. the last elected SUSTA pieMdenL The clubs also attend a guest lecture Franklin Room of Hoibton Hali. USO coordinating committee with a Ms. Stojko-Lozynskyj reported that series, held Saturday for Ukrainian Тѓе film series concludes on April 10 council of Ukrainian student club the congress is scheduled for April 11-13 stadcnib at the Ukrainian Educational with the showing of Serhiy Paradzha- presidents. in Chicago. She also told the students and Cultural Center. no^`ь masterpiece, 'Tini Zabutykh Predkiv" ("Shadows of Forgotten An- The new committe, which will be the that information on the congress will be One of the major student events this testers"). Produced in the late 1950s at highest governing body of this inter- distributed in advance of the three-day spring is a Dovzhenko film series which the Dovzhenko Studio, the film is based state network of Ukrainian students parley. is being organized by the Ukrainian on a novel of that same name by clubs, includes a coordinating secretary, The members of USO agreed to Student Hromada at the University of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. treasurer, conference coordinator and participate in the SUSTA congress in Pennsylvania. dance coordinator. the hope that it would help create a The series, which runs March -19 to Ratifying the proposal were students strong foundation for Ukrainian stu- April і Oat the U. of Penn. campus, will The Dovzhenko film series is being from Columbia University, the Univer- dent life in the United States feature three classics by Ukrainian film organised by Sviilana Kochmar., G sity of Pennsylvania. Syiaeuse Univer One of the main objective of the producer Oiekbandcr Dcvi'h.'-nko member of Tie club and a graaiuti. of T sity, Rutgers Univeioi'y m New Вѓіт`. І'SO group is to facilitate communi- be ^;nes kicks ОЇІ` on Магсл 19 at S the ^renharg ЧгЬооІ of Comrmmcu- cr wick and Newark, anr: Vilkmova Um- cation bebvecp Ukrainiar stuuvut p ^. ".'`і` the screeni'ij of thr i,!^: iions. The fee for admission TO tacl Ґ М versity. CUDS "7^ :К І. The film о`еа`г wit І` Jrc scref-ПіПг is $1 r Drexel University m Philadelphia To this end. a UhO new-jut.-^ `ла^ се`н ссьч іуаЉп d ive in Гк"аіяс. anj Гн` March if at 7 30 p m „ m `лп`'`` ^ and Hunter College in New York have piepared at a wording nuetinc or was p.-dgcd in 1958 as о'`.с oi 'he і^ best oi the Ukrainian ^ntcrcoii^Kite C-ubof also agreed to participate in ine USO March 2. Titled "Estafeta^'thc publica- films in world cinema r^raphv jt wah ЃїЃѓѓде, Ph^rtdwlphia vvs-: he auenrir^ group. tion contains the USO statement of Dow.benko's last silent movie. The an e.-emng social at the Uktairhaii Fdu- cational and Cultural Center, The event The USO group was born last fall purpose, student views, news about screei.^ng will take place in Bodek is being organized by the Ukrainian when several Ukrainian student club Ukrainian student club activities, and Lounge, Houston Hall. students' club at Temple University. presidents agreed to meet regularly to brief write-ups about various Ukrai- A film considered to mark the be- exchange views and hold joint events. nian youth organizations in the dias- The group has held several meetings pora. The newsletter is scheduled to be throughout the Northeast and a net- distributed in early March. Big Apple club springs back to life work of clubs is now in existence. A social event for all Ukrainian NEW YORK — After several months dinator for distribution of the film in the student club members has been of inactivity, the Ukrainian Students^ United States. At its February meeting, the mem- tentatively scheduled for April 4. The Club in this city's only Ivy League The club will be sponsoring a dance, be rs of USO drafted a long-awaited social, organized by the USO council of university is becoming a visible entity featuring the Iskra band on May 16. statement of purpose which outlines the presidents will be held in New Bruns- on campus. The event, which will help raise funds objectives of the organization. wick and will feature the screening of The Ukrainian Students' Club of for the club, will be held at the Ukrai- "As Ukrainian students we derive our the infamous cult classic "Taras Bulba." Columbia University and Barnard nian Institute of America on Man- heritage, our faith, our friends and our More information on Ukrainian College held a general meeting on hattan's Upper East Side. values from the Ukrainian commu- Student Outreach is available by writ- March 3 to finalize plans for several on- nity," the statement says. "In reacti- ing to the council of presidents at: and off-campus events that have been One of the ongoing projects of this vating Ukrainian student life, we hope Rutgers Student Center, Box 103, slated for the coming months. club includes a campaign to establish a to demonstrate our commitment to our College Ave., New Brunswick, N.J. The club, which includes about 20 course in Ukrainian studies at Colum- Ukrainian community." 08903. students, will be sponsoring the screen- bia University. According to club ing of the award-winning film, "Harvest president Xenia Zielyk, the course of Despair" on March 31. would likely be offered this fall at New courses to be offered The 55-minute film documents events Columbia's School of International surrounding the Great Famine of 1932- Affairs. 33, which killed some 7 million inhabi- , Columbia University is located on the at Harvard summer school tants of Ukraine. It was produced by Upper West Side of Manhattan. The noted that the institute has received a CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — This sum- Slavko Nowytski and Yurij Luhovy for university's Columbia College has a record number of inquires and that in mer, students at Harvard's Ukrainian the Toronto-based Ukrainian Famine student population of 3,000 and Bar- past years, 75 percent of those who in- Summer Institute will have a choice of Research Committee. The film will be nard College has an enrollment of more quired about summer courses subse- five course offerings: "Beginning Ukrai- introduced by Victor Rud, the COOT-- than 2,000 students. nian,4' "Intermediate Ukrainian," quently enrolled in the program. "Ukrainian Literature," "Ukrainian Dr. Ostrowski has been associated History to 1800" and the newest offer- with the institute since 1973. Hecurrent- ing, "Religious Issues in Ukrainian ly is working on the Primary Chronicle Scholarship rejected for "bias' of Kiev, comparing five manuscript History to 1700." WINNIPEG — A $40,000 scholar- copies in order to arrive at a version and ethnic references in the gift. The instructor of both history courses ship trust that would have been made closer to the lost original than present Justice Bernard Coleman said thf is Dr. Donald Ostrowski, who is direc- available to women of Ukrainian or published versions. benefactor was very specific in her wiL tor of the summer program. He will be Polish descent was rejected by the about where she wanted the money to The Primary Chronicle, according to teaching the "Ukrainian History to University of Manitoba on the grounds go. 1800" course for the second time. Dr. Ostrowski, "is responsible for most that it is sexist and racist. A university lawyer told the Cana- of our information about Kievan Rus.' The scholarship trust, which would dian Press wire service that the money Dr. Ostrowski intends the new course, We have scraps of information and provide financial assistance to Ukrai- will go to Mrs. Cober's son, a ward of he said, "for people who have some archeological evidence, but the Primary nian or Polish women entering graduate the Manitoba Child and Family Ser- background in Ukrainian history (such Chronicle gives meaning to the arti- studies in zoology, was donated by Jo- vices, as the residual beneficiary of her as the other history course offering), facts." anne Merriam Eustacia Cober, who $200,000 estate. medieval history, or religious training. I In addition to editing the Primary died in 1984. The University of Manitoba is lo- want people who have an idea of what Chronicle, Dr. Ostrowski has served as In late February, the university failed cated in Winnipeg, which has large they're looking for and are willing to do managing editor of publications and in a bid to have a court strike out the sex Ukrainian and Polish communities. the necessary work to get it." director of the seminar series at the According to Dr. Ostrowski, the HURI and has assisted in computer students in the religious issues course development. He teaches as well. will be reading different materials from Tuition scholarships are available to Attention, students! one another and reporting on their members of Friends of the Harvard readings in class. "I hope the students Ukrainian Research Institute (member- Throughout the year, Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold activities. The will learn from each other, as well as ship costs $200; tuition scholarships are Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Ukrainian community know about from me," said Dr. Ostrowski. worth $1,370). For information write upcoming events. The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be glad to mm it looks as though attendance at this to: Ukrainian Summer Institute, 1583 timely news stories about events that have already taken place. Black and white гтеоз summer's Ukrainian Summer Institute Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. (or color with good contrast) will also be accepted. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. will be the highest ever. Dr. Ostrowski 02138. No.iq THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 9 Winnipeg singer Luba Bilash makes tracks to fame

