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'^^^^' Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainianWee Vol. LVI No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 50 cents Lviv residents, informal groups react Former Israeli judge joins Demjanjuk defense CLEVELAND - Dov Eitan, a re­ Defense Fund noted. tired Israeli judge of 17 years, has joined Additionally, Messrs. Sheftel and to violent retribution against meeting the defense team of John Demjanjuk, Eitan were to petition the court to JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Residents the association, including the editorial who was convicted of war crimes and intervene with the Italian government and various informal groups in the staff and contributors to the group's sentenced to death this past April in to gain access to files relating to new western Ukrainian city of Lviv have journal, Kafedra, labelled the day of the Israel. allegations that Mr. Demjanjuk was reacted with indignance to the violent disrupted meeting "Bloody Thursday." Midway through the District Court also a concentration camp guard in way local authorities broke up a recent The press service of the Ukrainian proceedings, Mr. Eitan expressed his Triest, Italy, from 1943 to 1945. This public meeting and arrested, among Helsinki Union issued newsletter No. 10 concern about the conduct of the three- information is critical to the defense as others, its chief organizer, reported the on August 20, titled, "Lviv Engineer judge panel. it now places Mr. Demjanjuk in three External Representation of the Ukrai­ Ivan Makar - the First Political Mr. Eitan was the youngest judge separate locations at the same time nian Helsinki Union. Prisoner of Perestroika in Ukraine." ever to preside in the history of Israel. In committing war crimes. With the help of a unit of special riot Dedicated entirely to Mr. Makar's 1983 he retired to a full pension and The final request to be made on police, local militia reportedly used arrest, the newsletter revealed details joined the legal firm of Bar-On, Eitan, September 2 will be to allow the defense violent measures against many of the surrounding his detainment on charges Mandel and Co. Mr. Eitan has more access to the videotapes of the entire thousands who gathered on August 4 in of "disrupting public order," which years of experience than either Judge trial and isolate the actions of the three- Lviv's Ivan Franko Park for a regular carries a maximum sentence of three Zvi Tal or Judge Dalia Dorner, who sat judge panel, in order to point out what it public meeting, organized by the recent­ years' incarceration. on the panel that convicted Mr. Dem­ believes to be the court's prejudice ly formed Initiative Group of the The newsletter included a statement janjuk. towards defense witnesses and defense Democratic Front to Promote Pere- by the Ukrainian Helsinki Union calling Ironically, Judge Tal, who read the counsel. stroika. Scores were injured as they the Ukrainian republican leadership death sentence to Mr. Demjanjuk only Mr. Eitan's first v^sit with Mr. Dem­ were forcibly dragged from the scene "the most reactionary regime in all the months ago, now occupies Mr. Eitan's janjuk is scheduled Ao take place Sun­ and beaten by police, while nearly two Soviet republics," made evident by its seat in the District Court of Jerusalem. day, September 4, at Ayalon Prison, dozen participants were detained or brutal reaction to public meetings that On Friday, September 2, Mr. Eitan where Mr. Demjanjuk has been held for fined, according to the press service of are tolerated in other republics, such as and Yoram Sheftel, who has represent­ the past 31 months. the unofficial Ukrainian Helsinki the Baltic states. ed Mr. Demjanjuk throughout the Mr. Eitan was born in Tel-Aviv in Union. The g^oup also announced in its Israeli proceedings, were scheduled to 1935. He served in the Israeli defense Ivan Makar, the 30-year-old leader of newsletter the formation of a Citizens' appear before the registrar of the forces and completed Jerusalem Uni­ the Initiative Group, was arrested on Committee in Defense of Ivan Makar, Supreme Court of Israel. versity's faculty of law in 1962. the morning before the public meeting following the official announcement by They were to request the Supreme He was a lawyer in private practice in and was charged with "disrupting the the Lviv procurator's office of Mr. Court to compel archival centers in 1962-1967, specializing in civil and public order" under Article 187-3 of the Makar's arrest. West Germany, Poland and other East criminal law. In 1967 he was elected a Ukrainian SSR Criminal Code. No The committee, which was created in bloc countries to open their doors to magistrate, and in the years 1969 to sentence has yet been set for the young an effort to coordinate citizens' the defense. 1974 he was deputy director of Israeli engineer, a Communist Party member, actions on behalf of Mr. Makar, These centers contain voluminous courts and chief magistrate. who declared a hunger strike upon his includes the following members: files of Treblinka survivor testimony In 1974-1978 he was chief magistrate arrest. Bohdan Horyn, head of the Lviv and other material critical to the de­ and registrar of the Jerusalem District In an August 17 statement, members branch of the Ukrainian Helsinki fense. Unlike the open archival access Court. Then in 1978 to 1983 he was a of the Ukrainian Association of Inde­ Union; Oles Shevchenko, head of the policy afforded to the prosecution both district court judge in Jerusalem. pendent Creative Intelligentsia called group's Kiev branch; Vasyl Sichko, in Israel and in the U.S., the doors have In 1983 he retired and joined the legal Mr. Makar '4he first victim in Ukraine head of the initiative group for the remained closed to the defense for the firm of Bar-On, Eitan, Mandel and Co., of political repression during the period formation of an Ivano-Frankivske past 12 years, the John Demjanjuk which handles mostly criminal cases. of glasnost." branch of the union; and union mem­ In the statement titled, "Freedom for bers Ihor Derkacz, Ivan Zhelenchuk, the Engineer Ivan Makar," members of (Continued on page 4) Canada accepts millennium refugees WINNIPEG - Canada has agreed to that the group is entering under the 1989 allow more than 300 Ukrainian refugees quota. Estonians call for independence from Poland to enter the country, the The Ukrainians will enter Canada Winnipeg Free Press reported on Sep­ under the category of self-exiled re­ tember 1. Most of the refugees have fugees. in political party platform been stranded in Austria since July 3 The federal government said it ex­ NEW YORK - "Forty-eight years of The ERSP's goal is to "restore an when they defected while on a bus tour pects to spend about S7,000 per refugee rule by a hostile foreign power have independent democratic Estonian na­ from Poland to Rome. on settlement costs. The Canadian pushed our country and our people to tion based on universally recognized The Canadian government's decision Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society is the edge of catastrophe," states the international principles of justice." to accept the refugees came after weeks sponsoring 40 of the refugees at a cost of manifesto of the just-founded Estonian Excerpts from the party's declaration of stonewalling by bureaucrats in the about S2,000 per person. National Independence Party (ERSP). follow. Immigration Department, Ukrainian Bob Mykytiuk, president of the First proposed in January, ERSP community spokesmen told Michael CUIAS, noted that he hopes other publicly announced and formally rati­ Bbciurkiw of the Winnipeg Free Press. Ukrainian organizations also will spon­ fied its platform and political structure The community responded by flood­ sor refugees. He added that the refugees in ceremonies at the Pilitvere Church in We have reached a state of affairs ing the offices of Tory caucus members want to come to Canada because of its the Viljandi region of Estonia on where we do not have enough clean air, with phone calls and letters. And, on large Ukrainian community. August 20. water, or earth to sustain life, let alone August 30, representatives of the Ukrai­ The group members will first have to Congratulations came from the Lat­ freedom. Add to that the danger of nian Canadian community met with undergo routine medical tests and vian National Independence Movement becoming a minority in our own ancient immigration officials. security checks. Processing will begin and Helsinki 86. Press Club Glasnost land, which has already happened in Immigration Minister Barbara Mc- almost immediately, but the refugees representatives from Moscow filmed some regions, including our capital. Dougall gave in to Tory requests and will not be allowed to arrive before the proceedings. Every thinking and responsible Esto­ agreed to allow the Ukrainians to come January 1, 1989, said Ian Sadinsky, an Tlie new opposition party has 102 nian senses a most dire threat to survi­ to Canada. She made the decision at the immigration official. Other sources, founding members. Long-time political val. Every system founded on the power request of Deputy Prime Minister Don however, said the first group of refugees activists Mati Kiirend, Lagle Parek, Eve monopoly of one single party has Mazankowski and Finance Minister could reach Canada as early as October. Parnaste, Velio Salum and Erik Udam turned out perverse and unproductive, Michael Wilson. Both have large Ukrai­ Meanwhile, the Canadian Ukrainian were chosen as directors. They also unable to satisfy either man's material nian constituences in their ridings. Immigrant Aid Society is continuing its serve on the 21-member executive needs or spiritual aspirations... By now The decision to admit the refugees fund-raising for the refugees. Dona­ council. Also chosen were a three- we can state with certainty that a social was made even though the 1988 quota tions may be sent to: Ukrainian Immi­ member auditing committee and a five- order of the Soviet variety is nothing for East European refugees had been grant Aid, 120 Runnymede Road, member court of honor. (Continued on page 2) filled. Minister McDougall's office said Toronto, Ont; M6S 2Y3. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1988 No. 36

Kiev translator of literature NEWS AND VIEWS Mykola Lukash dead at 68 JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Mykola French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Sov/ef press on the famine Lukash, a prominent Soviet Ukrainian Hungarian, Czech, Hebrew and Japa­ translator, died of cancer in Kiev, on nese. by Dr. David R. Marples officials, who had requisitioned grain Monday, August 29, reported the He was awarded the Maksym Rylsky In 1983 Edmontonians of Ukrainian supplies from the peasants without any External Representation of the Ukrai­ Prize in translation especially for ancestry erected a monument to the knowledge of the dire food shortage in nian Helsinki Union. He was 68 years Goethe's "Faust" and Boccaccio's victims of a man-made famine in their the villages. Many evidently judged the old. "Decameron." He also translated the homeland. The famine, which had grain supply simply by looking at how much was growing in the fields. Mr. Lukash, one of the two leading poetry of Lorca, Schiller and Burns. taken place 50 years earlier, had been In a recent article, Mr. Lukash's denied by Soviet authorities. During the Perplexed by some of the omissions contemporary Ukrainian translators, past few months, however, the Soviet in Mr. Kulchytsky's article, I wrote to (Hryhoriy Kochur is the other), was contemporary and colleague, Mr. Kochur, called him "an unequalled Union has not only acknowledged that the editorial board of News From born on December 19, 1919, in the Ukraine in Kiev. Not only did I receive , village of Krolevtsi, Sumy oblast. scholar of our language, an unsurpassed there was a Ukrainian famine, but in the stylist." spirit of glasnost it has provided several an official response, but my questions He graduated from the Kharkiv a time when Mr. Lukash was purged unique and vivid depictions of the were published in a recent issue of the Pedagogical Institute in 1947 and soon from the literary process, a time when horror of those years. newspaper. They pertained to the after worked at the school, teaching the mention of his name could not be Before 1987, Soviet historiography banned populations census of 1937, German, French and English, among printed. This was in the late 1960s. maintained that the food problems that and to the internal passport system other languages. Mr. Lukash suffered from stomach occurred in Ukraine in the 1930s were introduced in Ukraine so that the The linguist began doing translation cancer, and underwent surgery last also a result of "kulak sabotage." Rich starving peasants could not cross the in 1953 and throughout his lifetime, year. He was buried on Wednesday, peasants, opposed to the collectiviza­ republic's borders in search of food. worked in 12 languages, among them August 31, at Kiev's Baikovy cemetery. tion of small peasant farms, hoarded Mr. Kulchytsky was not particularly grain and allegedly attacked those who happy with either question, but ad­ wished to ensure the supply of food to mitted that the passport system tied the the cities. When Western historians peasant to the village. On the demogra­ GLASNOST DIARY: attempted to begin serious studies of the phic losses, he wrote: "So far Soviet period, based largely on diplomatic scientists are not ready to determine the recording changes in the USSR archives, they were bitterly attacked by demographic losses of 1933. One thing Soviet writers. Thus, in 1985, B.M. is clear: they were tremendous." who said, "This is the first time any­ Babii wrote in a Soviet Ukrainian Interest in and concern about the It is better to give thing like this has happened officially, newspaper that the famine was a myth famine has not been limited to Ukraine. A recent news story on Soviet tele­ though many believers are active in propagated by Ukrainian emigres. In a May issue, the weekly Nedelya, a vision featured charitable work, the medical and social services. It is a In Canada, there were writers who supplement to the government daily, Izvestia, published a letter from a newest reform under Gorbachev's po­ breakthrough as big as getting permis­ adhered to this view. Douglas Tottle, a licy of perestroika. According to Jim Winnipeg-based writer, authored a resident of eastern Ukraine, V. Losev, sion to build new churches in areas who survived the famine. The letter was Forest of the International Fellowship where none exist." book, "Fraud, Famine and Fascism," which purports to dimiss the scholarly a harrowing portrayal of what life was of Reconciliation, the Epiphany Cathe­ like in the Ukrainian village in 1932-33. dral (the seat of Patriarch Pimen, head A young doctor at the hospital added works on the Ukrainian famine by such of the Russian Orthodox Church) and a that '4he Christian religion teaches care prominent academics as Robert Con­ There have also been of late several local Moscow hospital have signed an of neighbors. This is a concrete way of quest of Stanford University and discussions in scholarly journals about agreement through which lay members doing it. Now we have our first contact James E. Mace of Harvard University, various aspects of the collectivization. of the church can offer volunteer with a religious organization and we as based on unreliable evidence and in campaign of the 1930s - including the service. think it can help with a lot of problems support of a fringe group of extreme Ukrainian famine. The subject is no longer taboo. Mr. Forest talked to a Moscow priest we have offering health care." right-wing nationalists. Mr. Tpttle's views were echoed last January in an The Ukrainian famine re-examina­ issue of the New York Village Voice, in tion forms part of a new analysis of the carries the irreplaceable mission of which Jeff Coplon also tried to belittle Stalin period by Soviet historians. As Estonians... filling the ethical vacuum that has been Western scholarship on the topic. Igor Shafarovich reported in a June 12 column in the weekly Moscow News: (Continued from page 1) created over the past half-century and Such views had credibility as long as guiding our people back to the tradi­ the Soviet Union continued to maintain "There can be no doubt that Stalin was but a dead end in mankind's develop­ a monster and that if there ever existed a ment. tional moral values of Estonians. With­ that there was no man-made famine. out a moral rebirth there will be no Last January News From Ukraine real enemy of the people it was him. His The birth of Estonian independence crimes will be remembered forever and in 1918 was not by any means an small miracle of economic reform nor published a lengthy article on the the big miracle of national rebirth. famine by historian Stanislav Kulchyt- we need the entire concrete truth about accident: the Estonian nation was ripe the epoch of his omnipotence as much for independence. Today she is even ERSP wants to cooperate with every­ sky. The latter not onjy acknowledged one who strives responsible for a free the severity of the famine, but pointed as we need air." riper for political independence - she For Ukrainians in Canada, the result needs no custodians either in the East or future, with everyone who wants to help out that it had arisen largely from the abolish socialist colonialism. zealousness and ignorance of Stalin's of this "breath of fresh air" in Soviet in the West. There is a basis fbr restora­ historiography is the belated examina­ tion of independence both in interna­ tion of the most tragic period in Ukrai­ tional law and in history. The article above appeared in the July 14 issue of the Edmonton Journal nian history. The ultimate paradox is The problems of Estonia can only be The ERSP declaration ends with the It is reprinted here with the permission that those who have continued to deny solved in a way that restores the people's final stanza of the national anthem of of the author. Dr. David Marples is a re­ that the famine was artificial, such as feelings of security regarding tomor­ the Republic of Estonia: "May God search associate at the Canadian Insti­ Messrs. Tottle and Coplon, have finally row, people's hope and faith. Only keep watch over you, my beloved tute of Ukrainian Studies, University of been undermined irrevocably by the independence can guarantee that. The fatherland! May He be your protector Alberta. Soviets themselves. restoration of Estonia's political inde­ and give His plentiful blessing to all pendence is not only an end in itself, it your undertakings, my dear father­ simultaneously creates the prerequisites land!" for the solution of all of our problems. 