The Ukrainian Weekly 1986, No.29

www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., — LI c. a fraternal non-profit association I ramian И v Vol. LIV No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20,1986 25 cents .ationalities policy Yuzyk remembered as father of multiculturalism among topics at Deputy prime minister, Soviet writers'congress hundreds attend by Roman Sokhanyk Ottawa funeral MUNICH — The national question by Michael B. Bociurkiw in general and Ukrainian-Russian relations in particular were the main themes OTTAWA — As Canadian flags of a sharply worded speech by Borys throughout the national capital region Oliynyk, one of the leading contem- flew at half mast, Sen. Paul Yuzyk, the porary Ukrainian poets, at the recently Ukrainian who drafted Canada's muiti- concluded Soviet writers"' congress in culturalism policy and occupied a seat Moscow. in the Senate for 23 years, was buried Mr. Oliynyk, who is a secretary of the here July 14 board of the Ukrainian Writers' Union, Deputy Prime Minister Donald Ma- also raised such issues as the rehabili- zankowsky, Secretary of State and tation of Oies Honchar's "Sober"; the Multiculturalism Minister David need to restructure the writers' union; Crombie, members of Parliament, and the disaster at Chornobyl. senators, representatives from the But the brunt of his criticism was Ukrainian community and about 500 directed at violations of nationalities other people gathered to pay their last policy as regards the Ukrainian lan- respects to Sen. Yuzyk, who died July 9 guage and the phenomenon of so-called at age 73. home-grown Russifiers. But it was at a memorial service July The issue of the role and status of the 13 where Sen. Yuzyk's contributions to Ukrainian language had already been Canadian society and vigorous work ethic was best summed up. raised by Mr. Honchar at the congress of Ukrainian writers held in early June. Dr. Bohdan Bociurkiw, a close friend Indeed, at that time Mr. Honchar also of the late senator and a professor at strongly implied that Ukrainians them- Carleton University told a group of selves had contributed to the unsatis- about 300 friends and relatives at the memorial service: "He was a voice for factory state of affairs because in some reason, moderation and mutual under- circles the view that the Ukrainian standing among Ukrainians in Ca- language had no future was accepted as nada's inter-ethnic and inter-faith a fait accompli. This theme, namely, the relations; throughout all his life he built damage inflicted on the nation by "one's bridges and ignored fanaticism, and own" has now been taken up by Mr. while others cursed the darkness, he lit Oliynyk. It is a theme that is not readily candles." found on the pages of the Soviet press, and certainly not in the straightforward Added Prof. Bociurkiw: "Always accessible, always engaged, always on fashion that has been made available to call, Paul Yuzyk himself was a candle the readers of Literaturna Ukraina. that, as we now realize, was burning at Mr. Oliynyk's remarks were made in both ends." the context of the need to exercise the The prayer service for Sen. Yuzyk, The funeral service for Sen, Paul Yuzyk, with Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk as utmost care in the area of nationalities born in 1913 to a coal miner and the main celebrant, in Ottawa's Notre Dame Cathedral. policy in view of the activities of "our appointed in 1963 to the Senate by enemies": Conservative Prime Minister John "As a rule, ideological saboteurs Diefenbaker, was ecumenical. Leaders Pray portrays "religious extremism'' attempt to ascribe all of our private from the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrai- shortcomings in these questions to 4he nian Greek Orthodox hierarchy each hand of Moscow.' The main danger led prayers. A tribute was also made by of Evangelicals in Ukraine ere is the following: the enemies know members of the Royal Canadian Le- very well that Moscow, Russians, by Andrew Sorokowski munist Party committee. In his predo- gion. minantly favorable review, he related haven't the vaguest idea that, let's say, The Monday morning funeral was the number of schools with native- KESTON, England — The Soviet the play to the problem of atheist held in the ornate Notre Dame Cathe- literary newspaper Literaturna Ukraina education on the regional level. language teachers has declined some- dral, a large French Roman Catholic where. But it is convenient for them to recently carried a review of a new play According to Mr. Husar, the play- Church in the shadow of the Parlia- depicting "religious extremism" among wright exhibits a desire to "psychologi- ascribe to Moscow distortions that are, ment Buildings where the late senator (Continued on page 13) Evangelicals in Bukovina, southwestern cally explore the influence of bourgeois worked for 23 years. Ukraine. ideology upon the individual." "A well- More than 500 people crowded into Titled "...And the Day Shall Come," grounded attempt is made," he con- INSIDE: the church to attend the service led by the play was written by Vasyl Folva- tinued, "to understand the sources of Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, head Ш Chornobyl in the Soviet Ukrainian rochny and performed in Moscow by religious extremism; the signposts along of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the visiting Olha Kobylianska Musical- the complicated road to enlightenment press — page 2. Canada, Bishop Isidore Borecky of the Ш Justice Department sensitive to Dramatic Theatre of Chernivtsi under are indicated." Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of To- the direction of K. Pyvoyariv. It re- The play takes place in present-day fraudulent evidence charges — page ronto, and the Rev. Vladimir Shew- 3. ceived favorable reviews in the Moscow Bukovina. Among the characters are chuk, pastor of St. John the Baptist press. Ш Education Department underse- Protsiuk, a Reform Baptist presbyter Ukrainian Catholic Church, Sen. The author of the Literaturna U- who works as an ambulance driver, and cretary on inadequacy of textbooks — Yuzyk's parish in Ottawa. page 7. kraina review, Yu. Husar, is director of the Hrabchak family, whose home has Ш Ukrainian soars with aerobatic The group of pallbearers included: the press, television and radio section of become a Baptist meeting place. The flying team — page 8. the senator's son-in-laws, George Dura- the agitation and propaganda depart- daughter, Lida, is a nurse, while the son, {Continued on page 4) ment of the Chernivtsi regional Com- (Continued on page 12) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1986 No. 29 Nuclear disaster in Ukraine Debate at Moscow writers' congress Ukrainian SSR news accounts may signal a cultural thaw MOSCOW — Capitalizing on an pressed works and outspoken criticism provide details on accident apparent thaw in the Kremlin's usually of bureaucratic controls. frigid cultural policy, delegates to the The open debate, which proved a by Larissa M.L. Onyshkevych Russian oblasts, however, iodine-131 8th Congress of the influential Union of stark contrast to the carefully staged radiation did not present any threat to Writers, the largest of the Soviet crea- congresses of the past, was reportedly a the population outside the danger zone. tive-arts unions, ended their five-day reflection of a new attitude toward Following is the continuation of a conference on June 27 amid lively and Soviet culture expressed by Soviet review of Soviet Ukrainian news reports It was only on May 24 that probably the first mention was made in the news- sometimes heated debate over books leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who recent- on the Chornobyl nuclear plant acci- and authors previously considered ly called for greater "glasnost," or dent. Dr. Larissa MX. Onyshkevych is papers that iodine preparations (potas- sium iodide) were given out, but only taboo, reported The New York Times openness in Soviet society, the Times an associate of the Princeton Research and the Washington Post. wrote on June 30. Forum and head of its editing section. during the first couple of days to those who spent some time inside the danger Indeed, the walls within the Kremlin The poet Andrei Voznesensky was applauded when he called for the full PART II zone area. Palace, where the congress took place, echoed with such names as Boris Paster- publication of the works of poet and Fate of evacuees nak and works like "Doctor Zhivago" novelist Pasternak, whose greatest As daily problems and individual novel "Doctor Zhivago," long consi- response to the situation began to be that have not been heard here since their On May 21 it was noted that at first official prohibition decades ago, both dered a masterpiece in the West, re- more concrete, the science fiction mains banned in the Soviet Union. horror of the disaster at the Chornobyl the evacuation took place within a 10- newspapers wrote. kilometer radius from the explosion, Pasternak was denounced by the Union nuclear plant began to lose its almost The 500-odd delegates, composed of and only later was it expanded to 30 of Writers in 1957 after the publication fictional character. fiction writers, poets, playwrights and kilometers, according to Oleg Shchepin, abroad of the novel that won him a critics of every political and national From time to time mention was made USSR first deputy minister of health. Nobel Prize in 1958. hue, openly cheered or jeered at repeat- of "The Chain Reaction," a 1979 novel The ministry decided to provide a medi- "It is time to publish Zamyatin, ed calls for publication of long-sup- by the Ukrainian Soviet writer Volo- cal examination to all who asked for it. (Continued on page 12) dymyr Yavorivsky, who depicted a In Ukraine there were 230 brigades of similar situation. On June II,'V. Velik- medical personnel, with four people in Moscow to resettle evacuees hov, vice-president of the USSR Aca- each group, representing 920 people.

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