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Published by tht Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association rainian Wee Vol. Ш No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1984 25 cents Election '84 Hunger striker protests new charges Percy loses Senate race; by Soviets against Horbal, Zisels Bradley, Florio, others re-elected

JERSEY CITY, NJ. - Sen. Charles October prior to the election, with Percy (R41L), a long-time backer of separate receptions at the UNA's Jersey Ukrainian causes, was narrowly de­ City headquarters. feated in bis bid for a fourth Senate term Of the 23 senators who co-sponsored on November 7, but other key Con­ the Ukrainian famine bill, five were up gressional supporters were re-elected. for re-election in addition to Sens. Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), who Bradley and Percy. sponsored a bill in the Senate to esta­ In Kentucky, two-term Democrat blish a Congressional commission to Sen. Walter (Dee) Huddleston, an early study the Great Famine in Ukraine, co-sponsor of the famine bill, was edged easily won a second term by defeating out by Jefferson County Judge Mitch GOP challenger Mary Mochary despite McConnell by a three-point margin. President Ronald Reagan's landslide Re-elected were Sens. Rudy Boschwitz victory over Democrat Walter Mon- (R-Minn.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Pete dale. Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.), who Domenici (R-N.M.) and John Warner sponsored the House version of the bill, (R-Va.). won a decisive victory over Frederick In New Jersey Congressional races, 11 Busch for a sixth term. of 13 co-sponsors of the famine bill were Sen. Percy, who was chairman of the re-elected. In addition to Rep. Florio, Foreign Relations Committee, was other long-time supporters of Ukrainian beaten by Rep. Paul Simon, a five-term issues who won were Reps. Christopher congressman and former lieutenant Smith (D) and Bernard Dwyer(D), who governor.,WitlLnearly-98 percent of the in 1982 were original co-sponsors of Pavlo Stokotelnyj on the eighth day of his hunger strike. vote counted, Rep. Simon had a 50-49 House Concurrent Resolution 205 that percent lead over Sen. Percy and was asked the president to honor the Ukrai­ by Natalia Dmytrijuk of before beginning the strike. projected the winner by all three major nian Helsinki Group. "He is completely conscious of what he television networks. Rep. Joseph Minish, a Democrat, NEW YORK - In an expression of is doing and why he is doing it," said Dr. An ardent supporter of religious and was defeated by State Assembly Re­ solidarity with two members of the Woroch, a cardiologist with offices in human rights in the Soviet Union and publican Minority Leader Dean A. Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group New Jersey: "He has faith in God that Eastern Europe, Sen. Percy was instru­ Gallo in a drastically redrawn district. facing new "anti-Soviet" activity this will help." mental in getting the famine bill through Bill co-sponsor Edwin Forsythe died charges, Pavlo Stokotelnyj, a Ukrai­ "In case there is any change I did Congress. Largely as a result of his earlier this year. nian who emigrated to the United States advise him to seek medical help or efforts, the Foreign Relations Commit­ Across the river in New York, where 22 in January 1980, began a hunger strike hospitalization, but at that moment he tee held hearings on the measure on congressmen co-sponsored the famine on Thursday, November I, at Ralph didn't want to talk anymore," continued August 1. The bill passed the Senate and bill, among those re-elected was Rep. Bunche Park across from the United the doctor, who believes t+iat Mr ultimately became part of the omnibus Bill Green, who fought off a strong Nations complex. Stokotelnyj wants "to carry this out to spending bill signed by President Rea­ challenge by Democratic Manhattan One week after beginning the fast, ' the end." gan on October 12. Borough President Andrew Stein. Rep. Mr. Stokotelnyj, who is married to As a branch president of the UM ANA, For his support of the bill and Green, whose district includes New former Soviet political prisoner Nadia Dr. Woroch is organizing area members such issues as the re-opening of a U.S. York's Lower East Side, where many of Svitlychna, said, "I will continue as long to give daily medical attention to the Consulate in Kiev, Sen. Percy was the city's Ukrainians live, has frequently as I hold out." striker. awarded the first Humanitarian Award attended Ukrainian rallies and support­ The two human-rights activists, to be presented by the Ukrainian Na­ ed Congressional resolutions and other Mykola Horbal and Yosyf Zisels, each Peaceful protest tional Association at a September 30 initiatives dealing with Ukrainian issues.: imprisoned at least once by authorities banquet in Chicago. Also re-elected were Reps. Benjamin for anti-Soviet activity, are friends of Bundled in winter clothes and a Both Sen. Bradley, and Rep. Florio Gilman (R) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (R). the protester. Mr. Horbal is married to blanket, Mr. Stokotelnyj sits most of were also honored by the UNA in (Continued on naje 16) Mr. Stokotelnyj's sister. the time, barely moving, on the advice of his doctor, in order to conserve Medical state energy. Each day at 8 a.m. he is brought by a sympathizer, Nina Samokish, to Mr. Stokotelnyj is in high spirits and the park from a hotel room he is renting good health, according to Dr. Bohdar at Second Avenue and 38th Street. He is Woroch, president of the New York/New in the constant company of Mykola Jersey branch of the Ukrainian Medical Movchan, a Red Army deserter who Association of North America, who surrendered to the Afghan freedom examined the hunger striker on Wed­ fighters in December 1983. To pass the nesday, November 7. "His blood pres­ time he listens to tapes of Ukrainian sure and pulse are normal," said Dr. folks songs and classical ballets such as Woroch, adding that results from Swan Lake. a blood test which would reveal He speaks in whispers, his walk is any metabolic dysfunction were not yet labored, and his skin is copper-colored. available. Mr. Stokotelnyj has injested At 8 p.m. Mrs. Samokish takes him nothing but water and has lost between back to the room, which costs S750 for five and seven of the 121 pounds he two weeks, where he will spend the WMM on November I. night. Dr. Woroch noted that his patient A week into his first hunger strike, complained of a pain on the left side of Mr. Stokotelnyj said he was feeling fine. Sen. Charles Percy Sen. ВШ Bradley his chest, a pain that he had complained (Continued on page 16) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1984 No. 46

Pastor's recantation highlights plight Horbal placed on "urgent-action" list of USSR's Reform Baptists by Bohdan Nahaylo the authorities, the Reform Baptists have also managed to producea prodi­ MUNICH -The recantation and gious quantity of religious literature public condemnation of his co-be­ on clandestine printing presses and lievers by an arrested follower of to attract a considerable number of the unofficial church group known as young people. The number of unre­ the Council of Churches of Evangeli­ gistered and therefore, in the state's cal Christians and Baptists(CCECB) eyes, illegal Reform Baptist congre­ is a rare occurrence in the Soviet Union. gations throughout the Soviet Union When Anatoly Petrenko, an unre­ that recognize the CCECB has been gistered Baptist minister and former estimated at 2,000, with a total mem­ prisoner of conscience, renounced his bership of about 100,000. dissenting views and activities at his From the very outset, Soviet policy trial in the spring, it was not surpris­ towards the movement of the Reform ing that the Soviet news agency Baptists has been harsh. To judge TASS promptly issued a lengthy from an estimate made in 1981 by statement on the event. Recently, a Gennady Kruchkov, the chairman of Soviet Ukrainian newspaper has once the CCECB in the 23 years again focused attention on the Pe­ since the Action Group was trenko case with the aim of besmirch­ founded, well over 2,000 Baptist be­ ing the USSR's sizable community of lievers have been imprisoned in the dissenting Baptists. USSR because of their adherence toa The latest article on Mr. Petrenko, schismatic Church outlawed by the entitled "Provocateurs in the Role of state. A far larger number has been Prophets,." appeared in Robitnycha subjected to harassment and extra- Hazeta oa September 23. It provides a judicial persecution. good example of the vitriolic tone of Until his capitulation, Mr. Pe- Mykola Horbal (left), shown above with a man identified only as Pryshlak, in an the current Soviet propaganda cam­ trenko's biography reflected the undated photograph smuggled to the West. paign against the USSR's Reform steadfastness and dedication that Baptists that has accompanied the in­ characterizes the adherents of the tensified repression of members of breakaway Council of Churches. The LONDON — Amnesty International, Mr. Horbal was first arrested in 1970 this outlawed Church. Members of the Baptist minister from the town of which monitors human rights around and sentenced to seven years in a labor unofficial group of Baptists are por­ Shostka. in the Sumy oblast of the world, recently put Ukrainian camp for Ukrainian nationalism. He trayed not only as religious fanatics eastern Ukraine, was first arrested political prisoner Mykola Horbal on its served the first five years in a strict- who refuse to conform to Soviet law for his religious activities in July so-called "urgent action" list after regimen corrective labor colony in but also as a politically reprehensible 1966. According to Robitnycha learning that the 43-year-old poet is Perm and later in the Mordovian group whose leaders are allegedly Hazeta, Mr. Petrenko had organized facing fresh criminal charges. ASSR. Originally from the Ternopil linked with "anti-Soviet subversive secret meetings of Reform Baptists Mr. Horbal, who was due to com­ region of western Ukraine, Mr. Horbal centers" in the West, ranging from and circulated religious literature, plete a five-year labor-camp term on is married and has one child. the CIA to Ukrainian "bourgeois na­ for which he was given a term of October 23, was reportedly charged tionalists." imprisonment of two and a half with "anti-Soviet slander"just two days years. Upon his release, he continued prior to his scheduled' release. He is Soviet paper Since the Soviet authorities launched being held in an investigative prison in a major offensive against all forms of his dissident religious activity. In 1970 his home was searched, and the the city of Nikolayev in Ukraine, site of dissent and opposition in late. 1979, the labor camp. praises Stalin the Reform Baptists have been a major following year a religious gathering target. In May 1982, Amnesty lnter- there was dispersed. In January 1973, In putting Mr. Horbal on its "urgent MOSCOW - Joseph Stalin received ' national reported that from the time he was arrested in Moscow while action" list. Amnesty International rare public praise on November 6 in a the crackdown began the organization attending a meeting of dissident asked private citizens and organizations leading Soviet newspaper which in learned of the arrest and impri-' Baptist ministers. This time he was to write or telegraph Soviet officials glowing terms recalled his central role in sonment of 120 Baptists "for peace­ sentenced to three years in labor urging that the charges against Mr. the 1917 revolution, reported The fully exercising their right to freedom camps. \ Horbal be dropped and that he be Christian Science Monitor. of conscience." By now, with arrests unconditionally released. Even a second term of imprison­ Although praise for his role as a still continuing, the figure is pro­ ment failed to break Mr. Petrenko, The new charges against Mr. Horbal bably over 200. Moreover, it was re^. are apparently based on alleged conver­ military leader in World War II appears however. "His executive ambition," occasionally, references to his political ported earlier this year that the comments Robitnycha Hazeta, "fuel­ sations he had with other labor camp Soviet authorities had-begun to pro­ inmates. Amnesty said. activities before or after that period are ed by the leaders of the Baptist highly unusual. After his passing in long the imprisonment of Baptist razkolniki," did not allow him to In 1979, Mr. Horbal was arrested and leaders by imposing additional sen­ charged with "attempted rape" in what 1953, he was denounced for his tyranni­ draw the right conclusions. Instead, cal rule and brutal mass repressions. tences on them. Mr. Petrenko "continued in his old dissident sources said was a KGB That the unofficial Baptists have ways." He refused to register his frame-up. They said the real reason for It is unclear whether the article been hit particularly hard in the congregation, and one day hesudden- Mr. Horbal's persecution was his hu­ signals a possible official rehabilitation latest Soviet drive against dissent ly vanished, leaving behind his wife man-rights activities and membership of the notorious former leader who. comes as no surprise. After all, since and seven children. in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, set up among other things, organized the 1961, when an Action Group of Evan­ In fact, Mr. Petrenko went under­ in 1976 to monitor Soviet adherence to Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33). gelical Christians and Baptists refused ground. Robitnycha Hazeta dis­ the 1975 Helsinki Accords on human which resulted in the deaths of some 7 to accept greater state control over closes that "an illegal congress of the rights and European security. million Ukrainians. church life, eventually breaking away Reform Baptists" appointed him "a from the officially recognized A11- bearer of good news," or special Union Council of Evangelical Crffis-^, messenger, to theCouncil ofChurches tians and Baptists in 1965, thc-schis- - of Evangelical Christians and Bap­ matic and unregistered Reform Baptists tist's." have beea one of the largest, best-or­ In this role, he was given "the most Ukrainian Weekly ganized, and most resilient disfdent delicate and responsible assign­ groups in the Soviet Union. ments." For instance, the newspaper FOUNDED 1933 In 1964, the ActiorKJroup set up a states that Mr. Petrenko was sent by Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a Council of Relatives of Prisoners, the Council of Churches of the non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J 07302 the first organization in the USSR to Donbas to persuade a Baptist con­ (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) be concerned specifically withdefend- gregation not to register itself. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. ing the rights of prisoners of con­ The actual reason for Mr. Pe- science. It was the following year that trenko's capitulation is unclea/. Ac­ the Reform Baptists established cording to the account in Robitnycha The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: their own independent structure under Hazeta, he gradually became disillu­ (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 the leadership ofa 12-memberCouncil sioned because he began to realize of Churches of Evangelical Christians "who stands behind theCCECB"and Yearly subscription rate: S8, UNA members - J5. and Baptists (CCECB). By 1971. the whose orders the exiled former sec­ Council of Relatives of Prisoners had retary of the council, Georgi Vins. Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor Roma Hadzewycz begun regularly issuing a bulletin allegedly follows in the United States. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Associate editor George Bohdan Zarycky containing details about imprisoned P.O. Box 346 The article also admits, however, that Jersey City. NJ. 07303 Assistant editor: Natalia Dmytrijuk Baptists. Much to the annoyance of (Continued on page 13) No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1984 3

