Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. a frattrnal non-profit association! rainian Weekly vol. LIII No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1985 25 cents Deschenes Commission may extend work; Poet rights activist Stus died Ukrainian community intensifies campaign of emaciation following long illness

by Mykhailo Bociurkiw Members of the Ukrainian commu– JERSEY C1TY. N..1. - nity have petitioned the Mulroney v'asyl Stus. one of the grea– JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - it now government to extend the mandate of iest contemporary Ukrai– appears unlikely thai the Canadian the commission in order to give Mr. nian poets, a longtime hu– government's Commission of inquiry Deschenes more time to conduct his man– and national-rights on war criminals will complete its 11- investigation. The community also activist and a member of the month investigation by its December 31 needs more time to organize itself and Ukrainian Helsinki Moni– deadline, and Canada's Ukrainian deal with the issue, sources say. toring Group, apparently community seems to be gearing up for a "1 think that (the fact they are) taking died as a result of general lengthy lobbying -and publicity cam– more time is desirable for us,"said John emaciation following a long paign on the war criminals issue. Gregorovich, the chairman of the history of stomach and kid– The commission, headed by Justice Ukrainian Canadian Committee's Civil ney problems, according to Jules Deschenes of the Quebec Superior Liberties Commission. the U.S. Department of Court, was established by the Mulroney "We've been fighting with time." Mr. State. administration last February and was Gregorovich said, adding that an ex- Mr. Stus was serving the scheduled to report back to the federal tended deadline is "favored" by the fifth year of a 10-year labor- government by the end of the year. CLC because it would give the commu– camp term, which was to be But a source in the commission's nity more time to organize. followed by five years' inter– Ottawa office told The Ukrainian Mr. Gregorovich's group was formed nal exile, on charges of"anti– Weekly this week that "a vast pile of by the UCC in early March in order to Soviet agitation and propa– data" waiting to be,sifted:.by.^hc.com- ' launch actions,ajgajnst "the defamation ganda." He died on Septem– mission's lawyers and researchers casts of the whole Ukrainian community" ber 4 at the age of 47. doubt on whether a report can be and to represent the UCC at the corn- The State Department's completed in the time allotted by the mission's hearings. Over the spring and statement issued onSeptem– government. Although Prime Minister summer months, the Deschenes Corn- ber 6 said that the depart– Yasyl Stus, 1938-1985. Brian Mulroney has said that it "would mission held hearings in Toronto, ment "deeply regrets the not be practical" to extend the work of Ottawa, Montreal and Winnipeg, and death of vasyl Stus, which appears to in January 1972, during the second the Deschenes Commission, the source, has received written briefs from various have occurred as a direct result of the wave of arrests of Ukrainian intellec– who requested anonymity, acknow– groups and individuals. harsh treatment he received during his tuals, Mr. Stus hirnseJf wasarxested and ledged that hearings scheduled for next So far, the CLC has been busy imprisonment." charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and month would leave little time for the attending hearings, conducting research A statement issued on September 11 propaganda." He was subsequently commission staff to write the report. (Continued on page 3) by the Commission on Security and sentenced to five years of labor camp Cooperation in Europe, the Helsinki and three years of internal exile. He Commission, called Mr. Stus "a coura– completed this sentenced in August geous and indefatigable fighter for the 1979 and, after returning to Kiev, he American, Canadian lawyers reject rights of all individuals and a victim of joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in the Soviet Union's pernicious and the fall. He was arrested for the second Soviet evidence as unreliable brutal system for the suppression of time on May 14, 1980, and sentenced - human rights,"and said that "the KGB once again for "anti-Soviet agitation WASHINGTON - The 250- a joint resolutions committee, chair– is responsible for his death." and propaganda" - to 10 years'camp membcr Ukrainian American Bar ed by lhor G. Rakowsky of the (The full texts of both statements and five years'exile. His sentence would Association and the Ukrainian Ad– UABA, was elected and charged with appear on page 3.) have been completed in May 1995. vocates'Society of Canada, a section drafting a statement addressing the Mr. Stus was born January 8,1938. A in the last of his writings to reach the of the Ukrainian Professional and і issue of Soviet-supplied evidence. poet and literary critic, his poems and West, Mr. Stus wrote that he feared he Business Club of Toronto, have The joint convention held in To– literary reviews were frequently pub– was dying and did not know how much adopted a joint resolution concern– ronto was convened by UABA presi– lished in Soviet periodicals until 1965, longer he could hold on to life. Much of ing the use of Soviet-supplied evi– dent Bohdan Futey and the chairman when he was expelled from the Taras Mr. Stus's stomach had been removed dcnce by U.S. and Canadian authori– of the Ukrainian lawyers section of Shevchenko institute of Literature. in operations for ulcers, and he suffered ties in proceedings against their the Toronto Ps and Bs, John Grego– Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian from various kidney ailments as well as citizens. rovich. The convention was planned SSR. for publicly protesting the 1965 (Continued on page 3) The resolution, which took several by a special committee whose coordi– arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals. months to draft, concluded that nator was W. George Danyliw of "Soviet-supplied evidence is inhe– Toronto. Participants discussed va– His poetry was first published in vently unreliable and untrustworthy" nous endeavors ot American шш 1959, and his first major work appeared 1NS1DE: and that "such Soviet evidence should Canadian lawyers in regard to Ukrai– in the Dnipro journal in 1963. Ш Roman Solchanyk on Yuriy Shu– be declared inadmissible in our nian community concerns, and de- Mr. Stus signed a collective open khevych's "recantation" — page 2. courts." voted much attention to the activities letter protesting the secret trials of 1966 Ш Kiev church destroyed during The resolution also expressed of the U.S. Justice Department's and the trial of journalist vyacheslav restoration — page 2. strong support for "Congressional Office of Special investigations and Chornovil. who documented these trials Ш Statements on Stus's death — oversight hearings into the activities Canada's Commission of inquiry on of Ukrainian intellectuals. page 3. of theOSl"(Office of Special investi– war criminals, known as the Dc– in 1968 Mr. Stus wrote an open letter Ш Dr. Walter Dushnyck: an obituary gations). schenes Commission. to the Writers' Union of Ukraine, - page 4. Copies of the resolution have been Soviet-supplied evidence is being protesting against the slanderous at– Ш Canadian students' brief to the sent by the American and Canadian used by the OSl ana it may be used in tacks on Mr. Chornovil and Sviatoslav Deschenes Commission — page 5. lawyers to their governments. the future by Canadian authorities. Karavansky in the union's official И Dr. Myron Kuropas: vietnam Work on the resolution was begun This issue is presently being consi– organ, in 1969 he wrote an open letter revisited — page 6. at the May 31-June 2 joint convcn– dered by the Deschenes Commission. defending ban Dzyuba against attach Ш vasyl Stus: the life and death of a tion of the UABA and the Canadian The lawyers' resolution went in the official press, in 1970 he read a poet, by Marco Corynnyk — page 7. lawyers who are members of the through several dratts and the final poem ne nad written anu ucuicated to Ш Ukrainians in Texas, Plast sports Toronto Ps and Bs. At that meeting. vl'ontinued on page 16i murdered artist Alia Horska at her camp — centerfold. public funeral. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKL SUNDAY, OLH EMBER IS, 1985 No. 37

