The Ukrainian Weekly 1985, No.27
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www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association! rainian Weekly vol. LIII No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY I, 1985 25 cents Analysis of Soviet press Lubachivsky meets with Reagan Soviet media steps up defamation WASHINGTON Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky. head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, met here of Ukrainian Catholic Church, clergy with President Ronald Reagan on JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The Soviet Thus far. nine issues have reached the Thursday. June 20. media has stepped up its attacks on the West, although its editor. Yosyp The two men discussed the state of outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church, Terelia. was recently arrested while in the Church in the diaspora, as well as with two recent articles assailing the hiding, in several issues of the journal, the continued persecution of believers underground Church in Ukraine and its Mr. Terelia has argued that organized in the Soviet Union, where the Church adherents in the West lor harboring anti- opposition to Soviet rule in Ukraine has has been outlawed since 1946. Soviet and nationalist elements. always centered around the Churches, Accompanying the 70-year-old in a lengthy Russian-language article most notably the Ukrainian Catholic prelate at the 30-minute White House published last December in Pravda Church, and continues to do so this day. meeting was Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk. head of the Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainy titled "Specters in the Service Some experts here believe that Mr. of the Warmongers," authors 1. Church in the United States. Terelia's remarks may have provided Cardinal Lubachivsky. who was Martyniuk and O. Mykhailiuk accused the Soviets with an apparent the Church in the West of maintaining consecrated by Pope John Paul 11 on .Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky justification for cracking down even May 25. became the spiritual leader of strong links with the Organization of harder on the Church, while others Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the the estimated 6 million Ukrainian The meeting with the president was believe that the fresh vitriol being Catholics worldwide in 1984 following part of the new cardinal's extensive tour Ukrainian insurgent Army (UPA) and heaped on the Church reflects growing the Ukrainian Galicia Division, the dcat-h at age 93 of Patriarch Josyf of Ukrainian Catholic centers in the concern that the Church may prove a Slipyj. the archbishop major of United States, his first since being members of which fought the Soviets nettlesome factor during.the upcoming during World War 11. Ukrainians. He was named. the elevated to cardinal, which included millennium of Christianity in Kiev Rus' successor to Cardinal Stipyj by the stops" in Wa^ngton^New-'Yo'rk. to be celebrated in 1988. pontiff in 1980. Philadelphia. Chicago and Cleveland. Hierarchs attacked Similar charges were levelled at the Church by writer Stepan vozniak in an 500 attend Youth for Christ Convention article published in a fall issue of by Marta Kolomayets behalf of theChurch werethe following: Convention began on Friday, June 28. Liudyna і Svit. Headlined "Servants of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. at the Stamford Marriott Hotel. After the Enemies of Socialist Progress." the STAMFORD.,Conn. - More than Bishop Josaphat Kotsylovsky. Bishop an opening prayer, the singing of the article attacked the Church and its 500 young adults age 18 to 35. as well as Pavlo Goidych. Bishop Tcodor Romzha. convention theme song."AliveTogether hierarchs, particularly the late :lergy and religious, paid tribute to Bishop Mykola Charnetsky. the very with Christ." written by convention Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and Ukrainian confessors of the faith and all Rev. Petro verhun. Bishop Nykyla participant John Michalczyk and greet– Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. for supporting shose who have suffered and continue to Budka. Bishop lvan Liatyshevsky. ings from the Stamford Mayor's Office, nationalist organizations like the OUN suffer religious persecution in Ukraine Bishop Hryhory Lakota. the very Rev. delegates lined up for a candlelight and abetting "the formation of the pro- during the opening procession of the Klementy Sheptytsky. Bishop Yasyl procession to St. Basil's Seminary. fascist, people-hating ideology of this 1985 Youth for Christ Convention. Норко. Bishop vasyl Yelychkovsk) The delegates, carrying placards counter-revolutionary terrorist Among the Ukrainian Catholic and Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. representing the Ukrainian Catholic organization." leaders recalled for their suffering on The three-day Youth for Christ (Continued on page 10) The Ukrainian Catholic Church was forcibly incorporated into the Russian Orthodox Church by an unsanctioned and illegal synod orchestrated by the ' Soviet government in 1946. Most of the Church hierarchs, including