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At the Vienna Conference cJoationaL ЄоттіНев U.S. outlines its hopes Jo Єоттгтогаіе Following are excerpts of a statement what he or she speaks, thinks or ОПШеппіит qfehrUtianUyj delivered by U.S. Ambassador Warren believes would be arrested for that inVkjralne Zimmermann before a plenary session reason today. of the Vienna follow'up meeting of the ^ Why can't all monitors be freed? Conference on Security and Coopera­ Nine is a smaller number than 36, but tion in Europe. The address was deli­ it's still nine too many. vered on August 5, when the conference ^ Why can't the lid be taken off Appeal to Ukrainian community adjourned for a three-week summer emigration? And why are applicants for recess. emigration still made to pay for secrets they may have possessed years ago? We, Ukrainians, live in extraordinary times, we live in a jubilee year, the ...The people of the Soviet Union are Boris and Esfir Orlov, both in their 80s, year that celebrates the millennium of Christianity in Kievan-Rus', the one living through an exciting and critical continue to be denied on secrecy thousandth anniversary of our Christian, national culture. historical period. There have been grounds despite the fact that Mr. Orlov This jubilee has impelled our communities, our Ukrainian settlements iii ' important advances in political and civil retired 17 years ago. He was informed various countries to actively participate in celebrations befitting such a rights; and more have been promised. In May 23 — during the current Vienna historic event, to commemorate this event in various forms, on numerous November 1986, when our meeting round - that his denial was for life. spheres. began, there were over 700 prisoners of ^ Why do Deutsche Welle, Radio It has also vivified Ukrainians, who have settled outside their mainstream conscience in the Soviet Union; today Liberty, Radio Israel, and other radios ethnic communities to reacquaint themselves with their historic and national that number has been reduced by more continue to be jammed? What can identity. than half. In November 1986, 36 Hel­ Soviet society, bursting with new open­ This achievement is reflected in our successful national and international sinki monitors were imprisoned in the ness, new dynamism and new life, fear conferences and congresses, and in the scholarly works published as their Soviet Union; today the number is from foreign broadcasts?... result. Now, for the first time in our history, works of ancient Ukraine, down to nine. During the entire year of As we return for what we all hope will fundamental to our historic existence are being published. 1986, fewer than a thousand Jews were be the final phase of the Vienna meet­ Religious millennium celebrations, some which have already taken place, permitted to exercise their right to leave ing, it might be helpful to keep in mind a some which are still to come, both on the national and international level, their country; the total for last month few simple principles. have attracted thousands of faithful. In towns and "cities, Ukrainians have alone was nearly twice that. In Novem­ First, while — as Ambassador Kash- planned local religious and cultural millennium events. ber 1986, the Russian services of Voice lev has reminded us - the best is the These grand celebrations, which have become the top priority for our of America and BBC were jammed, enemy of the good, so is the bad. In communities and churches, underscore our historic integrity, indicate that today they can broadcast in the clear. In understanding that we will not get a 1,000 years of Christianity and Christian culture are our national treasure, the November 1986 there were nearly 230 perfect result, we must not settle for a foundation for our future. outstanding bilateral cases - divided mediocre one. In the human dimension, The Ukrainian American community has displayed its initiative and families, separated spouses, blocked the neutral/non-aligned test sets a high dynamism throughout these various commemorative events, whether they be marriages, dual nationals - between but realistic standard. The standard cultural, scholarly, secular or religious, for many celebrations have already the United States and the Soviet Union; must be maintained. taken place in America. the number is now well under 100. Second, we need to remember that The National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianity Nobody can doubt that there has the principle of consensus in CSCE has in Ukraine, since its inception in 1985, has set two main goals for itself: to been considerable progress, and no­ two sides. Though each of us has the organize local commemorative millennium committees and to organize a body can fail to credit General Secre­ power, none of us has the right to abuse national central commemoration in our nation's capital, Washmgton, ot all tary Gorbachev for creating the climate consensus to the detriment of the other Ukrainians in the United States. and initiating the policies which have 34. Conversely, however, we are all made it possible. If it is possible to go so sovereign states and we owe to each Our communities, on the local level have organized events in their far, why should it be difficult to go other a sympathetic and respectful communities, while others are preparing to celebrate the jubilee later this farther? hearing as well as a good-faith effort to year. ^ Why can't all prisoners of con­ adjust and accommodate. The National Committee plans to hold its celebrations in Washington, science be released? Not a single Soviet And third, let us not forget the stakes. D.C., on Friday, October 7, Saturday, October 8, and Sunday, October 9, citizen who is currently incarcerated foj We are responsible for determining with various events. These Washington celebrations are particularly impor­ whether an important new conventional tant for Ukrainians firstly because this is a national event involving all Ukrai­ arms negotiation can begin this year. nian Americans from throughout the United States, from various states and Black Ribbon Day We are also responsible for ensuring, in cities. In this way, all Ukrainian Americans can unite to publicly commemo­ the human dimension, a high level of rate this grand jubilee of Christianity and thereby manifest the Ukrainian his­ both commitment and performance. toric tradition. In addition, we must remember that these celebrations will be noted by Bush Finally, we are responsible for making held in our nation's capital, in the most powerful country in the world. Following is the full text of a the CSCE process worthy of an ever- The world focuses its attention on Washington, D.C. All U.S. political statement by Vice-President George increasing role in the transformations leaders work in this city; the media is strong here also. Bush regarding Black Ribbon Day, that are taking place in Europe. Therefore, the National Committee invites and appeals to all the hierarchs, commemorating the August 23, I conclude with a bold, but I believe priests and pastors of Ukrainian Churches, the entire Ukrainian American 1939, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. realistic, recommendation. Before the community, all the central and local church, community, professional, youth, Vienna meeting concludes, let us build veteran, athletic and other organizations to participate in the com­ Dear Friends: on the improved implementation al­ memorations of the Millennium of Christianity . Active particitipation in the I am proud to join in solidarity ready recorded in three areas of the Washington, D.C, events should become a personal and moral obligation for with the millions of people, both in human dimension by eliminating those every Ukrainian American. We must always remember that our brothers and the West and behind the Iron Cur­ areas altogether as fields of violation, sisters in Ukraine lack the opportunity to freely and publicly celebrate their tain, who are calling attention to the contention and criticism. First, let us millennium of Christianity. Attempts in cities and towp^,^^ited in our press, secret protocols of the August 23, ensure by the conclusion of Vienna that were banned or interrupted by the Soviet government. For this reason, we 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. nowhere in the CSCE area is there a have a two-fold responsibility to celebrate for our countrymen in Ukraine and These illegal protocols of non- single person imprisoned for his or her for ourselves in the free world. aggression between the Nazi and ideas or beliefs. Second, let us eliminate Soviet regimes led to the illegal all bilateral cases in which the authori­ We must come to Washington, because the greater the number of parti­ Soviet annexation of the Baltic ties of one country impede family cipants, the greater the effect the celebrations will have upon the world. States as well as the Nazi invasion of contacts affecting citizens of another. Moreover, we will have greater moral satisfaction if we successfully carry out Poland and the eventual subjugation And third, let us put an end to all our Christian and national duty. of millions throughout Eastern Eu­ jamming, so that all our people can Throughout the next few weeks, we will make available a detailed schedule rope, the Baltic States and Ukraine. choose for themselves what they want to for the Washington, D.C, millennium events. While the Nazi regime has long listen to. ^ ' been extinguished, these illegal pro­ This recommendation does not dimi­ The National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in tocols are still adhered to by the nish the importance of other areas like Ukraine: Soviet authorities and remain the emigration where full resolution in the major barrier that currently prevents Vienna time-frame is not possible, Yuriy Starosolsky, presidium chairman the restoration of sovereignty to however desirable. Nor does it alter our Ihor Koszman^ presidium vice-chairman Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. conviction that progress in such areas as George Soltys,executive committee chairman As we mark this tragic anniver­ emigration must continue and accele­ Vyacheslav Vyshnevsky, executive committee co-chairman sary, known as Black-Ribbon Day, rate. This recommendation focuses on Vasyl Kalynovych, secretary we remain firmly in support of all three categories whose elimination by those striving for human and na­ the end of the Vienna meeting is clearly tional rights in Eastern Europe and feasible. particularly the peoples of the three Friday, October 7 Festival of Youth and evening concert. In all of these areas there has been Saturday, October 8 A noon manifestation procession in the capital, Soviet-occupied Baltic States. significant progress during the life of the and an afternoon rally,foilowedby an 8 p.m. concert and a youth dance. Vienna meeting. Why not carry that Sunday, October 9 Morning divine liturgies, followed by a noon-time ^ Sincerely, progress to its end — a genuine zero George Bush moleben and a 2:30 p.m. concert. (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 No. 36 Detroit community honors Wichar U.S. naval officer knighted for over 50 years of service in medieval military order LONDON - George Woloshyn, lieu­ tenant commander, U.S. Navy Reserve, was knighted in the second oldest military order in the world, the Sove­ reign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, in ceremonies in London on July 28. The order began about the year 1118. Its members were originally known as Brothers of the Militia of the Temple, or more simply. Knights Templars. Ivan- hoe of literary fame was among the many prominent members of the order during its 870-year history. Knights of the order have been enjoined to wear a white habit to which they assumed the patriarchal cross, and sewed it on the left shoulder of their mantles to distinguish them from the knights of other orders in the Holy Land. At the London ceremonies, which were held in conjunction with the 1988 Congress of the Interallied Confedera­ tion of Reserve Officers, Commander Woloshyn received the Patriarchal Cross of the Chevalier, and the diploma of knighthood. The patriarchal cross may be worn with official uniforms on Stephen Wichar (left) accepts plaque from Michael Ogrodnik, master of cere­ formal and ceremonial occasions,. monies, during reception honoring the Ukrainian activist. George Woloshyn The honor is in recognition of Mr. DETROIT - The Ukrainian Com­ American Center, founder of the Ukrai­ gency Group on Emergency Prepared­ Woloshyn's past and continuing con­ ness. munity Committee of Metropolitan nian American Center Foundation, tributions to NATO and free wodd Detroit recently sponsored a testimo­ president of the Ukrainian Village in security, both as a naval intelligence Before joining FEMA, Mr. Wolo­ nial banquet to recognize Stephen M. Warren, senior vice-commander of the officer and as a Senate-confirmed shyn served as an associate director for Wichar Sr. for over 50 years of dedica­ Ukrainian American Veteran's Post presidential appointee of the Reagan the U.S. Office of Personnel Manage­ tion and contributions to Ukrainian 101, vice-president of Americans for administration. ment. In that capacity, he successfully and American communities. Human Rights in Ukraine, and a fre­ overhauled the federal government's As associate director of the Federal long-neglected personnel security pro­ Over 300 guests gathered at the quent contributor to several Ukrainian Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Stephenson Haus in Hazel Park, Mich., and American publications. gram. At the same time, he maintained Woloshyn heads the National Pre­ oversight of the Foreign Service through to roast, toast and honor Mr. Wichar. Speaking to an audience of mostly paredness Directorate, with responsi­ his dual membership on the State Lifelong friends of the Wichars, Mi­ Ukrainians, Dr. Beck surprised the bility for industrial mobilization, tele­ Department's Foreign Service Board chael and Zinovia Ogrodnik, welcomed guests by making a point of high­ communication and warning, strategic and Board of Examiners. Stephen and his wife, Nadia, at the door lighting some of Mr. Wichar's numerous resources and assets, presidential emer­ with flowers and ushered them to the An attorney and part-time investor. contributions to the American commu­ gency authorities, and the full range of Commander Woloshyn lives in Falls head table while the audience engaged nity such as the following: president