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Kiev church destroyed in restoration ' Yuriy Shukhevych's "recantation": —mere-evidence it was forged by Roman Solchanyk apparent reason other than the tact that his father was the leader of the Ukrai– The Kiev weekly News from Ukraine, nian armed anti-Soviet resistance. Mr. which is published for Ukrainians inthe Shukhevych was released in 1956 by West, carried an article in July alleging order of a viadimir court, which ruled that Yuriy Shukhevych. one of the best- that he had been illegally arrested as a known Ukrainian prisoners of con- minor. Nonetheless, he was forced to science had recanted. Mr. Shukhevych serve out his term after the intervention is the son of the wartime commander of ol then LSSR Procurator General the Ukrainian insurgent Army(UPA), Roman Rudenko. Roman Shukhevych– 1 aras Chuprynk'a, When he was at last released, on who was killed in action against Soviet August 21. 1958. he was immediately security forces in 1950. rearrested on fabricated charges of One of the longstanding aims of the "anti-Soviet agnation and propaganda" Soviet authorities has been to force a and sentenced to another 10-year term, statement from Mr. Shukhevych re– in Marcfr 1972 came the third arrest and St. Nicholas Prytysko Church before (above) and after (below) restoration. pudialing his father and denouncing the third 10-year term and five years of (Photos courtesy of Keston College Photo Archive.) "nationalism." To that end. he has been internal exile. Then, in 1974. he was arrested four times and sentenced to a charged again and sentenced to serve total of 31 years in prisons and camps out his term plus an additional year. and five years of internal exile. His last Throughout this time the KGB had arrest, in March 1972. resulted in a third made a concerted but unsuccessful 10-year term followed by five years' attempt to "convince" Mr. Shukhevych exile, which he is now serving in Tomsk to denounce his father in return for a Province. Shortly before Shukhevych review of his case, in this connection, it was released from camp into exile, in is worth citing one of the excerpts from February 1982, he underwent an opera– Mr. Shukhevych's alleged letter to tion on his eyes that left him almost News from Ukraine. totally blind. "What 1 am wiriting here is not a The article in News from Ukraine, payment for the freedom 1 was granted... titled "Enlightenment." claimed that My break with nationalism was caused Mr. Shukhevych had written a letter to its by the profound evolution in my world editors criticizing his father's activities outlook and convictions, which began and "Ukrainian nationalism" as such; long ago under the influence of Soviet praising the Communist Party of the reality and in connection with the Soviet Union and Soviet policies; and collapse of nationalist doctrines and admitting his "mistaken path." No attempts at their practical application, information was given as to when the as well as with the general hostility of letter was allegedly written, indeed, the the Ukrainian people to the ideas of editors of the newspaper did not feel nationalism." , obliged to reproduce the text, which is Presumably, this statement was in- Ш,”ШкШЛ -d'' KESTON. England - A historic the normal Soviet practice in such tended to dispel any doubts in the West the ground. church in Kiev, Ukraine, was destroyed instances. All that the readers were as to authenticity of Mr. Shu– The Church of St. Nicholas Prytysko in 1984 as a result of restoration work, given are disjointed excerpts within the khevych's purported letter, if anything, was one of the first single-domed reported Keston News Service. article, signed by someone called Olek– it has had the opposite effect. cruciform stone churches in the Dnieper sandr Savchuk. and a facsimile of part Another aspect of the "recantation" in connection with the celebrations of area of Ukraine, it was built in"i'-63'1 by of the alleged handwritten letter. that calls for examination is its timing, the 1.500th anniversary of Kiev in 1983 the Kievan burgher Zalizny Hrish. in recent years, the campaign for Mr. the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas Situated at No. 5 Khorev St.. the church Soviet forgery claim Shukhevych's release has gained support Prytysko was restored. When the scaf– was reputedly the oldest surviving in Washington. President Ronald Rea– folding was removed the following year. architectural monument in the Podil in the meantime, the Munich-based gan. in his July 16. 1984. proclamation a large part of the church crumbled to district of Kiev. USSR News Brief, which monitors the commemorating Captive Nations Week, human-rights situation in the Soviet singled out Mr. Shukhevych as an Union, has issued a statement saying "imprisoned Ukrainian patriot" who Jewish emigration from USSR grows thai "we have reason to believe that the represented the struggle for freedom. 'confession' of Yuriy Shukhevych is a The president referred to him again, in GENEvA The Soviet Union al– whether the Soviet authorities are forgery by the Soviet authorities." The his statement of January 22. 1985. lowed 174 Jews-to emigrate in July, adopting a new policy." ati official of publishers of USSR News Brief are in marking Ukrainian independence Day. according to the intergovernmental the committee said. Committee for Migration, reported possession of a handwritte(n letter by as someone who had received especially Mi Shukhevych. dated April21,1984 harsh treatment and a particularly United Press international. The nuni– July arrivals at the committee's that is, after the deterioration of his length) term of imprisonment lor ber allowed to leave is the highest reception center in vienna brought the eyesight. espousing the principles ol democracy monlhlv total since December of І9К2. total for the firsi seven months of 1985 The handwriting of this letter is so and freedom. "Only coming months will show different from the facsimile reproduced More recently, two American con– in the Soviet weekly that serious doubb gressmen have urged their colleagues in arose whether both letters could have the Congress to sign a letter addressed been w ritten by the same individual. A to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev' handwriting expert concluded that it asking that Mr. Shukhevych be released. FOUNDED 1933 was "hardly possible" for Mr. Shu– Clearly these developments are far from Ukrainian Weekr khevych to have been the author of the welcome in Kiev and Moscow, indeed, ' An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National facsimile, even– assuming that he had there are unmistakable signs that the Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St.. Jersey City, N.J. undergone a second "exceptionally Soviet authorities are disturbed by the 07302. successful eye operation." Moreover, favorable response in Washington to "the shape of the characters in both Ukrainian concerns. Thus, last year an Second class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J., 07302. samples is so fundamentally different article in the leading Kiev political (1SSN - 0273-9348) that it is most unlikely for both lettersto monthly. Komunist Ukrafny, noted: have had one author." "(Ukrainian! nationalist bosses, who Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - S5. The testimony of the handwriting earfieSv in the best of circumstances, Also published by the UNA Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. expert serves only to confirm the waiteflifbr sops;jrjftijiie;torridors of suspicions of Western observers familiar Western intelugence?afKl:"securin ser– fhe Weekly and Svoboda; UNA: with Mr. Shukhevych's case. Now 51. vices, are now alignin^flteu, ,,eh es with 1201)434-0237.-08U7.-3036 (201)451-2200 he has spent virtually his entire adult life the activities". oi:thc "big'-Spoluics of as a political prisoner. He was first imperialist countnes?'–-^ ." " " ,rrje Postmaster, .end ad changes to ,„eUkram; arrested in 1948. at the age ol 14. and І he an!cle-;floirited out thev.-rri^ P0 Box 346 sentenced by the OSO (The Special October 1982 U.S. Sccre'tary Jita'e Editor. Roma Hadzewycz л lersey City. N І Board, or "troika") of the Ministn oi George Schii!u-mo with "a group of State Security (MCiBtto lOyears'foi rti (C'bnrinued on page 15) No. 37^^ .– THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985 ^^^^^ ^^^^^ 'з Koziak gains on front-runner Statements on Stus's death in Alberta Conservatives' race regrets the death of vasyl Stus. which .by. M у khailo В осі urki w State Department appears to have occurred as a direct HULL. Que. - Alberta Municipal Below is the text of the statement result of the harsh treatment he Affairs Minister Julian Koziak is pulling on the death of vasyl Stus issued by received during his imprisonment. closer to the front-runner in Alberta's the U.S. Department of State on We deplore the systematic persccu– Progressive Conservative leadership September 6. tion of courageous Ukrainian human- race. rights activists such as vasyl Stus and in the earlier stages of the Alberta the cruel and inhuman treatment Conservative party's search for a suc– they are subjected to in labor camps cessor to Premier Peter Lougheed, it The Department of State has which so often leads to serious illness appeared that Mr. Koziak.a Ukrainian, learned of the death of Ukrainian and death. We call on the Soviet would stay in third place behind chal– human-rights activist vasyl Stus in a Union to end its callous disregard for lengers Don Getty and Ron Ghitter. Soviet labor camp on September 4. human rights and human life. But after a series of delegate selection He reportedly died of general ema– vasyl Stus referred to the harsh meetings in Edmonton, where Ukrai– ciation following a long history of treatment he and his fellow prisoners nian and other ethnocultural communi– stomach and kidney problems. A were receiving in his last message to ties have backed Mr. Koziak, he has well-known poet, Stus was serving a reach the West. "We cannot go on delivered several blows to his challen– 15-year term in connection with his much longer this way. Such pressure gers. participation in the Ukrainian Hel– can only lead to death. 1 do not know As of August 30. with 820 delegates sinki Monitors Group. He is the when death will come for the others, elected from 41 constituencies, Mr. fourth Ukrainian human-rights acti– but 1 myself feel it approaching. 1 Koziak has 194 committed delegates, vist to die in a Soviet labor camp in think 1 have done everything l could the last 18 months. according to estimates provided by The during my life." Edmonton Journal. The Department of State deeply vasyl Stus was 47 years old. Meanwhile. Mr. Getty, an Edmon– ton businessman, a Lougheed friend demise. arid a former provincial energy minister, Julian Koziak Helsinki Commission Stus's manuscripts were confis– leads the pack with 256 committed Following is the text of a statement cated and destroyed. Some of his delegates; Mr. Ghitter, a Galgary riding where Mr. Koziak was born, in delivered on September 11 in the poems have reached the West, in one lawyer, has about 102. Some 268 dele- which the Koziak team picked up nine House of Representatives by Don of them he wrote: "is there in this gates say they are uncommitted. of the 20 delegates selected. Ritter (R-Pa.) on behalf of the U.S. world a trumpet that will sound a The figures don't include the results The delegates will join nearly 2,000 Commission on Security and Co- final blast to keep me from my of an August 30 delegate selection other delegates at the Alberta Progres– operation in Europe. resurrection? Flow, water, flow and meeting in Redwater-Andrew, the (Continued on page 16) sweep me away from my weariness, for eternities of bondage have crushed politicians have responded "very posi– me." Deschenes Commission... -tively" to concerns raised by his group My Speaker, 1 rise today to eulo– Last Thursday, five of my distin– (Continued from page 1) regarding the investigation of war gize vasyl Stus, a courageous and guished colleagues and 1 joined in and dealing with "defamatory" news criminals in Canada. He added that the indefatigable fighter for the rights of front of the Soviet Embassy to sound stories about the Ukrainian commu– Manitoba group is currently writing a all individuals and a victim of the a trumpet in support of Andrei nity, Mr. Gregorovich said. series of briefing papers which deal with Soviet Union's pernicious and brutal Sakharov. His stepson is conducting Recently, the Deschenes Commission questions surrounding the war crimi– system for the suppression of human a hunger strike in front of the em– was reported to be considering using nals issue and that every Ukrainian rights. Last week, Mr. Stus, a 47- bassy to gain information about the Soviet-supplied evidence in its investi– organization in Winnipeg will receive year-old dissident Ukrainian poet whereabouts and condition of his gation. For instance, there have been information on "what happened in and member of the Ukrainian Hel– parents. Dr. Sakharov is another of reports of commission staff planning to World War 11." sinki Monitoring Group died in the thousands of prisoners of con- travel to the Soviet Union to gather prison in the Soviet Union. The KGB science like vasyl Stus who suffer at Noting that "the whole country is responsible for his death. They put the hands of the KGB. While our evidence. After an outcry by members needs to be made aware" of the role of the Ukrainian community over the him in labor camps, denied him efforts come too late for M r. Stus, we Ukrainians played in World War 11, medical treatment after most of his must press forward with ourattempts possible use of Soviet evidence by the Mr. Spolsky said that a one-day con– commission, the CLC was told that an stomach was removed and subjected to win freedom for all political ference will be held in November in him to forced labor to hasten his prisoners in the gulag. open hearing would be held on the Winnipeg to inform people about the admissibilitv of Soviet evidence. situation faced by Ukrainians. He in a telephone interview, Mr. Grego– added that the. conference would even– New ruling in Walter Polovchak case rovich said that the CLC forwarded to tually be packaged and taken on tour the Deschenes Commission a video- throughout his region. JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Lawyers discuss the fate of their son in court. taped documentary assessing Soviet from the Justice Department and the Mr. Polovchak, who was granted evidence supplied to U.S. courts. He A number of sources contacted in American Civil Liberties Union dis– asylum in 1980 after he refused to return said that the documentary was pro– Canada acknowledged that the work of cussed the fate of Walter Polovchak ata to the Soviet Union with his parents, duced by Americans for Due Process, a the various community action groups Chicago hearing on September 9, this will turn 18 on October 3 and will then U.S. public interest group which moni– and the CLC will likely continue for an time to decide whether the boy could be be in a position to legally decide where tors cases brought by the-U.S. Justice indefinite period of time since many coerced by his parents to return to the he wants to live. Department's Office ol Special lnvesti– volunteers have signed up for member- Soviet Union. He told reporters on September 10 gations. ship on the community action groups. І he appeals court ruled on Septem– that he intends to apply for United According to other members of the Mr. Gregorovich told The Weekly that ber 10 that the rights of Anna and States citizenship on his birthday. He CLC. Ukrainians in almost all of close to 5100.000 in donationsarrivesat Michael Polovchak, Walter's parents, was quoted by The Associated Press as Canada's regions are being mobilized to the CLC each month, and that ulti– had been denied when they were pre– saying "This is the best day l'veever had participate in a long-term effort to mately. he would like to see some of the vented from taking their son back to the in my life. Freedom is like the most "sensitize" politicians and journalists money put towards the establishment of Soviet Union in 1982. The appeals court important thing in any person's life." about the community's concerns re– a community government relations remanded the Polovchak case to the According to The New York Times, garding the war criminals issue. office in Ottawa and the hiring of a full- district court and ordered that the last week's hearing before a three-judge Borys Sirskyj, ;in aide to Canadian time media person. parents be given an opportunity to panel of the United States Court of Sen. Paul Yuzyk and a member of the Appeal for the 7th Circuit had the CLC. said that the emergence of the war and a son, Dmytro. (born 1966) with his lawyers arguing over whether Walter's criminals issue in Canada will have Poet rights activist... wne and their son. who was born this parents might return to the United forced the Ukrainian community to (Continued from page 1) summer. Dmytro Stus is now serving in States to "coerce" their son to go home conduct "some solid academic re- serious heart disease. Soviet authorities the Soviet Army, vasyl Stus's father. with them, and if so, whether they had search" into the issue. He added "we've denied him medical treatment. Semen, had died in 1978. the legal right to do so. finally convinced members of the U– Mr. Stus's wife, valentyna Popeliukh Although Soviet authorities confis– A member from the ACLU, the krainian community to get off their was informed of his death via telegram cated and destroyed some 600 of Mr. group that represents the teenager's haunches and do some work." from camp authorities which read Stus's poems and translations, some of parents, told the court that he cannot So-called community action groups simply: "Your husband is dead." She his works have reached the West rule out the possibility that Mr. and have been formed in Ontario and and Mr. Stus's sister, Maria, (born 1935) through underground channels. His Mrs. Polovchak might visit Walter Canada's four western provinces in were reporteu to nave ієн immediately poetry has-been published outside the before his birthday to try to persuade order to make Canadians more aware for the camp in Perm where Mr. Stus USSR in the collections "Winter Trees" him to come home. about the role Ukrainians played in was serving his sentence, it was not clear and "A Candle in the Mirror." A third Walter Polovchak is protected from World War 11. For instance, recent whether Soviet authorities would rc– collection. "Palimpsests," is forth- being removed from the United States publicity has led some people to a'sso– jease Jhe deceased's body to the women. coming. by a 1982 departure control order and ciate Ukrainians with war crimes. ' reported sources in the West. Most, recently, on August 28. the the Justice Department has argued that Myron Spolsky. chairman of the Washington Times published excerpts lifting the order could result in serious CLC's Manitoba Action Group, told in addition to Mr. Stus's wife and of Mr. Stus's writings about his life consequences for the boy. such as being The Weekly that a number of Canadian sister, surviving .ire !ir mother. Olena. from 1977 to 1980. forcibly taken out of the country. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985 No. 37 Obituary Dr. Walter Dushnyck, 76, Ukrainian and American patriot -^-Dx^Walter Pu– shnyck, author, scholar, journalist and community activist who died on Thurs– day, September 5, at age 76. was mourned by the Ukrainian community -and numerous American and East European friends and colleagues, at memorial services held -Sunday and Monday, September 8-9, in New York. A panachyda took place at the Ja– rema funeral home on Sunday evening, September 8. The next day the funeral liturgy was offered at St. George Ukrai– nian Catholic Church by Bishop Basil Losten of Stamford, Conn.; Msgr. Stephen Chomko of Hartford. Conn., a close family friend; the Rev. Patrick Paschak,pastor of St. George's; and the Rev. Januarius lzzo, the family's pastor at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brooklyn. Burial was at Holy Dr. Walter Dushnyck Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Hamptonburgh. N.Y. ly published by the Ukrainian Congress Dr. Dushnyck was born September Committee of America, and in 1959 to 24, 1908, in Zastavcze. Ukraine, to 1965 was editor of The Ukrainian Theophil and Annanee Didora Dush– Weekly, published by the Ukrainian nyck. National Association. Since 1957 he He graduated from a classical gymna– served as editor of The Ukrainian sium in Berezhany. Ukraine and passed Quarterly, and since 1980 he edited the his matura in Lviv. He studied at the Ukrainian Newsletter of the World University of Louvain, Belgium, in Congress of Free Ukrainians. 1932-1935. earning a B.A. in social- He was also the author of such political science, in 1935 he came to the English-language publications as "The United States, where he studied at Ukrainian Central Rada and the Rus– Columbia University in 1937-1940. sian Provisional Government." "Death earning an M.A. in political science and and Devastation on the Curzon Line," international relations. He received a "Martyrdom in Ukraine." "Ukraine in Ph.D. in history in 1965 from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. (Continued on page 13) West Germany.

Army service

in 1942-1945 he served in the U.S. Army, participating in the campaigns for Saipan. the Philippines. Okinawa and Japan: at the end of 1945 he served as an interpreter at the headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Manila and T okyo Dr. Dushnyck was active in the Or– ganization ol Ukrainian Nationalists Abroad and was acquainted personally with the leading members of the OUN's Supreme Council Obituaries ol Dr Dushnyck appeared in The New York limes and the limes Herald-Record ol upstate New York. His writing career began early, while he was still a gymnasium student, when he wrote articles for such Ukrainian publications as Novy Chas(New Time), and Smoloskypy (Torches) in Lviv, and Ukrainsky Holos (Ukrainian voice) in Peremyshl. Serving as a resettlement officer with the War Relief Services in the postwar years. While a student in Belgium he wrote lor several student journals, including L'Universitairc Beige and L'A^nt– garde. as well as iorStudenlsky Shliakh (Student Pathwav) and Literaturno– Naukovy visnyk. both published in Lviv. He also wrote for Rozbudova . Natsiyi (Reconstruction of a Nation) published b) the Ukrainian Military Organization Organization of Ukrai– nian Nationalists and lor Surma (Trum– pet). Also at this time he began writing for the Jersey City (N.J.)-based Svo– boda Ukrainian dailj newspaper. He continued his association with SNoboda until the death.

Editorial work

Upon arriving ri 'he United States, he wrote ior suci eriodicals as Na– tionalist, Ukraine and The indent in the years 1935-1940. in 1948-19^0 he At the Svohoda editorial offices in the mid-1970s with Svoboda editor-in-chief edited the І krainian Bulletin, a month– U.S. Атпп during World War il. Antimm Dragan (seated) and print shop director. Anatole Domaratzky. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985 5