Metropolitan Slipyj. were arrested and imprisoned. Metropolitan Slipyj was released to the West after serving 18 years in Soviet camps and was named a cardinal by the Y'atican in 1963. Target for two decades Despite being outlawed, the Church has survived underground in western Ukraine, and has been the target of severe repression for nearly two decades. The media attacks on the Church, which continued into this year, appear to coincide with the appearance in Ukraine of an underground religious journal, the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Ukraine, which began coming out in January 1984. The monthly journal, the official bulletin of the initiative Group for the Defense of Believers and the Church, chronicles of the persecution of the Church in western l !krairic. Youth for Christ procession from dowrrtown Stamford to St. Basil's College campus. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 7,1985 No. 27 A glimpse of Soviet reality Dzhemilev's statement reaches West NEW YORK - During his trial last Ukrainian SSR faces problems year. Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilcv called the proceedings a in some industrial sectors "two-act spectacle" and vowed that he would never recant his activities on be- by David Marples spoke of "obsolete technology." "help– half of his persecuted people, according to the text of his closing statement re- On April 23. the Soviet Ukrainian lessness and irresponsibility"and a leased June 26 by the External ' Re- press published industrial production generally negligent attitude on the part presentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki results for the first quarter of 1985. This of leaders in the industry, inefficiency in Group. report follows publication of the all- ferrous metallurgy is also a regular The 40-year-old activist was tried in union figures in the Soviet press three target when Soviet authorities speak of mid-February 1984 and sentenced to days earlier, which revealed a somewhat backward industries and general lack of three years in a special-regimen labor disappointing performance in Soviet discipline. camp, the harshest category of correc– industry. The release of these figures The other areas in which the overall tivc labor facility. He was convicted for provides the basis for the analysis of volume of production has fallen - by 3 the third lime of "anti-Soviet slander." industrial pcrlormancc thus far this percent in each case are the food and it marked his seventh term since year in Ukraine. industrv and the oil industry. Light 1969. Over-all. the production plan for the industry is down by 1 percent, although in his statement, which came at the first quarter was reportedly filled by the plan for the first quarter was end of the six-day trial. Mr. Dzhemilev exactly 100 percent. But. whereas the fulfilled. The main successes in terms of denied he ever slandered the Soviet gross value of industrial production in production were energy and electricity, Mustafa Dzhemilev system and accused'the government of the USSR rose by 2 percent as corn- and the dairy industry, which saw tolerating only one viewpoint. portedly perished during the first harsh pared tn the first quarter ol 19S4. increases of 4 to 5 percent, respectively. "The authorities recognize only those year in exile. which itself is a low total, production in One surprising factor in view ol their social-political views that emanate from in 1945. the Crimea was incorporated Ukraine rose by only 0.5 percent, a startling decline in the USSR as a whole- Kremlin leaders or those propaganda into the Russian SFSR. and in 1954 figure which suggests that the Ukrai– is the increase of 3 percent in the centers that are called to justify and became part of the Ukrainian SSR. nian SSR is having problems in certain production of industrial robots. But praise their rule." he said. The Tatar cause has been taken up in industrial sectors. Ukraine in jthe past has played a rela– He also scorned the Soviet conten– recent years by such prominent Soviet Similarly, whereas the daily rate ol tively minor role in this sector of lion that the Crimean Tatars face no dissidents as Dr. Andrei Sakharov. Yuri output in the USSR is stated to have industry. Even with the increase, it special problems and that it is "slan– Orlov and Gen. Petro Grigorenko. a increased by 4.2 percent, the Ukrainian produced only 375 of the estimated derous" to insist they"do. fact that was brought up by the prosecu– figure at 2.5 percent, is again substan– 3.000 industrial robots manufactured in "A nation that was robbed of its tion at the trial. Mr. Dzhemilcv was iially lower. the USSR in the quarter of the year. homeland, its nationhood, its centuries- accused of using "the Crimean Tatar The Ukrainian Statistical Admini– Since the Ukrainian Statistical Ad- old culture, its holy places, a nation issue ІЗ a front lor broader anti Soviet вігаїіоггЧ report reiterated the Central ministration has not thus far supplied which lost so much of its population as a activities in the human-rights move– Statistical Administration's explana– figures for agricultural performance result of a terrible crime and now is on ment.