UACC holds monthly meetings Statements on Lytvyn's death NEW YORK - Last month's Ukrai­ would also inform him that Prof. Petro nian demonstration in Washington and Stercho, Dr. Roman Borkowsky and Then, cruelly, five months before his the future of the Ukrainian community Dmytro Korbutiak were named by the State Department scheduled release, he was retried on a were among the topics discussed by the UACC to the proposed joint UACC- Statement of U.S. Department of more serious charge and sentenced to executive of the Ukrainian American UCCA by-laws committee. State read by John Hughes, assistant a further 10 years in prison followed Coordinating Council at the group's In addition, it was decided to ask the secretary of state for public affairs, at by five years in internal exile. monthly meetings held here on Septem­ UACC by-laws committee to prepare October 22 press briefing. At the time of his death, Yuriy ber 19 and October 13. new by-laws within two months so they Lytvyn had spent 20 of his 50 years in could be discussed by UACC branches In addition, the executive discussed On Monday of last week we re­ the harsh bleakness of Soviet labor around the country. the September 17 White House meeting ported the death of noted Ukrainian camps. We do not know what special between President Ronald Reagan and The executive board also asked human-rights activist Valeriy Mar- despair led him to his final desperate representatives of the Ukrainian com­ Andrij Metil, UACC office director, to chenko in a Soviet prison hospital. It act. But we do know that he had been munity, which was attended by UACC is therefore with special sadness that badly mistreated in prison in the past members John Flis, John Oleksyn, Dr. prepare, with the help of Andrij Bilyk and Bohdan Wytwycky, an Eriglish- we must announce the death in and had suffered a perforated ulcer Myron B. Kuropas, Evhen Stakhiw, prison of yet another prominent due to willful neglect while impri­ Roman Danyluk and Eugene Iwanciw. language information bulletin that would include news about Ukrainians Ukrainian human-rights activist. He soned in 1977. We can only surmise The executive board also discussed around the world, including Ukraine. was Yuriy Lytvyn, a former member that continuing and willful mistreat­ an appropriate letter to Bishop Basil of the Ukrainian Helsinki monitor­ ment by Soviet authorities finally Losten of Stamford regarding the There were also reports by George ing group who was serving a 15-year broke him in the end. bishop's erroneous interpretation of Soltys, who represented the UACC at sentence for his human-rights activi­ Yuriy Lytvyn is one of three pro­ proposed negotiations between the ' the funeral of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj in ties. Reliable sources have informed minent Ukrainian human-rights UACC and the Ukrainian Congress Rome, and Mr. Danyluk, who provided our embassy in Moscow that he died activists to die in a Soviet prison in Committee of America. The letter a financial update. sometime in August in a Soviet labor the past six months. His fellow camp. He reportedly took his own Helsinki monitorOleksiy Туkhy died life. last May, and Valeriy Marchenko Yuriy Lytvyn was a poet and died on October 7. All three deaths Twenty-five years ago: journalist who spent most of his can be attributed to the brutal condi­ adult life in Soviet prisons due to his tions in Soviet labor camps which fail persistent and courageous struggle to meet minimal standards of human assassination of Stepan Bandera for human rights in the Ukraine. He decency. The U.S. government de­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Twenty- served sentences from 1951 to 1953. plores the systematic persecution of five years ago on October 15, 28- from 1955 to 1965 and from 1974 to courageous Ukrainian human-rights year-old Bohdan Stashynsky, a 1977. Soon after his release from activists like Yuriy Lytvyn, Oleksiy trained KGB assassin, calmly waited prison in 1977. he joined the group Tykhy and Valeriy Marchenko. And on the dark first-floor landing of a set up by Ukrainian human-rights we condemn the cruel and inhuman drab, six-story apartment building activists to monitor Soviet com­ treatment they are subjected to in on Munich's Kreit may erst rasse. It pliance with the human-rights provi­ prison, which so often leads to serious was just before 1 p.m. when he sions of the Helsinki Final Act. His illness and death. Once again we call spotted the small Opel Kapitan turn activities with the group led to his on the Soviet Union to end its callous onto the street and pull up before the arrest in 1979. and he was tried and disregard for human rights and house. As the short, balding driver of sentenced to three years in prison. human life. the car made his way into the build­ ing, Mr. Stashynsky confronted him, pulled out a special cyanide pistol, 1979, he was sentenced for a fourth and emptied both barrels into the Helsinki Commission term to three years' strict-regime man's face. The man staggered back Statement by the Congressional camp on atrumped-upcharge. Despite and tumbled down a flight of stairs. Commission on Security and Co­ the precarious state of his health - Later, when he was put inside an operation in Europe. before his arrest he underwent a ambulance, blood was pouring from second operation for stomach and his mouth, nose and ears. He never We are deeply disturbed by the duodenal ulcers - Lytvyn was forced regained" consciousness. Assassinated nationalist leader Stepan Bandera news that Ukrainian writer and poet to perform hard labor and was The murdered man, of course, was Yuriy Lytvyn died in August, in a constantly harassed and threatened. 50-year-old Stepan Bandera. leader Soviet prison, reportedly by suicide. When his mother visited him in of the so-called revolutionary faction Lytvyn is the third prominent im­ August 1980, she wrote Lytvyn was of the Organization of Ukrainian prisoned Ukrainian human- and na­ also losing his teeth and going blind Nationalists (OUN) and inarguably tional-rights activist to die in the last due to lack of vitamins. In April one of the most important figures six months. In May, Oleksiy Tykhy. 1982, a few months before his sche­ among Ukrainian emigres. News of founding member of the Ukrainian duled release, Lytvyn was sentenced his death sent shock waves through Helsinki Group, died from long- to five more years. the Ukrainian community around untreated bleeding ulcers. Just this The inhumane treatment of Lytvyn. the world and in his homeland. At month, on October 7. Valeriy Mar­ for, among other things, his active first it was believed he may have died chenko died at age 37 from his brutal participation in the noble efforts of of natural causes or from accidently mistreatment at the hands of Soviet the Ukrainian Helsinki Group to falling down the stairs. But a German authorities. promote human and national rights autopsy found traces of potassium Lytvyn was no stranger to the in Ukraine, is a deeply disturbing cyanide, a deadly poison, in his body. harsh life of the Soviet penal system. illustration of the Soviet govern­ Meanwhile, his killer had disap­ Born in 1934, Lytvyn was first sen­ ment's full-fledged attempts to eradi­ peared. tenced in 1951, at age 18, on fabri­ cate the human- and national-rights cated charges of organizing the theft movement in Ukraine. In his closing Early life of a collective farm cow. In 1955. he statement at his trial in December. was amnestied, but was soon re- 1979, Lytvyn staunchly defended the arrested. Lytvyn was sentenced to 10 Stepan Bandera was born New Ukrainian Helsinki Group, noting Soviet assassin Bohdan Stashynsky years' imprisonment in strict-regime Year's Day in 1909 in the village of that his group has not harmed, camps for his involvement in the terrorized or exploited anyone, but Uhryniv Stary in western Ukraine. executive body of the OUN. Ukrainian national-democratic had fought "against laws which allow His father was a Ukrainian Catholic In June 1934, the OUN assassi­ movement. In 1974, Lytvyn received one group of people to oppress and priest. nated Bronislav Pieracki, the Polish his third term of imprisonment for exploit all others, against laws which During his high school years, he minister of internal affairs, whom "knowingly disseminating slanderous destroy the human in man and de­ joined the Plast Ukrainian youth they accused of being involved in the materials." These so-called "slan­ prive him of his greatest treasure - organization and an underground brutal "pacification" of Polish- derous materials" included his own life and freedom." Lytvyn then organization with links to the Ukrai­ occupied western Ukraine. In all, 12 writings — a collection of poems, a stated: "The Soviet authorities deal nian Military Organization (UVO). young Ukrainian nationalists were novel and an open letter to Brezhnev more harshly with the members of After finishing high school in 1927. arrested for the killing, including M r. protesting the 1973 anti-Sakharov these groups than with crimi; il Mr. Bandera enrolled in the Poly- Bandera. During the 1935 trial, campaign. During this term of impri­ elements; they thus underscore that technical Institute in Lviv. Two years which became known as the "War­ sonment, Lytvyn underwent surgery the humane principles which alleged­ later, at age 20, he joined the ranks of saw process," Mr. Bandera was for a perforated stomach ulcer. ly define their activity are no more the newly formed Organization of defended by attorney Volodymyr After his release in 1977, un­ than paper baubles meant for pure Ukrainian Nationalists founded by Horbovy. who died recently in U- daunted by the certain knowledge show, but never for Implementation." Evhen Konovalets. kraine at age 85. In 1933, Mr. Bandera was appoint­ that his continued activity would Indeed, the suppres icfthosewho lead to his further repression, this ed chairman of the UVO and a The entire process lasted from genuinely promoted ..e aims Г the honorable man joined the Ukrainian member of PUN, the Leadership of November 1935 to January 13. 1936. Helsinki Final Act; ..ic attempt by Helsinki Group in June 1978. In Ukrainian Nationalists, the highest (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 11) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 No. 46 D.C. Ukrainians Chicago Ukrainians honor memory of Lypkivsky form association of professionals WASHINGTON - The Washington Group. Inc.. an Association of Ukrai­ nian American Professionals, was for­ mally inaugurated in Washington on October 18 by a meeting of 45 persons. That same day. the group was incor­ porated in the District of Columbia asa non-profit professional association. The purpose of the newly formed group is to stimulate contact among professionals of Ukrainian descent working in the Washington, area. Through activities such as receptions, luncheons, meetings, and speakers, the association hopes to involve more individuals in the general Ukrainian American community. The contacts could also prove benefi­ cial in the placing of more Ukrainian- Americans in government and private sector jobs. "Washington works on the 'old-boy-network system' and it's time that Ukrainian-Americans establish their own network system"according to lhor Procinsky, a member of the or­ ganizing committee for The Washing­ Ecumenical panakhy da offered by Archbishop Const antine of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Bishop Innocent Lotocky ton Group. of the Ukrainian Catholic Church with the assistance of clergy of both faiths. The organizing committee, consisting of 10 individuals, began laying the by Alex Poszewanyk Monument Building Committee in to a deeper understanding of Christ's groundwork for the new association last South Bound Brook, gave a short teachings; introduced the use of the April. Through a series of 11 meetings, CHICAGO - Ukrainians in Chi­ summary of Metropolitan Vasyl's life. Ukrainian language, the language of the two receptions were organized, by-laws cago on Sunday. October 7, ecumeni­ With several of ODUM's bandurists people, in church services; promoted were drafted, and a mailing list was cally honored the memory of Metro­ playing "Vichnaya Pamiat" (Eternal Ukrainian culture and traditions and composed. The receptions, held in July politan Vasyl Lypkivsky. the great Memory) in the background, Dr. Kry­ principles of self-government within the .and September, were organized to Ukrainian patriot, leader and martyr of wolap recited the list of known bishops Church. acquaint Ukrainian American profes­ the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho­ and priests who died under the cruel The concert included solo and duet sionals with the concept of this asso­ dox Church. Soviet rule. appearances by the Metropolitan ciation. The response was enthusiastic Following the holy liturgy in St. The day's events culminated in a Opera's baritone, Andrij Dobriansky, among-the-approximately-L30-mdivi- Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Ca­ concert in the auditorium of Lane and the New York Opera's soprano, duals who attended at least one of the thedral, a solemn panakhyda was read Technical High School. At the beginning Marta Kokolsky, accompanied by events. A survey conducted at the first by Archbishop Constantine of the of the program. Patriarch Josyf was Nadia Sawyn at the piano; Leonid reception provided vital input from Ukrainian OrthodoXNChurch and Bishop remembered with a moment of silence. Oleksijchuk, master of the spoken prospective members as to the nature Innocent of the Ukrainian Catholic Mykola Francuzenko, radio-journalist word; lhor Bilohrud, composer and and purposes of the association. The Church with the participation of clergy and writer from Washington, then pianist; dancers Roxana Pylypchak and results of the survey, which included of both faiths. The requiem service was delivered a speech about Metropolitan Yury Cepynsky; and the Combined interests, types of meetings desired, in memory of Metropolitan Vasyl and Lypkivsky. Mr. Francuzenko read Choir and the Surma Chorus under the activities, dues and purposes were the bishops, clergy and laity who were several excerpts from the metropolitan's direction of Dr. Vasyl Truchly. announced at the second reception. destroyed at the hands of the atheistic sermons, in which the metropolitan The October^ 18 meeting was the Communist regime. Memorial prayers quotes the poems ofTarasShevchenko. At the conclusion of the concert, formal organizational meeting of The at the service also commemorated The speaker emphasized the point that Valentyn Kochno, chairman of the Chicago branch of the Monument Washington Group. It was convened by Catholic Patriarch Josyf Slipyj and Metropolitan Vasyl lived by the teach­ Natalie Sluzar, acting chairperson of Committee, thanked those present for Orthodox Archbishop Marko, both of ings of the heavenly Father and the their support and encouraged them to the organizing committee. After the whom passed away recently. works of Taras Shevchenko: "...I would agenda was approved, the first annual further cooperate within the commu­ not want to blaspheme, but it could be nity toward unity and brotherly love. membership meeting elected a presi­ One year ago, on October 23, the said that Metropolitan Vasyl possibly dium consisting of Mr. Procinsky. monument honoring Metropolitan Mr. Kochno then read a quotation from loved Shevchenko almost as much as he the declaration of the All-Ukrainian chairperson, Yarko Bihun, vice-chair­ Lypkivsky was unveiled in South Bound loved God himself." person, and Halyna Breslawec, secre­ Brook, N.J. Among the letters read at Orthodox Church Council to the Ukrai­ Oryna Hrushetsky, a student of nian people on September 4, 1919: tary. Ms. Sluzar then presented a report the dedication was a greeting from journalism at the University of Illinois, of the organizing committee's activities Cardinal Josyf, patriarch of the Ukrai­ commented in English on Metropolitan "Ukrainians, unite around your since its formation in April. nian Catholic Church, which included Lypkivsky and his era. She explained pastors and national leaders in your Mr. Procinsky then outlined the these words: "My spirit is gladdened that in 1917-20, in unbelievably diffi­ own Church. Be firm and unshakable, proposed by-laws and constitution. He that the great metropolitan, martyr and cult circumstances, Ukrainians under like the early Christians, in your Ortho­ pointed out the four classes of member­ witness Vasyl will have his memorial in the leadership of Metropolitan Lypkiv­ dox faith. In all your actions, resurrect ship which includes full members, this free land, as a testimonial and to sky liberated and renewed their Ukrai­ the unforgettable deeds of your ho­ associated members, student members educate his spiritual children and nian Orthodox Church after over 200 norable ancestors, who defended their (Continued on page 14) foreigners in Ле free world about our years of Moscow's rule. The hierarchy Church and nation in the most diffi­ captivity, suffering and struggle fer of the Ukrainian Church led its people cult times..." Christian truth in Eastern Europe. 1 am with all of уоїг in'my prayers on this memorable day of the dedication of this Obituary memorial." Archbishop Marko, in his greeting, had written: "My praise to all of you, Paul C. Demuse, Woonsocket activist and in .particular the. Association of American Youth of-Ukrainian Descent WOONSOCKET, R.I. - Paul C. Subcommittee of Woonsocket. (ODUM), Ihif under your leadership Demuse, long active in Ukrainian In September, Mr. Demuse and his this grajHl monument to the great circles, died October 25 in the Woon­ wife, Anna, celebrated their 50th mejropolitan and martyr for God's socket Hospital after a two-day illness. wedding anniversary. He was born July truth and the Ukrainian Church freed He was 77. 4, 1907, in Boston and moved to Woon­ from Moscow's enslavement, was erect­ Mr. Demuse, who worked as a picker socket 48 years ago. ed." at the Roaring Brook Mill in Belling- He is survived by his daughter, Nancy In Chicago, St. Volodymyr's Church ham, R.I.. for 17 years, served as secre­ Wosny; sister, Katherine Marino; and was filled to capacity during the met tary of UNA Branch 241 (the Ivan several nieces and nephews. morial service. In the frtsnt of tne church Franko Society) of Woonsocket and Funeral services took place Monday, stood delegations Irom.OUtJM, 'Plast, was a member of Ukrainian Fraternal October 29, at Christ the King Ukrai­ SUM-A, veterans and various brother;, Association Branch 310, the Taras nian Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain, hoods. At the memorial luncheon. Dr. Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandurist Mass., and interment was at St. Joseph's Natalie Sluzar Jurij Krywolap, acting chairman of the Choir, and th'e Ukrainian Heritage Cemetery, West Roxbury, Mass. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 5 Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society helps refugees from Poland