fey Mtcbael B. Bociurkiw the center of the Ukrainian recording industry in North America. Montreal's Vy!:v% `, і "У` - ТЋе ^rge Ukrainian Yevshan Communications — essen- ачі`п n-, О ч provincial capital has tially a one-man operation headed by tk , pi note Ukrainian Bohdan Tymyc — has all but cornered i.j `^`, їм ,. л a culture, From the the Ukrainian гес.н J оіаихі. ^е"ьплп tiii? м` . - 'і- .кіап immigrants produces and distributes new and re- лігЌи'? .й```. ^ Ѓі than 90 years ago, released Ukrainian recordings, and Winn'. c, vv u of- regarded as the anything made outside of the city is a г еелП`і 's ki 5 .ІЧ!,І community life in rarity these days. Canadj But Ms. Bilash, who doesn't hide the The ; ; -т` -Men joked about as fact that she takes tremendous pride in ha4ving ,i r^' on every corner," and her work, says she insisted on a home- several nauoea- Ukrainian organiza- grown recording to make sure that the tions — including the Ukrainian Cana- final product turned out just the way she dian Committee - are based here. wanted it to. Winnipeg has a Ukrainian cultural Dale Russell, a lead guitarist with the and performing arts community that is Guess Who, was recruited to give the unparalleled in size and notoriety album a professional and contemporary anywhere else in Canada. Renowned sound, and other non-Ukrainians were individuals like television actress Mimi brought in to assist with arranging the Kuzyk and singer Edward Evanko call music and recording the music tracks, Winnipeg their home. Ukrainian per- Ms. Bilash says. forming groups like the Rusaika Dan- Most of the lyrics and music for the cers and the Kosnetz Choir are almost album were written by Winnipeg-based household names in this part of the composers, including Leonid Bashun, country Terry Chlysta and Vlodko Chlysta. The J '^и-г'иь here have their own The album includes a song written by public:1!-, '`.-`Л. I Ukrainian-English the late Ukrainian composer Volody- bilingual ^'tv^r: in the elementary myr Ivasiuk. Titled "The Hat," the two- school u. v' .. пк 10 Ukrainians have minute up-beat song was brought to the Ьґча гк `::Ї,, І а` candidates in this West for the first time after Ms, Bilash mojtiA v-,rox's4M:; election. visited Ukraine. She recently performed Аіло?у, Ліс Л^ХП} performers in this the song in front of a banquet audience city tthu Ts een.Jiig prominence in the in Winnipeg. The number made quite Ukrainian ana mainstream cultural an impact on the staid crowd, especially communities is a young singer named when Ms. Bilash and a group of young Luba Bilash Luba Bilash. dancers decked out in black tuxedos and melodic introduction. Later, the time as an instructor in Manitoba's A Ukrainian Canadian of the fourth and top hats appeared on stage with a song incorporates a varied tempo and Ukrainian-English bilingual program. generation, Ms. Bilash has been in- choreographed dance routine for the rhythm with the liberal use of a saxa- In the past seven years, she has taught volved with music for a long time. In her song. phone. And finally, the young, cheery children from kindergarten to Grade 2. younger years, she sang in the local Ms. Bilash's cabaret-style presenta- voices of a childrens' choir blend in. The Ukrainian-English bilingual pro- church choir. Throughout high school tion of the song, "The Hat," is indicative Ms. Bilash explains that the children gram, first introduced in Alberta and and university, Ms. Bilash performed in of her relatively avante-garde approach are from the Immaculate Heart of Mary now available in all three prairie pro- small Ukrainian vocal groups, in a to performing. At a recent Winnipeg School, a Ukrainian-Catholic school vinces, offers children a balanced Ukrainian band, and in solo perfor- performance, she wore no embroidered located in Winnipeg. Her sister, Daria, curriculum taught in the Ukrainian and mances in front of large audiences. outfits during her numbers, opting conducts the 47-voice choir which English languages. It is publically Ms. Bilash has performed at the instead for a more contemporary ward- includes several non-Ukrainian chil- funded and has expanded to school "Vesna Festival" in Saskatoon (des- robe. dren (although all of them are required systems located in rural areas. cribed as the largest Ukrainian cabaret "It was a fun concert to do because I to take Ukrainian language courses). Currently, Ms. Bilash teaches classes in the world), and she has performed in changed costumes for each number, and The use of the children made the exclusively in the Ukrainian language to the United States in Europe. it was really different. There was no recording of the song an enjoyable kindergarten-level students. She says all Europe. embroidery...you don't see French experience, Ms. Bilash says. of her lessons are taught in Ukrainian. One of her dreams was fulfilled late Canadian groups coming out on stage "They were just thrilled being in the "The Ukrainian kindergarten is total last year, when she released her first wearing burly caps and long aprons." studio. It was really fun working with immersion, and I never ever speak recording of contemporary Ukrainian One of the ingredients of Ms. Bilash's them. And the pronunciation of some of English to my children. They never hear music. album that separates it from most the non-Ukrainian kids was better than me speak English even if (English- The album, called "Luba," is de- others found on the shelves of Ukrai- some of the Canadian Ukrainian kids." speaking) people come into my room. I scribed as a collection of songs that nian record stores is a song called Besides cultivating her love for U- refuse to speak English to the kids "infuses Ukrainian melos in a con- "Baptism." Written by Leonid Bashun, krainian music, Ms. Bilash works full- (Continued on page 11) temporary manner." And it's a product the composition is dedicated to the which Ms. Bilash expects will make millennium of Ukrainian Christianity. quite a splash on the Ukrainian record- Ms. Bilash had some reservations about ing scene. iricluding a song about the millennium Illinois arts directory in the works "I didn't want it to sound like all the when the idea first came up, but on CHICAGO — An updated edition of performers of all kinds. other (Ukrainian) albums," Ms. Bilash second thought she decided it seemed the Illinois Ethnic Performing Arts In addition to being a useful booking said during an interview last month in like a good idea. Directory is being compiled for the tool, the updated directory will be an Winnipeg. That's why she produced the "At first I didn't know whether I Illinois Arts Council. historical document, providing con- album as a private venture — putting up wanted anything political or religious Individual perfoqpers or performing crete evidence of the rich cultural life of most of the money for the project and on the album. But later I realized the groups, both professional and amateur, Illinois' ethnic groups. hiring her own producer. millennium is coming up and all the who represent the culture of an ethnic, Broadcast journalist Lucyna Migala, Ms. Bilash predicts that people who things that people are doing (to com- regional or language group in their of WCEV, one of Chicagoland's major listen to her album will find it quite memorate it) include big choirs and performances are invited to be listed. multi-ethnic radio stations, is editor of different from anything else that is productions. I later thought that it This includes dancers and dance groups, the new directory. She is also artistic available at Ukrainian record stores — might not be a bad idea to try it." singers and choral groups, orchestras director and general manager of the if for no other reason than that it Ms. Bilash invited several people to and bands, instrumentalists, conduc- Lira Singers, one of the nation's top includes lyrics and music written by submit proposals for a millennium tors, actors, directors, theater compa- Polish vocal ensembles. young Winnipeg composers and some song. She says that Mr. Bashun's nies, opera companies, puppeteers, new material from Ukraine. composition won out over the other lecturers, radio and television persona- Forms for the Illinois Ethnic Per- Ms. Bilash says that as the project of submissions that turned out to be either lities and others. forming Arts Directory and instruc- recording the album proceeded, she too heavy or too specific. Listing is free and no obligation of tions on how to become listed are became increasingly determined to give She says of the winning entry: "I any kind on the part of the performers is available by sending a stamped, ad- the final product a different sound. really like the words, and other people implied. Only ethnic performers resid- dressed, business-size envelope to: "I didn't want to do anything that was that have listened to it have commented ing in or based in the state of Illinois, Lucyna Migala, Editor, Illinois Ethnic already done here because I find that a that it's not heavily religious or heavily who have a performance history of at Performing Arts Directory, 6033 N. lot of albums coming out now have the historical, although all that is in there. least one year, will be included. Sheridan Road — 34H, Chicago, 111. same old songs. And some of them are The thing that really hits you is a sort of The completed directory will be pub- 60660; or by calling (312) 282-6700. just rearranged or jazzed-up, and I pride ot being Christian or a pride ot lished by the State ot Illinois and will be Completed forms must be received at didn't want to do the same thing that being Ukrainian. You can feel it in the distributed Tree to all who request it the above address by April 15 in order everybody else was doing already." words." trom the Illinois Arts Council. Two past to be included in the newest edition of Titei'i ar? few Ukrainian records Indeed, the millennium song is not editions of the directory proved very the Illinois Ethnic Performing Arts produced icday that do not come out of what one would expect: the song im- popular and very helpful in providing Directory, which is scheduled for publi- Montrs?:. нрі(.'.-` becoming known as mediately grabs the listener with a soft performance opportunities ioi ethnic cation in the fall of 1986. 10 , THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 . No. 10