For the record: Canadian Students Union brief to Deschenes Commission Be1ow4s-the-jull text of a brief Preserving justice Your Street?," suddenly began to be ciated with the concept of liberal submitted by the Ukrainian Canadian circulated in and around Winnipeg.4 democracy.7 Therefore, SUSK supports Students Union (SUSK) to the Cana– The SUSK national executive be– 2. More recently, the Soviet Embassy Soviet Ukrainian dissidents who have dian Commission of inquiry on war lieves that the Soviet Union is making in Ottawa has been wantonly distribut– been incarcerated for their beliefs on criminals, known as the Deschenes unprincipled accusations against groups ing a list of purported Ukrainian Cana– Ukrainian national and individual Commission. The brief was submitted and individuals residing in Canada, and dian war criminals titled "War Crimi– human rights. on September 3 by the SUSK national basing these allegations on their ethnic nals Residing in Canada."3 Two mem– The Soviets will, of course, not executive: Chrystia Chudczak, national origin. These unsubstantiated and bers of the Concordia University Ukrai– countenance any groups which work president for 1984-85; Danylo Dzike– damaging accusations greatly offend us, nian Students' Association, Andrij towards diminishing the terrority of the wicz, national president for 1985-86: since they violate the traditional Cana– Hluchowecky and Adrian Chomenko, USSR or which espouse the belief that Larysa Rozumna, executive vice-presi– dian democratic values of "political requested information regarding war individual liberties should take prece– dentfor 1984-85: and Roman Dubczak. equality" and "rule of law, "and because criminals residing in Canada at the dence over collective state objectives, it vice-president (external) for 1985-86. as Canadian youth of Ukrainian origin Novosti Press Agency in Ottawa in May has been proven time and time again we are finding that it is our ethnic group of 1985. The aforementioned bulletin that those Soviet citizens who place which is being specifically targeted in and a Soviet list of suspected war individual rights over collective ones, The Ukrainian Canadian Students' these attacks. criminals were promptly forwarded to or who place nationalist demands over Union (SUSK) has existed as an or– The SUSK national executive be– them with no questions asked. pan-Soviet ones, will inevitably be ganized body of Ukrainian Canadian incarcerated in Soviet prisons. university and college students and in light of Soviet orientations regard– alumni since 1953. The SUSK. national The Soviets will resort to any means to discredit ing the inviolability of Soviet borders executive currently represents 18 sepa– and of the political ideal of collectivism, rate local Ukrainian student club affi– Ukrainian organizations in the Western world, there is no value placed by Soviet liates across Canada with a total mem– authorities on the Western political bership approaching 1,000. including youth organizations, inasmuch as they are tradition of protecting the rights of the As part of its mandate, the national perceived to present a threat to the very existence of individual. This has clearly been the executive of SUSK speaks out vigorous– case with respect to their own citizens, ly on issues which we feel may be of the Soviet state, in terms of competing goals regarding and there is no reason to believe that the overwhelming importance to the Ukrai– the territory of Ukraine and its political ideology. Soviets would not attempt a similar nian Canadian student community. treatment of any extraterritorial op- Presently, we believe that there is a position if provided with a chance to pressing need to address the Commis– do so. For this reason, the Soviets sion of inquiry on war criminals lieves that, above all else, the principles As well, there has been a recent cannot be trusted with presenting (Deschenes Commission), regarding its of "political equality" and "rule of law" onslaught of Soviet disinformation evidence before the Deschenes Com– acceptance of Soviet evidence. We feel be respected — consistently and unequi– published in book form in both the mision. They are certainly intent on that the inclusion of such evidence in the vocally — throughout the Deschenes Ukrainian and English languages where indiscriminately attacking the Ukrai– commission's work will have a long- Commission's full mandate. By "politi– names are cited of Ukrainian groups nian ethnic group on the basis of that term detrimental effect on the Ukrai– cal equality" we mean those political and individuals that are now said to be group's opposition to the Soviet state. nian Canadian community, including freedoms such as freedom of assembly, residing in Canada.6 The Soviet disin– While most Canadians probably negative repercussions on present and association, conscience and expression formation campaign against Ukrai– share the same sentiments as Ukrainian future Ukrainian Canadian students. which are tied inextricably with demo– nians also continues in the form of Canadians in their opposition to the The national executive of SUSK is cracy as a governmental form.1 The periodicals which are disseminated injustices in the Soviet system, it is the deeply offended by developments which Canadian Charter of Rights and Free– across Canada, including Ukraine Ukrainian Canadian groups which are we believe may compromise Canadian doms states that these rights and free– monthly, and News from Ukraine and particularly active in speaking out liberal democratic values and prin– doms are to exist in Canada "without visti z Ukrainy weeklies. forcefully against the USSR. Conse– ciples. We are, of course, referring to the discrimination by reason of race, na– Hence, the SUSK executive believes quently, the Soviets are eager to strike possibility of the Deschenes Commis– tional origin, color, religion, sex or that the Soviet Union is violating the out against such groups in an effort to sion legitimizing all forms of Soviet age." By "rule of law" we mean that, two Canadian principles of "political silence them. Most recently, Soviet evidence. As Ukrainian Canadian "...Canadian tradition (which) asserts equality" and "rule of law" in the attacks on Ukrainian Canadian groups youth, we have acquired democratic that any interference with the freedom following fashion: first, by making have been centered on accusations of values through our socialization in the of any individual must be performed blanket accusations against the Ukrai– war-mongering and the threat to peace. Canadian socio-political and educa– only according to the legal process and nian Canadian community and thereby For instance, a recent issue of Ukraine tional systems. Moreover, because of carried out by legitimate authorities. No attacking its ability for freedom of magazine states, "...Ukrainian nationa– our ethnic background, we have been one is exempt from the law, and no one conscience and freedom of expression; lists are all out for building up the arms encouraged to acquire an awareness of can affect the rights of any individual and secondly, by acting as an illegiti– race, for further enhancing the'imperia– the fundamentally different nature of except by the legal process. "^ (our mate authority in Canada and interfer– listic' position of strength politics, and the Soviet polity. Consequently, we emphasis). ing with the individual rights of Cana– for a steady deterioration of relation- value our Canadian democratic beliefs ships between countries with different Furthermore: "...the relationship of dian citizens outside the Canadian legal 1 highly and will not readily countenance the individual to the political system process. social systems." what we believe may be their violation. becomes to some extent, fixed and The Soviet Union is especially per– We are especially anxious, as younger impartial...(it) is presumed to be coldly Discrediting Ukrainian Canadian youth plexed by the fact that Canadian-born members of the Ukrainian Canadian impersonal, predictable and rational, youth of Ukrainian origin continues to community, that the commission up– rather than emotional."3 The Soviet Union in its exhortations speak out against the Soviet system, be hold our Canadian democratic beliefs. The SUSK national executive fears and publications resorts to the most it on its record of human-rights viola– To accept Soviet evidence is to open the tions or its policy towards national commission to possible manipulation, which may end in the destruction of the (Continued on page 14) Ukrainian Canadian community as a Ukrainian Canadian youth, which obviously had no whole. We believe that young Ukrai– 1. R.J. van Loon and M.S. Whitting– involvement at all in the second world war, began to ton, "The Canadian Political System" nian Canadians will be forced to flee (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., from organized Ukrainian Canadian feel a considerable amount of hostility from the 1981), p. 97. life in order to secure a successful Canadian populace at large. 2. ibid., p. 159. personal future for themselves and for 3. ibid., p. 159. their children. 4. The Ukrainian Weekly, June.9, 1985, Our purpose is to express our objec– p. 5. tions regarding the admissibility of that the Soviet Union is working to ludicrous and malicious misstatements. 5. ibid., p. 5. Soviet evidence. The brief consists of undermine these two principles of of fact in order to impugn the good 6. For examples see the following: three separate parts which give a unique "political equality" and "rule of law" in name of Ukrainian youth in the West, a) victor Chumak, "Who's Who at youth and student perspective as to why WCFU," (Kiev, USSR: Ukraina Society, Canada in their methods of accusations in the Soviet view, organized Ukrainian 1984). we believe that Soviet evidence should of war crimes against Canadians, speci– Canadian students pose a double b) v. Styrkul, "The SS Werewolves," be made inadmissible. The first section fically labelled as being of Ukrainian threat, in that as a whole: 1. we do hot (Lviv, USSR: Kamenyar Publishers, deals with the Canadian political prin– ethnic origin. As a result, we have recognize the political community 1982). ciples that we all know and cherish, and witnessed unsubstantiated Soviet ac– known as the Union of Soviet Socialist c) Marko Terlytsia, "Here is the which we feel are being violated through cusations against entire groups of Republics which has incorporated Evidence," (Toronto: Kobzar Publishers, the acceptance of Soviet evidence. The Ukrainian Canadians who are alleged Ukraine as a republic; and 2. we do.not 1984). second part describes the Soviet Union's to have participated in atrocities com– subscribe to the Soviet Communist 7. For a discussion of Western-style campaign to discredit Ukrainian Cana– mitted by the Nazis during the second political and economic model. liberal democracy as contrasted with Soviet collect;vist thought see: dian youth and the motivation behind world war. The following examples it is true that SUSK does believe in, this campaign. The third segment a) van Loon and Whittington, pp. cited represent but a few of the allega– and does work toward, the establish– 97-100. documents negative fallout affecting tions. ment of an independent Ukraine through b) John S. Reshetar, "The Soviet young Ukrainian Canadians from de– 1. in the summer of 1984, a 13-page peaceful means, in addition, SUSK has Polity" (New York: Harper Row Publishers, velopments surrounding the commis– leaflet, drawn up partly from Soviet demonstrated an overwhelming com– 1978), p. 176. sion's work thus far, and how this sources and titled "Winnipeg's Nazi mitment to individualism and to indivi– 8. Ukraine, "Where WCFU is Headed," reflects Soviet intentions. Suspects — Do Nazi Criminals Live on dual liberties, ideas which are asso– February 1985, p. 16. .6-– , ,– ------":- . . - --,. .,,-:-'– . - - -." THE UKRA1N1AN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.1985 .„„„„„„„...^No. 37