of major domestic emergencies. He also in singing several choruses of "For He's a Church, Va., with his wife, Iryna. He the Detroit Industrial Education So­ serves as a member of the National has two daughters, Larissa and Maya. Jolly Good Fellow." ciety, president of the honorary frater­ Security Council's select Senior Intera- Mr. Ogrodnik, initiator and chair­ nity Mu Sigma Pi, board of directors in man of the testimonial committee, the Michigan Industrial Education U.S. outlines... welcomed the guests and called upon Society, trustee of the John Trybom the Rev. Wayne Ruchgy, pastor of St. Oops... (Continued from page 3) Memorial Library at WSU, consultant The Oles Kuzyszyn Trio consists of solution? What better message could Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, to the Detroit Boys' Club of America in Dearborn, to deliver the invocation. three men, Oles Kuzyszyn, who was the our governments convey to our peoples and co-author of several professional lead vocalist for the now-defunct Iskra than that Vienna ended with a major Guests raised glasses in a toast to Mr. manuals for the Detroit Public Schools. Wichar and dinner was served. Orchestra, his brother Bohdan Kuzyszyn, direct contribution to their liberties? Following the keynote speaker, Irene the drummer for Iskra, and Yuriy What better reward could our govern­ Following dinner, Mr. Ogrodnik, Zdan and Emily Zaporozhetz read Turchyn, a professional musician, ments have than the satisfaction that we who also served as master of ceremo­ specially designed citations and pro­ formerly of the Kinderhook band, and had relegated whole categories of nies, introduced members of the family, clamations from various local and currently a member of a band called The human rights abuses to the dust bin of the testimonial banquet committee, and national government officials. Ham- World. Due to a proofreading error, the history? With such a zero solution there other dignitaries in the audience. The tramck Mayor Robert Kozaren and trip became a duo in last week's (August would be no losers. We would all be program continued with Joseph Elnick, Warren Mayor Ronald L. Bonkowski 28) Weekly story about Miss Soyu- winners. And so would the Helsinki John Dodson, Andrew Nelligan, Jus­ offered congratulations for over 50 zivka. process to which we are all dedicated. tine Nelligan, Michael Wichorek, Mit­ years of successful service to the Ukrai­ chell Osadchuk and Victoria Johnidis nian American community. U.S. Sen. Prepared Ivan Makar's Arrest"; offering recollections of both humorous Donald W. Riegle Jr. extended tribute Lviv residents... ^ statements by Mykhailo Horyn and serious anecdotes from the hono- to Mr. Wichar for being ''a truly (Continued from page 1) and Vyacheslav Chornovil to the Lviv ree's past. In addition, the audience was outstanding citizen of Michigan and of Omelian Hontar, Vasyl Mizerniy, Ihor procuracy about their refusal to take delightfully entertained by the Rev. our nation," while U.S. Rep. David Kopystynsky, Stepan Khmara and part in the investigation of Mr. Makar; Ruchgy and Olga Solovey, who pre­ Bonior commented that Mr. .Wichar Volodymyr Yavorsky. and other materials. sented a satirical collage of special has "given endlessly to his community." On August 20 the Ukrainian Helsinki Immediately following Mr. Makar's awards which combined their original Union also released its first bulletin, arrest, leaflets were widely distributed musical score with audience participa­ The most impressive and prestigious dedicated in full to Mr. Makar's case. around Lviv, which condemned "the tion. proclamation was contributed by U.S. The bulletin includes: terror" that ensued on August 4. One The^program then turned back to a Dennis M. Hertel in "An Extension of ^ the text of the Lviv procurator's such leaflet read: more serious note when the keynote Remarks in Honor of Stephen M. notice about Mr. Makar's arrest; "The forces of stagnation have gone speaker, Dr. Mary V. Beck, political Wichar Sr." which was read on the floor ^ notice about the formation of a on the offensive! Fear of the nation's activist and former council president in - of the United States House of Repre­ committee in defense of Mr. Makar; justifiable anger has evoked fury in the city of Detroit, commended Mr. sentatives on July 11. Rep. Her- ^ an appeal by the Citizens' Com­ them. In a desperate effort to salvage Wichar, a first-generation Ukrainian, tel's concluding words on the House mittee in Defense of Ivan Makar to their illegal privileges and favors, stolen for achieving distinction in his own floor were: "Stephen Wichar is an Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev; from the people and the state, the profession of education without for­ admirable man who serves as an ex­ ^ text of the statement by the Ukrai­ bureaucrats and corrupt officials are getting his old world heritage and for ample of determination and faith to his nian Association of Independent Crea-^ resorting to the old method: by frighten­ continuing the work his parents and fellow Ukrainian Americans and to tive Intelligentsia in regard to Mr. ing us with the goblin of nationalism. their counterparts started when they nationalistic Ukrainians living in their Makar's arrest; "Don't give Jn to false propaganda, imniigrated to this country in the early homeland. Throughout his life he has ^ aidditional details abput Mr. which seeks to divide us in our joint WOOs. dedicated his many ta^lents to the Makar's autobiography; struggle ugaihst the pairasites and She listed some of Mr. AVicharfs Ukrainian community, and has been a ^ text of a speech delivered by Mr. demagogues. The; terror which they ;:tnany leadership roles and aGcomi)lish- і treni^dqiis s.our9e^f inspiration to his Makar at one of the Lviv public meet­ havetet loose against the people of Lviv ments which included his immediate^ fellow Ukrainians, both young 9;nd old. ings and his letters to Lyiv newspapers; is a manifestation of their helplessness endeavors: president of the Ukt^ainian^ (Continued on page 14) ^ a reviewof "HpwiWatchfnl Press and loathing of us." No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 ^ 5

OUR MILLENNIUM AND THE MEDIA UKRAINIANV Washington celebrations belong The tryzub—the symbol on community's agenda of our millennium by Andrij Bilyk The bottom line is that whether we like it or not, the media (and Washing­ Last Saturday and Sunday, August ton and Moscow) will judge us by the their culture? Through the centuries, 27-28, all over the nation, television, numbers of people we bring to the it hasn't been there, it still isn't there, radio and newspaper stories told of how nation's capital at what will be the and they even try to hide it! True, it 55,000 people (to cite The Washington culmination of our three-year Millen­ appears in some books published in Post) gathered at the foot of the Lin­ nium Odyssey. by Orysia Paszczak Tracz the Soviet Union about the medieval coln Memorial to hear politicians, If we succeed, we really can set the times, but sparingly. A friend who unionists, farm workers, feminists and world agenda on Ukraine for the rest of Sometimes it is the simple and the visited Kiev in the 1970's told me obvious fact that we miss in dealing disabled veterans speak of dreams this century. (It wasn't that long ago about her visit to the Sobor of St. realized and dreams deferred. that President Ronald Reagan, fresh with a major issue. So it is with the Sophia, now a museum. In the whole millennium, and the discussion The occasion was the 25th anniver­ from his first summit with Mikhail Gor­ display of coins minted by the various sary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I bachev, told a joint session of Congress about Russian claims to this celebra­ rulers, the tryzub was conspicuously tion. In a letter to Svoboda (Septem­ Have A Dream" speech during whajt, in on nationwide television that when it is absent. When asked about this, the retrospect, was the greatest' civil rights finally open, the American Consulate in ber 16, 1987), Taras Kobzur, head of guide hemmed and hawed, and had the Los Angeles Millennium Com­ march in the history of the United Kiev "will be American's first perma­ no answer. States attended by over a quarter of a nent presence in Ukraine in decades.") mittee, made an important point Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia which deserves more attention. million people. If we fail, we will have only ourselves (Toronto, 1963, V. 1), says that "The The Washington Post gave last week's to blame — for the opportunity is there. He writes: "...Before my eyes are classic form of the Ukrainian trident photographs of the original 1,000- march a front-page photo and a story How strong are we? Next nionth well is found on the gold and silver coins on the metro page with the following know, won't we? year-old coins of Volodymyr, of Volodymyr the Great (979-1015)..." which are preserved in various mu­ headline: "55,000 People Gather 25 The problem of the origin and of the Years Later to Gauge How Far We've seums of the world: on one side, the original meaning of the Ukrainian likeness of Volodymyr Sviatoslavych Come: King's Dream Lends Focus To trident have still not been solved by March." Below is a sample press release (the Great), and on the verso, the scholars. The archaeological finds of prepared by Andrij Bilyk who noted: tryzub (trident), which became the The first point is this: Judging by the tridents in Ukraine go back to the numbers only, an objective observer can "This release represents the culmination emblem of a free Ukraine. Here is the first century A.D. Undoubtedly this of our last six years of effort to publi­ clear and indisputable evidence that successfully argue that the civil rights emblem was a mark of authority and movement has accomplished so much cize Ukraine's tragic history in such a Volodymyr the Great was the foun­ a mystic symbol of one or of several way as to build sympathy and public der of modern Ukraine. that the steam has gone out of the of the ethnic groups which inhabited movement; 55,000 people for a coalition opinion for our cause. It is the opinion "Here, although simplified, is still ancient Ukrainian territory and the size of the civil rights movement is, of the National Millennium Committee the best and unrefutable evidence which came to compose the Ukrai­ after all, small change. But not for us. that in any discussions with the news that Volodymyr the Great was the nian nation. media — all of us should concentrate on ruler of Rus'-Ukraine, and not Mus­ And that brings me to the second The trident, left to Volodymyr the point: what will that same objective expressing the themes of the release covy-Russia, whose state emblem is Great by his ancestors (e.g., the more or less in the order they are and was the two-headed eagle — and observer say about the human rights for banners of Sviatoslav the Con­ Ukraine movement, looking back on presented. If we speak in one voice, then such a sign is not registered on any queror, his father), became a heredi­ we multiply the effect of our message: coins or in any chronicles of that (i.e., the Ukrainian Millennium March on tary preheraldic badge of all his Washington scheduled for next month, free our Churches in Ukraine (and its Kievan - O.T.) time. (It was a descendants and rulers of medieval companion message: Russian discrimi­ Byzantine emblem, however- O.T.) Columbus Day weekend, October 7, 8 Ukraine — the grand princes of Kiev and 9? nation, even racism, against Ukraine The Russians, and any other border­ and the princes of all the other and Ukrainians)." ing peoples, never had any claims on Will he say look, the human rights for constituent principalities of the vast Ukraine movement has lost its steam: the tryzub, nor did they ever use it as Kievan Realm... Tridents and bi- For the third time in six years, a national emblem. So, not only 18,000 of you marched on the Soviet dents are found on many object of Embassy in 1983 on the 50th anniver­ thousands of Americans of Ukrainian geographically, but heraldically it is that period: coins, stones and bricks descent from dozens of states will travel clear that the Ukrainian nation is the sary of the 1932-33 man-made famine of significant buildings (palaces, which took 7 million lives; 10,000 of you to Washington on Saturday, October 8, legal and only heir to the famous and castles, cathedrals, etc.), armor, to march on the Soviet Embassy. great state known as Kievan Rus'." marched again in 1984, to "modernize" signets, seals, official jewelry (e.g., the story of the famine by discussing On this, the 1,000th anniversary of Mr. Kozbur also suggests that the rigns and bronze breast medallions), the baptism of Kievan Rus'(988-1988), minting of a silver replica of the today's continuing genocide of Ukraine lead seals used as toll devices, cera­ by Russification; and only, say, 5,000 of their banners will carry only one mes­ UOOO-year-old coin of Volodymyr mics, and manuscripts. As a result of sage aimed at the Soviet government: would be not only a popular way of you marched on October 1988 to com­ archaeological excavations and stu­ memorate your Christian Millennium free our Churches in Ukraine. marking the Ukrainian millennium, dies, the number of specimens of the but would also enrich numismatic which has been stolen from you? The marchers, who will also attend trident, in various forms, has in­ Will that objective observer add: three weekend concerts dedicated to a collections, and remain as a valuable creased and stands now at about memento. The numbers clearly say that the steam celebration of Ukrainian culture, have 200..." The tryzub continued to has gone out of the human rights two objectives: ^ The writer has a valid point. If the appear throughout Ukrainian his- Russians claim that they are the heirs movement for Ukraine. One hundred ^ 1. They want to personalize their of Kieyan Rus', where is the tryzub in (Continued on page 14) thousand of you dedicated the protest against the continuing genocide Taras Shevchenko statue in Washing­ of Ukraine by Russification. Their ton 24 years ago, and now your num­ point is: that, glasnost notwithstanding, bers have dwindled to a mere handful. and despite reference to freedom of And will that objective observer then religion in "Russia" (sic) — the fact is point his index finger at Ukrainian there is no freedom of religion in leaders in the free world and say to Ukraine. them: Instead of fighting each other, That's because to this day, the Soviet wouldn't itihave been better if you had government has refused to legalize the worked together these last three years. Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Together, you could have mobilized a Churches that Stalin destroyed in the civilian force the size of a regular army. 1930s and 1940s. Together, tens of thousands of Ukrai­ ^ 2. They want to remind the world nians could have marched past the of the immoral and discriminatory Soviet Embassy with the one message nature of last June's "Soviet Millen­ powerful and timely enough to unite us nium" festivities in the capital of the and to affect world public opinion: Russian republic, Moscow. free our Churches in Ukraine. "Not only was it historically inaccu­ rate for the Soviets to hold the major The point is we have a powerful story Millennium festivities in Moscow (the here. Despite glasnost, Ukrainian event being celebrated was the baptism Churches are not allowed to exist in of Kiev, capital of Ukraine) but it was Ukraine. This shows the Soviet govern­ just plain immoral. After all, those who ment for what it is, discriminatory, sponsored the event in Moscow (and biased, and anti-Ukrainian. And if we this includes the Russian Orthodox want to make that point stick (and in Church) are the ones who have the. today's climate, we can, because after power to legalize Ukrainian Churches all, the media has been reporting on the in Ukraine," said Dr. George Soltys^ Coins of the Kievan realm, used by Princes Volodymyr the Great and Soviet nationalities question like never executive director of the U.S.-based Yaroslav^he Wi^e, featuring the tryzub (trident). , before) we've got to do it next month in Washington. (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 No. 36