FOCUS ON THE ARTS

Art review: Alexandra Diachenko Kochman and a world in balance

by Yuri Myskiw that she has studied and learned her craft. It has given her a valid insight into The article below is the result of the the pulse of collective humankind, its author's musings upon viewing an archetypal knowledge — intuitive, exhibit of works by Alexandra Dia- chimerical, mysterious. Work in clay chenko Kochman. In Part I of the has handed down a rich heritage in article the reviewer commented on the world cultures. It dates back into life of duality faced by the emigre prehistory, reaching toward our origins and beginnings. Here was when we first Ukrainian artist. In Part II he reviews began to use the hand as a refined tool, the Kochman exhibit. whose full potential has not been tapped Yuri Myskiw has written on literature to this day. and art for The Weekly. He is an advisor to the Ukrainian Institute of Modern It is quite valid for one critic to posit Art on audio-visual presentations, a that "in her raku bowls, Alexandra multi-media specialist and a member of Kochman manages to achieve a monu- mental sculptural quality that evokes the UIMA arts committee. the Neolithic." One could add that it reminds one of the earthly shrines for The exhibit of clay sculpture by the Venus figurines found near the river Alexandra Diachenko Kochman con- Desna in Ukraine. Kochman's early and tinued from its opening last November recent standing vessels — through through the end of January at the shape and form — bring up that richness Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in of the "womb cults" and their peoccu- Chicago. pation with the fertility totems empha- The creative world of Alexandra D. sizing the power and fecundity of Kochman is a world in balance. Its woman. confines are ruled by a harmony that By this same association, one can exists in natural forms that is it-defined view Kochman's wall-hung sculpture — by an inner focal point of the artist's well represented by the "American refined eye for reality. It guides and Prairie" Triptych (Polychrome, 58" x_ orders the viewer's vision toward itself, 100" each) as an echo of Lescaux with toward its perfectly rendered borders of its murals of bison merging into an form and color. At once pleasing, it almost abstract quality, monolithic in captures through sense and through its hues of ochre and brown color. But order, and holds, insisting to be seen the triptych also recalls the color of and explored. It vies with its color and Tripillian pottery, or too, in a compara- invites contrast with darkness. In fact, tive sense, the culture of Navajo or Норі the best way to view its precision is to Indian art of the American Southwest, close one's eyes, drift into that percep- The power of the triptych could easily tive state of seeing, and return, visualiz- dominate great space, for in its inter- ing that optically suspended form or play between the square and the circle color. In the process, the intellectual its upper portions seem to take on wing, "Royal Trio" learns one more lesson about unity and to float upward — the copper-stains coherence. And here lies the universa- forming an aviary mosaic, the great lity of all art — to teach and enlighten. wings of a bird sacred to the Indians. Kochman's world knows the immemo- Triptych seems a like a graceful key- rial verities of form. stone between earth and heaven. Her creative output gleans of the But to claim that Kochman's wall- avatar, finds its truths in the infinite hung sculptures capture the eye with archetypes, gathers, transmutes, trans- their power is to deny her best element lates them for our time, illuminates — elegance and decorum. All of her them for the present. work has a refined, stylistic finish. It Kochman's exhibit "Clay Sculpture," reveals an artist whose dedication to the at the UIMA demonstrates that an finished product is total. Here is the artist in the "emigre" dilemma can "master" artist so well described in the archive a truce between the old and new medieval vision of Hans Sachs. In a worlds, can live in one world made collection of his early screenplays, whole by one's creative harmony. Ingmar Bergman, when asked about his Kochman is one of the few that has aims in film, recalled the medieval view achieved this state, and that is what of art, of the building of a great cathe- makes her a universal artist: not to root dral upon which all artists worked oneself in either world, to be, to exist in collectively, almost anonymously, and the creator's own defined cultural let the work of ajt stand by itself as a zenith, to define one's own reality symbol of all of their individual selves through one's own aesthetically inter- surrendered to the "all." It did not preted view of that reality. Kochman's matter to Bergman whether he created a dedication to that alternative can be demon or an angel, as long as he did his seen and understood by the immensity own thing as one element of the har- of the physical work — long hours spent monious artistic whole. Kochman, in firing the clay, of producing the raku intuitively, suggests membership in that process — reminding her (in her own "guild," in the pooled efforts of all art to words) of "a natural, imperfect, yet create a symbiotic, shared vision. All beautiful world." artists, once they have discovered the "Vladimir's Ceremonial Vestment" And here is where we come to the full symbolic alphabet of their own indivi- Japanese rice paper watercolor, or considers "line" as "a persistent intru- turn of the "cobbler" philosophy of dual art, become part of that universal screen, or whisps of calligraphy. "Toy" der" which pushes, controls "a large Hans Sachs, of the preface about the "family" dedicated to the mirror of is at once Eastern and Western — with amoebic outer shape, pushing beyond Ukrainian emigre of the "of Ukrainian truth. its interplay of straight and wavy line, the limitations of physical matter." The descent" artist. All of it makes the work That stylistic elegance of Kochman's its segmented circles, the square en- contrast of geometric form in these 4^of Kochman so relevant and so lucidly work — almost like the rhymed couplet closed dots of bright color. Hung on a series of square forms at once suggest clear under the scrutiny of the "old "and of Pope or Dryden — is so well re- wall, made of clay, it seems gossamer — the contrast between logic and the sub- "new" arguments. Some artists are of presented by three "fan-like" wall-hung as if fan took on the wings of a butter- conscious, between the order of the their time and yet out of it. Their niche sculptures called "Geisha Tpjy" (raku fired fly. And through it all one experiences universe and the pre-supposed order in time and the temporal world are clay,wire,polychrome, 44" x 26" x 3"). Kochman's innate control of decorum imposed by the human intellect. As style dictated by their own dedication to their Here Kochman has blended several — the refined trappings of elegance. the square forms haunt memory like an visionary sense, as made known to them media and through her mastery of the "Square Forms" (raku, barium glaze, "art deco" piece in one of those retire- by their creative work in "being," in ancient Japanese "raku" process (low- 15x15), there are several of them, are ment hotels on lower Collins Avenue in progress. Kochman deserves to be in firing temperature creating an earthy more static. Here Kochman plays with Miami Beach. Somehow that simile that world by the sheer will of the time texture and coloration) has created a geometric forms and muted color. In seems appropriate, for the gray color to that she puts into her work, by the fact colorful, yet fragile work — like a her own comments about her art she (Continued on page 13) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 П