by Nadia Odette Diakun

TORONTO - When Ukrainian refugees from Poland arrived in To­ ronto on October 25, they were met by members of the Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society (CUIAS). who helped Canada Immigration process the newcomers. For Marusia Bandera, coordinator of the Canadian Immigrant Aid Society, and her staff of four volunteers it was an extraordinary and hectic day. Ms. Bandera has been with the society for six years, and there can be no doubt that her cool and calm disposi­ tion keeps the operation on a fairly even keel. Since the society's founding 12 years ago. over 900 immigrants have been brought into the country or as­ sisted. , The Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society was founded by Bohdan Mykytiuk, who donates his time. How­ ever , because there is a need for a full- time office administrator to take care of all the day-to-day matters, the position of coordinator is a paid position — the only paid position. The society's office is just large enough to accommodate three desks, a large work table and filing cabinets. Yuri Shymko meets with the recent Ukrainian immigrants from Poland. There is seldom" a quiet moment here. People drop by with donations, new relaxed. "When we have peak traffic, selves to providing accommodations immigrants return with questions, there can be as many as 100 persons change their minds and withdraw their others check the advertised positions waiting in this area. It can get hectic," offers. This creates some difficulty for posted on the bulletin board. The says the shift superintendent. "It seems the CUIAS and temporary hotel ac­ activity never ceases. to be going smoothly with this group." commodations must be secured. The immigrants are directed through The assistance that is given by mem­ New^ group arrives customs without delay and ushered into bers of theUkrainian community varies. two rows of seats. The first are taken to "For example, St. Demetrius Church It is Wednesday, October 31, and a see immigration officers; the staff has been really helpful and generous," second group of defectors is arriving members of CUIASyact as interpreters, says Ms. Bandera. "When they assist us. from Traiskirchen, Austria. Orienta­ assist with forms, explain procedures. they do everything. They've aided about tion packages — containing an itinerary After they have been interviewed by an three families and many individuals." of activities (from registration with the immigration officer, the next step is to There is support from other churches, Canada Employment Centre to tours), see a representative of Canada Employ­ but the most touching is the assistance a Toronto Transit Commission Ride ment. from pensioners. "It's the older genera­ Guide (transportation map), the "New­ The CUIAS staff not only answers tion that really knows what it's like to comers Guide to Services in Ontario" questions the immigrants have but also come as an immigrant and to have (in Ukrainian), an accommodations list act as liaison between them and immi­ nothing. They give about S25 on the (telephone numbers and addresses), gration officials. According to the shift average and it's almost a shame to take other government information (munici­ superintendent for Canada Immigra­ it from them, but they are our most con­ pal, provincial or federal), a Canadian tion, half the staff has been assigned sistent supporters." flag pin and tokens for the subway - exclusively to this group. In about a half must be prepared for each new immi­ hour or so, the refugees have gone through First encounters grant. immigration procedures, have been Ms. Bandera briefs her staff on last- registered as permanent residents of The first group that arrived on minute accommodations changes, addi­ Canada and are on their way to pick up October 25 was exposed to the Cana­ tions to the orientation packages. One baggage and meet family, relatives, dian parliamentary system of govern­ of the recent arrivals comes in to help friends and sponsors. Again, the Uni­ ment on the provincial level with a visit with the envelope-stuffing and relates versity of Toronto Ukrainian Students to Queen's Park, the seat of the Ontario her first Canadian encounters. It's Club waits to greet them with flowers provincial government. "They had a Halloween and she had been wondering and the traditional bread and salt. To legislative tour of the facilities, and a if everyone in Canada dresses as pe­ the observer, it's a smooth, error-free lunch at the Legislative Building," said operation. Marusia Bandera, coordinator of the culiarly as she had seen that day in her Lessia Dejnega, executive assistant to CUIAS, catching up on the day's English class. Yuri Shymko. "Mr. Shymko welcomed mail and calls. "My teacher explained Halloween, Accommodations provided them and we talked about their ex­ and it all became clear. But whatever periences and activities since they they watched this with intensity." After you do, don't take this group down For Ms. Bandera and her staff, this is arrived in Canada." this introduction, Mr. Shymko spent Yonge Street! If they see Yonge Street, but the second step after preliminary some additional time with them to they'll leave Canada." Yonge Street in preparations. The CUIAS guarantees "After the lunch they sang for us, explain what had actually transpired in downtown Toronto is neon lights, that each immigrant is assured accom­ which was interesting. I think this was the legislature and, perhaps, to reassure adults-only bookstores and punk modations when he arrives in Canada. the first time that the Legislative Build­ the newcomers that arguing is not the rockers, not unlike some streets in New Through Ukrainian press and local ing resounded with singing," she noted. only preoccupation of the provincial York, Philadelphia or Los Angeles. But radio programs, the society appeals for The new Ukrainian immigrants spent a legislature. for immigrants from Eastern Europe it financial assistance and accommoda­ half hour in the House and got an idea With regard to English-language is culture shock. tions; Ukrainians, from as far as Kitch­ of an open parliamentary system from classes that may be jeopardized by the The atmosphere in the immigrant aid ener, respond by registering available the visitors' gallery. Mr. Shymko, current strike of community college office is slightly charged, but under accommodations. The bilingual (En­ member of the provincial parliament teachers, Mr. Shymko and his staff are control. Ms. Bandera runs through glish-Polish) accommodations registra­ for Swansea-High Park, greeted them meeting with Ontario Welcome House things that have to be done in the next tion form requests such information as formally in the House and noted before to try to arrange alternate language few days, assigns duties to her staff, number of rooms, available appliances, members of the Ontario Legislature instruction, so that valuable time is not makes notes, checks files one last time. furnishings and monthly rent. that this was the visitors' firstexperienc e lost. The Ontario Ministry of Citizen­ At 3:30 p.m., the navy-blue-suited of a democratic forum. ship and Culture offers bilingual classes representatives of the Canadian Ukrai­ "Because we match the immigrants This first encounter with a democra­ in a variety of languages, but does not nian Immigrant Aid Society are head­ with addresses in Canada, we can bring tic parliamentary system had an unex­ have one in Ukrainian. ing for Pearson International Airport. them in quicker," says Ms. Bandera. pected surprise for the newcomers. At the airport, they proceed directly "The government can proceed with the "Bob Roe, the leader of the New Perceptions and expectations to Canada Immigration - and the processing, because there is a support Democratic Party was ejected from the work begins. It's a slow day at the group to meet them, give them accom­ House. They had an eyeful of the When the immigrants arrive, they airport, and Canada Immigration of­ modations and orientation." Some­ arguing and heckling that goes on in the have certain perceptions and expecta- ficers are grateful that the pace is more times those who have committed them­ legislature," said Ms. Dejnega, "and (Continued on page 14) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 No. 46

Effective Media Relations Ukrainian Weekl V by Andrij Bilyk and Jurij Dobc/ansky Election afterthoughts P.O. Box 9653, Alexandria, Va. 22304

Last Tuesday, President Ronald Reagan scored a staggering victory Momentum: to achieve it you need a push over Democratic challenger Walter Mondale. The landslide was less a Robert W. Peebles' experience with repudiation of Mr. Mondale, whom the electorate saw as a decent and In October 1983 and September 1984 together we prepared a message about "Soviet medicine" and I want to smile honorable man, as it was a resounding reaffirmation of the status Ukraine. Each message gathered such with all your other readers, because it is quo. The Republicans only managed to pick up about 14 seats, a momentum that stories about our an amusing tale. modest gain considering the breadth of the Reagan sweep. Over in the efforts appeared in Europe, Japan and But I can only cry. Senate, the Democrats actually managed to gain two seats. What all Australia. Last year's message was that Soviet medicine may charge no fees, this means is that Americans wanted to keep things pretty much the 7 million Ukrainians died in the 1932-33 and it did save Dr. Peebles' little finger. way they were during the first Reagan term, four years that saw a Moscow-made famine in Ukraine. This But how "free" is a medical system that strong economic recovery, a relatively peaceful world and moderate year's message was that physical geno­ refuses to treat patients whose political changes in social policy. cide by starvation has been replaced by views are different from the view of the What it clearly does not mein is that Mr. Reagan, despite his cultural genocide by Russification. state? impressive personal win, has a real mandate to push through some of Our two messages have left an im­ On the same day (October 30) that his more conservative social programs or totally cut some others. The pression — this year, as last year — you ran the story on Dr. Peebles, the we've noticed more stories about U- Wall Street Journal ran a story head­ House elections and the Democratic gain in the Senate should tell him kraine and Ukrainians in the months lined, "The New Gulag: Soviet Dissi­ that Americans need and want to maintain a check on the executive. immediately following our demonstra­ dents Die of Medical Neglect." What Mr. Reagan should also keep in mind is that this election has tion in Washington. For example, an The story discusses the cases of two also dramatized the glaring racial polarization among the electorate, October 24 Associated Press story, well-know Ukrainian dissidents, who brought on largely by white flight from the Democratic Party, originating in Washington and carried along with a third Ukrainian dissident especially in the south. (Mississippi hasn't had a Republican senator by many newspapers, discusses the have died in the past five months since Reconstruction). deaths of Oleksiy Tykhy and Valeriy because they were refused medical When he takes the oath of office for the second time, President Marchenko in the same breath that it treatment. Reagan must keep in mind that, as leader of the world's strongest and talks about Soviet harrassment of Jews. Oleksa Tykhy, a founding member of greatest democracy, he is president of all the people, the poor as well as Our challenge is to keep those stories the now-illegal (and disbanded) Kiev- the rich, the have-nots as well as the haves. That is not to say that he coming. -- based Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group, was not excused from hard . must somehow abandon his principles and adopt the failed, spend- Messages about Ukraine begin in your backyard. You have to think about labor in the prison camp to which he happy social policies traditionally associated with Democrats. But he the next message you will want the had been assigned despite suffering must, if he be true to himself, revive the talk of a social safety net, of media in your city to develop into a from tuberculosis and a severe duo­ trickle-down theories and enterprise zones that was so painfully news story for the people of that city. denal ulcer. When his condition wor­ missing in his campaign rhetoric. If he truly wants to leave his mark as Here in the Washington area an sened earlier this year, he w.as not something more than a jovial administrator who returned to power on opportunity presented itself, and we are hospitalized despite appeals from such the opportune upswing of the business cycle, then he must make a going after it. We want to share our world figures as President Mitterrand concerted effort to face the tough challenges of bringing the poor and efforts with you. Our strategy in the of France. Tykhy died on May 5. disenfranchised into the American mainstream. The size of his victory, Washington area is to see if we can Ukrainian journalist Valeriy Mar­ his personal popularity dnd the fact that he does not have to face the translate the momentum of the last two chenko died just a few weeks ago, on voters again, affords Mr. Reagan a perfect opportunity for years into positive action that leads to October 7. In the labor camp, Mar- constructive and courageous action. If-he seizes the opportunity, he new ways of teaching about "Russia" chenko's kidneys became infected and will not only enhance his own image, but also help the Republicans and "RusjHanJustory" in the schools in needed to be removed. The authorities stay in power for a long, long time. our cities. waited three months to hospitalize him You, too, have some control over despite a call for his immediate release That said, we must also congratulate Walter Mondale and what your school districts do. Use it — from the U.S. State Department. Geraldine Ferraro who, despite being encumbered by an unpopular attend school board hearings, become What "crime" did these dissidents platform and some terrible campaign strategy, fought a game fight. involved in PTA meetings, and, above committ to warrant such treatment? Gracious yet unyielding in defeat, they reaffirmed their commitment all, when you do these things, involve They, like other dissidents in Ukraine, to this great nation, its principles and its people. your local press. were protesting Soviet attempts to The following letter-tc-the editor is, "Russify" Ukrainians against their will. we believe, self-explanatory. We hope it "Russification" is more than discri­ will give you ideas so that you can get mination. It is a form of racism. Some started on generating your own momen­ have a stronger word - they call it tum. In our letter, we refer to the genocide. TO THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS: Journal newspapers and to the Wall Unfortunately, this Russification or Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal "cultural genocide" also occurs in our you are already familiar with. The schools and in media accounts about We greatly appreciate the materials - feature articles, news stories, Journal newspapers are a chain of daily "Russia." All too often we imply that all press clippings, letters to the editor, and the like - we receive from our papers (circulation nearly 100,000) that of the peoples of the Soviet Union are readers. circle the "beltway" bedroom commu­ Russians, when in fact, only half are. In order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask nity of metropolitan Washington. I am glad the Alexandria School that the guidelines listed below be followed. The letter is signed by Andrij Bilyk, Board paid Dr. Peebles' way to the who lives in Alexandria. (Please note Soviet Union. I hope it's the first step in how the letter hits on all of the themes a re-evaluation that will introduce new ' News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the that together we enunciated during the ways of teaching about the Soviet occurrence of a given event. past two year; together, we created a system. foundation for further action - and the New ways may involve supplemental e Information about upcoming events must be received by noon of time for action is now — and action reading. For example, our schools may the Monday ^before the date of The Weekly edition in which the begins in your backyard). We should wish to include a Harvard University information is to be published. point out that this letter is so long booklet on "The Forgotten Holocaust," because before it was written, a call was the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine, in " All materials must be typed and double-spaced. made to the newspaper and the situa­ which 7 million Ukrainian farmers were " Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the tion was explained to the reporter. starved to death — on purpose — - name of the publication and the date of the edition. Within 30 minutes, the reporter, who, because they opposed the Soviet sy­ frankly, had never heard of Ukraine, stem. " Photographs submitted for publication must be black and white called back to say she had spoke with How can we expect our children to (or color with good contrast). They will be returned only when so her editor and both urged this long understand the Soviet Union, or for requested and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. letter which, they said, would appear as that matter, the Tsarist Empire, if are op-ed piece under the newspaper's not taught the tragic history of Ukraine ' Full names and their correct English spellings must be provided. "Citizen Viewpoint" banner. We were — a civilization which during more than happy to oblige. 1,000 years has developed its own " Persons who submit any materials must provide a phone number language, culture and religion - all of where they may be reached during the working day if any additional Letter to the Editor which have been suppressed in various information is required. Journal Newspaper ways for several hundred years now. Washington This history is filled with irony. Such ' MATERIALS MUST BE SENT DIRECTLY TO: THE UKRAINIAN as the fact that in the same year (1863) WEEKLY. 30 MONTGOMERY. ST., JERSEY CITY, N J. 07302. 1 Just finished reading an account of that the Emancipation Proclamation Alexandria School Superintendent (Continued on page 14) No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1984

