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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., i__ л c, a fraternal non-profit association I rainian И у Vol. LIV No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 25 cents OUN member Demjanjuk charged with Nazi war crimes JERSEY CITY, N.J. — John Dem- against him. On Wednesday, October 1, from the United States. Kateryna Zarytskajanjuk , a former autoworker from that request was approved at a special Mr. Demjanjuk's American attorney, Cleveland, was indicted by the state of hearing held at Ayalon Prison in Mark O'Connor, told the press that his dead at 72 Israel on Monday, September 29, for Ramla, where Mr. Demjanjuk has been defense of his client would be based on crimes against the Jewish people, crimes imprisoned since the end of February. the theme that he is a victim of mistaken against humanity, war crimes and Mr. Demjanjuk's trial is expected to identity. He also stated, "I believe my murder. begin in early 1987, reported The client will get a fair trial." The indictment, which is 17 pav^es Jerusalem Post. If found guilty, he faces "In fact, we have a better case than we long in Hebrew (26 in English transla- the death penalty. would have in front of a jury in the tion), ended with a request that Mr. The official indictment says, among United States because this trial will be in Demjanjuk's remand be extended until other things, that Mr. Demjanjuk, a front of three learned judges," he said. the completion of legal proceedings Red Army soldier, was captured by the Mr. Demjanjuk says that during Germans in the spring of 1942 and was World War II he served m the Red sent to the prisoner of war camp in Army, was captured by the Germans Soviets may allow Rivne. He was recruited to the SS and spent most of the war in POW auxiliaries and transferred to the Traw- camps, first in Kholm and then in Shumuk to emigrate niki camp where POWs were trained as Rivne. In mid-1944 he says he was auxiliaries. At Trawniki, the indictment transferred to Graz, Austria, where he OTTAWA — Veteran Ukrainian alleges, Mr. Demjanjuk was given an was mobilized into an anti-Soviet political prisoner Danylo Shumuk, 72, identity card, No, 1393, bearing his Ukrainian fighting unit and eventually may well be the next Soviet dissident photograph and personal particulars. wound up fighting with the Vlasov allowed to emigrate to the West, it was He was then transferred,"not later than Army against the Soviets. learned here on Thursday, October 2. October- 1942," to the Treblinka camp The-identity issue was a critical point External Affairs Minister Joe Clark where he served "at least until Septem- during the remand hearing on October announced that the Shumuk case was ber 1943." The indictment adds that he 1, according to Mr. Demjanjuk's son- one of 10 family reunification cases also served for a short time, "at about in-law Edward Nishnic. Speaking with submitted to Soviet Foreign Minister March 27, 1942," at the Sobibor camp. The Ukrainian Weekly by telephone Kateryna Zarytska Eduard Shevardnadze as special con- from Cleveland, Mr. Nishnic related cerns of the Canadian government. Mr. Demjanjuk is accused of being JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Kateryna "Ivan the Terrible," the brutal camp how the prosecution argued at the Mr. Clark said, "I mentioned the Zarytska Soroka, long-time member of guard who tortured Jews on their way hearing that Mr. Demjanjuk had to name of Danylo Shumuk... I expressed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationa- to the gas chamber that he operated. remain in prison because he was "Ivan lists (OUN) who spent some 30 years in the very real hope that he would be the Terrible." allowed to join his family in Canada." In addition, the indictment, which is Polish and Soviet prisons and camps, Mr. O'Connor argued that no evi- He added, "We did not get a refusal divided into 13 sections that outline the died on Friday, August 29, in western dence had been presented that his client on that question... so I think there is horrors of the Holocaust and the Ukraine after a prolonged illness. She was "Ivan," and he called for Mr. some reason to be optimistic." accused's alleged involvement in them, was 72 years old. notes that at the death camps of Belzec, Demjanjuk's release. After going into Mr. Shumuk is due to complete his Ms. Zarytska was born in 1914 in Sobibor and Treblinka, auxiliaries, his chambers, the judge presiding at the most recent term of imprisonment and Lviv, Ukraine, into the well-known "mostly Ukrainians, worked under the hearing returned, stating that he be- internal exile in January 1987. family of a professor of mathematics at supervision of some 30 SS men," The lieves Mr. Demjanjuk is "Ivan," and, Lviv University, Myron Zarytsky, and Later that day at press conference in Jerusalem Post reported. therefore, he is to be remanded until the his wife, Volodymyra. She joined the the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, The indictment also includes a list of trial is concluded. OUN as a youth in 1930 and became Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze 53 witnesses who are to testify against Mr. Nishnic said he believes this active in resisting Polish repression of said in answer to a question from The Mr. Demjanjuk, including 25 from proceeding was an attempt to skirt the the Ukrainian population in western Weekly on Mr. Shumuk's possible Israel, three from Poland, 11 from issue of identification by taking care of Ukrainian territories under Polish con- (Continued on page 11) Germany, one from Belgium and 13 (Continued on page 11) trol between world wars I and II. Ms. Zarytska was also active in Plast. While a student at the Lviv Polytech- Orlov: courageous leader of Helsinki monitors nical Institute, Ms. Zarytska was reportedly involved in a conspiracy with JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The announcement on the a number of other OUN members to conclusion of the Daniloff affair made by Secretary of State ssassinate the Polish minister of inter- George P. Shultz on September 30 ushered in the beginning of M affairs, Bronislaw Pieracky, whom the end of a 10-year ordeal for one of the leading figures in the they held responsible for much of the Soviet human-rights movement. repression. The assassination was Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov, a 62-year-old physicist, spent the carried out in June і 934, and most of past nine years of his life paying dearly for his human-rights the conspirators were caught and activities in the mid-1970s, which included his leadership of tried as a group in Warsaw the follow- the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group that he helped ing year. Ms. Zarytska was sentenced to found, and his tireless efforts on behalf of other political eight years in prison. prisoners in the Soviet Union and abroad. He is now in internal exile in a remote village, Kobyai, in Yakutia, one of When the German army occupied Siberia's bleakest and coldest regions. Poland in 1939, Ms. Zarytska was freed from prison and returned to Lviv, where But not for long. Under an agreement with the Soviets over she married another OUN activist and the release of accused Soviet spy Gennadi Zakharov, the U.S. newly released prisoner, Mykhailo government secured Mr. Orlov's release and emigration, Soroka. Both continued to resist the along with his wife and fellow dissident, Irina Valitova. The occupying forces, this time the Soviets. couple are due to leave the USSR by October 7 and come to In 1940 Ms. Zarytska was arrested by the United States, where they will most probably remain. Soviet authorities for her role in the On May 12, 1976, Mr. Orlov, along with another physicist Lviv oblast's OUN leadership. While in and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, announced their detention in Brygidka prison in Lviv, "Formation of a group of 11 human-rights activists to promote Ms. Zarytska gave birth to a son, compliance with the Helsinki Accords in the USSR, which Bohdan Soroka, in September 1940. became known as the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group. The (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page 11) Yuri F. Orlov THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 No. 40

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Anatoly Marchenko pens letter to Vienna Conference delegates Russian history and nationalism: NEW YORK — On September 24, The New York Times ran a letter from their effect on Soviet politics Anatoly T, Marchenko, a founding by Roman Solchanyk possibility of acquainting ourselves member of the Moscow Helsinki Moni- with the recognized and best examples toring Group. The letter, dated August A recent decision by Soviet officials of our native historiography." 4 and addressed to the delegates con- to publish the works of two eminent With the election of Mikhail Gorba- vening in Vienna to prepare for the pre-Soviet historians marks another chev as secretary general of the Com- review conference on the Helsinki Final victory for the patriotically minded munist Party of the Soviet Union, Act, was smuggled out of Chistopol Russian intelligentsia. Various Russian however, the adherents of a legitimiza- prison, where Mr. Marchenko is serving writers have emphasized the need to tion of Russian culture and history a 15-year sentence for "anti-Soviet preserve the Russian historical legacy. including the rehabilitation of the propaganda." At the same time, however, the classics of Russian historiography In the letter, Mr. Marchenko describes criticism directed at non-Russian histo- have been given remarkable leeway in how he has been abused both in labor riians shows no evidence of abating. In disseminating their views. The demand camps and in prisons. He states that the ЏїШІ рг^ьще is Moving to impose that certain pre-Soviet historians be Soviets "are violating the Helsinki furtiier cortools :ori thfeir work. published has been voiced in influential agreement." A recent Radio Moscow broadcast and widely read newspapers as well as Mr. Marchenko was arrested March announced the forthcorning.publication from the podium of the recent writers1 17, 1981, for "anti-Soviet propaganda" of the historical works of Kliuchevsky congress in Moscow. and was sentenced to 10 years' strict- and Soloviev, two prominent pre- The cinematographer Nikita Mikhal- regimen labor camp and five years' revolutionary Russian historians whose kov, writing in Sovietskaya Kultura last exile. As he points out in the letter, in writings have long been largely un- April, referred specifically to Karamzin, December 1983 he was transferred from available to Soviet readers. In the course Kliuchevsky and Soloviev in the con- the camp to Chistopol prison. He has of 1987 and 1988 the Mysl Publishing text of the need to preserve Russia's already served four previous sentences: Anatoly Marchenko House will bring out the first volumes of cultural heritage. 1960-1966 for "treason;" 1968-1969 for administrative surveillance. He is sup- a projected nine-volume edition of Shortly thereafter the philosopher "infringement of passport regulations"; posed to be released in March 1996. Kliuchevsky and an 18-volume edition Arseniy Gulyga, noting that Karamzin's 1969-1971 for "circulating deliberately Mr. Marchenko, formerly a worker, of Soloviev, including the latter's "Istoriya" had recently been published false fabrications defaming the Soviet is married to Larissa Bogoraz and has пгогштшпші "Istoriya Rossiyi s Drev- in Prague and that the work was also political and social system"; 1975-1979 one son, Pavel, who was born in 1973. neishikh Vremen^ . ``' scheduled for publication in Leipzig, for alleged violation of the rules of Mr. -Marchenko's 18 years in camps, In a commentary accompanying the remarked caustically in Literaturnaya prisons and exile have left him in very report, the first deputy chairman of the Gazeta: "So, we are to read "Istoriya poor health. He suffers from polyneph- State Committee for Publishing Houses, Gosudarstva Rossiyskogo" in Czech Poles refuse rkis, otitis, after-effects of meningitis, Printing Plants and the Book Trade, and in German." deafness, gastritis and arthritis. He has Dmitrii F. Mamleev, offered theexpla- Academician Dmitrii Likachev, who military oath also had two operations for a chronic nation that the decision to proceed with bleeding stomach ulcer. He has been is in the forefront of what might be WARSAW — The Warsaw govern- this project had been taken in view of severely beaten in labor camps, incar- termed the Russian revival, added his ment has jailed dozens of conscripts for "the growing interest in the past of the influential voice in support of the cerated in solitary confinement and ?n ,:kiU refusing to take an oath which would fatherland?' `''' "' --^^ `-` —— denied visits by his family. Karamzin project at the recently con- oblige them to fight alongside the Red ^-Єіе^гіу;' Htt4MeYe$t in 'prt^ 1917 Mr. Marchenko's letter follows. eluded writers' congress in Moscow, Army, an outlawed pacifist leader said Russia, particularly within circles of the describing the "Istoriya" as "a magni- recently. patriotic Russian intelligentsia, has ficent and enormous literary work." ^ been "growing" for quite some time. Leaders of the group Freedom and With few exceptions, those who Peace told Western reporters the oath Almost six years ago, at the Fifth argue the need to publish someone like Eleven years ago, your nations signed Congress of Russian SFSR writers in was a 'Violation of human rights" and an international document reaffirming Karamzin avoid the sensitive issue of his should be abolished. The group has December, 1980, Semen Shurtakov staunch conservative and monarchist the United Nations International De- argued: approximately 10,000 members nation- claration of Human Rights and basing views. This was noted not too long ago wide. "We all see how interest in the history by the late Vladimir Pashuto, one of the international politics on respect for the Taken after three months of service, of our motherland and in the heroic past leading Soviet medievalists, who, none- rights of nations and civil rights. With r the oath includes a promise to "relent- dFotif people'fias sharply intensified. theless, explained: "Please understand this appeal, I bring to your attention the lessly defend peace in the brotherly And the fact that in the past few years me correctly:і am for the most expedi- fact that human rights in my country are alliance." A refusal to take the oath is many stories and novels dedicated to tious publication of Karamzin's work, under a cynical assault. equivalent to refusing to serve in the the historical path of the Russian and but with a high quality commentary." I am a political prisoner serving 10 army, a violation of Polish law, report- other fraternal peoples have been An obvious question emerges: What years in confinement and five years in ed United Press International. published evokes a feeling of rightful would be the reaction of the authorities internal exile for disagreeing with the satisfaction. We also publish textbooks if, let us say, Ukrainian writers and Nearly 30 members of Freedom and ideology and policies of the Soviet on the history of the motherland. philosophers began to popularize the Peace who had been jailed for refusing government and for criticizing its "But tell me, where can one read the notion that Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the to take the oath or serve in the army internal and international actions. I works of such splendid Russian histo- dean of Ukrainian historians who were released, according to the group's expressed my views in articles and rians as Karamzin, Soloviev, Zabelin, returned to work in Kiev in 1924, or leaders. One member remains in prison, books published in the West. Kliuchevsky and Platonov? True, Solo- Matviy Yavorsky, the foremost Soviet six face prosecution, and another During my five years of imprison- member has been placed in a psychiatric viev and Kliuchevsky were reissued at Ukrainian Marxist historian, be pub- (Continued on page 14) one time. But that was quite a while ago, lished in Ukraine? hospital. and they were published in editions One does not have to search very long that, by today's standards, were so or hard for the answer. Thus in a paltry that they could not be found even recently published book titled "Na- in large libraries. And the 'Istoriya tionalism —- Enemy of the Toilers" Gosudarstva Rossiyskogo" by the (Moscow, 1986), the author appears to Ukrainian Weekh FOUNDED 1933 brilliant writer Karamzin has not been have absolutely no qualms about citing republished since the beginning of the a resolution of the all-union Party An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National century. Why? 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Mr. Shurtakov's eminently logical individual but, rather, tells us some- The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: and quite convincing argument ob- thing about how the authorities treat (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201)451-2200 viously made little impression on the the historical legacy of the non-Russian authorities at the time. A lew months half of the Soviet population also does Postmaster, send address earlier, Valentin Rasputin, one of the not require gargantuan efforts. A recent changes to: Editor: Rom Hadzewycz most popular contemporary Russian Pravda editorial on nationality rela- The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant Editors: Michael B. Bociurkiw (Canada) writers, also pleaded for the publica- tions stated clearly that: "We cannot P.O. Box 346 Natalia A. Feduschak tion of Soloviev and Karamzin. He was tolerate the fact that in certain republi- Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Chrystyna N. Lapychak no more successful by arguing that it can publications a class and party was a scandal that "we can buy the approach is lacking in the evaluation of The Ukrainian Weekly, October 5,1986. No. 40. Vol. LIV history of Guinea or the history of events of the past in the life oi one or Copyright 1986 by The Weekly ancient Rome but are deprived of the (Continued on page 13) No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 3