March 7 (a closed-door session). He out the Navy's knowledge and then de- press conference, expressing hisfrustra- Renewed interest... also pointed out that he had sent the fied orders by his superiors to turn them tibn at being unable to get information. (Continued from page 1) chief counsel of his subcommittee, over — this because he was alerted that When he has asked for tapes, and Records show that when Mr. Medvid Richard W. Day, to New Orleans to the Senate was going to subpoena them transcripts of inteviews of Mr. Medvid was first in the presence of U.S. autho- make a full investigation into what — he is being discharged from the he has been told that none were rities, he was described as "alert, occurred in New Orleans between Navy. The action marks the end of a 10- available, he said. While the senator did oriented, conversant." In subsequent October 24, 1985, the day Mr. Medvid year career. not suggest a government cover-up, he interviews, officials described him as jumped ship, and October 29, 1985, the Rep. Kemp stated he was struck by said there has been a lot of "foot- cocky and belligerent. There are also day the seaman returned to his ship the discrepancies between what was said dragging" on the issue. "It's sure hard to many questions remaining as to Mr. after two days of interviews with U.S. and what was done in the Medvid case. get information," he stressed. Medvid's physical and mental condi- officials. He also spoke about the language issue, "Over 100 days have passed since tion. Sen. Simpson stated he had also that is whether Mr. Medvid ., was fluent Medvid left the U.S. and still many ^ The question of language was also instructed Mr. Day to speak with in Ukrainian or Russian. questions remain unanswered," Sen. raised. When Immigration and Natura- people who had any significant contact Sen. Humphrey also spoke at the Humphrey said. lization Service translator Irene Padoch with Mr. Medvid when he was ashore. "During those interviews," the sena- spoke with the seaman after he jumped juk and then whisked him away to tors aid, "the witnesses who had come ship, she said he spoke to her in fluent Demjanjuk's lawyer... Ramla. into contact with Medvid on his first Ukrainian. (Continued from page 1) The next day, Mr. Demjanjuk ap- time ashore were shown the pictures But U.S. authorities said that when new generation of Israelis about the peared in court where police investiga- taken by Navy photographers during another translator, who speaks both Holocaust. He said he has some concern tors and the state attorney were granted Medvid's second trip ashore. Those Russian and Ukrainian, conversed with about fairness if his client is to be used a 15-day renewable extension of the witnesses who had come into contact Mr. Medvid, he spoke Russian fluently as an "educational tool." defendant's pre-trial detention. with Medvid during this second time and Ukrainian haltingly. Mrs. Padoch Nonetheless, "the eyes of the world Mr. Demjanjuk was allowed to make ashore were shown a picture of Medvid said Mr. Medvid had never asked to will be watching and the world will be a statement. He said "I'm completely as taken by Border Patrol agents the speak Russian. the jury" in the Demjanjuk case, said the wrong person. I was never in that first time he was ashore. Nineteen of the As a result of the Times article, the Mr. O'Connor. It is important that the place (Treblinka)... or a Nazi collabora- 22 persons interviewed positively iden- pace has quickened in the Senate to get public realizes the issue at hand is the tor." He also said that he himself was tified Medvid as being the person who Senate Resolution 267 on the floor so it identity of "Ivan the Terrible," not the held in a German camp for Soviet was portrayed in the pictures." can be voted on. The resolution, intro- enormity of the crimes committed prisoners of war until he was mobilized May Kay Hill, Sen. Simpson's press duced by Sen. Humphrey on December during the Nazi Holocaust. into a Ukrainian division that fought secretary, stated on March 4 that Sen. 6, 1985, would establish a seven-mem- Mr. O'Connor said that Israel's case against the Soviet Union. Simpson will continue to oppose Sen. ber Special Senate Panel on Asylum against Mr. Demjanjuk is a weak one The costs of Mr. Demjanjuk's defense Humphrey's resolution. "He continues Procedures. It would empower the and he charged that it was the U.S. are the biggest obstacle at this point, his to believe that any investigation is best panel to subpoena witnesses and evi- Justice Department that pressured the attorney noted. The Demjanjuk family conducted by those people who under- dence in its review of U.S. asylum Israeli government to ask for the extra- is now broke as a result of huge legal stand the issues. If there are people who procedures and recent asylum cases, dition of Mr. Demjanjuk. costs, and Mr. O'Connor has contri- acted inappropriately, those people including that of Mr. Medvid. According to Mr. O'Connor, in the buted his own funds to his client's should be made responsible," she said. Although the resolution now has 62 spring of 1983 a special Justice defense. That is why Mr. O'Connor has Sen. Dole's office did not return four co-sponsors — the most recent senator Department delegation traveled to applied to the Israeli government for phone calls asking for comment on to lend his support being Paul S. Trible Jerusalem to persuade Israel to seek the financial assistance in defending his opposition to the resolution. (R-Va.) — it has not been put to a vote, extradition of Mr. Demjanjuk. The client. He noted that there is some In light of the heightened media due primarily to the objections of Israeli government was persuaded, he provision for such assistance under the attention to the Medvid case, Sen. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said, that it would look bad for Israel if English system, after which the Israeli Humphrey and Lt. Geltz appeared on (R-Kansas) and Sen. Alan Simpson (R- a criminal of this sort was not wanted in justice system is modeled. ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wyo.). Sen. Simpson, chairman of the that country. The Israeli government has not yet March 5. Lt. Geltz talked about the Subcommittee on Immigration and The Weekly's calls to the Justice responded to Mr. O'Connor's applica- photographs he took of Mr. Medvid Refugee Policy, has maintained from Department in reference to this allega- tion for financial help, but the assistant and his thoughts about the "two Med- the beginning that S. Res. 267 is not tion were not returned. The Israeli to the press consul of the Israeli Con- vids" theory. needed because he believes the Congress Consulate would not comment on the sulate in New York said, "an indigent "I'm totally convinced there was a has the committee structure to investi- allegation. defendant gets aid from the state." Ms. switch," he told host David Hartman. gate the matter. Mr. Demjanjuk is being held in a Kam likened Israel's assistance in such While Sen. Humphrey would not say he In a March 3 speech on the Senate maximum security prison in Ramla, cases to that provided in the United believed a switch was made by the floor, which was prompted by the Times while the pre-trial investigation is States. Soviets, he did express his amazement article, Sen. Humphrey blasted the continuing. The Israeli Consulate Mr. O'Connor acknowledged "the at the Senate leadership's lack of interest Senate leadership for not putting the spokesperson said she has no idea how tremendous help" from Americans for in putting the resolution on the table, resolution to a vote. He said in part: long the investigation will last or when Human Rights in Ukraine, which ar- knowing that so many unanswered "In spite of the passage of almost four the trial will begin. ranged rallies to raise money for Mr. questions remain. months, we know little more about the Mr. Demjanjuk arrived in Israel on Demjanjuk's defense, and from St. "Bob Dole can move this when he Medvid case than we did on November February 28 aboard an El Al flight from Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church choses to do so...But time is on the side 8, 1985... New York to Tel Aviv. Israeli police in Cleveland, the Demjanjuk family's of those who don't want to do so," Sen. "...there are many inconsistencies in formally took custody of Mr. Demjan- parish. this case and many questions remain to Humphrey said. be answered. Unfortunately, we are Later in the day, at the Humphrey- having to rely upon the news media to Kemp press conference, Rep. Kemp more contemporary sound. But, she is conduct the investigation. That is commented that the resolution he in- Winnipeg singer... quick to add, things are still up in the air unfortunate indeed, because there lies tends to introduce to establish a special (Continued from page 9) and her main priority is to get as many before this body a" resolution co-spon- House panel on asylum procedures was because then they'll know that they can people as possible to listen to her sored now by 61 senators who desire to not an attempt to embarass anyone, but rely on that." premiere album. set up a special independent panel to an attempt to "get at the truth." He To date, Ms. Bilash has released two Ms. Bilash adds that she hopes other investigate this whole matter from top stated that maybe as a result of his chiidrens' recordings for the Ukrainian- Ukrainian composers and recording to bottom. That resolution has lain action, S. Res. 267 will advance. English bilingual program. The record- artists will "move ahead" to create more before us now for days and days and "This action has been motivated by ings of chiidrens' songs are used by contemporary Ukrainian music. weeks and weeks and months and the dramatic circumstances surround- parents and teachers to help the chil- months and it lies before us now now. If ing the attempted defection of Mr. dren learn Ukrainian. "It's not very difficult (to write