Insight on dominant force in USSR Internationalism or imperialism: Ukrainian Weell у a battle of abstractions by Yaroslaw Onyschuk imperialism and their aim for world do­ mination under the cover of an idea of intemadonar communism. Off to school The average North American knows Many other Europeans have regard­ from reading newspapers and books ed Russian Communism in the same that the idea of communism spread by way. For, example, Elemer Maliusz, a The Labor Day holiday during this three-day weekend traditionally Moscow over the world is a bad one. He Hungarian professor of history, in his signals the end, albeit the unofficial end, of the summer season and the believes that this idea is our enemy and book, "The Fugitive Bolsheviks,"about beginning of a new school year for students throughout the United that we have to fight it. But is it really the revolution of Bela Kun in Hungary States. so? Can the idea be an enemy? And can in 1919, emphatically stressed that the It is fitting, therefore, that at this same time Schools of Ukrainian we fight an idea? communistic slogans of Moscow were Studies across the country are announcing that registration is open for Let's have a look what prominent only tools for furthering Russian im­ students of all ages, ranging from age 3 (in those schools that have Russian intellectuals living in the West perialistic goals. And Henri Reraud, a preschool programs) to 18. have written on this matter. Frenchman, in his book, "The Truth It seems that in every community where there is a Ukrainian about Moscow," written after his stay in Soviet Union in 1925, warned the population there is a School of Ukrainian Studies established at some Nicholas Berdyaev, a Russian philo­ sopher, living in the West since 1922, in Frenchmen that Russian Communism point in time by parents and teachers dedicated to the idea that our his many books, and especially in "The was, in fact, an idea of Russian na­ children must carry on their Ukrainian heritage if our nation is to Origin of Russian Communism," "The tionalistic imperialism that had the only survive and flourish. Russian Idea," and "The Russian Revo­ aim - the conquest of the world. Those people - and this newspaper - firmly believe that enrolling lution," wrote that Russian commu­ one's child in a Ukrainian studies program is one of the wisest nism was not some kind of expression of The Russians adapted Marxism to investments for the future that any thinking Ukrainian can make. For an international idea, but it was a con­ their linking and "russified" it — wrote what kind of person is it who does not know his heritage, who does not tinuation of the historical Russian im­ Berdyaev. They named it Marxism- cherish the culture of his nation? perialism under the cover of an idea of Leninism and pretend to be the carriers To know ourselves we must know those who came before us, their international communism. It was of the of an international idea. They have lured the West on the discussion track achievements and failures, their aspirations and their fears. To become same brand as-Italian Fascism, or Ger­ man Hitlerism - he said. Asa matter of of fighting communism as an idea; an complete persons we Ukrainian Americans must value our Ukrai- fact, he called it "a peculiar sort of Rus­ unusual clever strategy. But you never nianism, and we must seek to strengthen it through active study and sian Fascism." can fight successfully an idea, and you subsequent appreciation of our language, history, literature, art, never can defeat an idea said Berdyaev. geography and ethnography. Berdyaev pointed out that when, in We urge all parents to think about what their Ukrainian heritage 1917, Russian communists (Bolsheviks) means to them and to their children. We ask that they consider what it seized the power in Russia, and military James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was telling Ameri­ would be like to be Ukrainian in name only, that is, without an forces of monarchists and democrats were fighting them, it was their internal cans in the last century that "ideas are awareness of our rich Ukrainian heritage; to imagine just for a moment great warriers of the world" and that what it would be like to see the Ukrainian culture relegated to the Russian problem. But when Bolsheviks were winning, all anti-Bolsheviks, to get ideas control the world. And his con­ status of an exotic artifact to be displayed in a museum, not as a help from abroad, began to tell the temporary, John H. Vincent, an Ameri­ vibrant entity to be experienced and to which we can contribute. world that it was an international com­ can Bishop, was warning that there is Hopefully, most Ukrainians living in the overwhelmingly non- munism that wanted to conquer the more dynamite in an idea that in many Ukrainian environment of the United States realize that such a world. After the communist revolutions bombs and that ideas create revolu­ scenario is unacceptable as it represents an irretrievable loss for us as in Hungary and Germany and the tions. And we are witnessing now a his­ individuals, as a community, and as a nation. We ignore our Bolshevik attack on Baltic nations and torical imperialistic revolutionary fury Ukrainianism at our own peril. Poland, this myth that Russian Commu­ under the idea of international commu­ nism spreading all over the world. So, ask yourself at the beginning of this school year: Have I done nists were fighting for international enough to ensure that my children will not face the danger posed by communism was accepted by the world. Unfortunately, there are many people loss of our Ukrainian identity? in the world that simply do not under­ Georgi P. Fedotov, another Russian stand that you cannot fight and defeat thinker who lived in the Western world, an idea. They prefer to fight an abstract also maintained that when the Bolshe­ idea, some mirage. Giuseppe Prezzolini, viks took over the tsarist colonial em­ an Italian journalist, while visiting the pire, they continued Russian imperialis­ U.S. several years ago, was wondering TO THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS: tic aims. And to protect the world from why Americans like to think in abstract Russian aggression — he said — it terms and ideas. They have an evangeli­ We greatly appreciate the materials - feature articles, news stories, should be only a matter of international cal spirit and approach everybody with press clippings, letters to the editor, and the like-we receive from our law and justice to liquidate this last a bunch of flowers in their hands when readers. existing empire, as there is no place in others carry a pistol - he said - and In order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask our world for colonial empires. they do not know that their enemy is not that the guidelines listed below be followed. an international idea of communism, Other writers on Russian Commu­ but Russia, with her national imperia­ ^ News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the nism — many of them born and edu­ listic aims. occurrence of a given event. cated in former Russia - had the same ^ Information about upcoming events must be received by noon of insight into the understanding of Rus­ And here is a sample of Russian aims. the Monday before the date of The Weekly edition in which the infor­ sian Communism as Berdyaev and Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Russian mation is to be published. Fedotov. poet, was dreaming in his poems, after All materials must be typed and double-spaced. the^ommunist revolution in 1917, ^ Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the Among them, Jan Kucharzewski, a about the Russian conquest of the name of the publication and the date of the edition. Pole, in his famous seven-volume work world. He visualized the new human Photographs submitted for publication must be black and white "From the White Eagle to the Red beings born in Moscow, cabmen, cooks, Tsardom," and Dmytro Dontsov, a (or color with good contrast). They will be returned only when so poets, and other Russians, as the only Ukrainian, in his many books, ela­ requested and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. ones called to form the history of the borated various aspects of Russian world. Full names and their correct English spellings must be provided. Communism - the Russian historical ^ Persons who submit any materials must provide a phone number communist mentality since the be­ In his poems — "16 Million" — he \ where they may be reached during the work day if any additional ginning of their history in their agra­ asked "miUions of the pagans, atheists, information is required. rian institution of "mir," their persistent to pray to a 'god-in-flesh, the Russian man'." This Russian man, wrote Mayakov­ Yaroslaw Onyschuk, a lawyer by sky in another poem, will bring about Attention, students! training, became a journalist in Ukraine total victory for Russia over the world. Throughout the year, Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold activities. The with the daily newspaper Ukrainski From the center of the revolution, the Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the Ukrainian community know about Visti and was affiliated with that Lviv- Smolny in Moscow — he prophesized upcoming events. based newspaper until the outbreak of - the revolution will spread to Berlin, The Weekly Will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be glad to print World War 11. Since then, he has been a overthrow the French republic, lead the timely news stories about events that have already taken place. Black and white ph )tos free-lance writer, and his articles have London masses out of the cellars, fly (or color with good contrast) will also be accepted. been published in magazines and news­ across the Atlantic Ocean to the Cali­ papers in Canada, Great Britain, Ger­ fornia coal miners and burst into flames many, Spain and the United States. the American continent. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places matters." How nice of Mr. Dukakis to Look to service record have "accepted," but how much more it by Myron B. Kuropas would please us if he had initiated on his when electing president own the readiiH of "books on Ukrai­ nian matters" without the prodding of Dear Editor: such as Mr. Charyna. I applaud Orest Mandzy's efforts to If Gov. Dukakis should win, then the A giant of a Jew enlighten readers possibly mislead by kissing will stop and Ukrainians will Joseph Charyna's July 31 letter en­ find themselves again exactly where The first thing that struck me when I want to believe Mr. Demjanjuk is couraging support for Michael Duka­ they are now - at the bottom of the kis. met Bill Wolf for the first time was his guilty. What really motivated this man, ethnic and minority ladder - begging, height. At 6 feet, 5 inches, Bill I wondered somewhat cynically. Mr. Charyna's letter was surprising. A hat in hand, for the slightest recogni­ Ukrainian committee chairman should towers over everyone else. Mr. Wolf revealed his motivation tion. If elected, Gov. Dukakis, the The second thing that impressed me early in the interview. "I've always realize that an appeal for public support technocrat will be interested more in must go beyond superficial appea­ about Bill Wolf is his commitinent to believed," he told me, '4hat there is rapprochement with another techno­ saying and doing what he thinks is more to life than just having a job and rances. Mr. Dukakis is a politician crat, Mikhail Gorbachev, than in U- first, and is running a tight race against right...regardless of the consequences. making money." Skeptical at first, I krainian concerns. Ukrainians should Mr. Wolf is a Jewish American quickly realized that here was one of an incumbent vice president from a recall the adage: "Beware of Greeks reasonably popular administration (one attorney in Phoenix, Ariz., who, after a those rare individuals who really lived bearing gifts." lengthy review of the John Demjanjuk out what he said he believed. that has done much for Massachusetts There's another old adage about not by channeling defense contracts there). case, concluded that Mr. Demjanjuk is Born and raised in Chicago, Mr. knowing which way the cat will jump, innocent. Wolf finished law school at Arizona He declared 1988 as Ukrainian Millen­ but not how gracefully Kitty Dukakis nium Year. Fine! And hell probably Mr, Wolf elaborated on his conclu­ State University, eventually settling in has learned to jump as she purrs: Who, sion in a recent Phoenix Gazette opir Phoenix. His first full-timejob was with declare 1988 a millennium year for me? I wasn't opposed to Ukrainian every group to attract votes as well as nion piece arguing, among other things, the Guadalupe Organization where he participation in Holocaust commemo­ that vital evidence was withheld by the earned S5,000 a year protecting the sympathy. rations - it was the B'nai B'rith - if Mr. Mandzy's letter dealt more with the U.S. Justice Department's Office of educational rights of Chicano children. only they had told me about it. Mr. Special Investigations (OSl) from Mr. Later, he worked for the County Legal reality of politics than the rhetoric of a Charyna says: Oh well, no harm done, campaign. Though the labels of Mr. Bush Demjanjuk's attorneys during the 10 Aid Society and founded the Student now we can commemorate on our own. years that Mr. Demjanjuk's denaturali- Attorney's Office at Arizona State. as "unexciting" and a "colorless innova­ That's just what we have been doing and tor" stick to some degree, he is the zation and deportation proceedings Eventually, he went into private prac­ getting no real attention: the Eastern moved through the U.S. courts. tice. worthier of the two. Too many people cabal has seen to it that no national romanticize the president as some figure Mr. Wolf has also traveled to Israel Following a trip to Israel (where he network or even PBS would carry the where he shared his perceptions regard­ visited the Holocaust Museum Yad who always wins and never gives in. Ukrainian holocaust (famine) film until This is a fantasy; he is a businessman, ing the Demjanjuk case with the Jeru­ Vashem) and Germany (where he visited William F. Buckley sponsored its show­ salem Post, Ma'ariv Davar and other Dachau), Mr. Wolf became more in­ and Mr. Bush's approach to this has been ing. both sensible and realistic. Israeli newspapers, as well as myriad volved with his own ethnic group. He Mr. Charyna states (with pride?): radio stations. enrolled in a Hebrew language class at When the 1983 Geneva Arms Nego­ "Mrs. Dukakis revealed that her grand­ tiations fell apart, Mr. Bush urged Mr. As might be expected, Mr. Wolf has Phoenix College and joined Arizona parents came from Ukraine." Revealed? come under fire from the OSI, the Action for Soviet Jewry because, as he Reagan to re-establish communications Was Kitty keeping it a secret! Many of with the Soviets. Where Reagan sought Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix, explained, "Jews in the Soviet Union those who at this moment hold John and the Anti-Defamation League are still feeling the effects of World War hardline demands, Mr. Bush was open Demjanjuk prisoner in Israel also came to the compromise that eventually (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, fast-becoming II. They're not being exterminated but from Ukraine — should I, as a Ukrai­ the premier anti-Ukrainian organiza­ there is cultural genocide." succeeded in mutual arms reductions. nian, embrace them? Khrushchev, the All we hear is "Where was George?" tion in the United States. Later he joined forces with Orest darling of Lazar Kaganovich, was a Arizona ADL Regional Director Joel Jejna, Patience Huntwork and various I'll tell you where: he was a fighter pilot Ukrainian — does that make him one of in World War 11, he sat in the UN Breshin has argued that Mr. Wolf's Jewish, Baltic, Afghan, Ukrainian and us? actions are "divisive to the Jewish American patriotic organizations in a council as ambassador to the United Considering the power and influence Nations, he was director of the Central community. He's trying to throw up a successful effort to convince the Ameri­ of Moscow, I do not presume to know smokescreen by blaming OSI. He ob­ can Bar Association to discontinue its Intelligence Agency, and a loyal vice how the Ukrainian dilemma can be president for eight years. Not a bad viously believes with those in the ties to the Association of Soviet Law­ solved. But for us to descent to beggary Ukrainian community who are trying to yers. "Working with all these groups resume. . is not the way. When will we Ukrai­ He supports prayer in schools, a stop OSI proceedings." , convinced me of the value of building nians stop being a foil to others, en­ In light of the fact that the ADL has coalitions," he said. strong national defense, aid to the hancing everyone but ourselves! Pro­ Contras, and opposes tax increases. been informed on a number of occa­ "What chance does Ivan Demjanjuk mises of the Western powers are, just sions that the Ukrainian American have to