Brzezinski, Novak Deschenes Commission on war criminals gets extension to speak at by Michael B. Bociurkiw because it needs more time to write the report. D.C. conference OTTAWA — The Canadian inquiry "People who write reports never on war criminals has been granted a finish on time," Mr. Gregorovich said in two-month extension to complete its an interview from Toronto. "The sus- report, Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn pects identified by the commission had said on September 30. an opportunity to respond during the months of May, June and July. This is a Justice Jules Deschenes, the head of way for the government to save face." the one-man commission, was to have submitted the report by the end of Michael Meighen, the Deschenes September. This is the third extension Commission co-counsel, told The requested since the commission's ori- Weekly more time is needed in order to ginal deadline at the end of 1985. deal with the "technical matters" asso- "The process of allowing the people ciated with the report, such as transla- (named in the report) to respond is a tion (into French) and printing. long one," said Minister Hnatyshyn in Mr. Meighen added that the inquiry an interview with The Ukrainian Week- has had to file documents that have ly. "The extension will allow time to recently come to light, and it has had to process the dossiers and get both sides comply with Section 13 of the Canadian of the story." Inquiries Act which requires the corn- Government officials have so far mission to notify people who will refused to say how many suspected war receive "unfavorable reports" in the criminals the probe intends to identify document. to the federal government. But a news Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn About half of the more than 1,000 report last month quoted a commission mission lawyer Yves Fortier was quoted lawyer as saying that Judge Deschenes pages in the report will be included in a Zbigniew Brzezinski confidential report to Cabinet, mostly as saying. will identify more than a dozen suspects The Deschenes Commission was who should be, prosecuted. outlining the commission's findings on WASHINGTON — Zbigniew Brze- about 800 suspects. formed in February 1985bythegovern- zinski and Michael Novak lead the John Gregorovich, the Toronto law- ment of Prime Minister Brian Mulro- roster of distinguished speakers who ywer who heads a group of people The public section of the commis- ney to determine how many war crimi- will address the Ukrainian Leadership keeping an eye on the inquiry for the sion's investigation will give a "detailed, nals entered the country, how they got Conference in Washington October 17- Ukrainian Canadian Committee, said learned, lengthy, legal opinion on what here, and what can be done to bring 19. the commission asked for an extension to do" with the suspected Nazis, corn- them to justice. The conference has been organized by The Washington Group of Ukrai- nian American professionals (TWG). Both guests speakers have careers in Ukrainian men's chorus from Poland welcomed to Canada academia and statesmanship; both are by Michael B. Bociurkiw Mirabel shortly after 3 p.m. Some of the Hall. The choir performed for the next experts in issues important to Ukrai- performers, lugging bulky Soviet-made three consecutive nights in Ottawa, nians. ST. SCHOLASTIQUE, Que. — Zenit cameras and at least two pieces of Toronto and Hamilton, OnJ., ..... Alr! When he is not traveling to other Fifty Ukrainians from Poland who are baggage each, spent their first few , The Ukrainian.^ parts of the world, Dr. Brzezinski members of the Zhuravli Ukrainian minutes on the ground sipping Coke is sponsoring the group's Canadian divides his time between New York and Men's Chorus arrived here September and admiring the huge, almost deserted tour, and the Jersey City, N.J.-based Washington: he is the Herbert Lehman 23 at Mirabel International Airport airport terminal. Ukrainian National Association is the Professor of Government at Columbia ready to embark on a hectic 27-day con- Mr. Rewakowicz, while loading his sponsor of the U.S. tour. University and counselor of the George- cert tour that will take them to 20 cities bags onto a bus that later took the choir The members of the group have a town University Center for Strategic and on the United States and Canada. members to a Ukrainian Catholic tight schedule. Performances are sche- International Studies. After stepping off a Soviet-made church hall in Montreal, told The duled for all but seven of their 28-day Mr. Novak, theologian, columnist jetliner that took them from Warsaw to Ukrainian Weekly he was overjoyed to visit to North America. The choir's first and diplomat, currently holds the this secluded airport 60 kilometers be able to come with his choir to North performance in the United States is on George Frederick Jewett Chair in north of Montreal, the weary choir America. October 1 in Rochester, N.Y. October Religion and Public Policy at the members, accompanied by conductor "We're so lucky to see members of the 12 will be an especially grueling day, American Enterprise Institute in Wash- Roman Rewakowicz, 28, and pianist Ukrainian community in Canada and when the choir is to perform twice the ington. He also is a member of the Anna Sulij-Tuz, 36, were greeted with the United States," Mr. Rewakowicz same day, in New York City and Lodi, Board for International Broadcasting, flowers and warm greetings by a hand- said in Ukrainian. "We're very lucky to N.J. the parent organization of Radio Free ful of members from Montreal's Ukrai- be able to sing here. There are a lot of Members of Montreal's Ukrainian Europe and Radio Liberty. nian community. Ukrainians around the world and what community accommodated the choir Prof. Brzezinski first came to Wash- The group of performers was wel- a pleasure it is to perform for them." members in their homes during their ington in 1966 to serve as a member of comed for the first time to North The choir members will spend their three-day stay in that city. the Policy Planning Council of the State America by Nadia Nowostawska, 24, a first full day in Canada touring Mon- The tour is being managed by Ameri- Department during the Johnson ad- native of Ukraine who now lives in treal and attending a banquet in their can Arts, a New York-based cinema and ministration. He returned 10 years later, Montreal, who wished them a pleasant honor hosted by various Ukrainian entertainment management firm. Henry when President Jimmy Carter won the stay in Canada. community groups in Montreal. Michalski of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., election, and became his assistant for The choir members looked tired after The group's first performance was on the president of the firm, was on hand at national security affairs. In 1981 he their eight-hour flight which arrived at September 25, at Montreal's Plateau Mirabel to greet the choir members, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normaliza- tion of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contribution to the U.S. human- rights and national security policies. Prof. Brzezinski is the author of a long list of books and articles ("Game Plan" published this year is his latest volume). Of special significance to Ukrainians is his preface to the English edition of "The Chornovil Papers," the collection of essays which record the 1960s repression of Ukrainian intellec- tuals, written by dissident journalist Vyacheslav Chornovil. Ambassador Novak has called the 1970s the "decade of the ethnics" in the United States, and his 1972 book "The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics" turned the "melting pot" theory into a myth. He followed it with a campaign for the creation of a White House office of ethnic affairs and saw its successful ,: conclusion in the appointment of Dr. `; Myron Kuropas as the first holder of (Continued on epagevif) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 No. 40 Bishop Lotocky leads 1,000 Detroiters Metropolitan Mstyslav officiates at in commemoration of historic event Philadelphia millennium service DETROIT— Over 1,000 Ukrainians prayed: "I bow in worship before the of Detroit, led by Bishop Innocent Father, and the Son, and the Holy Lotocky OSBM, took part in the Rite Spirit, the Trinity consubstantial and for the Renewal of Baptismal Grace in undivided." the Ukrainian Church and the Solemn Bishop Lotocky took a lighted taper Blessing of Water in preparation for the and passed the light on to those near Millennium of the Baptism of Kievan him who then passed it on to all Rus' by Prince Volodymyr the Great in those present. In doing so the bishop 988. urged all the people: "Strive each day to The service, celebrated by clergy from shine brightly with the light of faith and the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic good works so that when the Lord Churches in the Metropolitan Detroit- comes you may go forth in radiance to Windsor area, took place Sunday, meet him." August 3, at the Immaculate Concep- After the gospel, Bishop Lotocky tion Ukrainian Catholic Camp in Dray- addressed the large gathering: "We have ton Plains, Mich. renewed today what the chronicler Highlighting the service was the Nestor described about the baptism of solemn blessing of holy water in com- Ukraine by St. Volodymyr in 988. We memoration of the baptismal act that have renounced Satan and sworn alle- took place in the Dnieper River in Kiev, giance to Christ." Ukraine, nearly 1,000 years ago. (It was During the great sanctification of on August 1 that Ukraine officially water, both Orthodox and Catholic became Christian. Hence the August clergy joined Bishop Lotocky by im- date for the Detroit Millennium ser- mersing their crosses into the water. The vice.) faithful took home the holy water in Prior to the blessing of water, the little containers that were provided for faithful who gathered in Drayton Plains the occasion. were exhorted to turn to the west, the At the conclusion of the recommital direction where darkness begins. They ceremony, a member of the Millennium then rejected Satan and all his evil Council explained to one of the non- works and darkness as their Ukrainian Ukrainian visitors that: "Ukrainians, ancestors did 1,000 years ago. who have been Christian for 1,000 years Turning to the east, the direction and who are about to celebrate their Metropolitan Mstyslav is welcomed at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox where light begins, the faithful swore Christian Millennium, have been giving Cathedral in Philadelphia. their allegiance to Christ and professed witness to the world about their loyalty their belief in him as their Savior and and commitment to Christ. They have PHILADELPHIA — The Philadel- The dean of the Philadelphia Dea- King with the recitation of the Nicene suffered untold martyrdom and perse- phia Deanery of the Ukrainian Ortho- nery is the Very Rev. Mychajlo Bory- Creed. AH the people then bowed and cution for their faith in Christ." dox Church in St. Vladimir's Ukrainian senko, pastor of St. Mary's Protectress Orthodox Cathedral of Philadelphia Church of Philadelphia. inaugurated solemnities commemo- The sermon given by Metropolitan rating the Millennium of the Baptism of Mstyslav stressed the importance that Millennium momentum building Kievan Rus'. These pre-festive comme- Princess Olha played in these signifi- morations will take place every year cant events in the history of the Ukrai- also in Soviet propaganda until 1988 when the entire Orthodox nian Church. He also mentioned that Church of the U.S.A. will mark the CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As efforts Western public, using the same tactic of plans are under way to build a statue of Millennium on Sunday, August 14, Princess Olha in South Bound Brook, in the West to celebrate the Millennium "quoting" clergy who attest to the 1988. of Christianity in Kievan Rus' gain freedom of religion they have witnessed N.J., the headquarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. momentum, so do the efforts of the in the USSR. Swedish, Japanese, Cana- In 1988 it will be 1,000 years since Soviets to use the occasion for propa- dian, English, Italian, and Syrian clergy St. Volodymyr (Vladimir), prince of The Philadelphia Deanery Choir, ganda. are quoted as saying: "the Church in the Kievan Rus', baptized his state. under the direction of Dr. Steven Though few publications on religious Soviet Union is open to all wishing to Sawchuk, sang the liturgical responses. themes are issued within the Soviet enter her," "Having visited your coun- Metropolitan Mstyslav, primate of Following the liturgy, a Ukrainian Union, the past few years have seen an try, we are convinced that religion is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Orthodox Day social began at 1 p.m. on increase in nicely illustrated Soviet freely professed in the Soviet Union," U.S.A. and Diaspora, participated in the grounds of St. Vladimir's Cathedral. booklets exported to the West. etc., and from John Margitich, Dean of the event, assisted by representative This event received coverage by clergy and laity of the Philadelphia The Ukrainian Society (Association St. Barbara's Cathedral in Edmonton, WPVI-TV, an ABC affiliate, and Deanery parishes from Washington, for Cultural Relations with Ukrainians "Back home they say that you are being WCAU-TV, a CBS network affiliate, Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Abroad) actively promotes the Soviet persecuted, but you appear to be happy and appeared on the early and late news Coatesville, Minersville, Chester, Mill- line through its booklets authored by and your churches are full of people." programs on Sunday evening, August ville, Northampton and Scranton, Pa. Russian Orthodox clergy. In case there is any doubt as to the 17. In addition, the local radio station, pamphlet's intentions, one need only It was estimated that there was an KYW, interviewed Metropolitan Msty- One such booklet, "Pravoslavia na read the opinion put forth in both the overflow crowd of 500 faithful at the slav, and the interview was broadcast Ukraini," published in Ukrainian in introduction and the conclusion, that cathedral. the afternoon of August 17. 1985, quotes the head of Canada's "the Ukrainian Exarchate is an insepa- Anglican Church, the most Rev. Ed- rable component of the Russian Ortho- ward W. Scott, as saying, "Now I can dox Church," noted a spokesperson for Parma parish dedicates library boldly answer Ukrainian nationalists in the Ukrainian Studies Fund at Har- Canada; I have seen with my own eyes PARMA, Ohio — One year ago, of the history of the 60-year-old St. vard. and have become convinced that the several parishioners of St. Vladimir Vladimir Parish. All this has been Church in the Soviet Union lives freely, The Russian Patriarchal Church Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral here accomplished through the generosity of that it is strong and numerous." reveals its sensitivity to criticisms of its and the assistant pastor, the Rev. St. Vladimir's parishioners and the activities by Ukrainian Catholics and George Halycia, envisioned celebrating work of several highly dedicated work- Dr. Frank Sysyn, associate director the upcoming Millennium byestablish- ers. of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Ukrainian Orthodox through its con- trived brochures. Ukrainians can make ing a library, cultural and reading room. On Sunday, September 14, the Rev. Harvard, wrote to the Anglican primate Such a project, they reasoned, would Stephen Hankevich, pastor of St. to ask whether he had in fact made such clergy visiting the Soviet Union aware of the persecution that exists, and of the enrich the spiritual and cultural growth Vladimir's, blessed and dedicated the a statement. The primate responded, of the community and become the focal library, and with the assistance of Jack "The quotation ascribed to me is not an danger of making polite statements to please their hosts, the spokesperson point of activities for parishioners, Burscu, parish president, and Ihor accurate one." organizations and the school. Mahlay, library chairman, cut the His answer is not surprising. continued. By supplying clergy with accurate, scholarly materials on Ukrai- During the past year, hundreds of ribbon. As Dr. Sysyn wrote to the primate, nian religion and on the Millennium, hours and thousands of dollars have Over 250 people witnessed the festivi- "Many Western churchmen make 'di- Ukrainians can head off some of the been spent on the library. A separate ties and visited the embroidery display plomatic' statements only to find them n^ive remarks which the Soviets then room at St. Vladimir Parish Center has set up by Mrs. Hankevich, and the used in Soviet propaganda." Those use for propaganda. been designated, the highest quality pictorial display of Kiev, set up by Dr. publications in the Ukrainian language library furnishings have been installed, Mahlay. And when statements by clergy ap- and the shelves and display cases have are aimed at ill-informed Ukrainians During the afternoon, visitors were abroad. pear in Soviet publications, they should begun to be filled. be checked with the person quoted, hosted with sweets, wine and cheese. English-language publications such who, no doubt will learn about, as the Thus far, over 2,000 books have been They also viewed the documentary as the Ukraina Society's "The Eastern Rev. Scott of the Anglican Church catalogued, and several cultural and "Harvest of Despair," which was pur- Orthodox Church in the Ukraine" learned, the duplicity of the Soviets and historical displays have been acquired. chased by the Ukrainian Orthodox (1981) serve to misinform the general the Russian Orthodox Church. Also the library has become the archives League for the library. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 5