Letters to the editor

for a few brief lines in our newspapers president had been invited by the were at my door on that day. My Media contacts and for a few brief film clips on our Committee to Protest Russification of personal dealings with Mr. Bilyk con-- televisions covering the September 16 Ukraine to participate in Sunday's vinced me that we, as a group or as are deficient anti-Russification demonstration. With events and 1 met with representatives of individuals, can work together con­ one or two sentences on the momentous the committee a month in advance to structively toward common goals, Dear Editor: occasion of the pope's visit, our Ukrai­ discuss various options. Unfortunately, despite all sorts of "ideological" dis­ On September 16, only hours before nian co-anchor could have reminded due to his hectic travel schedule, the putes and the "old-guard political Ukrainian Americans were to begin millions of people of the joy of hearing president was not able to attend Sun­ problems." their march on the Soviet Embassy in the pope's speech in a Ukrainian church, day's events and the Monday meeting The research which went into the Washington to protest the Russifica- while taking the opportunity to cite the was scheduled. In making arrangements compilation of the press kit was tremen­ tion of Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians sad reality that in a few hours thousands for the meeting, I requested assistance dous, and credit should be given to all were celebrating the visit of Pope John of Ukrainian Americans would be from several sources, including repre­ those individuals who worked on putting Paul II to Ss. Volodymyr and Olha о marching in Washington in defense of sentatives of the committee, who also it together. They deserve to be re­ Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Winni­ the religious and cultural freedom that recommended names for the meeting. cognized for their many-hours of peg. The pope's message to Ukrainian is being suppressed in Ukraine. The article erroneously states that Mr. thorough research and writing which Catholics was one of recognition and It is not my intention to chastise our Bohdan Futey "protested" the selection produced such a concise, informative praise for their part in preserving their Ukrainian CBC co-anchor. His efforts of members of the .delegation. I would press kit. rich cultural and religious heritage were sincere and his explanation of our like to inform your readers that I Finally, as a participant of the protest which has enabled them to persevere thousand-year Byzantine rite was well- received no protests from Mr. Futey or march, 1 would like to extend sincere throughout their difficult history. He done, and I commend him for this. anyone else. Obviously, due to the congratulations to all those fine young called Ukrainian Catholics to the great More importantly, I wish to cite the relatively late scheduling of the meeting, people (boys and girls), mostly from the task of uniting all Christians (specifi­ continued media coordination and communications were not always as Washington area, who served as parade cally, the Western Catholics with the expression problems that our commu­ smooth as we. would have liked them to marshals. Their preparation prior to the Eastern Orthodox) under the Holy See nity exhibits, and propose that the be. But through hard work and co­ march and their tireless efforts to direct begun by the Apostle Peter. Ukrainian Ukrainian community in North Ame­ operation, all'of the necessary arrange­ over 8,000 people in an orderly fashion Catholics have shown that the beauty of rica develop a serious, full-time public ments were made, and both the meeting deserves my, as well as all Ukrainians' the Byzantine rite can be preserved relations network, whose efforts would and the briefing which) preceded it were heartfelt applause. within the parameters of the Roman go towards clearly articulating our productive and successful. Catholic Church, said the pope. Finally, causes to the media, as well as training he cited the great sacrifices made by the I thank you for this opportunity to Wasyll Gina our local communities in public rela­ clarify this matter. New Haven, Conn. recently deceased Cardinal Josyf Slipyj tions through serious training seminars. in his lifelong struggle for his Church. Perhaps such talented persons as Mr. Linas Kojelis Ukrainian Canadians were perhaps Andrij Bilyk could be recruited to direct associate director Let's agree doubly blessed on September 16, for such a national media/public relations Office of Public Liaison Canada's CBC television network network on a full-time basis. And, The White House on our roots covered the pope's visit to Winnipeg live perhaps such scholars as Prof. Bohdan and in its entirety with the aid of a Bociurkiw and Prof. James Mace could EDITORS NOTE: The Weekly Dear Editor: Ukrainian priest serving as co-anchor be made more readily available to the stands by its story. The facts contained One's heart sinks as once again we for the network. For the first time in the media for commentary on such topics as in the story were corroborated by behold the unlovely spectacle of Ukrai­ history of North American television the significance of a pope's visit to a several reliable sources. nians disputing with each other — this broadcasting, Ukrainians were exclu­ Ukrainian cathedral or the lack of time about the Rusyn question. sively featured for over three consecu­ freedom of religion in Ukraine and the Can we not agree that we had a tive hours on a national network broad­ causes behind it. At this point, however, Canadian MP common origin in Kiev-Rus', that cast. the articulation of the Ukrainian situa­ because of historical factors we were As I sat glued to my television set in tion both to and through the electronic is Polish separated — not through dispersal, like Detroit (Detroiters are fortunate to and print media leaves much to be the Jews, but by the boundaries set up have access to Windsor, Ontario's desired. Dear Editor: by our conquerors. Our development airwaves), I could not help but notice In the Sunday, September 30. issue of was influenced by the Lithuanians, the obvious historic, inspirational and Adrian V. Karmazyn The Ukrainian Weekly under the head­ Muscovites. Poles, Hungarians, Slo­ deeply moving significance of the pope's Hamtramck, Mich. ing "Two Ukrainians in Mulroney vaks and others who were our rulers and visit and pronouncements within Ss. Cabinet," the heading implies that the neighbors. Volodymyr and Olha's. Our Ukrainian two mentioned members of parliament Obviously, there was a certain amount co-anchor expressed these emotions are of Ukrainian descent. Ray Hnaty- of intermarriage. Note the various quite genuinely to his CBC audience. I Story's accuracy shyn is, but Don Mazankowski is of types, from Scandinavian to almost waited anxiously to hear him corrment Polish descent. Mongolian, in any large gathering of on the significance of the pope's visit to is questioned However, Harvie Andre, minister of Ukrainians. Our langage and customs a U krainian Catholic church, the pope's Dear Editor: supply and services, is of Ukrainian were affected and, in turn, exerted an honorable mention of our cardinal and Enclosed is a copy of a letter from descent. He is from Calgary. effect. his incarceration in Soviet concentra­ Mr. Linas Kojelis to Svoboda. The There are three other members of It is ironic that now, through Soviet tion camps. And, indeed, the CBC purpose of the letter was to correct an Parliament who are of Ukrainian de­ expansion, many of the Ukrainian anchorman pursued this line of ques­ article titled "President Reagan meets scent: Alex Kindy. Calgary: Bill Lesick, "tribes" have been reunited, but instead tioning several times. with Ukrainian community leaders." Edmonton; and Andrew Witer, To­ of rejoicing in their reunion, they insist Sadly enough, our Ukrainian co- The Ukrainian Weekly in its Septem­ ronto. All of them are members of (the) on their separateness. anchor never interconnected the pope's ber 30 issue published the same story. Progressive Conservative Party. Contrast this behavior with that of visit. Cardinal Slipyj's imprisonment in No one on your staff contacted течо the Jews. In the diaspora, they settled in the Soviet Union for refusing to ac­ verify its contents, nor was I given an A.J. Yaremovich many countries. Their customs, lan­ quiesce to Soviet abolition of the opportunity to comment on its allega­ Winnipeg guage, even their appearance, were Catholic Church, Billy Graham's ridi­ tions. This, as you know, is a violation culous statements about the existence of affected, depending on where they settled. of basic principles of ethics in journa­ Thus, there were black Jews in Africa, freedom of religion in the USSR and, lism. most importantly, the fact that both the Bilyk's work Semitic-appearing Jews in Iraq and Therefore, I request a retraction other Arab countries, as well as the Jews Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian together with an apology. Catholic Churches were liquidated by commendable of Europe. But they have decided that it the Soviets in the 1930s and 1940s, is their Jewishness that is their essence Bohdan A. Futey Dear Editor: of being, and so all, Jews have the right respectively. This type of approach by Washington I was present at the protest demon­ our co-anchor would have immediately to return to Israel. ttt stration held in Washington on Septem­ brought to mind a serious irony con­ ber 16 and since then have read quite a One wonders why we Ukrainians are cerning the role of Ukrainians in the Dear Editor: few comments in the Ukrainian press much more ready to turn on other reconciliation process between Eastern I greatly appreciated seeing the about this demonstration. Ukrainians, rather than those who are and Western Christians. How can our enemies. Is it because, perhaps, it is Ukrainians heed the pope's call for such photograph and article published in First and foremost. I would like to Svoboda from President Reagan's commend the media relations director, safer to attack other Ukrainians? The a reconciliation when both our Eastern symbol of the Roman Empire was a and Western Churches have been oblit­ meeting with the Ukrainian American ' Andrij Bilyk, whose professional hand­ delegation on September 17. However, ling of the media campaign, reached bundle of twigs tied together - fasces erated by force and are prohibited in the - showing that in unity there was USSR to this day? 1 would like to clarify one point which the television stations and newspapers, was erroneously reported in the article. and whose sincere work reached out to strength. As long as we persist in In my estimation, our three hours of The purpose of the meeting was for aTT of those in the Ukrainian American making religion, place of birth or other free national and international publi­ the president to recognize the Ukrainian community who were eager and willing conditions more important than our city were turned into something terribly American community which had ga­ to help him on the local level. For Ukrainianness, we will remain divided disturbing, this, in light of our serious thered in Washington to commemorate example, I telephoned Mr. Bilyk re­ and, therefore, weak. difficulties in garnering more media the 20th anniversary of the unveiling of questing 10 press kits. He promised to recognition and coverage concerning the Taras Shevchenko monument and have them reach me on the following Pearl Vari Dent Ukraine. We worked for many months to protest Russification in Ukraine. The day, and sure enough those press кіь Dan bury. 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composer wrote just to make sure. But learned from the time I was 12 until I that's just like doing the basic home­ was 20 are the pieces I have instant work. What the composer did not write recall of. Your brain cells, somehow, into the score are all the things that are when you're younger, are working more going to make the performance one vigorously, there is no question about it. which is well-executed or one which is The more you learn at a young age, the inspired. And these are things that you more you retain. cannot write. Someone may write I learned the Beethoven Third Piano "piano," "crescendo," "forte"; it's like a Concerto - I started to learn it when I direction, it tells you what to do, but it was 13, and I was playing it when I was doesn't tell you how to voice the chord, 13;. N ow, when I went back to play it at it doesn't tell you how to direct the the age of 25, there was a tremendous phrase, it doesn't tell you what kind of difference in the way I played it. But, Lydia Artymiw on the record sound you have to get at that moment, it since I already learned the notes and doesn't tell you where that phrase lies in Lydia Artymiw, pianist-virtuoso Sawycky: Under Ricardo Muti? since I already played the piece when I with an international reputation, connection with the next one. was so young, when I went back to it, talks for the most part through her Artymiw: No, under William Smith. To me the score is just the firstlevel . that was more than 70 percent of the music. She has granted an interview It depends, you see, more on what the But the emotional level, the level of work. And it's then that a kind of to The Ukrainian Weekly about her experience was like, whether it was real realization, the kind of understanding refinement and understanding comes artistry. music-making. You can sometimes of what interpretation really is, is a very with experience, then the other factors make music with not a very distin­ personal thing. It's something that even come into being. Obviously, when CONCLUSION guished group and have a great time and sometimes the composer himself may you're young you cannot possibly you can also play with a top-notch not have been aware of. This is some­ completely master a piece. I know of a Roman Sawycky: Is there one pianist orchestra and they can be totally bored, thing-that Schumann wrote of in his young pianist who played the Liszt who inspired you most? in terms of conductors I very much essays, that the composer sometimes is Sonata when she was 13 years old. She enjoyed working with Andre Previn, not the best interpreter of his own may have learned the notes, but when Lydia Artymiw: There are a number, because 1 did Rachmaninoff's First music. Sometimes it takes another she played the piece she had no under­ because I really don't feel that any one (concerto) with him and he knew the personality, another idea, to bring standing musically of it. But 10 years person can play everything well. 1 would piece inside out. He was as accommo­ something to life. Whis is why we can later, if she goes back to the piece, it will say that Horowitz has inspired me dating as anyone could be, he was very listen to different recordings of the same take on new insight.. tremendously for certain types of reper­ nice, made incredible use of time in piece and we' can hear different ap­ toire. Opposite of Horowitz is someone rehearsal, all the problems were ironed proaches to it and each one may be very Sawycky: In your career up to now, like Murray Perahia, who plays Mozart out. He's probably the finest conductor different, but each one, as long as it do you have a most-cherished perfor­ and Schumann very specially, very that one could play that piece with; with really says something, will be perfectly mance? poetically. He's not only a friend, but Ozawa it was different. valid. That's why it's such a challenging he's also someone for whom 1 have art, that's why there are really no Artymiw: The performance that gave definite answers as to what is right and tremendous respect. Sawycky: In your opinion, are all me personally the most satisfaction and I heard Arturo Benedetti Michelan- what is wrong. What is right for one one to which the audience responded in audiences alike or are there noticeable person may be completely wrong for geli play the first book of Debussy differences, for example, between Ame­ another. The important question is, a way that 1 have never experienced Preludes in London, also heard him rican and European listeners? "Does it say something, does it commu­ before, which was tremendous, was play the Ravel Concerto, and for that nicate?" when I played in the finals of the Leeds kind of repertoire he is unsurpassed, Artymiw: Absolutely, there are dif­ Competition. I played jny very first just incredible, incredible playing. 1 ferences. There are also noticeable performance of the Brahms D Minor admire Martha Argerich, as one of the differences within American audiences. Sawycky: One hears stories of young­ Piano Concerto. Maybe it was because few women who has really succeeded; I played in certain college areas, for sters nowadays conquering a sonata in it was the last round of the competition she has tremendous temperament. instance in Ann Arbor, Mich., which three days and a concerto in, let's say, a and the firsttim e 1 played the piece with has a very intellectual audience, a very week. Is this really possible and can one an orchestra, the BBC Symphony (it was Sawycky: Arthur Rubinstein? intellectual type of group. It's a terrific really assimilate difficult works in so live on television). It was very important audience; they are very responsive. On short a time? Are such feats beneficial? to me to play well. Artymiw: Yes, for different reasons. the other hand you can go to some little That performance and the kind of Serkin you admire for Brahms and for place in the Midwest, where people are Artymiw: From the point of view of ovation that it received were, 1 think. Beethoven, for his integrity. Yes, Rubin­ going to community concerts and its a learning the notes, the more you learn one of the high points of my life. I was stein you admire for... social event; they don't really know when you're young, the more it stays only 23 at the time. Since then I have anything, and so for them it's just an with you. 1 find that the pieces that 1 (Continued on pa|e 14) Sawycky: Chopin? opportunity to be social. For them, concert manners are not always the Artymiw: Yes, and for his stage best, there may be a lot of noise. In Ukrainian Institute opens fall season presence and for the kind of charisma Europe, generally, not always but NEW YORK - More than 250 access reference library, featuring that he had and for his ability to project generally — and especially in Germany, members, guests and the general public books and periodicals on Ukrainian- the line, singing line, which is something the audiences are very quiet and they are gathered at the Ukrainian Institute of related topics and issues. Serkin does not necessarily have. But trained to be very respectful of the America the weekend of October 20-21 During the Sunday open house, the Serkin has, you know, other qualities, artist. Very often one sees people with for the institute's official opening of its guests were entertained by singer Maria so you really have to look for the best in scores. They are very demanding but at fall season. Murowany, who was accompanied by every person. 1 can't say I have a the same time they're very appreciative The weekend began with a showing of Thomas Hrynkiw, the institute's newly favorite. and I find that when I play in Germany, recent paintings by Ilona Sochynsky, a appointed music director. very often I have to be prepared to play New York artist. Over 150 people Meanwhile, the institute has also Sawycky: In other words you're encores after a concerto, which is attended the opening, enthusiastically published its fall season calendar of echoing the words of Rubinstein, that almost unheard of in this country. A viewing Mrs. Sochynsky's hyper-realistic events, which includes such programs as there is no such thing as best pianist, just German audience, when they like you, images which' present an almost ab­ Slavic Heritage Week, "Christmas a different pianist. they "are very, very demonstrative. stract impression of an environment. Around the World," and an evening of Rhythmic clapping its not unusual, and The successful exhibition ran through folk music and Christmas carols featur­ Artymiw: That's right. There'is no if they like you, you automatically will Saturday, October 27. ing Mr. Hrynkiw and Ed Evanko, the such thing as the best of anything, have a standing ovation. People respond, On Sunday, October 21, the institute well-known tenor. As in previous sea­ really, because even in sports, Where 1 think, more in Europe because gene­ held an open house at which members sons, there are also programs for senior someone may win a race — that's the way rally audiences are better educated. and the public were invited to view the citizens and young professionals. that person performed that day and it many improvements to the turn-of-the- As previously reported, the institute doesn't mean that given the same race or Sawycky: Leopold Stokowski called century mansion's interior spaces that is also continuing its increasingly given the same concert that person^ Jfe art of performing "recreating. " Do were completed over the summer. The popular educational courses and sym­ would be able to duplicate it time aftwgS ЯВЗю a score has to be followed "to French Renaissance building is a na­ posia, including classes in Ukrainian time after time. We're all human. - "Ч Spfirf/w" or is there a certain freedom tional historic landmark building on language and culture. S^i'ed or imagination expected? Fifth Avenue's "Museum Mile." Meanwhile, the institute has been Saw Is there a symphony or­ According to the institute's president, gearing up for a special memorial chestra prefer most, and which Artymiw: That's another very good Walter Nazarewicz, the renovations are dinner honoring the memory of William onducloi is the easiest to work with? question. I think that, obviously, your part of an ongoing refurbishment Dzus, the institute's founder, bene­ first responsibility as a musicianvas a program scheduled for completion in factor and first president, who died in Artymiw: About orchestras I prefer performing artist, is to take the score, time for the celebration of the mil­ 1964. The dinner, to which the general nost, I can't really answer that, because learn it and realize it according to what lennium of Christianity in Ukraine. public is invited, will be held on Sun­ played with so many of them that are the composer wrote. However, what the The renovation and refurbishment day, November 18, at 2 p.m. at the New great orchestras. 1 can't say that I have a composer wrote on the page is only the program is also designed to make the York Athletic Club, at Seventh Avenue "avorite orchestra, 1 mean, when 1 first step of what real interpretation is. building more accessible, on a daily and 59th Street. Tickets are SI50 per played with the Boston Symphony they And so when I'm studying something basis, to the general public. Among couple or SI00 per individual. sounded fantastic, when 1 played with with the help of my husband, who's a other things, the institute is currently set For more information on the memo­ the Pittsburgh Orchestra they also musicologist, "we collect facsimiles of to open permanent gallery space for rial dinner and upcoming events at the sounded fantastic, but it was different. manuscripts so that if 1 have questions I exhibits of paintings and sculptures institute, call or write the Ukrainian I'm looking forward to playing with the can -go to the source. 1 go to the from the institute's collection of works Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St., New Philadelphia Orchestra in December. manuscript and look up what the by Ukrainian artists, as well as a public- York, N.Y. 10021; (212) 288-8660. No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1984 9