^--ШанналУееІ:І ї Faces and Places vasyl Stus by Myron B. Kuropas There is no doubt that vasyl,Stus was killed, slowly, by the leadership of the Soviet Union, that is the Communist Party and the KGB. The tragedy of his death is certainly a human one, in that a relatively vietnam revisited: Nixon's book young man, 47 years old, was sentenced to die a slow death in the prisons, camps and places of harsh exile by Soviet authorities who visit the vietnam veteran's Memo- have the consequences of their misun– refused to give him the medical attention he so desperately needed, by a rial in Washington and you'll never be derstanding been so tragic." system unspeakably callous in its treatment of anyone it deems the same. Mr. Nixon begins his book by de- undesirable, indeed, of its entire citizenry, it is a human tragedy, also, The monument itself is nothing bunking four major myths perpetuated because Mr. Stus left behind a family, including a newborn grandson unusual — two skinny black granite by the liberal establishment regarding whom, it seems, he was foreordained to never see. triangles wedged into a mound of the vietnam war: Washington sod. But the impact is 1. The war in vietnam was immoral. But his death was a tragedy also for the human– and national-rights awesome. 2. The war in vietnam was un– movement, because Mr. Stus was one of its earliest and most As one approaches the memorial winnable. outspoken members. Furthermore, Mr. Stus is the fourth Ukrainian along with hundreds of others (about 3. Diplomacy without force is the best rights activist to die in Soviet custody in the last 18 months. He was 100,000 visitors per week, according to answer to Communist "wars of national predeceased by fellow Ukrainian Helsinki Group member Oleksiy last count), the mood is often festive and liberation." Tykhy, 57, who died in the spring of 1984 shortly after stomach animated. This changes abruptly the 4. We were on the wrong side of surgery, and Yuriy Lytvyn, 50, who apparently committed suicide in moment one stands before this powerful history in vietnam. August of 1984 while serving his fourth term. Another human-rights monument. One is transfixed. This is Admitting that like all wars, the activist, valeriy Marchenko. — 10 years younger than Mr. Stus — hallowed ground. There is an almost vietnam War was "brutal, ugly, dan– died on October 6, 1984, of kidney failure, soon after he was sentenced eerie silence as one walks slowly past the gerous, painful and sometimes in- to a 10-year labor camp term. names of 58,022 American heroes who humane," Mr. Nixon rejects the notion died fighting for freedom in southeast that it was immoral. No war against the There is obviously an insidious logic to these deaths. Put simply it is Asia. Communists can be immoral, Mr. this: the USSR is succeeding through its brutal treatment of dissenters There are many Ukrainian Ameri– Nixon suggests, because "a Communist in destroying its most powerful critics, especially Ukrainians, who, cans immortalized by this solemn, peace kills more than an anti-Commu– though they constitute 20 percent of the Soviet population account for brooding shrine. nist war." That statement alone is worth 40 percent of all political prisoners. One finds the name of Capt. Myron the price of the book. But, Mr. Stus's death is also a tragic loss for Ukrainian literature — Diduryk, a beautiful young Ukrainian As for the unwinnability of the war, and an immeasurable one at that. Mr. Stus's poetry was first published Plast member from Jersey City, N.J., Mr. Nixon reminds his readers that when he was 21. However, by the time he was 27, this young poet of who loved the challenge of military life America won the war but lost the peace. great promise was blacklisted as a writer, expelled from the Taras and aspired to being a career Army A peace treaty was signed in 1973 but, in Shevchenko institute of Literature and prevented from finding officer from childhood. typical fashion, the Communists didn't employment in his field. The reason: he spoke out in defense of his One also finds the name of Green live up to it. "Defeat came," concludes colleagues and other intellectuals of the 1960s generation. He Beret Staff Sgt. Michael v. Kuropas, of Mr. Nixon, "only when the Congress, Chicago whose family are distant rela– ignoring the specific terms of the peace continued to write, however, and his works were circulated in the tives of ours. He was killed in 1970, two agreement, refused to provide military clandestine press. Some were smuggled abroad and published in the years after my second son, also named aid to Saigon equal to what the Soviet West. However, some 600 poems and translations by Mr. Stus were Michael v. Kuropas, was born. Union provided for Hanoi." confiscated and destroyed by Soviet authorities in the labor camps to it is here that families and friends of While the United States was recover– which he was ultimately sentenced and where he was treated with the dead cry and leave flowers and ing from its self-induced "vietnam particular severity. mementos and messages, it is here that Syndrome," the Soviet Union and its in 1975, a fellow political prisoner, Zorian Popadiuk, said of Mr. people bow their heads in reverence, proxies gobbled up South Yemen, Stus to another inmate: "in Ukrainian poetry today, there is no one like in a holy place, it is here that one Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Af– greater than Stus." Who knows what might have been had Mr. Stus been asks: "Why God, why?" ghanistan and Nicaragua, and the allowed to write freely. But it was his misfortune to live in a society in Today, 10 years after the fall of ayatollah grabbed iran. "Each of the which the occupation of poet is a very dangerous– one if the poet Saigon, there are those who still believe 100 million people who were lost to the happens to speak his mind and not that of the Kremlin. that the United States was guilty of war West during our five-year geopolitical crimes when it tried to save southeast sabbatical," concludes Mr. Nixon, "is a The death of Mr. Stus can be credited to the Soviet leadership's Asia from Communist tyranny. living symbol of the sterility of argu– campaign aimed at wiping out the intellectuals and rights activists of One such person is Jane Fonda, who ments about peaceful diplomacy." the 1960s generation, and this campaign parallels that of the 1930s, traveled to Hanoi during the war and For Mr. Nixon, the notion that the when literally thousands of Ukrainian intellectuals were annihilated. accused American POWs of being war United States was on the wrong side of So much for the meaning of a change of leadership in the Soviet criminals. "1 know 1 was right," she history in vietnam is one more example Union. declared in a recent USA Today inter- of the success of Soviet disinformation view. which "ever since the Russian Revolu– Others are not so sure. Within the tionin 1917, has been tricking Western past year there have been articles, a Tv intellectuals into looking at slavery and series and books written about the war, seeing Utopia, looking at aggression and most of which reject the fatuous Fonda conquest and seeing liberation, looking position that every horror that occurred at ruthless murderers and seeing 'agra– in vietnam was in one way or another rian reformers' looking at idealized America's fault. Even some anti-war portraits of Ho Chi Minh gazing benefi– activists (Joan Baez is an example) have cently upon the children gathered had second thoughts in the wake of the around him and seeing a mythical unrelenting terrors perpetrated by the national figure rather than the brutal Communists in Cambodia, Laos and dictator he really was." vietnam. All of the above can be found in the if you're looking for a historical first chapter and is an example of the analysis of the vietnam War and its intellectual gems that lie ahead. aftermath that makes sense (and doesn't Having read his book, 1 am con– portray the United States as the world's vinced that had Mr. Nixon survived arch villian) read Richard M. Nixon's Watergate, vietnam and Cambodia "No More vietnams." could have been saved. A strong presi– Mr. Nixon is unequivocal in his dent, he would have prevailed over position, "in vietnam we tried and Congress, thereby saving the lives of failed a just cause," he writes. "No more some 500,000 vietnamese and 2 million vietnams can mean we will not try Cambodians — and probably the 100 again, it should mean we will not fail million more that were lost in the viet– again." nam aftermath. "No event in American history," Was the moral victory' which liberals argues Mr. Nixon, "is more misunder– attached to the Nixon resignation worth stood than the vietnam War. it was the price? Given all the human suffering misreported then and it is misremem– and turmoil that the Nixon denoue– bered now. Rarely have so many people ment created both here and abroad, І been so wrong about so much. Never think not. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.1985 7 vasyl Stus: the life and death of a Ukrainian poet by Marco Carynnyk severe ulcer that lead to the removal of most of his stomach, he was denied medical care, and many of his manuscripts - some 600 poems and The"bare biographical facts are clear. Born in 1938, the Ukrainian poet translations - were confiscated and destroyed. vasyl Stus published his first poems at the age of 21. Five years later he For Mr. Stus was a poet as well as a victim, and the biographical facts say began graduate studies in literature, in 1965 he joined the opposition nothing about the three collections of his work– "WinterTrees," "A Candle movement that had begun to emerge in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's in a Mirror" and the forth coming "Palimpsests" - that reached the West. revelations of the crimes of the Stalin era and wrote appeals in defense of Unfortunately, almost none of this dense, hermetic, oxymoronic poetry has persecuted intellectuals. been translated. The Soviet regime's response was the standard one: Mr. Stus was But the poet's plight, if not his poetry, attracted the attention of his expelled from graduate school, blacklisted as a writer and prevented from colleagues. Amnesty international took an interest in his case; American finding employment. universities invited him to lecture; the English section of international PEN in January i972, when the KGB was ordered to smash the samvydav and made him an honorary member, and at The Writer and Human Rights hundreds of Ukrainian oppositionists were arrested, Mr. Stus was charged Congress in Toronto in 1981 Mr. Stus was one of seven imprisoned writers with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." After nine months of for whom chairs were reserved on the platform. imprisonment and interrogation, he was sentenced to five years' labor camp When he had completed his labor-camp term, Mr. Stus was transported to arid three years' internal exile. his place of exile: the vast Kolyma region of arctic Siberia. He described his Perhaps because he was one of the most outspoken critics of the regime, experiences there in a notebook that reached the West in 1983. Excerpts Mr. Stus was treated with particular severity in the labor camp. Despite a from this notebook follow. by vasyl Stus into the icy air of the unheated cage. Pneumonia, myositisand radiculitisare Translated by Marco Carynnyk ... the ban on writing, the constant denigra– the scourge of every miner. And then and George l.uckyj tion of my human and national dignity, the there are the vibrations and the silica dust. PART І conditions in which my Ukrainian patriotism The accident rate at the mine is quite high. Ceilings cave in, crushing miners; And so. on March 5 (1977J 1 arrived was regarded as a crime against the state, the drillers fall down slopes or under trilcks; at Kolyma. Behind me were 53 days, almost every second man has had his almost two full months, of transit. 1 national and cultural pogrom in Ukraine — all arms, legs or ribs crushed. But for 500 to remember the cell at the prison in 700 rubles a month people are afraid of Cheliabinsk and the swarms of roaches these compelled me to declare that holding nothing, if he doesn't go to drink or on the walls; as 1 looked at them 1 felt become a cripple, a miner can save my whole body itching. Then came the Soviet citizenship was quite impossible for enough money in five years to buy a car. Novosibirsk transit prison and the me. And Kolyma does offer food, although terrible jail at lrkutsk. where 1 was you can't always get meat. But then, thrown into a cell with alimony defaul– where can you? ters. Lousy, dirty, stupefied, they spread І would come back to my room and a spirit of asphyxiating provincial collapse with exhaustion. There was freedom that made me want to howl like only work and sleep — nothing in a wolf: this sort of life is also possible; between. 1 endured this for three months this prison misery' is also endurable. The and then had to declare that with my drunken guards at lrkutsk seemed to health 1 was not up to work like this. The have been snatched from a cohort of militia was angry, and the first persecu– despotic gendarmes of the time of tion began, in addition, 1 changed my Nicholas 1 or Alexander 11. One of them room. This was a new infraction of the almost beat me because 1 spoke up rules: how dare 1 do so when (contrary about his brutal behavior. to the regulations dealing with exile) І Finally. Khabarovsk, and then a had been ordered to live in this room passenger plane in which the free and and no other, with these people and no the unfree were separated by rows of others! But their constant drinking left seats: no need to be ashamed here. І was me no peace. handcuffed to a recidivist, and thus we in May 1 was summoned to the passed the two hours of flying time. district center and warned that if І And then, suddenly, Kolyma: a cold, disobeyed any other rules 1 would be low sky. a small prison in a clearing, brought to trial again. І cited the rules of relatively good food and a warm, dark exile, which allowed me to decide where solitary cell. Once they had been de- І wanted to live within the district. loused, even my clothes were tolerable. Pereverzev only smiled maliciously and The commandant called me in: he had began swearing. І decided to put him in supposedly never seen a political pri– his place: no one had used such lan– soner. guage with me even in the concentration Several days later 1 was driven in a camp, and if he didn't stop swearing, І Black Maria with^a small cast-iron stove would leave, it was he who summoned inside to Ust-Omchug. 400 kilometers me, and so he had better speak decently. from Magadan. After being held in a vasyl Stus in exile in Magadan (circa 1978). Then my wife came to visit, and we preliminary-detention cell for several were given a room at the so-called hotel, days, 1 was called in by Pereverzev, the ing. Gaiety filled the room. would become wet and covend with a where two KGB agents listened to militia commandant, who told me that 1 І wasassigned to a Communist shock layer of dust within half an hour. Then everything we said. Once they broke would be working as a miner at the brigade. Almost half the workers were you would take it off and work without into our room, sat down at the table, Matrosov Mine and living in Room6at party members. They were to rehabi– protection. and one of them, taking out a knife, the communal quarters. Since 1 had lilate me. The dust in the mine was They say that young men (who have began to test my nerves. І refused to fall complained about my health, he pro– terribte because there was no ventila– just finished their military service) for this cheap trick. One of my room- mised to have me examined. The doctors tion: blind vertical drifts were being develop silicosis after six months of mates wanted to give me a knife; 1 looked me over in about 20 minutes; all drilled. The hammer weighed about 50 such work. You cannot see the shovel turned down the gift even though І of them declared that 1 was fit. On the kilograms, the bar 85. When "windows" you are working with because of the didn't know that this was a provocation evening of Mar ,51wasbrc to the were being drilled, we had to use dust. When you finish work, there isn't a that could lead to a conviction (posses– village, in the і im that 1 was ;o share, shovels. The respirator (a gauze mask) dry thread left on you, and you step out sion of a weapon). several young men were drinking vodka When my wife left, 1 had an accident: No one was surprised to see me. Two my roomate had taken off fora few days radios and a tape-recorder were bh' How Good it is without leaving me the key, and when І tried to get in through the window, 1 fell How good it is that l've no fear of dying and broke both heels. І was taken to the Marco Carynnyk is a free-lam І. Nor ask myself how ponderous my toil hospital; my feet were placed in casts, writer who specializes in East European Nor bow to cunning magistrates, decrying and a new occupant was moved into my affairs. George Luckyj is professor Presentiments of unfamiliar soil, room. Having become used to the total emeritus of the Slavic Department at That 1 have lived and loved, yet never burdening surveillance, 1 had no doubt where this the University of Toronto. The original My soul with hatred, curses or regret. occupant came from. After two months text of vasyl Stus л notebook appeared My people! it is to you 1 am returning.. in the hospital. І came back to my room. in Suchasnist in November 1983. A con– in death 1 somehow find my fate. І had plaster casts with metal arches on derised version of this translation І turn my pained but goodly face to living both feet. Outside there was frost and appeared in the Washington Times on And in filial prostration 1 begin. snow. The outhouse was 200 meters August 28. І meet your eyes in fair thanksgiving away. 1 had crutches, and my toes All poetry published here is tran– And join my kindred earth as closest kin. protruded from my casts. This time the slated bv Mr Carvnnvk. (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985 No. 37 Ukrainian Texans celebrate and share their heritage by Oksanna Pawliw Club of Houston organized and pro– vided management of the food and HOUSTON - San Antonio's He– cultural booths at the festival. Cary misphere Pla?.a was the setting for the "Taras" Sheremet. president of the club, 14th annual Texas Folklife Festival was general chairman, and lrene Maj– and, once again, Texas Ukrainian nich-Kuchta was manager of the food communities were well-represented preparation and organization. Over during the four-day event held August 2,500 varenyky, tens of dozens of Ї-4-. holubtsi. gallons of borshch, and huge The festival, which attracts some pots of bigos were prepared in Houston 130,000 people annually, is a celebra– by club members, shipped to San tion of ethnic cultures from all over Antonio and eventually sold to thou– Texas, and offers its visitors the oppor– sands of festival visitors interested in tunity to experience dances, music and getting a "taste of Ukraine." crafts of many different nationalities, as Olena Burban furnished hand-made well as sample all types of ethnic foods. ceramics and embroidery for the cul– As in^previous years, Ukrainians tural booth, and Dottie Williams be– from all parts of Texas, including came the center of attention with her Dallas; Forth Worth, Freeport, Bay exquisite pysanka display and demon– City, Houston and San Antonio, as– stration. All workers were encouraged sembled in the Alamo City to promote to educate visitors as to Ukrainian Ukrainian national identity and culture. identity and heritage. Pamphlets with more extensive information were also Thousands of varenyky available to the general public. The Ukrainian American Cultural Steve Sokolyk of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas shows off in the Hopak. The Ukrainian American Cultural Club also hosted a hospitality suite at a local hotel to provide a common meet– ing ground for out-of-town travelers. Highlighting Ukrainian participation at the festival were the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas. This vigorous group of young dancers, under the direction of Dee Dee Moroz, provided electrifying entertainment to enthusiastic audiences during their performances on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures ranging into the high 90s failed to discourage workers and performers who vowed to meet again at the 1986 Texas Folklife Festival.

Houston's Slavic festival

Several weeks earlier and some 200 miles east in Houston, in the midst of preparations for the San Antonio Festival, the Ukrainian American Cul– tural Club had organized and chaired the participation of Ukrainians in the 23rd annual celebration of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Feast Day, held at the Knights of Columbus Hall on July 14. This yearly event is celebrated with other Slavic nationalities of Houston. Czechs and Poles together with Ukrai– nians have been active in this festival since its inception, and this year the Slovenians and Croatians also partici– pated in the day's festivities. The Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas at the San Antonio Folklife Festival. The president of the Ukrainian Ame– rican Cultural Club and group chair- man for the event, Mr. Sheremet, grcet– ed the participants on behalf of the Ukrainian community, noting the signi– ficance of sharing cultures and tradi– tions. He also stressed the importance of instilling a sense of heritage and ancestral appreciation into children. Former club president l.ubomyr Popowskyj directed the combined choirs in the singing of the national anthems and folk songs. Oksanna Pawliw gave the keynote address for the day and was later presented with the Key to the City of Houston by a representative from the Mayor's Office. The Ukrainian fiance Ensemble of Houston, under the direction of Marika Маско, performed foi the receptive audience. Days later the group was invited to perform at the annual Ukrai– nian Orthodox league Convention held this year in Johnson City, N.Y.

Texas Ukrainians flourishing І hese and other events occurring throughout the yearareprool that.even though geographically far-removed о n major Ukrainian population centers. Ukrainians in 1 exas are anxious to celebrate and share their heritage for The Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Houston at the local Slavic festival. the benefit of future generations; No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.1985 68 youths complete Plast's annual sports camp by lhor Strutynsky departure plans and decided to stay for the entire camp. EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. - Plast On Saturday. August 3, the annual youths from Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, camp-bulava games began. Men's ""California; "Michigan and from several volleyball was the first event. The East Coast states arrived at the Wolfs bulava team planned to beat the campers Trek camp here to attend the 12th quickly and easily, so as to preserve its annual sports camp administered by strength for the team handball game, the Chervona Kalyna Plast fraternity. instead the bulava had to dive, block The patron of this year's camp was and sweat out a hard-fought 15-6,6-15, lvan Stefankiw, a former member of the 15-1 victory. Chervona Kalyna Plast unit, who died Women's volleyball was next. With in a Lviv prison during World War 11 Maria Darmochwal serving ace after while in custody of the German police. ace, the campers won the first game 15- Sixty-eight campers attended this 11. The bulava, led by Theresa Kuritza year's camp held July 27-August 10. and Ksenia Kolcio, quickly changed its The bulava, or staff, consisted of 20 strategy and won the next two games, persons, including: George Strutynsky, 15-9 and 15-13. "otaman"; Muroiub Lozynskyj, "osaul"; The final game of the day was men's Nadia Ratycz, secretary; the Rev. lvan team handball. The campers quickly Kaszczak; Marta Amaro RN, camp jumped out to a 4-0 lead. With less than nurse; and lhor Strutynsky. head in– a minute left to play the bulava trailed structor. by two goals. Led by lko Danyluk, who instructors were: lko Danyluk, An– scored a total of seven goals, the bulava drij Bidiak, Lida Hvozda, OlaTerpylak, rallied to tie the game and sent it into Askold Chemych. Ksenia Kolcio. Mi– overtime. Through Michael Tymosch's chael Tymosch, Marko Jakubowycz, spectacular goal-tending, the bulava Theresa Kuritza, Marko Haftkowycz, finally prevailed, in a shootout, by a The camp command and instructors of the 1985 sports camp organized by the Nestor Nynka and Marianne Dia– score of 14-13. Chervona Kalyna Plast fraternity. chenko. Laryssa Dragan served as an The soccer match was held the next assistant instructor. day. The campers were determined to win this game in order to prevent an Freshmen campers embarrassing 4-0 sweep by the bulava. Unfortunately for the campers, this was For many campers this years's sports not their year. With Askold Chemych camp was their first. - and it showed, anchoring a strong defense, the bulava instead of bringing along an extra pair triumphed, in overtime, on penalty of sneakers or socks, these freshmen shots, by a score of 4-3. campers stuffed their suitcases with in an attempt to rekindle the campers' make-up kits, hair dryers and radios. spirit and morale, the camp command The bulava, having seen this, quickly decided to hold a bonfire on Sunday realized that the^e individuals had a evening. And on Monday night the misconception of what sports camp was entire camp was treated to the film "Star all about. Unfortunately for the cam– Wars," shown on the camp's vCR, pers. they came to realize their mistakes which was donated by Myron Lepka– the hard way. luk, president of Frankland A Lcinhard Each day's program began promptly Co. Halfway through the movie, each at 6:30 a.m. After breakfast and a main camper was treated to popcorn, pretzels stretch session, the morning program and soda. The camp command's only consisted of instruction periods in concern was that such pampering might swimming, shot put. discus, longjump, lead the campers to purposefully lose high jump, sprints, cross-country next year's series as well. running and the relay. The afternoon was reserved for team sports — soccer, Camp Olympics volleyball, basketball and team hand- ball, as well as archery and riflery. By The second week was highlighted by the end of the day each camper, on the (Continued on page 15) Omelan Markiw (third from left) wins the 100-yard race with a time of 11.5. average, had run five grueling miles and done numerous push-ups, sit-ups and other forms of calisthenics. Those who came to camp physically unprepared quickly learned what sore, overworked muscles felt like. Some were even on the verge of packing up their hair dryers and radios, and head– ing back home. But. thanks to the camp's two masseuses and the cook, the great exodus was prevented. Lida fUoi"da and Katrina Cisaruk. through their magical and therapeutic fingers, quickly rejuvenated the cam– per's aching muscles. Some campers, having experienced the mystical powers of a good massage, insisted that massage sessions be held every day. The otaman. or camp director, did not agree. Most Plast members who attend camp are accustomed, indeed, are forewarned thai the food, while not bad, is nothing to write home about. І his year's kitchen, however, under the stewardship of Nadia Czubatyj, was nothing short of spectacular. On two occasions M rs Czubatyj and her kitchen assistants presented the campers with elaborate bullets. 1 he scrumptious dishes included stuffed cabbage (ho– iub'.si), deviled eggs, bigos. jello. garlic bread, meatballs, turkey, cold cu's and a vegetable-macaroni salad. Their muscles no longer aching and their appetites satisfied, the wear; Campers and staff of (he Plast sport campers scrapped І Mil premature 10 - THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985 ' No. 37