Follow-up on reception honoring the Ukrainian Helsinki Group

ІАІІ photos in this series by Marta Kolomayets. Rep. Bill Green addresses the reception participants as emcee Daniel Marchishin looks on.

Nina Strokata welcomes Rep. William Broomfield to the reception

Sen. James Mc Clure waves to audience as he is introduced. With him is Sen. Pete Sens. Rudy Boschwitz and Claiborne PeH deliver remarks. Wilson. Statement of William H. Courtney consul-designate to Kiev.

On November 9, 1976, 10 brave people formed the Ukrainian Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords in Ukraine. Their purpose was to monitor Soviet compliance with the accords, particularly the humanitarian provisions. Declaring itself to be a legal, community organization, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group asked the governments of the Soviet Union and Soviet Ukraine to respect their own laws. A few months later a wave of repression was launched to silence those voices of freedom and dignity. The conclusion of the Helsinki Accords caused excitement among the peoples of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Their governments had entered into solemn, specific obligation to respect the most basic of human rights. No one expected the fundamental nature of Soviet-style regimes to change overnight. But there were renewed hopes that repression would lessen. These hopes were dashed. In the decade since the signing of the Helsinki Accords, jrepression in Ukraine and the rest of the Soviet Union has climbed, not fallen. Most overt, political dissidence has been stifled. At the same time religious and nationalist unrest, being more decentralized and widespread than open political dissidence, has proven resilient. Thus, as we mourn the suffering of the members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, we take heart that the struggle for decency forges ahead. Despite the disappointments of the first decade, the Helsinki process remains a valued tool for marshalling pressure on Eastern governments for improvements in human rights. The Helsinki Accords enjoy enormous respect among peoples everywhere. Last year the Ottawa meeting of human rights experts gave the West an Reps. Dan Mica and Edward Feighan converse with participants. opportunity to sound a united call for greater respect for human rights. The Helsinki Review Conference commencing this November in Vienna will provide Statement by Nina Strokata, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. another important opportunity. The Helsinki Accords are based on the view that the interests of individual 1 and my husband, Sviatoslav Karavansky, and my friends, Nadia ; Svitlychna, human beings are a fundamental part of security and stability in Europe. Thus, who is also a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, all of us are free. We have while we rejoice at the agreement in Stockholm on reducing the risk of war in a lot of freedom in this country: the freedom of speech, the freedom to write Europe, we know that the Helsinki process is not viable if progress on security whatever we want, and even the freedom to criticize the president of the country issues is not paralleled by progress on humanitarian issues. where we live. Last year, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Here, at such a pleasant meeting, I cannot keep myself from remembering those Accords, Secretary of State Shultz concluded that: Ukrainian people who are now in labor camps, in psychiatric prisons or in exile. "... 10 years after the signing of the final act, no one can deny the gap between They are not only deprived of elementary freedoms, they are martyrs. I like to hope and performance. Despite the real value of the final act as a standard of believe that all of us can help them. Let us never, never forget them. Let us have no conduct, the most important promises of a decade ago have not been kept." credit for the Soviet lies. Let us remember: the Final Act of the Helsinki Accords is This conclusion remains true today. It is why human-rights matters, including the tool for defense of human rights whenever and wherever they are violated. the Daniloff case, were at the forefront of discussions in Washington last week with Therefore, I have one more concern: is not the use of Soviet evidence by the Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze. Human-rights issues clearly will remain at Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations a violation of American the center of our relations with the Soviet Union. It cannot be otherwise, for dignity and also a violation of human rights in this country? Americans want it that way. ^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 No. 40

A satirical glance at the Soviets Ukrainian Weekly Misha Gorbachev's first 100 days Support the defense have West swooning in awe "I believe in my victory. I do not believe that a democratic and by David Marples former local hero Brezhnev shudder. cultured government (such as Israel) would not be able to justly decide and Roman Solchanyk Already, the entire Soviet economy has my case and would follow the lead of the Moscow KGB and sentence been overhauled, and the industrial me, a former POW guilty of nothing, to hanging." Within 100 days of taking office, bald work force is laboring feverishly ѓо Thus wrote John Demjanjuk in a Ukrainian-language letter to The but stocky heart-throb Mikhail Gorba- fulfill the demands of their astounding Ukrainian Weekly dated August 25. chev has made a deep and lasting leader. According to Peter Smiles, a impression on the life of the USSR. well known economist, these changes How is it that this man could have been denaturalized, extradited to First, he has consolidated his base by have their limits. But their profound Israel and, now, charged with crimes against the Jewish people, crimes moving his own supporters, all Andro- significance has been acknowledged by against humanity, war crimes and murder? Well the answer may be pov's former men, to the ruling Polit- a columnist of the Montana Billings found in a revealing article by Patrick J. Buchanan, special assistant to buro. Then, barely drawing breath to Bugle whose name I forget. A Radio the president and White House director of communications, that was nail his colors to the mast, he began to Liberty backgrounder, followed by a published in the Sunday, September 28, issue of The Washington Post. elbow aside his rivals. Unreformed curtain raiser, followed by an analysis, According to Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Demjanjuk was fingered by the drunk Grigori Romanov was uncere- followed by a summing up of these KGB which then provided just the right piece of "evidence" that would moniously booted out of the Politburo. changes by Philip Handsome using as a convince American courts, to the delight of the Office of Special Geriatric sour-faced Gromyko was peg Izvestiya of May 28, 1985 (page 3, Investigations, that this 66-year-old former autoworker from shunted upstairs like a twig in a high col. 2), is expected shortly. Cleveland lied about his past because it was a past full of atrocities. Mr. wind, with barely a by-your-leave. It has since been discovered by Severed Bialoff Gorbachev's changes in agriculture Demjanjuk, the OSI and KGB agreed, was "Ivan the Terrible." and other experts that Gromyko was at are most startling in impact than Stalin's "In the last nine years, John Demjanjuk's life has been utterly, the center of a plot to prevent Gorba- original collectivization campaign. totally destroyed. He has been humiliated, disgraced, villified as chev from becoming general-secretary Among the projects tipped for the virtually no other American of his time; bankrupted, imprisoned, that was foiled at the last minute when future by Jerry Cough and Steven extradited to stand trial in the same cage as Adolf Eichmann. A stigma the coma-ridden statesman went for a Bonehead is a plan to tap the Arctic has been placed on his family and name forever. He is going down in steroids injection during a crucial icepacks for Soviet irrigation needs. history as one of the great sadistic monsters in one of the greatest mass debate. Scoffing at the tentative plans of fum- bling predecessor Chernenko, Gorba- atrocities in human history," wrote Mr. Buchanan, who states Meanwhile wheelchair-bound Tikho- chev plans to divert the North Pole into unequivocally that he believes Mr. Demjanjuk is "a victim himself of a nov is reportedly under a cloud. No- tably, for example, he was only ninth in the Dnieper by the year 2,000, thereby miscarriage of justice." eliminating the need for Soviet farmers Well, thanks to the OSI, working with the support of Soviet line at the 1985 May Day Parade, and 14th of those around the platform who to do any work whatsoever. officialdom, Mr. Demjanjuk will soon stand trial in Israel. At this trial, visited the washroom during the mar- On the foreign scene, the new leader Mr. Demjanjuk will be able, for the first time, to present his case. ches. According to senior diplomats at has already made an enormous impact. But, now Mr. Demjanjuk faces the Israeli prosecution which, the last Moscow Embassy party, this is a Witty, debonair, engaging, fast on his according to the indictment filed, has 53 witnesses who will testify sure sign that his career has gone as flat feet, he has already made himself a hit against him. He faces a team of government-funded lawyers. as a 30-minute pancake. Moreover, with Britain's hitherto impermeable And what does he:haveon his side? Well, we do not know how many unconfirmed rumors that have been Margaret Thatcher. After this it is safe witnesses'"Marie'-O'GonHorstas lined up for the defense, but we do circulating in Kiev nightspots suggest to say that no achievement is beyond his know that the defense team consists of one person. Why? Edward that the star of 92-year-old Ukrainian grasp. American House leader Tip Nishnic, the accused's son-in-law has told us the following. The Israeli party boss Volodymyr Shcherbytsky is O'Neill took one look at the domed head and swooned in awe. Meanwhile Justice Ministry has denied Mr. O'Connor's request that John Gill, an on the wane, as a result of his associa- tion with the Dnipropetrovske mafia. his wife, the Bo Derek of the Steppes, American attorney be named his co-counsel and be allowed to practice As is well known, the Stavropil mafia is has personally enticed 16 foreign lea- law in Israel. Money is scarce when it comes to the Demjanjuk defense. now on the accent. Shcherbytsky is ders into Moscow's orbit. Further, (The family's resources have long since been exhausted.) That is why believed to be in hiding in a suburb Gorbachev's astonishing intelligence Mr. O'Connor has not been able to hire an Israeli co-counsel. under the protection of a well-known and robustness makes him a feisty and The Israeli government, moreover, is not providing any financial Georgian faithhealer. formidable adversary for the aging and assistance to the defense as had been hoped. Their argument is that, On the other hand, the star of dark ailing Reagan. well, Mr. Demjanjuk has his own American lawyer, therefore, he must horse Eduard Shevardnadze, formerly a As far as Europe is concerned, the not be destitute. If he were destitute and had no lawyer, the Israeli party boss somewhere in the soft under- real Mikhail Gorbachev has stood up. government would have provided a government-paid attorney. belly of the USSR, is now clearly rising. Western Europe is being stormed as All of this leads us to make an urgent appeal to all who care about Shevardnadze's bravery in the face of part of a revamped campaign to split the justice. The least Mr. Demjanjuk deserves is a proper defense. adversity is renowned and he has taken Western Allies. But if Western Europe his life in his hands on at least two Apparently it is now up to us to see to it that he gets that defense. faces Mikhail-all-smile come-a-court- occasions. First, he once suggested to Please, the time to act is now — now that the defense has seen the ing, Eastern Europe quivers under a Georgians that Russian is the lingua stern and uncompromising figure. indictment, knows what it faces, and must prepare its case. But all this franca of the Soviet Union. Second, he Generally one can expect unequivocal if amounts to an enormous expense. Please send contributions directly personally fended off marauding soccer somewhat vague attacks on politics that to the Demjanjuk family's defense fund: The John Demjanjuk Defense fans of FC Liverpool who had arrived in irk the Stavropil wunderkind: revi- Fund, P.O. Box 92819, Cleveland, Ohio 44192. Tbilisi for a European Cup game. sionism, clericalism, anti-Sovietism, Having strengthened his grip to a Chernenkoism, national communism degree that would have made Stalin and Helsinki-ism. At the Office of Special Investigations (OS!) swoon with envy, Gorbachev, birth- No article about the new Soviet mark pulsating, turned to domestic leader would be complete without matters. Within moments of taking speculation about the future, and this office, he began a large-scale purge of one is no exception. In fact, the future is corrupt officials that has left even the clear. On the basis of virtually non- family dog unsure of his future. Droves existent evidence that has trickled into of officials in every major industry have the West, we can come to a haltingly received their pink slips in the mail. In tentative conclusion that perhaps it is turn, dynamic younger men have re- fair to say that this might be a sign placed them. The same of course is true which would indicate, all things being of the Politburo team. Yegor Ligachev, equal, that having removed all the at 65, is still wearing short pants. incompetent and corrupt officials and Gorbachev himself, it is claimed, still having consolidated his apex, Gorba- resorts to a soother before sleeping at chev is likely to assume the premiership night. of every national republic and autono- Having sorted out the capital and mous region. There is simply no other given Leningrad the old one-two, course for a statesman of his stature to Mikhail the Bald came crashing into take. Ukraine last month, iron teeth snarling. Meanwhile Tatyana trackers, indo- Within a day, he announced a major mitable Kremlinologists and experts on reform of Soviet industry at a speech in Soviet affairs who have recently arrived Dnipropetrovske that would have made at Western embassies in Moscow follow- ing stints in the Canary Islands and David Marples and Roman Sol- Monte Carlo, feel confident that these chanyk are researchers specializing in changes will occur sooner rather than, Soviet affairs. This is their first attempt as used to be the case,-later. However, in at humor on the pages of The Weekly. the final analysis, only time will tell. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 7