win his appeal before the Israeli Look to a man's service record and that — promises. Ask Poland what ideas, not the speech pasted together by community is only interested in due Supreme Court?" I asked. promises she got from Churchill and process, not in dismantling the OSI, "There is no way from a legal stand­ his campaign writers. If it agrees with Roosevelt — Uncle Joe won! your own, then vote for him. Let us not such defamatory distortions by Mr. point that the conviction can stand," degrade the intelligence of the Ukrai­ Hirsch have no other purpose than to Mr. Wolf replied. "There are too many Michael Chomyk further inflame the tensions which evidentiary problems." nian community by accepting a candi­ Ironton, Mo. date on the basis of shallow attempts to currently exist between America's "What can Ukrainians do now in win our favor. Ukrainians and Jews. Am I surprised? order not to further exacerbate the Hardly. The ADL has a history of already deteriorated relationship with NickOwchar Ukrainian-bashing that goes back to the Jewish Americans?" I wanted to know. California Questions Republican stand 1930s. "That's a tough question," responded Undismayed by criticism from mis­ Bill. "I've been speaking out and I've on Eastern Europeans guided Jews, Mr. Wolf continues to been getting a lot of negative feedback Dukakis the technocrat speak out precisely because he is a Jew. ... But I've also received some positive ''Other than my family, my next feedback from Jews who feel as I do." Dear Editor: bears false gifts concern is the Jewish community," he I asked if Ukrainians should continue The Ukrainian Weekly recently says. "I love Israel and I don't want reported that Vice-President George to stand up for Mr. Demjanjuk and raise Dear Editor: Israel to execute an innocent man. In money for his defense. "I think you have Joseph Charyna's letter (The Ukrai­ Bush commemorated Captive Nations my heart I believe they have the wrong Week by issuing a "tough" speech on to," Bill replied. "It's the right thing to nian Weekly, July 31) lists "a couple of guy. Jews of all people should under­ do...No matter what happens, you've facts" why Ukrainians should support foreign policy, stressing that the con­ stand someone wanting to stand up for cerns of Ukrainian Americans and got to continue." the election of Michael Dukakis, one of something he believes." "Why are you risking your reputation which is: "We have a lot in common — other East European ethnic Americans The price for being righteous in our we even bless (cross) ourselves the right . are also his concerns. in the Jewish community and your society has often been high, and Mr. professional career?" I asked finally. way." How ducky! How smooth! If ' Perhaps he could correct me if I'm Wolf is beginning to feel the stress your readers swallow that line, parti­ mistaken, but I was under the impres­ associated with swimming against the Looking me right in the eye, Mr. cularly coming from a man whose sion that the current administra'tion mainstream in one's own community. Wolf said: "The Bible teaches Jews to be concern with tradition is dubious — bears responsibility for the forcible "I'm subjecting myself to all this aggra­ righteous. The Bible doesn4 say Jews God help them. return to the Soviet Union of a young vation and gaining nothing," he told a should just be righteous to Jews. The My observation of Mr. Dukakis over Ukrainian sailor named Myroslav reporter for the Greater Phoenix Jewish Bible wants Jews to be righteous to the years, when he hosted his television Medvid. News. "I've become a pariah." everyone." program for "intellectuals" on PBS, And, which administration endowed When I interviewed him last July, I Mr. Wolf is a giant of a Jew in more demonstrated that he was a technocrat the О S' I with extraordinary powers, wanted to learn more about what made ways than one. He has agreed to help more at home crossing himself to the denying due process of law to (former) Mr. Wdlf the way he is. I was fascinated raise funds for the Demjanjuk defense, - left rather than to the right. U.S. citizen John Demjanjuk and by the fact that a nice Jewish man was beginning in Chicago on September 16. Quoting Mr. Charyna: "The gover­ sending him off to a show trial in Israel? defending an alleged Nazi war criminal If Ukrainians don't give him a standing nor, an avid reader, has accepted and Victor Marchuk of Ukrainian extraction despite the fact ovation everywhere he appears, I'll be read a number of books on Ukrainian Chicago that many Jews hate Ukrainians and surprised! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 No. 36 Reflections of Sverstiuk on Millennium: "We have a great thir wide celebration of a blessed event that The history of the world and the right to be ourselves. It exhibited wise marks the beginning of our spiritual history of our nation would be quite tolerance toward the ancient rites and birth and of our self-awareness of being different if its rulers, both secular and customs of the people. It introduced the a living branch of the eternal tree of the religious, held heavenly treasures in sacred melodies of prayers and hymns life of the spirit. higher esteem than еагШІу ones. Had into the spontaneous folk-song aesthetic All the church bells of Kiev should be the Union of Brest of 1596 ensured a phenomenon and the element of refined announcing the good tidings of this truly Christian equality of two profound­ spiritual beauty into folk painting; it celebration of the joy accumulated from ly kindred nations, there would have glorified the earth with the solemn all the feasts celebrated by our ancestors existed the most powerful citadel of the beauty of cathedrals and churches. during our 1000-year-long journey spirit in Eastern Europe. Had the real Prince Volodymyr's ambassadors toward fathoming the Holy Gospel. goal of our Treaty of Pereyaslav of 1654 spoke the truth when they said: "The Our journey to the sources of Biblical with Russia been the strengthening of a Greek Church possesses the greatest history, and hence to the sources of our Christian state to uphold the indepen­ beauty"... Heavenly grace transfuses the own history, began with the sacrament dent banner of Orthodoxy against the soul during the singing of liturgical of baptism. It is for this reason that our Muslim flood that had already inun­ music. It is also true that the Greek chronicles begin with the creation of the dated the hierarchies of Constantinople, liturgy is closest to the language of the world and we begin our year chrono­ Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria - Bible and that the language of the logy from the birth of Christ. It is for as the champions of our ancestral faith religious service in the Orthodox this reason that Volodymyr the Great had dreamed — there would have risen Church in ancient times was nearly towers above the ages in our history. a powerful community of Orthodox comprehensible to the common people. The year 988 marks the beginning of nations instead of tsarist Russia — the They did not exaggerate when they the turning of our Kievan Rus'towards prison of nations. said: "The Holy Church is our mother." Christianity, towards Christian moral With our help, Russia did indeed The Church guided a child from birth to and spiritual values, towards a culture undermine the Ottoman Empire. But baptism, through all the feasts and that had by then become deeply rooted... what purpose did it serve when the tsars workdays, until the tolling of the final Conversion to Christianity dates arbitrarily exploited the Orthodox faith bell... back in our historical consciousness to as no more than a tool and held the The Church that suffered the greatest the time when Christ's apostle, St. Church in feudal dependence? What devastation was the Ukrainian Auto- Andrew the First-Called [Pervoz- purpose did it serve when the Ukrainian cephalous Orthodox Church. Sepa- vanniyl, blessed the Kievan hills and erected the first cross on them. 'T/ie Russian Orthodox Church in Ulfraino—such is our reO' Thereafter, our Kievan princes often won victories over Byzantium, but they lity. This Church has the support of the state, which refuses always returned from their campaigns spiritually conquered, and many mem­ at all cost to separate itself from the Church and is deter­ bers of the royal retinue returned as mined to lead the Church, at times forcihiy at others Christian converts. The spirit of this higher world was invincible. It took peaceably, to its 'natural demise/ " root among our ancestors long before The monument of St. Volodymyr the the time of Princess Olha and Prince population was forced to flee from the rated from the Russian Church after the Great overlooks the Dnieper River in Volodymyr. It penetrated deeply and tsar of the one true faith to the land of collapse of the tsarist empire, it was Kiev. irrevocably. the "infidels" because there was more soon doomed to destruction for want­ A ceremony commemorating the Yaroslav the Wise was recognized as freedom and humanity there? ing to lead an independent life in the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine an equal by all the rulers of Europe. He There was Egyptian captivity, but traditions of our nation. was held on Sunday, June 5, 1988 at the established family ties with the crowns there was no spiritual unity in these The Russian Orthodox Church is monument to St. Volodymyr in Kiev. of France, Poland, Norway, and Hun­ unions... There was only the determina­ burdened with an age-old legacy of The ceremony, which was attended by gary... Kiev's Cathedral of St. Sophia tion to enslave physically. faithful service to the tsars. It therefore several hundred people, was organized and the Monastery of the Caves bear In their desire to defend themselves shared in their catastrophe. Yet even by the Ukrainian Culturological Club. witness to his wisdom and glory. from foreign idols and foreign self- today it carries God's word — just as As tape recordings of church bells Though it is difficult to believe, the interest, the Ukrainian people sought rusty pipes carry clean water from the were played, people placed candles at Suzdal Chronicle states that there were protection under the wing of Christ and spring. The Russian Orthodox Church the foot of the monument. This was 600 churches and 18 monasteries in cultivated the temple of their own spirit. in Ukraine - such is our reality. This followed by the playing of a taped 12th-century Kiev. In any event, the Lacking their own state, they also Church has the support of the state, recording of a divine liturgy. But shortly intensity of spiritual life in the mo­ lacked a state-supported Church of which refuses at all costs to separate after the liturgy began, the representa­ nasteries and the flowering of the their own. There was no organized itself from the Church and is deter­ tive of the Committee for Religious spiritual culture of Kievan Rus' are a system of proper religious upbringing. mined to lead the Church, at times Affairs, Sikorsky, issued a warning to historical fact. It is this that enabled the But the nation's spiritual self-defense forcibly at others peaceably, to its the chairman of the Ukrainian Culturo­ Ukrainian people to survive despite the was so strong that the people esta­ "natural demise." This Church con­ logical Club, Serhiy Naboka, that razing and burning of churches, despite blished brotherhoods and brotherhood scientiously carries out the govern­ criminal charges would be brought the invasions of Mongol hordes, and schools to provide a Christian educa­ ment's orders, regularly contributes to against the participants of the celebra­ despite the incessant wars waged by tion. the Peace Fund, dares not demand tion if they continued listening to the power-hungry earthly princes. The The people formed Protestant greater rights in the state, and dares not recording of the liturgy, making the sign mighty tree of our spirituality grew churches, which have always enjoyed presume to educate children in God's of the cross, and placing candles at the from this life-giving source. The chro­ great popularity in Ukraine, even law. foot of the monument to St. Volo­ niclers, the builders of churches, the dymyr. He claimed that the law prohi­ painters of icons in books renowned "How did it happen that the grandchildren of those who bits the public propagation of religion. throughout the world, the liturgical began and ended each day with prayer and invoked the The tape recording of the liturgy was songs that made Ukraine famous, the turned off. Mr. Naboka addressed the skillful management and hospitality for name of God when greeting one another have now reached participants of the celebration on behalf which our forefathers were famed — all of the Council of the Ukrainian Cultu­ these stem from the poetic embodiment the stage where they often use God's name when they rological Club. Oles Shevchenko, a of Christian ideals on Ukrainian soil. curse? First they renounced the faith of their fathers and member of the club council, then read Is it not significant that our greatest an abridged version of the statement philosopher was a religious thinker, then they renounced the language of their fathers." that Pope Paul John Paul IIsent to the that our greatest poet speaks to God in Fourth Synod of the Ukrainian Catho­ almost every one of his works, and that though they suffer from the disease of Is it able and has it the right to be the lic Church. Some younger participants Ukrainians have carried religious ideas isolation. bearer of the great millennial legacy of of the celebration read religious poems to other people of the world? In defiance of Russia's destructive Christianity as an active religion? by Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Taras Shev­ Ukrainian spirituality has never imperialistic policy towards the Ukrai­ It would be difficult to exaggerate the chenko, and Pavlo Tychyna. served secular leaders. It nurtured nian Catholic Church, Ukrainian com­ importance of this legacy to the Ukrai­ The well-known Ukrainian writer among the people a spirit of indepen­ munities have always firmly defended nian nation — one of the most religious and philosopher, Yevhen Sverstiuk, deli­ dence from temporary victors on the and will always continue to defend the peoples in the world. Our history, our vered the following address comme­ stage of history. It fostered a spirit of Catholic Church of the Greek rite. This ethnography, our rich spiritual poetry morating the 1000th anniversary of democratism and Christian republican Church does not wish to serve earthly — all these speak of our people. How Christianity in Ukraine. ideals. tsars and prefers to subordinate itself to did it happen that the grandchildren of The powerful of this world, like the the Apostolic See, which treats every those who began and ended each day Dear Brothers and Sisters! wealthy, have always been in the thrall nation, every culture and language, with with prayer and invoked the name of Today we, too, are celebrating. We of earthly treasures. The clergy have due respect, and, above all, has pre­ God when greeting one another have are celebrating the millennium of the often shared in this human weakness. served its original spiritual vitality. now reached the stage where they often baptism of Rus' here on our Kievan Whenever they transformed the Church For centuries the Orthodox Church use God's name when they curse? First hills, in our sacred Dnieper River. into their own instrument, the people has been the cradle of our spirituality, they renounced the faith of their fathers This is not merely another date to be preferred to leave the Church and its our school of beauty and humanity, our and then they renounced the language observed; this is a national and world­ hierarchy. national banner in the struggle for the of their fathers. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.1988 ind spiritual hunger unlcnown to those living in the West..." It has befallen Ukraine to manifest to to discover for himself only after the world the universal sign of the obtaining a diploma? And is there a Chornobyl catastrophe. substitute for the seed of God's love and Pavlo Tychyna's "Sorrowful Mother'' fear? A substitute for striving for an (1918)^ seems to have a foreboding of ideal, for faith? A substitute for self- this disaster in her heart. Searching for respect and respect for everyone created her crucified Son, the Mother of God in the image of God? These are the came to our land: burning questions we face today. As in ancient times, we are once again She glanced - and silence reigned beginning to understand that the es­ around. sence of everything is hidden behind a A corpse is blackening in the rye... false semblance. But it is very difficult to The tiny spikes speak in their sleep: rise to faith. On the other hand, it is very Rejoice, О Mary, maid most high! easy to fall into godlessness. As the well-known catchphrase has it: "Des­ The moon and stars — were they troying is easy; building is hard..." alight? Moments of joy —days of reckoning. Even the dawn scarce brought the While the boat races onto the reef. day. We could accept all our losses. How frightful!... For the human End mourning them and burn our heart bridges. Has in a desert lost its way. We could even say farewell. But how human it is to wait She alone was able to measure the And let this cup, too, pass by... immeasurable suffering of the crucified But for the memory — an eye for land and, peering through the curtain of an eye! time, wept softly: Only darkness throughout the ages... How high one must rise She passed adown the dreary fields... To see the path of salvation. - And shall this country also die?- Of all-forgiveness and all-love. Where He was born a second time, - The free world of hope, the vanity For which His love with death Of mere words without end. would vie? But how deeply rooted the call: I have brought you not peace, but Silence lay round her everywhere. the sword. The wild oats rankly choked the All under the sun that wants to live plain. Strives to flower and to bear fruit. - Ah, why have You been crucified? The wind of life tramples it, Ah, why have You been darkly slain? The wave of war washes it away, It lies down on the pavement The wind of man's terrible alienation And flows in a stream into the from his spiritual essence was even then gutter... In both life and literature, there has emerged a new kind of Yevhen Sverstiuk, Ukrainian writer and philosopher. lead to the temple? But many raise the, the Holy Spirit. It is one of those man, one who composes prayers to an unknown god, whose question: to which temple should the resolutions that must be steadfastly name he knows not..We stand over the shards of devalued path that we choose lead? Thank God, implemented during these times of we now have much easier access to the harsh trials. After all, it is not a matter words, relative truths, defiled goodness and painted books of the Holy Gospel. We have a of nations and communities renouncing great thirst and spiritual hunger un­ their traditions and rituals in the name beauty..." known to those living in the West, who of a uniform atheistic unity. We must are lulled in the webs of consumerism preserve our rituals, customs, and gusting over the fields, over the flowers... But where are those who want to and extraordinary satiety. traditions at all cost, but while standing What else do the words of Mary, die free We have glimmerings of hope... on our knees before the Savior who numbed by pain, mean? And become the salt of the earth? I have little faith in people who commands us to love and live in har­ All has become unravelled, knocked Christ risen? That 1 have not heard. exacerbate old conflicts between va­ mony. out of orbit. rious Christian churches. Long ago Let us acknowledge that true be­ Nor know it, nor can understand. Transformed into rank growth of There never shall be Paradise there were important reasons for these lievers of all Churches have always words... conflicts, but these reasons have re­ respected one another and will continue Throughout this sad and bloody Unripened, destructive children land. ceded into the past, as have the passions to do so, because theirs is a spiritual Have trampled something very that caused them. Attempts to revive kinship. Let their unity serve as a model Everything happened again: people simple. them do not stem from great faith and a for all. And let our celebration — the no longer heard the joyous greeting Lost something very old. sincere love of God. Instead, they stem millennium of Christianity - be a "Christ is risen!" - either in 1929, or in And forgotten something very eter­ from reasons that are all too earthly. celebration of unity and the beginning 1933, or in 1937, or in 1941, or in 1947: nal: Today, at the end of the 20th century, of our spiritual rebirth. They began to forget... The holy spirit, the pain of prayer. Forgive this chronology of sad dates , All is held on the facets of faith — '"We must remind ourselves that we are the heirs of a at this celebration. But we need to Thin strings that nurture the spirit understand our reality somehow — the From the source and the rays of faith. 1,000-year-old Christian heritage - heirs of its sources, wild oats rankly choking the plain... The faith that moves mountains. The rank growth of callous indifference That lets walk on the waves of the its values - and not merely those materialiied in stone and ... We need also to understand the ocean, gold and of unsuhstitutable truths. Surrogates, even if phenomenon of the post-Chornobyl That leads through the abyss of world, a world that seems to have despair — created by a talented hand, give no light and no warmth." stopped and is tottering over an abyss. Only on faith — on the waves of faith People have begun to feel an urgent The love that creates all comes of we have lost many values. Let the forces Glory to God the Father, the Son, need for renewal. life.2 that divide and disunite the Christian and the Holy Spirit. Amen. In both life and literature, there has We feel the want of faith and truth. world also remain among those that emerged a new kind of man, one who We yearn to recreate within ourselves have been lost. After all, today many JYanslated from Ukrainian by composes prayers to an unknown god, and around ourselves a world in which young people come to faith not through Marta Skorupsky whose name he knows not. we can feel respect, in which it is the Church but through books. We stand over the shards of devalued worthwhile to live. Now that even politicians espouse the words, relative truths, defiled goodness, We must remind ourselves that we are idea of an ecological, cultural and and painted beauty — like the fisher­ the heirs of a 1000-year-old Christian spiritual union of the world, how can 1. The English translation of the stanzas man over his broken trough \m Push­ heritage — heirs of its sources, its values of this poem cited in the text are taken from people who pray to the same God the "The Ukrainian Poets 1189-1962," selected kin's tale of this fish with the poAver to — and not merely those materialized in Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit not and translated into English verse by C.H. grant wishes - Trans.J And we wonder stone amd gold, and of its unsubsti- accept the same view? "Accord builds Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconneil — should we begin the tale from the tutable truths. Surrogates, even if and discord destroys." Perhaps we lack (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,. beginning? created by a talented hand, give no light sufficient enthusiasm and solidarity in 1963), pp. 319-320. But where is our beginning? Where and no warmth. building the temple? 1 The translation of this poem by Yevhen have we lost the thread of the tradition The only true path is towards the The resolution on ecumenism adopt­ Sverstiuk is interlinear rather than poetical. that provided each child from infancy spring of healing water. Indeed, what ed by the Second Vatican Council was No attempt has been made to render the with the knowledge which today he has need is there for a road that does not the voice of true wisdom that flows from rhyme or meter of the original. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 No. 36

Summer cycle of rites and customs highlights Ukrainian folk tradition

by Jeff Picknicki-Morski young girls to go out into the fields and forests where they would braid special There'a a lot more to Ukrainian wreaths from konvalia (lily of the culture than just pyrohy, painted Easter valley), nezabudka (forget-me-not), eggs, and the kolomiyka. In addition to vasylka (basil), chebrets (thyme), polyn food, art, music and dance, a very (wormwood), and romashka (cammo- interesting part of the Ukainian culture mile). These would be saved until after is the traditional folk rites and customs the Zeleni Sviata when the girls would and as any good Ukrainian will tell you, return to the fields or forests with the they are more than just amusing folk­ wreaths in order to tell their fortunes as lore. in this verse from a ritual summer song: For generations, dating back to pre-Christian times in Ukraine, folk "Pusty mene, maty, rites and customs have played a major U hayu pohulyaty, role in Ukrainian life and civilization. Do biloyi berezonky. As a combination of both pagan and Pro shchastya spytaty." Christian elenients, they are examples of the characteristic dualism or (Let me go, mother. "double-faith" (dvoyevirya) which To the grove. exists in many aspects of Ukrainian To the white birch tree, culture. To fortell my fate. Ukrainian folk rites and customs are composed basically of two groups: Games and rituals of fortune-telling those which are connected with the rites are a popular part of the traditions of and traditions of the family and those the Zeleni Sviata. For example, at dusk "May Night Wreath-Laying" as depicted in a glasspainting by Yaroslava which are associated with the calendar on ZelenaSubota, or "Green Saturday," Surmach Mills. year and the seasonal agricuhural cycle. an aspen sapling would be cut and As is also the case for other Slavic According to ancient tradition, Ku­ natural and demonic forces, as the brought into the house. If the leaves palo was also the most important day of groups, agriculture plays a very remained green and fresh until morning, rusalky (water nymphs), mavky (forest important role in Ukrainian folk rites the year for plants, trees, and flowers, nymphs), vampires and witches, were it foretold the protection and well-being and on the night of Kupalo, it was and customs. With a history of farming of the family until the following Zeleni believed to be most active. The people and cultivation dating back some 5,000 believed that the forests, fields, water would protect themselves against these Sviata. However, if the leaves blackened and dew possessed magical and mystical forces by placing leaves of stinging years to the Neolithic period, Ukraine and dried overnight, it predicted a death has relied for centuries on the powers. Animals and plants would be nettles on the windowsills of the houses in the family. able to "speak" with each other and with and aspen branches in the stables. agricultural processes for its On Trinity Sunday similar rituals subsistence. The agricultural theme is the good and evil spirits which walked would be continued. Young girls would the Earth on that night. Grasses, herbs One of the last important holidays of especially dominant in the folk rites and make special wreaths for their parents, customs of the summer cycle. and flowers were also thought to be the summer cycle is Sviato Petra і brothers and sisters, or their betrothed given healing and curitive powers. It Pavla, or the "Feast of Peter and Paul," According to the folk calendar, the which would be used in another for­ was a common practice during the Feast which is celebrated on July 12. In first in a series of summer feasts and tune-telling ritual. In a separate cere­ of Kupalo for the older people to go out Ukrainian folk rites and customs, the holidays is the Zeleni Sviata, or "Green mony, each of the wreaths would be into the fields and meadows to gather figures of Peter and Paul often appear Holidays," which were celebrated in taken to a river or stream and tossed herbs and grasses which they would as plowmen as in this verse from a ritual May during a period consisting of the into the water. If the wreath remained save and use all year long for healing summer song: last three days of the week before the afloat, it foretold good luck; however if and herbal remedies. Feast of the Trinity and the first three the wreath sank or became unbraided, it days of the following week. would predict disaster. This ritual One folk belief explains that the Feast Sviaty Petro za pluhom khodyt, The origins of the Zeleni Sviata date would be repeated for each of the of Kupalo was a time for the symbolic Sviaty Pavlo volonky vodyt, back to pagan times in Ukraine when wreaths made for the family members. "cleansing" of the people through the A sam Hospod Boh pshenytsyu our early ancestors worshipped trees Trinity Sunday was also a day to powers of fire and water. From ancient siye, and other images as their deities. The remember deceased ancestors and times, Ukrainians have believed that the A Sviatyy Illya zavolochuye. first written accounts of the festival ap­ prayers would be said at the graves of elements of fire and water had magical pear in the Old Ukrainian chronicles family members. In some regions of powers which could purify and cleanse St. Peter walks behind the plow, and sermons from as early as the 11th Ukraine, a memorial dinner of seven the soul from evil spirits. In keeping St. Paul leads the oxen. century. The Zeleni Sviata are marked ritual dishes would be held in honor of with this belief, many of the folk rites And God Himself sows the wheat. and customs of this festival are centered with the ancient rite of the worship of deceased ancestors. Though many of While St. Illya pulls the harrow. trees and flowers. According to custom, the rites and customs are now practised around these two elements. to a lesser extent, the Zeleni Sviata are houses would be decorated with green Traditionally, Kupalo celebrations branches and boughs of oak, linden, still observed in contemporary times in Ukraine, and among Ukrainians — would be held near water where the Peter plays the greater role in Ukrai­ maple, and birch, called klechannya in people would bathe or wade in the rivers nian agricultural customs and beliefs. Ukrainian. This would usually be done both Catholic and Orthodox - in the West. or streams. The water, which had been According to folk traditions, he "begins on the day before the festival or at dawn fortified by the power of the sun, would the harvest of the rye'' and is the on the first day. In addition to the A second important summer festival be able to rid the soul of all evil spirits. A is the Feast of Kupalo which is cele­ guardian of the fields, harvesting and branches and boughs which would be required part of the Kupalo rituals bee-keeping. Peter also symbolically placed around windows, doors and brated on July 7 according to the Julian included the building of a large bon-fire, calendar, and June 24, according to "plows" the field for the sowing of the religious pictures, fragrant herbs and the "kupalskyj vohon." As a symbol of winter grain. grasses would be scattered on the floor. Gregorian calendar. Like the Zeleni the sun, the power of the fire was also an Sviata, the Feast of Kupalo is also an important means of cleansing and It was believed that during the Zeleni agricultural festival with ancient pagan protection from evil spirits. The Feast of Peter and Paul would be Sviata the spirits of deceased ancestors origins. It celebrates the beginning of celebrated in all Ukrainian villages as a would come to the house and hide in the the harvest and the day of the summer The Feast of Kupalo was also a time great holiday. In preparation, houses leaves and branches and to fail to solstice. for young people to tell their fortunes. would be freshly whitewashed, the walls observe the tradition of decorating the In the Christian context, Kupalo has Young girls would braid special "kupal- inside would be decorated with newly house with greenery would be come to be associated with the Feast Day ski vinky" (Kupalo wreaths) and float embroidered towels or rushnyky, and the considered a sin. It was also a folk belief of St. John the Baptist. The exact origins them in pairs in a river or stream. yard would be tidied and raked. Ukrai­ that during the Zeleni Sviata the spirits of the Feast of Kupalo are unclear. According to folk custom, if the wreaths nian superstition tells that on the Feast of deceased ancestors would come out Some historians and specialists in floated together, it predicted marriage. of Peter and Paul the cuckoo would stop of the rivers and streams where they had Ukrainian folklore have suggested that Young couples would also hold hands singing and to hear its cry after this day stayed during the winter months. The Kupalo was an ancient god from pagan and jump through the flames of the would foretell a year of bad luck. The spirits would then settle in the grain mythology. In one written source, Kupalo bon-fire. If they were able to Feast of Peter and Paul would tradi­ fields where they would remain for the Kupalo is refered to as the "god of keep their hands held together, it tionally end the summer cycle of Ukrai­ summer. According to ancient abundance." Kupalo is also thought to foretold that the pair would marry. nian folk rites and customs. tradition, the rye flowers, which would have come from the word "kupaty" Another interesting ritual involved the begin to bloom during the Zeleni Sviata, which means '4o bathe" in Ukrainian. ancient rite of casting charms and spells. had the magical power to awaken the The Feast of Kupalo is marked with Performed by the young women of the Jeff Picknicki-Morski is a graduate souls of deceased family members. the ancient rite of the worship of the sun village, the participants would appeal to student in Slavic studies at the Univer­ On the firstda y of the Zeleni Sviata, it and for centuries the Ukrainian people the graces of the spirits to give them sity of Manitoba in Winnipeg. This is was a custom for young women to hold have respected and worshipped its beauty. In this ritual, the women would his first contribution to The Weekly, a skladka — a joint dinner in an orchard power and life-giving strength. On the undress, sprinkle water on themselves, or field with the young men of the day of Kupalo, the sun would be at its and dance naked around the bon-fire village. After the meal, ritual songs strongest point of the year and the BUY U.S. while singing songs of invocation. This SAVINGS BONDS would be sung and the women would people believed that it was symbolically ritual, no doubt, attracted the attention braid wreaths from green branches and able to share its strength with all living For the current rare call... of numerous spectators! The Kupalo .800-US-BONDS field grasses. It wais also a custom for the things. period was also a time when super­ No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988