"westernized style." Reverting back to of text. Such traits are typical of the the original Ukrainian title of the times in which Churay allegedly lived. A , "Hryts Ballad," the album calls it great deal of Ukrainian folk music is in "Don't Go to the Dance, Harry." The the minor key for ethno-psycholog'ical mood of the music does not exactly reasons into which we need not enter reflect the original song, since it is set to here. Strophic songs are still common in a 20th century dance beat, but the .folk music today. sense of tragedy is expressed by the There are curious coincidences. Chu– unhurried melodic pattern of the origi-– ray allegedly lived in the Poltava area, паї minor key. Thus. Carroll's version is and her songs seem to be manifested slight lv closer to the original ballad than later in this general area. Alois Jedlicka, that ol Lawrence, it is purely instru– the song collector who arranged both mental. i.e. does not impose any new the "Wind Song" and the "Hryts Ballad" text on the listener, and the album's flourished here and published hiscollec– Songs born of legend liner notes provide accurate historical tion in Poltava. Writer 1 van K,otliarev– data, of which Carroll was fully aware sky who conceived the play "Natalka CONCLUSION due to the album's Ukrainian pro– Poltavka." music for which was formed later and included the "Wind Song," in 1939. songwriter Jack Lawrence ducers. The latest addition on a long list of also lived in Poltava. did an English adaptation of the"Hryts Another curious fact concerns the Ballad" for a New York publisher. Leo recordings of this song is the version by Emil Decameron, who conducts the still unexplained pairing of the "Wind Feist inc.. and called the new version 6 Song" and the "Hryts Ballad" in various "Yes, My Darling Daughter." in this Decameron Orchestra. on an album titled "Russian Folk Melodies "record– sets of works. І write "unexplained" printing. Lawrence is credited for since the alleged identical authorship of writing both the lyrics and the music ed in Europe. 1966. The ballad is titled "Do Not Go, Gregory" but no other both songs was not always common with no additional notes or credits knowledge. And yet both of them were given. True, the text was entirely his and information is supplied. So, for the average consumer, this will remain a heard in voronyntsi in Ukraine by Liszt completely original in its new. light and both were included in his piano genre: "Mother, may 1 go out dancing? Russian item in keeping with the album title just as the London Symphony suite. Both songs were arranged also in Yes, my darling daughter." The text is Ukraine by Jedlicka and published in delightfully entertaining; the musical Orchestra; Black version left the im– pression that the song was of Jewish his collection only to be reprinted in arrangement is lively, and today this 1921 in New York intheBotsfordedition, item has a record of one of the most origin. From a purely musical standpoint, one song following the other. Both popular numbers to emerge on the eve melodies appeared as American record– of World War 11. both the Decameron and the Black versions are successful. Recordings are ings not too far apart with lgor Gorin Closely following "Carol of the singing the "Wind Song" and Dinah Bells," a hit based on a Ukrainian carol by large orchestras which produce rich, k Dinah Shore, circa 1940. reverberating sound without over- Shore doing the "Hryts Ballad." and arranged by Peter J. Wi!housky, For additional study of the melodic the new song by Lawrence attracted whelming the iistener. Black produces brash and hasty if more brilliant. an especially velvety effect and having structure of songs attributed to Churay some fine performers, in 1940, a Lawrence's version is essentially vocal see Zenowij Lysko's monumental struggling young singer named Dinah derived the piece from Lawrence, the (the Bluebird label called it "voca– arranger features an amusing dialogue collection "Ukrainian Folk Melodies" Shore sang it at her audition for Eddie dance"), while Miller adds a great deal for the familiar versions and also their Cantor and by November 8, 1940, the between daughter and mother, repre– more instrumentation for his eminent sented by clarinet and bassoon respec– variants of melody and text. Bluebird label released her recording of band, especially in the introduction. His 2 Such is the concise story of a legacy the song with an orchestra. tively. in this version mother has a men also serve as a chorus answering allegedly left by the Kozak songstress The Dinah Shore disc was an-instant definite, tonic last word. unceasing questions of Hutton. Her On the other hand, the Decameron Churay and its many transmutations hit and a million copies were sold. part of the girl in an anxious discourse over the centuries. Although the origi– Published Feist ran a second printing, version introduces a set of inventive with her mother before a dance still variations on the basic theme of the nal songs often depict tragic love, pain this time including Shore's portrait on bears some similarity to the original and death, perhaps their ultimate fate the cover of the sheet music. "Hryts Ballad," either romantic and Ukrainian lyrics, especially in the girl- submissive or turbulent. Decameron will be good and favorable since they Barely more t han a week after Shore's boy-dance situation. We now know already seem to have been kissed by disc was released. Glenn Miller record– chooses a wide range of tempi appro– Lawrence heard the original "Hryts priate for diverse moods of his varia– immortality. cd his own version with his celebrated Ballad" from his mother who was born band. Retaining the title "Yes, My tions, thus proving once again that in Kiev. Ukrainian melodies can become versa– Darling Daughter" and Lawrence's Following closely in the footsteps of 1. New York: Carl Fischer. 1936. name in the credits. Miller likewise did tile material in the bands of those the Miller orchestra was Benny Good- willing to recognize this potential. 2. A 10-inch 78 rpm disc No. В-І0920А. not mention (or was unaware of) the man's big band, but it's rendition of F.xact date of release of this item received original source of the catchy melody.-1 "Yes, My Darling Daughter" was even from RCA Records (which absorbed Blue- Glenn Miller conducted his band further removed from the Ukrainian Conclusion bird). New York City via letter dated March himself and featured Marion Hutton as original. 27. 1973 from Margaret Oresh, educa– in retrospect, the three songs attri– tional assistant. For more background on , soloist. H is recording session took place Some sources had noted that "Yes, on November 18, 1940, at the Cafe buted to Marusia Churay became the Lawrence see Henry Pleasants. "Songwriter My Darling Daughter" was used in the basis for both church and secular music, Jack Lawrence," in Stereo Review (Septem– Rouge. Hotel Pennsylvania, in New New York Yiddish Theatre. 4 theatre and film scores, variousarrange– ber 1973), p. 50. York City. Miller also featured this 3. Only recently. Nat Shapiro in his song often in live performance, giving The Nat Shapiro reference work ments in Ukrainian and American publications and lastly, recordings in "Popular Music,"(Ncw York: Adrian Press. vocal duties to Marion Hutton. already cited notes that in 1941 "Gracie 1968). vol. 4. p. 292 noted that this Law– Miller retrained Lawrence's text and Barrie introduced" the song in the revue various popular adaptations in Europe rence hit was really an adaptation from a the crux of the music was still the "Hryts "Crazy with the Heat." Such a state– as well as in America. Ukrainian folk song. Ballad" in the original minor key. ment is incorrect because, as we have Even upon a fast examination some 4. The original 78 rpm disc was re-released However, the tempi of the Shore seen, two recordings in 1940 (Shoreand similarities in all three songs emerge: all in 1963 in simulated stereo on a 12-inch LP and especially and Miller perfor– Miller) preceded the review with Barrie. are in a minor key and all three are RCA-victor LSP-2767. mances were fast enough to cancel Somehow Shapiro was unaware of strophic songs, i.e. the basic melody is 5. On London SP-44060 (stereo). completely any feeling of sadness or these recordings. iepeated exactly with each new stanza 6. On vanguard SRY-201-SD (stereo). moodiness. if we compare the respec– tive texts of the Ukrainian original and Newer versions Lawrence's remake, the new lightness and speed of the American versions More recently, an orchestral stereo become logical and necessary. recording of "Yes, My Darling Daugh– 5 This is especially true when we ter" was released in England. The consider Miller's musical outlook. His credits read: Jack Lawrence-Sirmay. jazz style demanded virile rhythm and The new arranger, Sirmay, provided for speed of modulations even more so a velvety, spacious sound, and the when the lyrics had humor, as was the selection is competently performed by case with the Lawrence text. Compared the London (Festival) Symphony Or– to the lyric sound of young Shore and chestra conducted by Stanley Black. the more restrained Lawrence arrange– This was an album of Jewish melodies r-'.cnt. Miller's sound is more daring. titled "Song of a People."and "Yes. My Darling Daughter" is identified here with the New York Yiddish Theatre insure with no additional background given. in 1962, New York City jazz eom– poscr Ray Carroll did his own arrangc– and foe sure, ment for the Sal DeFeo Band, released in the album "Ukraine Swings."Wehave Join the UNA already discussed this release wnicn gave ample background data on the Ukrainian material presented in a new ' Benny Goodman's rare disc of "Yes, My Darling Daughter." No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985

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nia, Kvitka Pryrody,"areall written by Mr. Bednarchyk's guitar accompani– Lesia: a welcome debut Mark Bednarczyk, who plays guitar on ment is smooth, steady and comple– this album, and is well-known in this ments Miss Wolanska's vocals ad– by Oles Kuzyszyn capacity from several other Ukrainian mirably. Save the slightly inaccurate releases. The first two of these, "Ту modulation between the second and Recent-years have afforded us the Pytayesh" (lyrics: Lesia Yasenko) and third verses. Miss Wolanska's rendition opportunity to witness and experience "Oy Hubochky"(lyrics: Osypand Fedir otjhis enchanting tune is near-perfect. many new Ukrainian record releases. Bodyansky) are very akin ;o Ukrainian Miss Wolanska is definitely a star on Happily^ the musical and technical folk songs in style, while "Kokhannia" the rise, not only on the basis of this quality of these releases is, generally (lyrics: Nadia Novostavska) features a debut LP, but as evidenced by her speaking, steadily improving, perhaps lyrical, waltz-like melody. Mr. Bednar– performance at the verkhqvyna Youth duetoboththerecordingartists'andyor czyk shows talent as a writer, and. Festival in Glen Spey, N.Y., in July of producers' ambitions, and intense hopefully, more of his original material this year, where she combined her vocal competition within the relatively will be featured on future Ukrainian ability with stage presence, audience limited marketplace of Ukrainian re- LPs. contact and personality to thrill the corded music. The two remaining selections on the festival crowd. The success of this, her There is an adequate variety of music album are Ukrainian folk songs. first recording, as she would be the first for the consumer to choose, ranging "Oy Ту Divchyno" is well-known and to admit, owes a great deal to the from classical and liturgical, through has been recorded and performed many strength of the instrumental ensemble folk and pop. Yet, surprisingly, despite which contrasts the smooth, subtlety of times before. This song again features accompanying her, namely; Mr. Czemy the generally accepted viewpoint that the melodic line with the intensity and Mr. Kostyk on supporting vocals. (keyboards, accordion, arrangements), Ukrainians are a "spivuchyi narid" (a urgency of the drum part. After a mood- "Letiv Ptashok," is certainly one of the Mr. Bednarczyk (guitar, arrangements). "singing people"), the territory of setting piano intro and a mellow first album's highlights, in which Miss Bill Kinal (bass guitar, percussion, "female pop solo vocalist", is one which verse, the above-mentioned contrast is Wolanska again faces the difficult task arrangements), Mr. Kostyk (vocals), is still relatively unexplored in the brought into play in the second verse. of matching the Chervona Ruta rendi– Ronnie Kolanitch, Peter Marunchak, Ukrainian record industry. (1 must Tension is heightened in verse four with tion. Her vocal delivery is sensitive and Rodney McLcllan and Alfi Dibouno emphasize'the adjective "pop," as there Miss Wolanska's dramatic background highly interpretative. For most singers, (drums, percussion), and Glen Robin- have been numerous releases of Ukrai– vocals, showcasing the flexibility and the large leaps in the melody and the son (lead guitar, castanets). . nian female "classical" singers). Possib– wide range of her voice. Throughout, -two modulations required by this ar– We hope to hear much more from ly. North American solo vocalists are the 414 to 3;4 shift in meter, an in– rangement might prove to be over- Miss Wolanska in the future, both live wary of being overshadowed by emi– teresting feature of the song occurring whelming, but this singer has no trouble and on records. nent soloists from Ukraine, such as the in every first and third measure of the at all. She sings with smoothness and The record is available at Ukrainian sensational Sofia Rotaru or the power– verse, is used by both the singer and the ease, yet effectively reflects the senti– stores everywhere, or directly from: ful Liudmyla Artemenko. ensemble to a dramatic advantage, in ment of the descriptive, storylike folk Yevshan Communications inc.. Box Whatever the reason, only the two the drawn-out notes of the ending Miss lyrics. Mr. Czerny's synthesizer intro is 125, Station St. Michel, Montreal, Que. fine releases of Lubomyra Kowalchuk Wolanska once again exhibits her appropriately haunting in quality, and H2A 3L9. (now a Canadianrock star on the rise), breath control and vocal prowess. and the stellar performance of Kvitka The arrangement of the folk song"Oy Cisyk (one of New York's top session Ту Richenko," which Miss Wolanska U.S. beer capital organizes singers) on her second Ukrainian, re- employs for this LP, has many similari– lease titled "Kvitka" have been able to ties to the Kobza (vocai;instrumental achieve large-scale popularity among ensemble from Kiev) version, yet lacks bandura workshop and ensemble Ukrainians. its subtlety, tenderness and dramatic For this reason, newcomer Lesia understatement. Although Miss Wo– Wolanska's performance on her debut lanska's delivery is more than adequate, release, titled simply "Lesia," is a most the arrangement itself does not measure welcome breath of fresh air. it is a up, in my opinion, to the Kobza classic recording which has the potential to or even to Luba Kowalchuk's simple become as popular with Ukrainian but charming rendition. listeners as the two mentioned above, Much more effective, even if the thanks to Miss Wolanska's natural arrangement is likewise "borrowed" to vocal talents and the encouraging some extent, (this time from the Cher– freshness of the musical arrangements vona Ruta ensemble), is the Hayvoron– of Andrij Czernij and Mark Bednarczyk. skyj Kupchynsky gem "Yikhav Strilets Hopefully, unlike for Luba and Kvitka, Na viynonku." The haunting synthe– this release will be the first of many sizer intro, the "motor" effect of the more fine Ukrainian recordings for the percussion and the sincerity in Miss promising 19-year-old vocalist from Wolanska's voice, singing of the soldier