"Harvest of Despair" reviews NEWS AND vtEWS appear on eve of PBS debut JERSEY CITY, N.J. — "Ignore theЇ their eyes in dark sockets, await death, title; 'The Media and "Harvest off Sometimes bodies lie alone on street wnai IT we naa a ceieDranon Despair" ' is misleading. Ignore theі corners; sometimes they lie in heaps, clumsy format, too. Concentrate onі The pictures of dead or dying children ... and nobody came? 'Harvest of Despair,' the 55-minuteі are the most terrible." by Eugene M. Iwanciw about Ukrainians be out of town, so will documentary that is the centerpiece off And, commenting on a formal pro- the media. From the beginning of July the two-hour 'Firing-Line' special onl test filed by the Soviet Embassy in Unfortunately, that's exactly how the until after the Republican Convention, Channel 13 at 9 p.m. It is harrowing. Canada to Prime Minister Brian Mul- Millennium of Ukrainian Christianity is the only topics of discussion for politi- More to the point, it is true." roney when he mentioned the famine in 77 shaping up. In a recent article, I suggest- cians, journalists and most Americans So begins The New York Times a speech in 1983, which the embassy ed that the U.S. State Department may will be the conventions, the nominees review of the "Harvest of Despair" aі called "a 100 percent lie," and a viola- undercut this celebration by recog- for president and vice-president, and film on the Ukrainian famine which wasЇ tion of the Helsinki Accords, Mr. Corry nizing the Soviet celebration of the the platforms. It will be difficult to find aired on William F. Buckley's "FiringI wrote: Millennium of Russian Christianity. anyone interested in the business of Line" last week throughout the United1 "Public television's contribution to This would especially be the case if running the government, much less States on the Public BroadcastingI the argument, meanwhile, is to suggest, President Ronald Reagan traveled to about the Ukrainian Millennium. System. This review by John Corry is^ the historical record aside, that the Moscow in 1988, a possibility that is The national political conventions vastly different from one which ran lastt Soviet Union may have a point. To- becoming more likely. only compound a problem with hosting year in the Times when the film wass night's program frames 'Harvest of When I wrote that, I somehow forgot anything in the nation's capital during shown at the New York Film Festival. Despair' with a panel discussion." that the Ukrainian American commu- the month of August. It is, by far, the Reviewer Vincent Canby then called the; The New York City Tribune also nity needs no assistance in undercutting worst month for weather in Washing- documentary a "frankly biased, angryj took a positive stand in regard to the the celebration of the Millennium or ton. August days are known as 90-90 recollection" whose "voice-over narra- documentary. Its editorial on the sub- any other efforts to inform the world days, 90-plus degrees and 90-plus humi- tion has the self-assured slickness of ai ject began: about our fate. We can accomplish this dity. For that reason, Washington was a conventional, old-fashion propagandat "The call goes up, constantly echoed all by ourselves, without any help from ghost town during Augusts before the film." and amplified in the media, never to the State Department or, for that invention of air conditioners. Even with Mr. Corry's review is one of several1 forget the Holocaust, Hitler's genocide matter, the Soviets. the comforts of air-conditioning in which appeared throughout the Newf against the Jews. The media has been The current plans of the National offices, homes, cars and every other York area. Other papers to comment onі silent, however, about another holo- Millennium Committee call for the conceivable location, as many people as the documentary and the "Firing Line"" caust even more cruel and widespread culmination of the celebrations to take possible leave D.C. during August. discussion were The New York Dailyj — Stalin's genocide by starvation of place in Washington during early Au- Among those joining the exodus are News, The New York Post, and TheЇ between 10 million and 14 million gust 1988. Included in the agenda are a members of Congress and administra- ;i New York City Tribune. The Christianі Ukrainians in 1932-33. demonstration, a concert and numerous tion officials. It is just not the right time Science Monitor, based in Boston, also) "The Ukraine was once the bread- other activities throughout the week. to try to get their attention. reviewed the two-hour special. basket of Russia, supplying all Europe That all sounds well and good except It would seem that Washington was Wrote Mr. Corry of The Times: "The: with grain. The Ukrainians, however, for a few details that may make all the selected as the site for the mass demon- documentary, a Canadian production, whose culture, church and language difference in the world. stration and national concert primarily uses old film, photographs and inter-- were distinct from that of the Russians, The committee seems to have for- to acquaint the policy-makers with the views with survivors and students of theІ got in the way of Stalin's policies of gotten that 1988 is a presidential Millennium and other issues of concern Ukrainian famine. Much of what we see: collectivization and submission to election year and that the "Millennium to Ukrainians. If that is the case, then looks very much like scenes fromі Moscow. So 'Uncle Joe' planned a Week" is sandwiched in between the the timingijs^ajl wrong for such an Auschwitz or Dachau. Pale victims, (Continued on page 12) Democratic and Republican national Шгщщт^ aliab^^p^^^a^e, J conventions. Not only will all the then the events should be held in a city, Response to "Firing Line" politicians whom we hope to inform such as New York or Chicago, which has a much larger Ukrainian American Eugene Iwanciw is a Washington population to organize and attend the Pritsak corrects Salisbury area community activist. He is presi- festivities. New York and not Washing- dent of the Ukrainian Association of ton is, after all, the media capital, so Following is a letter written by Prof. vast Kievan polity is Rus'. Ukrainians Washington, a supreme advisor of the efforts directed at the media could be Omeljan Pritsak in response to com- used variants of the word Rus' as their Ukrainian National Association and a handled there. ments made by Harrison Salisbury, national name until the 20th century, member of a subcommittee of the To reach the audience of policy- retired correspondent for The New and there is considerable merit in the National Millennium Committee. York Times, during the "Firing Line" view that the direct continuity of Rus' (Continued on page 13) discussion of the Ukrainian famine. civilization is found among Ukrainians. In the nothern periphery of the lands of Send banduras to South America Dear Mr. Salisbury: Kievan Rus' the modern Russian nation I have just viewed the "Firing Line" took shape. There are cultural, linguis- by Nick Czorny where 80 percent of the population is of presentation of "Harvest of Despair" tic and religious similarities between the Ukrainian descent, there is a very large and have examined the transcript. I Ukraine and Russia as there are between During my recent visit to South seminary, scholastic institute, an or- realize that you are not a professional Spain and Portugal, and Germany and America I had the opportunity to meet phanage and a Saturday school. I was historian and that you have a journa- the Netherlands, for example. How- with the representatives of many cul- very pleased to see that our youth there Iist's license to simplify historical ever, to deny Ukrainian nationhood is tural and Church organizations of Ar- speaks Ukrainian and many of them problems. Still, I find as a specialist that to ignore fundamental differences gentina and Brazil. All of them empha- possess a strong, promising musical ta- I must express my concern over your between the Ukrainian and Russian sized the need for support of artistic lent. In Prudentopolis there are no ban- presentation of medieval East Slavic civilizations, and to commit a historical groups, most importantly bandura en- duras at all. distortion propounding a political view4 sembles. They showed an earnest desire history. The bandura ensemble of Taras The views you espouse are those of To hear someone, in 1986, espousing to preserve their Ukrainian identity and outdated views of tsarist polemicists a strong interest in learning to play our Shevchenko in Buenos Aires, where the 19th century nationalist Russian his- accomplished bandurist and Ukrainian toriography. Few scholars in the West might have a certain quaint charm if beloved bandura. these inaccuracies were not dissemi- Bandura groups already exist in patriot Vasyl Kachurak serves as artistic or even in the Soviet Union, for that director, also needs banduras. Despite matter, would support your view that nated to an American viewing audience Buenos Aires and Curitiba. The Curi- presumably tuned in to learn more tiba ensemble informed me that even his age, he rides by bicycle eight miles to "when we talk about Ukraine and ensemble rehearsals. Even though they Russia, we are not really talking about about Ukrainian history. In the end, to the Brazilians are very taken by our negate the very existence of Ukrainians bandura. They have appeared on televi- work under adverse conditions, they separate countries," have amazing success in their endea- The medieval civilization of the East as a people and the Ukraine as a country sion and have been featured on the front after viewing the film "Harvest of cover of Brazil's Revista Geografica vors. Within the Buenos Aires ensemble Slavs, called Rus', was not a national there are three exceptionally talented state and was similar in many ways to Despair" strikes me as remarkably Universal, which is similar to America's callous. National Geographic. They are very youths whose musical dream is to learn the Carolingian Empire from which the bandura. This is not possible, how- modern Germany and France emerged. proud of their achievements and many Ukrainian youths wish to learn how to ever, because of the lack of banduras. I assume you would not describe France Omeljan Pritsak Not long ago, Mr. Kachurak traveled to and Germany as "two parts of a coun- Director play the bandura. All of the banduras in Curitiba were Obern, 60 miles from the Brazilian bor- try or civilization that moved in dif- Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute der, to organize a bandura group. This ferent waves." The proper name for the Cambridge, Mass. built by Ivan Boiko. Each bandura is technically different and they are all group deserves special attention as it difficult to learn on since they are not possesses only several old banduras, built in the standard form of modern- forcing the members to practice in Urgent appeal day banduras. There is a need for shifts. Nearly 80 percent of these third- Do you pray for John Demjanjuk? Do you support him in his fight for standard modern banduras like those generation Ukrainians speak fluent truth? If so, please take the time to let п`т know that he is not alone. Write to: used in the United States and Canada. Ukrainian and have a great desire to Mr. John Demjanjuk, c^o Ayalon Prison, Ramia, Israel. In Prudentopolis, state of Parana, learn to play the bandura. We thank you for your prayers and support. A Toronto store has recently received — Mrs. Vera Demjanjuk and family. Nick Czorny is administrator of the 50 Chernihiv-style banduras. It is im- New York School of Bandura. (Continued on page 13) Mulroney unveils Ukrainian sculptor’s statue of Diefenbaker by Michael B. Bociurkiw bating forum. Mr. Mol’s 3-meter statue is the first OTTAWA — The work of Ukrainian on Parliament Hill to be cast entirely in Canadian sculptor Leo Мої was praised Canada. and admired here September 18 by “It’s one of my best works,” Mr. Мої, hundreds of prominent Canadians, 76, told The Weekly while proudly including Prime Minister Brian Mul­ gazing at his masterpiece following the roney, during the unveiling of Mr. ceremony. “I think it is a great honor to Mol’s statue of John Diefenbaker, have had this opportunity.” Canada's 13th prime minister. Toronto Member of Parliament Nearly 4,000 Canadians — from Pauline Browes, who chaired the Par­ wind-burned farmers and native leaders liamentary committee that coordinated to Diefenbaker loyalists and members the project, told the audience that Mr. of the Mulroney Cabinet — attended Мої, who hails from Winnipeg, was the one-hour ceremony on Parliament chosen out of a group of 22 prominent Hill. Canadian artists to design the statue. The unveiling of the bronze statue Said Ms. Browes: “Mr. Мої is a world- took place on the 90th anniversary of class sculptor whose considerable talent Mr. Diefenbaker’s birth and seven years earned him the privilege to create this after his death. sculpture.” As the prime minister Mulroney Finance Minister Michael Wilson pulled back a purple velvet shroud to said in a brief interview that the statue is reveal the 440-kilogram statue, the ‘‘a great likeness” of Mr. Diefenbaker. rumble of a 19-gun salute rebounded “Mr. Мої certainly got a sense of Mr. from the sandstone walls of the Parlia­ Diefenbaker’s determination.” ment buildings. Alex Kindy, a Calgary M.P. who is of In a brief speech, Mr. Mulroney Ukrainian origin, told The Weekly that referred to the sculptor of the statue as a the statue “portrays exactly” the feeling “distinguished artist whose work Mr. of the former prime minister. “This is a Diefenbaker so admired.” great piece of art and a great recogni­ Mr. Мої — an internationally known tion of a Ukrainian Canadian artist,” sculptor who has made busts and statues of Winston Churchill, Dwight said Mr. Kindy. D. Eisenhower and Pope John Paul II Mr. Diefenbaker, who headed a — was commissioned to undertake the Progressive Conservative government design and oversee the casting of the from 1957 to 1963, was revered by many statue by a Parliamentary committee. Ukrainian Canadians while he was The site of the statue is to the west of prime minister. The Saskatchewan the Center Block. Mr. Diefenbaker politician was known for throwing in a appears to be striding across the line or two of Ukrainian in speeches to parliamentary lawn in the shadow of Ukrainian audiences. He was a close Queen Victoria's statue. His gaze is friend of the late Sen. Paul Yuzyk, fixed on the entrance to the House of whom he appointed to the Senate in Commons which was his favorite de­ 1963.

Leo Mol’s statue of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on Parliament Hill.