Ukrainian National Youth Federation: a look back, a look ahead by Sen. Paul Yuzyk expenses, and was expected to bring back money for the operational costs of The 1930s saw the emergence and the dominion executive. rapid rise of three national Ukrainian I toured the larger Ukrainian centers youth organizations in Canada. The in eastern Canada, in 1936, and I Canadian Ukrainian Youth Associa­ often received violent opposition from tion (SUMK) was established in 1931 by the Communists and needed police the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League protection. I won support from the (SUS), supporters of the Ukrainian English press and was able to form Greek Orthodox Church. The Ukrai­ many UNYF branches. In 19371 toured nian National Youth Federation was a large number of urban and rural formed in 1934 in affiliation with the centers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ukrainian National Federation (UNO), Alberta. I succeeded in organizing 24 which espoused the cause of Ukrainian new branches and persuaded four large nationalism. The Ukrainian Catholic SUMK branches of the Ukrainian Youth (UKYU) was brought into being Orthodox Cathedral of Winnipeg to join the UNYF in November 1938. in 1939 by the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood, a secular wing of the This experience proved to be most church. valuable to me in my future university All of these organizations were esta­ career and particularly in my senatorial: blished in Saskatoon, which was identi­ work. fied as the cradle of Ukrainian or­ ganized life in Canada. It should be Record of achievement mentioned that earlier, in 1926, the Ukrainian Labour-Farmer Temple The youth of the 30s was idealistic Association, a pro-Communist group, and dynamic. The members of the had established in Winnipeg its youth UNYF used their unbounded energy for section, which used the name Young good constructive work as well as Communist League (Komsomol). recreation. They attended meetings, In the 1930s, the children of the often weekly; learned the Ukrainian Ukrainian pioneers who had settled on language, literature and history, public vast prairie lands and in cities and towns speaking in both languages, organiza­ of western and eastern Canada prior to tional procedure, Ukrainian folk-danc­ World War I, had grown into their teens ing, and choral and instrumental music. and 20s. Thousands were finishinghig h They took part in meetings, concerts, school, and hundreds were entering plays, socials, bazaars, picnics, rallies universities. This was the first Cana­ Paul Yuzyk of Saskatoon, dominion organizer, with Mary Tuchak, executive and in a variety of sports. The girls also dian-born generation of Ukrainians member from Winnipeg, with the UNYF plane with MUN insignia at air show in practiced needlework, weaving, Easter- that began organizing all aspects of Oshawa in July 1938. egg designing and coloring, and home their life in'this country - religious, served to strengthen the force of the gress. Branches sprang up in rapid cooking. Prior to World War II, the educational, cultural, social, political subversive Communists and to embitter succession in most of the Ukrainian- halls which accommodated these and economic. Youth was seeking its serious-minded Ukrainians. populated urban centers and in many branches were virtual beehives of activi­ place within the Ukrainian community No level-headed Ukrainian, and least rural communities in all the provinces, ty. as well as in Canadian life. At this time, of all Ukrainian Canadian students and except the Maritimes, where few Ukrai­ Several outstanding achievements the Ukrainians were preponderantly youths, could be happy with such an nians had settled. during the 50 years of organizational rural, which explains why organizations eruptive state of affairs in Canada. They At the first national convention in work warrant special, even though brief easily established branches in hundreds knew that the Ukrainians could hope to Saskatoon in June 1935, there were mention. of villages. However, these gradually make progress and prove themselves to delegates from 14 branches who elected " In 1935, the UNYF established a decreased in number as urban centers be a constructive and loyal element in a national executive. At the next con­ Ukrainian Radio-Telegraphy School in grew, particularly after World War II. Canadian life only if religious tolerance vention a year later there were 28 Toronto. Many boys graduated from This year, 1984, marks the 50th was achieved and the stamp of commu­ branches. The number soon increased these courses, most of whom later anniversary of the Ukrainian National nism was wiped off the Ukrainian to over 40. volunteered for service in the Canadian Youth Federation of Canada, whose image. The crying need was for unity The UNYF published a page in both armed forces, some becoming officers Ukrainian name was Molodi Ukrainski directed toward idealism and supported Ukrainian and English in the weekly in the navy. Some paid the supreme Natsionalisty (Young Ukrainian Na­ by action. newspaper New Pathway. Elected or­ sacrifice for their country. tionalist), which in the 1970s changed to In 1934, a group of high school, ganizers toured most of the Ukrainian " In 1938, the UNYF conducted a Molod Ukrainskoho Natsionalnoho teachers' training school and university communities, established branches and fund-raising campaign, which made it Obiednannia (MUNO). it is interesting students, together with other youths, gave instructions regarding various possible to purchase an airplane and to note briefly the achievements of this met in Saskatoon in the beautiful new activities. The response of the youth establish a Ukrainian Flying School in organization, which was very dynamic Ukrainian Home of Education and everywhere was better than had been Oshawa, Ont. Close to 100 took the in its early stages, but which later launched the U krainian National Youth expected. In 1939, prior to W^)rld War course in aeronautics and practical gradually lost ground and influence. Federation. Working in cooperation II, there were 53 branches. The UNYF flying, with 35 graduating with pilot's with the Ukrainian National Federa­ reached its peak in 1948 with 61 branches licenses. At the outbreak of the war, Founders' ideals tion, the leaders of this new youth in Canada. most of them joined the RAF and the movement crystallized their aims in a The present organization of the 80s RCAF, with some being killed in In the early 30s, during the Great credo, later known as the Seven Beliefs. knows virtually nothing about the great action. Many other UNYF members Depression, the situation among the In brief, they are as follows: efforts and sacrifices that were made by served in the Canadian armed forces quarter million Ukrainians who at that " faith in Canada; the pioneer founders and leaders of the during World War II. time were preponderantly farmers and " faith in the dignity of the individual; UNYF. The organization is indebted to " The UNYF went into the Commu­ laborers led by a small but growing " faith in social progress through such leaders of the Ukrainian National nist strongholds and, along with the group of Canadian-educated intellec­ democratic reform; Federation as Alexander Gregorovich, Ukrainian National Federation, greatly tuals, was, to say the least, most dis­ " faith in the moral principles of president; Michael Pohorecky, editor of weakened the Communist movement in couraging. The people were divided into Christianity; the New Pathway; Wolodymyr Kossar; such Ontario cities asSudbury.Timmins, three apparently irreconcilable camps: a faith in cultural traditions; and Dr. Timothy Pavlychenko, univer­ Kirkland Lake, Sault Ste. Marie, To­ Greek Catholics, Orthodox and Com­ " faith in the liberty of all peoples; sity ecologist. They encouraged and ronto, as well as in Saskatoon, Ed­ munists. " faith in the liberty of Ukraine. helped young people, such as Anthony monton, Vancouver and other places. The latter were making the most The leaders were convinced that these Hlynka (later an MP), Kornylo Magera, Many former Communist followers rapid headway as the movement was time-proven ideals would motivate the Walter Davidiuk, John Kishynsky, joined the nationalist associations. financed by Stalin's Comintern. With a youths to use their boundless energy for Proctor Sawchuk and this writer to set " From the outset, the organization popular name, the Ukrainian Labour- constructive purposes that would bene­ up a Committee on Youth and Plast in maintained a bilingual youth page in the Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA), fit Canada and the Ukrainian people, 1934. This committee drew up a consti­ New Pathway, and later published its under the leadership of the Communist and would thus contribute to progress tution and established the UNYF, using own magazine, Holos Molodi: Youth Party of Canada, openly advocated in all walks of life. Pride in their the Ukrainian Plast as a model. Speaks, followed by MUN Beams and materialistic Marxism, supported So­ ancestry and the development of their Being a Saskatoonian and a teacher New Perspectives. It published several viet Ukraine and the Soviet Union, and cultural heritage would surely enrich then in Hafford.'Sask., I was persuaded pamphlets, such as "A Ukrainian Song agitated for a proletarian revolution in the life of Canada and make this to be elected the first dominion presi­ Book," "Seven Presidents in Uniform" Canada. (Today this small pro-Soviet country one of the finest in the world. dent. I was re-elected in 1936-37, 1941- and Prof. Andrusyshen's "Ukrainian element operates under the misleading, Their vision was in many ways fulfilled. 43 and J945-46. In 1936,1 decided to quit Literature and its Guiding Light, Shev- popular name of Association of United teaching and devote one year to or­ chenko," and booklets such as Andrew Ukrainian Canadians). Rapid expansion ganizational work without pay. I was Gregorovich's "Books on Ukraine and The bitter Orthodox-Catholic reli­ provided with a railway ticket — Saska­ the Ukrainians" and "Canadian Folk gious struggle, sometimes resorting to With a clear-cut policy of action, the toon-Montreal, return with stop­ Dance." violence among the Ukrainians, only UNY1- immediately made rapid pro- overs - costing S29, plus S!0 for (Continued on page 12) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 No. 46