Montreal. ( departing for battle and bidding his love The LP begins with the song "Yaksh– a final farewell, effectively imparts the cho Liubysh, Kochaj." which was first feeling of impending doom emanating performed in North America by the from the lyrics, in my opinion, the "Chervona Ruta" ensemble from U– changes made in the melody were kraine during their Montreal concerts unnecessary, since the original melody Milwaukee's bandura ensemble: James Waller, Regina and Julie Saladino, and in August of 1983. The song is credited of this song is so well-constructed and lrene Galaszewski. Standing beside players are Pete Burak, organizer (far left) and as a Ukrainian folk song, however, balanced. Roman Kostyk's supporting Alex Poszewanyk, instructor (far right). probably due to a lack of available vocals are adequate, though Miss information, while its melodic and Wolanska could have easily done just as harmonic structure indicates nothing of well without them. Glen Robinson's MILWAUKEE in the small u– paradox, since ampng these players of the sort. Nevertheless. Miss Wolanska's guitar solo, the "vocalise" style ending krainian community of Milwaukee, the the Ukrainian instrument, only one has rendition is spirited and convincing, as and the arrangement in general imitate beer capital of the United States . a a Ukrainian surname and only one is Mr. Czcrny's arrangement, featuring the Chervona Ruta version, although, course in bandura playing was or– speaks Ukrainian. a bouncy synthesizer intro and an much more effectively than in the ganized this spring. After some weeks As usual, after the performance there energetic rhythm section. Miss Wolan– previous song's allusion to Kobza. and nine lessons, the students gave their were congratulations and enthusiastic ska's background vocals in the second Side two features four new songs. first bandura recital on Sunday.,luly 21. inquiries about the instrument, and and last verses are effective, although "Tvoyi Ochi" is a sentimental tango in the hall of St. Michael's Ukrainian several persons expressed interest in her diction in the lead vocal part is not written by the singer's father. Dr. Catholic Church. joining the group. always clear, as in the line "vzhe zozulia Bohdan Wolansky. featuring a beauti– The new bandurists performed both Today, at a time when it is hard to zakuvala." ful melody, convincingly delivered by as soloists and as a group. Six instru– organize a heritage folk ensemble (and Next is a pleasant folk song, "Cher– Miss Wolanska in an appropriate lower mental pieces, from "The Beetle" much harder to maintain one) in a large vonaya Kalynonka." in which an effec– register, which suits the character of the through "The Drifting Boat" to "vziav Ukrainian community, it is truly grati– tive "building"effect is achieved through song very well. Ukrainians seem to have a by ya Banduru." were presented. fying to see a group like-this in Milwau– vocal overdubbing. Miss Wolanska special affinity for this Argentinian Performing in the recital were: James kee's small Ukrainian community. sings the first verse solo, the second as a musical genre, as evidenced, tirst and Waller, a professional musician who fell Despite all the many difficulties, the duet, and the third as a trio. Theaccom– foremost, in the works of the late in love with the bandura: Julie Saladino. local organizer. Pete Burak. was per– paniment of accordion, guitar, bass Bohdan Weso!owsky. Dr. Wolansky's who also read a briet history of the sistent and managed toget things going. guitar and tambourine is appropriate contribution achieves a similar type of bandura; Regina Saladino and lrene He found a lew banduras and a couple and unobtrusive. synthesis of this fiery Argentine rhythm Uaiaszewski, who took turns announe– of sponsors, among them the local "Tykho Nad Richkoyu" (words: C. with the romantic quality of a typically ing the program pieces. Ukrainian Congress Committee of Chcrkasen. music: P. Batiuk) is a well- Ukrainian melodic line. The audience was pleasantly sur– America and St. Michael's Parish, and known song from Ukraine, presented "Ту Pytaycsh. Chj Kokhayu." "ON prisecl by the quality of this fine be– most importantly, he found a willing here in an interesting new arrangemem Hubochky, Openechky" and Kokhan– ginncrs' performance. They also saw a (Continued on page 15) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1985 No. 37

(60 kilometers by road). Safonov, the І had once refused to work because readers expressed indignation about my vasyl Stus... deputy commandant, received me. He there were no respirators. 1 was pro– behavior. (Continued from page 7) read me a second warning with a threat mised one for myself. І rejected it, Now my situation became even more room was empty. Going for water, to put me on trial. stressing that every miner had to have a dramatic. Saying good-bye to my wife, І down to the canteen or out for nature's in Ust-Omchuga, when 1 went to see respirator. І was defending a general told her that we would probably meet call became a very difficult problem. Pd militia commandant Pereverzev, a new principle and protesting against a again in a camp. She tearfully agreed. come back from these voyages with my surprise was awaiting me: Supriaga, the violation of industrial safety rules. But 1 was prepared not to bow my head forehead covered in cold sweat. assistant editor of the regional news- Respirators were finally found, and no matter what happened. Behind me Having solved the transportation paper Leninist Banner, announced that every man was issued one. But 1 was stood Ukraine and my oppressed people, problem simply by cutting off the casts, she was planning to write an article punished for a "strike." Supriaga did whose honor 1 had to defend to the which 1 was supposed to have worn about me and asked several provocative not fail to mention this incident, but death. another two months, 1 worked on my questions. І told her that 1 was familiar distorted the facts beyond recognition. All this time 1 was not receiving any poems. Occasionally 1 went to the post with her genre and preferred not to medical treatment. On coming home answer. Sure enough, in a little while a Just then my wife arrived. The article office, which in the life of an exile had its effect. People avoided me like from work, with no sensation in my feet, provides a semi-existence and makes long article titled "vasyl Stus's Friends І would heat water in a basin with an and Enemies" appeared, it mentioned the plague. І realized how easy it is to human contacts possible. The post manipulate public opinion, especially electrical heater and soak my feet in a united us exiles, brought back the voices everything: 1 was receiving parcels from salt bath. My left foot was permanently abroad; 1 had torn up my trade-union when there is no public and people have of Chornovil. Shabatura, Sadunaite no opinions. Seeing that it was useless to crippled: the surgeon had simply not and Kotsiubynska, and also brought membership card when 1 learned that noticed. І had to put on the paraffin the trade unions were objecting to my sue Supriaga (no Soviet court would news from abroad. agree to take such a case), 1 insisted that applications by myself. І had to fight a real war with the KGB receiving medical treatment; many workers at the mine had given "testi– І be allowed to reply to her publicly. The But the provocations increased. Once over my letters. Dozens of letters just mony" against me. authorities agreed. They summoned an after a heavy cold, when my roommate disappeared. My complaints were had come back from the "continent," І As it turned out, Supriaga had not open meeting of the mine committee answered in a very peculiar way: the and invited selected members of the drank a bit of brandy, not knowing that mailbag at the Magadan airport had a wasted time: she had been making І was not allowed to drink. The militia expeditions to the mine and preparing public. There was even a reporter from hole. Several times 1 whipped off the paper (Supriaga did not come.) immediately found out, and when 1 telegrams to Andropov (then the chair- her article while 1 was in Donetske. A went outside for a moment that evening, man of the KGB): your service is .number of people told me later that When 1 began to rebut the lies, the they pounced on me and took me to a stealing my letters. The telegrams went they had said nothing of the sort, but stage managers saw that their show sobering station. І told them that І off, but they brought no results. Or only Supriaga, fortified by her KGB armor, might flop and refused to let me speak. would go on a political hunger strike if negative ones. This became apparent understood her journalistic duties in her There was nothing left to do but to they didn't stop the joke. The doctor during my monthly visits to the militia own way. "Stus is ready to rob and kill," accuse the public of cowardice and to who was summoned by the militia (for the so-called registration), it was a testified a nurse in the Transportation leave the meeting hall with my wife. The diagnosed light intoxication. 1 sat down trip of more than 30 kilometers, to the Department. "He looks like the Fascist storm in the press did not die down: in to write a protest to the procurator. My village of Gastello. who killed children in my presence." the usual Soviet fashion, dozens of attackers took me back to my room. 1 sensed thata storm was brewing. On Later 1 learned that the militia had February 10, 1978, when 1 was hardly decided to sign me up for compulsory able to stand, but was already back at alcoholism treatment and needed some work in the mine, 1 was called to the The sun seemed never to have shone here small pretext. That was when they personnel office: a squad had been Til suddenly came a spray: offered 1,500 rubles for getting me flown in to search me in Lukianenko's drunk. But the trick didn't work. І 1 Lilacs gleamed in bloom, bronze-bodied pines case. it did not matter that 1 had only Gushed at the crowns, sipping in the day, would often find the door broken in exchanged a few letters with him. They And the shrieks ran into the humid valley when 1 came home from work and had look the drafts of my letters to Gam– Where frogs sat dreaming. to check my belongings in my room to zatov and Grigorenko, some letters make sure that no rifle, knife or porno– from other friends and a notebook of Time stands still here. graphy had been planted. poems. Then they interrogated me for The oak tests its age against eternity, So 1 submitted a declaration to the three days in Ust-Omchuga. L did not Hornbeams writhe in contortion, procurator's office: if weapons, explo– give, any evidence and only expressed Mountain ashes dive into the depths, sives or gold dust were found among my my indignation. Observing with a swallow's eye belongings, that would be the result of a Then the hounding took a new turn. The timeless world and their own timeless age. provocation. Driven to the very limit, in Several drunkards were put in my late 1978 1 sent a declaration to the room. (They would be witnesses at my Live here a while and you will think Supreme Soviet of the USSR in which І next trial.) They drank in my room, and Ukraine is still a home for nightingales again renounced my Soviet citizenship. , one of them even urinated in my tea pot. And a wood nymph may flit through the glade, І wrote that the ban on writing, the When 1 protested, they saidy "Keep Her hands extended to a squirrel. constant denigration of my human and quiet, or you'll find yourself where you And a flute may sing across the foothills national dignity, the conditions in were." І demanded that they be moved And the wood nymph's human lover will appear. which 1 was made to feel a property of - in vain. І tried to find another room the KGB and in which my Ukrainian — and was forbidden to do sd. patriotism was regarded as a crime Leave yourself at the village gate and go, І learned that the KGB, the militia against the state, the national and Open and resonant like an unfilled field. and the party committee were as– cultural pogrom in Ukraine — all these Observe and listen, take in the fragrance. siduously setting people against me. compelled me to declare that holding Touch every blade of grass One man was asked to plant a rifleo r a Soviet citizenship was quite impossible With your fearful hand. knife among my belongings, another — for me. To be a Soviet citizen means to to get me drunk. They were promised be a slave. І am not fit for such a role. 1.500 rubles (twice the monthly wages at Here you will ferment, like a tub of hops, The more 1 am tortured and abused, the Kolyma). And to what state? Just as Ferment on songs, on bees greater is my resistance to my slavery long as there's a scent, came the'answer. That gather in the sun's glow, and to the system of abuse of a man and But 1 didn't know this yet. Every That by the day consumed still live his elementary rights. evening someone would visit me — a Upon that day, subject to the ancient laws, As if to gifts, living upon the loss. in March 1979, 1 was summoned to Komsomol patrol or the militia. The see voitovich, the mine director. About conversations were malevolent, provo– Come here and learn to live a human life. 20 people were sitting in his office — cative. Captain Liubavin was especially "representatives of the public," several The trees teach goodness, as a gift to the self. obnoxious. І decided simply not to react strangers and Pereverzev, the militia whenever he appeared. To speak when there is need. To be silent when silence is the rule. commandant. The latter announced Just then 1 received a telegram that And to smile, so that smiling that he had been instructed by the my father was on his deathbed: But the You can meet your death. Presidium of the Supreme Soviet to militia wouldn't let me go home, and 1 reply to my statement. He began to read had to declare a hunger strike in protest. it, repeatedly declaring that 1 ought to They allowed me to go in a week, but be brought to trial for such slander. He before they did so they held me over- threatened to send me to Omchak (a night in a preliminary-detention cell for village six kilometers from Matrosov, posting a sign on my door: "Do not where there was a strict-regimen labor disturb. A hunger striker demanding Hide within the copper mountain, camp). the right to bury his father." All the way Conceal the arrogant blue. 1 decided that the situation was home from Ust-Omchuga to Dpnetske І A shadow trumpets above me, critical' and that 1 would have to answer was accompanied by a squad'of KGB And a shadow fills in every step. him in kind. When the director tried to spies. After burying my father 1 re- Hide within the horizon's oboes relieve the tension, 1 asked him what he turned to Kolyma as if it were;prison. 1 And whisper: 1 am still alive. was talking about. He had an arrest sensed that 1 could be locked up again at A thunder of resurrection on the mountain warrant in one pocket and handcuffs in any time. is being announced for me. the other. This office trial lasted about When 1 returned to Magadan, a Smash your,fists against despair, an hour and was the end, 1 think, of the summons to the regional KGB was hiding within the copper mountain. KGB's attempts to take me by. storm. awaiting me. 1 had to spend the night at There were no more unpleasant inci– a hotel, and on Monday go to the city dents until the end of my term of exile. І No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985 13