Prime Minister Brian ^Mulroney and Carolyn Wier, step-daughter of John Sculptor Leo Мої and Vera Yuzyk, daughter erf the late Sen. Paul Yuzyk, who was Diefenbaker, unveil the monument. appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Faith is major component of Wasyl Lew’s success at Catholic network by Natalia A. Feduschak the size of their diocese and the number of hours for which they subscribe. For Second in a series on successful example, if the archdiocese of New Ukrainian businesspersons. York wanted all the programming available, it would cost nearly 120,000a STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When year. Broken down, however, this the study was finally completed, it would amount to $10 per hour of turned more than a few heads at the television, a sum which, given today’s United States Catholic Conference. It standards, Mr. Lew ascertains, “is dirt found that the Catholic Church had one cheap.” of the nation's highest phone bills — The network is involved in other second only to IBM. This presented the entrepreneurial projects, such as leasing Church with a dilemma. Would the equipment to dioceses, to supplement Church, which has typically been one of its operations and raise revenue. the first to adopt modern technologies But while the network hopes to grow, (it was one of the first to use the printing (currently there are 91 affiliates, 67 of press) continue to use “outdated” sy­ them on-line), Mr. Lew says it does not stems, or would it move into the 21st make sense for some diocese because century and adopt new communica­ they are small and cannot afford to get tions systems? the equipment necessary or pay for the The study found that, in light of the programming. In this case, enormous telephone bills and costs in­ “neighboring bishops help out,” Mr. curred using the postal system, what the Lew says. Church really needed was a private The network reaches approximately communications network. And that 9 million cable households. Says Bishop network ought to be a satellite system. Gelineau, the bishops hope CTNA “will The study marked the beginning of continue uniting people of the Church.” what was to become the largest Catholic communications system in the country, *** the Catholic Telecommunications Net­ work of America. But after deciding to Born in Lviv in 1940, in western go ahead with the project, the question Ukraine, Mr. Lew left that city at the was who would get this new endeavdr age of 4. His family came to the United off the ground? After an extensive States in 1949, after spending several search, the bishops of the Catholic years in displaced persons camps in Church, who were the overseers of the Germany and Bavaria. Having settled project, decided on a man who they felt initially in New York, he left the city to exemplified and believed in the teach­ attend the University of Scranton in ings of the Church — Wasyl Lew. Pennsylvania, where he earned a After years of experience in telecom­ bachelor’s degree in electronic physics, munications at the National Aeronatics preparing him for a life as a and Space Administration (NASA), CTNA’s president, Wasyl Lew: “I work with people who ere dedicated to what communications engineer. Mr; Lew eame to the presidency of they’re doing.” He then moved to Washington, CTNA armed with two things: a know­ where he, his wife and four daughters of the Catholic Church in the United ledge of his field and a strong desire to hioners can rent programs and watch spent the next 20 years. During this, States,” Mr. Lew says of CTNA. “We make things work. Says Bishop Louis them at home on their VCRs. period, he worked at NASA and are owned by the bishops and serve the It is important that the programs be Gelinfeau, former CTNA chairman of received a master's degree in bishops.” The network, Mr. Lew ex­ entertaining, Mr. Lew stresses. “No one the board, and the man who hired Mr. engineering administration from The Lew six years ago. “Wasyl was already plains, fulfills two basic functions. The is going to watch a talking head. ‘We’re first is to distribute television and radio George Washington University. After distinguished when he came (to CTNA). dealing with the fourth generation of programming, which is approved by joining CTNA, Mr. Lew and his family He is meticulous;. He had a vision of Americans who’ve been weaned on moved to Summit, N.J. CTNA to dioceses throughout the what it should be. He was successful in TV.” A lot of CTNA’s programming “is A lifelong love of his, Mr. Lew states, nation, and the second, to fullfill its getting the network off -the ground. not a guy in a Roman collar telling you has been involvement in Plast, the administrative functions such as tele­ to love Jesus.” There are some soap “He is a skillful man. He developed a Ukrainian youth organization. He is a conferencing and transmitting corres­ operas, one of which is in Spanish, staff starting from scratch. 1 really senior member of the Lisovi Chorty pondence via satellite. (Mr. Lew says which Mr. Lew characterizes as “even consider him to be a friend. He's a man fraternity and helps out occasionally in that CTNA can take a piece of corres­ riske,” documentaries pn people whoVe committed to the faith. His father was a the Newark branch of this scouting-type pondence by 11 a.m. and the recipient lived through trying times and survived theology professor. He grew up as a organization. While in Washington, he will have a printed copy in hand by 1 because of their spirituality, series on man of the faith. He’s a good family acted as head of the organization for p.m.) man. He fulfills an important role in our drug abuse, national issues, etc. several years. He adds that it was back The purpose of the programming is The programs, Mr. Lew adds, are a conference work. He was hired on the in Bavaria that, he joined a Plast group “not to get up and seek conversion,” he “way of teaching. The church takes basis of his own personal integrity. in one of the DP camps there. says. “What we’re really interested in is Wasyl has always submitted to the seriously the tenet ‘Go forth and teach.’ ” “I consider myself to be a religious moral value programming which teaches Obviously, the Church won’t air pro­ policy of the board. He was always a person,” Mr. Lew says of his own without being obviously teaching.” He grams that go against its teaching, such gentlemen in submitting to the bishops. beliefs. A Ukrainian Catholic, he says defined moral value programming as as advocating birth control, he says, but The bishops generally have liked him, he is pleased to be working in, what he shows which do not have a large mea­ it does want *to expand CTNA’s pro­ respected him. Many have joined the calls, a “faith community.” sure of sex and violence. gramming and deal with larger issues network because of his leadership.” “It is a pleasure — professionally it is So, how does CTNA go about getting such as economics and international satisfying and rewarding. 1 work in a *** such programming? While the organi­ affairs. “The Church has certain issues it faith community. I’m working with zation will go out and encourage pro­ would like to address like the peace and people who really believe in what When one meets Wasyl Lew, one is ducers to submit their programs for justice issue, moral theological issues they’re doing.” This makes, he says, for struck with the feeling that this man review, Mr. Lew says an equal number pertinent to war and waging war, the a difference even in how staff members is atypical. He does not have the stuffi­ query CTNA. (Not all the programs are economy and economic systems. A lot interact with one another. They are ness, the calculated coolness that per­ Catholic-produced; about 50 percent of the programming in (this) next kinder, treat each other as human vade the persona of many of today's are produce by non-Catholics.) Only season will deal with the issue of the beings and not machines. He believes businessmen. Rather, with sleeves half of the programs that CTNA’s re­ morality of the economic environment." that because of this, people are willing rolled up, hair slightly dissheveled, view board views are accepted for airing. Through such programs, CTNA hopes to put more effort into their work. and a smile on his face, he comes out of In a simplified form, the network to create a greater local media presence “I work with people who are his office on Staten Island — tempora­ works this way: the programs which for the Church. dedicated to what they’re doing. There rily located in an office trailer near the have been chosen for the season (there Despite its religious overtone, CTNA are no nine-to-fivers, no clock- building that will soon house CTNA are two six-month seasons) are then is still a “for-profit corporation” one punchers.” headquarters — introduces you to his made available to the dioceses which are that some day intends to be “in the state Mr. Lew says he has enjoyed working staff and gratiously listens as you ex­ on-line, meaning they have the satellite of being in the black,” Mr. Lew stresses. with the bishops tremendously. And he plain why you were late. capability and have access to CTNA. Thus, with an annual budget of SI.5 has learned a great deal about the He has an underlying seriousness, The bishop then picks whatever pro­ million to $2 million dollars a year, the workings of the Church, he says. At the with a good dose of humor, as he talks grams he feels are. appropriate for his network must charge for its services. same time, he has had an effect on the about his work at CTNA — the work diocese and they are then aired on the Those dioceses, Catholic colleges and bishops' lives as well. that to him is more than a job, but a local cable station, or, where available, other institutions of higher learning, quiet expression of his own personal the local independent television station. hospitals and health care centers, Because he is Eastern rite Catholic, he beliefs. The diocese can rent anywhere from 7.5 ministerial administrative or residential says the bishops have made it a point *** to 25 hours a week fora fee. According loci of the religious orders of the United that as they start each meeting with a to Mr. Lew, some dioceses are putting States who wish to belong to the prayer and announce what holy day it is “We are the communications agency together tape libraries where paris­ network must pay a fee, depending on (Continued on page IS) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 No. 40 VFW national convention honors Detroit college student is running 'littlest defector" Walter PolOVChak for Macomb County commissioner MINNEAPOLIS — At the annual who was also invited to the convention, WARREN, Mich. — Christine Zary- national convention of the Veterans of thanked the delegates for this prestigious cky is the Republican candidate for Foreign Wars held here Walter Polov- award and pointed out that this award County Commissioner in the 1st Dis- chak was awarded the 1986 VFW James will be an inspiration to millions of trict of Macomb County. E. Van Zandt Citizenship Award. others who seek freedom. He urged the The Ukrainian American community The presentation was made on August conventioneers to support the cause of in Warren provided over 30 candidates 18, during the convention's business ses- the Captive Nations and particularly for the Republican Party as precinct sion in the presence of 7,000 delegates. the oppressed Ukrainian nation. delegates and three candidates for John S. Staum, national commander-in- Immediately following the ceremony, public office in the Michigan primary in chief, presented Mr. Polovchak with a U.S. Ambassador to the United Na- August. They were: two Republicans, 24k gold medal, a $1,000 check and a tions Vernon Walters addressed the Jaroslaw Dobrowolskyj for 37th Dis- specially designed plaque. The inscrip- convention. He publicly congratulated trict judge, Ms. Zarycky for county tion on the plaque reads: Mr. Polovchak and spoke to the dele- commissioner, and Roman Tarnavsky gates on U.S. foreign policy. "In special recognition of his stead- the lone Democrat, for county commis- fast determination to shed the chains of At the banquet that evening, Messrs. sioner in the 4th District of Macomb Communist totalitarianism and seek Polovchak and Kulas were guests of County. the blessings of freedom and demo- honor. Mr. Polovchak, seated on the Ms. Zarycky, however, was the only cracy of this land of opportunity as a dais, received a standing ovation when candidate who won the nomination and citizen of the United States of America, introduced. will run for office in the November 4 his determination reminds us how The guest speaker at the banquet was election. The Ukrainian American precious are the freedoms we enjoy and Phillip Habib, U.S. special ambassa- community has rallied to her support. helps us recognize that untold millions dor to the Middle East. seek those same blessings." During a reception, Messrs. Kulas Ms. Zarycky is a bachelor's degree This award in previous years was and Polovchak met with Ambassador candidate in political science at Wayne presented to such distinguished Ameri- Walters, senators and governors, and State University in Detroit. She gra- cans as President Lyndon B. Johnson, had an opportunity to raise issues of duated from the Immaculate Concep- Hubert Humphrey, Ronald Reagan, concern to Ukrainians. tion Ukrainian Catholic High School in Jeane Kirkpatrick and other well- Mr. Polovchak recently graduated Hamtramck, Mich. Christine Zarycky known public figures. from high school and will enroll in a Ms. Zarycky is a member of the Heritage Council, member of Wayne In his brief remarks to the conven- local college in Chicago. He has signed a Michigan Republican Party State Cen- State University Liberal Arts Student tiori, Mr. Polovchak said: ".‚.I am very contract with Random House to publish tral Committee, chairperson of Wayne Senate, and is a former administrative fortunate to be in America and to be a book which will describe his long State University Republicans, secretary assistant at the Michigan Opportunity free..." His attorney, Julian E. Kulas, struggle to remain in the United States. .of the Macomb County Republican Society where she helped organize the election of the above mentioned pre- exhibited at the Monmouth Museum in courses and workshops in the most cinct delegates. Ukrainian Museum... Lincroft, N.J., and plans are under way popular traditional Ukrainian crafts, (Continued from page 16) for its viewing in other cities. conducts gallery tours for adults as well Campaign manager Dmytro Kulchit- The core of the museum's Ukrainian The museum's other collections con- as groups of school children, and sky and Roman Kolodchin expressed folk art collection, numbering approxi- sist of a historical department, a numis- organizes lectures. the need for volunteers and financial mately 700 artifacts in 1976, has grown matic collection and a genealogical Since its founding, the museum's support to secure Ms. Zarycky's victory ove^the pastтсїеСаЧГе. tcHnftit than 3,000 section. Two major exhibitions dealing financial backing his come from its in November. Donations may be sent to kern's, ribtrrtruou^fi xfdnations irid with historical subjects — "The Lost membership, many generous contribu- the Committee to Elect Christine Zary- purchases, and is presently the largest Architecture of Kiev"and "To Preserve tors, as well as grants from government cky, Marie Zarycky, Treasurer, 26019 documented collection of its type in the a Heritage: The Story of the Ukrainian and private funding agencies. Other Cunningham, Warren, Mich. 48091. United States. Two comprehensive Immigration in the United States" — sources of income have been various exhibitions of folk art have been or- have also been mounted at the museum. fund-raising events such as receptions A fund-raising reception for the ganized: one permanently displayed at Both subsequently became traveling and concerts with the generous partici- candidate will be held October 7 at the the museum and another designed to exhibits, with the Kiev exhibit having pation of renowned Ukrainian Ameri- Ukrainian Cultural Center. travel. The traveling exhibit had its journeyed to nine major cities in the can artists in such world-class audito- inauguration at the New Jersey State United States and Canada. The newly riums as Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Museum in Trenton, where it opened in formed department of fine arts consists Center for the Performing Arts. Addendum 1984 to great acclaim. In 1985 it was at present of over 500 paintings and Having concluded an exciting first drawings and is rapidly growing as a decade of growth and development, The In the photo caption accompanying result of donations from collectors and Ukrainian Museum now faces the chal- the story on the Ukrainian professionals' Insure and artists. lenge of building a representative donation to the UNCHAIN project, the The museum's mission is also one of facility to house the treasures of the rich name of one of the persons in the photo be sure education. To this end the educational and beautiful Ukrainian cultural heri- was inadvertantly omitted. He is Ihor department organizes semi-annual tage. Корка.