Art scene Share The Weekly with a friend 10 young artists' works displayed at Chicago's modern art institute SVOBODA PRINT SHOP by Oryna Hrushetsky "Vase For Dry Weeds." He is a student Professional typesetting and printing services. at the University of Illinois - Circle We print On my left, a glazed blue clay sculp­ campus, and son of Chicago's eminent ture reminded me of one of my not- sculptor, Alexandra Diachenko-K.och- BOOKS m BROCHURES в LEAFLETS quite-completed varenyky; from the man. For information and rates contact right, radiant watercolor irises blos­ The painting, "Irises," was Christine SVOBODA somed toward me. Next, my glance Bilous-Savoia's, another University of 30 Montfoiatry Strut m J.rsey City. N.J. 07302 rested across the room on an archaic set Illinois student, who says: "My paint­ T.liphont: (201) 434-0237: (201) 434-0807: of scarred boards shedding their paint ings are my moods: serenity, joy, anger, - an outgrown clubhouse maybe? The disturbance." large decorative canvas encrusted in Gary Cannone's "Monument" was bright green and black oik, demanded a the piece built out of peeling boards. His second stare of my curiosity, before I source of work, he writes, is "the city, recognized the six empty Coke bottles. raw, ugly city - old train stations, Not far from them, a woman's black burnt houses, abandoned houses, empty profile appeared to be rocjring back and dreams." forth, engulfed in rainbow-colored The painter of the bright bottles that clouds. made me look twice was Chuck Gomez. The diversity at "Panorama," a "I am concerned primarily with paint student exhibit that was recently held at handling, color relationships and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art general line combinations," he explains. in Chicago's Ukrainian Village enticed Mr. Gomez also asks of visitors on a me. So, it wasn't until later that 1 notepad: "What am I saying?", and noticed the scores of visitors, including supplies a pencil attached with a string very many young students (a rarity on a for replies. Friday night), who sipped punch and Natalia Bandura's title for the mysti­ browsed at this collection of 10 student cal woman in the clouds, dedicated to artists' works. 1 immediately reached her father, was "Bermuda Dimension." for the comment sheet, and began my "1 paint what I feel. Sometimes I don't tack around the exhibit for a closer know what 1 feel. Sometimes I don't look. know what I paint; it just happens - all The varenyk was Marko Markewycz's a mere hallucination..." Quite contemplative by then, 1 pro­ Oryna Hrushetsky is a journalism ceeded to Ihor Diachenko's works, and student at the University of Illinois. examined the very expressive, intricate sketching of hippy life. "1 portray my ideas as realistically as possible. 1 am pursuing to encorporate this in com­ Now available puter graphics," Mr. Diachenko com­ ments. The multi-colored stripes, swirls and dots that flashed before me were Olena THE GREAT Bilous's silkscreens which fashioned a very festive wall. "I am interested in color combinations and patterns in FAMINE textures in textiles, which 1 reflect in my serigraphy," she notes. IN UKRAINE: As I turned around, a surge of dynamic movement thrown onto an old tablecloth with oil and enamel sent my THE UNKNOWN eyes darting up and down, back and forth. Eduardo Gomez's "Bathers" comprised very curious, adroitly hidden HOLOCAUST details. His puzzlingself-portraitistitled "The Judge." His comments: "Expect Compiled and edited by nothing, blame no one, do something." the editors of "Confluence of Figures," another The Ukrainian Weekly work that called for close observation, was Tom Wasik's. He had studied at the Published by School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and had chosen a very thought-provok­ th Ї Ukrainian National Association ing theme for his work - the loss of Featuring: innocence. 1 had encircled nearly the entire DR. 0MELJAN PRITSAK: Foreword "Panorama" exhibit when I noticed a small, enigmatic bronze sculpture in the DR. JAMES E. MACE: The man-made famine of 1932-33: what happened and why corner - "Birth" by Sasha Portnov. This Kiev-born artist who studied at the DR. MYRON B. KUR0PAS: America's "Red Decade" and the Great Famine cover-up Washington University in St. Louis, also displayed a set of prismatic ab­ MARCO CARYNNYK: Malcolm Muggendge on Stalin's famine: "deliberate" and "diabolical" stract oils. Mr. Portnov says: "I want to expand my point of view on life and art starvation in combination with one another." EYEWITNESS RECOLLECTIONS With that my tour concluded. Com­ ments and questions fresh in my mind, I DISSIDENTS ON THE FAMINE scanned the room, hoping to find any of the evening's celebrities — evidently I was not the only one. Scuttling around Available only from SVOBODA PRESS, 30 Montgomery St.. Jersey City, N.J. 07302 the exhibit, introducing guests and Price: artists, I saw Roxanna Markewycz, the coordinator of "Panorama," who had 1-9 copies S3 00 per copy, plus SI.00 postage and handling per order chosen the artists, set up the displays, sent out the invitations and publicized 10-19 copies S2.50 per copy, plus S2.00 postage and handling per order the exhibit. I conversed with the con­ 20 or more copies S2.50 per copy, plus S3.00 postage and handling per order trastingly unique personalities she introduced, but closing time arrived ALL ORDERS MUST BE PREPAID MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO SVOBODA PRESS. before I could catch them all. 1 left intrigued by the uncommon works of uncommon young artists. No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 11 UNWLA branch marks20th jubilee Connecticut official addresses Ukrainians by Zirka Haliv York Regional Council and many by Haiya Balaban background, values, ambitions and to branches. The former editor of Our understand their contributions to the NEW YORK - Branch 83 of the Life, Ulana Lubowycz, and lrena Pa- HARTFORD. Conn. - Julia H. United States and to the world. Mrs. Ukrainian National Women's League of doch, the branch's organizer, were Tashjian, Connecticut's secretary of Tashjian's committee is concerned with America on Saturday, October 27, among the honored guests. state, on October 21 addressed a full cultural affairs and is planning an celebrated its 20th anniversary with a Barbara Bachynsky, who for many auditorium at St. Michael's Ukrainian exposition of costumes, arts and crafts, gala banquet in St. George Ukrainian years has provided humorous entertain­ Catholic Church hall here. Mrs. Tash­ food, and with looking into the history School auditorium. The event was ment at the b/anch's traditional "Har- jian was invited to address the Ukrai­ of the various ethnic groups, where they originally scheduled to be held at the buzivka" dance held in October, was the nian community by the Ukrainian came from, where they settled and their Ukrainian National Home, which was master of ceremonies. National Women's League of America, contribution to their new home. The destroyed by fire on October 22. The branch president, Natalka Duma, Branch 93. The subject of Mrs. Tash- long-term ambition of this group is to Present were members of the branch greeted the Rev. Pasczak and all the jian's address was"TheEthnicCommu- establish a museum with archives. and invited guests, as well as representa­ guests, and gave a short account of the nity — Its Ability to Impact the Media. Through this committee most ethnic tives of the UNWLA headquarters. New branch's dedication to the education of Legislation and Political Events." Americans will probably discover that children in Ukrainian culture through Mrs. Tashjian and her secretary, their backgrounds, values and goals are its yearly "Yalynkas" (Christmas pro­ Sandy Suty, were welcomed by Ann very similar and that together they can grams), the branch's own "Svitlychka" Sokolsky, branch president. The guest express their ideas and have more Hartford UNWLA (pfe-school program) and its puppet of honor, whose roots are Armenian, impact, said Mrs. Tashjian. theater. Mrs. Duma noted as well that was introduced by Rose Worobel, who holds fund-raiser in the past Branch 83 had made many gave a brief background of Mrs. Tash­ To be more effective and heard on a charitable contributions to Plast, jian's ethnic heritage and her political local level, Mrs. Tashjian advised that HARTFORD, Conn. - Ukrainian SUM-A, St. George Ukrainian Aca­ career in the state of Connecticut. . ethnic communities should invite their National Women's League of America demy, Our Life press fund. The Ukrai­ In her address, Mrs. Tashjian stated legislators and representatives to their Branch 106 recently held a fall fashion nian Museum Fund and to many more that, according to the last national meetings and address issues on the show to raise funds for St. Michael's causes, including the medical fund for census taken, 80 percent of all Ameri­ national and international levels. To be Ukrainian Catholic School in Hartford. little Rostyk, a Ukrainian boy from cans identified themselves with a parti­ more effective with the media. Ukrai­ A total of S400 was donated to the Poland. This year, on its 20th anniver­ cular nationality. There is a new surge nians hold commemorate ceremonies school. sary, the branch contributed SI,000 to of ethnic identity in this country, she (such as for the famine) annually, just as Refreshments were served during the the Lotocky Fund. said. Accordingly, ethnic communities the Jewish community annually com­ show which featured Caren Charles Entertainment included a few songs can be looked upon as a strong block. memorate its Holocast, she added. fashions. Prizes donated by 17 local by the Dumka women's ensemble and a However, most of the ethnic communi­ Mrs. Tashjian mentioned that the businesses.were given away. sketch written by Olha Hayetska and ties are too small and not strong enough performed by several branch members to voice their concerns on a national Ukrainian community has a good The show was moderated by Natalka as well as three members of Daria level. The Ukrainians must get together reputation and that at every one of her Rudko in English and Luba Kinach in Genza's dance ensemble. with other ethnics and express their meetings of the ethnic advisory group, a Ukrainian. Ms. Rudko also served as One of the highlights of the evening ideas together. spokesperson for the community has chairman of the fashion show com­ was the presentation of corsages to the Mrs. Tashjian, who is an appointee been present. mittee which included members Lana present and past heads of the branch by to the advisory board of the Democratic Babij, Halya Balaban, Luda Chmeliw- When asked if she could say some­ Ewstachij Yarosh, who served as god­ Party's Council on Ethnic Americans thing in Ukrainian, Mrs. Tashjian skyj, Oksana Oprysko, Anna Pikora father of the branch at its christening 20 has started an ethnic advisory group. and Marusia Szwez. responed with "Khay zhyve Ukraina" years ago. The purpose of this group is to get (May Ukraine live). Mrs. Tashjian Models were Halya Voskobiynyk Dancing to the sounds of the Vodo- together with members of various and all the committee members. concluded her address by thanking the hray band followed dinner. ethnic groups and talk about their audience on behalf of her ancestors for thejhejiexthat Ukrainegave-themwhen they had to flee their homeland due to Maplewood parishioners visit Niagara Falls, Toronto persecutions and massacres. Lydia Ficalowych, the regional head of the UNWLA, thanked Mrs. Tashjian for taking the time out of her very busy schedule to address the Ukrainian community.

He/sink/. (Continued from page 3) Soviet authorities to break the will of those who do not conform, and in some instances to hasten their death, stands as testimony of the Soviet government's callous disrespect of the principles enshrined in the Hel­ sinki Final Act.

insurance policy is an investment in the The Women's Club of Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Maplewood, N.J., on October 5-8 sponsored a fall tour of Niagara Falls and the city of Toronto. The tour had special emphasis on visiting the large Ukrainian Ukrainian community of Toronto. Pictured above is the tour group following divine liturgy at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral Clergy (seated from left) are: the Rt. Rev. Dmytro Foty, the Very Rev. George Ferenciw, and community the Rev. John Nakonachny. - 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 No. 46