an independent investigation is lacking, Medvid last October," the congressman When asked of her future plans, Ms. contemporary music)," Ms. Bilash says it is through no fault but our own. said. Bilash says that another record album is Although she agrees with other mm "How peculiar it is that 61 senators Referring to the Times article, Rep. something which she would like to work cians and composers that a "Ukrainian desire a certain course of action by this Kemp said, "It raised grave doubts if the on. She insists that the writers and music mode" is an essential ingredieh body, yet nothing happens. I presume, person who was permitted ashore for producers that worked on this album in Ukrainian recordings, much mori the leadership is at liberty to call up that the second interview was actually are "all game" for getting involved with experimentation and innovation can b resolution at any time. Perhaps the Medvid, or if another seaman was a second album, possibly one with a done. press ought to be inquiring why that substituted and the real Medvid is resolution, co-sponsored by 61 sena- somewhere in the Soviet Union suffer- tors, lies at the table yet. Perhaps there ing from his actions and (those of) NOTICE are some who wish that matter would others." just go away." Rep. Kemp stated at the press confe- THE SV0B0DA PRESS ADMINISTRATION L Sen. Simpson replied to Sen. Hum- rence that if U.S. relations with the phrey's statements, telling his colleagues USSR are such that they can't survive a hereby informs all organizations and individuals that the administration j that his committee was already con- defection of this kind, he has serious will not accept any advertisements Ij 1 ducting an investigation. Discounting doubts as to the Soviets ability to Sen. Humphrey's assertion that "we adhere to international agreements, if previous bills are not paid. know little more about the case today such the Helsinki Accords and arms then we did on November 9, 1985," Sen. control pacts. Individuals letters concerning unpaid bills will not be sent, "I am incensed at treatment of Lt. Simpson stated that he has held three і Al! bills must he paid within 15 days after the publication of an advertisement hearings on the Medvid affair, and Geltz," Rep. Kemp also said. Because another was scheduled for Friday, Lt. Geltz took the Medvid photos with- 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 No. 10

Sen. Gordon... week's time. process — not simply a rehashing by case be established once and for all Mr. President, there are many means of a hearing or two of infor- and made public and conclusions be (Continued from page 3) inconsistencies in this case and many mation already provided to us by the drawn and, if any impropriety be Now we are at the point where the questions remain to be answered. administration, but through an ag- found, persons be held accountable. operator of the launch who was Unfortunately, we are having to rely gressive process of discovery involv- I thank the Chair. I ask unanimous taking him back to the Soviet gram upon the news media to conduct the ing sworn statements, oath-giving consent that The New York Times carrier, says — he jumped into the investigation. That is unfortunate and subpoenas if necessary of persons article to which I referred be printed water, swam to shore, and then the indeed, because there lies before this and material; that the facts of this in the Record. launch operator observed "wild body a resolution co-sponsored now fighting — kicking and punching." In by 61 senators who desire to set up a other words, the second time he special independent panel to investi- "party-minded" speech. jumped in, he resisted violently. The gate this whole matter from top to An overview.-. Without naming any individuals, he launch operator, Mr. Raymond bottom. That resolution has lain (Continued from page 2) referred to the emergence of "literary Guthrie, and a representative from before us now for days and days and patriotism and internationalism, pride careerism" among Ukrainian writers. the shipping company, Mr. Michael weeks and weeks and months and in belonging to the new social and Apparently, there is a group of writers Flad, observed that Medvid "began months and it lies before us now. If international community — the Soviet in Ukraine who are free to publish any banging his head against some rocks an independent investigation is lack- people, the single family profoundly kind of trash and are rewarded for their until he was dragged away and ing, it is through no fault but our runs through the consciousness and efforts with exclusively positive reviews. carried back to the ship." own. feelings of the toilers of Soviet Ukraine." Mr. Oliynyk also referred to "our most Banging his head against the rocks. How peculiar it is that 61 senators Nonetheless, Mr. Shcherbytsky main- malicious enemies — nationalism and He was handcuffed at that point, I desire a certain course of action by tained that the party will continue to zionism in all of its variations." In this note. this body, yet nothing happens. I devote unremitting attention to the connection, he reminded the Council of Yet, Mr. President, in a hearing presume the leadership is at liberty to realization of "Leninist nationalities Ministers, Gosplan, and all ministries before the Immigration and Refugee call up that resolution at any time. policy, and strengthen the age-old that "there can be no economizing on Policy Subcommittee on February 5, Perhaps the press ought to be inquir- friendship with the great Russian people ideology, and that it requires full capital 1 specifically asked the Navy physi- ing why that resolution, co-sponsored and all the peoples of the country." investments." Among other monuments cian who later examined the man by 61 senators, lies at the table yet. There was no mention of the impor- and museums that Mr. Oliynyk would who was presumed to be Medvid if Perhaps there are some who wish this tance of the Russian language. But the like to see erected in the republic is a the physician had observed any head matter would just go away. fact that Mr. Shcherbytsky, as on museum of the friendship of nations in wounds when he examined this I want to say in the same breath that previous such occasions, addressed the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky which would individual. This physician replied I have discussed this matter many congress in Russian speaks for itself. "sanctify our reunification with the under oath, "He had no head in- times with the majority leader and he The need for continued "thoughtful Russian brother." juries." has made some efforts to find some work as regards atheist upbringing" and There is yet another bit of evidence common ground — I should say to a reminder to Ukrainian writers that To the surprise of most "experienced which lends weight to the argument find some way of compromising on their function consists of contributing observers" of the Kremlin scene, Mr. that we were duped, we were had, this issue. I shall not get into the to "the development of the single Shcherbytsky was re-elected first secre- that the Soviets pulled a switch on us. details of why any compromise might multinational socialist culture" con- tary of the Ukrainian Party organiza- Were we duped? I do not know, be necessary, but it involves matters eluded the Central Committee report. tion, which now numbers almost 3.1 but it certainly looks that way. A of jurisdiction, I think it would be Perhaps the most interesting contri- million members and 104,600 candi- follow-up question may be, if we fair to say. The bottom line is that butions to the discussion of the Sh- dates. The first post-congress plenum of were duped, were we knowingly nothing has happened, nothing con- cherbytsky address were made by Viktor the Central Committee also chose duped or unknowingly duped? That crete has been achieved so far. Dobryk, the first secretary of the Lviv Volodymyr Antonovych Ivashko to focuses back on the concern many Mr. President, Sen. Dixon and I Oblast Committee, and Borys Oliynyk, replace Oleksandr Kapto as Central have had that there might have been and our 59 co-sponsors desire ar- a secretary of the board of the Ukrai- Committee secretary responsible for some political shenanigans involved dently that an independent investiga- nian Writers' Union. Mr. Dobryk's ideological matters. Mr. Ivashko, who in this case inasmuch as all of these tion be conducted beginning imme- speech was probably the most icono- was a secretary of the Kharkiv Oblast events preceded the summit meeting diately that would get to the bottom clastic. He took on the apparatus of the Party Committee, has also taken Mr. in Geneva between Mr. Gorbachev of this case, that would establish the Central Committee, individual depart- Kapto's seat as a candidate member of and President Reagan by about a facts through an aggressive discovery ment chiefs, the Secretariat, as well the the Politburo. The only other personnel editors of the Ukrainian-language party change involved the promotion of and government daily Radianska U- Vitaliy Andriyovych Masol, the chair- kraina. The latter, he maintained, was 4t man of the Ukrainian Gosplan and a There's no place like busying itself with petty themes," and deputy chairman of the Council of this was reflected in its loss of subscri- Ministers, to candidate membership in SOYUZIVKA bers. Mr. Oliynyk^ delivered a strict the Politburo.