Mark; sister. Olympia; and nephews. who presented Mrs. Dushnyck with the At the conclusion of the tryzna, Dr. Walter Dushnyck...' Felix Dushnyck and Alexander Wer– American flag that had been draped Dr. Dushnyck's son, Mark, thanked all (Continued from page 4) hun. over her husband's coffin, and Nick those who had honored the memory of Quest of Freedom " and "The Ukrai– Czorny. who bought some earth from his beloved father by attending me– " nian Rile Ukrainian Catholic Church at Memorial services St. George Church in Lviv which was morial services. the Ecumenical Council, 1962-1965." sprinkled on the grave. in lieu of flowers, the family has He was an associate editor of Encycio– Scores of Ukrainian, American and A tryzna, or funeral dinner followed requested donations to the United pedia Slavonica and of Ukraine: A East European friends and colleagues at a local restaurant, and Dr. Dushnyck Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Concise Encyclopedia. prayed for the repose of the soul of Dr. was eulogized by the following: Dr. World Congress of Free Ukrainians, in 1975 he wrote two extensive Dushnyck at the parastas offered at the Peter Stercho of the Carpathian Re- Ukrainian Free University and Shcv– chapters on human rights in the USSR funeral home. Officiating at the pa– search Center; lvan Bazarko, a former chenko Scientific Society. and the East bloc for "Case Studies of rastas were: the Rev. Lawrence Lawre– co-worker at the UCCA office in New Human Rights and Fundamental Free– niuk, the Rev. Wolodymyr Bazylewsky York; Dr. Roman Olesnycky; Dr. Peter He was decorated for his service to doms" which was published in The of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Goy of the UCCA and the Ukrainian the Ukrainian nation and America by Hague, Netherlands. He was the editor Rev. Bohdan Karas. the Rev. lzzo and Free University; Roman Huhlewych, a the Ukrainian government in exile, the of "The Ukrainian Heritage in Ame– Brother Emil Turko. school friend; and Dr. Roman Holiat, a Carpathian Research Center and rica," a work under preparation that is Eulogies were delivered by thefollow– close friend. veterans' groups. to be published by the UCCA and the ing: Stefania Bukshowany of the World Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was Congress of Free Ukrainians; John O. also the author of numerous memo– Flis, supreme president of the Ukrai– 1985 tennis season at Soyuzivka randa, pamphlets and petitions for the nian National Association; lgnatius Plast September 28-29 UCCA, the Pan-American Ukrainian Billinsky of the Ukrainian Congress KLK October 12-13 Conference and the WCFU. Committee of America; Atanas Ko– Dr. Dushnyck worked with the Ca– bryn, national junior vice-commander tholic Relief Services in 1948-1957, was of the Ukrainian American veterans; coordinator for the U.S. Escapee Pro- lvan Kedryn of the Ukrainian Journa– r--– " -" " "" "" - " 1 gram for Latin America in 1953-1956 lists Association; and Zenon Snylyk. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. ji editor-in-chief of Svoboda. Also pre– (living with his family in RiodeJaniero, presents Brazil), and served as assistant director sent at the parastas were members of the of the Scientific Manpower Survey U.S. Army Reserve. conducted by Fordham University (the Also that day, a liturgy in Dr. Du– First Time in America survey took him to South America, shnyck's memory was offered at St. North Africa, the Middle East and Sophia Ukrainian Catholic Sobor in Western Europe). Rome. C ONCE R Dr. Dushnyck was honored for 50 The eulogy at the funeral liturgy on ті years of journalistic and social-political Monday, September 9. was delivered by UKRAINIAN CHOIR work on March 30 at the Ukrainian the Rev. Paschak. a close friend of the institute of America in New York City. deceased. At Holy Spirit Cemetery, the її He died on Thursday. September 5. Rev. Taras Prokopiw conducted the " T C H А І K A at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital services and delivered a eulogy. Also in New York. speaking were Bohdan Bezkorowajnv from Melbourne, Australia of the Ukrainian American veterans. Surviving are his wife. Mary; son. and DANCE ENSEMBLE " v E S E L K A її from Sydney, Australia With profound sorrow we wish to inform relatives and friends that Chorus Master: STEPAN KOR1N ists: WASYL B. STEBNYCKY HALYNA KOR1N, Soprano JAROSLAv L1SZCZYNSKYJ

from Boston. Mass. vALERY BOTTE Baritone ANNA KRYVENKO Born m Botelka. Ukraine, passed away on August 27. 1985 in his 81st year of iife. P:ano Accompammenr Panakhtaa and umpral services was provided by Ukrainian National Funeral Services of Ukrainian National Memorial Cemetery of USA and Monument Mausoleum at 4111 Choreographer: NATAUA ^YRAWSKY Pennsylvania Avenue. Washington. DC - where departed was put lor eternal rest on Saturday. August 30. 1985. SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1985 - at ' on: in grief KAZlMtf? and MAR1A 1LN1CK1 MINNEAPOLIS МІПП - st Anthony village High school 3301 Silver Lake Rd , ST ANTHONY ,М.мп

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For the record... association in the West) crawled into obviously had no involvement ;it .ill in the generation of negative feelings and the leadership of SUSK. the latter the second world war. began to led a outright hostility towards all Ukrainian "(Continued from page 5) started to openly slide onto the plat- considerable amount of hostility from Canadians, including youth. minorities. To exemplify the Soviet form of neo-fascism."" This statement the Canadian populace at large. The concern, one of their recent publica– is nothing short of absurd; SUSK. apart negative fallout can be illustrated by Summary and conclusions. tions states the following: from its other goals in social and citing numerous incidents which have ''Having been thoroughly brain- cultural endeavors, has always rimviHcrf occurred since the media began its Our briel has attempted to show the washed in the spirit of hatred against the a pluralistic ioi u;ii ioi 1 Ukrainian Cana– reporting on the Deschenes Commis– reasons and methods behind the Soviet Soviet Union and the Ukraine's social dian students to debate differing points sion. campaign to discredit Ukrainian Cana– and political order, these people regard of view. e A Globe and Mail report form dian youth. The SUSK executive themselves as 'Ukrainian patriots' and The Soviets will resort to any means February 1985 describes how a man had strongly believes that the Soviets are 'fighters, for a better destiny for the to discredit Ukrainian organizations in his son tell him that fellow students were manipulating the environment sur– Ukraine.' in reality, they are victims of the Western world, including youth accusing him of having a Nazi father.'4 rounding the Deschenes Commission some extremely treacherous false- organizations, inasmuch as they are " The same Globe and Mail report inquiry in Canada in order to wage an 4 hood." perceived to present a threat to the very quotes Joanna Jaciw. a Toronto resi– all-out campaign of disinformation that Moreover, the Soviets are attempting existence of the Soviet state, in terms of dent, as having been slurred along with is intended to destroy the Ukrainian to equate present-day Ukrainian Cana– competing goals regarding the territory her children by people who cite reports community in Canada forever. By dian youth efforts at revealing the of Ukraine and its political ideology. linking Ukrainians in Canada with the including youth in their attacks, the The Soviets attempt to label all Ukrai– current injustices of the Soviet system SS.'5 Soviets hope that younger Ukrainian nian non-Communist youth groups as with an underlying fascism and Nazism. " in May 1985, CBC Radio broad- Canadians will flee the community and being fascist in orientation, and claim The Soviets attempt to establish a link cast an interview with Mike Maryn, 26, that organized Ukrainian Canadian life that these groups, in their current between the efforts of Ukrainian youth a former law student at the University of will cease to exist in this country in the 4 manifestation, are tainted with the same irnin the Western democracies with British Columbia and former national near future. Nazi fascism as existed during the the generation of Ukrainians who were president of the Ukrainian Canadian The main points which we have caught in the throes of the second world second world war. in general then, the Soviets will not hesitate to exploit the Students' Union, indicating that a close stressed in this brief are the following: war. Thus, according to one Soviet Jewish friend told him the following: "1 " Canadian political principles of publication, a young Ukrainian Ameri– combustible atmosphere surrounding the Deschenes Commission inquiry in didn't know that your Ukrainian people "political equality" and "rule of law"are can who fought in the vietnam war, order to foster animosity against pre– were such murderers.""' being violated by the Soviets in their "...was decorated with medals by the sent-day Ukrainian Canadian youth ' A Winnipeg Free Press report from indiscriminate accusations against Pentagon general for the extermination and student associations. May 1985, quotes Prof. Ostap Hawa– Ukrainian Canadian groups and indivi– of trie vietnamese - a 'degenerate' and leshka of the University of Manitoba as duals. 'inferior' race, from the viewpoint 'of saying that his son Adrian, 15, was Acceptance of Soviet evidence by the American racists." Additionally, ac– Examples of negative repercussions he.uing negative remarks from his Deschenes Commission will serve to cording to the Soviets, this particular playmates concerning Ukrainian sanction this violation. Ukrainian American's Ukrainian-born Since the start of the Deschenes history.17 " The Soviet Union is waging an all- father is to be held responsible for Commission's hearings in early 1985. " A Globe and Mail report from out attack on Ukrainian Canadian instilling in his son "... a fascist educa– feature stories started to appear in the May 1985. cites a submission from youth groups, including SUSK. inas– tion and (he) took it as a guide to Canadian media discussing specific recent University of Manitoba gra– much as these groups do not recognize 10 action." groups and individuals of Ukrainian duate, Bohdanna Dutka, 21, in which the political community or the regime of The Soviets do not hesitate to con– ethnic origin that were accused of being she desribes how she has been per– the Soviet Union. struct a similar fascist linkage with implicated in Nazi atrocities. Since sonally affected by the Deschenes Soviet evidence presented to the entire associations of Ukrainian Cana– then, case-by-case evidence has been Commission and how she feels it will Deschenes Commission will have as its dian youth. Our own organization. accumulating from all over Canada affect her children and their descen– goal the destruction of the Ukrainian SUSK, has not been left untouched, in describing how the Ukrainian commu– dants.ls community in Canada as well as its a Ukrainian-language publication titled nity's good name is being smeared in " Gregory Smolynec. 19, a student in youth component. The lack of a politi– "Pastka dlia Molodi" (Pitfalls for this country. Montreal was heckled at a March 3, cal tradition of protecting individual Youth), O.v. Kartunov declares that, in Among the groups named by the 1985, meeting of the B'nai В nth of rights, suggests to us that the Soviets the 1960s and 1970s. SUSK was some- media was the "Waffen SS Division Canada (Montreal chapter) that was would see no harm in targeting indivi– how able to avoid fascist and neo-fascist Galizien." which received prominent devoted to the subject of war criminals duals and groups which belong to the ideological thought. However, "in the attention as a military unit comprised of in Canada, when he identified himself as Ukrainian Canadian community as war 12 ensuing years, especially after members Ukrainians. Feature stories also ap– a Canadian of Ukrainian descent while criminals, since that community is seen of TUSM fanother Ukrainian student peared in the media concerning indivi– asking a question concerning Soviet to pose a threat to the continued dual Ukrainians who were being impli– evidence before the Deschenes Corn- existence of the Soviet state. 13 cated in Nazi war crimes. The persis– mission." " Ukrainian Canadian youth, born tent attention devoted by the media to As can be witnessed from the pre– and raised in Canada, and in no possible the ethnic identity of the alleged per– ceeding experiences, Ukrainian Cana– way associated with the atrocities petrators of these atrocities served to dian youth are finding themselves inthe perpetrated during the second world establish a negative image of Ukrainian midst of a campaign which is forcing war are being harrassed, by virtue of Canadians as a cultural community in them to defend the good name of all their ethnicity, for alleged war crimes. Canada. The Soviets contributed signi– Ukrainians in Canada even though over The above situation is being exacer– ficantly to this process by making 90 percent of Ukrainian Canadians bated by the Soviets through their readily available lists and literature were born in this country and could not unsubstantiated allegations and de– purportedly implicating Ukrainian possibly have been implicated in Nazi famatory publications. The acceptance Canadians in war crimes. atrocities. Through their invidious of Soviet evidence by the Deschenes Ukrainian Canadian youth, which publications, the Soviets are assisting in Commission will give an undeserved legitimacy to these hateful attacks.

9. Chumak. p. 5. EGYPT and HOLY LAND Pilgrimage 10. News from Ukraine. Kiev. USSR. No. 16. April 1985. p. 7. 11. O.v. Kartunov."Pastkadlia Molodi." (Kiev. USSR. 1982). pp. 64-65. 12. For examples see the following: a) Globe and Mail. "Ukrainian Yc– CAIRO - ABU SIMBEL - LUXOR - JERUSALEM ierans to Dispute Crime Allegations at BETHLEHEM - NAZARETH - T1BER1AS inquiry." Toronto. April 25. 1985. b) The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, May CAPERNAUM - ACRE - CAESAREA - TEL Aviv 14. 1985. pp. Al. A10. 13. For instances, see the following: Rev. Patrick Pashchak, O.S.B.M.. Spiritual Director a) Globe and Mail. Toronto. April 10. 1985. p. 12. Barbara Bachynsky, Escort b) Winnipeg Free Press. Mav 13. 1985. pp. 1. 4. March 31 - April 12, 1986 14. Globe and Mail. Toronto. February 15. 1985. p. 4. New York, SWISSAIR S 1,763. 15. ibid., p. 4. 16. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. AM Radio Network. Ottawa. May 18. 1985. 17. Winnipeg Free Press, May 19. 1985. pp. 1.4. 18. a) "Extradite to Country' of Crime, inquiry Urged." Globe and Mail. Toronto, May 23. 1985. b) Brief presented to the Deschenes Commission by Bohdanna Dutka. Mav 22. 1985. Winnipeg. 19 interview with Gregory SrnoJvnec. Ottawa. June 19X5. No. 37^„„.^^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY , SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 1985