many of whom have attained high After the war, Mr. Bandera re­ Ukrainian National... Cabinet positions in provincial and Twenty-five... sumed his activities with his faction (Continued from page 9) federal governments. Their leading role (Continued from page 3) of the OUN in Munich. He became " Besides giving wholehearted sup­ in multiculturalism was instrumental in In the end, Mr. Bandera, My- editor of a newspaper, Shliakh Pere- port to the Canadian war effort to make the establishment of a federal ministry kola Lebed and Yaroslav Karpy- mohy, and was instrumental in the the world safe for democracy and of multiculturalism in 1972, the en­ nets were sentenced to death, while establishment of the Anti-Bolshevik human freedom, the UNYF aided the trenchment of multiculturalism in the the others received lengthy prison Bloc of Nations. To many of his movement for the freedom and inde­ new Canadian constitution of 1982, and terms. The death sentences were later followers in the West and in Ukraine, pendence of Ukraine by spreading the recognition of Ukrainian in the commuted to life imprisonment. he came to symbolize the ongoing information about the situation in public and secondary schools and in the In 1938, Mr. Konovalets was revolutionary struggle in Ukraine Ukraine and about Ukraine's right to universities. This political action gua­ assassinated in Rotterdam when a against Soviet occupation, which freedom. Canadians were reminded rantees the preservation and develop­ bomb went off in a package he was was epitomized by the partisan that theSoviet Union was an aggressive, ment of Ukrainian culture, and. hence, carrying. warfare of the UPA. which fought on imperialistic Communist power, which the survival of Ukrainians in Canada. After the Nazis invaded Poland in against Soviet and Communist forces destroyed freedom and democracy and On the threshold of the next half September 1939. Mr. Bandera.along until the mid-1950s. supported subversive fifth columns in century, the leaders of the UNYF. and with scores of Ukrainian political Canada and the free world. the UNF. are planning their future. prisoners, was I reed. Assassination They are painfully aware that the once " UNYF activities greatly expanded dynamic organization has dwindled to a The war years Given the volatile situation in on a broader and more popular base few branches existing only in large cities. Ukraine and Eastern Europe, the during the period following World War Hopefully, they are also awarethat with Following the German invasion of Soviets were irked by the activities of II. The national organizer. Michael its broad appeal to all sectors of the Poland. Cracow became the seat of the OUN in the West. In 1950. they Orychiwsky. a Montreaier. organized Ukrainian youth the potential for the j Ukrainian nationalist activity. Po- had approached a young Ukrainian six Youth Festivals and 45 Ukrainian expansion of their activities and mem­ I - land ceased to exist as a country and named Bohdan Stashynsky and, as Cavalcades in most of the large Ukrai­ bership is there. nian centers across Canada. These became the so-called Generalgouver- he was to testify later, told him to co­ Looking back, one fact becomes clear. nement (of Poland) which also involved the youth talent of the regions operate or his parents and sisters The generation of the 80s is vastly included a small area of Ukrainian would be harmed. He was ordered to performing Ukrainian dances and con­ lands west of the Sian and Bug rivers. ducting choirs, which were appreciated different from the generation of the 30s. report on nationalist activities in and So are the situations and altitudes. The German-occupied Poland also be­ around Lviv. When Ukrainian na­ by thousands of people. Ukrainian came a refuge for some 20,000 Ukrai­ culture was popularized, which attracted pioneer youths of the 30s, having just tionalists assassinated pro-Soviet discovered their rich cultural heritage, nians from Soviet-controlled western author Yaroslav Halan. Mr. large numbers to the UNYF. Unfor­ Ukraine. tunately, there was almost no follow-up forged ahead with idealism and enthu­ Stashynsky provided the KGB with siasm to win recognition and a viable Under the Germans, tensions soon information that led to their arrest. to these popular activities and the organization soon declined. place in Canadian society. They were mounted in the OUN, and by 1941 - Later, he was trained in Kiev and sent conscious that protection of their the eve of the'German invasion of the to Germany under an assumed " From the UNYF ranks emerged cultural rights and the defense of the Soviet Union - it had split into two identity. several distinguished parliamentarians factions, one controlled by Mr. cause of Ukraine's freedom required On October 12, Dr. Lev Rebel was such as Anthony Hlynka, federal mem­ political action. UNYF'ers Hlynka, Bandera and the other by Col. Andriy found dead near his Munich office. Melnyk. ber from Vegreville, Alta; Ambrose Holowach and Starr won seats in the At first, it was believed that the OUN Holowach, federal member from Ed­ federal parliament, the latter becoming The German attack on the USSR leader had died of natural causes. In monton and later provincial secretary in minister of labor, where they ably in June 1941 provided the opportu­ fact, he had been stalked and killed the Alberta government; Michael Starr, defended the interests of their people. nity for Ukrainian nationalists in by Mr. Stashynsky, who used a mayor of Oshawa and federal minister My role in the Senate helped to achieve Germany and German-occupied Po­ weapon similar to the one he would of labor in the Diefenbaker govern­ land to return to Ukraine. Many of implementation of multiculturalism employ two years later against Mr. ment; Michael Wladyka, mayor of Port through a federal ministry and its them accompanied the German army Bandera. as interpreters. Hope for many years; Brigadier-General recognition in the Constitution as well as After assassinating Mr. Bandera, Joseph Romanow; Leon Kossar, jour­ the defense of human rightsa t NATO, There were also two Ukrainian Mr. Stashynsky fled to the Soviet nalist and executive-director of the Helsinki review conferences and the companies in the German army zone. In August 1961, he crossed into Canadian Folk Arts Council; Walter composed of members of the OUN United Nations. the Western zone in Berlin and told Klymkiw, conductor of the Koshetz faction led by Mr. Bandera. One. authorities that he had murdered two The present generation of youths in called Nachtigall, was commanded Choir, Andrew Gregorovich, editor of well-known emigre nationalist leaders Forum; and others. the UNYF apparently is interested in by Roman ShukhevychK who was in Munich several years earlier. After the retention of some of the beautiful later to die as commander of the a trial, a German court sentenced " When the Royal Commission on visible aspects of Ukrainian culture - underground Ukrainian Insurgent him to the relatively light term of Bilingualism and Biculturalism held its Army (UPA). It entered Lviv with and that is good to a point. They are, eight years' imprisonment. Released briefings in the mid-1960s, the UNYF however, much less interested in politi­ the Germans on June 30, 1941. The in the late 1960s, Mr. Stashynsky strongly advocated a policy of mu!ticul- other, Roland, fought in Rumania. cal and community action. It appears disappeared. There were persistent turalism for Canada, as it was the only that the leadership has little knowledge On June 30, members of the OUN reports that he was brought to the concept that guaranteed the equality of and little understanding of the signifi­ headed by Mr. Bandera organized a United States for intelligence pur­ Canadians of all origins and the free cant achievements of the past. Certainly gathering of citizens in Lviv, poses, although this was never con­ development of all cultures in the the UNYF founders and achievers were proclaimed the re-establishment of firmed. Canadian mosaic pattern. Through not honored or featured in the 50th the Ukrainian state and announced Earlier this year, a South African their excellent folk-dance ensembles, anniversary celebrations in Saskatoon choirs, orchestras and artistic creativity, that Mr. Bandera had appointed newspaper quoted a South African in June and Toronto in October. No Yaroslav Stetsko as the head of the military official as saying that Mr. the UNYF significantly contributed to provisional government. the cultural enrichment of Canadian clear vision, direction or drive is Stashynsky had undergone facial evident. Shortly thereafter, however, the surgery and was living in the coastal life. Gestapo arrested Mr. Stetsko and city of Durban. The report said that This is an impressive record of A non-partisan, non-sectarian or­ other nationalist leaders, including he had worked for South African achievement, which would be much ganization, such as the Ukrainian Mr. Bandera. After refusing to re­ security forces. more meaningful if an illustrated history National Youth Federation of Canada, voke the proclamation, Mr. Bandera Mr. Bandera was survived by his of the UNYF were written and pub­ which will continue to emphasize U- was sent to prison in Berlin and later wife, Yaroslawa, now deceased, and lished. I am happy to have played some krainian Canadian unity as well as to the Sachsenhausen concentration three children, Natalka, Lesia and part in the founding of this youth Canadian unity, is indispensable at this camp, where he sat out virtually the Andriy, who died this year in To­ federation and in the development of its time. If the leadership and membership remainder of the war. ronto. many-sided activities during the first rededicate themselves to the high ideals two decades. expressed in the Seven Beliefs and push" forward with an all-around The next half century constructive program of activities, they will attract new youth into the UNYF STILL AVAILABLE Even after the UN.YF had a network ranks. This will necessitate adaptation, a of over 50 branches from coast to coast difficult but necessary process. If the SAGA OF UKRAINE in Canada prior to World War II, and UNYF will train and provide new AN OUTLINE HISTORY cultural and economic activities were at leaders for the whole Ukrainian society their peak, there were voices of the older in Canada, as was done in the past, this Vol. 1 - The Age of Royalty generation which prophesied that the will be a positive service and contribu­ Vol. 2 - The Age of Heroism Ukrainians could not overcome assimi­ tion to the well-being and progress of (in English) lation and were doomed to extinction in the Ukrainian people and Canada. The Ely Myron B. Kuropas another generation. cooperation and support of the past On the contrary, the Ukrainian members of the UNYF, as well as the Only S2.00 each at the: Canadians have not only survived leaders of the UN F, of the Churches and Svoboda Book Store culturally, but have won many high of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee 30 Montgomery St. positions in all walks of Canadian life. are vital in order to achieve success and a Jersey City, N. J. 07302 For example, they have made tre­ better future. mendous achievements in municipal, Should every generation start on its iNew Jeisev residents add 6'.. sales lax) provincial and federal politics, having own, or should lessons be learned from elected over 130 parliamentarians. the past? No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 13

led the Reform Baptists from the Pastor's recantation...underground , as an authoritarian NOTICE (Continued from page 2) extremist who lives in comfort but THE SVOBODA PRESS ADMINISTRATION while Mr. Petrenko was in hiding, he masquerades an an "apostle in a fell ill but could not go to a hospi­ bunker." As for Pastor Vins. who hereby informs all organizations and individuals that the administration tal for fear of discovery. In any case, was exiled from the Soviet Union in will not accept any advertisements when at the end of 1983theauthorities 1979, Mr. Petrenko said that Presi­ discovered his refuge in the city of dent Ronald Reagan had received a if previous bills are not paid. Gomel, the fugitive was reported to Bible from him with one hand, while Individuals letters concerning unpaid bills will not be sent. " blessing the deployment oUnuclear have shown relief, rather than to have All bills must be paid within 15 days after the publication cf an advertisement. displayed fear. missiles in Western Europe with the Robitnycha Hazeta emphasizes that other. Mr. Petrenko was given an open and The article in Robitnycha Hazeta much-publicized trial in Shosta some­ skillfully blends the report on Mr. FOR ONLY 2Ф PER DAY time in the spring. Because of his full Petrenko's trial with a broader ac­ recantation, the court took into ac­ count of the Reform Baptists'history you can be insured for count his repentance and poor health and activities. The main thrust of the 55,000 and, instead of giving him what is article is to portray the Council of under an deserved, "found it possible not to Churches of Evangelical Christians deprive him of his freedom." and Baptists as a body that purports ACCIDENTAL DEATH the 55-year-old penitent was to be engaged solely in religious rewarded with ajoband proper medical activities but that in fact is linked to and, attention for his public denunciation U.S. intelligence and is involved in DISMEMBERMENT CERTIFICATE political and anti-Soviet work. of his colleagues. "No one now re­ of the . proaches him for his past,"comments UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Robitnycha Hazeta. "And this is only Robitnycha Hazeta concludes its normal. Our society treats humanely The low, low premiums for new ADD Certificates, .broadside against the Council of issued after Oct. 1, 1983. are as follows: all those who break with their un­ Churches by confidently asserting worthy past and genuinely embark that the defeat of "the fighters for S6.50 Annually on the path of correction." pure faith" is irreversible. As evi­ 53.35 Semi-annually S1.75 Quarterly At his trial, Mr, Petrenko appa­ dence of this, it cites the examples of rently sought to denigrate the Coun­ two local leaders of the Reform 60 Monthly cil of Churches of Evangelical Chris­ Baptists, Mykhailo Solodovnikov Premiums are the same for all members, age 16-55. tians and Baptists, as .well as leading from Bilopilia and Oleksandr Byelov Reform Baptist activists. He spoke from Sumy, both of whom are des­ disparagingly of Nikolai Baturin, cribed as having "broken with the ^m^sg^js^ в щюяящі Pyotr Rumachik and Dmitrii Min- extremists." Nevertheless, the news­ yakov, imprisoned members of the paper stresses that it is still too early No place like Soyuzivka Council of Churches; and of the to write off the so-called religious incarcerated "bearer of good news," extremists altogether and urges its on Thanksgiving Day! \ Pyotr Peters. Mr. Petrenko described readers to raise their vigilance against the chairman of the council, Mr. "ideological sabotage in religious Kruchkov, who for many years has packaging." THANKSGIVING DINNER AT SOYUZIVKA Still THE Ьмиашм r-j-4 available: Ukrainian Weekli Thursday, November 22, 1984, at 1 p.m. additional copies of The Ukrainian Weekly's ... м thit this trtgedy ssrs^r^ will not bs hxjotten special issue on the S-"-A—S assS- Н5хЗагивяаят SJSKSjSSSgl """7" TRADITIONAL TURKEY sHjrggg ШШШШ^^SJJrf : GREAT DINNER y.S5S5a ssB'sirtvi SSsSSSSr—-^ FAMINE. Dinners by advance orders only Saturday, November 24, 1984 Order by writing DANCE to the tunes of or calling Bohdan Hirniak Orchestra The Weekly at (201) 434-0237. Woodcut by I Hmntoniy Order UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ESTATE Kerhonkson. N.V. 12446 or phone (914) 626-5641 ійамййййвмммммеамммішиш

SOLEMN DIVINE LITURGY A TRIBUTE TO THE SERVANT OF GOD MEMORIAL

concelebrated by METROPOLITAN CONCERT Metropolitan STEPHEN ANDRIJ SHEPTYCKY and the FASHION INDUSTRIES Most Reverend BISHOPS marking 40 years since his death (1944-1984) HIGH SCHOOL Under the auspices of St. George Ukrainian Catholic The Most Reverend BASIL H. LOSTEN Church Eparch of Stamford 225 West, 24th. Street 12:00 NOON NEW YORK CITY - SUNDAY - DECEMBER 9, 1984 NEW YORK CITY Ш 3:30 P.M. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 No. 46