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nist Party. He graduated in 1952 with a degree in physics and Soviets.,. Yuri Orlov... began work at the prestigious Institute of Theoretical and (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) Experimental Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He emigration: open announcement soon generated a wave of support was expelled from the Communist Party and dismissed from "There have been some lists that we throughout the world and as a result within a year became the his job in 1956 for speaking out at a party meeting, during received and as always we promised to object of the Soviet government's vengeance, beginning with which he proposed that those responsible for carrying out consider those lists of persons, and if Mr. Orlov's arrest on February 10, 1977. Stalin's excesses, denounced by Nikita Krushchev earlier that this is legally justified then, of course, he Mr. Orlov has been serving out the 10th year of the 12-year year, be brought to justice. will be permitted to go." sentence he received in May 1978 for "anti-Soviet agitation After six months of unemployment in Moscow, Mr. Orlov Mr. Shevardnadze is in Ottawa for and propaganda," under Article 70 of the Russian Criminal moved to Yerevan, in the Soviet republic of Armenia, where bilateral talks with the Canadian go- Code. He spent the first seven years in a strict-regimen labor he obtained a doctorate in physics in 1963 and became an vernment. camp at Polovinka, near Perm, where his health suffered expert on particle acceleration. In 1968 he was elected a In his lifetime, Mr. Shumuk spent greatly according to reports b^fellow (prisoners that were corresponding member of the Armenian Academy of over 40 years in labor camps and smuggled out of camp. An account of camp conditions by Mr. Sciences. prisons. He served five years in a Polish Orlov himself was smuggled out as well, and was published in In 1972, however, Mr. Orlov returned to Moscow, where he prison for being a Communist in the a Belgian newspaper in 1979, according to The New York drifted into human-rights activities. In 1973 he penned a letter 1930s and also spent 18 months in a Times. Mr. Orlov described in his report how he was locked in to Leonid I. Brezhnev on behalf of Dr. Sakharov, who had German ROW camp as a Red Army punishment cells for two of the first four years and how his been quickly gaining disfavor with the authorities. Within a tidier during World War II. After he rations were reduced for a while to 1,700 calories a day. few months, Mr. Orlov was dismissed from his physics job arned away from communism, Mr. Mr. Orlov was transferred from the labor camp in 1984 to and never found work in his profession again. Shumuk became a Ukrainian partisan Yakutia, where his health has reportedly improved. He was Throughout the years 1974-76, Mr. Orlov was active in the in 1943, which led to his arrest in 1944. suffering from kidney, prostate and dental problems, tuber- defense of political prisoners in the USSR, signing the Although amnestied in 1956, Mr. Shu- culosis, rheumatism and headaches caused by a skull injury "Moscow appeal" on behalf of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, muk was soon re-arrested in 1957 for after a reported beating by prison guards. In Kobyai, Mr. participating in the first Unofficial International Scientific "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" Orlov was allowed to move out of workers barracks into his Seminar (organized by Jewish refusenik scientists), and and spent another 10 years in a labor own home and his wife was permitted to visit him seven times, campaigning vigorously for the release of Leonid Plyushch, camp. including her latest visit in August, the Times reported on the Ukrainian cyberneticist then imprisoned in a psychiatric Five years after his release in 1967, October 2. hospital. (Mr. Plyushch has since emigrated to the West). In Mr. Shumuk was arrested by the KGB His small house had no running water and in the winter he September 1974, Mr. Orlov became a founding member of again on the charges of "anti- was forced to melt chunks of river ice fetched on a horse- the Moscow chapter of Amnesty International. Besides Soviet propaganda," after his memoirs drawn sled, according to the Times. But Mr. Orlov has been working to free fellow Amnesty members Sergei Kovalev and were found and confiscated. In July of able to buy vegetables and butter from the local state farm Andrei Tverdokhlebov after their arrests, Mr. Orlov also 1972, he received his latest sentence of without customary food coupons, using his monthly devoted much time to the prisoners of conscience and torture 10 years in a special-regimen labor scientist's pension, which was^cut from 220 to 60 rubles. victims in Spain, Sri Lanka, Yugoslavia and Uruguay, camp and five years of internal exile. He Mr. Orlov was born on August 13, 1924, into a working- according to information provided by the Commission joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Watch class family and grew up in a village near Moscow. Fyodor, on Security and Cooperation in Europer. Group while in camp in the summer of his father, was a truck driver and later a lathe operator, a In May 1976, Mr. Orlov assumed chairmanship of the 1979. background which introduced the young Yuri Orlov to the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group. After a search and Mr. Shumuk, who is in internal exile problems of ordinary workers. numerous interrogations during the beginning of 1977, he was in Karatobe, north of the Caspian Sea; The young Mr. Orlov worked in a factory before joining the arrested in February of that year. While he was awaiting trial, has a nephew, Ivan Shumuk, 66, who Red Army in the closing months of World War II. After the the Norwegian Parliament nominated him^orthe 1978 Nobel lives in Vernon, British Columbia. war he attended Moscow University and joined the Commu- Peace Prize. saw in 1928. He was educated in Canada Demjanjuk... key piece of evidence against him, the Brzezinski... ашЦпе TJ.^, ШсрШ .aiui їідщгс1). Не . Trawniki ID card, may be a KGB т t (Continued from page 3) taught at Harvard after he received hrs (Continued from page 1) forgery. that office in the Ford administration. doctorate there in 1953, then moved to it now and having the judge state that He wrote: Mr. Demjanjuk is "Ivan." In 1981 and 1982 Ambassador Novak Columbia in 1960 and has been asso- "Four years ago, while a columnist, I headed the U.S. delegation to the ciated with that university since then. Mr. Nishnic also noted that "Soviet read a news report of the infamous 'Nazi United Nations Human Rights Corn- Ambassador Novak was born in evidence is once again the centerpiece of butcher' still living in Cleveland. It mission session in Geneva, and this year Johnstown, Pa., in 1933. He graduated the case" against his father-in-law. He quoted his lawyer as insisting that he headed the U.S. delegation to the from Stonehill College in Massachu- was referring to the Trawniki ID card Demjanjuk was a victim of mistaken Bern (Switzerland) experts' meeting on setts and the Gregorian University in that was used in the United States in identity. After a phone call to that human contacts of the Conference on Rome. He also holds a master's degree denaturalization proceedings against lawyer, subsequent calls, radio inter- Security and Cooperation in Europe, in the history and philosophy of religion Mr. Demjanjuk, the original of which is views, correspondence with Demjan- part of the Helsinki Accords review from Harvard. He has taught at Har- now being sought by the Israeli prose- juk's family — and amassing a file of process. vard, Stanford and the State University cution. clippings, correspondence and court of New York at Old Westbury. records sent by the handful of believers He is the author of a number of books The Jerusalem Post reported on on theology and politics, as well as two Ambassador Novak will address the September 30 that Soviet Deputy State in John Demjanjuk's innocence — I October 18 morning session of the have come to believe with them that novels. Currently he writes a syndicated Attorney Vladimir Ivanovich Baskov newspaper column and a column for the Leadership Conference; Prof. Brzezin- promised that the USSR would give John Demjanjuk is not the bestial ski will be the luncheon speaker that victimizer of men, women and children magazine National Review. Israel access to documents proving the Prof. Brzezinski was born in War- day. identity of Mr. Demjanjuk. The infor- of the Treblinka killing ground, but a mation was relayed by Stefan Grayek, victim himself of a miscarriage of chairman of the World Organization of justice. Hence this article." Jewish Anti-Nazi Fighters and Parti- He called Mr. Demjanjuk "a decent THE JOHN DEMJANJUK д sans, on his return from Poland to and honest family man whose life has Israel. He had been in Warsaw at the been destroyed by Soviet malice and DEFENSE FUND ``"_ conference commemorating the 40th American gullibility." anniversary of the Nuremberg war Mr. Buchanan also suggested that it is crimes tribunal. As we sit comfortably at home reading more than coincidence that the KGB this ad remember . . . It was not clear from the story, happened to have exactly the documen- however, what was meant by "access." tary evidence that Allan A. Ryan Jr., ONE UKRAINIAN CANNOT. ' x^either was it revealed whether the then director of the Office of Special As we reach out and turn off our light Investigations, suggested might exist in original documents, not copies, would to sleep tonight remember . . . be provided. In the United States, a Soviet archives. copy of the Trawniki ID card was used in ONE UKRAINIAN CANNOT. court; the original card never left the "By an incredible coincidence, not only did the Soviet Union have old A BRIGHT LIGHT BURNS 24 HOURS A DAY, Soviet Embassy and experts for the forgotten files of Trawniki; they had defense were never allowed to view the in the cell of John Demjanjuk. X found a training camp identification original. card of the very Ivan Demjanjuk about A BRIGHT LIGHT OF TRUTH BURNS In related news, Patrick^. Buchanan, whom Ryan had inquired." 24 HOURS A DAY, special assistant to President Ronald "And it had taken only six months to in the heart of John Demjanjuk. Reagan and White House director of find the ID card. Or, as skeptics contend communications, stated in an article — only six months for the KGB forgery A NATION IS ON TRIAL IN ISRAEL. published in The Washington Post on factory to create one," he wrote. Sunday, September 28, that Mr. Dem- Prayers and financial support desperately needed, janjuk is an innocent victim of mistaken Please send your donations to: identity and that he "may be the victim Г Share THE JOHN DEMJANJUK DEFENSE FUND of an American Dreyfus case." P.O. Box 92819 In the lengthy piece, which appeared The Weekly on the front page of the opinion section Cleveland, Ohio 44192 of the newspaper, Mr. Buchanan spell- ed out the grounds for doubting Mr, with a friend . This fynd is run exclusively,by the family of John Demjanjuk. , Demjanjuk's guilt and stated that the 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 No. 40

an Academy Award nomination, and Basilian Sisters donate hay "Harvest of Despair"... had been shown on Canadian television. (Continued from page 7) "Ironically," the editorial continued, diabolical vengeance. He sealed the "even the current effort to recount the borders of the Ukraine, then sent in Ukrainian tragedy — 'Harvest of Des- special secret police, troops and Com- pair' — encountered serious obstacles. munist Party activists to expropriate All three networks rejected it, insisting every scrap of food." that the remoteness of the subject made Criticizing the Soviet Union for it an unlikely proposition for commer- covering up the famine, even in the cial television. Maybe so. heyday of "de-Stalinization," the "But the film was also rejected by what Tribune also attacked the Western would seem to have been its natural media for not reporting on the famine. outlet — the Public Broadcasting The editorial continued: Service (PBS), rrogrammers ... found "Also culpable are those in the Harvest of Despair 'technically defi- Western media who failed to report the cient' and 'of dubious quality' — this of Ukrainian holocaust. One reporter a film that has accumulated a host of stands out in infamy: Walter Duranty of international awards. The New York Times. His dispatches ridiculed the notion of a famine, yet he "But the same critique makes Chan told British diplomats privately that as nel 13's actual reason for refusing to air many as 10 million had died of that the film abundantly clear: the film lacks famine he denied in his reporting. 'journalistic integrity,'the programmers explain, arguing that 'it doesn't tell the "Malcolm Muggeridge, a fellow re- other side of the story.' porter with Duranty at the time, said in 1 the film that Duranty was a 'thoroughly "This assertion is as obscene as супісаГ hack who lied to advance his Sister Leonida, farm manager for the Sisters of St. Basil the Great suggesting Dr. Goebbels should get position with the Soviets. Yet Duranty Motherhouse farm in Fox Chase, Abington Township, Pa., adjusts one of rebuttal time in a documentary about won the Pulitzer prize for his reportage the 500 bales of hay that the Sisters of St. Basil the Great recently donated to the Holocaust." of the Soviet Union! a drought-stricken farm in Madison Heights, Va. At left is Sister Paula, The Daily News, too, ran a short item "Now that 'Harvest of Despair' has convent house superior, who learned of the plight of Christine Faulconer on the documentary: "It's a chilling ended the long silence, isn't it time New and her 59 farm animals. At right is truck driver Roger Sprouse of Madison story, as told in old black-and-white York Times editors repudiate Duranty Heights, Va., who delivered the hay to the farm, and Walter Pumm, film footage, of a proud people who by invalidating his Pulitzer award, as maintenance supervisor for the Sisters of St. Basil the Great.. The sisters' valued independence and freedom, and ТЋе Washington Post did with Janet farm is adjacent to the carppus^ol Manor; Junior College which the sisters who were literally starved out by Stalin Cooke. As long as The New York Times s founded inІ947. and his army until they heeled." management fails to do so, the paper will be a party to genocide." The Christian Science Monitor's The Tribune also had run a lengthy reviewer Arthur Unger, while question- NOTICE article on the famine by free-lance ing some aspects of the movie and the journalist Anastasia Petryczka on discussion which followed, does com- THE SVOBODA PRESS ADMINISTRATION September 22, two days before the ment on the famine in relation to the showing of the film. recent nuclear accident at Chornobyl: hereby informs all organizations and individuals that the administration The New York Post also commented

.^ ^...... v will sat accept any advertisements on the Western media's lack ot concern "In the end, Mr. Buckley sees an about the famine. In an editorial on analogy between Stalin's cover-up of September 24, the day the documentary the famine and Gorbachev s handling of if previous bills are not paid. aired, the paper stated: the Chornobyl crisis. "The sympathy of these reporters for the 'socialist experiment' in the Soviet "Watching 'The Media and Harvest of Despair' is not a pleasurable ex- Individuals letters concerning unpaid bills will not be sent. Union led them to ignore the famine — and more benign Soviet misdeeds such perience as Buckley himself concludes. All bills must be paid within 15 days after the publication of an advertisement. as the Great Terror of the late 1930s — But it is a program that needs to be in order not to provide ammunition to done, a program that needs to be seen Moscow's enemies." and discussed. PBS, Buckley and 'Fifing Line' are performing an enligh- The editorial also commented that it tening, stimulating public service about HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN COSTUME was difficult to get "Harvest of Despair" a tragedy that commercial TV preferred SCYTHIAN TIMES, ANCIENT RUS' u COSSACK ERA aired in the United States, despite the to ignore in order to escape the in- 16 full color plates by CHRYSTINA SENKIW, plus, 64 pages text with В u W illustr., cloth, fact that the documentary has won evitable controversy it will engender," US $19.95 several international awards, including he concluded. Send chequeXMO to: BAYDA BOOKS, 30 Fairway Road, Doncaster, 3108, Australia ш Trade inquiries welcome ш Orders of 12 or more — 35% disc. We have available a brand new edition of .M Full catalog sent on application A HISTORY of UKRAINE by Still Michael Hrushevsky ТНЕЃ — ^^-^†Л available: in English Archon Books,published for Ukrainian National Association Ukrainian Weekh Price $30,00, postage and handling included. additional copies of SPECIAL ISSUi: THE GREAT FAMINE IN New Jersey residents please add 6% Sales Tax The Ukrainian Weekly's Community leaders commemorate famine ... so that this tragedy 1 at multi-ethnic Chicago meeting will not be forgotten special issue on the Svoboda BookStare 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302