chynsky woke up, probably thinking When the "obQznyi"officiallydeclared camp directory, campers and staffers will 68 youths... that it was going to be a typical next-to- the camp closed, many people wept, be able to keep in touch throughout the (Continued from page 9) last day of camp: boring. He quickly including several staffers. But thanks to year. Then, 365 days later, they can the seventh annual olympiad. The learned never to presume anything. K,airma and Lydia Cisaruk, and Lydia renew their friendships at the 1986 opening ceremonies and preliminary Entering the kitchen, he was astonished Zerewych. who together prepared a sports camp. rounds were held on Wednesday. Au– to find out that he was the 1 millionth gust 7. while the finals were held on person to enter the Wolfs Trek kitchen Thursday Roxanne Sydorowych and during sports camp. Marku Krushelnycky were given the His next task was to choose his queen HELP WANTED honor of carrying this year's Olympic for the day and both would then be torch into the "stadium." Once the treated to a day of fine dining. With all eternal Olympic flame was lit. the oaths the girls pleading to be picked, Mr. Editorial assistantXassistant editor of fair,play taken and the fireworks Bachynsky finally decided on Lisa lit. the campers were ready to display Shmotolocha. For breakfast at their Requirements: training in journalism or related field, writing ihdr physical and technical skills. private table, the couple was treated to experience, knowledge of Ukrainian language. Some ol the outstanding results of the fresh cantaloupe. English muffins and Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications; good cheese omelettes. Half a gallon ol camp Olympic included: 15-year-old benefits. Andni vizir's 1:03.4 run in the obstacle vanilla ice cream mixed with fresh fruit course; ІЗ-year-old Andrea Lebe– made up "pidvechirok." The couple was dovych's cross country run (about 1.25 then treated to a candelight dinner. Ola Send resume, reference and clippings to The Editor. The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 miles; at 10:07.0: 14-year-old Andrij Terpylak and Andrij Bidiak.the waitress Montgomery St. Jersey City. N,i 07302. Czubatyj's high jump of 5-4: and 14- and waiter, respectively, were seen year-old Lisa Shmoiolocha's 50-yard running to and from the kitchen with freestyle swim of 33.5. All of the afore- such delicacies as cheese and crackers. mentioned results established new camp egg rolls, vichyssoise with a side order of records in their respective age brackets. breadsticks. tossed salad, baked pota– SVOBODA PRINT SHOP This year's big winners were Roman toes and grilled 16-ounce T-bone steaks Professional typesetting and printing services. Kuropas, who won seven medals, and for the lucky couple. Since the portions We print: Lesia Koropey. who accumulated a total were so huge, yes. doggie bags were BOOKS m BROCHURES m LEAFLETS requested, while the dessert, a 10-inch of eight medals. The campers were for information and rales contact extremely grateful to the Ukrainian ice cream cake.and the non-alcoholic SVOBODA Sports Club of New York and to Julian red wine had to be postponed until the 30 Montgomery Street a Jersey City. N.J. 07302 Baczynsky. owner of the East village following morning. The couple's only Telephone: (201) 434-0237: (201) 434-0807: Meat Market A Deli, for donating this complaint was that whatever weight year's medals. they might have lost during camp, they That evening, to help celebrate the surely regained it on the last day. victorious leaps and heaves of some and Branch "72" to help alleviate the agony of those who Closing ceremonies Ukrainian National Women's came so close to winning a medal, the League of America camp held its traditional masquerade. On Saturday, August 10, after two Campers came dressed up as break weeks of work and play, the camp came cordially invites you to the dancers, body builders and Ukrainian- to a close. Trophies (one of which was Arabian sheiks. Once everyone identi– donated by Evstachia Hoydysh, head of І 23rd ANNIVERSARY fied his costume, the lights weredimmed the National Plast Command) for good and campers had an opportunity to conduct were awarded to George Ba– І CHARITY DINNER-DANCE display their dancingskills to Ukrainian z.arko and Ksenia Kyzyk, who also і TO BE HELD AT '. and other contemporary music. received trophies for the highest over-all l "SOYUZlv"KA", Ukrainian National Association Estate scores. Decathlon winners were Ome– Foordmore Road. Kerhonkson. New York 1 millionth diner lan Markiwand Roxanne Sydorowych. The camp command, as a small token S Weekend: September 28 8. 29, 1985 On Friday. August 9. Yarema Ba– of its appreciation for a job well done, j Saturday - Cocktail Hour - 6:30 p.m.. Dinner - 7:30 p.m. Sunday - Breakfast. Lunch presented each staffer with a sports bag і Music: Boys from LvUv Donation: S65.00 Per Person and a golf cap, both inscribed with the ! For reservations contact 1 U.S. beer capital... camp logo. The golf caps were donated j ANNEBEZKO. 61-07. 77th St.. Middle village. N.Y. 11379. Tel.: (718) 899-2014 by Dr. Natalie Strutynsky. І or NELL1E КОТІ, 311 Mineola Blvd.. Mineola. N.Y. 11501. Tel.: (516) 248-2798 (Continued from page 11) instructor, the director of Chicago's ODUM Bandura Ensemble, Alex Pos– PETRUSH'S (BlLON'S) UKRA1N1AN ARTS ' zcwanyk. who was able to commute to Milwaukee and teach. "LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT" initially one and a half dozen people expressed an interest in learning to play HAND PA1NTED B1SQUE PORCELA1N UKRA1N1AN DANC1NG F1GUR1NES the bandura. But only half of them came lor the first lesson, and of these only BONUS DAYS lour survived the-"lough" beginner's September 15, 1985 to October 15, 1985 process ol learning and remained faith- 9; -. ful to the bandura through nine prac– ШШІ. УШ- lices and the recital. '49 - 1 і roila even the t .S. beer capital ! has its own bandura ensemble. Wf W - Persons in the Milwaukee area in– щ^'-ЩШ tcrested in learning to phi) the bandura may contact Mr. Burak at (414) У94- 9529. C hieago area residents mav call SAVE 50^ ЦНВкм-r " -ipA (312) 282-1279. УЛ о BHr Jp^ ON SECOND PA1R Yuriy Shukhevych's... ІЗДДР^у. -– -J.J^^^f;y (( ontinued from page 2) Buy one pair at S52.00, plus S2.50 for shipping 4 handling - get second pair for 526.00, plus S1.25 for nationalists" and thai in July 1983 and shipping A handling. Ohio residents add S4.30 sales tax. , March 1984 "ringleaders oft he counter- revolutionary fUkrainianJ nationalist ORDER BLANK (U.S. ONLY) emigration" were invited to the White House, where "they were addressed by Girl's hair: Costume color: Ronald Reagan himself." Rlnnrie: Rmnette Green Maroon Rlnp h seems not entirely coincidental that the article in News from Ukraine ex- Enclosed is S78.00, plus 53.25 for shipping for each order of two pairs. presses the same sentiments, noting Ohio residents add 54 30 sales tax. specifically that President Reagan drew attention to Mr. Shukhevych's plight in N.ime his І9М statement marking Captive Address City Stare 7ip Nations Week. And it seems not entirety fortuitous that Mr. Shukhevych's "re– І PETRUSH'S (BlLON'S) UKRA1N1AN ARTS caniaiton" surfaced just in time to 122 ;' " O! borne Avenue. Youngstown, Ohio 44509 - Phone (216) 9 4824 coincide with this year"' presidential t -'.-w three we for - -Hvery NoC.O.D proclamation on Cat .., . 'v lions Week. : 16„„^„„^: ",- - ;;,-– - L... ' " ''THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1985^^^„„„„^„.^^;-– - . 'No. 37 шташвда! Manor center offers dental exams JENK1NTOWN, Pa. - Manor Ju– select dates in September and October to PREVIEW OF EVENTS nior College Dental Health Center, celebrate the Dental Centers sixth located at Fox Chase Road and Forrest anniversary. 'l September 20 tour which is being sponsored by the Avenue, will provide free orthodontic Appointments can be made by calling Ukrainian National Association. For exams and consulations to new patients the Dental Center at (215) 887-7617. ticket information contact: W.J. 1 age 16 and under, and free general dental The Dental Center is open Monday Stanislaviv at (612) 379-4689. І CH1CAGO: The Ukrainian institute exams and four x-rays to new patients from 9 a.m. to9 p.m., Tuesday from 2 to 1 of Modern Art will hold a reception of all ages. 9 p.m., and Wednesday. Thursday and k and performance to mark the open– September 25 These services are being offered on Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Щ ing of an art exhibit by Ukrainian 1 artist Oleh Sydor. The hours of the CH1CAGO: The Tchaika Ukrainian й opening are 7-Ю p.m. and the exhibit Choir and the veselka Dance En– discord and animosity between the will run through November 2. The semble of Australia will be featured American, Canadian... Eastern European and Jewish com– щ Ukrainian institute of Modern Art is at a concert beginningat 7 p.m. at the munities by playing on emotional located at 2320 W. Chicago Ave., Chopcn High School Auditorium, (Continued from page 1) sensitivities; and the gallery is open to the public Western and Rice streets. For ticket version was released on September 4. e the Soviet Union's clear and Tuesday through Sunday, noon-4 information call: M. Olshanskv at The full text of the resolution follows. compelling state interest in these p.m. For further information call (312)227-0590. cases as political cases to which the (312)227-5522. Soviet apparatus of disinformation І September 22 September 27 and KGB involvement are com– Whereas, defamatory state– mitted has been judicially deter– STAMFORD. Conn.: A get-ac– WASH1NGTON: The Washington ments against Ukrainian communi– mined in the recent cases of United ' quaimed tea party will be held at St. Group will be holding its annual ties in the United States and Canada Stales vs. Kungys and United States viadimir's Church Hall. 24 Wenzel meeting at the Washington Marriot recently have been appearing in the vs. Laipenieks: the Kungys case in Геггасе, at 4 p.m. The event is to be Hotel. 21st Street NW. Cocktails will press and other media with increas– particular establishes as a legal sponsored by the Ukrainian National be served at 7 p.m.. and the meeting ing frequency, and proposition the practical impossibi– will begin at 8 p.m. The meeting is Women's League of America and Whereas, we believe that these lity of conducting discovery proceed– will include a brief lecture on the open to TWG members only, and a ings in the Soviet Union in accor– social will be held afterwards. defamatory attacks are instigated by 1 history of the organization. Admis– the Soviet Union which has a state dance with American law: 1 sion is free, and refreshments will be interest in discrediting the Ukrainian " the Soviet judicial system which viCTOR, N.Y.: Ukrainian artist І served. An exhibit of UNWLA publi– and other Eastern European commu– assists the OS1 in initiating invcsiiga– Jacques Hnizdovsky will be exhibit– cations. folk arts and cralts will be nities located in the United States iions and in discovery proceedings in ing his collection of woodcuts at the 1 featured. and Canada: and the Soviet Union is not independent, East West Shop. 27 E. Main St. The as are the American and Canadian 1 PARK R1DGE, ill.: Branch 29 of the opening will be held at 5-Ю p.m. and Whereas, in order to further its systems, but instead is an arm of the І Ukrainian National Women's League the exhibit will run through Novem– slate interest, the Soviet Union Soviet state whose overriding objec– і of America will be celebrating its bcr 8. Admission is free. For further continues to engage in a cooperative tive. without regard for truth or j 25th anniversary during a luncheon information call: (716) 924-5830. effort with the Office of Special fairness, is to defame and discredit і beginning at 12:30 p.m. lwanna investigations of the United States entire communities in the process of it Rozankowsky, UNWLA national Department of Justice by supplying finding individuals to have been Nazi Ц president, will be the guest speaker. September 28 evidence, documentary and testi– collaboratots; the luncheon will be held at Park monial. to be used against United " we reaffirm the moral impera– І RidgeCountry Club,636 N. Prospect WARREN, Mich.: Australia's States nationals, and tive of finding those who committed Ave. Admission is S25 per person or Tchaika Ukrainian Choir and ve– crimes against humanity and who hid S40 per couple and all proceeds will sclka Dance Ensemble will perform Whereas, there is reason to their activities from the authorities be donated to the Harvard Project at a concert in the auditorium of believe thaf the Soviet Union may when they sought entry into and - Millennium of Ukrainian Chris– Fitzgerald Public School, 23200 engage in the same collaborative citizenship of the United States and tianitv. For reservations call (312) Ryan Road. The concert starts at 6 effort with the Canadian authorities Canada, but we stress that the OSl's 237-6821 or (312) 852-5335. p.m. For ticket information call: J. in the near future, and work in this area which is directed Baziuk at (313) 484-0176. Whereas, Ukrainian American predominantly against Eastern NEW YORK: The World Federa– and Ukrainian Canadian lawyers are Europeans smacks of selective prose– tion of Ukrainian Women's Organi– NEW YORK: The Historical - dismayed by the current and antici– cution at the least and at worst zations will ,be holding a meeting on Philosophical Section of the Shev– pated use of Soviet-supplied evi– corraborates our concern that the the participation of its members at chenko Scientific Society will hold a dence by United States and Cana– impetus and direction for these cases the NGO Forum '85 and the World one-day scholarly conference in dian prosecuting authorities, and by comes from the Soviet Union: Conference of the U.N. Decade for honor of Prof. v. Kubijovyc. the manner in which such alleged " given the nature of the Soviet Women, which was held in Nairboi Speakers will include: Arkadij Zhu– evidence is obtained. system whose basic motives and this summer. The meeting will be kovsky, Hryhorij Kolodij, vasyl j We. the Ukrainian American Bar methods of operation are so diame– held at the Ukrainian institute of Markus, Jaroslav Padoch. vasyl Association and the Ukrainian Ad– trically opposed to those of the America, 2 E. 79th St. Program Lencyk. lhor Stebelskyand Antanas l vocates' Society of Canada, having American and Canadian systems of begins at 4 p.m. and is open to Figol. Prof. Kubijovyc is also expect– j assembled in Toronto, Canada, on justice, given the Soviet Union's members and guests. A report on the ed to attend. The conference will be j May 31 - June 2. 1985. for a joint compelling state interest in denatura– 95th convention of the General held at the society's office at 63 meeting and duly considered the lization cases, given the Soviet Federation of Women's Club in Fourth Ave. and will begin at 9:30 issue of the use of Soviet-supplied Union's refusal to allow discovery Houston will also be featured. a.m. evidence in American and Canadian proceedings in the Soviet Union to be courts in connection with denaturali– conducted in accordance with Anglo- ST. ANTHONY, Minn.: A concert z.ation, deportation and extradition American law. given the clear indica– featuring the Tchaika Ukrainian EAST HANOvER, N.J.: A banquet proceedings. tion thai the Soviet Union engages in Choir of Melbourne. Australia, and and dance commemorating the 25th Conclude and resolve that: purposeful disinformation and even the vcselka Dance Ensemble of anniversary of the shostokryli Plast distortion and fabrication of evi– Sydney, Australia, will be held at St. unit will be held at the Ramada inn. " the Soviet Union has demon– dence, we conclude, as did the courts Anthony village High School. 3301 The banquet begins at 8 p.m.: the strated that it has a compelling state in Kungys and Laipenieks that Silver Lake Road. St. Anthony. dance at 10 p.m. For further infor– interest in discrediting Ukrainian Soviet-supplied evidence is inherent– Minn., at 7 p.m. The concert is the mation contact Daria Kowaliwskyj and other Eastern European commu– ly unreliable and untrustworthy: first stop on the groups' American at (201) 794-8731. nities as opponents of Soviet viola– " in keeping with the spirit of tions of human rights which include those judicial decisions, we believe forced Russification and denial of that such Soviet evidcncc'should be Journal columnist Don Braid wrote religious freedoms: declared inadmissible in our courts: Koziak gains... that Mr. Koziak has come out as "a ' the Soviet Union seeks to ac– in this respect we reaffirm our trust in (Continued from page 3) more dangerous candidate" than the complish this objective by assisting our courts and in our constitutions in sive Conservative leadership conven– Getty team first believed. the Office of Special investigations the making of a just determination in tion in Edmonton on October 11-13. Mr. Koziak. the youngest of the three (OS1) in initiating and prosecuting each case; The convention is to find a replacement contenders at 44, has presented himself denaturalization proceedings against " because much of the foregoing for retiring Premier Lougheed. throughout the earlier stages of the United States citizens lor alleged so intimately involves the Office of campaign as a defender of the Lougheed war-time collaboration with the Special investigations in activities Mr. Koziak's largest single block of legacy. His central promise is to con– Nazis by providing the OS1 with which we believe are undermining support is from his own Edmonton– tinue the style and policies of the documentary and testimonial evi– our constitutional forms of govern– Strathcona" riding, where he has all 20 retiring premier. dence: meni, we strongly support Congres– delegates. The Koziak team has drawn One of Mr. Koziak's election pro– " the Soviet tactic of assisting in sional oversight hearings into the the Ukrainian vote in several Edmon– mises includes reducing the property- the prosecution of individual United activities of the OSL ton ridings. taxes paid by ethnocultural community States citizens is intended to defame " we urge all American and Cana– The emergence of Mr. Koziak as a halls in Alberta a move which would the entire community of which the dian lawyers and jurists tosupport us strong contender for the leadership has aflcct at least four Ukrainian commu– individual is a part and to create in our conclusions and resolutions. surprised many people. Edmonton nin halls in Fdmonton alone.