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BOYS'CAMP - July 6 - July 26 PROGRAM: Recreation camp for boys ages 7-12, featuring hiking, swimming, games. 1. Openings Remarks. 2. Review of the organizational work of the District during the past months. Ukrainian songs and folklore. UNA members: $100.00 per week; non-members 3. Address by UNA Supreme Organizer STEFAN HAWRYSZ. $120.00 per week. 4. Adoption of membership campaign plan for balance of 1985. 5. Questions and answers, adjournment. GIRLS' CAMP - July 6 - July 26 All members of the Oistrict Committee, Convention Delegates, Branch Officers Similar program to boys' camp; same prices. of the following Branches are requested to attend without fail: Branch 44, 46, 47, 48, 124, 137, 143, 144, 147,151. 288, UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP - July 27 - August 9 318, 369, and 438 Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate and advanced Meeting will be attended by: dancers. Instructor: ROMA PRIMA-BOHACHEWSKY. Limit 60 students, Food and Stefan HaWrySZ, UNA Supreme Organizer lodging $195.00 (UNA members), $225.00 (non-members), instructor's fee: Anna Haras, UNA Supreme Advisor f $100.00. FOR THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE: For more information, please contact the management of Soyuzivka: Anna Haras, President Michael Kolodrub, Honorary Chairman Anna Pypiuk, Honorary Chairman SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE Anna $trot,Secretary English Stefan Mucha, Secretary Ukrainian Foordemoore Rd„ Kerhonkson, NX 12446 m (914) 626-5641 Walter Zagwodsky, Treasurer No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 13

r especial!) the stems . -i ^ і егч t, Art review... cert.- n pbiiits. They are a good parallel ?'Continued from page 10) of J)Q realty of the artist mnroring Kochman constitutes "the smog tf л realty as it is transmuted in her creative encloses an urban architectural kii pe- `-ption. "ТЋѓеє oi я Kind," ^аіг` -.-аре." Виє ` c r extend her m ь -es wh' ' I ,cs of spent hu: n ml. се Л' `' or to a ѓ н'е, its last ' У І mer." But to ast п^о` алб T '4grayt ` , .:ЬГ in is a grim CO?: '-Г 'W13t?-J hats v ition is r- o- 'О'. ihe fact thai it a J oi the i .k-fai ^cnnotes the :H; ^quality of space.' хм s c iiiidren a!as nes a fran ;. to the color : "L '' ^ain^аг І `ікіге :.. v f '^ststhrough he іcosmo s of І'к`я w ^ з ^ ie .) vivi?'os on oc v ch s is і f re І -. m the wor-Js of the art revie .'І aov, its theme i:eie 'й Thu-ч'' тегі o'olg, forms the background а`` vs be mastf- rtsb -vho ha p::r -m themes: "the technology і ѓ ulseoftnrh. -Uexa `"а D. `ма$ tMs primitive, the indusL і` such an ГЇНІЬС She ha ^ isus ihi organic, the tribal versus t icd the гіі^аічь m' the сі Ved. the polished versus the weu ` .ds, of that i: po;- ible duality ! ^d." K.K-hman's use of gray link; ' i' -es dominate current Ukra.- ., her wit!) that rich past of the well v- у . . ^ure. Ншк`пкс captures us with Ьь culture — out of which a substance used primitive overpowering primeval fonns. to make primitive utensils, developed The phallic-gonnoidal, savagely ren- into artifact, became art and has con- dered shapes take us to the first cosmic tinned as a worthy medium of expres- dawn of matter. They beckon to the first sion for artists of all times. archetypes of a Jungian universe — the Kochman's works that deal with raw matter that was, perhaps, con- matters of heritage again reveal her ceived in violence or cataclysm. Like a "Geisha Toy" sophisticated mastery of style and "muzhiks-image, Hunenko gives his chaos. Her world is stable and peaceful, our first beginnings. It'is .of the shape artistic imagination. The wall-hung universe an aesthetic order. The other It is of the first cosmic dawn, under a the womb and the well. It is of the h-x piece, "Vladimir's Ceremonial Vest- figure, Kochman, gives us the balance serene heaven. 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faithful loyal to Christ and His Church, and elsewhere that monitor religious life the patriarch of Moscow and the Com- Days of infamy... came together to file a protest against in the Soviet Union report in their munist government, manifests strong (Continued from page 5) "doxy. These witnesses to the Catholic journals many religious activities of the vital signs that it is alive. priests who subsequently assembled in Church willingly suffered exile to the submerged Church in western Ukraine. The Diocese of Stamford will observe St. George's Cathedral in Lviv, protest- arctic regions of Siberia, and some even Major Archbishop and Cardinal Myro- the "Days of Infamy" on Sunday, ing the imprisonment of their she- death, rather than betray their fidelity slav Lubachivsky in his Christmas March 16. It will be a day of concerted pherds. to Christ and His Church. Pastoral related that 10 bishops and 300 effort: Approximately one year later, March The days of March 8-Ю highlight the priests secretly perform their priestly ^ to inform the community through 8-10, with the Church leaders subdued, continuing struggle of the Ukrainian functions for the faithful. Chronicles a symposium of four speakers about the three opportunistic priests usurped Catholic Church to exist. It adapted (1983) written by a Catholic group in humiliation of the Mystical Body of their bishops' authority and illegally itself to the circumstances of persecu- the Carpathian Mountains supply the Christ in Ukraine on March 8-Ю, 1946; signed a "document of union" with the tion by going underground so that it world with first-hand information ^ to present visually, through an Russian Orthodox Church, pledging might further serve the spiritual needs about Catholic life in the underground. exhibition, how the Ukrainian Catholic loyalty to the Patriarch of Moscow. of the faithful. A number of organiza- Obviously, the Ukrainian Catholic Church was subject to Russian persecu- Once again, heroic priests, religious and tions in America, Germany, England Church, considered to be liquidated by tion for over 200 years; and ^ to offer the divine liturgy for the heroic witnesses to Christ and His living church in Ukraine. The day is primarily a day of prayer. We will pray that the good Lord will grant freedom to the KOBASNIUK TRAVELING living subterranean Church and actua- 26TH YEAR OF TOURS TO UKRAINE lize its right to exist. We will also pray that the Holy Spirit will nourish the many witnesses of the suffering Church, 1986 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS 'especially those who openly and boldly assert their loyalty to the Catholic TO UKRAINE Church and to the vicar of Christ, the Pope of Rome. 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which carries a maximum term of five years in a labor camp plus five years' compared to the peak year of 1979, For the record... years. Tatyana Osipova, a former internal exile. At the end of August, when over 50,000 left the country. The (Continued from page 7) Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group imprisoned poet Irina Ratushinskaya Soviet authorities continue to maintain, in the face of abundant evidence to the internal prison of a labor camp in the member, was due to be released from had her head shaved and was placed in a contrary, that the vast majority of Jews Perm region. Five sentences of 11 days labor camp to internal exile in May, but punishment isolation cell for six months. who wanted to leave the country have each to the punishment cell of the prison her camp term was extended for "mali- Despite commitments under the already left and that the rate of emigra- (a bare room where food and clothing ciously" breaking camp rules. Former Helsinki Final Act to facilitate family tion is declining naturally as fewer and are kept to a minimum) extended his Helsinki monitors Viktor Nekipelov, reunification, the Soviet Union conti- fewer families remain to be reunited. four-month term in the internal prison, Ivan Kovalyov and Anatoly Mar- nues to deny exit permission to thou- The authorities have also stated that after which he was to remain in the chenko, all serving camp sentences, sands of its citizens