rian interest on the part of the Cana­ and non-Ukrainian speakers, recep­ Ukrainian... dian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society; D.C. Ukrainians... tions to provide opportunities to esta­ (Continued from page S) the interest lies also in the possible (Continued from page 4) blish greater contact among profes­ tions. Their images of Canada and the cultural renaissance of the Ukrainian and honorary members and that the sionals, sporting events, and other Ukrainian community are based on community at large. "The Ukrainian board of directors will govern the social and professional activities. She what they have heard or envisioned. community," states the brochure, association with a term of one year. stressed that the newly elected board of "Their impression of the Ukrainian "needs an injection of new people and After explaining the by-laws and an­ directors is open to ideas from members community," says Ms. Bandera, "is that new ideas. Ukrainians from Poland, swering the questions about them, a and that The Washington Group was everyone is united, has a common cause Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Ukraine motion was made to adopt the by-laws formed to fill a void in the community And some become very disillusioned have much to contribute. Can we afford as presented. The motion carried over­ and not as a competitor to any other and discouraged when they see the not to help?" whelmingly. Ukrainian American organization in various factions." Ms. Bandera quickly The meeting then turned to the existence. points out that "we, too, perceive that In observing the work of the society, election of the first board of directors other communities are better organized." one cannot help but notice that there is a and the auditing committee. Iwan The organizers of The Washington The new immigrants do adapt, special excitement generated each time Prynada proposed the slate of Ms. Group are pleased with the support though it does take time, she explains. a new group arrives. Distances of time Sluzar, president; Mr. Procinsky, vice- received from the Greater Washington- "Here they have the freedom to be and space between Ukrainians from president; Marta Pereyma, secretary; area Ukrainian Americans. With annual Ukrainian - and for them, that is the Poland and Canada are instantly erased Mr. Bihun, treasurer; Orest Deychakiw- membership dues set at S50, The Wash­ most important freedom." through the commonality of language. sky, membership director; Eugene ing Group had 54 members by the The Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant "I find it impressive,"says Ms. Bandera, Iwanciw, public relations director; and end of the organizational meeting. Aid Society is always available to assist "that they learned the language under Wolodymyr Sulzynsky, special projects According to the membership director, the immigrants in every way possible. rather difficult circumstances. When director. The meeting unanimously 'Mr. Deychakiwsky, "We hope to reach Interestingly, the CUIAS can also assist you consider the opportunities in Ca­ adopted the recommendated slate. the 100 mark in the coming months." anyone who is currently in the United nada that are available, how many can you find that have mastered Ukrainian Nadia Komarnyckyj-McConnellthen Information about The Washington States on a temporary visa. There have outlined some of the programs being Group is available by contacting any of been cases of visitors from Poland to the as well as these young immigrants? We can really benefit from their coming." contemplated for the coming year. The the members of the board of directors or United States who do not wish to return ideas include regular luncheon and writing to The Washington Group, P.O. to Poland and appeal to the CUIAS for The need for financial support in­ dinner meetings with both Ukrainian Box 11248, Washington, D.C. 20008. aid. "They.cite discrimination against creases as the numbers of Ukrainian Ukrainians in Poland as the reason for immigrants increase. Contributors may important, because after seven solo emigration, and they want out," says mail donations directly to the: Cana­ Ms. Bandera.. Lydia Artymiw... records it's time for a concerto. dian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society, (Continued from page 8) In its fund-raising brochure, the 120 Runnymede Road, Toronto, Ont. had also tremendous different kinds of Sawycky: Do you have a favorite society notes the fate that awaits many M6S 2Y3. Canadian residents wishing responses, but for some reason that project in the planning stage aimed at Ukrainians in Eastern Europe: "In to assist in providing accommodations performance just stands out. the far future? Poland, several Ukrainian activists and should call the office at (416) 767-4595. their families have been told to leave the Sawycky: What are you working on Artymiw: One of my projects which country or face imprisonment. They are Part two of a ihree-pan series presently? Is Chandos Records planning has been going on is that every year 1 try counting on the CUIAS to help them focusing on the recent immigration more recordings with you? to learn a major Schumann work. This emigrate." of Ukrainians from Poland. In part year it was the"Fantasy," which I would There is more than just a humanita­ 3: the immigrants' hopes ami fears. Artymiw: They just released my sixth have programmed for The Ukrainian recording, which is Schubert's G Major Museum concert, except that there were Sonata. The end of this past July I was so many performances of it last season in London and I did-my seventh record­ (at least 15 pianists played it in New FUNNY TEARS ing, which is Brahms's Six Chorale York) so I felt that maybe I should just a collection of short stories Preludes, Op. 122, transcribed by Busoni not do it. by MYKOLA PONEDILOK and Variations and Fugue on a Theme I would like to record more Schu­ by Handel, Op. 24. As filler there will be mann but, unfortunately, according to a completely unknown work by Brahms in English translation from the original Ukrainian. Chandos (record firm), Schumann — of which my husband discovered two doesn't sell as well as other composers. Ilustrations by EKO (Edward Kozak) and Halyna Mazepa. of the Gavottes. It's an incomplete Suite I'm hoping that with another label To order send S10.00 plus J1.00 postage to: in A Minor, a very early piece. maybe in the next five years 1 will be able to record most of the piano works Svoboda Book Store Sawycky: So this will be something of Schumann. I feel that I can make a 30 Montgomery St. entirely new for Brahms fans. very strong contribution that way. Jersey City, N. J. 07302 INPW Jersey residents add 6" sales lai) Artymiw: That's right. And then the Sawycky: Many thanks for your company is planning concerto record­ time, absorbing ideas and views. Also, ings, but that's still being discussed so I best wishes for success at The Ukrainian cannot comment definitely here. They Museum benefit concert at Alice Tully hope to have me do something with one Hall and in your other, numerous pro­ PENNA. ANTHRACITE REGION UNA BRANCHES of the London orchestras, which is jects, present and future. WILL HOLD AN ORGANIZING DISTRICT diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Momentum... Union. COMMITTEE MEETING (Continued from page 6) In this century, Ukraine was inde­ took hold in America, the tsarist minister pendent between 1918 and 1921 and Sunday, November 18,1984 at 2.00 p.m. of education issued the "Valuyev Cir­ western Ukraine was taken over by Scrafford Motel cular" which expressly forbade the use Moscow only in 1945. corner 309 - 54 Hwy HOMTOWN, Pa. of the Ukrainian language. Because of all this and more, I submit In 1876, when our American an­ that while the study of Russia and Officers Convention Delegates and Representatives of the following UNA Branches cestors were celebrating the centennial, Russian history is important - the Berwick. 164, 333 ^invited to attend: the tsar himself strengthened the study of Ukraine is crucial. Contralto, 90 Lehighton, 389 "Valuyev Circular" by issuing the "Ems I'm glad for Dr. Peebles that he went d0 Ukaze" - an edict which actually said to the Soviet Union — and, as an Frackville, 242.382 M- V -ro ion , eK that Ukraine and Ukrainian are a threat Alexandrian, I hope he goes again. But I Freetond, 429 Minersville, 78, 129, 265 to tsarist interests. urge the School Board of Alexandria, Hazleton, 85 Mt. Carmel, 2 and school boards and districts around MahanoyCrty.305 ІпеЙоаН, 98 The ultimate irony to me is that fact the nation to take a serious and objec­ that in 1932-33, when 7 million Ukrai­ tive look at the way we teach "Russian" Clair, 9, 31,228 nians were dying of starvation, our history and to include in our curricula PROGRAM: government was extending official the history of Ukraine. 1. Opening Remarks 2. Review of the organizational work of the District during the past months 3. Address by UNA Supreme Organizer STEFAN HAWRYSZ 4. Adoption of membership campaign plan for balance of 1984 5. Questions and answers, adjournment Attention, students! Meeting will be attended by Throughout the year, Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold Mr. Stefan Hawrysz, UNA Supreme Organizer activities. The Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Ukrainian community know about upcoming events. II UNA members, and all Ukrainians of the Anthracite Area are invited to attend The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be this meeting glad to print timely news stories about events that have already taken place. Black and white photos (or color with good contrast) will also be T.BUTREY A.SLOVIK H.SLOVIK accepted. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. Chairman Treasurer Secretary No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1984 15

Young UNA'ers EDUCATIONAL LOANS A fraternal service to UNA members

The loan will bear a modest Michael Walker, son of Wayne and interest rate of ЗУо a year only Pictured above are Anthony Peter, Andrew Stephen and Peter Michael Kariotis, Olga Walker, was enrolled in UNA on loans made. Interest will each new members of UNA Branch 296 in New Kingston, Pa. Their grandfather, Branch 101 in Colchester, Conn., by his accumulate during the period Peter Lobur, is the branch secretary. grandfather, John Culycz. of schooling and be paid during repayment period. Children up to 4M. years of age who enroll for 515,000 of insurance will be guaranteed a 55,000 educational loan. Should they enroll for 525,000 of in­ surance, they will be guaran­ teed a loan of 57,500. Juvenile members age 5 to 10 enrolled for 515,000 of new insurance will be guaranteed a 54,000 Educational Loan. If enrolled for 525,000 of protec­ tion, they will be guaranteed a loan of 56,000. The protection herein re­ ferred to must be under UNA P- 20 Certificate. A formal notice that loan is guaranteed will be sent with Certificate of Protection when it is issued. Certificate must remain in good standing with all assess­ Maria Nadia Morozowich was recently ments and dues paid until Edu­ enrolled in UNA Branch 481 in Car­ cational Loan is granted and negie, Pa., by her grandfather, Michael throughout repayment period. Mischuk, president of the branch. She is Certificate must be assigned the daughter of Michael and Nadia to UNA during the period of the Morozowich. loan and its repayment. Either Mark Stephen and Natalie Christine Malseed are the newest members of UNA parents or guardian must gua­ Branch 102 in Cleveland, thanks to their grandfather, Mykola Kawka, former branch rantee repayment of loan if recording secretary. Mark and Natalie are the children of Mr. and Mrs. M. Malseed juvenile is under age 21 when of Drexel Hill, Pa. loan is granted. Educational Loans will be made over a four-year period only for tuition to the college or institution of higher learn­ ing. Repayment of loan begins three months following gra­ duation of applicant and must be fully repaid over a maximum of 20 equal quarterly install­ ments. Should period of education for which loan was secured be reduced or terminated the re­ payment period will begin im­ mediately.

For information contact the UNA main office:

Alison-Desiree Counts, daughter of 30 Montgomery St. Victor and Elaine Suchorsky Counts, is Michael Andres Terlecky salutes his the newest number of Branch 65 in Tania Petrina is one of the youngest Jersey City, N.J. 07302 parents, Michael and Dolores, for Elizabeth, N.J. She was enrolled by her members of UNA Branch 8 in Yonkers, (201) 451-220Q. making him the youngest member of grandparents, William and Mary N.Y. She was enrolled by her parents, UNA Branch 13 in Watervliet, N.Y. Suchorsky of Cedar Knolls, N.J. Bohdan and Dagmar Petrina. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, .1984 No. 46 Program will honor Metropolitan Sheptytsky PHILADELPHIA - The Ukrainian On Sunday, Metropolitan Sulyk will PREVIEW OF EVENTS Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia serve a divine liturgy along with other will commemorate the 40th anniversary clergy at the Immaculate Conception of the death of Metropolitan Andrey Cathedral, beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, November 11 is extending invitations to a cock­ tail hour before a dance featuring the Sheptytsky on Saturday and Sunday, November 17-18. NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Aca­ lskra band of New York, at 7:30 p.m. A commemorative concert will begin demy of Arts and Sciences will Brunch on Sunday, as usual. For A scholarly conference, with papers at 3 p.m., at Cardinal Dougherty High sponsor a conference on "Kharkiv more information, call (617) 492- delivered in both English and Ukrai­ School, with performances by the under the German Occupation, 1941 - 5862 or (617) 498-4939. nian, will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Prometheus men's choir, violinist Me- 43." Opening remarks will be made The conference will be opened by lanie Kupchynsky and pianist Lydia by Oleh Fedyshyn. Speakers will Sunday, November 18 Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk. Artymiw. include Lubov Drashevska on "Or­ gans of Self-government and Public WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian Folk Dance Ensemble of Chicago both co-sponsors of the famine bill and Organization in the Kharkiv Pro­ Percy loses... members ef the Ad Hoc Committee, vince" (based on the deposition of I. will perform in concert at the Fitzge­ rald Public School Auditorium, (Continued from page 1) were also sent hack to the House by the Vidmych-Bandura) and O. Solovei Over in Pennsylvania, Rep. Don voters. on "Reminiscences." The program 23200 Ryan Road, at 3 p.m. The 80 dancers will offer Ukrainian dance Ritter, co-chairman of the Congres­ Other Ukrainian supporters to win will begin at 2 p.m. at the academy's sional Ad Hoc Committee on the Baltic re-election were Rep. Brian Donnelly building, 206 W. 100th St. and music from regions throughout Ukraine. Tickets, at S9, will be States and Ukraine, narrowly won a (D-Mass.), co-chairman of the Ad Hoc available at the door. For more fourth term. Gus Yatron, chairman of Committee, Rep. Dan Mica (D-Fla.), Friday - Sunday, November 16 - 18 information call (313) 754-8848. the Subcommittee on Human Rights who scheduled hearings on the famine and International Affairs, one of two bill in the Subcommittee on Interna­ tional Operations, and Rep. Dante PHILADELPHIA: The Lisovi Thursday - Saturday, November 22 - House subcommittees to which the fa­ mine bill was referred, also handily won Fascell (D-Fla.), chairman of the Chorty Plast unit will sponsor a five- 24 Foreign Affairs Committee and co- year retrospective exhibit of graphics re-election to an eighth term. In neighboring Ohio, Reps. Mary chairman of the Commission on Secu­ by Andrij Maday at the Ukrainian TORONTO: A conference on Me­ rity and Cooperation in Europe. Educational and Cultural Center, tropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky will be Rose Oakar (D)and Marcy Kaptur(D), 700 Cedar Road. Exhibit hours: held at the Hart House, of the Saturday, noon - 6 p.m.; Sunday, 2 - University of Toronto. Included in 6 p.m. There will be an opening the list of over 20 speakers are: vigils, on Sunday, November 4, mem­ Hunger striker... bers of several Ukrainian youth or­ reception on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale University, (Continued from page 1) "An Evening with the Artist" for Woldieter Bihl of the University of ganizations joined him and helped pass He said his wife does not protest his students, alumni and young pro­ Vienna, Shimon Redlich of the Ben- out the appeals to passers-by. Also, a actions. "You see, we have a lot of fessionals on Saturday at 8 p.m. Gurion University of the Negev, recently formed ad hoc committee democracy in our family," he said. Ms. Omeljan Pritsak of Harvard Univer­ based in New Jersey has called for a Svitlychna has the power to, allow sity, and Thomas Bird of Queens demonstration at Ralph' Bunche Park authorities to forcibly end her hus­ Saturday, November 17 College CCNY. Representing the on Monday, November 12, at 11:30 band's hunger strike. The couple has clergy will be the Rev. Henry Hill, a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to give Mr. Stoko­ two children. NEWARK, N J.: Branch 75 of the bishop of the Anglican Church of telnyj moral support and help publicize Ukrainian National Women's League Canada and the Representative of Sympathizers who stop to ask how the reasons behind the hunger strike. of America will hold an autumn the Archbishop of Caterbury to the Mr. Stokotelnyj feels are handed Donations to the Stokotelnyj Hunger j dance at the Ramada Inn. Route 10 Eastern Churches; Bishop Michael leaflets, issued by the External Repre­ Strike Fund, which will help cover the in East Hanover, N.J. Cocktail hour Hrynchyshyn of Paris; the Rev. sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki costs of printing flyers, transportation will begin at 8:30 p.m. and the dance Lubomyr Husar of Rome, and the Group and Americans for Human and room fees can be sent to the Self at 9 p.m. The SI5 tickets include Rev. Athanasius Pekar of Washing­ Rights in Ukraine, which appeal "to all Reliance Credit Union (bank account cocktails and buffet. Tickets will be ton. Conference participants will people of good will" to "send protests to No. 7661), at 108 Second Ave., New available at the door or they may be take part in an ecumenical service in Soviet officials and ask ftheirj govern­ York, N.Y. 10003. purchased from Roma Myskiw, Trinity College Anglican Chapel on ment to do the same." For more information about Mr. (201)677-0744. Saturday afternoon. The public is Stokotelnyj's hunger strike, call (212) cordially invited to the conference. Although Mr. Stokotelnyj usually 673-9530 until 5 p.m.; (212) 460-9548 or PARMA, Ohio: The Ukraina Folk For further information or to register, has few visitors during his 12-hour (212) 206-7888 in the evenings. Dance Ensemble of Chicago will call (416) 978-3332. perform at Parma Senior High School, 6285 W. 54th St., at. 7 p.m. The 80 dancers will offer an evening of Ukrainian dance and music from PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing regions throughout Ukraine. Tickets, of Ukrainian community events open at S9 and S7, will be available at the to the public, is a service provided door. For more information, call free of charge by The Weekly to the (216)884-9111. Ukrainian community. 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Miss Soyuzivka contest rescheduled JERSEY CITY, N.J. The Miss Patriarch Josyf Slipyj of the Ukrainian Soyuzivka contest, originally scheduled Catholic Church. to be held at the UNA resort, Soyu­ The Miss Soyuzivka program will zivka. in September, has been resche­ also feature a concert and a dance to the duled for Saturday, December 29. music of Nova Khvylia, a Toronto band The event was postponed because of that made its Soyuzivka debut this past the period of mourning for the late summer. Pavlo Stokotelnyj sits beneath a poster-size photo of Mykola Horbal.