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The Ukrainian Weekly 1981, No.6 www.ukrweekly.com СВ ОБОДА JfcrSvOBODA УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАІНННК OBODA Л ) N І А ЛІ О А І І У X -є я zn- - x у ГОІПІОП sli ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITIOWeeN k v 25 cents vol. LXXXVIII NO. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, i98i Raisa Rudenko appeals Defector fled in lceland for imprisoned husband Reaching America was 'dream' NEW. YORK - Raisa Rudenko, on June 30,1980; a letter dated Septem– wife of writer Mykola Rudenko. ap– ber 12, 1980, (registered 403) came on of young Ukrainian sailor pealed to Leonid Brezhnev a week after November 28, 1980. The same holds by "leaders," who, as a rule, are secret her husband, imprisoned chairman and true for the letters which 1 have sent to by Walter Dushnyck service men. founding member of the Ukrainian my husband, in actual fact, we are NEW YORK - in August 1980, One such "shore visit" in R?ykja– Helsinki Group, announced a hunger deprived of correspondence. when the Soviet fishing trawler MB vik provided the opportunity foivMr. strike protesting the blatant disregard 399 Kharovsk docked at the port of by camp authorities of his status as 2. My husband has be en-classified as Kovalenko to realize his dream. .As Reykjavik, the capital city of lceland, invalid of the second class. an invalid of the second class as a result the group was passing a store dis– of the wounds he sustained while the mind of a young Ukrainian sailor playing musical instruments, Mr. News of Mrs. Rudenko's action was serving in the Red Army during the was already made up. Kovalenko asked the "leader" per– reported by the Ukrainian Supreme great patriotic war. He has already mission to look at some instruments, Liberation Council (abroad). victor Kovalenko, a 24-year-old undergone two operations. Since Au– which he said he might buy before The text of her open letter, dated Ukrainian sailor from Krasnodon gust of 1980, however, he has been (Donbas), decided that this was his returning to the ship. December 25, 1980, follows. forced to work, with the full knowledge greatest opportunity to realize his The unsuspecting "leader" of the On December 19, 1980, Ukrainian of the camp's medical commission, in group gave his prompt permission, writer and poet Mykola Danylovych young heart's dream: to escape and complete disregard of the seriousness of admonishing Mr. Kovalenko to Rudenko, who is incarcerated in Mor– reach America. the injury to his spinal cord which only rejoin the group along the main dovian camp no. 385^3-5, announced further aggravates his condition. that he is going on a hunger strike artery of the icelandic capital, it was indefinitely to protest the mistreatment І bent you a teleeram in the summer of the moment for which the sailor had and unfounded harassment which he 1980 with the intention of bringing this waited for many months. has experienced throughout his entire matter to your attention. For a while, Taxi to freedom imprisonment. camp officials complied with regula– As soon as the group turned the 1. Letters from friends never reach tions pertaining to such cases. But 1 was called in the by the Ukrainian KGB and corner, Mr. Kovalenko ran out of the him. Most of our correspondence has store to the street and hailed a taxi, been intercepted and confiscated. The threatened with reprisals. A. Captain Kotovenko' put it quite clearly: "This is telling the driver to take him to the few letters which did manage to pass American Embassy. censorship, came over a month late. For our answer to the telegram you sent to There a familiar scene took place: example, 1 received a letter dated May Moscow." Mr. Kovalenko asked for political 25, 1980, (registered 167) 35 days later, (Continued on page 13) asylum and permission to emigrate to the United States, in turn U.S. officials, after ascertaining victor's Conference of Ukrainian political groups held identity on the basis of his docu NEW YORK - The futurecourse of tions of external Ukrainian policy. The ments, contacted the Foreign Office Ukrainian politics - internal and Conference of Ukrainian Political of lceland, whereupon the local icelandic officials took over the case. external - was the main topic of the Parties and Organizations directs the third Conference of Ukrainian Political newly elected presidium to send the text To assure themselves that Mr. Parties and Organizations held here of this resolution to all political parties Kovalenko's defection was not "ma– Saturday, January 10. and organizations with a cover letter nufactured" or "pre-arranged," the inviting them to participate in the next The agenda of the conference also icelandic authorities asked the So– meeting of the Conference of Ukrainian victor Kovalenko viet ambassador to meet with the included reports by the outgoing pre– Political Parties and Organizations." sidium and various committees, the Had he planned the escape for young sailor in