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иктіттReview і 4L 9 Ч О CONTENTS Yaroslav Stetsko: THE B A SIC P R O B L E M ............................................................. 2 ASIAN PEOPLES’ ANTICOMMUNIST LEAGUE SUPPORTS UKRAINIAN LIBERATION FIGHT. Resolution of the 15th APACL Conference ... 5 Anathole W. Bedriy, M.A., M.Sc.: AN EXEMPLARY FREEDOM-FIGHTER. On the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Roman Shukhevych (Taras Chuprynka) ....................................................................................................... 6 General Taras Chuprynka: THE ORIGIN OF THE UKRAINIAN SUPREME LIBERATION COUNCIL ........................................................................... 19 WORLD ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE RESOLUTIONS............................... 29 Igor Shankovsky: THIRTEEN SHORT STORIES BY A P O E T ................. 33 Olexa Woropay: CUSTOMS OF OUR PEOPLE (Continuation — 2) .......... 43 LaVerne R. and John P. Pauls: RYLEYEV AND U KRAINE........................ 49 Anathole W. Bedriy: LENIN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL RULE IN UKRAINE ............................................................ 61 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN THE USSR. Letter To the General Secretary of the Central Committee Of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC CPSU) L. I. Brezhnev from the Council of Relatives of the Evangelical Christian-Baptists, who are suffering in the USSR for the word of G o d .............................................. 67 CAPTIVE NATIONS’ WEEK IN BRITAIN ..................................................... 81 MEMORANDUM FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINIANS IN GREAT BRITAIN TO THE PRIME M INISTER....................................... 86 DR. HORBOVYI’S APPEAL ........................................................................... 93 Andrij D. Solczanyk: CATHEDRAL OF ST. SOPHIA IN K IE V ................. 95 THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW Editorial correspondence should Be sent to: The Editors, “The Ukrainian Review” , 200 Liverpool Road, London, N.l. Subscriptions should Be sent to: “The Ukrainian Review” (Administration), c/o Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, Ltd. 49 Linden Gardens, London, W.2. Overseas representatives: USA: Organization for Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Inc. P.O. Box 304, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. Canada: Canadian League for Ukraine’s Liberation, 140 Bathurst Street, Toronto 2B, Ont. THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW Vol. XVII No. 1 Spring 1970 A Quarterly Magazine EDITORIAL BOARD: Professor Dr. Vasyl Oreletzkyj Chairman of the Board Mrs. Slava Stetzko, M.A. Volodymyr Bohdaniuk, B.A., B.Litt. Editor Executive Editor Professor Nicholas Chirovsky Anatol Bedriy, M.A. Associate Editor Associate Editor Professor Lew Shankowsky Michael Sosnowsky, B.A., B.L.S. Associate Editor Associate Editor Price: 7s 6d a single copy Annual Subscription: £1.10.0 $6.00 Six Months 15.0 $3.00 Published by The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, Ltd. in cooperation with Organization for Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Inc. (U.S.A) and Canadian League for Ukraine’s Liberation. 2 THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW Yaroslav STETSKO THE BASIC PROBLEM “This is the greatest event since the creation of the world” — was said By President Nixon while greeting the astronauts on their return from the moon. One may Be proud of such achievement of the human genius; one should and one may Be proud of the achievements of one’s own nation, but it is bad when the human mind attributes to itself the power which Belongs to the supernatural. The most significant event since the creation of the world was the coming of Christ and His revelation of Divine Truth. With that began a new era in the life of the human species. The world was created By God and no human achievements, which in their essence are only perceptional in character, can match His creation. The present triumph of science and engineering can Be compared with the conquest of the oceanic expanses in the 15th century, the discovery of Both poles, or the conquest of space. The discovery of America was a great achievement for mankind in general and Europe in particular, and its consequences were of no lesser importance than the landing on the moon. But, without degrading any human achievement, one must rememBer that neither the moon, nor any other planet of the solar system could Be settled By man, for the atmospheric conditions there do not warrant it. And no matter how enthusiastic we have Become about this latest feat of human genius, we have to get Back to earthly problems, for the question of the liberation of the enslaved nations from the foreign Communist Russian yoke is still an earthly question. Therefore, we cannot turn our attention away from the basic question of our social existence, i. e., the reestablishment of a free and independent Ukrainian State. For the last twenty years we have constantly argued in our press that technological development of the world is not