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nian folk songs and classical concert ^ NEW RELEASES favorites on a newly released recording. MUSIC REVIEW These three young professional musi­ Three on Yevshan label cians joined together in the summer of From Ukraine with love 1985 to perpetuate their love of classical and folk music. Orysia Lubinsky, a coloratura so­ merits entliusiastic praise prano, is a graduate of the University of by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Toronto and is a familiar performer to Canadian and American audiences. She This is an unsolicited but most has performed as a soloist with the enthusiastic recommendation. If there Світлиця Toronto Opera Repertoire Company were only one cassette recording you Svitlytsia and toured France with the Desna could buy this year - make it "Svitlyt- Dance Ensemble. sia: From Ukraine With Love" (Winni­ Laura Prokopovich is equally at peg, Ukrainian House of Gifts). The home in Ukraine, where she has per­ simple black and white jacket may not formed in concert, and in Toronto, attract you the way the more colorful ЬУш where she performs with the trio and as ones do, if that is all you can go by, but ШкНшк'ПІш a solo artist. She has a vocal range from the music will captivate you immedia­ soprano to contralto producing a uni­ tely. que and stunning "folk voice" sound. "Svitlytsia" was recorded in Winni­ MONTREAL - A new singing trio She studied voice at the Royal Con­ peg last year after the three soloists — Vera Turko-Kulycky, Natalia Turko- servatory of Music and is a graduate of appeared at the Lviv Pavilion at Winni­ Norton and Olya Czurma-Hurhaj — the University of Toronto. peg's internationally famous Folklo- from Montreal have released their first Michael Curry, the pianist of the trio, rama Festival The Lviv Pavilion spon­ recording, titled "Vera, Natalia and has studied and performed not only in sored by the Association of United Olya" on the Yevshan record label. This Canada, but also in the United States, Ukrainian Canadians, is held at "the new recording features 11 Ukrainian England, France and for two years was Ukrainian Labor Temple. Because of songs. a student at the Kiev State Conserva­ its close ties to Soviet Ukraine, this ihor Kushph) tory in Ukraine. He received his di­ pavilion is able to bring in famous "Vera, Natalia and Olya" has been ploma from the Royal Conservatory of Ukrainian artists specifically for this produced and recorded by well-known Music, University of Toronto,and was festival. from Ukraine with Ьощ Ukrainian musician Yurko Kulycky. To awarded a Gold Medal in Performance. his credit, Mr. Kulycky has performed Appearing in 1986 and 1987 were The cassette recording is available for My favorite is the title song, "Svitlyt­ on the following recordings: "The SIO (includes postage)from: Troyanda, Lidia Mykhailenko, soloist of the Kiev Ballad of Zoryana,"''Lubomyra" Music Hall Theatre, Marian Shu- sia" (lyrics by Bohdan Stelmakh, music 150 Albany Ave., Toronto, Ont. M5R by Ihor Bilozir). This song is in the "Sviato Rizdva," "Ukrainian Dances" 3C4. nevych, soloist of the Lviv Philhar­ (Vol. 1) and "Cheremshyna," (Vol. 2). monic and lead singer with the Lvjv "Rushnychok" tradition. Both the lyrics At the present time Mr. Kulycky directs Vatra Ensemble, and Ihor Kushpler, and melody will stay with the listener a Ukrainian church choir in Montreal soloist with the Ivan Franko Opera in for a long time. The description of the and performs with a popular Canadian Shumka celebrates youth Lviv. These three soloists had not svitlytsia (living room) of one's child­ band, 1945. performed together before, but, as the hood, with its embroidery and Shev- chenko's kind eyes looking down ap­ The trio has been performing in the jacket states: "It is a tribute to their impeccable musicianship and sensitivity plies just as well to a North American Montreal and Ottawa areas for several Ukrainiafi home of the 1950s or later. years. This recording highlights their that they perform a variety of styles ranging from popular songs, romantic The North American mama's children unique vocal blend and music. Mr. now transferred all over the continent Kulycky's musical arrangements are ballads, humorous folk songs to Ukrai­ nian biloholossia with equal success. can think about coming home, just as delightful and feature several local their parents can dream about visiting musicians: Andrij Czerny (accordion); I was hooked from the first song, their mama's svitlytsia back home in Roman Karpishka (guitar); Taras Ku- "Poviyav viter stepovyi." I remember Ukraine. Sentimental? Yes, but so lish (bandura); Geoff Land (drums); first hearing it when I was four or five wonderful to hear. Peter Richard (alto and tenor saxa- when my mother sang it, and I had not The voices of all three soloists are phone); Francois McNeil (trumpet and heard it anywhere else since, until the impeccable. There are some unusual flugel). cassette. The only difference in the lyrics harmonies, but this only makes the "Vera, Natalia and Olya" is available Mama sang is 'Vpav u boyu sichovyi songs more interesting. in record and cassette format for SIO strilets',"and here they sing"... molodyi (postage included) from Yevshan Com­ kozak." The same song was performed munications Inc., Box 125 - Station MONTREAL - Popular Ukrainian early this year by a bandurist at the St. Michel, Montreal, Que. H2A 3L9. music arranger/conductor Evhen .benefit concert at the Lviv Opera to Appearing at the Lviv Pavilion this Zwozdecky from Edmonton has raise funds for a Shevchenko monu­ year were Nina Melnyk of the Lviv orchestrated a new Shumka recording. ment in that city. Opera Theater, and Nazar Yaremchuk Vocal trio debuts Volume 4, titled "A Celebration For and Pavlo Dvorsky of the Smerichka Youth," on the Shumka Label. Among the other songs are some Folk Ensemble - in a soul-satisfying, The selections on side A of the never recorded before, and most pro­ heartening concert of both old and new recording are a tribute to the late Vasyl bably not that well known to the general songs. They, too, will record a cassette Avramenko featuring Kozachok Podil- public. Considering the wealth of our for the Ukrainian House of Gifts before sky, Kolomyia, Hrechanyky, Dance of folk song, this is hot at all unusual. they leave Canada. Based on their the Zaporozhtsi, Kateryna and Zhentsi. There is a totally different song about a performance during the week of August Side В features traditional Ukrainian "komar" (mosquito) and what happens 7-13,1 believe it will be as remarkable as dance music: Carpathian Echoes, Vo- to him when he falls ("Dub na duba "Svitlytsia." lynsky Tanets, Doschchyk, My Land, pokhylyvsia"); a humorous song about "Svitlytsia" is distributed in the U.S. My Land, Ribbon Dance, Verkhovyno. a father interfering with a girl in love by Yevshan Records of Montreal. Since the release of its first recording, with his son, and how she sets him Shumka has performed across North straight ("Choho ty divchyno potai v lisi bludysh?"); what we know as "Solo- America and Japan. veiku, ridnyi brate," but which here Shumka — Volume 4 was recorded at begins "Ras nad'ikhav kozak mistom," U.S. SAVINGS Danion Studios in Edmonton, and the and makes sense with that first verse; record jacket features colored photo­ "Oi tam na hori," a song whose melody BONDS graphs of Ukrainian dance costumes is strangely familiar - "You are my from different Ukrainian regions: Za- ^ sunshine," but with lovely different porizhzhia, Poltava, Volhynia, Hutsul- Ukrainian lyrics; the melancholy ""Hylia, find out more call shchyna, and Central Ukrainian work hylia, siri busy;" a haunting and dis­ 1-800-US-BONDS dress. ,„„.„„ turbing "Kolyskova" ("A-a-a, kotky During the latter part of 1987, the dva," but carried to a kozak's adult­ Ukrainian Shumka Dancers held a hood); the humorous "Stoyala m pid nationwide record album cover design hrushkov;" "Ruta m'iata," which sounds contest for students in jrades 1-6 like a folk song but was written by V. in the Ukrainian'bilingual school pro­ Kryshchenko with music by H. Tatar- grams. Nearly 300 creative drawings chenko; "Nichenka tsyhanka," and TORONTO - Troyanda, a new were received from across Canada. An vocal-instrumental trio, presents a other contemporary and folk songs diverse combination of popular Uk|:ai- (Continued on page IS) sung so well THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1988 No. 36

Minneopolis-St. Paul community /UKRAINIAN ІЩРІ Who, what, when, educates public about millennium MINNEAPOLIS - The Millennium Responding to an appeal of the of the Baptism of Ukraine has greatly Ukrainian Church hierarchy, the World enhanced the activities of Ukrainians Congress of Free Ukrainians and the ІшШІІ where and why... everywhere. National Millennium Committee, a Day of Unity was observed on Sunday, Ї ^/lliVv988-1988r -Ukrainian language and chose vocation and Pearl Perry of Auburn. dancing. The committee also vigorously ob­ to become a Ukrainian Catholic priest. Performers from different areas of On Saturday morning a parade jected to a symposium "The Millen­ He is studying at St. Josaphat Seminary. the United States as well as Canada wound its way from Auburn Memorial nium of the Conversion of St. in Rome. gathered to mark the l,000th anniver­ City Hall to Casey Park. Included in the Vladimir" organized by a local sary of the baptism of Rus'-Ukraine. parade were members of Auburn's Sicz On the same day, at 4 p.m. at the Catholic college, because it did not Hilton Hotel, a banquet will be held for The festival events included a pa­ Club bearing flags and banners as well include the view of Ukrainian historio­ rade, church services, and presenta­ as the New York State Mounted Police 400 people. Many religious and political graphy. A complaint was filed with the representatives will be in attendance. tion of various ethnic groups sharing on horseback. archbishop, the organizers and the their cultural heritage in the parade and Riding in open cars were the chair­ The main speaker will be Ukrainian student newspaper. The event took Catholic Bishop Efrem Krevey of Bra­ concert throughout the day. In the man of board of Directors, Mr. Sos­ place, but attendance was very poor. evening there was a professional stage nowsky, Grand Marshal Cecil Semchy­ zil. The entertainment part of the show of Ukrainian music and dance. shyn, formerly of the Canadian Broad­ Prior to the "Russian Millennium" program will include a performance by On Thursday evening, June 9, a casting Company (CBC), the Ho­ celebration in Moscow, a special press the well-known singer of Ukrainian testimonial dinner was held at Spring- norable Mayor of Auburn, Edward L. kit was mailed to the local newspapers heritage, Joy Brittan. side Inn to honor the Very Rev, Charles Lauckern and the Councilman Tim and television news departments. It A. Mezzomo, pastor of Ss. Peter and Lattimore. contained the committee's press release Among other events which are in the Paul Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church The Baturyn Marching Band and informing of the usurpation by the planning stage, the Millennium year and Don Fordham of WAUB-Radio Burlaka Men's Choir of Toronto, Russian Orthodox Church of the U- will end with the unveiling and blessing for their contributions to the Ukrai- school children of Ukrainian studies in krainian Millennium, a memorandum of a monument dedicated to Ss. Volo- lan community and ethnic awareness Syracuse, Ukrainian American Youth by Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky dymyr and Olha. It will be erected in in the Auburn area. Association, Volya Dance Ensemble of concerning the Millennium celebration, front of the parish museum which is Banquet chairman was Carmen Ber- Syracuse and The Chaika Dance Group his booklet "Was it Really Russia that named after Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. tonica of Auburn. The welcome speech from Hamilton, Ont. took part in the was Christianized in 988," the pope's To preserve the historical legacy of was given by Mr. Sosnowsky. Cecil parade. speech to Ukrainians in Winnipeg, the these two events, an elaborate comme­ Semchyshyn from Winnepeg was key­ Also featured were the Scotland U.S. Department of State report on morative book is being prepared. It will note speaker and Orest Hrycyk of Kiltie Bagpipe Band, Scottish Pipe repression of the Ukrainian Catholic include facts about the baptism of Syracuse was master of ceremonies. Band, the Butler Academy of Irish Church in the Soviet Union, the Ukrai­ Ukrainians' ancestors and their cen­ A proclamation was by Arbon R. Dance, St. Louis Polish Folk Dancers nian Catholic Bishops' Statement on turies-long struggle to preserve their Hatfield, chairman of the Cayuga of Syracuse and the Polish Falcon- Millennium of Christianity, and the faith. Also included will be photographs County Legislature and by Edward L. nettes, members of the Italian Heritage Declaration on Millennium by Ukrai­ depicting many diverse activities of St. Lauckern, ma^or. of АліЬигп. Asseitt^' 'k'Sodifety^ in Auburn and the Port Byron nian Catholic arid Orthodox Metropo­ Constantine's parishioners during the biyman Michael Nozzolio spoke and (Continued on page 15) litans in Canada. past 75 years. No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988