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LEARN TO READ, WRITE AND SPEAK UKRAINIAN CORRECTLY. GREAT LEARN FROM THE BEGINNING OR IMPROVE WHAT YOU KNOW. GET: SI B III ! FAMINE. A UKRAINIAN GRAMMAR for BEGINNERS, SELF-TEACHING By Martha Wichorek A 338 page (Щ x 11) introduction to the Ukrainian language, full of instruction and informa- tion,geared especially to those who know little or no Ukrainian, in easy-to-understand Order by writing English. Cost, $10.00. or calling The only truly beginners Grammar published so far. The Weekly If it is not available in your local Ukrainian store, American customers, send $11.50; Canadian at (201) 434-0237. customers, send $12.00 in American funds, price includes postage and packing envelope ...to: Martha Wichorek, i38i4 vassar Dr., Detroit, Mich. 48235 No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 13

one should ask the members of the communism, which is presumably what What if... National Committee that question Russian history... is meant by "a class and party ap- (Continued from page 7) before we proceed any further with the (Continued from page 2) proacrT to history. What it does have to makers, which is presumably our pur- planning. Members of the National another nation." By "republican publi- do with is obvious: non-Russian histo- pose, we must make our presentation Committee familiar with Washington cations" is meant, of course, publica- rians are to write their histories in such a when it is in town and able to listen. It is and politics argued strongly against the tions in the non-Russian republics. way that Russians and the Russian past for that reason that the premiers of plays, August date, yet their professional Such complaints have been voiced are not overshadowed in the proi ss. In for example, take place in New York, advice was ignored. Perhaps the people with increasing frequency over the past practical terms, it also mean that the theater capital, at certain times of on whom the National Committee will few years by the official establishment, Likhachev can say, free of the expecta- the year and at certain hours, i.e. when be depending upon to come to Wash- at the head of which stands Sergei tion of any unpleasant conseqi ences, there will be an audience. Scheduling ington should let their voices be heard. Leonidovich Tikhvinsky, the academic that the recent opening of a mus urn of the Millennium culmination in Wash- The Ukrainian American community secretary of the History Division of the "The Lay of the Host of Ih -r" in ington in August of 1988 is analogous has decided that the celebration of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He him- Yaroslavl is a fine thing because "it to premiering a play in Peoria at 3 a.m. Millennium is important to its identity. self has described them many times: proves the fact of the antiqi ty of in December. It just doesn't make any A great deal of work and money will go "Correctly showing the successes in Russian culture." sense and nobody will come. into it. It will be a shame if nobody but the development of the union and This kind of "double-entry book- Ukrainians pay attention to it. The autonomous republics, local historians keeping" will probably be reinforced by Understandably, there are some effort to educate others about Ukrai- sometimes ascribe these achievements what appears to be a move In the Practical considerations in the plan- nians is a difficult road already. The above all to the efforts of these repub- direction of institutionalizing further ig, such as when children are out of Soviet Union, despite its "religion" of lics alone, without showing the full control over the work of the history .hool and parents can take vacation atheism, will be undercutting our efforts extent of the enormous aid that they institutes in the non-Russian republics time. So why not choose June of 1988 by claiming the legacy of Kievan Rus', received from other peoples of our by the center in Moscow, which came to for the celebration? Schools are already or Russia as they prefer to call it. The country, especially the Russians. There the surface at a meeting of the Presi- out and Congress is in. In addition, the U.S. Department of State, through is a tendency to 'ancientize' the history dium of the USSR Academy of Sciences long political primary season will be ignorance or for diplomacy, may end up of individual peoples, which has no in February. over and the first convention will be a playing into the Soviets' hands. The scientific basis... In the future, the What the reaction to this will be in month off. The press will be looking for U.S. president may participate in the institutes of the History Division will Kiev, Minsk, Tallinn, Tashkent, and stories that have nothing to do with Soviet celebration, as might the pope. devote more attention to the history of other places outside of the Russian presidential politics. It seems almost the Ukrainian Americans should avoid nationality relations." SFSR remains to be seen. One thing, perfect time. undercutting their own efforts by poor however, appears fairly certain: the So why wasn't June chosen? Some- planning and scheduling. It is difficult to see what any of this Russian patriotic movement is coming has to do with Marxism, socialism, or into its own. in the press. Anyone with unused ban- Send banduras... duras is asked to send them to the New (Continued from page 7) York School of Bandura. In addition, UKRAINIAN OLYMPIC perative to take full advantage of that the New York School of Bandura will be opportunity and immediately ship them sending highly qualified instructors to Brazil and Argentina. It is important to South America for two months. It is CHAMPIONS to act immediately. our obligation as Ukrainians to respond by Osyp Zinkewych This is an appeal to all Ukrainian to this call for assistance. THIRD REVISED EDITION establishments, credit unions, banks, Please make checks payable to Stu- Vasyl Symonenko Publishers, Baltimore, Toronto, 1984, pages 157. and to the entire Ukrainian community: dent Financial Fund for Argentina and Price $7.50. respond now with your material sup- Brazil and mail to: Self Reliance (N. Y.) Svoboda Book Store port. The banduras in Canada cost $500 Federal Credit Union, 108 Second Ave., 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302 (Canadian) each. Whoever cannot pro- New York, N.Y. 10003; or the Ukrai- vide for an entire bandura is asked to nian Orthodox Federal Credit Union, contribute to the best of his ability. P.O. Box 160, Cooper Station, New Every contribution will be advertised York, N.Y. 10276-0160. ENJOY

We wish to inform our relatives, friends and Ukrainian Community that the remains of ALEX 8. DORKO'S BAND at SOYUZIVKA PETRO STEFURANCHYN Saturday, October 11th, 1986 who passed away in Paris, France were intombed in Ukrainian National Monument- HORS-D'OEUVRE, DINNER 8. DANCE Mausoleum, 4111 Pennsylvania Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C. 20746 on September ш Sponsored by The Ukrainian Heritage Foundation. 3rd, 1986. Formerly UYL-NA Religious Service was performed by Rev. Joseph Denischuk. ш Banquet reservations $25.00 per person IN ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE. ш Call: Dan Slobodian (914) 626-2781 " Week-end reservations $125.00 per person "Call: Taras Maksymowich (305) 534-2118 EVERYONE INTERESTED IN OUR UKRAINIAN HERITAGE IS WELCOME! WANTED WANTED UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION seeks UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DEFENSE COMMITTEE and the DIRECTOR of FRATERNAL ACTIVITIES SUPREME EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the College graduate willing to learn about traternalism. Must enjoy working^ UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION with people. Knowledge of Ukrainian and English required. Willing to call upon you to travel and work weekends occasionally. Send resume to:

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ners, including the beatings, the cold Anatoly Marchenko... soners are now being subjected to able to find a way to demand that the neuroleptic drugs and other narcotics Soviet Union live up to its obligations. punishment cells, feeding every other (Continued from page 2) — drugs once reserved for use in mental Therefore, it is up to me, alone, to day, deprivation of visits, ect. ment, I have been abused and tor- hospitals. It is possible that such drugs demand what had been guaranteed in 2. An open legal inquiry and punish- mented. Many times, I have been are being used to break the will of the agreement signed by your govern- ment of those who physically assaulted subjected to 15-day confinement in the prisoners who have gone on hunger ments. Today, on August 4,1986,1 have me in December 1983. prison's punishment cell, where the strikes. started a hunger strike, and I will 3. Immediate resumption of visits inmates are stripped of warm clothes remain on hunger strike till the end of from my family. and fed every other day while enduring Over the past years, I have not been your conference in Vienna. Gentlemen, I ask you to back my the temperature that dips to 14 degrees aware of one case in which a camp or minimal demands and to demand that centigrade in the winter. Every time, prison employee was punished for an I demand: the Soviet government declare amnesty this torture by cold and starvation is excessive use of force or an act of cruelty I. The prohibition of abuse of priso- for all political prisoners. covered up by some "legal" pretext — toward a political prisoner. There has Vladimir prison, and in 1968 was the fact that I fell asleep during the day been no official investigation of com- OUN member... transferred to a Mordovian strict- (because of the cold, I couldn't sleep at plaints from political prisoners. Our (Continued from page 1) regimen camp to serve out the last four night) or covered myself up with a complaints are a priori considered years of her sentence. While in camp, cotton jacket. Mr. Soroka is now reportedly living in ltfyelous. Our humiliation and our Ms. Zarytska learned of her husband's In December 1983, I was pummeled agony are part of the government's Lviv and working as a graphic artist. Meanwhile, Ms. Zarytsky's husband, death in a labor camp in June 1971. If by guards, who handcuffed me and program for eliminating all those who had spent 19 years of a 25-year sentend banged my head on a cement floor until disagree. Mykhailo, was arrested for his OUN activities in 1940 and was sentenced to which he was given after his re-arrest in I blacked out. I suffered a concussion Lviv in 1952, in a Mordovian labor that has impaired the functioning of my The Soviet government uses prisons eight years. and labor camps to crush human dig- When the Germans invaded the camp where he died of a heart attack at brain. To this day, I feel the effects of age 60. that beating — constant pains in the nity by using physical and mental Soviet Union in June 1941, Ms. Zaryt- After completing her term in October back of the head, dizziness, stomach torture against those who oppose offi- ska was released and once again com- 1972, Ms. Zarytska returned to Lviv, sickness and a persistent ringing in my cial ideology and policies. The Soviet menced her OUN activity as a member but was denied permission to live there ears. government views this as its sovereign of the OUN leadership for the Lviv oblast. She later headed the Ukrainian with her mother and son. She settled in To keep this incident quiet, the right and a purely internal affair. Red Gross in Lviv, providing aid to Volochyske, a town located on the right authorities transferred me from labor members of the Ukrainian Insurgent bank of the Zbruch river in the Khmel- camp to prison, where I am being kept They are violating the Helsinki agree- Army (UPA), which fought both the nytsky oblast, where she lived until her in even more inhumane conditions. For ment. The Western signatories of the Germans and the Red Army. For these death in late August. two and a half years, 1 have been Helsinki Final Act may have seen it as activities she was arrested once more in Ms. Zarytska'c mother, Volodymyra, deprived of visits from my family. All the guarantee of international progress; September 1947, and was sentenced to died only four weeks before her daugh- this amounts to an assembly line leading the Soviet government saw it as a mere 25 years in prison and labor camp. ter, on July 30. Both were buried in the to annihilation. propaganda gesture. Ms. Zarytska spent the first 21 years family plot in Lviv's Lychakivsky I also suspect that my fellow pri- Gentlemen, you do not seem to be in a northern Urals prison and cemetery.

First time in USA й Canada HENRY MICHALSKI presents The Ukrainian Chorus ZHURAVLI From Poland MARIA SZCZUCKA SOPRANO SOLOIST OF THE GRAND THEATRE IN LODZ ROMAN REWAKOWICZ ANNA SAUJ-TUZ CONDUCTOR PIANIST CONCERTS ARE SPONSORED BY: In USA In Canada Ukrainian National Association, Inc. Ukrainian Canadian Committee Inc.

Let's welcome our countrymen en masse!

TOUR SCHEDULE IN USA

t PITTSBURGH, Pa. Wednesday, October 8, 1986 — 8:00 P.M. LODI, N.J. Sunday, October 12,1986-7:30 P.M. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall - Felician College Aud., 200 S. Main St. 5th Ave. and Bigelow Blvd., Oakland, Pa. Ukrainian Center, Inc., 240 Hope Avenue, (201) 779-4017; For infor. call Mr. Michael Komichak, (412) 281-1900 Borawski Travel, 345 Passaic Street, Passaic, NJ., (201) 779-0069 ^WASHINGTON, D.C. Thursday, October 9,1986 — 7:30 P.M. d Lisner Aud. George Washington Univ., 730 21st St. N.W, UNION, N.J. Monday, October 13, 1986 - 7:00 P.M. For infor. call Mr. Eugene Iwanciw, (202) 632-6285 Wilkins Theatre - Kean College, Morris Ave. "Dnipro", Sanford Avenue, Newark, NJ. (201) 373-8783 EDISON, N.J. Friday, October 10, 1986 - 7:30 P.M. Performing Arts Center — Middlesex County College, KERHONKSON, N.Y. Thursday, October 16, 1986 - 7;30 P.M, Woodbridge Ave. and Mill Rd. Soyuzivka — Ukrainian National Ass. Estate In Parishes, or call Melane Lawrence, (201) 738-7224 Soyuzivka, for infor. call (914) 626-5641

YONKERS, NY. Friday, October 17, 1986 - 7:30 P.M. ' iPHILADELPHIA, Pa. Saturday.October 11, 1986 - 7:00 P.M. Saunders H.S. Aud., 145 Palmer Rd. Northeast H.S. Aud., Cottman and Algon St. For infor. call Mr. Michal Burczak, (914) 423-8134 For infor. call (215) 424-7264 BOSTON, Mass. Saturday, October 18, 1986 - 7:30 P.M. NEW YORK, N.Y. Sunday, October 12, 1986 - 3:00 P.M. New England Life Hall, 225 Clarendon St. Hunter College Aud., 695 Park Ave. For infor. call Mr. Walter Hetmansky, (617) 323-2382 "Агка"Со., 26 1st Avenue, (212) 473-3550 Surma, 11 E. 7th Street, (212) 477-0729; HARTFORD, Conn. Sunday, October-19, 1986 - 3:30.МУІ. Plast Store, 304 E. 9th Street, (212) 673-9530; Bulkeley H.S. Aud., 300 Wethersfieid Ave. Twardowski Travel, 18 St. Mark's PI., (212) 475-5583 Credit Union and Ukrainian National Home -WfrrMfss```†й}ѓ"оиїтгіш№ГСОМСЕЙІІ ; s? ПИ No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 15 tjsssssssssssss^ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssa 1 Young UNA'ers feSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS$^

Nicholas Daniel Dembicky, 9, the son of Daniel J. and Melaney Dembicky, is another new member of Branch 399 in Joshua Krzywonos, seen above at the age of 9 days, is happy now that he has Chicago. He, too, was enrolled by his become the third generation of his family to join UNA Branch 183 in Detroit thanks grandparents, Nicholas and Irene Dem- to his grandma Stella Kicak. Mrs. Kicak also enrolled her daughter, Brenda, seen Suzanne Marie Dembicky, born Ja- bicky. here holding Joshua, and her son-in-law, Richard. nuary 5 of last year, is the youngest member of UNA Branch 399, the Lions Society, in Chicago. She is the daughter THE UKRAINIAN FORCED FAMINE: of Glenn M. and Janet Dembicky. She 4 was enrolled into the UNA by her AN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATORS grandparents, Nicholas and Irene Dem- bicky.