going hand in hand with moral and ethical progress. On the contrary, what is progressing is the Barbarization of human life, its de-humanization and de-Christianization. What a paradoxical contradiction! We are pleased that today the great British historian Arnold ToynBee is raising the same question, although from a different angle. He sees all the evil as stemming from nationalism; we see it as stemming from imperialism. What a great gap lies Between the phenomenal technological progress and human achievement and the morality of THE BASIC PROBLEM 3 the hedonists, the conquerors, the oppressors and the perpetrators of genocide! How are civilization and science flourishing, and culture and morality sinking! Today, in full view of the world and with its tacit agreement, thousands of children are starving to death in Biafra, which fought for her statehood against the modern-day African imperialists. The Irians-Papuans of New Guinea are dying By the thousands at the hands of the present-day Indonesian imperialists. And in the Russian empire? Countless thousands of fighters — sons and daughters of the subjugated people — are suffering and dying under inhuman conditions in prisons and concentration camps of the Russian tyrants. All this is taking place Before the very eyes of the civilized, but heartless world! For this reason it was much easier to land on the moon than to solve the proBlem of the liberation of the suBjugated peoples and to introduce a just order on earth. For this reason we are constantly returning to earthly problems, to our problems, so that while Being enthusiastic about the achievements of human genius in the technol ogical sense, we do not forget the essence: that so far the Ukrainian Truth has not been realized on earth. And this is also God’s proBlem on earth. We have often justified the uncontrollaBle race of human genius to discover the new, to follow in the footsteps of Dedalus and Icarus. This is characteristic of the human spirit, which is always searching, fighting for what is new, solving the as yet unsolved. But we hope that the extraordinary achievement of American science and en gineering, which is the result of research and inventiveness of whole generations of intellectuals of various nations, will not overshadow the basic proBlem of human existence — that one Billion human beings are living under tyranny, in particular 45 million Ukrainians, our brothers, sisters, parents and children are living under Russian despotism. Furthermore, the Ukrainian genius is active there as well. A Ukrainian, Kapytsia, is the father of Soviet technology in the thermo-nuclear field, and cyBernetics was founded By the Kyiv scientists. But we are lacking one thing: FREEDOM AND SOVER EIGNTY, the RULE of the Ukrainian people on Ukrainian soil. And this is the central proBlem of our collective existence. We would Be unfair if we failed to pay due respect to the courage and self-sacrifice of the American astronauts, who landed on the moon. But, while admiring them, the world has forgotten another kind of heroism — anonymous, without puBlicity, without the admiration of humanity, the quiet heroism and self-sacrifice of the abused and lonely heroes and heroines in the Russian prisons and concentration camps. There are two types of heroes — those who are worshipped, who have the sympathy of the whole world, the prayers and blessings of the highest religious dignitaries, who are supported in their risky undertakings By hundreds, and even thousands of 4 THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW scientists, technicians and computers, i. e., heroes who are conscious of the moral sympathy of mankind. Another type of heroes — un parallelled in the history of all times — are the Ukrainian women in Kinghir, who in defense of other prisoners threw themselves under the caterpillars of tanks driven By the Russian barbarians; these are the Kateryna Zarytskas, the HorBovyis, the Shukhevychs, the Kara- vanskyis, the Oliynyks; these are the lonely, the forgotten, the tortured, the martyred, the persecuted. These heroes are dying some where of a shot in the head, or slowly perishing in the dark jail cell or stone quarries of the tyrants — alone, without the applause of the whole world, but fanatics of the great idea of national independence, freedom, truth and justice. Yes, there are two kinds of heroes! And each of them is risking his life and to each this life is precious to the same degree. But for the former all churches and their dignitaries are imploring God’s help, while for the latter, our heroes, only their own faith, their own will power, their own determination to fight singlehandedly for truth and freedom must suffice, while the free world is watching in forBoding silence. Which of these has worked harder for victory of God’s truth on earth — will have to Be answered By each of us in our own hearts. How much easier is it to risk one’s life when one is conscious of all possible help from the greatest technological power on earth and the sympathy and prayers of almost the whole of mankind, but how much harder is it to Be left to one’s own faith and willpower, to Be completely lonely, to receive only the tacit compassion of one’s own subjugated nation.