who wish to join family reunification refers only to those labor camp. Soviet authorities have were reported to be suffering ill health. relatives living abroad. Jewish emigra- families divided by World War II. rejected repeated appeals for clemency Viktor Grinev, already in a labor camp, tion continued at a very low level for Shcharansky, sentenced to a 13-year was sentenced to two additional years term on a patently false charge of for anti-Soviet slander. Anatoly Kor- spying. Another Moscow Helsinki yagin, a leading critic of Soviet psychia- Monitoring Group member, Ivan Ko- tric abuse, another labor camp inmate, The Ukrainian Institute of America was reportedly in very bad health. valev, has spent a total of 501 days in the is currently seeking punishment isolation section of a labor Independent labor unions are not camp since he arrived there in the accepted by the Soviet authorities. ACTORS, SINGERS, DANCERS summer of 1982. Vladimir Sytinsky of SMOT (an inde- Yuri Orlov, the leader of the Mos- pendent trade union group) was re- cow Helsinki Monitoring Group, con- portedly sent to a psychiatric hospital (Ages 18-35) in order to create a Ukrainian program tinues to serve a five-year term of exile after being tried for anti-Soviet slander. for the New York Committee for Young Audiences in a remote area of the province of Byelorussian worker Mikhail Kuko- Yakutia. He is permitted visits from his We are also interested in performers who play bandura, piano or accordion. All artists will be baka, who was to have been released paid through the Committee for Young Audiences. For interviews, please call wife, but is subjected to harassment by from labor camp in October 1984, has local inhabitants. He subsists on mini- been given a hew term for "anti-Soviet Marta Kolomayets at the UIA (212) 288-8660 mal food rations. His small house has agitation and propaganda." The use of no running water. Orlov's health is psychiatric facilities for political pur- reported to be fairly good despite the poses continued in the Soviet Union harsh climate. Appeals on his behalf during the reporting period. For continue to go unheeded by Soviet example, Lydia Koifman, the wife of authorities. The Ukrainian Women's Association of Whtppany, Branch 61 arrested Hebrew teacher Yevgeniy will hold its Another former member of the Mos- Koifman, was sent to a psychiatric cow Helsinki Group, Naum Meiman, hospital after trying to help her husband. continued to encounter obdurate re- ANNUAL EASTER BAZAAR sistance as he persistently sought per- Soviet authorities continued to arrest featuring the sale of homemade kobasa, pa ska, babka, and various cakes, along with its traditional mission for his wife to travel abroad for cultural activists. Former political display and sale of pysanky (Easter eggs), embroidery kits, ceramics, and Ukrainian egg decorating kits. medical treatment not available in the prisoner and unofficial art collector The bazaar will be held on Sunday, March 23rd 1986 USSR. He and Inna Meiman, who Georgy Mikhailov was re-arrested in underwent a fourth serious cancer Leningrad September 19. Samizdat at St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall on Rt. #10 operation in July, were again denied writer Lev Timofeyev was accused of (comer of Rt. 10 and So. Jefferson Rd.)y Whippany, N.J. exit permission in August. sending his writings to the West; on from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The public is invited. Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group September 30, he was sentenced to six member Vasyl Stus died September 4 in a labor camp after years of brutal treatment at the hands of Soviet autho- rities. He was the fourth Ukrainian F.A.C. Gallery, Yarema Harabatch — Director human-rights activist to die from mis- 5244 State Rd., Cleveland, Ohio. Tel.: (216) 351-4534 treatment or neglect in a Soviet labor camp in the past 18 months. These invite you to an EXHIBIT deaths leave little doubt that Ukrainian political prisoners are singled out for a particularly brutal treatment. Another ONE THOUSAND and ONE EGGS" former member of the Ukrainian Hel- sinki Group, Iosif Zisels, was sentenced in April to three years in a labor camp, his second sentence for human-rights Tanya Osadca and Aka Pereyma activities. His colleague, Mykola Hor- March 14 - May 3,1986 bal, was also sentenced to three years of Opening Friday, March 14,1986 from 7 p.m. — 10 p.m. labor camp in April. Cruelly, he had been rearrested on anti-Soviet slander charges just two days before his sche- Gallery open Monday — Friday, 2 p.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. duled release from a five-year sentence on trumped-up criminal charges. The difficult circumstances of Ukrainian human-rights activists are reflected in the fact that although Ukrainians account for only 20 percent of the Soviet population, they account for 40 percent of all Soviet political prisoners. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UKRAINE On June 6, Grigoriy Goldshtein, Isai Goldshtein, Tengiz Gudava, Eduard Edited by VolodymyrKubijovyc Gudava, Епѓіко Tvaladze and Ilya Boroda issued a statement in Tbilisi announcing the revival of the Georgian VOLUME I (A-F): First of Four Volumes Helsinki Monitoring Group and pro- testing the continuing imprisonment of $115.00 + shipping SL handling— $4.50 Merab Kostava, a founding member of the original Helsinki group in Georgia. First volume of a major work of Ukrainian scholarship in the diaspora Isai Goldshtein was kept under close surveillance by the authorities after that 968 pages containing approximately 2,800 entries announcement, and threatened with Illustrated throughout arrest for espionage. These threats may have been an effort to discourage Over 450 illustrations in black and white; 5 color plates contacts with foreigners. Gudava and 83 maps, 6 of them in color Emmanuil Tvaladze, also of Tbilisi, were arrested in late June on unspeci- Large color fold-out map of Ukraine with 32-page gazetteer bound separately in same fied charges. binding as book, Other dissidents, sometimes too young to have belonged to the original ORDER NOW AND SEND A CHECK FOR $119.50 to: Helsinki monitoring groups, have also been arrested. Kirill Popov of Moscow SVOBODA BOOK STORE was taken to Lefortovo prison June 19. 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ. 07302 He was later charged with anti-Soviet New Jersey residents add 6'7 sales tax agitation and propaganda under a law 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 9,1986 No. 10

nian Easter egg-making kit. March 9 PREVIEW OF EVENTS BRIDGEPORT, Conn.: The Bridge- MAPLEWOOD, N.J.: The Holy port Ukrainian community will com- Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox memorate the birthday of Taras Shev- Freedoms for Ukraine, will be chair- gious Experience: Tradition and the Church here will sponsor its annual chenko with readings and discus- ed by Ivanna Kononiw and Irene Canadian Cultural Context," with Taras- Shevchenko commemorative sions of his works, followed by a Basniak. The coordinator of the scholars from the United States and program immediately following the reception, at the Hall of the Ukrai- exhibit is Andrew Keybida. The Canada, at the Provincial Museum 10 a.m. divine liturgy. The parish nian Orthodox Church of the Holy public is invited. of Alberta and in Lister Hall on the choir, Junior Ukrainian Orthodox Trinity on York and Horace streets. University of Alberta campus. For League chapter and Sunday School For more information call (203) 261- information call (403) 432-2972. will participate. A varenyky dinner in 4530 or (203) 888-3587. March 13 the parish hall will follow the pro- March 14 gram. March 10 TOMS RIVER, N.J.: The Ukrai- nian American Club of Ocean County WASHINGTON: The Washington PASSAIC, N.J.: Branch 18 of the NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: Dr. James will hold a meeting, featuring guest Group will hold a Friday Evening Ukrainian National Women's League E. Mace, director of the U.S. Famine speaker attorney George Tereschuk, Forum, featuring Alvin Kapusta of America will hold an Easter Commission, will lecture at Central on the effects of the Gramm-Rud- speaking on "Genealogy — How to Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Connecticut State University here on man Bill on senior citizens, at 7:30 Trace Your Family Roots," at 7:30 St. Nicholas School Auditorium, 212 "National Communism in Soviet p.m. in Town Hall, 33 Washington p.m. in St. Sophia's Religious Center, President St. For more information Ukraine." The lecture will begin at 7 St. Refreshments will be served. 