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For the first time in the 70-year history of the Soviet Union, USSR's government allows to import 100,000 Ukrainian Bibles. і Angelo Rose, The Scranton Sunday Times The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking you for a gift of S25.— or more, if Three Ukrainian flags wave in the wind, over the Northeastern Bank possible, to help print and deliver Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine by the United Bible Societies of of Pennsylvania's Plaza, here in Central City, Scranton, Pa., thanks to West Germany. We must respond with unity to this God-given chance. the efforts of the Millennium Committee of Ukrainians of North­ Thank you and God Bless You All. eastern, Pa., in cooperation with the bank. The flags, raised on Thursday, July 14, will fly for one month in UKRAINIAN FAMILY BIBLE ASSOCIATION observance of this significant millennial year for all Ukrainian Christians. During this 30-day period, the feast of St. Volodymyr the P.O. Box 3723, Palm Dessert, CA. 92261-3723. Tel.: (619) 345-4913 Great is celebrated (July 15, Gregorian calendar, July 28, Julian calendar), as well as the commemoration of the Great Baptism of 988, celebrated on August 14. Northeastern Bank is taking part in the Ukrainian community's efforts here to bring attention to the ongoing violation of human rights in Ukraine, and in educating the American community about the repression of religion in the Soviet Union. Participating in the flag-raising were from left; Paul Ewasko, millennium committee president. Bill Roditski, committee vice- president, Alice Nidoh, benefactor, David Fickter, vice president of The''United Ukrainian Relief Fund'V of Cleveland Northeastern Bank, and Joseph Nidoh, benefactor. is sponsoring a particularly, just as in the Baltic states, M "UKRAINIAN CELEBRITY NIGHT" Washington... recent demonstrations have seen tens of October 23, 1988, 5 P.M., Cuyahoga Community College, Parma thousands of people (50,000 people at Ц (Continued from page 5) one mass meeting in July) call for more "Great Entertainment" freedoms, particularly for the freedom This concert is organized in an effort to financially aid the Demjanjuk family. National Committee to Commemorate to pray in free Ukrainian Churches and ИTicket s may be purchased from all Ukrainian businesses m Parma and St. Vladimir's Ukrainian j the Millennium of Christianity in Orthodox Rectory - 216-886-1528 Ukraine. the freedom to teach children the Ukrainian language, along with its H PLEASE SUPPORT THIS VERY IMPORTANT CAUSE. He said that in 1988, the leaders and history and cultural traditions. P.O. Box 44151, Cleveland, Ohio 44144 laity of the underground Ukrainian Catholic Church in western Ukraine "We in the West, have joined in the revealed their identities, thus subject­ struggle. Our mission is to keep the ing themselves to certain harassment truth about Ukraine in the public eye," and possible imprisonment. Dr. Soltys said, adding, "The Freedom He said that spokespeople for the Marches for Ukraine began in October Ukrainian Orthodox Church in U- 1983 when 18,000 people marched on kraine have stated that a substantive the Soviet Embassy in Washington to number of Orthodox believers in U- commemorate the 50th anniversary of kraine see themselves as Ukrainian the horror of 7 million deaths by Orthodox and numerous believers starvation during Stalin's 1932-33 man- would be attracted to a movement to made famine in Ukraine. establish a Ukrainian Orthodox Church, were it permissable to do so (in "That march and the work leading up the Soviet Union it is a crime to belong to it helped to create the atmosphere to either the Ukrainian Catholic or which resulted in a Congressional Orthodox Churches, which are not Commission on the Soviet Role in the allowed to exist). Ukraine Famine. That commission is now finishing its work. Dr. Soltys added, "Until the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church act to "The climate of the times helped spur help persuade their government to free a series of books on the Ukrainian our Churches, they have no right to call tragedy, including one by British Histo­ themselves Christians, the more so since rian Robert Conquest ('The Harvest of they are obviously taking advantage of Sorrow') and an internationally ac­ their government's stated position that claimed hourlong documentary finally the Russian Orthodox Church be the shown on public television, 'Harvest of only ligitimate Church in the USSR." Despair.' "The bottom line is that today in "In 1984, some 10,000 Americans of Ukraine there are nearly 50 million Ukrainian descent again marched on Ukrainians who cannot celebrate mass the Soviet Embassy, this time to 4ip- in their own language. At best, this is date' the story of the genocide of discrimination. At worst, it is racism," Ukraine by discussing it in terms of Dr. Soltys said. Russification," Dr. Soltys said. According to Dr. Soltys, Ukraine, just as it has done for the past three He added, "Our October 8, 1988, centuries, is struggling to keep its march focuses on one aspect of this identity despite Soviet (and before that Russification - Russification by reli­ tsarist) discrimination and , Russifica- gion. I call on Mr. Gorbachev to free tion. The fact is that in western Ukraine our Churches ід Ukraine." 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1988 No. 36

Detroit community... RIDNA SHKOLA - LESIA UKRAINKA The tryzub... (Continued from page 4) FOR THE MORRIS CTY. AREA He is a truly an invaluable member of FRELINGHEUSEN JR. H.S., MORRIS TWNSP, N.J. (Continued from page 5) our community and a distinguished tory, and was adopted as the national American citizen. I invite all my collea­ - First day of class for 1988-89 school year is Saturday, September 10th at 9:00 a.m. device of the Ukrainian National gues to join with me in expressing my ; At this same time the School's Parent Association will be meeting. Please make yourself Republic on March 22, 1918, and sincere admiration and appreciation to available. appeared on all official papers, Stephen M. Wichar Sr." insignia, and flags of the nation. The speakers' tributes to Mr. Wichar For furtSer information call: The tryzub is ours, it's Ukrainian were numerous and well-deserved. LIDA LEWYCKY - 992-7357 LESIA BARANETSKA - 736-5916 beyond a shadow of a doubt. It was Then, in a special presentation, Pauline the emblem of the state which accept­ Wild, on behalf of the Ukrainian Ame­ ed Christianity as the state religion. It rican community, gave the guest of continued to be used as an insignia honor with an impressive sculpture of a throughout Ukrainian history, re­ kobzar by noted Ukrainian artist Ana- RIVER OF JOY: turning as the state emblem in 1918. tol Struver. It continues to be the emblem of a At the conclusion of the banquet, Mr. free Ukraine. Until the Russians Wichar approached the podium and THE UKRAINIAN CHRISTIAN begin using the tryzub as their state expressed his warmest gratitude to the emblem, instead of despising it as the testimonial committee and guests. He emblem of those "rabid" Ukrainian also emphasized his philosophy on the MILLENNIUM nationalists, I suggest they steer clear importance of perpetuating Ukrainian of everything Ukrainian, including heritage in today's young generation. our millennium. The Rev. Ruchgy was called upon to offer benedictional prayers and the Lend your financial support to this video Historians and numismatists, what audience offered a final toast of "Mno- do you say? haya Lita" to honor Mr. Wichar on this production geared to television and the very special occasion.

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September 18 Pryma Bohachevsky's Sy2okryli s PREVIEW OF EVENTS Dance Ensemble, and a performance PARMA, Ohio: The Brotherhood of by the marching band of the Ukrai- ^ September 6 St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox nian Youth Ensembles of Toronto " PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian Cathedral will sponsor its annual under the direction of Wasyl Kar- , Cooperative Nursery is accepting clam bake immediately following the dash. "' ; ROCHESTER, N.Y.: State Univer­ applications for the 1988-89 school sity of New York, College at Brock- 10 a.m. divine liturgy in the parish year. Children must be IVi years old center. Music for dancing will be Weekend of October 7-9 port offers a new course: "The Ukrai­ and have a general knowledge of the nian Experience," FA 290.61. The provided. Tickets are S13 per person, Ukrainian language. Registration for children under 12, S6. Tickets may be WASHINGTON: The National ^ course will be taught by Wolodymyr Saturday sessions will be held on Pylyshenko, Tuesdays 7-10 p.m. purchased in the parish office or by Committee to Commemorate the ; September 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 calling (216) 885-1509 or 886-1528. Millennium of Christianity in U- : (September 6-December 16) at a.m. at the Ukrainian Educational St. Josephat's School Library. This kraine will sponsor a three day \ and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar September 18 celebration in the nation's capital. course is an introduction to the Road. Registration for weekday physical, cultural and political geo­ The events will include three con- sessions will be held Wednesday, ROCHESTER, N.Y.: St. Mary The concerts, a rally and moleben. graphy of Ukraine, as well as, an September 14, at 10-11:30 a.m. For inquiry into such areas as history, Protectress Ukrainian Autocepha- Friday's programs will include a further information call Vira Borys lous Orthodox Church will be cele­ youth festival and concert by the politics, religion, arts and folklore. Homic, (215) 379-3374. For registration information call brating the Holy Millennium Jubilee Ukraina Folk Dance Ensemble of (716) 395-2711 or 395-5724 or 1-800- Year of the Baptism of Ukraine and Chicago. Saturday, a rally will be 521-0092. For course content infor­ NEW YORK: The School of Ukrai­ the canonical visitation of Metropoli­ held, followed by a concert of classi­ mation call Prof. Pylyshenko (716) nian Studies of the Self-Reliance tan Mstyslav, Archbishop Constan- cal music of Ukraine. On Saturday 673-4867. Association will begin its school year tine, Bishop Antony and the Upstate evening, a dance for youth, ages 16- with a divine liturgy at St. George New York Deanery headed by the 22, will be held at the George Wash­ Ukrainian Catholic Church at 9 a.m. Very Rev. Mitred Eugene Narushe- ington University Marvin Center. Qasses will then be held until noon. vich. The greetings of the hierarchs On Sunday, thousands of Ukrai­ September ^11 To register for grades 1 through 12, will take place at 9 a.m., followed by nian Americans will unite at an as well as an English-language class, the divine liturgy starting at 9:30 a.m. ecumenical moleben. A Sunday RICHMOND, Va.: The 18th annual come to the school office on Taras The banquet and concert program afternoon concert will feature the International Festival will be held at Shevchenko Place, between Sixth begin at 1 p.m. in the church hall, Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, con­ the Richmond Center (between the and Seventh streets, on Saturdays in 3176 St. Paul Blvd. Tickets and ducted by Wolodymyr Kolesnyk. Richmond Coliseum and Marriott September. information may be obtained from For more information, please call Hotel), exit 11 on Interstate 64 and the event's chairman Alex Skibickyj, the National Millennium Commit­ 95. Festival hours: 5-10 p.m. on (716) 671-8544, or at the church tee, at (202) 783-0988. Friday; noon-10 p.m. on Saturday; ASTORIA, N.Y.: Holy Cross Ukrai­ rectory, (716) 342-6424. and noon-8 p.m. on Sunday. Spon­ nian Catholic Church will hold its ONGOING sored by UNA Branch 34, the Ukrai­ annual parish picnic in Bohemian September 24 nian segment features traditional Hall and Park at 29th Street and 24th CLEVELAND: An exhibit of 400 Ukrainian foods, a cultural exhibit Avenue. Beginning at 1 p.m., festivi­ NEW YORK: A Millennium Rally pysanky and 50 paintings inspired by on the Millennium of Ukrainian ties will include a lottery, games, will take place at Madison Square these Ukrainian Easter eggs is con­ Christianity and entertainment. The prizes, homemade food, entertain­ Garden's Felt Forum at 3 p.m. under tinuing through September 29 here at highlight of the event is the Sunday, ment and music by the "РОСА" the sponsorship of the New York the Women's City Club Gallery September 11, performance at 3 p.m. Orchestra. Admission is S5 for adults, Metropolitan Committee Comme­ under the sponsorship of the Wo­ by the renowned Lyman Ukrainian SI50 for students age 12-17. Chil­ morating the Millennium of Chris­ men's City Club and the Ukrainian Folk Dance Ensemble of Baltimore. dren age 11 and under are admitted tianity in Ukraine. The program Gold Cross branch in Cleveland. The Fo more information call (804) 232- free. All proceeds will go toward includes an ecumenical prayer ser­ pysanky are created by Aka Pe- 3381. completion of the church's lower vice, greetings and addresses by reyma, while the paintings are the level. distinguished guests, a Millennium work of her sister, Tanya Osadca. Pageant featuring the Lydia Kryshel- The exhibit is dedicated to the Mil­ lennium of Christianity in Ukraine. September 10 September 11 nytsky Drama Studio and Roma PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to WINNIPEG: The Ridna Shkola PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to the (School of Ukrainian Studies) affi­ Human Rights Committee of Phila­ Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send liated with the Ukrainian National delphia will present recently released information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.), - Federation of Canada will begin its political prisoner Petro Ruban to typed and in the English language - along with the phone number of a person academic year. Classes will be held Philadelphia's Ukrainian commu­ who may be reached during daytime hours for additional information, to: each Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. The nity at 6:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, school has four levels of grades: pre­ Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road in N.J. 07302. school, for children age 3-5; level I, Fox Chase. Mr. Ruban will speak PLEASE NOTE: Preview items must be received one week before desired age 6-9; level II, age 10-13; level III, about his experiences in the gulag, as date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Preview age 14 and up. For further informa­ well as relate his impressions of the items will be published only once (please indicate desired date of publication). tion about enrollment, call Mrs. B. West. A question-and-answer period All items are published at the discretion of the editorial staff and in Gerus, (204) 261-7503, will follow. accordance with available space. Ukrainian Heritage Foundation CSCE to hold special hearing WASHINGTON - The U.S. Com­ Ruban (Ukraine), Paruir Airikyan to meet in September at Soyuzivka mission on Security and Cooperation in (Armenia) and Dr. Algirdas Statkevi- Europe will hold a special hearing on cius (Baltic states), as well as by Valery POLAND, Ohio ^ The Ukrainian A short segment of the Hopak video "The Nationalities Issue under Gorba­ Chalidze, who will provide an overview Heritage Foundation's meeting for 1988 will be shown at the meeting. Since the chev" on Thursday, September 15, at 10 of the nationalities question. will take place at Soyuzivka, Kerhonk- Kashtan group is on summer vacation, a.m. to noon in Room 628 of the son, N. Y. on September 23,24 and 25th. and needs to learn the Avramenko Dirksen Senate Office Building. For further information, contact The price of SI 25 per person includes dances, only a small portion will be Testimony will be given by recently Orest Deychakiwsky of the Helsinki registration, membership, room and available to show. emigrated human rights activists Petro Commission at (202) 225-1901. meals from Friday night until Sunday afternoon. Anyone interested in their Ukrainian Ukrainian Technological Society announces awards heritage and would like the foundation Business sessions will be conducted PITTSBURGH - The Ukrainian entering its 16th year. In the prior 15 Saturday morning and afternoon, con­ to grow, as well as get involved in projects, should come to this meeting. Technological Society, an association years, the society has made І 40 scholar­ cluded by the election of officers for the of Ukrainian professionals and busi- ship awards to 114 different students coming year. Friday night, the guests nesspersons, is now making available totalling S47,600. Applications are will have an opportunity to see many applications for its scholarship awards available from Ukrainian parish priests videos of various dance groups in the for the 1988-89 academic year. and Ukrainian fraternal insurance United States and Canada. These have Students of Ukrainian descent who secretaries or may be obtained by been collected by Vice President Walter are enrolled in a four-year degree writing to Scholarship Committee, Bacad over the past t\yo years. granting college, and whose permanent Ukrainian Technological Society, P.O. Saturday's banquet will be preceded residence is within the states of Ohio, Box 4277, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15203. by a cocktail party with hot and cold Pennsylvania or West Virginia in the hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar for area west of Altoona, Pa., and east of Completed applications must be refreshments. Warren, Ohio, and north of Morgan- received by the society by October 15 in For reservations, please contact town, W. Va., are encouraged to apply order to be considered. Course tran­ Taras Maksymowich at 1318 18th St., for the awards. Current awards are scripts must accompany the completed Miami Beach, Fla. 33139. His phone S500. applications, so students are encou­ number is (305) 534-2118. The scholarship program is now raged to apply as soon as possible.