the presence of The conference also adopted a re- election of a new presidium and discus– some time? Had he intimated any– icelandic officials. There, the Soviet solution concerning the recent 13th sion of plans for the year. thing to his friends, especially Ukrai– ambassador and other officials Congress of the Ukrainian Congress Dr. Michael H. voskohivnyk was nians, if there were any onthetrawler (whom Mr. Kovalenko des– Committee of America. voted head of the organization. such questions were put to Mr. cribed as "real wolves in sheep's The text of the resolution said: Kovalenko in the course of our clothing" for simulating goodness The 27 persons present at the meeting ". .it is with great concern that the meeting with him. and sincerity) begged Mr. Kovalenko also approved a resolution outlining Conference of Ukrainian Political to return to the ship. directives for the activity of the Con– Of course, escape from the Soviet Parties and Organizations affirms the "1 assure you that nothing will ference of Ukrainian Political Parties Union was on his mind, as he had fact 'that the dissolution of the Ukrai– happen to you, and you will not be and Organizations. nian community in the United States heard from the "voice of America" about the United States and other punished for your desertion from the The resolution described the charac– resulted at the 13th. Congress of the free countries. The idea of escape ship," said the Soviet ambassador. ter and purpose of the conference as UCCA, and at the same time expresses "You are a young man and given to its full moral support to all those who seemed realizable as soon as the follows. trawler left the shores of the Soviet romantic fantasy. But your Soviet "The Conference of Ukrainian Politi– are working toward the reinstatement fatherland needs you, and we want of law and order in the UCCA so that it Union. Naturally, no one was ap– cal Parties and Organizations, as was prised of his secret plans, even you back on the ship. ," clearly noted in the statements of its may continue to be the one joint repre– though he had some Ukrainian friends But Mr. Kovalenko, speaking founders and clarified at the second sentative body of the entire Ukrainian serving with him on the ship. through an official interpreter, re- conference on November 17, 1979, is community in the United States." fused even to consider the ambassa– not and has no desire to be any sort of The conference also directed the His escape has a familiar scenario, dor's "invitation" to return to the political center with all the resulting presidium to prepare and conduct a one we might have seen in many ship. As far as the icelandic authori– consequences. The Conference of Uk– symposium to discuss and, if possible, movies dealing with escapes from ties were concerned, the sailor's rainian Political Parties and Organi– reach a consensus on the major prin– totalitarian regimes. Shore leaves defection was genuine and not coerc– zations is convened by the presidium ciples of Ukrainian policy toward from Soviet ships are strictly super- ed, and for them the Kovalenko case when needed and is a forum for the Ukraine's historic neighbors. vised by secret police; no individual was closed. exchange of ideas and information and Another symposium planned to be shore leaves are ever allowed, but f the coordination of joint actions of held is one on the topic"Thoughts of the small groups of men are led ashore (Continued on page 12) political groups concerning basic ques– (Continued on page 1S) ІІЩЦШЩМІІШ”'Ї'ПЧІШИІІІ ; r 2; ,^^J"^^^.^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1981 - - ----- -:-^„„^^„„„No. 6 Amnesty international cites Samvydav document tells of Shumuk's life violations of rights by East Germany BALT1MORE - A samyvdav do– cument. written on the occasion of the NEW YORK - Amnesty inter- espionage. The law is not concerned 65th birthday of Danylo Shumuk, has national said on February 3 that it had with whether the information is accu– recently reached the West. The state– appealed to the government of the rate and does not clarify what can be ment, signed by friends and supporters German Democratic Republic (East considered to be "to the disadvantage of of Mr. Shumuk-and dated December Germany) to review the country's the GDR." Amnesty international says 30, 1979, gives an insight into the life of criminal laws to bring them into line it contradicts Article 19 of the covenant this rights activist.;. with its international commitments on which affirms the right to "seek, receive in view of the increased repression human rights. and pass on information, regardless of and arrests in Ukraine, the names of the in a letter sent to Erich Honecker, frontiers." signatories were withheld by the Smolo– chariman of the GDR State Council, Article 99, which provides for two to skyp information service which carried the organization cited the rights to 12 years' imprisonment, has been used the report.
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