2615 30th St. N.W. Wine and cheese call Musia Moczula Jachens at (201) p.m. in Copernicus Hall, Room 231. will be served. Admission for TWG 779-0459. The public is invited. For informa- LAKE WORTH, Fla.: The Ukrai- members is free; non-members, $5. tion call Dr. Michael Voskobiynyk at nian American Club of the Palm For information contact Pat Filipov NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.: UNWLA (203) 666-2303. Beaches will present a Taras Sh6v- at (301) 526-3737. Branches 4, 65, 92 and 100 will chenko commemorative program at sponsor a program "Ukrainians MAPLEWOOD, N.J.: A Ukrainian 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Citizen ANN ARBOR, Mich.: The Ukrai- Helping Ukrainian Students" at the folk art exhibit will be on display at Center, Dixie and Second Ave. N. nian Students Association at the Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall, 86 the Maplewood Memorial Library University of Michigan will present a Livingston Ave., at noon. Anna on Baker Street and at the Hilton March 13-16 screening of "Shadows of Forgotten Krawczuk, UNWLA Scholarship Library on Springfield Avenue from Ancestors," part I, in Ukrainian with Program Committee chairwoman, March 10 through April 5. The EDMONTON: The Canadian Insti- English subtitles, as part of its will be the main speaker. Petro exhibit, sponsored by the Women's tute of Ukrainian Studies will hold a Ukrainian Film Series, from noon to Bokalo will give a slide presentation Association for Defense of Four conference on "The Ukrainian Reli- 1 p.m. in the Video Viewing Room, with sound titled "Brazilia" and second floor, Modern Languages "Unknown Destiny" about Ukrai- ````` Building. nians in Brazil. Ksenia Hapij, com- mittee member, who together with Stamford events to recall :..:: CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Ameri- Anna Krawczuk visited UNWLA II can justice Committee is sponsoring scholarship recipients in Brazil and II a seminar "The Soviet-Created Fa- Argentina in the fall of 1985, will illegal synod of 1946 I mine, 1932-33," to be presented by narrate and present the slides from STAMFORD, Conn. — On March 1948 especially for the Seminary Choir. I Dr. James E. Mace, director of the their visit. All proceeds go toward the 8, 1946, the patriarch of Moscow A recording of this liturgy will be made II U.S. Famine Commission. The 8 UNWLA Scholarship Fund, proclaimed that the Ukrainian Catholic to be later transmitted by Vatican radio I; p.m. seminar will take place at the Ss. Church had been "liquidated4" and to Ukraine via sateiite. II Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian March 18 "assimilated" into the Russian Ortho- I Catholic Church, 2245 W. Superior. dox Church, This day shall forever he Following the divine liturgy and a II A $3 donation is requested. For more NEWARK, N.J.: The Ridna Shkola remembered as a "day of infamy." buffet-brunch, Dr. Wasyl Lencyk, 1 information call Roman Golash at Foundation of Irvington-Newark However, after 40 years of illegal status professor of history at St. Basil's I (312)359-8489, will sponsor an exhibit of graphics by in the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian College, will chair a panel of four Christina Holowchafc-OeBarry from Catholic Church remains alive and college students who will present a I NEW YORK: The Nova Chamber 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Ш Plast Home at strong in its fight for existence. symposium on the history leading up to II Ensemble will hold the third concert 736 Sanford Ave. On March 16, the Ukrainian Catholic the infamous "Synod of Lviv" on I of its 1985-86 season, featuring Diocese of Stamford will observe the March 8, 1946, and its effect on the George Crumb's "Eleven Echoes of ONGOING 40th anniversary of this "day of infamy" Ukrainian Catholic Church in the years Autumn" for violin, alto flute, cla- with a day of remembrance at St. Basil's to follow. rinet and piano, as well as works by ELIZABETH, N.J.: An exhibit of Seminary here. The day's activities will continue with Bach, Brahms and Rudnytsky, at 8 paintings by Mary Rohowsky of The activities of the day will begin at an exhibition, presented by the students p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of Hillside, N.J., will be held through- 10:30 a.m. with a commemorative of St. Basil's College, commemorating a America, 2 E. 79th St. Suggested out the .month of March at the liturgy celebrated by Bishop Basil 300-year-long fight for life by the donations for the concert are $8 for United Jersey Bank at 211 Elmora Losten together with the priests of the Ukrainian Catholic Church against a adults, $5 for senior citizens and Ave. Mrs. Rohowsky is a member of seminary. Responses will be provided process of liquidation which was finally students. For more information call the Summit Art Association, The Art by the Seminary Choir under the direc- believed to have been achieved in 1946. Nova Chamber Ensemble director Gallery of South Orange and Maple- tion of Joseph Roll, who will lead the The exhibition underscores the right of Laryssa Krupa at (212) 260-3891. wood, Kenilworth Art Associa- choir in performing the entire musical the Ukrainian Catholic Church to tion, Westfield Art Association and arrangement for the liturgy in Ukrai- affirm its loyalty to Jesus Christ and his March 15 the Bloomfield Art Association. nian written by Prof. Myron Fedoriw in vicar, the pope of Rome. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and Branch 84 of the PLEASE NOTE: Preview items Ukrainian National Women's League must he received one week before Want to reprint an article of America will sponsor a musical desired date of publication. No evening to honor Ukrainian compo- information will be taken over the from The Weekly? ser Ihor Bilohrud at 7 p.m. at the phone. Preview items will be institute, 2320 W. Chicago Ave. published only once (please note If you would like to reprint an article from The Weekly in another publi- desired date of publication). All cation, you may obtain permission, in most cases, by contacting the editor PHILADELPHIA: Friends of items are published at the discretion at: Charles Dougherty will host a cock- of the editorial staff and in accor- The Ukrainian Weekly tail reception at 7 p.m. at the Ukrai- dance with available space. 30 Montgomery St. nian Educational and Cultural Cen- ter, 700 Cedar Road. Tickets are a Jersey City, N.J. 07302 PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing tax-deductible $25 per person. For of Ukrainian community events open (207) 434-0237 more information call (215) 539- to the public, is a service provided 8946. free of charge by The Weekly to the Ukrainian community. To have an SOYUZIVKA TAKES A VACATION! March 16 event listed in this column, please send information (type of event, DUE TO EMPLOEES HOLIDAYS, WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian date, time, place, admission, spon- Catholic National Shrine of the Holy sor, etc.), along with the phone THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ESTATE Family will hold its third annual number of a person who may be WILL BE CLOSED Ukrainian Easter Egg exhibit and reached during daytime hours for DURING MARCH FROM MARCH 1 - APRIL 1,1986 workshop from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at additional information to: PRE- the shrine, 4250 Harewood Road VIEW OF EVENTS, Hie Ukrainian SEE YOU IN APRIL N.E. Admission will start at $5. For Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey THE MANAGEMENT $15 participants will receive a Ukrai- City, N.J. 07302.