A one-day institute will be offered by the Illinois Ethnic Consultation in cooperation with the Illinois State Board of Education, the Chicago Catholic Archdiocesan Schools, the Bureaus of Social Studies and Foreign Languages of the Chicago Public Schools, the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian American Justice Committee and Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine.

The institute will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Church Hall, Superior and Oakley, on Saturday, November 8,1986, in Chicago, Illinois.

The institute is designed to provide participants with information regarding the 1932733 Forced Famine in Ukraine, one of the least known instances of man's inhumanity to man, and its implications for understanding current East-West tensions. Participants will receive a teaching packet as well as effective teaching strategies that could be used in the classroom. The institute will include a film ("Harvest of Despair"), a speaker from the United States Ukraine Famine Commission (Dr. James Mace) and an educator's workshop.

Andrew John Madden, 6 months, the newest member of Ukrainian National Due to limited space, only the first 120 registrants will receive a complimentary luncheon at Association Branch 173 in Wilmington, Del., is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Galan's Ukrainian Restaurant. An optional tour of Ukrainian Village will also be offered for Madden. He was enrolled into Soyuz by interested participants. The one hour tour will begin at approximately 3:00 p.m. his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. An- thony Marushchak. THE LUNCHEON SPEAKER WILL BE THE HONORABLE GARY BAUER, UNDERSECRETARY, Faith is... UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (Continued from page 8) on the Latin calendar, they also simultaneously announce which day it is on the Eastern rite calendar. 4Tm _Home Phone- proud they recognize this," he says. Name- Affirms Bishop Gelineau: When Mr. Lew was hired, the bishops were very Home Address- _City ^leased. "It was another chance to show he church is universal." StaterZip . SchooL The bishops have also shown great kindness, Mr. Lew says. Two years ago, City;State- . Position.. while presenting a report at one of the bishops' meetings, Mr. Lew was "One hour of graduate credit in Educational foundations may be earned from Northern Illinois notified that his mother had died suddenly. University for participating in this institute. If interested, please check below. "Right then and there, they interrupted the meeting and went down D Yes, I'm interested in receiving one hour of graduate credit from NIU. Please send me my to the chapel to pray for my mother.`' information and credit registration packet. This incident moved him greatly, he comments. "There were two Latin rite bishops at the funeral. They felt they AH applications should be sent on or before Friday, October 31,1986 to: were not (there) as priests, but as friends. It is that kind of thing that Jonathan Shamis, Coordinator makes it a different work environment. Forgive and forget is practiced. Its Illinois Ethnic Consultation personally rewarding, it's made my life 55 E. Jackson Blvd. Suite 1880 richer." Chicago, IL 60604 Join the UNA For further information call Mr. Shamis at (312) 663-5400. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1986 No. 40

__.______„. October 7 will be available at $20 a copy. WARREN, Mich.: A reception will be held today at the Ukrainian CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Dr. Robert 424-7264. TRENTON, N.J.: Branch 11 of the U N W LA will hold a "Potato Cultural Center for Christine Zary- Conquest will discuss his new book^a October 12 cky, candidate for county commis- study of the 1933-32 man-made Bake" picnic at 1-7 p.m. on the picnic sioner in Macomb County's first famine in Ukraine, titled "The Har- grounds of the Ukrainian American NEW YORK: Zhuravli, the Ukrai- district. For information contact vest of Sorrow," at 7:30 p.m. in Cultural Center, 477 Jeremiah Ave., nian men's chorus from Poland, will Marie Zarycky at (313) 757-5571. Boylston Hall, Harvard University. Hamilton Township, N.J. For more For more information call Marta perform in concert at 3 p.m. in information call Olha Faraoniw at October 8 Baziuk at (617) 495-7835. Hunter College auditorium, 695 (609)882-9419. WASHINGTON: A symposium, Park Ave. For tickets call Arka at featuring Dr. Robert Conquest and October 10-13 (212) 473-3550, Surma at (212) 477- SYRACUSE, N.Y.: The Holy Name his new book "The Harvest of Sor- 0729, the Plast store at (212) 673- Society of St. John the Baptist row," will be presented at the Wilson KERHONKSON, N.Y.: The Ukrai- 9530 or Twardowski Travel at (212) Ukrainian Catholic Church here will Center, Kennan Institute for Ad- nian Heritage Foundation will hold 475-5583. hold its 3 0th anniversary its Reunion III here at Soyuzivka. vanced Russian Studies, located at October 12 dinner^dance at Carmen's restaurant the Smithsonian castle on the Mall, Highlights of the weekend include a in Solvay, N.Y. The music will be banquet on Saturday evening, follow- provided by Johnny "O" with a beginning with a reception at 3:30 NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti- ed by a dance to the music of Alex cocktail hour beginning at 6 p.m. and p.m. The symposium, which will also tute of America will officially open feature Dr. Richard Stites, a profes- and Dorko. The price of $125 in- dinner at 7 p.m. Donation is $20. cludes all meals from Friday evening its doors for the fall season this sor of history at Georgetown Univer- evening at 6 p.m. An entertainment sity, is being sponsored by The through Sunday afternoon, accom- BROOKLYN, N.Y.: The Ukrainian modations, registration, member- program will be presented, as well as Washington Group. For more infor- a light repast. The opening will be National Home will hold its golden ship and banquet-dance. Reserva- jubilee dinner^danee at 1 p.m. in the mation call Natalie Sluzar at (202) 4 presented at this later hour due to the 363-8083. tions should be made with Taras Holy Ghost School auditorium, 152 Maksymowich, 1318 18th St., Miami performance of the Zhuravli Choir October 9 from Poland, which will perform at N. Fifth St. Reservations are re- Beach, Fla. 33139. quired. Donations are $25 per person WASHINGTON: Zhuravli, the U- Hunter College at 3 p.m. For more October 11 information, please call the UIA at and $45 per couple. The Mrija or- krainian men's chorus from Poland, chestra will provide after-dinner will perform in concert here at 7:30 PHILADELPHIA: The Young U- (212) 288-8660. Admission: $10. The krainian Professionals Group will Ukrainian Institute is located at 2 entertainment. Admission for dance p.m. in Lisner Auditorium, George is only $5. For more information call hold a party from 9 p.m. - 4 a.m. at E. 79th St. in New York. Washington University, 730 21st St. (718) 782-8672. N.W. For information call Eugene the Columbia Yacht Club, 9202 N. Delaware Ave. Please mention Iwanciw at (202) 632-6285. CLIFTON, N.J.: The St. Mary's LODI, N.J.: Zhuravli, the Ukrai- Lydia's name at the door to get in October 10 Protectress Sisterhood of the Holy nian men's chorus from Poland, will with a $2 cover charge. For more NEW YORK: The Young Profes- Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. in information call Lydia at (215) 276- sionals of the Ukrainian Institute of Church will hold its 60th anniver- Felician College auditorium, 200 S. 3345 or Natalie at (215) ME5-4497. America will present the first screen- sary dinner at 12:30 p.m. in the Main St. For tickets call the Ukrai- CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Society ing of their Eastern European Film church auditorium, 635 Broad St. nian Center Inc. at (201) 779-4017 or of B.V.M. invites the public to a Series. The film, "Angi Vera," is a For information call (201) 779-6553 Borawski Travel at (201) 779-0069. Hungarian work directed by Pal dance at the Nativity of the B.V.M. or (201)473-8665. school hall, 4952 S. Paulina St., 7:30 Gabor. Set in 1948, during a time of October 13 confusion and political reorganiza- p.m. - 12:30 a.m. Tickets are $10 for WATERVLIET, N.Y.: An after- adults and may be purchased at the tion, it tells the story of a young girl noon program of song, humor and UNION, N.J.: Zhuravli, the Ukrai- door. For more information call who becomes infatuated with the satire titled, "Here and There," will nian men's chorus from Poland, will (312)594-5384. group leaders of the party she has be held at 4 p.m. at the Ukrainian perform in concert at 7 p.m. in just joined (in Hungarian with HARTFORD, Conn.: Branches 93 American Citizen's Club here. Per- Wilkins Theatre, Kean College on English subtitles). Popcorn will be and 106 of the Ukrainian National forming will be Anna and Zenon Morris Avenue. For tickets call served and a reception will follow. Women's League of America will Marynec of Chicago. Refreshments Dnipro at (201) 373-8783. Admission: $5. The film will be hold their annual Embroidery Dance will be served. Admission is $5. The shown at the Ukrainian Institute of at 9 p.m. in the hall of the Ukrainian program is sponsored by Branch 99 America, 2 E. 79th St., New York. National Home, 961 Wethersfield of the Ukrainian National Women's CHICAGO: The A.R.C. Gallery^Ed- For more information, please call the Ave. Music will be provided by the League of America. For information ucational Foundation will host a U1A at (212) 288-8660. "Khloptsi zi Lvova"band. For infor- call Natalka Kushnir at (518) 273- panel with members of the Ukrainian mation call Mrs. S. Stasyshyn at 2056. Institute of Modern Art at 7 p.m. at EDISON, N.J.: The Ukrainian men's (203) 522-1066 or Mrs. S. Pawliczko the foundation, 356 West Huron St. I chorus, Zhuravli, from Poland will at (203) 563-1886. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Ameri- Panelists will include; the institute's I perform in concert here at 7:30 p.m. can Justice Committee will sponsor a chairman of the board, Luba Mar- I in the Performing Arts Center of PHILADELPHIA: Zhuravli, the presentation by Dr. Robert Con- kewycz, art historian Adrienne Middlesex County College, Wood- Ukrainian men's chorus from Po- quest of Stanford University on his Kochman, artist Alexandra Koch- bridge Avenue and Mill Road. For land, will perform in concert here at 7 new book "The Harvest of Sorrow" man and others. Admission is $3 for information call Melanie Lawrence p.m. in Northeast High School audi- at 5 p.m. in St. Nicholas School adults, $2 for senior citizens. For I at (201) 738-7224 or your local torium at Cottman and Algon streets. auditorium, Rice and Leavitt. Ad- information call the foundation at ; parish. For further information call (215) mission is free. Copies of the book (312) 266-7607. Ukrainian Museum to celebrate 10th anniversary UABA to meet by Lydia Firchuk Hajduczok summer season he performed with the its audiences. CHICAGO — The Ukrainian Ameri- Berkshire Opera Company in two The Ukrainian Museum was founded can Bar Association will hold its 10th NEW YORK — The Ukrainian Mu- Mozart operas to glorious reviews. Mr. in 1976 by the Ukrainian National ‚annual meeting on the weekend of seum will be 10 years old in October. To Dobriansky is well-known to Ukrainian Women's League of America Inc. with October 10-12 at the Holiday Inn City commemorate this auspicious occasion audiences, having performed at nu- the aim of preserving the rich cultural Centre, 300 E. Ohio St. in Chicago. the museum is planning a festive cele- merous recitals and concerts through- heritage of the large Ukrainian Ameri- The weekend will begin with a social bration. out the United States and abroad. can community in the United States. reception in the UABA suite, beginning The board of trustees of The Ukrai- The Kalyna Trio comprises Halyna Now an independent institution with an at 7 p.m. on Friday. The Saturday nian Museum is inviting the public to Strilec, Thomas Hrynkiw and Nestor absolute charter by the Board of Re- program will include panels on such attend the 10th anniversary fete, which Cybriwsky. gents of the University of the State of topics as the American Bar Associa- will be held Sunday, October 19, at 1-5 Ms. Strilec, a violinist, has performed New York, the museum has a wide- tion^Association of Soviet Lawyers p.m. at The Plaza, Baroque Suite, Fifth extensively with many distinguished ranging national membership and is agreement, with panelists Patience T. Avenue at 59th Street in New York. orchestras and currently holds positions considered one of the most interesting Huntwork and Orest Jejna; use of The gala affair will begin with a wine with the New York City Ballet Or- small museums in New York City. Soviet evidence in U.S. courts by Ihor reception, to be followed by a luncheon chestra and the American Symphony. The museum is a member of the Rakowsky and Nestor Olesnycky; and and a musical program featuring guest She is also an active recitalist and American Association of Museums, the international law on extradition by artists Andrij Dobriansky and the chamber music player. Northeastern Museum Association, the Walter Anastas. There will also be a Kalyna Trio. A donation of $100 per Mr. Hrynkiw, a well-known and International Council of Museums, and presentation during dinner by Andrew person is requested. Reservations should established concert pianist, is one of the often serves as host for specialized Fylypovych on "Myroslav Medvid — be made through the museum no later most sought-after chamber music museum workshops organized by the an update on litigation and the special than October 6; call (212) 228-0110. players in America. Metropolitan Museum of Art. congressional committee." The meeting The event is expected to be attended Mr. Cybriwsky, has been the pfinci- Over the past 10 years a number of will close on Sunday. by prominent religious and community pal cellist of the Maracaibo Symphony major exhibitions, dealing with many Hotel reservations should be made leaders, as well as guests from state and Orchestra in Venezuela and is a fre- aspects of Ukrainian culture, have been immediately to guarantee a special rate city government, and funding agencies. quent recitalist and chamber music organized at the museum, accompanied of $74 per night for a single or double. Mr. Dobriansky, bass-baritone, has artist in the United States. by bilingual illustrated catalogues and For reservations call (312) 787-6100. been a soloist with the Metropolitan The Kalyna Trio has introduced the brochures. For further information call Daria Opera since 1969. During the 1986 works of many Ukrainian composers to (Continued on page W) M. Stec at (202) 362-6862.